When my boy was about 8 or 9 I needed a trench dug (about 40 feet long) from the shop to a power pedestal - being low on funds I decide to dig it by hand - a shovel wouldn't work as the trench needed to cross the driveway which had 1" 1/2 rock that had been packed by traffic SO I went to the farm store and bought a 'pick-mattox' (sp?). I was telling my wife about it when the boy, all excited, said 'Can I run it?' Sure, says I, 'C'mon you can start right away.'
I took him to the pickup and hoisted it over the tailgate; all bright & shiny red painted head with a wooden handle. When he saw it his face was the epitome of 'crestfallen'. He's over forty now but still gets red when I mention it - he did get the trench dug to my 'specs', though :lol:
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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