IH Tractors on Montana Farm

[MacAR]

32 minutes ago, MT Matt said:

That’s a pretty interesting corn/soy bean planter setup.  There are hydro hoses and cylinders on the planters. Looks like there are two separate planters with a squad hitch to pull them. I wonder if that M has a wide front because a chain runs from the corner of the hitch to the front of the tractor. Must be so the whole contraption can be turned around. Looks like that M also has a C tool box and seat mounted on it.  The wheels are set out to the very end of the axles for whatever reason.

How have you been lately Gary?  Plenty of moisture your way for planting some oats again this year?  It’s been raining/snowing most days here. I’ve been busy getting equipment ready for spring planting. Might be a couple weeks away if it dries and warms up a bit. Take care!

Super M battery box seat maybe? But a SM would have the live hydraulics under the tank right? I bet the hitch is mounted solid to the drawbar and the planters turn individually... my guess anyway. Chains are to keep the bar from bowing? I dunno. Definitely an interesting set up.

Mac

[MT Matt]

19 minutes ago, MacAR said:

Super M battery box seat maybe? But a SM would have the live hydraulics under the tank right? I bet the hitch is mounted solid to the drawbar and the planters turn individually... my guess anyway. Chains are to keep the bar from bowing? I dunno. Definitely an interesting set up.

Mac

Maybe a Super box but with the C coming out much earlier it would be more likely to rob a box and seat from a C donor tractor.  But without being able to see the back of the box, who could really say?

[MacAR]

31 minutes ago, MT Matt said:

Maybe a Super box but with the C coming out much earlier it would be more likely to rob a box and seat from a C donor tractor.  But without being able to see the back of the box, who could really say?

Very true... I hadn't thought about the timing. Boy, wouldn't it be neat to see that outfit actually out in the field?

Mac

[twostepn2001]

12 hours ago, MT Matt said:

I wonder if that M has a wide front because a chain runs from the corner of the hitch to the front of the tractor.

l think those chains are used to keep the planter from "bowing" backwards. Around in this area, they're also used on anything very wide, like cultivators, rotary hoes and such. Here is a pic of a newer model tractor and cotton planter with the chains.

[Roger Byrne]

The photo on the previous page is that of an early prototype McCormick Auto Mower from the late 1890's.  It was first marketed in 1898 and is consider to be one of the earliest production gas powered "tractors" ever built.  There is one exhibited by the Wisconsin State Historical Society at the Stonefield Historical Site in Cassville, WS.   It is said to be the second oldest gas power tractor existing and is thought to have been built in 1899.

[twostepn2001]

My wife and l was going through a closet and found her late Dad's safety awards from Sunoco Logistics. He hauled crude for them in Hamlin, Texas and later in Clairmont, Texas. The money clip was for 5 years no accidents. The belt buckles were for 10 and 20 years no accidents. ln the crude hauling business, no accidents not only means no vehicle accidents but also includes no spills or tank run overs. He took this pic of his truck (one in the middle) the day he retired.

Here is his awards.

[Old Binder Guy]

On 3/20/2025 at 10:12 PM, TroyDairy said:

Happened to stumble into my uncles old lean-too shed thing today   I never noticed this before way in the back corner.  Guess it was grandpas drill press.  Pretty rough....gloves are frozen stuck they been here so long.  Grandpa died in 1972.

 

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

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Was doing some window shopping on Hemmings & thought of Gary, Roger & the rest of the usual suspects here, upon seeing this gem. Don't know how fast you'll go up a mountain in MT with it, but I bet it would get there eventually. I personally wouldn't be in a hurry with it. A slow ride is necessitated by it's ultimate cool-ness.

I'll leave a link to  the page too. WHICH will come with the public service announcement of.... before opening the link, place your hand about right center of your screen. You'll know why if you don't.  

Mike

Link

1915 Stanley Mountain Wagon:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jeeper61]

Chevrolet, Fruehauf, Chris Craft 

[jeeper61]

1 hour ago, Absent Minded Farmer said:

Was doing some window shopping on Hemmings & thought of Gary, Roger & the rest of the usual suspects here, upon seeing this gem. Don't know how fast you'll go up a mountain in MT with it, but I bet it would get there eventually. I personally wouldn't be in a hurry with it. A slow ride is necessitated by it's ultimate cool-ness.

I'll leave a link to  the page too. WHICH will come with the public service announcement of.... before opening the link, place your hand about right center of your screen. You'll know why if you don't.  

Mike

Link

1915 Stanley Mountain Wagon:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cool very nice 

This made me remember there was bunch of old Stanley photos in the Maine archives he summered in Maine 

This was one of them

Three Stanley Mountain Wagons and their crews stand before the garage (former stables) that once stood adjacent to the Riccar Inn (now known as the Presidential) at the Poland Spring Resort in 1911. The Poland Spring Hotels, owned by Hiram Ricker & Sons, operated three of these early steamers to carry visitors and guests with their luggage from the nearby train depot to the hotels and the famed mineral springs. Unlike early internal combustion cars, the Stanleys were quiet and did not emit foul exhaust, and thus could drive up to the main hotel entrance without disturbing guests on the veranda. The steam cars also excelled as hill climbers, making them popular with guests and hoteliers alike in hilly areas.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

7 minutes ago, jeeper61 said:

Cool very nice 

This made me remember there was bunch of old Stanley photos in the Maine archives he summered in Maine 

This was one of them

Three Stanley Mountain Wagons and their crews stand before the garage (former stables) that once stood adjacent to the Riccar Inn (now known as the Presidential) at the Poland Spring Resort in 1911. The Poland Spring Hotels, owned by Hiram Ricker & Sons, operated three of these early steamers to carry visitors and guests with their luggage from the nearby train depot to the hotels and the famed mineral springs. Unlike early internal combustion cars, the Stanleys were quiet and did not emit foul exhaust, and thus could drive up to the main hotel entrance without disturbing guests on the veranda. The steam cars also excelled as hill climbers, making them popular with guests and hoteliers alike in hilly areas.

 

That's really cool, too! I thought those hacks would have a reasonable amount of torque to them & they don't have to do it with breakneck speed. That really must have been something to see.

Mike

[twostepn2001]

14 hours ago, Absent Minded Farmer said:

place your hand about right center of your screen. You'll know why if you don't.

With that kind of price, l wonder if Jay Leno might be one of the bidders....lol He already has several steam cars in his collection.

[iowaboy1965]

10 minutes ago, twostepn2001 said:

With that kind of price, l wonder if Jay Leno might be one of the bidders....lol He already has several steam cars in his collection.

He does.  I believe he was fairly seriously burned a few years ago working on or operating one?

The Stanley hotel in Estes Park Colorado was owned by the same family and has at least one restored steamer. 

It also has a long history of paranormal activity and the movie The Shinning? Was inspired by it. 

Many guests have claimed some odd experiences there over the years. One claim was Jim Carrie ran out of the hotel after a brief stay while shooting the movie Dumb and Dumber . He refused to say what happened and would not stay there after that.

[twostepn2001]

3 hours ago, iowaboy1965 said:

The Stanley hotel in Estes Park Colorado was owned by the same family and has at least one restored steamer. 

It also has a long history of paranormal activity and the movie The Shinning? Was inspired by it. 

Learn something everyday!!  lol l have read about and saw several "ghost" TV shows about that hotel but l didn't know that family owned it.

[Old Binder Guy]

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😉

[Mike H]

On 3/27/2025 at 8:55 PM, jeeper61 said:

Chevrolet, Fruehauf, Chris Craft 

The Chris Craft boat was made at Algonac Mi. 

last time I was down there the building was still standing

They also made PT boats for WW2 out of plywood

[jeeper61]

1969-Damariscotta-Nobleboro,Me.-Northwest 80D loading a boulder on a Mack rear dump on relocated U.S.Route One.

[int 504]

2 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

1969-Damariscotta-Nobleboro,Me.-Northwest 80D loading a boulder on a Mack rear dump on relocated U.S.Route One.

More likely trying to unload it as that won't go out tail gate

[jeeper61]

2 hours ago, int 504 said:

More likely trying to unload it as that won't go out tail gate

It's a rock body no tail gate 

Could be it is stuck 

I would like to see what loaded it originally.

A 80D was one of the larger cable shovels and that bolder looks too big for it to pick up.

[int 504]

6 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

It's a rock body no tail gate 

Could be it is stuck 

I would like to see what loaded it originally.

A 80D was one of the larger cable shovels and that bolder looks too big for it to pick up.

All the rock bodies I was around had what we called a boat tail body and the Euclids were double acting as they tipped up so far that they had to be pulled back over center to lower. We had very heavy shop built bodies on the b model macks some with tail gates some with boat tails. If we had something oversize-generally a stump and root ball and no boat tail trucks they would load the body level full with excavation often wet mud and then put the giant lump on the top. You unloaded without opening the tail gate until after the thing on top went out over. Front of truck was often 5 or so feet off the ground and slammed down when the thing left. Then lower body, open tail gate and repeat. I don't think one of todays dumps would take it. Actually regular wheeler dumps back then wouldn't either. The Macks would do the excavation then haul the gravel and finish up with paving. Upon closer inspection that truck is missing its' tail gate. We would often move large rocks or unshot large chunks with the shovels. A good operator could load out something that wouldn't fit in the bucket or move it out of the way. You did not haul those to the crusher as oversize lumps had to be blasted where they were when stuck to get them out of or through the crusher. This was extra fun particularly when the crusher was right downtown in the city.  

[jeeper61]

2 hours ago, int 504 said:

All the rock bodies I was around had what we called a boat tail body and the Euclids were double acting as they tipped up so far that they had to be pulled back over center to lower. We had very heavy shop built bodies on the b model macks some with tail gates some with boat tails. If we had something oversize-generally a stump and root ball and no boat tail trucks they would load the body level full with excavation often wet mud and then put the giant lump on the top. You unloaded without opening the tail gate until after the thing on top went out over. Front of truck was often 5 or so feet off the ground and slammed down when the thing left. Then lower body, open tail gate and repeat. I don't think one of todays dumps would take it. Actually regular wheeler dumps back then wouldn't either. The Macks would do the excavation then haul the gravel and finish up with paving. Upon closer inspection that truck is missing its' tail gate. We would often move large rocks or unshot large chunks with the shovels. A good operator could load out something that wouldn't fit in the bucket or move it out of the way. You did not haul those to the crusher as oversize lumps had to be blasted where they were when stuck to get them out of or through the crusher. This was extra fun particularly when the crusher was right downtown in the city.  

It looks like there are several large chunks in that shot plie 

Must be fun to pick up one of those chunks that won't fit in the shovel bucket and load it in a dump 

Those operators really worked for their money back in those days 

[jeeper61]

Working on the Bolton Cut in Bolton CT unknown date

I drive by this cut a couple of times a month on my way to Hartford CT at the junction of I-384, US 6 and US 44

 

 

1907 post card of the railway cut

 

[jeeper61]

I don't think I have run across one in the wild 

[Old Binder Guy]

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😉

 

[ray54]

Interesting about the Jeep clone. I have seen pictures of a smaller clone of a Jeep.  More a side by side utility vehicle that looked like Jeep but not legal on the road. Which was Asian build, I think by Mahindra but not sure.

 

The small tractor is not AC, maybe Coop, or one of the brands sold by Sears or Wards. I got the picture bigger, but name was still just blur.  But longer maybe Shepperd, but that all guess. The cycle bar mower mounted to cut on the left side of tractor, not the right is a first.