Posted by Mike (WA) on January 25, 2010 at 08:57:23 from (69.10.199.3):
In Reply to: The Big Old Ones posted by Don McCullough on January 24, 2010 at 10:51:11:
Dad hired a guy in the neighborhood to plow his pasture for the first time in about 1953 or so- he had a huge Moline (to a 5 year old)- a G or some variant, I think. Had a homemade cab big enough to live in, and pulled a 4 bottom plow- pretty impressive stuff. The guy's name was Hobert Tanner (I found out years later), but everyone called him Fatty. Weighed well over 300, and his appetite was the stuff of legends. Mom made a huge lunch, and I remember him systematically going through a whole bowl of boiled potatoes. Saw the tractor probably 40 years later in the local scrap yard- there was no forgetting that cab!
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