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Needed to disk a small (2ac or so) patch to get ready for trees. Since I have a hurt back I was very careful and ran the 9U about half throttle in second. After a minute or so my mind raced back 60 years as the beautiful cluck-cluck sound of grousers dropping over the front idler each one ready to do it's part to pull the 36B while also getting their chrome like finish.

I looked back to the right and my mind saw the 16-1/2 ft header with it's big Love reel gently pulling the long straw back to the smooth cyclic rythm of the sickle.

So many times while crawling up some hot draw with chaff and straw maybe even tarweed crawling down my neck I vowed to get away from this dumb job.

Now today I am nostalgic for those times with the beautiful sound of the 9U 6cyl engine, the cluck cluck of the tracks, and the hum of the 36B's Hercules engine in the background.

Compared to today, we would cut maybe on a good day 3000bu, today the new combines cut that much in an hour.

And they are done about the same time the first of it is(was) ready!

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Sun, Jul 5, 2015 12:05 PM

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ha ha our memory plays tricks on us all the time about how good something used to be

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Sun, Jul 5, 2015 5:19 PM

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ha ha our memory plays tricks on us all the time about how good something used to be

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Hi John,
I do the same thing when playing on my oldies. I guess thats why we have Yellow Fever. My daughter is moving to Colorado Springs so maybe we will meet up on a visit sometime.
Roger

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Sun, Jul 5, 2015 6:37 PM

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Hi John,
I do the same thing when playing on my oldies. I guess thats why we have Yellow Fever. My daughter is moving to Colorado Springs so maybe we will meet up on a visit sometime.
Roger

Roger that would be great! I missed you when you came thru both WA an CO a few years back.

I'm looking fwd to seeing you sometime.

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Sun, Jul 5, 2015 7:56 PM

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Roger that would be great! I missed you when you came thru both WA an CO a few years back.

I'm looking fwd to seeing you sometime.

Its Been 50 years since I did a full blown harvest of hay, oats or corn. Still remember the sound of the 2 cylinder John Deere's pulling plows and the rhythm and pulsing of an old NH 66 baler covering you in chaff. Then everybody meeting at the swimming hole down in the creek.

good times then

Restored 1970 ford tractor,1931 Model A PU streetrod, lifted 1978 F150, 1971 VW bug, antique chain saws

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Mon, Jul 6, 2015 1:06 AM

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Its Been 50 years since I did a full blown harvest of hay, oats or corn. Still remember the sound of the 2 cylinder John Deere's pulling plows and the rhythm and pulsing of an old NH 66 baler covering you in chaff. Then everybody meeting at the swimming hole down in the creek.

good times then

Shucks! I thought it was gonna be an off topic item! Lol. I know the feeling too, different when you do it for fun sort of...My motto has been: "Motor on, Mind off"; very relaxing to hear the hum of the motor, the tracks sqeaking and watching the dirt "boil" behind the implement you are pulling.....Ran several of my toys for the last month, never even considered music earbuds....tractor was making its own orchestrated sounds. Plenty of daydreaming about the simpler days gone by! Just a footnote: some of my tractors run dry rails, little on the tight side....they sound more like.......cheeep....cheeep.....CHEAP...! Right 7upuller? Thanks for sharing...........Juiceman

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Mon, Jul 6, 2015 10:14 PM

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Shucks! I thought it was gonna be an off topic item! Lol. I know the feeling too, different when you do it for fun sort of...My motto has been: "Motor on, Mind off"; very relaxing to hear the hum of the motor, the tracks sqeaking and watching the dirt "boil" behind the implement you are pulling.....Ran several of my toys for the last month, never even considered music earbuds....tractor was making its own orchestrated sounds. Plenty of daydreaming about the simpler days gone by! Just a footnote: some of my tractors run dry rails, little on the tight side....they sound more like.......cheeep....cheeep.....CHEAP...! Right 7upuller? Thanks for sharing...........Juiceman

Quote "Since I have a hurt back I was very careful and ran the 9U about half throttle in second. After a minute or so my mind raced back 60 years as the beautiful cluck-cluck......."
I assumed he was going to tell how good the Pain Meds are.........🤘

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Tue, Jul 7, 2015 4:13 AM

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Hi all,
An old bloke (gentleman) I once new said to me, lad, just think when your sittin up there, every squeak's a dollar. I always thought he meant I was earning a dollar but since I now own a few dozers I know he meant it is costing a dollar!!!
Glad your all having fun
Cheers
Hutchy

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Tue, Jul 7, 2015 6:40 PM

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