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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Allis G and pond pump
  • Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:40:05 -0400

I just got an Allis Chalmers G tractor (HURRAY!!!).

I was definitely blessed. When things happen this way we call them "God
things". A tool carrier was listed on Ebay, in Kentucky. I am in New York.
Close friends moved to Kentucky last year, and I looked up the two locations
and they are about 8 miles apart. So I figured if I won the bid on the tool
carrier my husband would have an excuse to go visit his friend, but they
emailed asking if DH was going to hunting camp for turkey season as he is
coming up from Kentucky for hunting and family wedding. So, he was able to
pick up the exact other parts I needed, and I will have them the first week
of May.

Well, actually, I got two Gs. One is without an engine so I can convert it
to electric. The other I also want to convert, but it's engine runs
beautifully so that seems a shame. But, it also has much larger tires than
the original so has great clearance, and a welded carrying rack on the
front. I either need to find someone who wants an engine badly, or find
someone with a non-working G, some implements I want, and we'll swap out the
wheels and DH can make another rack. Had the field tile-drained last fall,
and will have tractor cultivators this year, and if I plant tall - short -
tall - short - etc, I can drive the G over the short stuff and harvest onto
it!

Since the field is tile drained I will need better irrigation, either a well
or a pond. The pond will require pumping uphill. Anyone have advice on
pumping setups? There is not electric to the pond site (or field or well
site), though lines run along the road so it can be put in. If the well is
uphill of the field, it will be far from electric, which runs at the bottom
of the field. Pond would actually be across the road, a couple of hundred
feet in, pumped under the road through a culvert, then up to the crops.


Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead
Peru NY
http://rhomestead.com

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