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TRACTOR MEMORIES AND OBSERVATIONS

By Norbert J. Lucht

Box 137, Athens, Illinois 62613.

My first memories of gas tractors go back to the year 1927 when Frank Kallian and sons threshed at our place near La Valle in Sauk County, Wisconsin using a 16-30 Oil-Pull tractor and a 28-44 Advance Rumely Separator. This tractor was purchased in the summer of 1921 and was used for threshing until 1938.

That same fall, our neighbor purchased a used 18-32 Case tractor and used it in a Case Silo Filler. Then in the summer of 1928, he purchased a new Case 28 x 46 threshing machine and threshed in our run until 1934. I recall that in August 1931, while they were threshing at one of the neighbors the tractor developed valve trouble. They ran the tractor into a shed, attached a chain hoist to the rafters and pulled the head off. After this was done, they took the head to a machine shop in Baraboo, Wisconsin and had the v...

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