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IanC · Mar 7, 2018

The county raising and widening the road in front of the farm in 1961. The black locust the Euclid C-6 is pushing past was, according to my Dad, more that 4 ft. through, and was almost more than the dozer could handle. And as a leg puller for road workers, the picture of 3 guys watching and 1 working.

rrlund · Mar 7, 2018

That brought back a flash of memory. I remember when they widened the road here in front of the house,but barely. I don't even know if I was two years old. I was just tall enough to see over the windowsill of the big front window and see them take down a big tree. There was another one that sat back a little farther. My brother and I took that one down about ten years ago with his backhoe because it was starting to come down by itself.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 7, 2018

ok,,Identify the make of pickup behind the dozer?

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Dave H (MI) · Mar 7, 2018

That must be amazing to live on the same place you have been all your life. I was just looking at some pictures of the house I grew up in. My folks sold it back in the 1980's for about $100K. It was only on 1/3 acre but it was a nice neighborhood and I kinda liked it. The people who bought it just sold it last year for over $450K. I would love to see my Dad's reaction to THAT! I still drive by it now and again just to remember stuff. Not all the memories are great.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 7, 2018

My brother has the farm I grew up on in NJ.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 7, 2018

I have no idea,,you guys have to figure it out,,,lol

rrlund · Mar 7, 2018

There's good and there's bad to it. Even though I bought and paid for it on a land contract with interest,there's an obligation not to sell it outside the family. It's not a legal obligation,but just a personal obligation enforced with guilt.

Eric in IL · Mar 7, 2018

The fender well looks IH to me, but I'm not sure the cab is sending me binder "vibes".

Roger in Iowa · Mar 7, 2018

Maybe a Jeep pickup?

OldFarmall450 · Mar 7, 2018

(reply to post at 08:44:42 03/07/18)

An old WWI veteran lived out his days with us. He had a early 50s Dodge truck with a long narrow bed like that. Batwing hood, starter button on the floor, flat head straight 6 motor, 3 on the tree.
I think its a dodge.

rrlund · Mar 7, 2018

I thought Jeep from the look of the cab,but I never saw one with a fleetside box.

Dave H (MI) · Mar 7, 2018

I understand completely. The farm I bought north of Howell was homesteaded in the 1830's and I bought it thru an estate. Four siblings. The two boys were given all the land on the north side of the road. A daughter got the land and house on the south side of the road. I am not sure what the other daughter got, but she must have been bought out by her sister. When the sister died, the property went into her estate and the brothers started using it like they owned it, but the remaining sister was executor and she put it up for sale. I came along 8 years later. Everyone was feuding and it took me two years of negotiations to get them to agree the place was not (literally) worth over $1M. It took another five years to get to a point where the one brother could be civil to me when we talked. The other is polite but still distant. I admire your dedication to your heritage. A rare thing these days.

IanC · Mar 7, 2018

I find it very funny when somebody starts yammering at the township meeting about how it "used to be" because they are a "long time resident" and have been here 10 years. When my grandparents moved to the farm Oak Grove road didn't even go through to Cohoctah it ended at the bottom of our hill. It came south from Cohoctah to Gannon Rd, there was a gap between Gannon and the bottom of the hill. Almost bottomless frog p**p till they dug the Lime Lake Drain (small bridge) and put LOTS of fill.

NYOlivers · Mar 7, 2018

IanC where abouts are you from? If you don't mind me asking?

Roger in Iowa · Mar 7, 2018

Dad had 3 Jeep pickups and all were fleetside as apposed to step side. Earlest one had a 6 cyinder, I think overhead cam, and really ran. Hauled a lot of wheat with it,60+ bushels at a time.

IanC · Mar 7, 2018

Howell Michigan. Farm is 2 miles south of Cohoctah MI, but mailing address is Howell. 10 miles to Howell.

Dave H (MI) · Mar 7, 2018

IIRC, I drive right by you going back and forth to the elevator. Not sure what to do about that elevator. Seems like every year a truckload of corn weighs less than the year before. Can't be my imagination.

NYOlivers · Mar 7, 2018

Ok. I though possibly in NY when you mentioned Lime Lake, we have one here also. A very good friend/neighbor of ours who is like a grandfather to me, ran a dozer and grader for most of his life. Anyway back in the 60's and 70's he did a lot of work for the counties and towns all around us cutting roads in or making them wider, digging roadside ditchs and etc.

Spook · Mar 7, 2018

I?m on the south edge of the township. You guys must be talking about the Lott elevator. My address is Howell, but I am at n the Fowlerville school district. I go to the ville more than Howell, I have more connections there.

crooked rows · Mar 7, 2018

Doesn't look like too many houses on the other side of the road back then........

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