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The blizzard of 48 and 49
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I was born at home in N Indidan Feb, 1949 before hospitals were common place. I was told my dad drove a Tractor to the end of long snow filled drive to pick up Dr.
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I remember the 1949 blizzard that set a yet un-broken record, 32 below for our community. The snow started Thanksgiving day and the extreme cold lasted about two weeks Our 36 Pontiac would not start for the duration, On the coldest morning there were only two cars that started. A brand new Ford Crestliner and a Model A. One neighbor got this Oliver 70 and 41 ford started by heating with a gasoline blowtorch. The fellow who started his tractor and car was just out of high school and soon after went to Korea. He died last summer. We had some young fall-started broilers that froze to death. This was in southeast Missouri and possibly is not anything eventful for you fellows up north. I was in grade 8
 

Notice in the pic of the grader plowing. He is winging back. The nose of the wing is a foot off the ground. That is the way they did it when I was a kid. It gets the snow out of the way for the next storm but doesn't beat up the plow or objects that may be a little way off the edge. It seems they don't know how to do that any more, they just run the plow on the ground and hit whatever is there and dig up the ground if it is soft.
 
My best friend's parents grew up in rural South Dakota (Winner and Tolstoy)- born in 1935/36. They talked about and even had a book about the "Blizzard of the Rosebud" during this time. His Mom said the government crawlers pulling emergency hay rations just cut straight lines from town to town, as fence lines were buried under feet of snow. Left much work when the Spring finally came.
 

Missed that storm, wasn't born till 55, but we had a AC Roto Baler that I ran with a WD Allis in the 60's before I turned 10.

Today they would throw my dad under the jail for letting me do that, I was loving it operating that tractor and baler, still enjoy baling today, but in a cab tractor, developed hay allergies in my later years.
 
Even though I was only 6 during that winter I remember it well! We had a "new" 47 Chevy truck and used it to haul a lot of loose hay to a lot of neighbors that couldn't get to their hay supply. We did not bale, sold a lot of hay that was moved by a stack-mover. (I'm sure many of you have never seen one of those.) I still have the tripple side chain-dual chains that have cross bars that are half wore out. (They haven't been on a wheel since that winter.) Dad had to put new motor mounts in the truck twice that winter. BTW, Dad raised & sold hay as part of the farming operation. jal-SD
 
I remember hearing on the radio about the National Guard dropping hay from airplanes.
I would have been 9 at the time.
 
That?s a Pretty neat story thanks for posting it. I bet those old v bar chains were pretty hard on things when working a truck through deep snow and mud
 
That?s a quite a deal to have to drop hay out of an
air plane to get feed to the cows all right
 
Most of our dads would be locked away for good for
the things they taught us how to do and let us do .
Baling hay is one of my favorite jobs even though it
can get hot and and itchy I still love to do it
 
All that snow does make a mess of fence lines . It
would be pretty awesome to see those crawlers
moving hay across the country like that
 
I really enjoyed the video . Snow to me Is just like magic although it can cause a lot of problems to
 
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