Re: this is the way to spread lime quickly

Posted by MeanGene1 on October 07, 2009 at 12:53:17 from (204.14.185.127):

In Reply to: this is the way to spread lime quickly posted by xcsp on October 07, 2009 at 10:11:27:

Ah, memories-
Spent many a day in my youth in a cloud of lime- my grandfather, in addition to being an International truck & tractor dealer, ran a trucking & lime spreading outfit in south central NY- then got into farming as a hobby and a way to keep his guys busy. Also sold coal in the winter, also to keep the guys busy. We sold Basic Bulk and Michigan brands, we had several stockpiles at rail sidings where the Basic could come in, and had an old Michigan crane with a clamshell bucket to unload the hopper cars (guess who got to shovel out the corners...), trucked the Michigan in ourselves. Had a long string of REO's over the years, '51's, '53's, last new one was a '60- gramps used to buy two at a time, load a couple guys in the pickup, and haul 'em to Lansing to pick up the new cab & chassis. In the early years he had run whatever he could find cheap until he could start buying new stuff. Later on we added 3 deuce and a half 6x6's, '52-'53 REO-Studebaker rigs, for wet going- worked pretty well, and added the big front-mounted winch on all of them. Some New Leader spreaders, and bought some from a guy in Jamestown who was also a spreader and started building his own. Always had a spare rebuilt REO 331 Gold Comet and Wisconsin (with generator delete) pony motor for the spreaders in the parts room for quick changeouts. Had a bunch of loaders to service the different stockpiles over the years, a couple TO-20's, an 8N with a Wagner loader and a big-bore kit we kept forever, a 340 Utility, Fordson Major Diesel that was the big gun for the home pile until we got a Michigan 75A. We also had the first private two-way radio setup in the area in '58, I still have the newspaper with a big article about it, and a full-page ad with a lightning bolt running between pictures of Gramps in his '54 Chebbie pickup (the IH dealership also sold Chebbie cars & trucks) and Grams in the office with the home base/ dispatch radio- we later on shared the frequency with Bird's Eye. I also have the original photos that were used to insert into the paper. We also sold and sprayed urea liquid nitrogen for wheat, one of the '53 REO's got the lime spreader pulled off and a flatbed w/ 1,000 gal tank and a trailer hitch installed to pull the spray rig around, ran a pair of Golden Jubilee's with sprayers for a while, later a new IH 424

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