Old Deeres at work

pmarkel

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Spreading chicken manure with the 49 A on Friday at the home farm before the rain and Saturday with the 4020 on the other acreage a few miles away. The new packings in the 45 loader on the pictured 55' 60 are holding up nicely and power steering sure makes the job a bit easier. However, with the wind as it was I ended up wearing about half of it...
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Pete,

That 49A looks up to the task. Sure agree with the PS on the 60 being nice, wish mine had it. Sounds like you might have enjoyed my heat houser. That chicken manure is high powered
stuff, Dad had over 3500 layers on our farm in the sixties, that would be a small operation now. Thanks for posting. Dan
 
Thanks for the pictures. When I was a kid
we had a caswell loader on a 51 John
Deere A. The spreader was a ground driven
Deere model N hooked to a 35 Deere A. A
lot of the manure was pitched on by hand
though. We would get good and sweaty
pitching it on, then haul it out to the
field in the cold winter air. I had sinus
trouble all winter because of it. The
loader I have today would fill that
spreader with one dump. Then we got a
Kelley Ryan 6x12 spreader. Had to have
the drawbar short when we pulled it with
a two banger or we would bend the drawbar
from the weight.
 
Thanks everyone for your replies. I always enjoy hearing about the old farms people grew up on, the equipment they used, the contraptions they rigged up to save a little work, etc. I wish some of the old tractor publications would spend a little more time telling these stories...
 
Thanks for then pictures they sure look
nice. I remember as a boy we had a cable
loader on the 45 b. It took two tractors
thow to work with it because we would get
a bucket of cow sh_t and then needed the
other b to pull us back because we need
waight on the back and the front wheels
sank.Then it would work ok to dump it
witch was a trip and the when u back up
to get more every one would turn there
head because when u hit the pedal that
had a belt running from the fly wheel the
loader would drop so fast that it would
splat cow dodo all over lol My uncle got
so mad that he went home an got his
Ferguson 175 with a loader on it and made
the job qicker and cleaner lol.
 
Finished up this afternoon so I can drop the loader and get plowing. I was pleasantly surprised that the loader worked as well as it did-- it's been rewelded and was a little crooked. I didn't know if it would relatch easily but it moved 80,000 lbs of manure in a couple afternoons so I'm satisfied. Thanks for the stories,

Pete
 

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