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Glu 
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Posted on: Dec. 06 2006,10:09 am |
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I'm not sure when these were taken, but it was sometime in the early 40's or before.
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Glu
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Posted on: Dec. 06 2006,10:12 am |
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1913 Case
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Glu
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Posted on: Dec. 06 2006,10:14 am |
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Check out the size of that hay pile!!
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jimhanson
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Posted on: Dec. 06 2006,5:07 pm |
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My guess it would be straw--threshing machine, grain wagon, shocked material on the feeder wagon.
To help date the photo, most farmers and commercial contractors quit using steam tractors once gas tractors got big enough to power a threshing machine--the most common one in this area being the "D" John Deere of 1923. The gas tractors were easier to move and set up than the cumbersome steam tractors, and didn't require tending the fire or water. By the early 30s, most threshing was done with a gas tractor--but steam did make a "comeback" during the war years due to gas rationing. It is hard to identify the truck, but the first purpose-made trucks (as opposed to cut-down cars) were introduced about 1920.
We used a threshing machine until about 1955, when we got a combine. The straw would be used in the barn, of course--but farmers would also make temporary "sheds" for animals by putting up a framework and blowing the straw on top of it--it was pretty watertight and kept the animals warm.
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Glu
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Posted on: Dec. 07 2006,12:13 pm |
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Great guess, Jim!
My grandfather had written on the back of the Case tractor picture (that's how I knew what year it was, hehe) that he bought it in 1923 and used it until 1944.
My gramps was really into those old steam engines. I remember him giving us rides on his big old Case steamer (I think that one was around a 1902 model) when we were kids. My job was to pull the cord and blow the wistle.  I sure do miss him, and those days...it was fun to watch when he and my great uncles would get that old equimpent running! I have some pictures of the threshing hay as late as the 70's. Cool stuff!
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Posted on: Dec. 07 2006,6:53 pm |
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Posted on: Dec. 07 2006,10:37 pm |
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The hardest thing a farmer has to do now is figure out out to hide the money he gets from the govt in subsides from his fellow man so they dont come after him.
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Posted on: Dec. 08 2006,5:49 pm |
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Posted on: Dec. 21 2006,8:28 am |
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Growing up in Farm country (Dairy Farms mainly) we had some friends who did an annual threshing show. Every year during Labor day weekend they would haul out the old case steam engine and fire it up as well as all the other equipment. They would also tie the oats or barley (I believe the term is shock but not sure) and haul it in on horse drawn wagons. It was truly a great time and a couple of times I got to help during setup and the show. It was fun and as RR said...... It was when farmers were truly working men and families.
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Posted on: Dec. 21 2006,12:47 pm |
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So y'all think that farmers don't work now? What a crock! I wish some of you could follow a farmer around for a day and see what goes on. Not all farmers have it so easy. Farmers today have to be mechanics, engineers, marketers, salesmen...and the list goes on. As for the gov. payments. How much do you think a loaf of bread would cost you today if these programs weren't in place?
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