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Organization. That was the
point.
That was the purpose for
assembling the printed directions
with a map, the hotel room confir
mation, and a newspaper clipping
containing some information
needed for a program. Having
carefully folded those three perti
nent items together into the hotel’s
confirmation envelope. I’d tucked
the little packet into a section of
my handbag "filing cabinet.”
In fact, after arriving home after
midnight and a long day of meet
ings the night before. I’d even
taken a few moments to jot down a
AGCO Allis 8600 Series tractors give
you 36 speed choices, an electronic engine
speed governor and many other quality
performance features, as well as a
comprehensive 4-year/4,000-hour warranty.
• Speed choices for all conditions. The
standard synchropower transmission offers
24 forward and 12 reverse speeds. An optional
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speeds both forward and reverse. Both 8600
Series models are AWD with planetary final
drive, and a self-adjusting, hydraulically
actuated clutch
• The air- and oil-cooled engine advantage.
The 8600 Series tractors feature the high
output air- and oil-cooled diesel
engine that eliminates components that cause
downtime in liquid-cooled engines. The
8610 model has a 103 FIX) hp engine with a
22% torque rise and the 8630 model has a
120 PTO hp turbocharged engine with a
30% torque rise.
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short list of items. These things
needed to be gathered or attended
to before we departed the next day
for the annual convention of our
Pennsylvania Holstein cattle
association.
This envelope of information
topped the list.
The PHA annual meeting is one
we rarely miss, a joint opportunity
to update our education and know
ledge of the dairy breeding busi
ness, as well as visiting with Hols
tein friends from across the state.
This year’s late February meeting
was in the Pittsburgh area, a four
hour-plus drive out the Turnpike.
36 SPEED
CHOICES
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HOLTRY'S EQUIPMENT
Roxbury, Pa.
717-632-7261
LINCOLN SUPPLY
A EQUIPMENT CO.
Somaisal, PA
614-443-1691
McCoola, MD
301-766-6600
• PTO power and versatility. The independent
PTO operates at 540/1,000 rpm with 6- and
21-spline shafts and an electrohydraulically
actuated wet PTO clutch. The 3-point hitch
comes standard with telescopic stabilizers:
Category 11/I on the 8610; Category 111/II
on the 8630. Optional telescopic lower links
are available
• Quality performance features. The 8600
Senes tractors ride on premium Goodyear'
radial tires. They have hydrostatic steering, a
lilt-telescope steering wheel and hydraulically
actuated wet disc brakes on all four wheels for
40% better braking These models also have
electrohydraulically-actuated rear and front
differential locks that an operator can manually
disengage for tighter turns
To leant about all the quality features of the
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Dayton, Md.
301-4423666
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717-784-7731 215-536-7523
Naw Tripoli, Pa.
215-787-7611
Olay, Pa.
215-987-6257
PETERMAN FARM EQUIP.
Carllala, Pa.
7173496336
Before packing anything else,
the envelope with all the pertinent
data was in my handbag, along
with checks that would be depo
sited at the neighborhood branch
of the bank on our way.
Last detail to be taken care of
before we went out the door was
writing down the hotel’s name,
address, and phone number, to be
left at the house and the bam in
case of, some cow or equipment
emergency.
“You have the directions?”
asked The Farmer as we headed
up the road toward the bank.
“Yep,” I confirmed.
We whipped through the bank’s
drive-thru and a half-hour later
swung westward onto the Turn
pike. Somewhere between the
Gettysburg Pike and the Carlisle
exits, I reached down to retrieve
my envelope of data and check
exactly where around Pittsburgh it
was we were headed.
The envelope was gone.
Absent. Missing. Nowhere in
sight.
(You’d already figured that out,
right?)
I dug through the other sections
of my handbag, hoping I’d acci
dently misplaced it. Not a sign. I
dug through the coats, camera bag
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and miscellaneous stuff in the
back seat, hoping... hoping... hop
ing I’d somehow gotten die little
white envelope tangled in there.
No such luck.
Suddenly the realization struck
that we were headed west, with a
car full of clothes, coats and
related paraphenalia - and I, who
always carefully gathers direc
tions and related papers or tickets
before we depart for such jour
neys, had only a general sense of
the exact destination. A vision of
driving around Pittsburg for the
next two days hunting the proper
Sheraton Inn flashed uncomfor
tably through my mind.
“We can just stop and call the
hotel,” said The Farmer.
“Except that the hotel’s phone
number is on the confirmation
paper, which is probably on the
kitchen table,” 1 sighed. When I
removed the papers to write down
the hotel’s phone number, just
before going out the door, I must
have simply forgotten to put them
back in our hurry to leave.
“Well, we’ll watch for a Shera
ton along the Turnpike, get off and
ask them,” suggested The Farmer,
who remains calm over things like
leaving for a destination with no
directions. Another option was to
call back home and ask for the
number, if we were close to a
phone when someone would be
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 7, 1992-B3
close to the bam office. But miles
later, not a single Sheraton had
been spotted.
Fate intervened. Two hours into
our trip, and nearly time to try
phoning home, a service area
popped up along the highway. In
the fat phone book inside the door
was an 800-line for the Sheraton
Worldwide. A friendly voice on
the other end not only gave me the
correct phone number, but offered
directions right to the hotel’s
entrance.
Thanks. Sheraton Inns Worl
dwide, for a bail-out for this farm
wife.
I didn’t even have to pay for the
phone call.
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