IH Tractors on Montana Farm

[twostepn2001]

15 hours ago, ray54 said:

I got the picture bigger, but name was still just blur.

l did like you, l enlarged it quite a bit but it is blurred. Looks like it says "industrial" ???

[jeeper61]

1914 

No idea what make the truck is 

[Old Binder Guy]

34 minutes ago, jeeper61 said:

1914 

No idea what make the truck is 

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

[Howard_P]

4 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

1914 

No idea what make the truck is 

Truck looks older than 1914, photo may not be.  Looks similar to a 1902 Rapid which became GMC Trucks in 1909.

Actually, Rapid started as GMC--Grabowski Motor Corp for a couple years.

[Howard_P]

Here is the same truck after purchase by GMC

 

[Old Binder Guy]

I guess the brand name of this truck a Veerac, in Great Falls. Buttrey Foods was a huge statewide grocery chain in most sizable towns and cities. I remember a Buttrey also being in the Montana Legislature, representing a Havre, Montana district.

Of course Havre is the home of my friend, Don Greytak, Montana's pencil artist. This picture is on the wall of our dining room. Don is older than me and color blind. Gary😉 

[twostepn2001]

Gary, that pic of the Buttrey truck reminded of a large grocery chain here in Texas, HEB. Originally the HEB stores was started by Florence Butt after her husband Clarence and a young son got tuberculosis. She started selling groceries door to door and in 1910 (?) she opened her first store in Kerrville, Texas. After her oldest son, Howard Butt returned from serving in the Navy after WWl, he took over as manager and changed the name to HEB. (Howard Edward Butt). They say now that HEB is the largest grocery chain in the U.S.

Looks like this HEB truck is a IH?

Here's a later model....

[twostepn2001]

A Deere five bladed T-tailed biplane crop duster, experimental model. Photo taken at a undisclosed location. Seen being piloted by "little green men" but the official explanation is a midget in a green jump suit wearing a gray helmet.

[jeeper61]

Do you have to jerk the yoke to get it to start?

[axial_al]

Remotes probably leak too.

[MacAR]

The real question is, will it start when it's hot!

Mac

[Howard_P]

On 4/7/2025 at 1:22 PM, twostepn2001 said:

Gary, that pic of the Buttrey truck reminded of a large grocery chain here in Texas, HEB. Originally the HEB stores was started by Florence Butt after her husband Clarence and a young son got tuberculosis. She started selling groceries door to door and in 1910 (?) she opened her first store in Kerrville, Texas. After her oldest son, Howard Butt returned from serving in the Navy after WWl, he took over as manager and changed the name to HEB. (Howard Edward Butt). They say now that HEB is the largest grocery chain in the U.S.

Looks like this HEB truck is a IH?

 

 

Yup, an IH K or KB Series.

Wikipedia says they operate 435 stores.

[jeeper61]

Not IH but cool nonetheless 

[Howard_P]

Veerac Trucks were built in Anoka, MN from 1911 to 1913.  There is a restored one in Big Timber, MT that belonged to the fire department.  The name came from its Valveless, Explosion-Every-Revolution, Air-Cooled engine, sounds more impressive than two cycle I guess.

[jeeper61]

Here is an interesting piggyback load

[jeeper61]

Russell Grader Company had been making horse drawn graders for a while.

They attached one of their graders to a tractor engine to make their 1st motorized grader around 1919.

 

 

The Russell Motor Hi-Way Patrol, first developed in 1919, was the first known motor grader.

Russell Grader Manufacturing Company catalog, c. 1920, Harry E. Young II Papers, HCEA Archives

 

The earliest known example dates to 1919, when the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company combined parts of an Allis-Chalmers wheel tractor and a Russell Hi-Way Patrol pull grader with a 6-ft. (1.8 m) long, 13-1/2 in. (34.3 cm) high blade.

Unlike later motor graders, the prototype motor grader drew the blade behind the power unit; the grader drawbars were connected to the kingbolt at the same point where the tractor was connected, making for what Russell sales literature termed “absolute direct draft” to the blade.

Russell was acquired by Caterpillar in August 1928,

Cat’s highly successful line of motor graders are its direct descendants.

 

[MT Matt]

I hope you had a Happy Easter Gary!  My granddaughter who is 2 1/2 had her first real experience with the Easter bunny yesterday.

She had a ball coloring eggs…

and she was so excited when she realized eggs were hidden in the back yard to find!  I wish they lived closer, they moved recently to Baltimore, Maryland.  I’ll likely fly out this fall to see them for Thanksgiving.

I finished up planting oats, this field also got alfalfa planted with an IH tractor on a Montana farm.

 

Have you had time to mess with your Farmall A some more?  I still need to drop off that  drawbar.  I also ran across some balls of binder twine that Dad had in a shed. I’ll never use them so I should bring those to you and Mike as well for your binder. Hope all is well with you and your family!

[jeeper61]

Ran Across this one different version of the R

[jeeper61]

This beautiful 1956 White Super Power Concrete Mixer was received by the AACA Museum from the great people at Delaware Valley Concrete.

https://www.aacamuseum.org

[TN Hillbilly]

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[Sledgehammer]

Prayers today. May the Lord comfort family and friends. A one of a kind, kind wealth of knowledge that will be missed. The Lord has gained our loss and I rejoice in that with a humble tear. 

[mader656]

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[MacAR]

1 hour ago, Sledgehammer said:

Prayers today. May the Lord comfort family and friends. A one of a kind, kind wealth of knowledge that will be missed. The Lord has gained our loss and I rejoice in that with a humble tear. 

Ok, what did I miss Todd?

 

[MacAR]

Damn.... I always thought a lot of Gary though I never got to meet him. He truly was a wealth of knowledge, and a great asset here. He will be missed. 

Mac

[twostepn2001]

Wow!! That is sad news. Does anyone know more details? l mean was it a illness or an accident of some sort? One thought that crossed my mind is that Gary and Anson are up there together and laughing about the "The Great Mississippi Melon Mystery." Prayers and thoughts to Gary's family.