Posted by El Toro on December 05, 2010 at 10:04:09 from (108.3.200.96):
In Reply to: 1955 Photo posted by dgasper on December 04, 2010 at 18:27:56:
Our neighbor had a threshing machine and a 15-30 McCormick Deering tractor that he only used for belt work. It had solid rubber on the rear wheels so it could travel on the main road towing that thresher when he did custom threshing for the farmers in the area. This was back in the late 1940's when I was a teen and I followed it since they paid pretty good for the times and they fed you like a king. In 1950 when we were at the last farm for that summer they were blowing the straw into the straw mow. There happened to be a light bulb in that area and it started a fire. The tractor owner jumped off the wagon he was unloading and tried to use the 15-30 to pull the thresher out. With the solid rubber on the rear wheels it couldn't get enough traction and the barn and the thresher were lost. There wasn't very many dry eyes around that afternoon. The Korean War started that summer and my brother joined the Air Force the following year when we graduated and I was drafted 18 months later. Hal PS: We never had lights in the hay mow or the straw mow. My late dad had a flood light installed on the outside of the hay mow at a window so we could see up there and so noone would fall through the hay and straw chutes. We had a combine and we baled the straw.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown Tractors - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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