ANTIQUE FAMILY PHOTOS. GOTTA SEE!!!! STEAM ENGINES

mike1972chev · Feb 19, 2012

Hey,ME again,

Just found these in my scrapbook my Grandma gave me!!!! This is my Great Grandfather Bert as a young man. Check out them D@MN steam engines!!! I believe the one is a CASE???(I think I see an "ABE" eagle on the front???)Help me out experts!
These are the coolest photos I own.(COPYS!)I wished i was there helping out. I would have had a blast !!!!!

I will repost these in the future. Look how many people were on sight!

FC Andy · Feb 19, 2012

Mike, I believe you may be right seeing "Old Abe" on the smokebox door. Pictures like that are definetly cool. That is from back in the day when the whole neighborhood got together and did each other's fields! Imagine neighbors helping each other now! I wish I had some more old pictures from my family. One family made up a history book, supposedely my Great, Great Grandpa had one of if not the first tractor in the area- he died in the 20's I believe, it would be cool to see what he had. Pictures like these are invaluable pieces of history! Enjoy them ! -Andy

LMack · Feb 19, 2012

Yea it was exciting to work around these old units but do not forget the quote that a treshing machine would kill 7 men and a boy every day and still I doubt a single machine would thresh more than 10 acres of wheat in a day. Some of the old wheat farmers might clear that up. It was hard work, much harder than most of us do now. I did work a little on a similar unit since peanuts was one of the last crops to mechanize. It took two days of hard work for three men and a boy to thresh 5-acres of peanuts. The early two row peanut combines and one or two men would easily do 7 or 8 acres in a single day. Stationary peanut threshing units were common until the early 1960's so I got in on the very tail end of a dying era. I would not want to go back.

Mike Farmer · Feb 20, 2012

Hi Those pics are absolutely super and someone has taken very good care of them over the years. Thought you might also like to see a couple of pics that I took at a show a couple of years back. Not in the same league as the working pics but shows that someone is still taking avery serious interest. Mike

Brownie 450 · Feb 20, 2012

The wife has been going through old family photos & cleaned up & enlarged a pic of my G'pa & his brothers moving an old barn with a steam engine. The barn was moved a half mile on what looks like a pair of logs. They just skidded it along, I guess. This was around 1905 or 06. The barn is still being used & sits over at my brothers place--getting badly weathered, though.
Wifo uses a scanner & the computer to clean up the old photos which are rather fuzzy/ blurry, & it does a good job on details.
My G'pa had one of those old glass plate cameras which sat on a tripod, so we have quite a few older farm pics that he took. One of the cousins got the camera & developing trays & stuff when we split up some of G'pa's things.

IH fan · Feb 20, 2012

A relative made up a family history book a number of years back and included were excerpts from my great-great grandfather's diary, which he wrote in almost every day for several years. Several places he mentioned "Rained today, so tinkered with the engine". I asked my mother what "engine" he was tinkering with and she said he had a steam engine, thought it was a Case, had a threshing machine and "threshing ring" (group of neighbors who helped each other thresh oats). I can just barely remember threshing in our area as a little kid in the late '40s, but not with steam.

mike paulson · Feb 20, 2012

that stuff is just too cool...

mikeintn · Feb 20, 2012

Very nice, thanks for posting them, love to see them old pictures.

400D Guy · Feb 21, 2012

Very nice. I always get a little blurry eyed when viewing such pictures - the children full of hope and excitement, the men rough and hard working, the women providing the support(food, washing, house upkeep, on and on) to allow them to keep going. But now, they are all gone. These pictures are precious for keeping their memory and what they stood for in our thoughts.

My wife has been known to frequent antique shops and rescue such pictures that nobody else cared about. It seems to somehow make them important again.

JRSutton · Feb 21, 2012

Wow - great pictures! Really love that first one.

You're lucky to have them.

I have many very pictures of my ancestors, but all of mine are just portraits.

I'd kill to have some pictures of them "doing something" showing a little of what life was like for them.

C. Amick · Feb 23, 2012

I think the traction engine in the second photo is a Case. Post them on the Case board. I'm sure they would like seeing them.

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