IH Tractors on Montana Farm

[timnjaneb]

Three Generations and a Century of Photographs

Phil Krause, his father, Herbert and grandfather, Joseph H. were all past residents of Huntington County Indiana. Each of these men used the camera to chronicle their lives and the rich interests they had in life.

Phil and I became acquainted in 1968 due to his diligent punctuality of always arriving at the gun shop where I worked at 6:00 PM every Friday night. In addition to being a gun nut and avid competitor in the shooting sports Phil had several other serious avocations including aviation and photography. Over the next twenty years Phil and I managed to find a few minutes almost every week to share thoughts and ideas about different aspects of our lives.

A few times our extended visits while attending gun shows resulted in discussions some of which solved most of the world’s problems, or at least we thought we had it figured out well enough that if everyone else would pay attention things would be wonderful. During the 70’s we even dreamed of having our own island where we would write the firearms laws ourselves instead of letting Washington do it.

I would use up a few pages explaining some of our conversation but that will have to wait for another time.

It is with extreme gratitude I want to thank a Mr. Bill Holden of Huntington, Indiana. Bill became acquainted with Phil and published on his website some photos belonging to Joseph, Herbert and Phil. Included with the photos is a story authored by Phil 10-27-42 – 6-18-09.

Here are links to different parts of this history.

Panama Canal construction pictures by Joseph H. Krause

http://www.huntingtoncounty.com/panama001.htm

Aerial and other historical photos by Herbert Krause

http://www.huntingtoncounty.com/remember.htm

Photos and article by Phil Krause

http://www.huntingtoncounty.com/hosler.htm

Thanks for letting me post this rememberance of one day late for an old veteran.

Also wanted to post a better copy of Joseph's early airplane photo.

[Roger Byrne]

HOLY COW Tim. . . what great photos!! The construction photos of the Panama Canal are great. I also really like the photo #18 of the locomotive in the Grocery Store. Gary in going to love #14 of a Franklin air-cooled at the Indianapolis 500. Thanks for posting the links!

Opps. . . I screwed up, after a closer look at that Indianapolis race car, I see that it is a Renault with the radiator in back. . . . Oh Well, OBG will still like the photo.

[Delta Dirt]

Tim----

Lots of history brought on board in your above post------------have only briefly scanned it for now. Too tired to soak it all in----------will have to come back and review it picture by picture tomorrow.

Thanks

-------------oh yeh, been intending to ask. How did the Indiana cotton crop turn out????

Delta Dirt

Avon, Ms 38723

[Old Binder Guy]

Tim,

I agree with Roger and Anson... Those are some fantastic old pictures. Especially the shovel hood Franklin air cooled at Indianapolis! I'll need to spend some more time looking around in there.

Here are a couple of interesting photographs of "special order" Woods steam engines, and not Woods Brothers. Woods made frames to mount Geiser Peerless steam boilers and motors on, to make up these "high wheel" steam engines for road construction.

This is a picture of Katherine Stinson (obviously someone who'd be related to the builders [eventually] of the Stinson airplane.) and her aeroplane in Montana in 1913. Gary

[Old Binder Guy]

This is another famous aviator, who visited Helena, Montana. It is Cromwell Dixon who took off from Helena in 1911 to cross the Continental Divide at what is McDonald Pass today. He made it and flew onto Spokane, WA for a fair. He crashed there and ended his young life.

These are two pictures of White Motor busses being used at Yellowstone National Park. I remember as a kid that several of the many sold to the Yellowstone and Glacier Parks were later bought by locals around our state. They were a hot item!

This first one is of a bunch at Old Faithful Inn in 1920.

This is one of them at Punch Bowl Springs, in Yellowstone Park in 1917. Gary

[timnjaneb]

Gary, The two pictures of "special" Woods engines have me wondering. Are both of these pictures of the same or same model of engine? Is the negative reversed for one of the pictures - hence the right and left versions? Or how mixed up am I? Tim

[Old Binder Guy]

Gary, The two pictures of "special" Woods engines have me wondering. Are both of these pictures of the same or same model of engine? Is the negative reversed for one of the pictures - hence the right and left versions? Or how mixed up am I? Tim

Tim,

There were more than one of them built. Here is another on the same project with a canopy. They are both of the same model. The negative isn't reversed. Notice the flywheels and the pulleys below on their winches, under the boiler barrel. None exist, but there is a frame for one "back east" somewhere, as there was a story in Iron Men Album about 20 years about them. Gary

PS: Also about Cromwell Dixon, in last night's post... He didn't merely leave Helena and fly over the Continental Divide... He was the first ever to do that feat.

[Old Binder Guy]

The first is a picture of the north side and the west end finished with their tin in place. Mike was informed his friend's Gradall would be leaving around 3:PM this afternoon, so we busted our butts to get every high job done before then.

This was the west end after Mike put his four generation brand on the west end, as is on the east end of the shed. this Crown (Montana) livestock brand was my grandfather's from 1891. My dad had it for years and I owned it for several years and I passed it onto Mike (along with the "renewal" form and certificate that only requires a $100 bill every ten years, to keep it in force) a few years ago. Gary

[Old Binder Guy]

This was a fun picture to take. No, I didn't get current with my private pilot's license. Mike and I were taken up on the extended Gradall boom.

This is our shadow from above, the truck and trailer awaiting us to get down and load. Those two bumps atop that shadow are Mike and me. NO, I wasn't considering bungee jumping. Gary

[Old Binder Guy]

Yesterday, I finished taking the tin off of the west end of the shed and that tin was re-used on the north side of the shed. Today we pulled the girts off between two of the shed's "poles" (it's a pole barn) so we could frame up a wall against the poles and place a walk through door from the shop into the shed. That'll be our next project after everyone comes back to Helena. Mike and some of his guys will spend five days away next week, conducting inspections at several Montana National Guard Armories. Dale has apparently made some money this year as a contractor (in hard times too) so he and his wife bought a new car last weekend. They're going to Minnesota to visit one of their two daughters there.

The tin was supposed to arrive for the front or south side of the shop and it didn't come as of this morning. As soon as it arrives, likely Monday, I'll go out to let the delivery into the shed. Since I've driven that 17 miles, I'll likely stay and do some electrical wiring, or something I can do alone.

I had to post something old (as in "OLD Binder Guy) so I chose this picture of Philbrook, Montana, and a "mud wagon" stage coach at the way house of the Goodall family. This house still stands there and I remember Herb Goodall owning it years ago. It is likely still in his family?? It is a very ornate old home. You won't find Philbrook on any map today. Charlie Russell would have ridden by it many times! It is located between Utica and Hobson, Montana.

I hope all of you have a great weekend!

Gary

[Old Binder Guy]

Well, I kind of ignored this "thing" for 48 hours and I guess you guys are doing the same? Maybe it won't make it three years??

I can't remember if I posted this picture I took of the ancient old GNRY drawbridge at Seattle. It is from Lake Union and the Chittenden Locks to the bay (escapes me??) whereby boats can travel from fresh to salt water. I would like to see a picture of a steam locomotive passing over, but this is the best I could come up with.

This is a picture of a McCormick-Deering at Cumming, GA taken by a friend. Hopefully MB Cat or someone can tell us whether it is an old or new 15-30; or a 22-36? Gary

[Guy Fay]

Well, I kind of ignored this "thing" for 48 hours and I guess you guys are doing the same? Maybe it won't make it three years??

I can't remember if I posted this picture I took of the ancient old GNRY drawbridge at Seattle. It is from Lake Union and the Chittenden Locks to the bay (escapes me??) whereby boats can travel from fresh to salt water. I would like to see a picture of a steam locomotive passing over, but this is the best I could come up with.

This is a picture of a McCormick-Deering at Cumming, GA taken by a friend. Hopefully MB Cat or someone can tell us whether it is an old or new 15-30; or a 22-36? Gary

From the fuel tank, I'd say 10-20.

[Loadstar]

Well, I kind of ignored this "thing" for 48 hours and I guess you guys are doing the same? Maybe it won't make it three years??

This is a picture of a McCormick-Deering at Cumming, GA taken by a friend. Hopefully MB Cat or someone can tell us whether it is an old or new 15-30; or a 22-36? Gary

Gary, I've been a little too occupied with harvest problems to do more than look at the occasional picture here lately. Won't go into the harvest problems here but theres a pic over on the combine thread that says it all.

Anyway, on to happier times, heres a post card showing the Regina library way back in the days of wooden wheels and square bodied cars.

[Roger Byrne]

Just a of nice truck photo from the Shorpy Web Page.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7141?size=_original

[Roger Byrne]

Another Shorpy truck photo.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7126?size=_original

[Old Binder Guy]

Well, I kind of ignored this "thing" for 48 hours and I guess you guys are doing the same? Maybe it won't make it three years??

I can't remember if I posted this picture I took of the ancient old GNRY drawbridge at Seattle. It is from Lake Union and the Chittenden Locks to the bay (escapes me??) whereby boats can travel from fresh to salt water. I would like to see a picture of a steam locomotive passing over, but this is the best I could come up with.

This is a picture of a McCormick-Deering at Cumming, GA taken by a friend. Hopefully MB Cat or someone can tell us whether it is an old or new 15-30; or a 22-36? Gary

From the fuel tank, I'd say 10-20.

Guy,

I'm sure wearing my stupidity on my sleeve today, aren't I!?!?! I didn't really even look at the picture, just had to post something after two days.

Thank you,

Gary

[664 CDN]

Since we are on page 664 I better post a picture.

This is a shot of my winter wheat taken this morning, looks like it might make a crop if this Indian Summer lasts another week.

Ray

[664 CDN]

Since we are on page 664 I better post a picture.

This is a shot of my winter wheat taken this morning, looks like it might make a crop if this Indian Summer lasts another week.

Ray

Edit: I am getting as bad as Gary, Just took the first picture without looking close.

Got the right one now.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ray,

I'm glad you made it onto page 664. It's kind of your middle name! Now for getting old and senile, it still beats the alternative! I've done "stupider" things than my 10-20/15-30/22-36 blunder, but sometimes I don't get caught!

I'm placing some steamboats here from the Fort Benton(the world's innermost port) part of the Missouri River traffic. The first is the Block P Expansion, taken in 1907, near the end of steamboat traffic to FTB, since the GNRY had passed through there in the 1890s.

The Red Cloud was the fastest steamboat on the river and won a race proving it. My dad had two brothers whose father in-law, Anton King, rode the steamboat from St. Louis to Fort Benton in the 1870s.

This picture is of the steamboat O.K. tied up at Fort Benton, at the Grand Union Hotel. That hotel was built in 1882 and has been recently restored. Sharon and I stayed an evening there about five years ago and it was worth every penny. When new it was billed as the finest hotel between Minneapolis and Spokane.

This is the steamboat Montana and was the flagship for the Coulson Packet, a T.C. Power competitor at Fort Benton.

The last picture is of a 15hp M. Rumely steam traction engine on the belt near Chinook, montana. Gary

[PALOUSE]

Gary,

My younger brother (by eight years) just sent me this link. I'm not sure just what kind of point he might be trying to make but it is an interesting read so I thought I'd drag it over here to the "geezer channel".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091020/hl_hs...eyouragingbrain

Just thought you might like to know that this "thing" that you've gotten us all addicted to might well be prolonging lives (and thereby running social security into the ground that much sooner). So all this fussing with scanning and posting pictures. etc. may have a higher purpose after all.

[Loadstar]

This is a shot of my winter wheat taken this morning, looks like it might make a crop if this Indian Summer lasts another week.

Ray

Ray, the wheats looking good. Thats some flat land you have there.

Well, this pic oughta get some comments. Check out the dual headlights on those bikes. Unusual arrangement.

Not sure of the year or what kind of motorcycles they are. Old post card photo.

[664 CDN]

Ray, the wheats looking good. Thats some flat land you have there.

Well, this pic oughta get some comments. Check out the dual headlights on those bikes. Unusual arrangement.

Not sure of the year or what kind of motorcycles they are. Old post card photo.

Ralph,

My land is not all that level, the old pasture farm has some downright steep hills.

Today is Grandson Owen,s birthday, He would have been 12 years old today.

I posted this pic before, Owen took it of me finishing his dads wheat two weeks before he was killed by the tornado.

Ray

[Roger Byrne]

You sure see a lot of rag tops in this 1918 SHORPY photo on a Washington street corner.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7090?size=_original (see the full size version here)

Here's an old Fordson tractor that was converted to use on some industrial rail yard.

[M Diesel]

Ralph, I saw a lot of duals, but didn't notice the headlights at first

That Fordson is neat.

Still sad to hear about Owen.

[Loadstar]

Ralph,

My land is not all that level, the old pasture farm has some downright steep hills.

Today is Grandson Owen,s birthday, He would have been 12 years old today.

I posted this pic before, Owen took it of me finishing his dads wheat two weeks before he was killed by the tornado.

Ray

Ray, that is a sad memory for you alright. Nice view of some late day harvsting though.

I took this one just before sundown today. Solved my flax straw problem with the 1660 by parking it in the shed and getting a neighbour with a 7010 CIH to do the field.