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A recent antique store purchase included this old map. As a lifelong HOOSIER (from Indiana).I've been into OHIO many times for work, farm sales, tractor shows and family visits. I've enjoyed studying the map looking at places I've been and wondered what things must have been like 76 years ago. Being a tractor guy, I recalled the names of towns where old machinery used to be assembled. PLYMOUTH-SILVER KING, CLETRAC, COCKSHUTT, HUBER and EUCLID were tractor names that came to mind.

So fellow BUCKEYES,please add any additional names of agricultural equipment and their home towns from OHIO to my list Pictures would be a great bonus.
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New Idea in Coldwater then later White tractors. International trucks in Springfield. Marion and Bucyrus for cranes, shovels and drag lines.

Gene
 
When I was a kid Dad had an elevator made by "Stone Manufacturing Co." I think it was. But I always wondered about the part of the label that said "Phone Ohio 10"
 
That reminds me about the Lima steam locomotives, which for a while also got into the shovels and drag lines. Saw a documentary lately about the Lima locomotive factory that in its hay day had 4,000 employees.
 
McCurdy elevators at Ada and if I remember correctly they had phone 10 on them. If I remember when I go over to Indiana again I can check my old elevator. Dont know the names of the companys but hopper beds were built at Botkins and wagon running gears at Troy. They used the same odd wheel that Hobart used on their portable welders also built at Troy. The bale shute-wagon hitch for the Deere sidewinder 116 balers were designed and built in a blacksmith shop at West Libery , never pattened so Deere could steel their design. cannot think of the name of the shop now, would just have to go out and look at my balers.
 
I had uncles that worked there. Fact is my upstairs in the house is framed with discarded shipping timbers from there I only live about 16 mile from the site, nothing left..
 
The Quick MFG Co of Springfield made the Springfield line of garden tractors, garden tillers and riding mowers.
 
How about the Buckeye wheel Trenchers? My father-in-law used a Buckeye trencher to drain a lot of farm ground around here, his son still has it. It has not tiled for many years but still runs. BIL takes it to the local show the last few years. He could win the slow (tractor) race every year, in slow mode you can eat lunch while it goes its own length. joe
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How about the Russell Company in Massillon, builders of steam engines and the Aultman Company in Canton building steam engines and farm equipment.
 
I have a rather remote connection to a Buckeye wheel machine.
I worked for a farmer back in the 80's and his Dad had tiled thousands of acres with a Buckeye 302. My boss had carried on with it after his Dad retired but it was gone before I worked there. Within 2 miles of where I now live is another 302 that has not moved in a few years. I would like to buy it and have my former boss come and show me how to run it to drain some of this farm.
 
Drove the Ohio turnpike in '57. I think it was finished in 55 but was before interstates were built.
 
If you want to save that picture if your computer works like mine you can put your cursor on the picture and right click it, options appear including "save picture". That's how I got these, googled Lima engines, found these, saved them to file, then posted them here. I'm like you, I'm fascinated by steam locomotives and remember them from when I was a kid. I used to watch them on a track a mile away, often could see the smoke before they came into view. I remember seeing the first diesel (that I saw) go by on that track in 1953. That set of tracks is long gone. My wife grew up 11 miles from that track, she claims sometimes she could hear the whistle.
 
Just getting to where I cannot remember names. There was a wheel ditcher PTO powered off of a Fordson Major That had a hydrolic pump mounted on front of engine and powered a hydrolic motor mounted on the belt pully to give the crawl speeds to operate the ditcher. It was built at Jackson Center that is only 7 mile from me and it is where the Airstream travel trailers are also made.
 
The Shannahan family that started Champion spark plugs was one of my father-in-law's newspaper customers when he was young. The Toledo torch that was popular to be used at road closed signs before the battery powered units came in was built at Toledo Pressed Steel and my grand-father-in-law helped design the press to make them. And then Cooper tires at Findlay. And the Wagner Ware cast iron skillets were made at Sidney. Dunham was also Ohio built. Dang brain cannot remember town. Blackhawk equipment also at Belleview.
 
The museum at Lima has one of those Shays on display. Wish they also had one of those big ones as in the pictures. Pretty sure the Detroit Ford museum does have one.
 
If you know about the shay then are you a neighbor of mine? They also have a regular steam engine In a park on east side of town, don't remember make.
 
Pheew! that could be a book but near me in Mt Vernon was Cooper Bessemer that built steam engines and also the Reeves engine Company. Up the road in Fredericktown Foot Foundry made the porch bells that called the men in to eat and also cement mixers. The Coby Company was based in Galion. Altman Tayor built farm machinery in Mansfield. Templton built manure loaders in Lexington and surely more that I have not named.
 
What park on the east side of Lima has a steam engine? I'd be interested to see it sometime. It's too bad the city didn't save a sample of each one that was made there.
 
I know that but they also build a full line of commercial and ag equipment axles.I started dealing with them 30yrs.ago or so on custom axles.
 
When I was a kid Dad had an elevator made by "Stone Manufacturing Co." I think it was. But I always wondered about the part of the label that said "Phone Ohio 10"
 
Don't know the name of the park but it is on East Elm Street on the north side and on the east side of the old DT&I railroad now under a new name. Always changing things and us old guys cannot keep up. It is next to a closed fire station and just a bit northwest of Memorial Hospital. Been years since I was there. It was in a building closed on west side and with a wire east wall that you looked thru. Also a cabose as well. At least I don't think they got rid of it.
 
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