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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Happy New Year
« on: December 31, 2011, 05:37:39 PM »
May not be tractor related, but want to wish everyone a Happy New Year.. Looks like I will be staying home with a bad case of bronchitis. Been battling it all week. Hope it gets better soon, not a good way to start the new year.

Weather finally starting to cool off here. May be cold enough to freeze the mud by Monday. Threatning snow for New Years day.

Hope all have a good new year.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Puffballs, Toadstools and Fairy Rings
« on: September 11, 2011, 07:15:33 PM »
Saturday evening I was cutting a few weeds along the soybean fields. While walking back to the house along the airstrip, I noticed hundreds of puffball and toad stool mushrooms growing in the grass in heavier dark green patches I have heard called fairy rings. I cut them off with the hoe I was carrying. Some I threw off the grass into the soybean field. Finally got too many, so just cut them off and let them lay. Puffballs in size from golfball to large softball size. Today I mowed the airstripand many more had matured overnight. Had at least as many as I had cut the night before.

Wish I was more knowledgable about mushrooms. These puffballs were big enough to cut a sandwich slice from. Some were pure white and others were a grayish brown. When I mowed today the mower sliced them perfectly to fry and laid them out nice and even. Afraid to try any of them as I don't know the good ones from the poison ones.

The toad stools had hard thick stems and were pink under the umbrella. Stems about 1 to 1/2 inches thick and hard to cut with the hoe.

Recent rains and cool weather have been ideal for the growth of these mushrooms.

Anyone know how to tell the good ones from the poison ones?

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Lots of views, but few responses
« on: July 13, 2011, 06:57:56 AM »
I have noticed that we have a lot of views to our posts on here, but few responses. How can we get these folks to open up and respond to the threads? Must be a lot of interest to have so many viewers.

Come on guys and gals, open up and let us know you are out there and what your interests are!!!

Gene Dotson

De Graff, western, Ohio

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: May 12, 2011, 05:00:07 PM »
Still waterlogged here in western, Ohio. Seems rain every other day. Have the field cultivator parked about 30 feet from the edge of the field behind the barn. Tried to get the tractor to it on Monday and got stuck before I got half way to it. Finally got it headed back toward the grass and on solid ground. Want to change the sweeps on the cultivator, but another inch of rain with marble size hail and will still be there for a few more days.

I was driving through Urbana and West Liberty Monday and the tractors and planters were working there and only 25 miles south of here. Much different ground there, with gravel and sandy soil. Saw corn growing enough to row in some fields along Route 36 west of Urbana. Still water standing here and totally saturated, so everything runs off. No reserve capacity in the soil at all. Temperature has been warm the last few days and sunshine, but so humid that very little drying occurring.

Still plenty time to plant the soybeans here.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Growing up on the farm
« on: April 21, 2011, 08:44:55 PM »
I originally had this posted on Ralph's thread, but decided not to hijack his post, so here is is.



At age 56 in 1953, our father was finally able to buy his own 141 acre farm after many years farming on-the-halves. Almost every cent from the sale of his earlier machinery was put toward the down payment of the new farm. First tractor there was a 1937 unstyled Allis WC. Had a 2 bottom IH Little Genius plow and 7 foot drag disc and a 2 row JD horse drawn planter converted to tractor pull. I was 10 years old at the time and 2 older brothers who did most of the tractor driving. We all despised the WC and dad knew that. One day when we came home from school, the AC was gone and its place was a 1939 Farmall H. We were all ecstatic about that and practically fought to drive it. We bought a few milk cows 1 or 2 at a time till we had a herd of 18 that we milked by hand. Raised a few hogs and sheep and mom always had her flock of chickens for eggs to trade on Saturday night on our groceries. Little by little we were able to get others cast off junk machinery that we fixed up to get the job done. We had 1 flat bed wagon with grain sides and a 2 wheel trailer for the hauling. Had a converted horse drawn IH mower to cut the hay and a New Idea rake and hay loader and put our hay up loose and hoisted into the haymow with grapple forks. We did have a fairly new Jogh Deere 12A combine to cut the oats, wheat and soybeans. A very well used and abused Wood Brothers did the corn picking and a #14 shovel to transfer it to the corncribs. Milk was shipped in 10 gallon cans that were kept cooled in a tank filled with well water.

Along the way we were able to acquire 2 farmall F-12's to help with the tillage, planting and cultivating and usually tilled up the 2 acre garden.

At the time dad bought the farm, there were still 9 of us kids at home as the 8 older ones had married and moved out. There were many hard times to meet the bills. During the summer as we boys got old enough to hire out to the neighbors for extra money to meet school expenses and some new clothes and maybe a NEW bicycle.

Times were hard, but times were good!!!!

Gene

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / I'm a Senior
« on: June 17, 2010, 08:52:20 PM »
Hey, my last post was number 100. I am now officially a senior, and not only in years. :):):)

Sure would like to see more senior members here.

To keep it tractor related, I did use the Case 700 diesel and New Idea rake to rerake 6 acres of hay today. Still waterlogged.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Portland Work Day
« on: May 01, 2010, 01:37:24 PM »
Last Saturday, April, 24 was work day at the Tri-State tractor club at Portland, Indiana. The A.T.I.S. group was well represented with 5 members present to help prepare the grounds for the spring swap meet and summer show. Projects included tree trimming in the camp ground, Painting the rest rooms, organizing the food service area and laying out new roads and organizing the display area for the Caterpillar national convention during this year's show.

Noontime the club treated all volunteers to dinner at Ponderosa restaurant. Had a buffet with all we wanted to eat. Went back and worked about another hour finishing the chores. Probably had between 40 and 50 volunteers there. Was a nice get together.

Our group volunteers have assured us of a reserved area for the A.T.I.S. people to camp as a group and also make us known to the officers and directors. We also volunteer prior to and during the summer show, using our tractors to move machinery and operate display equipment. Also have members work the trading post and drive shuttle wagons and harvest the corn for the ensilage cutter.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Squirrels and Weather
« on: January 28, 2010, 07:47:52 PM »
Tuesday I was in the woods cutting firewood. It turned cold, from 46 on Satuday to 14 on Tuesday. I noticed many more squirrels running on the ground and saw several digs where they were digging up their stash.

Is there some folklore about the squirrels and coming weather? It has stayed cold this week and looks like more cold weather coming.

What do the old timers say about this, or they looking over my shoulder at Weatherbug?

Gene

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Photo albums
« on: December 26, 2009, 09:05:25 AM »
Hi All;
Posted some pictures to a couple of albums. Feel free to view them.
Hope the link works


http://www.atis.net/forums/album.php?u=3

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Portland, Indiana Show
« on: August 30, 2009, 10:09:42 PM »
Hi All;
I spent the last 8 days at the Portland, Indiana tractor show. Camped with several of the regular ATIS members at the Tri-State club grounds.

Feature tractors were orphans and oddballs. Had a good showing of Hubers, Rumleys and Silver Kings along with several other makes, many that I was unfamiliar with. Had almost 600 non feature tractors and 156 feature tractors.

I work a lot with the Girard Family Classic threshing crew. I get to visit with the tractor exhibitors and convince them to bring their tractors to run the machines for the demonstrations.

We run a 32x56 Minneapolis and a 24 inch Belle City Threshers and run corn with a shredder, corn sheller and hammer mill. Also have a Papec stationary ensilage cutter and also a groundhog, which is hand fed and the very first mechanical device for threshing grain from the straw. Also have reapers, binders and a clover hauler on static display.

Some tractors running the machines included a Rumley 32-50, a Huber B and I believe a 28-40 and a Case 16 hp and Keck Gonnerman steamer with a Nichols and Shepherd 32-75 Sawmill Special steamer on the sawmill.. I also ran my Case LA on the threshers for 2 sessions.

Was really a great week with very nice, even a little cool, weather and enough rain on Friday night to settle the dust.

Gene

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Power increases?
« on: August 08, 2009, 11:00:04 PM »
Okay guys, I will do my part and start a new thread.
How many of you have reworked your tractors for more power?
My Case 700 diesel has overbore sleeves and pistons and raises the horsepower from 51 to about 65 with a change in timing and injector pump tweaking.
My 1948 Case LA has 1/4 inch overbore raising the displacement to 448 cu. in. plus a LP gas head which raises the compression from 5.7 to 1 to about 8.0 to 1 ratio. Horsepower now is approximately 90 from the original 64.
My 1942 Case VC originally with a Continental F124 is now bored out to 165 cu. in. and showed 27 horsepower on the dyno, up from 21, with no tuning, still set at the static timing I set when I assembled the engine. Hoping for 30 when I get it fine tuned.
The 700 is my main field working tractor, The LA is used at tractor shows to run sawmills and threshing machines and an occasional fun tractor pull. The VC attended its first show 2 weeks ago and will be mainly for show and running smaller belt machines an maybe a few hooks to the sled in lightweight class.

How about the rest of you guys???... Gene

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / New Forum
« on: December 19, 2007, 08:28:31 AM »
Thanks, Spencer, for the new Forum. Hope everyone accepts it. It will make viewing and selection much easier and not have to sort irrelevant posts and threads... Gene

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