It is all pretty easy when you have electricity isn't It? When I was a kid in the Peace River country of Northern Alberta we had no such luxury. When we shut down a vehicle we would jack it up and block it, remove the battery, drain and save the oil, drain the water (could not afford antifreeze but sometimes used kerosene in the rad) and cover the tires with old binder canvas. The battery went behind the wood cooking range and the oil in a bucket in the pantry. When we needed the truck again the process was reversed. Hot water was poured into the rad which had cardboard in front of the core. It would usually start and there was always the crank if it did not. Fires were lit under the transmission and diff otherwise you could not shift gears. We jacked up and blocked it so the tires would be round. Those old bias plys would get flat spots on them which seemed to take forever to work out. The whole process took about two hours of miserable work at -40. Something to look back on but I do not miss it one bit.
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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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