IH Tractors on Montana Farm

[Tubacase47]

Amen!

[Old Binder Guy]

On 3/30/2024 at 5:48 PM, Tubacase47 said:

Amen!

Tubacase 47, Amen to you, my friend.

You said we'd trip over 1000 pages by Easter. I think we did that and more! Thanks for always keeping track of the "odometer" for the past 17 years this nonsense has been boiling over.  Gary

[Old Binder Guy]

I sure don't know anything, so I'll post some photos, mostly from Facebook. 

This was yesterday in our yard. He wasn't hiding eggs either. He was looking for God's Resurrected Lamb, I'll bet.

I took this photo on my desk. Us Oldsters may understand it, but likely not many youngsters. In my early years at the Glengarry one-room school, this is how we wrote penmanship before ball point pens. That lever on the side of the pen squashed a rubber bulb inside. When you released the lever, the bulb sucked in ink from the ink bottle.

Nephew Randy's neighbor in Helena asked him if he wanted this before he threw them away when cleaning out his garage. Randy grabbed them for his uncle! Taps and dies. But that antique tool box is in great shape too. Some old vehicle or tractor should have this tool box.

I may have already posted this photo. But someone just posted it on Facebook this morning. So I grabbed it again. It sure reminds me of my childhood when in Lewistown.

A woman operating a boring mill during WWI

A boneyard of B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers arranged for scrapping after WWII. They might lower the National Debt with them if they still existed. They don't sell cheap anymore. A local millionaire's P-51 Mustang WWII fighter plane just sold to another millionaire for $6,000,000, and he flew it away.

A woman and a man assemble an R28 Double Wasp F42 Corsair engine at the Vought Factory in Stratford, Connecticut, 1943.

Inspectors inspecting Buick-built Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp Radials. They were used in the B-24 Liberator bombers, the C-47, Catalina, Wildcat, TBD Devastator, and more airplanes during WWII.

Jackie Moggridge, a WWII transport pilot. She was the youngest at 15 when she got her license. She logged over 1,500 hours and was proficient in 38 different military aircraft.

 

Henry Leland poses with one of his 1905 Cadillac fully enclosed "Osceola" coupes.

A ca 1904 Model C Ford being driven by a lady at the train depot.

Purportedly the first wrecker built in America. It was built by Ernest HOLMES of Chatanooga, Tennessee. He called this a "Cadillac Truck."

Charles Dragstedt's first car, a 1913 Cadillac, at his home in Butte, Montana.

Caterpillars Equipment building runways in the Pacific Islands during WWII.

Two women and a man with their Cook Car, or maybe portable bunk house.

A farm family is eating in their cabin in hard times. But I'll bet that rifle is loaded!

A horse team is pulling a hay loader. Notice the two girls watching the men.

Four McCormick-Deering Combine Harvesters pulled by McCormick-Deering tractors.

A homemade tractor on the Stollsteimer Farm in 1920.

A Case cross motor tractor with extended controls is pulling a small grader blading snow. 

Likely a Fordson power unit with crawler tracks has a small road grader mounted on it. Father of the "motor grader?"

The Johnny Popper guys on Facebook went bonkers over this unusual John Deere tractor. Is it a General Purpose? The flywheel looks non typical.

A McCormick Deering WK(?)-40 pulling a plow. I don't know whether it was a Kerosene model or a plain gasoline model.

A 25 hp Minneapolis engine through a bridge in Roger's state of Minnesota. The Minneapolis steam engine and threshing machine were new, and being delivered. The engineer was killed in 1905 IH near Bemidji,

A special built "offside" Farmall M doing some kind of row crop harvesting I can't identify.

Here is a Farmall H that looks "ridden hard and put away (left out?) wet. But it just appears someone borrowed the radiator? the rest of it appears to be there. Maybe a WWII steel wheel, no starting system and battery?

Another row crop IH Farmall Cub tractor seeding.

A Case combine pulled by a Case tractor.

Barefoot children picking cotton in Texas farm in 1913.  Gary 😉😮😁

 

 

[TN Hillbilly]

4 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said:

I sure don't know anything, so I'll post some photos, mostly from Facebook. 

This was yesterday in our yard. He wasn't hiding eggs either. He was looking for God's Resurrected Lamb, I'll bet.

I took this photo on my desk. Us Oldsters may understand it, but likely not many youngsters. In my early years at the Glengarry one-room school, this is how we wrote penmanship before ball point pens. That lever on the side of the pen squashed a rubber bulb inside. When you released the lever, the bulb sucked in ink from the ink bottle.

Nephew Randy's neighbor in Helena asked him if he wanted this before he threw them away when cleaning out his garage. Randy grabbed them for his uncle! Taps and dies. But that antique tool box is in great shape too. Some old vehicle or tractor should have this tool box.

I may have already posted this photo. But someone just posted it on Facebook this morning. So I grabbed it again. It sure reminds me of my childhood when in Lewistown.

A woman operating a boring mill during WWI

A boneyard of B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers arranged for scrapping after WWII. They might lower the National Debt with them if they still existed. They don't sell cheap anymore. A local millionaire's P-51 Mustang WWII fighter plane just sold to another millionaire for $6,000,000, and he flew it away.

A woman and a man assemble an R28 Double Wasp F42 Corsair engine at the Vought Factory in Stratford, Connecticut, 1943.

Inspectors inspecting Buick-built Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp Radials. They were used in the B-24 Liberator bombers, the C-47, Catalina, Wildcat, TBD Devastator, and more airplanes during WWII.

Jackie Moggridge, a WWII transport pilot. She was the youngest at 15 when she got her license. She logged over 1,500 hours and was proficient in 38 different military aircraft.

 

Henry Leland poses with one of his 1905 Cadillac fully enclosed "Osceola" coupes.

A ca 1904 Model C Ford being driven by a lady at the train depot.

Purportedly the first wrecker built in America. It was built by Ernest HOLMES of Chatanooga, Tennessee. He called this a "Cadillac Truck."

Charles Dragstedt's first car, a 1913 Cadillac, at his home in Butte, Montana.

Caterpillars Equipment building runways in the Pacific Islands during WWII.

Two women and a man with their Cook Car, or maybe portable bunk house.

A farm family is eating in their cabin in hard times. But I'll bet that rifle is loaded!

A horse team is pulling a hay loader. Notice the two girls watching the men.

Four McCormick-Deering Combine Harvesters pulled by McCormick-Deering tractors.

A homemade tractor on the Stollsteimer Farm in 1920.

A Case cross motor tractor with extended controls is pulling a small grader blading snow. 

Likely a Fordson power unit with crawler tracks has a small road grader mounted on it. Father of the "motor grader?"

The Johnny Popper guys on Facebook went bonkers over this unusual John Deere tractor. Is it a General Purpose? The flywheel looks non typical.

A McCormick Deering WK(?)-40 pulling a plow. I don't know whether it was a Kerosene model or a plain gasoline model.

A 25 hp Minneapolis engine through a bridge in Roger's state of Minnesota. The Minneapolis steam engine and threshing machine were new, and being delivered. The engineer was killed in 1905 IH near Bemidji,

A special built "offside" Farmall M doing some kind of row crop harvesting I can't identify.

Here is a Farmall H that looks "ridden hard and put away (left out?) wet. But it just appears someone borrowed the radiator? the rest of it appears to be there. Maybe a WWII steel wheel, no starting system and battery?

Another row crop IH Farmall Cub tractor seeding.

A Case combine pulled by a Case tractor.

Barefoot children picking cotton in Texas farm in 1913.  Gary 😉😮😁

 

 

Gary, that B-17 picture is almost beyond belief. The wartime development and production of aircrafts just blows my mind. We couldn't do that again if we had to!

[Rusty_Farmer]

4 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said:

I sure don't know anything, so I'll post some photos, mostly from Facebook. 

This was yesterday in our yard. He wasn't hiding eggs either. He was looking for God's Resurrected Lamb, I'll bet.

I took this photo on my desk. Us Oldsters may understand it, but likely not many youngsters. In my early years at the Glengarry one-room school, this is how we wrote penmanship before ball point pens. That lever on the side of the pen squashed a rubber bulb inside. When you released the lever, the bulb sucked in ink from the ink bottle.

Nephew Randy's neighbor in Helena asked him if he wanted this before he threw them away when cleaning out his garage. Randy grabbed them for his uncle! Taps and dies. But that antique tool box is in great shape too. Some old vehicle or tractor should have this tool box.

I may have already posted this photo. But someone just posted it on Facebook this morning. So I grabbed it again. It sure reminds me of my childhood when in Lewistown.

A woman operating a boring mill during WWI

A boneyard of B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers arranged for scrapping after WWII. They might lower the National Debt with them if they still existed. They don't sell cheap anymore. A local millionaire's P-51 Mustang WWII fighter plane just sold to another millionaire for $6,000,000, and he flew it away.

A woman and a man assemble an R28 Double Wasp F42 Corsair engine at the Vought Factory in Stratford, Connecticut, 1943.

Inspectors inspecting Buick-built Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp Radials. They were used in the B-24 Liberator bombers, the C-47, Catalina, Wildcat, TBD Devastator, and more airplanes during WWII.

Jackie Moggridge, a WWII transport pilot. She was the youngest at 15 when she got her license. She logged over 1,500 hours and was proficient in 38 different military aircraft.

 

Henry Leland poses with one of his 1905 Cadillac fully enclosed "Osceola" coupes.

A ca 1904 Model C Ford being driven by a lady at the train depot.

Purportedly the first wrecker built in America. It was built by Ernest HOLMES of Chatanooga, Tennessee. He called this a "Cadillac Truck."

Charles Dragstedt's first car, a 1913 Cadillac, at his home in Butte, Montana.

Caterpillars Equipment building runways in the Pacific Islands during WWII.

Two women and a man with their Cook Car, or maybe portable bunk house.

A farm family is eating in their cabin in hard times. But I'll bet that rifle is loaded!

A horse team is pulling a hay loader. Notice the two girls watching the men.

Four McCormick-Deering Combine Harvesters pulled by McCormick-Deering tractors.

A homemade tractor on the Stollsteimer Farm in 1920.

A Case cross motor tractor with extended controls is pulling a small grader blading snow. 

Likely a Fordson power unit with crawler tracks has a small road grader mounted on it. Father of the "motor grader?"

The Johnny Popper guys on Facebook went bonkers over this unusual John Deere tractor. Is it a General Purpose? The flywheel looks non typical.

A McCormick Deering WK(?)-40 pulling a plow. I don't know whether it was a Kerosene model or a plain gasoline model.

A 25 hp Minneapolis engine through a bridge in Roger's state of Minnesota. The Minneapolis steam engine and threshing machine were new, and being delivered. The engineer was killed in 1905 IH near Bemidji,

A special built "offside" Farmall M doing some kind of row crop harvesting I can't identify.

Here is a Farmall H that looks "ridden hard and put away (left out?) wet. But it just appears someone borrowed the radiator? the rest of it appears to be there. Maybe a WWII steel wheel, no starting system and battery?

Another row crop IH Farmall Cub tractor seeding.

A Case combine pulled by a Case tractor.

Barefoot children picking cotton in Texas farm in 1913.  Gary 😉😮😁

 

 

The offset M is harvesting sugar beets in the thumb of Michigan. An axel extension was clamped on the end of the main to make it longer .

[hardtail]

Gary belated Happy Easter, wasn't there a guy up north in MT that had a twin engine Spitfire, Supermarine maybe while we're back on WW2 planes?

[Old Binder Guy]

1 hour ago, hardtail said:

Gary belated Happy Easter, wasn't there a guy up north in MT that had a twin engine Spitfire, Supermarine maybe while we're back on WW2 planes?

Hardtail, close. It is a Seafire FR-47 Supermarine. It is a spitfire with a (single) (I forget which. Halifax? Lancaster?) bomber engine that almost doubled the horsepower of a spitfire. It rings a bell at over 1,400 horsepower. It had counter-rotating propellers so it wouldn't "flip over" the plane when revving the engine on the ground. Counter-rotating propellers sure kill that monstrous "horsepower sound" to more of a prop whisper. They were developed near the end of WWII, as a counter to Hitler's Jets he was sending to England across the channel. It was still in the crate when Jim bought it. I believe it is still the only operating Seafire. Jim invented the "Flow Meter" so he has "bucks." he had thirty semi-trucks haul stones from Texas to build his personal Stonehenge.

 

At the time I lived up in the Flathead country of Montana, he had the only certified airworthy WWI JNI or "Jenny" biplane.

Jim had many military aircraft in his hangar. I can't locate many of them. I may have lost them when my computer crashed. I do have this one of his P-51 Mustang, the US aircraft that allowed daylight bombing over Germany. The nighttime bombing was earlier done to help from being spotted. But the German aircraft could take down plenty of our bombers. After the new US P-51 hit the war, we had a plane that could outrun and outmaneuver the German aircraft. That brought on daylight bombing over German cities and industrial sights.

My cousin told me of his B-17 he was a bombardier in, being in on the huge bombing raid over the German Schweinfurt bearing factory. Without bearings, it was hard for Germany to build aircraft, tanks, and vehicles.

Jim also had this US Air Force Jet. The Federal Government tried to take it away from him. But failed. It was left in Vietnam. The Vietnam Communists sold it to another island government over there somewhere (CRS). This government advertised it for sale. Jim got wind of it and bought the plane and returned it to the USA. After he had court ordered ownership of it he was able to fly it. I saw him do a level flight into a Kalispell air show, then aim it very straight up into the air for a ways, then levelled out. I don't know the specs or nomenclature of this little jet but it is a feisty little gem.  Gary😁

[hardtail]

Ya that was the one, forgot twin props vs engines, what was the speed of it? Must be worth a fortune but hey guy invented a good product and is enjoying what he likes, was the American Dream.

[MT Matt]

How are the oats prospects for you this year Gary?

I seeded about 6 acres yesterday evening in an 11 acre field. I’ll finish it today, supposed to be 70 degrees today!  Then back to a rain pattern for the rest of the week. Perfect timing for this field.

My granddaughter Josie got to hunt up some Easter eggs last weekend.  Looks like I’ll be making a trip to Texas to see the kids about the time you normally have your threshing day in August.

[twostepn2001]

18 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said:

A boneyard of B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers arranged for scrapping after WWII. They might lower the National Debt with them if they still existed. They don't sell cheap anymore.

There is a partially restored B-17 for sale including spare parts. Asking price is 9 million US dollars.

https://silodrome.com/boeing-b-17-flying-fortress-project-plane/

[Howard_P]

The little jet is an A-37 Dragonfly built by Cessna.

[Old Binder Guy]

On 4/1/2024 at 8:08 PM, hardtail said:

Ya that was the one, forgot twin props vs engines, what was the speed of it? Must be worth a fortune but hey guy invented a good product and is enjoying what he likes, was the American Dream.

I don't know the speed of it. If I heard it, I've forgotten. But it was to battle Hitler's jets. It maybe couldn't outrun them, but it had a fighting chance for a little while when encountering a jet, I'd bet? Gary😉

[hardtail]

Not sure if it was the jets or the V2 rockets, I thought they learned to tip them to send them off course, guidance systems were elementary so just meant it went somewhere else hopefully less populated or off target

[TroyDairy]

On ww2 and ww1 aircraft.  I got some janky pics yesterday.  Little spring break trip.  https://www.museumofflight.org/visit/parking-and-directions

 

Some poor pics of some amazing machines on so many levels.  Wellllll worth the $20 entrance fee.  3 hours and we missed the B52 outside in the Vietnam memorial area.

The little prop plane is Italian.  1st aircraft used in a military situation in 1913 iirc.  They looked where the greek (?) were and then went back and threw grenades at them.

 

[twostepn2001]

Years ago before they closed Reese AFB in Lubbock, Texas, they had both T-37 and T-38 trainer planes. For being a smaller sized plane, the T-37 was really loud. One of my old motorcycle riding friends was a flight instructor in the T-37's. He used to joke and say "A T-37 was a expensive tool that the USAF used to convert jet fuel into extremely loud noise." Same thing could be said about the B-1B now days....lol

[twostepn2001]

Gary, just saw this on FB. seems like you posted something about Teddy Blue Abott. Something about being on a cattle drive from Texas to the part of Montana in your area....?

The Texas Quote of the Day was written by old-time trail cowboy Teddy Blue Abbott:

"If a storm came along and the cattle started running -- you'd hear that low, rumbling noise along the ground and the men on herd wouldn't need to come in and tell you, you'd know -- then you'd jump for your horse and get out there in the lead, trying to head them and get them into a mill before they scattered to ****-and-gone [The cowboys would attempt to make the cattle run in an ever-tightening circle until they could no longer move.] It was riding at a dead run in the dark, with cut banks and prairie dog holes all around you in a shallow grave...

One night it come up an awful storm. It took all four of us to hold the cattle and we didn't hold them, and when morning come there was one man missing. We went back to look for him, and we found him among the prairie dog holes, beside his horse. The horse's ribs was scraped bare of hide, and all the rest of the horse and man was mashed into the ground as flat as a pancake. The only thing you could recognize was the handle of his six-shooter. We tried to think the lightning hit him, and that was what we wrote his folks in Henrietta, Texas, but we couldn't really believe it ourselves. I'm afraid it wasn't the lightning. I'm afraid his horse stepped into one of them holes and they both went down before the stampede.

The awful part of it was that we had milled them cattle over him all night, not knowing he was there. That was what we couldn't get out of our minds. And after that, orders were given to sing when you were running with a stampede so the others would know where you were as long as they heard you singing, and if they didn't hear you they would figure something happened. After awhile, this grew to be a custom on the range, but you know, this was still a new business in the seventies and we was learning all the time."

------- Teddy Blue Abbott, "We Pointed Them North, Recollections of an Old Cowpuncher," 1939

Shown here: Teddy Blue Abbott at the age of 18

[mikem]

On 4/1/2024 at 3:24 PM, Old Binder Guy said:

A local millionaire's P-51 Mustang WWII fighter plane just sold to another millionaire for $6,000,000, and he flew it away

Three of us kids got our private pilots licenses the summer after High school graduation. Two of us flew to Rockford, Ill. for the EAA fly-in, as a treat to ourselves. Bear in mind, this was 1965.

If you had held up a wad of cash, and hollered "I will give you 18,000 bucks for a P-51", you would have gotten mobbed.

That was the going rate then, and I think every one there was for sale. (And there were a LOT there)

Missed another opportunity!!!

Mike

 

[Old Binder Guy]

1 hour ago, twostepn2001 said:

Gary, just saw this on FB. seems like you posted something about Teddy Blue Abott. Something about being on a cattle drive from Texas to the part of Montana in your area....?

The Texas Quote of the Day was written by old-time trail cowboy Teddy Blue Abbott:

"If a storm came along and the cattle started running -- you'd hear that low, rumbling noise along the ground and the men on herd wouldn't need to come in and tell you, you'd know -- then you'd jump for your horse and get out there in the lead, trying to head them and get them into a mill before they scattered to ****-and-gone [The cowboys would attempt to make the cattle run in an ever-tightening circle until they could no longer move.] It was riding at a dead run in the dark, with cut banks and prairie dog holes all around you in a shallow grave...

One night it come up an awful storm. It took all four of us to hold the cattle and we didn't hold them, and when morning come there was one man missing. We went back to look for him, and we found him among the prairie dog holes, beside his horse. The horse's ribs was scraped bare of hide, and all the rest of the horse and man was mashed into the ground as flat as a pancake. The only thing you could recognize was the handle of his six-shooter. We tried to think the lightning hit him, and that was what we wrote his folks in Henrietta, Texas, but we couldn't really believe it ourselves. I'm afraid it wasn't the lightning. I'm afraid his horse stepped into one of them holes and they both went down before the stampede.

The awful part of it was that we had milled them cattle over him all night, not knowing he was there. That was what we couldn't get out of our minds. And after that, orders were given to sing when you were running with a stampede so the others would know where you were as long as they heard you singing, and if they didn't hear you they would figure something happened. After awhile, this grew to be a custom on the range, but you know, this was still a new business in the seventies and we was learning all the time."

------- Teddy Blue Abbott, "We Pointed Them North, Recollections of an Old Cowpuncher," 1939

Shown here: Teddy Blue Abbott at the age of 18

twostepn2001, Those stories were in the books I have of We Pointed Them North. I knew several of his and Mary's daughters and sons. My mom's sister Ann dated Ted (Teddy Blue Jr.) Abbott when she was a student at Fergus County High School in Lewistown. Grandson Darrell Abbott is still a friend of mine. Notice the "double letters" in that name! Thanks for posting.  This is one of his more famous photos, sharing booze and hats with Calamity Jane at the saloon in Gilt Edge.

An early photo with cattle superimposed in this studio photo.

A Teddy Blue Portrait.

An old Teddy Blue Abbott. Gary😉

[Old Binder Guy]

13 hours ago, TroyDairy said:

On ww2 and ww1 aircraft.  I got some janky pics yesterday.  Little spring break trip.  https://www.museumofflight.org/visit/parking-and-directions

 

Some poor pics of some amazing machines on so many levels.  Wellllll worth the $20 entrance fee.  3 hours and we missed the B52 outside in the Vietnam memorial area.

The little prop plane is Italian.  1st aircraft used in a military situation in 1913 iirc.  They looked where the greek (?) were and then went back and threw grenades at them.

 

Troy Dairy, Wowwie! What a fabulous museum. I went to the Boeing museum south of Seattle years ago. Imagine the foresight, "jawboning" and money it took to build museums like this. Thanks so much for posting. $20 is cheap for a day like that! I'm so glad you got to do it, take photos and share them here! Gary😉

[TroyDairy]

Full size Shuttle trainer display.  Could of been there alone for 2 hours so much shuttle program info.

[twostepn2001]

My granddaughter's husband, the roughneck sent me these pics this morning.  A few days ago they were moving the rig and a thunderboomer rolled in and sprouted a couple of tornadoes. l asked him what they did and he said "Nuthin. Ain't no place to hide from them so just as well keep workin' and just hope it don't come over where you are." Sure nuff, nuthin happened and they got the derrick laid down and it didn't even rain on them.

This pic shows how they move the derrick. Forward facing truck pulls it by the A-legs and base legs on a bolster. Rearward facing truck drives in reverse with the crown on another bolster.

[Absent Minded Farmer]

8 hours ago, twostepn2001 said:

My granddaughter's husband, the roughneck sent me these pics this morning.  A few days ago they were moving the rig and a thunderboomer rolled in and sprouted a couple of tornadoes. l asked him what they did and he said "Nuthin. Ain't no place to hide from them so just as well keep workin' and just hope it don't come over where you are." Sure nuff, nuthin happened and they got the derrick laid down and it didn't even rain on them.

This pic shows how they move the derrick. Forward facing truck pulls it by the A-legs and base legs on a bolster. Rearward facing truck drives in reverse with the crown on another bolster.

What a great tornado pic!! It looks like a satellite tornado revolving around a rather big wedge or it's been shelled out of it's dying cell. Do you know where that was? Would be interesting to read the stats on it.

Mike

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Found that infamous almost last photo....

Now... if there's any event that can make you enjoy life on your Birthday.... 

I had a hankerin' to see the Rockies in the dead of winter for my 40th, some time ago. Really, really wanted to get a few "cool" shots from the top of Pipestone Pass. Found this really neat spot just above the cut for the abandoned Milwaukee Road mainline that passed through on the way out to the coast. Got my pictures, reached down to grab the dog's leash, got a tug from him & leaned back quick to try & get balanced. Nope! Fell on my bumper & slid about 10' toward the drop. If you're wondering how far down.... you can see about the top 1/3 of the trees to my right.

 

And all for naught, as there wasn't much of a view from that vantage point.

Had to go to the west portal to see the tunnel front.

 

Still looking for the pic of the Farmall tractor parked at the end of someone's driveway. Spotted it on the way up the east side of the pass on old MT 2. I've often wondered if it's anyone here on the site.

Will keep y'all posted when I find it.

Mike

[twostepn2001]

13 hours ago, Absent Minded Farmer said:

It looks like a satellite tornado revolving around a rather big wedge or it's been shelled out of it's dying cell. Do you know where that was?

He didn't say specifically but it was in the Vernon, Texas area.

[Old Binder Guy]

Mike, it looked like there was a coyote falling into ACME Canyon. Right?  Gary😁