IH Tractors on Montana Farm

[Absent Minded Farmer]

3 minutes ago, jeeper61 said:

Before the bucket Truck 

Should call it a pucker truck.

Us hefty folk need not apply for that job.

Mike

[Absent Minded Farmer]

And we can celebrate page 999 with NYC&HR #999, the first loco in the world to crack the 100 MPH mark. She currently resides in the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago.

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[TN Hillbilly]

It won't be long now...which post will put it over?  Should be something appropriate. Something classic. Maybe some IH tractors on a Tennessee farm...?

 

Just kidding!

 

[Old Binder Guy]

9 hours ago, hardtail said:

The year might be correct but the TD20 didn't come out until 58 I think, might be an 18 181 or 182 series which would be quite rare as a loader 😊

Second look has 1 stack and is clearly marked TD20 on the decal so their year ID must be off abit

hardtail, My TD-18A 181 series was built in 1955, so their year is off, a bit is right. Then the 182 Series was after that. So TD-20 was later and your 1958 could well be it.  Gary😉

 

[Old Binder Guy]

10 hours ago, hardtail said:

The year might be correct but the TD20 didn't come out until 58 I think, might be an 18 181 or 182 series which would be quite rare as a loader 😊

Second look has 1 stack and is clearly marked TD20 on the decal so their year ID must be off abit

hardtail, My TD-18A 181 series was built in 1955, so their year is off, a bit is right. Then the 182 Series was after that. So TD-20 was later and your 1958 could well be it.  Gary😉

DON'T ASK ME HOW I DID THIS POST TWICE, BUT I CAN'T DELETE IT FOR SOME REASON.

[Absent Minded Farmer]

1 hour ago, TN Hillbilly said:

It won't be long now...which post will put it over?  Should be something appropriate. Something classic. Maybe some IH tractors on a Tennessee farm...?

 

Just kidding!

 

Montana tractors on an IH farm?

Mike

[Sledgehammer]

I figure the professor will have a good idea about this. I came across 3 of these lamp holder brackets. It seems like they take a lamp with a rounded bottom (convex). I see reproduction lamps but all have a step in them and are more squared off. What am I missing?  I have bead blasted the holders. 2 are identical matches. I need to find a lamp now but have had no luck. 

[Old Binder Guy]

With respect to the "odometer keeper" this is for Tubacase47 or Tom Railsback who loves these old town band photos.

The Benton and Helena Stage at the Sun River Crossing stage stop.

45 & 25 IHC Mogul gas tractors at the dealership.

A Type B, 25-45 Rumely Oilpull turning a threshing machine.

An 8-16 Avery gas tractor pulls a hayrack with a hay loader mounted on the back.

A Waterloo Boy, A 10-20 IHC Titan, small Case (I'll bet Tubacase47 can identify?), and a Fordson. Not sure what the occasion is. They don't look like college students learning how to operate and work on them.

An operator on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi operates an F series McCormick-Deering Farmall. It's an earlier one with cast iron steering wheel, I believe? It could be a Regular, F-20 or F-30 maybe?

I'm thinking this early little Gaar Scott steam engine might be a 13 hp?

A 16 hp Reeves cross compound engine and its two operators.

A 22 hp undermounted Avery steam engine is likely burning coal, turning a threshing machine.

A near photo of H.M. Laing hauling his big buck deer home on his Harley Davidson motorcycle in 1916.

I remember getting one of these coal stove, and kitchen baths when I was likely 2 years old. Dad may have used a washtub like this, but I seem to remember a copper boiler. Too long ago...

A boy at a barrel stove during darn hard times, while his daddy was in the field trying to put food on the table. I love those old sad irons.

There were several names for these stoves on Facebook. I don't know the true name, but that family is surviving in tough times too.

A painting of ranchers approaching coyote with Hereford Cow protecting calf from front one, but not the back one. A  Bill Owen painting in Arizona. 

A 16 hp rear mounted Nichols & Shepard steam engine is hitched to an IH TD-14 at a very early show in Missouri. I think a few broken cast iron gears on steam engines and this process stopped at steam shows?

An IH TD-18 is pulling out metal bomber runway strips on a Pacific island.

And Last but not Least. The 1953 IH TD-18A I used to farm with shown here is about 2 miles from the GPS center of Montana. This was one of the first photos of this 999-page menagerie I created about 15 years ago. Hardtail was sort of an encourager of this nonsense. Well anyway, it is an IH Tractor on a Montana Farm! I spent a lot of hours on it listening to those tracks rattle. I built that cab, but it was just in the primer here. I only have one photo of it painted red. Gary😁

This one.

 

[Old Binder Guy]

25 minutes ago, Sledgehammer said:

I figure the professor will have a good idea about this. I came across 3 of these lamp holder brackets. It seems like they take a lamp with a rounded bottom (convex). I see reproduction lamps but all have a step in them and are more squared off. What am I missing?  I have bead blasted the holders. 2 are identical matches. I need to find a lamp now but have had no luck. 

Todd all that I have, have the step in the bottom sides of the kerosene tanks. I wish you luck in finding some appropriate lamps.  Gary🤔

[twostepn2001]

l lived 2 years with an aunt and uncle in Buffalo Valley, Okla. to finish my high school years at the same school after my Mom and Dad divorced. They had a stove just like the one in this pic. lt was in the early 70's. Wasn't funny then, but looking back, this story was a bit amusing.

One Sunday night, l had been over to a friend's house while my Aunt and Uncle was at church. When l got home the house was kinda chilly so l decided to build a fire in the aforementioned stove. So l grabbed a couple of arm loads of firewood off the back porch and commenced to stuffing the stove plumb full of wood. Then l got a coffee can full of some "fire starter"...sawdust slightly soaked with diesel and poured it on the wood in the stove, opened the stove vent along with the damper and carefully tossed a match on the diesel soaked sawdust. The fire got started with no mishap and before l knew it, l had a nice roaring fire. But...

ln just a bit, the outside skin of the stove was glowing a nice cherry red. l went into the kitchen to get the old coffee perculator to sit on the stove in the living room. just before l got back in the living room, l heard a loud "KA-pop!!" followed by a low rumbling sound. l looked at the stove and the bright orange sides was heaving in and out like a fire breathing dragon.

l stood there holding the coffee pot and wondering "What's happening here??" The stove sides continued to heave in and out and the stovepipe was starting to glow a dull orange. About then my Aunt walked in. And the stove did another "KA-pop!!" and vibrated a couple of inches across the living floor.

Aunt Ruth hollered out real loud "What in the world are you doing??" And at the same time she ran over to the stove and started  closing the stove pipe damper and the vents on the stove itself. ln a little bit, the sides of the stove stopped heaving and the vibration ceased. After a good sized butt chewing and some instructions on the fine art of building a fire in a wood stove my Aunt finally calmed down. And it took quite a while, (several years actually) she finally could laugh about the whole incident and in later years when my wife and would go visit them, she would grin and ask "Have you built anymore fires in a wood stove?"

[hardtail]

Great pics Gary, love the buck on the Harley, a bit more challenging to steer, one of my childhood friends places was fairly rustic, about the only amenity they had was power, they finally moved into the "new house" around 1978, they took all their baths in an oval tub in the pantry until that time if i was staying over. His dad got most of his building materials from other teardowns of shiplap and took years to build and finish. 

[hardtail]

On the eve of 1000 I may have been an instigator in getting OBG over to Redpower I can say I have thoroughly enjoyed the historic journey and learned a lot along the way, Greg educating us early on farming the Palouse and many others.

Some of my favorites have been Gary's 1256 pics both summer and winter, the 4586, and the Harley's and TD pics which was the original reason I contacted Gary on Smokstak, about a TD 18 181 he had recovered from a Coulee but I believe the 53 TD18A was a much nicer machine and condition ♥️

My heartfelt thanks for all your hours of dedication, work and sometimes polka dot banter along the way 😊

[iowaboy1965]

49 minutes ago, hardtail said:

On the eve of 1000 I may have been an instigator in getting OBG over to Redpower I can say I have thoroughly enjoyed the historic journey and learned a lot along the way, Greg educating us early on farming the Palouse and many others.

Some of my favorites have been Gary's 1256 pics both summer and winter, the 4586, and the Harley's and TD pics which was the original reason I contacted Gary on Smokstak, about a TD 18 181 he had recovered from a Coulee but I believe the 53 TD18A was a much nicer machine and condition ♥️

My heartfelt thanks for all your hours of dedication, work and sometimes polka dot banter along the way 😊

Concurr. Ty both for being here and all the good banter I've read. Still miss Anson. 

[Tubacase47]

Regarding the crossmotor Case a few posts back, it's either a 9-18B or a 15-27 based on the wheels and the radiator.

[McCormick 40]

I would go along with it being a 9-18B. If it is a 15-27 that guy standing by the rear wheel would have to be awful tall.

[Sledgehammer]

7 hours ago, iowaboy1965 said:

Concurr. Ty both for being here and all the good banter I've read. Still miss Anson. 

Always enjoy the lessons here. I miss Anson and Wrangler’s input. His story about his Father’s hired hand and the Harley wreck was beyond hilarious. 

[MacAR]

On 1/23/2024 at 10:15 AM, twostepn2001 said:

l lived 2 years with an aunt and uncle in Buffalo Valley, Okla. to finish my high school years at the same school after my Mom and Dad divorced. They had a stove just like the one in this pic. lt was in the early 70's. Wasn't funny then, but looking back, this story was a bit amusing.

One Sunday night, l had been over to a friend's house while my Aunt and Uncle was at church. When l got home the house was kinda chilly so l decided to build a fire in the aforementioned stove. So l grabbed a couple of arm loads of firewood off the back porch and commenced to stuffing the stove plumb full of wood. Then l got a coffee can full of some "fire starter"...sawdust slightly soaked with diesel and poured it on the wood in the stove, opened the stove vent along with the damper and carefully tossed a match on the diesel soaked sawdust. The fire got started with no mishap and before l knew it, l had a nice roaring fire. But...

ln just a bit, the outside skin of the stove was glowing a nice cherry red. l went into the kitchen to get the old coffee perculator to sit on the stove in the living room. just before l got back in the living room, l heard a loud "KA-pop!!" followed by a low rumbling sound. l looked at the stove and the bright orange sides was heaving in and out like a fire breathing dragon.

l stood there holding the coffee pot and wondering "What's happening here??" The stove sides continued to heave in and out and the stovepipe was starting to glow a dull orange. About then my Aunt walked in. And the stove did another "KA-pop!!" and vibrated a couple of inches across the living floor.

Aunt Ruth hollered out real loud "What in the world are you doing??" And at the same time she ran over to the stove and started  closing the stove pipe damper and the vents on the stove itself. ln a little bit, the sides of the stove stopped heaving and the vibration ceased. After a good sized butt chewing and some instructions on the fine art of building a fire in a wood stove my Aunt finally calmed down. And it took quite a while, (several years actually) she finally could laugh about the whole incident and in later years when my wife and would go visit them, she would grin and ask "Have you built anymore fires in a wood stove?"

That's a good story! I seem to remember one of the old country stores we used to have around had one like that. I also seem to remember that 90% of the heat went up the stove pipe! I have an old King stove in the living room; it's been a good stove and kept the house a toasty 74 degrees this past week when the temp never got above freezing. Don't see how you folks up North stand the cold. 

On 1/23/2024 at 7:31 PM, Sledgehammer said:

I miss Anson and Wrangler’s input. His story about his Father’s hired hand and the Harley wreck was beyond hilarious. 

Same here, Sledge. Just thinking of that story makes me crack up! Sure do wish Anson would've been around this fall; I'd have liked to shared my little cotton harvest photos with him. I can't click on this thread and not think of him and Wrangler.

 @Old Binder Guy - Here's to hitting a grand!

Mac

[iowaboy1965]

Various things I found interesting (or funny) on Facebook. No background or caption on the home made looking car/tillage set up.

[mikem]

I think this is the only picture I have seen of a TD-14 with a Pullman-Isaacson blade----(except the one in my barn.)

Thanks

Mike

[Old Binder Guy]

Iowaboy1965, That Model T "tractor" was made with a kit that several different companies built those conversions. I'm sure a blacksmith had to help get this one set up.

I found that eating beef is a good way to be a vegetarian. They eat grass and convert it to a great taste for me.

This was on Facebook tonight. A few bucks there. This was 1941. I'll bet in a year they were all gone too.

Daughter Michaelle is holding her third grandchild, Waylon Jayne. I'm anxious to hold our great-granddaughter! And her older sister and big brother!

Your Ford ad reminded me that I had this on my phone, photographed from my computer screen. A catchy ad!  Gary😁

[iowaboy1965]

Gary, 

Congrats on the new great grand baby! 

 

I saw that scrap yard pic too. Love those old pics and used to like wandering auto salvage yards in the late 70s and early 80s when i was growing up. 

Hm it would seem from you dealer photo they might have had a dual business going on? 😄 funny play on words there.

[hardtail]

And Suzukis good grief😳

@mikem I think Captain Crunch's TD14 Thirsty might have had that blade setup?

[U-C]

On 1/23/2024 at 10:15 AM, twostepn2001 said:

l lived 2 years with an aunt and uncle in Buffalo Valley, Okla. to finish my high school years at the same school after my Mom and Dad divorced. They had a stove just like the one in this pic. lt was in the early 70's. Wasn't funny then, but looking back, this story was a bit amusing.

One Sunday night, l had been over to a friend's house while my Aunt and Uncle was at church. When l got home the house was kinda chilly so l decided to build a fire in the aforementioned stove. So l grabbed a couple of arm loads of firewood off the back porch and commenced to stuffing the stove plumb full of wood. Then l got a coffee can full of some "fire starter"...sawdust slightly soaked with diesel and poured it on the wood in the stove, opened the stove vent along with the damper and carefully tossed a match on the diesel soaked sawdust. The fire got started with no mishap and before l knew it, l had a nice roaring fire. But...

ln just a bit, the outside skin of the stove was glowing a nice cherry red. l went into the kitchen to get the old coffee perculator to sit on the stove in the living room. just before l got back in the living room, l heard a loud "KA-pop!!" followed by a low rumbling sound. l looked at the stove and the bright orange sides was heaving in and out like a fire breathing dragon.

l stood there holding the coffee pot and wondering "What's happening here??" The stove sides continued to heave in and out and the stovepipe was starting to glow a dull orange. About then my Aunt walked in. And the stove did another "KA-pop!!" and vibrated a couple of inches across the living floor.

Aunt Ruth hollered out real loud "What in the world are you doing??" And at the same time she ran over to the stove and started  closing the stove pipe damper and the vents on the stove itself. ln a little bit, the sides of the stove stopped heaving and the vibration ceased. After a good sized butt chewing and some instructions on the fine art of building a fire in a wood stove my Aunt finally calmed down. And it took quite a while, (several years actually) she finally could laugh about the whole incident and in later years when my wife and would go visit them, she would grin and ask "Have you built anymore fires in a wood stove?"

I don't have a story like that, back in Switzerland we cooked on a woodstove which was connected to the kunst and that is a part of the Kachelofen masonry oven which also acted as a bread baking oven. Anyway one of my bros left or put a chocolate house or chalet in it and it melted. Or one story my mittens where in there to dry and they where forgotten and came well dried out again ... black lol

[mikem]

22 hours ago, hardtail said:

And Suzukis good grief😳

@mikem I think Captain Crunch's TD14 Thirsty might have had that blade setup?

That's it... The straight lift arms give it away.

Mike

[Old Binder Guy]

Well, I don't know one darn thing, so I thought I may as well post a few photos.

I love this blacksmith shop photo with 9 steam engines to work on, I'd guess. It's not a steam show. Over at the very far left is a photo of something I can't identify. It appears to have an early Pickering washer shim adjusting governor. The smokestack has an after-market South Bend spark arrestor. That all throws me. The next one, broadside is a Geiser return flue. Behind it is a Buffalo Pitts double-cylinder straight flue. the next has a lot of Huber return flue attributes, but the hubs aren't really visible. I could be mistaken that it is a Minneapolis return flue, but I don't think so. The next engine is an Avery return flue with a Monarch tender on the back. The next engine is an Advance with a South Bend spark arrestor, the next a 20 hp Case with an odd spark arrestor, the next is a Minneapolis return flue and the last one at right is a Russell.

This is a steam engine boiler shop up in Quebec, Canada. An early return flue portable engine of some kind is at right.

An early "boot top" smokestack Reeves is busy stack threshing.

I love this photo of my late Reeves friend and mentor, Max Tyler and his little brother Clifford with their 32 hp Reeves cross compound US engine and a ca 1923 Model TT Ford C-Cab truck.

This was my dad on 32 hp Reeves cross compound Canadian Special #7181 in 1930, when their engine was broke down. Herman Otten owned the engine and was brother in-law of Uncle Frank Yaeger, who arranged for borrowing it. Herman bought it F.O.B. Glengarry, Montana in 1914 for $3,200 or $100 per horsepower. While Dad was engineer, the countershaft broke in this engine. None were available from Emerson Brantingham (Reeves) anymore. They got the countershaft out of a 40 hp Reeves at Stanford, Montana and Uncle Audie turned it down on their South Bend lathe with a 16 foot bed. They returned it in like condition. My late cousin Harold Yaeger is walking out to see his dad while his mother (Otten's sister-in-law) took the photo. Herman Otten sold the 32 hp Reeves Canadian Special to Babe Lewis to power his sawmill on the Cottonwood - Beaver Creek divide. I don't know when or how much.

But Charlie Tyler, Earl, Max, and Clifford Tyler's dad had wanted to buy this engine at Pugsley Crossing on the Marias River that is now at Osage, Iowa after the Smolik Brothers bought it in 1955 or 56. Pugsley's wanted an unheard of $3,000 for this engine. The Smolik's were willing to pay more than any Montana collector that wanted this engine, at $2,750. Max Tyler told me his dad Charlie sat in a chair in the shop most of the day and cried after it sold.

If the Smolik Brothers hadn't bought 40 hp Reeves #6867, I wouldn't have gotten to plow with it twice. Son Mike was just finished plowing a round in this photo at Osage in August of 2007. That is Roger Byrne's 1914 Model T Ford Touring Car behind the engine. This was the day I met Roger! This likely wouldn't have happened if the engine had stayed in Montana.

In earlier years, Charlie Tyler had looked at this 40 hp Reeves near Havre, Montana, but didn't want it because it was a US engine with a lap-seam boiler and it was an experimental engine without the cab. The one above was a Canadian Special with a butt strap boiler. When Charlie didn't get the engine above, he went back to see about buying this one near Havre. It had been scrapped.

So, Charlie Tyler went to the Babe Lewis Sawmill and bought this 32 hp Reeves cross compound Canadian Special. He paid a whopping (for that time) $900 for it. He never got to see it run at the Tyler farm. He died in September of 1956. I was his last visitor. I'd driven over on back roads to visit with my "adopted grandpa" (since I didn't have any living) with Dad's 1947 half-cab Jeep. I felt sucker punched when I found out the next day he was dead. At his funeral, I met the Mehmke family who were there for their friend's funeral. I'm posing with #7181 in 1958 which my dad had engineered back in 1930 on our farm.

The Tyler's planned a day for plowing with #7181 in 1958. Since I was a sophomore at Moore High School and found out they were plowing that day, I didn't have time for a written excuse 10 miles from home, so I skipped school to watch them plow. Mom was very mad about having to go visit with Mr. Tindall, the Superintendent-Principal. Dad had a grin on his face and seemed darn proud of my caper.

Walter and Carl Mehmke were guest engineers of the engine plowing that day.

This photo was something that was in the Great Falls Tribune, which had Max Tyler sitting on the toolbox inside the coal bunker.

Years later, after the engine had set outside, Max and Earl put the engine in their new shed to house engines. I took this photo of Max standing beside the left driver of 7181, some time before he passed away. Note that cap, Roger!

I'd accompanied a Butte America friend to Tyler's so he could buy a Nichols & Shepard engine from Mike Tyler. I had my friend take this photo of me beside that same driver.

A Pennsylvania friend took this photo of 7181 as it looks today in the shed. Max told me the engine would always set right here. I'd love to run the engine and have offered to do the necessary work to get it out and going. But it fell on deaf ears. Notice some of the yellow Caterpillars Max Tyler restored over the years, that went to Caterpillar in Peoria for their Cat museum.

In August of 2018, after my cancer operation, Mike and I drove to Andover, South Dakota to witness the introduction of Kory Anderson's 150 hp Case to the world. Jack and Colin Beamish are up there tending the engine while I visited our steam lives with Jack.

I posed with Kory Anderson and our friend, "Mr. Case", Chady Atteberry in his "choo-choo" cap, alongside the 150 hp Case.

Mike and I kind of posed this photo to show the size of that monster engine. Farmall Kid and I are both about 5' 10" tall.

This was the first original 150 hp Case, #14,666 at the factory. John Loeffelmacher, design engineer for this size engine is at the right, showing the size of the engine (and the men?) This was a practice among a few engine companies to use short men in their advertisement photos.

Kory has the boiler for the above engine #14,666 and borrowed the bronze serial number tag to put on his 150 hp Case. (Doesn't make his 150 Case a "restoration" instead of a replica? I've heard when you have original pieces, it's considered a restoration.)

Here are a couple of smaller Rumely Oilpull "gas" (kerosene) engines pulling binders in a grainfield.

Here is an Engineer Training School for the US Army using a 30-60 J.I. Case gas tractor to pull stumps. A late friend of Rogers and mine had one that sold at auction for a few bucks under $1.5M in the past couple of years.

A 15-30 Type F Rumely Oilpull is hitched to a threshing machine.

The Tyler Brothers owned this 8-16 IHC Mogul tractor. I fell in love with it, but they sold it.

My Dad is on the seat of this 15-30 McCormick-Deering hitched to a Model 21 Advance-Rumely combined harvester at their "Rock Creek Camp." I don't know what the shed was there, but closer is the Yaeger Brother's Cook Car.

A South Dakota Farmer has his son sitting on the seat of his early McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular. His daughter is at lower left and I'd assume his wife took the photo.

This Sixty Best Tracklayer is pulling a wagon load of logs to be loaded for the sawmill or dropping them off at a sawmill in the woods. This tractor was carried over as the Caterpillar Sixty in the 1925 merger between Best and Holt. It was a proven workhorse. 

A farmer is pulling home "bred" Corn "?chopper?" (I'm not from corn country) with his IH Farmall A.

This is a real early 1939 or 1940 IH Farmall A without a starter and an all-plastic covered steering wheel, like my Tony! This young girl and her sister are having to back up the trailer because they can't go forward. I'd loved to have watched this process after the photo was taken!

I think I already put his photo on here of the two guys in Dakota with their Indian Bike. It doesn't appear to be able to go anywhere with the kickstand down. This isn't exactly Hardtail's brand, but it is a hard tail bike.

A Bonanza Farm on the Great Northern Railway is having a photo taken to show how lucrative farming is.

But all railroads did that to entice people to start farming. The Railroad would be hauling their crops from the elevators in little towns along the tracks with an elevator and likely a water source for the steam locomotives. This advertisement from the Milwaukee RR was always special to me and Anson really loved it. And while farming in that area it's plowing up, I sure never hit any gold coins as shown here. Some of my happiest and saddest times were there on that farm.

I like this photo from 1883 of Billings, Montana's Minnesota Street. It was a hot spot then. But now it is "the wrong side of the tracks"! Most of this area had been called Coulson, and this part of Billings eventually joined and it was all Billings then. Incidentally, when my Grandma Rosalie (Regli) Yaeger arrived with two cousins from Andermatt Switzerland in the late fall of 1883, they arrived at Coulson aboard a Northern Pacific train that had just crossed the Missouri River at Bismarck, (North) Dakota Territory over their new bridge.

This is that general area of Billings with a big parade of engines in Billings. The rear tractors are IHC Moguls or Titans? There are a string of Reeves steam engines ahead of the gas tractors. And... notice that IHC AutoWagon parked at right. It's like the one that I'm driving on that cup Roger sent me I'm drinking tea out of beside my right elbow. Roger is supposed to Will that truck of his to me. But I'd have to drive it to Helena with a load of corn since Anson isn't raising watermelons anymore.

I look pretty fair at the wheel of my 1912 IHC AutoWagon, don't I!

I found the next two photos in a trunk of my great aunt's after her death. The only legal hanging in Fergus County Montana of murderer Billy Calder. My late brother Bill wrote a book about the incident. 

A 300-pound box of weights was dropped doing a pull-up hanging.

This is a Lewistown Public Library photo of the hanging. Note the weight box at left.

Of course I have this photo of brother Bill's book cover and wife Sharon's book, Rosalie and Buttermilk Curve, the story of my grandparents and Grandma Rosalie who furnished cool buttermilk in the hot July construction of the Milwaukee RR loop around our place.

This photo of the farm I left in 1980, taken about 1952, shows Buttermilk Curve railroad tracks around our farmstead. I've said before, I was the only kid in school at Glengarry (shown above our house on the bench) with a steam locomotive on three sides of our house! In the lower right-hand corner was the worn-out 32 hp Reeves cross compound Canadian Special of the Yaeger Brothers that broke down in 1930. The boiler was shot on it.

Dad traded the Reeves for this operating 20-70 Nichols & Shepard in 1954. This was at our farm in the spring of 1955. Uncle Bill tending the water, me and Mike Tyler on the engine and Dad admiring us kids!

This was the IH 4568 (an IH Tractor on a Montana Farm), the Russell and Case steam engines at the farm not long before the place went into the dump and I left it in 1981 after seeding for the new owner. Uncle Bill in the blue shirt was the last of Dad's generation and poses with me in 1980.

The 4568 is in the field with the #55 IH Chisel Plow. Also my 1972 GMC Sierra Grande pickup, the finest pickup I've ever had.

I grew up around four of these McCormick-Deering TD-40 Diesel TracTracTors, so I had to post this. It's an IH Tractor on a Montana Farm too.

And last but not least are our 1935 McCormick-Deering Farmall F-12 "Johnny," 1940 IH Farmall A "Tony," 1942 IH Farmall M "Toot." and our venerable 1939 IH Farmall H, "Annie," serial number FBH681 or the 181st one built. IH Tractors on a Montana Farm! Gary😉