Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA

Posted by Bill in NC on July 15, 2005 at 11:28:49 from (24.172.3.146):

As you know, I travel quite a bit and this past week took me
through parts of Northern California. Took a couple of hours
and toured the Heidrick Ag Tractor and Hayes Truck Museum in
Woodland, CA. Some really neat stuff in those side-by-side
museums. A guy named Heidrick farmed 30,000 acres in the
Sacramento area and collected lots of early gas/diesel powered
farming equipment. Most of the equipment was from 1905 to
1940. Not much Farmall or Deere equipment but lots of
Catepillar, Best, Holt, Oil-Pull, Fordson, early IH (Mogul, 10-20?),
Fageoli, Yuba, Allis-Chalmers and beaucoup other
manufacturers from the that period. From looking at all the
hitches, propulsion, transmission and other mechanical aspects
seen in this big collection, it appears that not much new under
the sun has been developed since the 1930's. That is an
exaggeration, of course, but it was truly amazing to see the
ingenious developments that were made in the 1905 to 1930
period. If you are a Catepillar man/woman, the Heidrick
museum is the place to be.

Woodlands is about 15 miles north of Sacramento on Interstate
5. The truck museum is worth the trip by itself. Your traveling
museum reporter. They have good bookstore that had titles
from our favorite Farmall authors (I bought a book!).

For you California folks, how about explaining rice farming to
me? Do you raise rice throughout the year or just during certain
seasons? It appeared that some fields were recently planted
while some others appeared to be half grown to me. Also, there
would be small grains fields literally beside rice fields which
were beside sunflower fields. Besides field flooding during part
of the growing season, is there any other special field
preparation for growing rice? How do you fertilize plants whose
roots are under water? Inquiring minds want to know! The
fellows at the Sacramento Avis counter said all those rice field
surrounding the airport sure do grow a lot of mosquitos!!

Follow Ups:

• Re: Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA Scott Medlock 15:40:27 07/15/05 (0)
• Re: Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA dave 14:49:28 07/15/05 (1)
  • Re: Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA Bill in NC 15:07:07 07/15/05 (0)
• Re: Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA RustyFarmall 14:23:25 07/15/05 (0)
• Re: Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA El Toro 12:34:01 07/15/05 (0)
• Re: Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA Joe Kimbriel 11:54:53 07/15/05 (1)
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