On Nov 19, 9:37*pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:29:17 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:01:42 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:13:30 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:57:56 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:22:53 -0500, Boater
wrote:

Call in some "air" with 500 lb IR guided bombs
to blow them out of the water from altitude. If these pirates
discover
their boats are simply disappearing without a trace they might
stop
going out.

Use 250 lb bombs, they will vaporize a small boat just as thoroughly,
and you can carry more of them. You can get six to a pylon, two triple
ejector racks one behind the other. With an A-10 that's sixty of them.
them. Tons lighter. More fuel. Your bomb load and milage may vary.

Ed Zeiben. *That reminds me of Ed Zeiben. *Worked with him at IH in
1968. *We were heat treaters. *Big, wiry guy. *WWII vet.
The yippies and other trash were rioting in Grant Park, a few miles
away from IH Tractor Works.
He had the answer to the riots.
"One 500-pounder. *That'll take care of 'em."
But he was an optimistic kinda guy.

You worked at IH in the sixties? *Kewl. *That would have been during
the era of the number series tractors - 544, 656, 756, 856 and 1256
models if I'm not mistaken.

That was Farmall. *Canton, IL I think. *I worked making dozers, so the
models were T-15,20, etc. *Old McCormack works on the south side of
Chicago, later Melrose Park, IL when they shut down Tractor Works.

My good friend Harold Foskett has a T-15 and a T-20 dozer.

Fully restored.

McCormick is now owned by a Italian holding company - ARGO who also
make Landini orchard tractors.

Weren't those TD- numbers. *I drove a TD-15 while in high school for a
friends top soil company.

Yes. The T stood for tractor, and the D was for diesel. However in
the farm machinery like you had a different set. And example would be
an M, MD, MDTA.

M (Standard tractor) MD (M Diesel) MTA (M torque amplified) MDTA (M
diesel, torque amplified) etc.