Here is the video on farming in 1959 again!!!

Okay guys I guess we can't be adults and discuss anything that is a real problem in an adult manner.

So all is rosy in todays world and we all can live to 100 with everything working just great!!!

The odds of that really happening are about as good as us going back to 1959s style of life.

Well I have real work to do so good bye until tonight.
Strictly Farming starting in 1959

Yeh, thank goodness we don't have to go back to living that way again. On second thought, I'll take that back!

I always enjoy watching this video. It shows a time and place of peaceful existence. Back then I thought my bread came from A&P. Vietnam war came a few short years later.

What happened to the other post? I didn't post anything controversial....other people got nasty?

Thanks for reposting, I enjoyed the video.

1959????? Heck I farmed like that and used equipment like that and OLDER in the 70's 80's and up into the 90's. Didnt know I was so bad off lol

In the Blizzard of 78 I (ton of snow AND BELOW 0 LIKE 25 DAYS straight, Ohio River froze over) had a bunch of fat hogs and all the water and supplies and pumps etc on the farm froze soild and I had to use 5 gallon buckets to get water out of a cistern to water them by pouring it into a hole in the ground. Fuel oil heater gelled up and froze and all I got it to was 30 degrees inside the home, there was a thin sheet of ice in the toilet bowls, couldnt get 4 x 4 trucks or even tractors (lived up top a big steep hill) out to get any supplies. Somehow????? one of our sons was "begotten" that winter lol lol

Heres something else enjoyable in the sixties

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2j8f7H2WY

John T
More sixties fun NOT farming however

i really enjoyed the video thanks for sharing it with us.
RICK

Think I'm gonna go back to that way- ssems like I made money then. Now, every salesman in the world says I need bigger, newer machinery to make any money. And I just wind up paying for bigger, newer machinery with any money I make. Those hogs could sure be a mortgage lifter....

Take 10 years off that and you would have my place today.

This is "tractor talk" after all. Unless the "real problem" has something to do with a tractor, or maybe farming, then there are other forums for that sort of thing.

I well remember the blizzard of 1978, John, and walking on the frozen Ohio River in Cincinnati. I wanted to walk across to Covington, KY as others were doing but my then soon to be ex-wife said no. Then, as now, I was a history buff but telling her that I would likely never have another such chance was futile as she was ignorant of history (and so much else).

I had sold my restored 68 Corvair with 65, 140 HP 4 carb engine, ordered a new Trans Am, which had not yet arived at the dealer and was temporarily driving my Father's GMC 2500 2WD PU with 327 engine, TH 400, 4.10:1 posi Dana 60 rear axle with 750X16 bias ply road tires on split rims.

That morning I was the ONLY one of 900+ to arrive at work. My route was uphill most of the way and none of the roads had yet been plowed. NO ONE with a 4WD vehicle (these were much less common in those days) came in. The guard took photos and sent me home. Yes, I made it. I spent the afternoon shoveling plowed snow into the bed of the truck for weight for the rest of the winter.

I had spent my younger years learning how to drive in the snow on private country roads and hay fields first with a go cart and later a 1947 Pontiac with and without snow tires, with and without chains, two wheel drift, four wheel drift, etc. After 50+ years, I am yet to meet anyone who can even approach my skill regarding driving in snow and I routinely irritate drivers on public highways when I pass their AWD/FWD vehicles at 60 or 70 MPH in the snow on the interstate in a FWD passenger car.

Dean

thanks for posting, I love the hogs running behind the fat cattle! I can almost smell the corn chaff and the oil and grease smell of picking corn (You know what I mean if you have ever used a picker!) This is how I did tons of stuff growing up as we just had a small farm and could only afford the old junk to farm with. Looking back I was blessed for it!

Great story, we lived at Versailles Indiana then, maybe 50/60 miles West of Cincinatti on Hi Way 50 and the sight of the Ohio river froze over was something and I will likely NEVER see that again in my lifetime..... I delivered grain to Queen City but not once all froze up of course. Likewise, I doubt you will get another chance to walk across the frozen Ohio river ???

John T Soon headed to Florida

The last blizzard we had was in either '78 or '79- wonder if it was the same one? We got about 30 inches of snow, winds in the 30-40 MPH range.

Wife and I, and baby, lived in a single wide mobile, electric heat only. Power went out about 8 PM- As I was weighing options, neighbor called: "It just occured to me- you've got no heat! You better get yourselves and that baby over here, quick!" So we did, and stayed 3 days. Every day, we'd do his chores, then go through the fence and do mine. They were Mormons, and just thrilled that they finally had something to use their stored food for. Cooked on the woodstove, and we never stopped eating the whole 3 days. They were the best neighbors anyone ever had.

RIP, Charlie and Winona Faith.

WE had a neighbor at the next farm then in Versailles, Indiana, a Deputy Sheriff, maybe 1 or 2 miles away, we bundled up and walked over to eat and play cards it was the coldest walk I ever recall, like 25 below and windy, but we were young, been married 8 years, not a care in the world (except farming and hogs and no water not much heat lol) and didnt know any better I guess.

"If you ever wonder why you ride the carousel, you do it for the stories you can tell, Oh the stories we can tell" Jimmy Buffett

John T

Fun to look at. We didn't have anything that modern back then. We sure didn't have a 62 Chevy in 59. lol

I remember the blizzard of '78 very well. Our oldest was in the hospital with appendicitis, my wife rode 5 miles to town on the back of the neighbors snowmobile, the only snowmobile ride she has ever had. She was director of nursing at the hospital and ended up working four days straight. I was home with two other kids, snowed in for four days. We had a drift to the eave of the house on the east side, took me an hour to dig the first 10 feet of driveway with a tractor and loader. It was one to remember and the boys still talk about living on Dad's cooking for four days. Don't think they'll ever eat hot dogs and beans again.

I think I was in the 3rd grade during the blizzard of 78. I had an extra week of Christmas vacation if I remember right. It was a long time ago. Something as serious as being snowed in seems fun when you are a kid, More Play Time.

I was 19 when this hit us. Bill in western ny
Buffalos blizzard of 1977