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40's maybe? or 30's
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Well that is a 28/29 Model "A" ford doodle bug that a cutie is driving. Needs air in 5he tire. I would guess mid to late 40s. The wheel on the trailer is a little later. That hub cap would be a 32 or a little older Ford V8 car. Looking at the doodle bug again. That front axle is from an "AA" truck. Guess they chopped up a truck instead of a car. Heavyer rear end. Axles too.
 
Also note the Tow chain draped over the arms "brackets" that hold the headlights and also held the fronts of the fenders. Also there is no windshield. No glass. Another thing. Suspisious picture in that barn. Notice how everything is spick and span clean? Staged. Even the cows look as if they are ready for judging.
 
(quoted from post at 17:09:20 02/04/18) Also note the Tow chain draped over the arms "brackets" that hold the headlights and also held the fronts of the fenders. Also there is no windshield. No glass. Another thing. Suspisious picture in that barn. Notice how everything is spick and span clean? Staged. Even the cows look as if they are ready for judging.
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Eh, maybe they just got finished white washing that side of the barn.......cows included! *lol*

Yes, these are fun pictures to look at now, but was definitely hard work back in the day. Am thankful I'm not speaking from first-hand experience. :wink:
 
(quoted from post at 17:01:50 02/04/18) Well that is a 28/29 Model "A" ford doodle bug that a cutie is driving. Needs air in 5he tire. I would guess mid to late 40s. The wheel on the trailer is a little later. That hub cap would be a 32 or a little older Ford V8 car. Looking at the doodle bug again. That front axle is from an "AA" truck. Guess they chopped up a truck instead of a car. Heavyer rear end. Axles too.
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Until mid-29 the AA had spoked rims then they went to steel rims. A lot off the spoked rims were replaced with steel rims because the spokes bent going around a corner. Too bad we can’t see if it’s a worm drive rear end or not.
 
hard work and every one was skinny back then... even the cows. looks like she is hoping to make it home and get hubby with the hand pump on that tire.
 
No idea when that picture is from, but my Uncle milked a half-dozen by hand as late as the late 50's. I still have one of his milk cans.
 
Centash, Do you know who manufactured the carrier? I saw one like it years ago and can't remember if it was Starline or Jamesway.
 
I've seen my mom milk faster than that....She could easily milk 3 times faster than I could, and have the pail foaming in no time.....but then I was no good at it...,guess that's why they have me the fork and litter carrier....
Ben
 
Bruce, The old timr I used to work for told me "You don't want to get more cows than your wife can milk"! He was raised by his Grandpa and one winter when he was in high school the bus got stuck in the snow and he walked home. His hands got cold and he said Grandpa I'm going to the house to warm my hands! Grandpa said boy start milking your hands will warm up in no time!
 
Quote: That hub cap would be a 32 or a little older Ford V8 car.

Can't be "a little older than a '32 Ford V8 car."

Just sayin'!
 
Looking at these pictures I am going to have to ask my dad if he has any old pictures of my grand and great grand dads dairy. They milked cows when dairy farming was a real job. LOL!!!!

Milk the cows; pasteurize the milk; bottle the milk; then deliver the milk door to door with a horse and buggy.
My dad would always rant on how the horse knew the route as good as granddad did.
Granddad had one of the first pasteurizers in the area.
He even expanded to pasteurizing other farmers milk.
And this lead to the farms demise.
They had expanded past a family farm and when WW2 started he could not find enough workers to stay open.
I assume his love for alcohol played a big part in it also.
 
When I was in my teens my dad had the chance to pick up the axle and
wire wheels from a 28/29 fire truck for free. They were perfect! He
didnt take them. Those Bud wheels my dad had a doozey of a time
getting enough of them that were in good shape for his dump truck.
Most of the time you had bent rims or they were rust rotted. Never
mind they could blow up.
 
Remember when dad finally got down to six milk cows. Told my brother and I, we would quite using the milker, we would just milk them by hand. Only two a piece. Wait some one is late coming in from the field. Now have to milk three or trying to get the last of the hay in, now someone has to milk six.
 
Looks pretty high tech to me;-) I started milking by hand in '69 with a big coffee can, finishing after the calf stopped nursing. My dad, older and I brother milked 12 cows. We didn't have concrete, every cow had their own stall. When you opened the barn door each one would go to their stall, sweet feed helped. We sold grade C mostly for cheese, etc. When I was 12 or so I could swing a full can up and into the cooler, thought I was doing something. By '76 the rules changed and Dad didn't want to go pipeline so we sold the cows that remained. I didn't know how to act for a time not having to milk but I got over it. Lot of lessons learned those days but I wouldn't want to go back.
 
Link to a catalogue on their site you sent sure shows some neat barns from 100 years ago...some housing over 300 milking cows
Ben
 
when we lived on my grandpa's farm the milk man liked picking up the milk there.
we had a door that was the height as the truck floor he could carry the cans right in the truck.
 
WOW!.

That looks just like the milking parlor at the O. S. & S. O Home in Xenia Ohio where I was raised.

Barn was built in the 1930's and was one of the largest barns in the country at the time.

It had 4 sections like that.




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I'd milked a few cows a little bit when I was a kid and we still milked. In the mid 80's a friend was dying of cancer and his wife was overwhelmed with the chores. I took over the more difficult chores as well as milking their cow for a few months before and after work. I was amazed at the grip and forearm strength I developed in a short amount of time. gm
 
No dairies in this area but pretty near every small farmer kept a few milk cows. And for many years a cream separator, turned by hand. Ship a few cans of cream every week and guess what? Those cream cheques paid the grocery bills all the years us kids were growing up on the farm. But thats all history now. Like everything else small, it was phased out in favour of bulk milk producers. We used to have a cream truck that ran a long route through the area to pick up the cans 5 or 8 gallon. After the local creamery burnt down we had to haul the cans to town for pickup. I think we could fit three full cans in the trunk of the 52 Merc.
Strong arms and only the cats were fat in those days :)
Me in 1984.
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if you are talking about the one I posted the pic of, that was just after it was built.

They were still using it well into the 80's.
 
(quoted from post at 18:09:48 02/05/18) if you are talking about the one I posted the pic of, that was just after it was built.

They were still using it well into the 80's.
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No, the barn in the original post. Partial skeleton one.
 
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