Things your Dad carried....

Any of you have anything your Dad carried?

Well, I have Dads key ring, it has about 20 keys on it and over 2 million miles. Dad was a truck driver and the old keys are almost worn away; the newer ones are only half way gone. I have like 15 old pocket knives that Dad keep, they are all sharp!!! My most prized possession from Dad is a 1953 TO-30 Ferguson, deep drop Sherman trans, with a Davis loader. Dad traded an 8N for it in 1964 when I was 5 and completely rebuilt it from the ground up, I became Dads gofer, go for this, go for that. Dad passed away a couple of years ago and I use the tractor almost everyday, I’ve updated it and put a 3 point backhoe on it and use it, use it and use it. What a great tractor; I tell everyone that it could have been better, every decade we had to put a new battery in it, but that’s about all…
Dad was a great man and I think of him and Mom almost everyday, Mom passed away 4 months after Dad. I’m thinking about writing a book about all the experiences Dad gave me….

Paul Kingsbury
Bend Oregon

Walt

I have my grandpa's "trick" pocketknife - the kind you have to tip a certain way to open and close. That sits in the safe.

I carry a Susan B. Anthony dollar my wife gave me at our first Christmas 26 years ago so I'd never be broke. I also carry an Uncle Henry's two blade pocket knife, a small Case lock-back I found on a pheasant cleaning station in Iowa, and one of those supermarket ckeckout keychain knives. Iused to also carry a good pair of American made folding scissors. Very handy tool to have.

Dad has a lot of tools as he worked as an electrician for Wolverine World Wide. He built pig skinning machines for packing plants and Wolverine got the hides for Hush Puppies.

Larry

He used to come to my home every Saturday morning to drink coffee and feed the birds some week old bread. I now drink my coffee using dad's cup every Saturday morning while I sit and chat with my son, and we feed the birds the week old bread too.

I lost my dad in 1999, he was not only my dad but was my best friend as well. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of him.

I work as a maintenance electrician. I can't make up my mind if he'd be proud of that, or wonder why I didn't go to school and better myself.

Later Roland (AL)

Later Roland (AL)

When appopriate he had a wooden folding ruler in the ruler pocket, but that was not an always item.

--->Paul

• Hobby farm

My FIL passed last March. He carried a pocket knife and whole passel of keys. I look at the garden and still see him sitting out there on a bucket working that garden. Honor and honesty were were important to him. I miss him, too. Both were good men.

Carried a Case pocket knife, 3 bladed. When he died it still had the blood on it from the last coon he skined.

He always carried cheap japanese pliers. I never liked them an always carried CT brand. Course it cost more to replace them when lost.

I found a pair of his ole pliers, rusted to death. I kept them anyway.

Also never went anywhere without a bandana handerkerchief.

He has been dead going on 5 years. Miss him every day.

Gene

My dad, who will be 91 tomorrow, has worn blue striped bib overalls all his adult life. Like so many of us on this board, Dad is my hero. He's not as sharp now as he once was, but it always seemed to me he could fix ANYTHING with just basic tools.

Anyway, back to the pockets....He always had a pocket knife, (never lost 'em, but sure wore plenty of 'em out). Other than that he always had an assortment of items...a master link, a fuse, rivets, nuts & bolts, wire, a nail or two, etc. We always marveled at what magic he'd pull out of his pocket while making machinery repairs in the field.

Stop to think of it, there was one thing he always carried...a red handkerhief. While it seldom got used as a handkerchief, it often proved very useful: tying it over the rear work light of the tractor resulting in a red tail light, tying it on the end of a protruding object for road travel, dust mask, etc. I remember, as a kid, I often thought it silly, Dad having a handkercheif and regardless of weather, an overall jacked on the Case seat. Finally, after years of his generously letting me wear his jacket or use his red dust mask/handkerchief (I suffer from ragweed, etc. alergies) whenever needed, I began to see him as very wise.

Oh, and his most used mobile tools were a 10" adjustable wrench, a vice grip, and the DC Case crank.

It's a totally different topic, but if any tractor in our family has a soul, it's the '51 DC dad bought new. Still field ready and just about to come out of hibernation.

Thank you for stirring up such a special topic.

Glenn F.

Thanks for listening,

D.

Dave