IH Tractors on Montana Farm

[Old Binder Guy]

10 hours ago, iowaboy1965 said:

Thought of you Gary when. I saw this. Can't recall if any of yours were gto's but know you had some nice Pontiacs. 

My favorite Pontiac was our 1967 GTO of the six Pontiacs I've owned!  I can't believe Mike will be 59 this fall and Michaelle will be 57 next month. Where did all of these years gone, anyway? Gary😁

[hardtail]

I'm 60 so very close to your kids ages, Dad bought a 65 Malibu 4 door used, 283 and power glide around that time but I like yours better 😊 that car might have weathered well in MT climate and still be around?

[Old Binder Guy]

10 hours ago, iowaboy1965 said:

Some other pics that remind me of imo better days gone by.

 

I know I've mentioned it here before, but my late cousin Fred Yaeger bought the first Ford Mustang from the showroom that came to Lewistown Motors in 1962. I rode a lot of miles in it. In 1967, he traded it in on a new Chevy Impala. A "rich kid" whose dad owned a huge fertilizer plant there saw the Mustang and wanted it. His Dad had flown his plane somewhere on a trip. The kid went to his Dad's banker and pleaded with him for the money to buy it on his Dad's account. He told the banker, a friend of mine, "You know my dad will let me have it and buy it for me." My friend let the kid sign the note and gave him the money. The Kid went to Cooley Chevrolet and plunked the money down for the Mustang. That night he had three other friends, a boy and two girls. They were celebrating with a case of beer. They were headed up Spring Creek Highway. He came to a pretty sharp curve and went off the road into Spring Creek. It killed him and one of the girls. It hit monstrous riprap boulders on its way into the icy creek. The Montana Highway Patrol put that car on a trailer and hauled it around to every high school in the Judith Basin to let it set for the kids to look at for a few days. My banker friend was fired too. Gary🤔

 

[Old Binder Guy]

10 minutes ago, hardtail said:

I'm 60 so very close to your kids ages, Dad bought a 65 Malibu 4 door used, 283 and power glide around that time but I like yours better 😊 that car might have weathered well in MT climate and still be around?

Hardtail, It sure could be still around there. The climate here is great for preserving tin. Do I dare state that we traded the GTO in 1969 for a Buick Century Station Wagon? The guy who had the farm leased from me while I was a painter at Billings Chrysler Plymouth, his brother-in-law and his sister bought the GTO. The photo of the Buick Wagon was after I'd painted it to sort of match my GMC Sierra Grande, when at the body shop. That was the finest pickup I'd ever owned.  Gary🙃

[iowaboy1965]

Not Gary's Pontiac,  but a friend from my highschool days working at the local grocery store had and as far as I know still has a burnt orange firebird very similar  to these.

And there goes Gary's new truck down the line!

Last pic is a Sinclair station from Facebook.  Don't know if it said where. Reason I saved it is there was a local Sinclair or 2 around. At some point my granddad got ahold of a gas pump like the outside 2. I still have it. Always meant to restore it or at least get it working. When I was small he had a 500 gal tank and that pump on a skid inside a small portable wooden shed. Right across the road from the house. I can recall going with him to fill up one of the vehicles when my sister and I would visit for the day or overnight.

[Old Binder Guy]

On 2/8/2024 at 8:46 AM, iowaboy1965 said:

Not Gary's Pontiac,  but a friend from my highschool days working at the local grocery store had and as far as I know still has a burnt orange firebird very similar  to these.

And there goes Gary's new truck down the line!

Last pic is a Sinclair station from Facebook.  Don't know if it said where. Reason I saved it is there was a local Sinclair or 2 around. At some point my granddad got ahold of a gas pump like the outside 2. I still have it. Always meant to restore it or at least get it working. When I was small he had a 500 gal tank and that pump on a skid inside a small portable wooden shed. Right across the road from the house. I can recall going with him to fill up one of the vehicles when my sister and I would visit for the day or overnight.

Great photos, iowaboy1965! I can get lost dreaming in these types of photos. I especially like that 1935 Ford Deluxe Tudor Sedan. My wife's family had a 1936 Ford Fordor Deluxe (with the trunk).

I hope you get that gas pump restored someday. I have two antique gas pumps but they aren't hooked up to any tank. The "clam shell" Bowser "Gasolene" pump used to be Uncle Charley Yaeger's. I pumped a considerable amount of gasoline through it during many haying seasons, when cutting or raking on his place. The original lettering was still visible on it when I painted it about 30 years ago.

The other Bowser could have dispensed gasoline on a sidewalk drive up, or kerosene at a hardware store, or "filling station." I can just see myself hooking this pump to a small barrel and pumping "gasolene" into my 1912 IHC AutoWagon when I get it.

The two of them together and the clamshell opened.

This Bowser clamshell pump is dispensing Gasolene on a sidewalk in Miles City, Montana.

I know I told this story a long time ago here on this thread. Ray Wichman (long deceased) had a farm north of Moore, Montana. His phone would ring at night and when he answered it, the phone hung up on the other end. This happened numerous times. And he noticed his gasoline tank wasn't lasting completely like it should. So one night the phone rang. He let it ring and ring until it stopped. He turned off the lights in the house, sat in his chair, and waited. Eventually, there was a pair of headlights coming up the county road. The lights turned into his driveway and stopped at his gas tank. He didn't know who it was but walked out with his shotgun. It was his daughter's boyfriend that she eventually married. I'd loved to have been there to hear THAT conversation in the flashlight, light!  Gary😁

[jeeper61]

 

1953-Andover,Ma.-TD-24 tractor and Bucyrus-Erie scraper at the Western Elecric plant being bulit by Gilbane Corp.

[TN Hillbilly]

1 hour ago, jeeper61 said:

 

1953-Andover,Ma.-TD-24 tractor and Bucyrus-Erie scraper at the Western Elecric plant being bulit by Gilbane Corp.

Is that...cable operated?!

Can you imagine what happens if one of those cables going to the winch snaps...Am I seein that right?

[Old Binder Guy]

1 hour ago, TN Hillbilly said:

Is that...cable operated?!

Can you imagine what happens if one of those cables going to the winch snaps...Am I seein that right?

TN Hillbilly, this was 1953. There was still a lot of cable-operated cans and dozers then. A few years before that, all of that construction equipment was cable-operated. If I were operating that TD-24, I'd likely have rigged up a "headache rack" for "Just In Case!" 

When I was a first grader, My dad took me into the Great Falls International Harvester Company Store. My cousin Harold "Toot" (namesake for the IH Farmall M he gave son Mike) was a parts man at that company store. They had a TD-24 Indoors and on the showroom floor. To this young boy, it looked so huge.

I drew this picture in the first grade art class. The tractor was a Farmall F-20 we had with rubber conversion tires, with some farm implements. The second was a TD-24 like I'd seen in Great Falls and it is obvious by the numbers I wrote and obviously a smaller TD-40!  

Gary😉

[iowaboy1965]

6 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said:

Great photos, iowaboy1965! I can get lost dreaming in these types of photos. I especially like that 1935 Ford Deluxe Tudor Sedan. My wife's family had a 1936 Ford Fordor Deluxe (with the trunk).

I hope you get that gas pump restored someday. I have two antique gas pumps but they aren't hooked up to any tank. The "clam shell" Bowser "Gasolene" pump used to be Uncle Charley Yaeger's. I pumped a considerable amount of gasoline through it during many haying seasons, when cutting or raking on his place. The original lettering was still visible on it when I painted it about 30 years ago.

The other Bowser could have dispensed gasoline or kerosene at a hardware store, or "filling station." I can just see myself hooking this pump to a small barrel and pumping "gasolene" into my 1912 IHC AutoWagon when I get it.

The two of them together and the clamshell opened.

I know I told this story a long time ago here on this thread. Ray Wichman (long deceased) had a farm north of Moore, Montana. His phone would ring at night and when he answered it, the phone hung up on the other end. This happened numerous times. And he noticed his gasoline tank wasn't lasting completely like it should. So one night the phone the phone rang. He let it ring and ring until it stopped. He turned off the lights in the house, sat in his chair, and waited. Eventually, there was a pair of headlights coming up the county road. The lights turned into his driveway and stopped at his gas tank. He didn't know who it was but walked out with his shotgun. It was his daughter's boyfriend that she eventually married. I'd loved to have been there to hear THAT conversation in the flashlight, light!  Gary😁

Grandad had an even older pump that was hand pump up into the 10? Gallon glass dome. Story goes a tree limb fell on it in a wind storm and so gramps did away with the top part and hooked a hose to the pump and used it like that for a time before he got the electric pump.  At that time parts were hard to come by for that age pump.

Somebody in the family told where grand dad drove to DesMoines iowa  ( about 45 miles away) and bought a 500 Gallon tank, which he buried. When they moved off that farm in 59 or 60 because I80 was coming thru and the land was wanted for an interchange, he dug it up and came up with the skid set up.

Mom tells that one night while grandpa was at work in the factory nearby 2 young men pulled up to the pump and grandma and my 2 uncles watched them try to fill their car. They didn't know it was fed from a nearby shed where grandpa had also put a switch inside to turn off power to the pump. The place was on the outskirts of town so I guess he figured he would help everyone stay honest.

Oh I have the older hand pump gas pump as well, tho missing the top pieces.

I guess that's some gas pumps on a iowa farm story. 🙂

[iowaboy1965]

Found a few pics of both pumps. Well only 1 of the newer one. I have all the panels for it somewhere. 

The older pump showing the tin and then the "bones"

[Sledgehammer]

Question for the knowers of knowledge here. This recipe was in a silver box my Great Grandfather procured at the 1904 worlds fair. I don’t think it has anything to do with the box but what is “sweet water”?

2oz white vitriol

1oz green “coppirae”???

1 tsp gunpowder

1 qt rain water

[Old Binder Guy]

Some Facebook photos:

Great Northern Depot at Viborg, South Dakota with a late 1890s locomotive pulling a passenger train.

This is the 6666 Supply House, but it looks like a grocery store from my boyhood.

Hopefully this 9-18 Case turns Tubacase47's crank?

Chris Erlandson at the wheel of a ca 1908 automobile in South Dakota. It's the first time I've seen a Hamm "engine headlight" on an automobile!

Chris Erlandson at the wheel of a different ca 1908 automobile.

This must be a Case tractor since they use chain drives inside that rear housing. The pickup looks much like an IHC K model, but it also has some things that make me think it could be a GM-produced pickup as well.

Back in early September when we were threshing the second (late ripening) crop with Mike and Randy's 20 hp Reeves. Randy is at the throttle. A friend from Butte America was over with his "friend" and he was observing how the governor wasn't really governing as it should.

The man's "friend" Raven pitching bundles, not to be outdone by some man.

He also took this photo of me pitching bundles, after I'd turned 80, too!

This is the Reeves governor on the engine.

My friend offered to rebuild the governor and make it work. Mike and Randy are cutting the 2" Schedule 80 pipe, since Reeves & Company was to cheap to put a union in the line, in case someone would one day want to remove the governor. Larry was in Helena this past Saturday and picked the governor up.

The governor in a box, ready to go.

A late Reeves steam friend went to Columbus, Indiana back in 2004 to photocopy every patent Harry C. Clay produced for his time at Reeves & Company as their Chief Mechanical Engineer. Thankfully it had precise drawings of this model of Reeves governor he had patented. This friend sent me a notebook the size of an old Sears & Roebuck catalog of all of Clay's patents. What a Godsend. I'll bet the boys thresh with the Reeves NEXT FALL!

This is a photo of a young, beautiful Liz Taylor. What old guy like me didn't LIKE her?!! Legend has it that she would wake up in the morning, step out of bed, stretch her arms out, yawn, and say, "I feel like a new man today!"   Gary😉😁🙃🤔😮

[hardtail]

😍 she was a looker

That pull scraper must have been one of the biggest at the time, a TD24 is not a small crawler but it doesn't look very big in comparison 

[Old Binder Guy]

On 2/11/2024 at 9:02 AM, Sledgehammer said:

Question for the knowers of knowledge here. This recipe was in a silver box my Great Grandfather procured at the 1904 worlds fair. I don’t think it has anything to do with the box but what is “sweet water”?

2oz white vitriol

1oz green “coppirae”???

1 tsp gunpowder

1 qt rain water

Sledgehammer, I'm at a complete loss as to what "Sweet Water" was or is. And I could tell Roger had the same expression on his face as I had! Sorry. The old guys don't always "come through" I guess? Gary😁

[Old Binder Guy]

An IHC International Harvester dealership shop, and it would appear it has some sort of McCormick-Deering tractor torn apart. Those two holes in the block were the first thing I saw when I saw this photo on Facebook. 

This is a 10-20 McCormick-Deering turning a threshing machine.

An early Farmall Regular tractor is pulling a corn binder or something of that nature. I'm not from corn country.

I'm not sure about this corn harvester mounted on a Farmall Regular?

This is a McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular with a mounted cultivator in the Henry Ford Museum. I can imagine either a black fingernail, blood blister or open wounds trying to mount this contraption, on the farm.

This is a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-12 with a one-row corn harvester of some type. I'm not from corn country!

We do have two McCormick-Deering tractors. A TD-40 TracTracTor and a Farmall F-12. And they are IH Tractors on a Montana Farm too!  Gary😁

[Tubacase47]

Gary, I don't think it's a Case tractor, the rear cover on the transmission is not like anything I've ever seen.

[Old Binder Guy]

4 hours ago, Tubacase47 said:

Gary, I don't think it's a Case tractor, the rear cover on the transmission is not like anything I've ever seen.

Tom, That's what I get from copying what someone else put on Facebook! I sure as heck didn't know if it was a Case or wasn't a Case. Gary😉

[MacAR]

7 minutes ago, Old Binder Guy said:

Tom, That's what I get from copying what someone else put on Facebook! I sure as heck didn't know if it was a Case or wasn't a Case. Gary😉

Sure looks like an early unstyled Deere to me. Seems like I can almost make out the letters on the axles and the single right side brake almost has to me a hand clutch Deere. 

Mac

[Old Binder Guy]

1 hour ago, MacAR said:

Sure looks like an early unstyled Deere to me. Seems like I can almost make out the letters on the axles and the single right side brake almost has to me a hand clutch Deere. 

Mac

MacAR; I took that photo and blew it up and darkened it some but still couldn't read what it said, but it just about has to be a Deere, I'd agree. The photo I posted here seals the deal.  Gary😉

[twostepn2001]

Gary, the pic of the inside of the 6666's supply house looks the same now as it shows in the pic you posted. When l was just a little kid, the 6666's store was the first stop on our annual trip to Oklahoma to visit kinfolks. Both Mom and Dad would get a Coke and a bag of Tom's peanuts to pour in the Coke. l always got a Hire's root beer...lol  Last time l was in the Supply House was about 10 years ago while l was still hauling crude and it looked the same as in the pic. Basically just a convenience store with some neat stuff inside. But then Taylor Sheridan bought the ranch and started filming scenes for the TV show "Yellowstone" there and it turned into a tourist trap. Guthrie, Texas temporarily went from a little over 350 people to almost 4000 overnight when the film crews and their families moved in.

 

[hardtail]

Hopefully weathered the Hollywood storm and survived intact as prior.

[twostepn2001]

A couple of years in a crude oil hauling group on FB, l wrote about having "lunch" with some 6666's cowboys. And it is true.....lol

l made a statement in another post that l had ate lunch with some cowboys on the 6666's ranch. Well, here is the rest of the story.

l believe it was in 1993 l was hauling crude oil for Pride Pipeline. One particular day l was dispatched to a lease about 20 miles off of Hwy. 82, on the 6666's ranch, west of Guthrie, Texas. l was probably 11 or 12 miles in and just past the "Hollywood house". You ask "What was the Hollywood house?"

Ok, if you have ever saw the movie "Mackintosh and T.J." with Roy Rogers, it is that old shack that they fix up and move into while they hunt coyotes. lt really was a old shack that had been there for many years before being used in the movie. The movie people had came in and rebuilt it for safety reasons and to make it look even more rundown.

Anyway, l had just passed that old shack and crossed a creek when a couple of cowboys on horseback stopped and asked where l was going. l told them the name of the lease and said l probably had another 10 miles or so to go. One of them said "Well, we're moving a bunch of cattle from one pasture to another and this here road will be blocked for a couple of hours. So you can turn around and go back or stay here and wait." Considering everything, l told them l would just wait. The cowboy said "That'll be fine. Tell ya what, go ahead and ease down the road about a half mile and you'll run across the chuck wagon. That way you can get some coffee. But be sure and turn your truck off so you don't spook the cattle, ok?"

Sure enough further down the road there sat the chuck wagon and several cowboys sitting around. l killed my truck and got out and walked up to what figured was the cook. (He was the only one there wearing a apron) l told him about seeing the other cowboys and the road being closed. He said "Sure enough. Come on over here and l'll get you a drink. You want coffee or a sody pop?" l took a cup of coffee and the cook said "l'll have lunch ready in about 5 minutes. You want sumthin' to eat when it's ready?" Of course l said yes.

ln a few minutes he said "Ok fellers, here it is. Come and get it or l'll give to the dawgs!!" l don't think l ever saw such a spread of food, except maybe at the Golden Corral restaurant.

Of course the huge pot of red beans, a big pan of fried taters, dozens of ears of corn on the cob and a giant pan of biscuits and another pan full of cornbread. And extra large hamburger patties and onions smothered in a brown gravy. And not only all that, but dozens more of homemade burritos made with scrambled eggs, sausage, peppers and onions. The cook said those were for "the guys to put in their pockets to snack on later."

After that feast, l sat and talked to some of the cowboys. l sure heard some interesting stories!! Two or three would leave then two or three more would drift in and eat.

After a while, a cowboy rode up and said "They said tell ya that you can go on now. We got all the gates shut." l told the cook thanks for all the food and drink. He said "Leavin' are ya? Shoot, take some of these with ya." and he handed me 3 or 4 of the burritos.

l went on to the lease and loaded. Several hours later on the way back out, l passed where the chuck wagon had been and there was nothing but tracks where it had been.

l saw the chuck wagon and the cook several times after that and he would always wave at me. So that is how l wound up having lunch on the 6666's with some cowboys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[ray54]

Western hospitality at its best. Thanks for sharing that.

[twostepn2001]

l apologize for the big gaps in between paragraphs on my story above. lt didn't do that until l hit the submit button.