Old Binder Guy

I guess the brand name of this truck a Veerac, in Great Falls. Buttrey Foods was a huge statewide grocery chain in most sizable towns and cities. I remember a Buttrey also being in the Montana Legislature, representing a Havre, Montana district. Of course Havre is the home of my friend, Don Greytak, Montana's pencil artist. This picture is on the wall of our dining room. Don is older than me and color blind. Gary😉

Roger, front and center, "Old Truck Man!"

This is a 1902 model of a Holt steam traction engine, and appears to be #6, the earliest one I've seen. A road roller on a Minneapolis 25-50 (right Roger?) gas tractor. I thought this was a nice photo of a George White Canadian straw burner engine threshing in Canada. A 15-30 or likely a 22-36 McCormick Deering pulling a 4-bottom plow/ A McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular. One of you guys will probably know what it is doing! A barbecuer made on a Farmall F-20 or F-30. "Tip Toe" drive wheels too. I don't recognize the manufacturer of this little tractor. Is it an Allis Chalmers? Beats me. But I remember seeing lots of those Model T Ford chassis under farmer's hay racks in central Montana when I was a boy. I got one years ago that had 1927 wire wheels on it. Ernest Holmes' 1913 Cadillac with a wrecker mounted, in 1916. That was the beginning of a big event! Farmall Kid or Son Mike, bought himself a retirement (from 39 years and 8 months in the military) present. I had heard of Mahindra tractors, but I certainly didn't know they were building these "Army jeeps!" They originally came with vertical radiator openings, but JEEP put a stop to that. These are built in India. They have the turbo diesel engines that the Manindra tractors have. Mike promptly named his Mahindra ROXOR, "Roxie"! It is an offroad, but "onroad" licensed vehicle. I think the top speed is less than 60 mph. Mike placed the Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiment lettering on the left rear, that he was a Tank Commander in years ago.. I guess EO6 means "The Old Man" or commander. The right side. This is the plain interior. It's very reminiscent of riding in Dad's ol' 1947 Jeep half cab I grew up driving in. The biggest reason Mike bought the Mahindra Roxor is he wants to pretty much retire the IH 300 Utility for plowing snow. He said he was tired of bundling up in warm winter clothes to plow the driveways on their cul-de-sac. The winch lifts this blade. Gary😉

Absent Minded Farmer. I know I reported on this much earlier on this conglomeration of posts. But, when I stayed with my Mom's brother George on his dairy when I was 34 years old, he told me this story. His uncle, my great uncle, George Robert. "Uncle Bob" (my great uncle, George's uncle) was co-owner, operator of the Hamilton-Clingan Saloon in Kendall, Montana, a gold mining town. My Grandpa Sam Hamilton was a driller and blaster in both mines there. There were two saloons in town and both offered the same services. This was Uncle Bob's. He's sitting at the left. Notice in this ca 1906 photo the electric lights. The mines had a dynamo down below the mountain on Warm Springs Creek. They also pumped water up to the mines, and town. Consequently with electric lighting, it worked well for the saloon, as the mines operated three shifts around the clock. If you got off work at 2:AM, you could stop by for a cold one. And if he still wasn't ready to go home and to bed, he could go to bed upstairs with a hot one! This was the exterior of the saloon with its upstairs on Main Street. I'm not certain of when this happened, but I'd guess by 1908. It appears the town's ladies didn't appreciate this sort of business, perhaps? I don't know for sure. Grandpa quit mining about this time and took a homestead north of here on Salt Creek. So Uncle Bob and "Auntie" Lil moved to the Judith River at the confluence of the Judith and Missouri rivers. He chose to raise cattle and had a terrible winter. His hired men were feeding "a box car load of hay" every day and still lost many. So he moved to Lewistown and started over with another joint. Somewhere around this time he owned a Stanley Mountain Wagon. He was good friends with Teddy Roosevelt. I'm assuming they met during a cattleman's conference, that was very active then. They made arrangements to meet at West Yellowstone. Bob would drive his Stanley there and meet Roosevelt at the train station. They toured Yellowstone National Park in the mountain wagon and according to my uncle George, they didn't spend all of the time sober. I sure wish I had a photo of his mountain wagon though. All I have a picture of is his 1909 Buick Touring Car. The Stanley Mountain Wagon would have come later. But my 93 year old friend Willis Abel of Finleyville, PA has restored several Stanley steam cars over the years. This was his Stanley Mountain Wagon. Willis used to have a huge steam show in his area. He owned a multitude of steam engines. Most of them ended up in North Carolina. And Willis was kind enough to give me a Stanley hubcap, since he knew I collected old screw on hubcaps from antique cars. Willis and my late steam mentor, Austin Monk were best friends. Austin told me about arriving at the Pittsburg Airport for one of Willis' shows and he was driving this Mountain Wagon. Austin said, "We got passed by, by VERY FEW cars. I don't know what the Turnpike speed limit was, but it sounded like Willis drove most of the way around 85 mph. This is my hubcap board and the big brass hubcap in near the upper middle is the Stanley hubcap Willis gave me. It is now in this room where I'm typing and about 2 feet from my right knee. Gary😉

Here are a couple of photos of Grandpa Yaeger's hand crank post drill. The gray enamel bucket is pretty full of drill bits. Gary

An early IHC tractor being tested and observed. I'm not positive what I'm looking at here, but it must be someone's model of an early IHC. A Spanish International machinery ad. This IH Farmall M must be going to plant corn? I'm not from corn country. I remember when the "NEW" IH tractors came out. Live hydraulics, Live PTO and Torque Amplifier were front and center on these new tractors. Gary😁

ray54: A 1937 Hudson Terraplane pickup! Gary

I think we're at least 380 miles away from Miles City, here in Helena. We're nothing like Alaska, Texas or California, but we're not tiny here either. We sort of lacking in population though.

I'm a little older than some, but I have never seen the movie Grapes of Wrath from the 1940s. I understand Stalin tried to use the movie as propaganda against the United States and her woes of the Dirty Thirties. That truck has stuck in my mind though. Henry Fonda was the lead actor and drove that truck. I also have a question for Roger: Did Hudson build a truck? I know some car companies did. Like Oldsmobile and Buick. This International S Model Truck is listed as a "Grapes of Wrath truck" and since I haven't seen the movie, it may be? I still think it is a made up truck for a small museum somewhere. That half gallon oil spout can in front of the wash tub is one like I have that I bought back in the 1960s. And Last but ot Least is this Model TT Ford truck also listed as a Grapes of Wrath truck on Google. Gary😉

Howard_P, My cousin Fred Yaeger was often flown to Fort Wayne to bring back, at least two trucks, one piggybacked on the driven one to Bourke Motor & Implement Co. in Lewistown, Montana. They did a real brisk business selling 1600 and 1700 Loadstar trucks for hauling grain and livestock in that area of the Judith Basin. Gary😉

Roger... That's a bygone memory! I'm now De-horny. Now, YOU are much younger than me. You know, there could be ladies checking on this nonsense here. You have WAAAAAAaaaaay more horns on your old cars than I have total. Even a "Potato Horn!"! I think that makes YOU hornier! (Remember, Roger, The potato goes in the front. Not the back.) Gary PS: I got a call from TubaCase47, Tom Railsback of Great Falls. We are all getting older (well, I AM OLD) and needing to make changes. He said he is moving to Nebraska to be with his nephew, one of his sister's sons. I'm glad there will be someone to look after Tom. He has collected tubas for ages. What do those horns mean on this page?

Twostepn2001, Dad had one of those old 'cow "MOO" electric horns' on our 1947 Jeep. I managed to find one in a junk shop. This chuck wagon definitely needs one of them. It is the lower left here. It is on the lower left on the board with some additional horns, up high in Mike's shed. A Handphone horn in the 1925 Model TT Ford truck. It also has an electric magneto horn, the button in the low center. My Grandpa Yaeger's first brand was a "curleycue" called the French Horn. I found this French Horn in a brass bin at the junkyard. Thomas Edison also sold horns. This is one of his on my cylinder phonograph. I also have a few shoehorns too. I found this genuine longhorn shoehorn made in Scotland too. I always wondered if that is where the name "shoehorn" came from, is steer horns. Mike's 1957 Chevy even has an "ahooga" horn. And what's an accordion without a horn anyway. I guess the rest of my and Mike's accordions are "de-horned?" Gary

I grabbed this off of Facebook this afternoon. Which Type of Mogul is this? Roger will be upset because I can't remember my lesson from him. Gary

Gee whiz, Roger. I thought you could have at least told us a little something about Winther-Marwin trucks!🙃😁🤣 I suppose you guys are all watching the Super Bowl now? Gary

I got this photo off of Facebook a few days ago. My 70 year old cousin's son, my first cousin once removed, David Yaeger, his mother Pearle Yaeger, my cousin Janet (Yaeger) Walling and John. Janet is the oldest living Yaeger at this time. She's 87, I believe. Her widowed name is now Lewellen. I am the oldest one with the surname Yaeger. Janet's mother lived until they had her 100th birthday party planned and invitations sent, when Aunt Ina died a few weeks before. Not important to this group. But look at that International Harvester refrigerator with the red inset in the handle. It's like the one Mom had, only Mom's kitchen was yellow, and so was her inset. Gary😀