Days gone by

Moline_guy

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Pictures my Grandma took of my Grandpa and uncles farming.
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GREAT PICTURES!!!!!

I am amazed at the snow blowers mounted on the truck. I did not see any of them like that until much later.

I would love to have that old pickup with the side boards on it.
 
Fergienewbie,

Great photos - thanks for sharing!

A lot of really hard work there... but kind of makes one yearn for a simpler time.
 


The snowblower was made for the front of a tractor to be run off of a belt pulley. The H they had it on would not run it. They mounted the blower on an old truck, took the motor off the john deere 65 combine for the winter, put it in the back of the truck and would blow township roads.
 
ingenuity for sure on that truck mounted snow plow. Looks like a "V" belt drive from the combine engine?

I have a Chevrolet truck like that but without side boards on the box. It's a 1949 I suppose, at least mine is.

Wow. Stacking straw on the wagon behind the combine would be a JOB.

Wonderful pictures. Post more if you have more.

Ron
 
Like your pictures, I bought a GMC pick up like the one in pict. in about 1970 for $80., had a junk motor, got a $15. Chevy eng. from the junk yard that ran like a new one. Truck had a steel floor and a hyd. hoist under it. Used it for a hunting/ fishing/ backroad beer drinking truck, lots of fun.
First big snowblower around N Illinois I ever seen was around middle 60's.
 
nice pictures. makes me kinda want a glass of lemonaid and a good ole chicky leg. maybe a slice of homemade cherry pie. just like the old days.
 

1951 truck of my uncles at red power 2014 in huron, SD that Grandpa bought new in 51. Truck still has original cab paint and was used up until the mid 90's as a farm truck.
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Very neat pictures. The one with the front mount snowblower on the tractor caught my eye. I didn't realize they had snow blowers like that that long ago. Interesting for sure!
 
I worked in the last years of those days. Didn't enjoy the work back them; some it was downright dangerous.

It didn't take much to make a team of horses. Dad always told us that the best thing to do in a runaway was to jump off the machine and let the horses run themselve out. Sometimes the wagons would get torn up.

The funny thing was, if they were pulling a heavy implement they did not show any inclination to run away. Guess they knew that they couldn't pull it at a gallop anyway!
 
Back in the late 50's, while helping at the neighbor's dairy, we were served a mixture of milk and molasses in the field while haying, guess they wanted us to keep our strength up, tasted good on those hot days.
 
Wonderful pictures. I wonder what kind of truck was the basis for the one without a cab? Sure shows how hard our forefathers worked to make a living.
 

I remember as a kid my dad and uncle referring to that truck as the "suicide truck". They used it up until the early 80's and then it was cut and made into a trailer we pulled with a tractor. I think it was chevy powered so it must have been a chevy, but I am not sure.
 

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