IH Tractors on Montana Farm

[Roger Byrne]

Gary is being overly modest again about his work, I'm sure that car drives a good and looks better than when Henry built it the first time! That one old photo of your coupe has a bunch more old iron in it. . . OBG, what happened to the 1926 touring next to your coupe? Then there is a TT in the background (the one you have now??) with another T? in front of it and then there is a steamer in the background. . . looks like it could be a Nichols & Shepherd.

Ralph, a couple of people have told me about that movie. . . I guess I better rent it and check it out.

Anson, that's a good look'n white hat you have there but I think OBG will agree that you better switch to a black one if your going to be around a steam engine or some of these greasy old tractors that we play with.

I suppose I should post a couple of photos before I get in trouble with Gary for being off the board for long. Here are a few more Model T's playing in the snow. The first one is what OBG's T would look like if he had the "correct??" wheels on his coupe. The second one is a 1915 photo from Dawson City. The last photo is an International in Canada. . . . will at least it's pretty close to being a IHC in Montana.

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[chub]

That movie "Days of Heaven" has been on Satellite TV. Have seen it a couple of times, chub

[Loadstar]

That movie "Days of Heaven" has been on Satellite TV. Have seen it a couple of times, chub

Chub, its the kind of movie I can watch more than once and I have. Its good for a few laughs though to anyone that knows a thing or two about farming. The way they handled that grasshopper plague was something else.

Roger, good to see you back here with some interesting pictures.

The subject of old GMC trucks came up a while ago and I happened to notice theres one on the front of a 2011 calendar that would look good on my wall.

Not sure of the year but thats a 38 Ford car behind the big GMC truck.

[Old Binder Guy]

[quote name='Old Binder Guy' date='28 November 2010 - 10:23 PM'

I did do a pretty good "farmer restoration" on it and apparently the judges at Eureka, MT did two summers ago when I entered it in their parade. They had quite a bunch of entries. I didn't know it was going to be judged, but when me and a couple of Model T friends returned from the coffee shop, I had a red ribbon hanging on it... MUCH to my surprise. Evidently they KNEW it deserved it for having the CORRECT wheels and tires on it????

It aint perfect, but pretty darn good for an old farm kid. Gary

Gary, I think Henry Ford would approve of your restoration on the Model T. It looks good to me. I'd never want to restore something to the point that I was afraid to drive it.

Got a movie recommendation for you, not the greatest plot or acting but the scenery is something else. Filmed in Alberta but its supposed to be on a Texas panhandle wheat ranch in the time of WWI. "Days of Heaven". A few old steam train shots , this Case plowing and the neat old truck were a few scenes that caught my eye.

Is that truck an IH?

Ralph,

I'm just posting this to see if it will reset the width of our posts.

Gary

[Old Binder Guy]

I wonder what is happening with our posts? Mine are showing up about 6" wide, starting at Roger's post where he posted that beautiful 1926 Model T Coupe with extra cost optional 4.40X21" balloon tires and wheels. The "natural" spokes are another option. Thanks for posting a Model T with options, Roger. That 1913 Model T Touring Car with the ising glass curtains installed is sure neat. Those wire wheels are neat too. Is that Model T Tudor Sedan a 1925 model? It'd have to be an early 1925 car, if it is 1925, because it has standard wheels, like my 1926 Coupe. I guess it could be a late 1925 car and it was just shipped with standard wheels.

Gary

[Loadstar]

Coupe Gary

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Edited November 30, 2010 by Loadstar

[Old Binder Guy]

I sent a message to Ivy Cat and RPM Sallie. Maybe this is how it is intended that we wind this down? Gary

[IvyCat]

Hi Guys,

Not sure what's happening with the width formatting. I'm guessing that part of it is due to some errant code in one of the later posts that is affecting the HTML that's displaying the page.

I'm not sure what to tell you about fixing it. I can go in and try to edit posts, or we can get in touch with Invision, but aside from that, I'd say try opening a new thread and seeing if the behavior persists.

Thanks,

Eric

[H-D]

don't worry about it Gary, just keep on posting.We can still read it.

HEY!!!! looks "normal" now, at least to me???

[Old Binder Guy]

don't worry about it Gary, just keep on posting.We can still read it.

HEY!!!! looks "normal" now, at least to me???

H-D,

I just got a message from Roger on my phone, so I turned on the computer. If I screwed up things I apologize. I sure don't know what happened. If I post this and it works, maybe it is fixed and I don't know how I fixed it.

Gary

[Roger Byrne]

It looks like the posts are coming up "normal" again. Maybe it was caused by "Cyber Monday" or I'm guessing that whatever the problem was, IvyCat got it corrected. I'll try some photos tomorrow and see if its still working.

[Old Binder Guy]

Well, I guess I'll check and see if I can post and post pictures without the shrinkage again. I had a busy day today, so I didn't suffer withdrawls for Red Power posting. But, it's nice to be able to do this again! Thank you RPM Sallie and Ivy Cat. A lot of old guys and a few ladies appreciate your efforts!

These are just experimental. This first is a copy of a postcard I own showing a 32hp Case plowing with JI Case "suits" on the plow, down in Texas.

This is a copy of a postcard picture of the 32hp Case put out by JI Case, showing their new big engine. This one has the familiar cab that many of these engines came with from the factory. The 32 was just an earlier version of what became the 110hp Case, very familiar to even novices in the steam community.

Since I don't have an IH Tractor on a Montana Farm photo handy tonight, here is nephew Randy, son Mike and me on my birthday this year with our 15hp Case fired up.

Gary

[Old Binder Guy]

Aw what the heck... Why not have a Farmall McCormick-Deering and IH Tractor on a Montana Farm, since things are working again. This was the Model TT, Model T and Farmall F-12 on my birthday this year.

This was also on my birthday. Mike was taking "Toot" to the buzz saw to saw up beetle killed tree/logs. Gary

[Loadstar]

Well, I guess I'll check and see if I can post and post pictures without the shrinkage again. I had a busy day today, so I didn't suffer withdrawls for Red Power posting. But, it's nice to be able to do this again! Thank you RPM Sallie and Ivy Cat. A lot of old guys and a few ladies appreciate your efforts!

These are just experimental. This first is a copy of a postcard I own showing a 32hp Case plowing with JI Case "suits" on the plow, down in Texas.

Gary

Nice to see we are back to normal width again. I like those old Case postcards. Interesting to note there is no cloud of dust around to get the "suits" dirty.

I was going to post this one last night but gave up on it when the forum narrowed down. This is for Delta Dirt showing the "big hats" here in Sask. back about 1940, my Dad on the right. Straw hats from the look of it.

And today in history marks the last day of production for Desoto, November 30, 1960. All I had on file was a 58 ad here.

[664 CDN]

And today in history marks the last day of production for Desoto, November 30, 1960. All I had on file was a 58 ad here.

Ralph, our local country Doctor always drove a new black Desoto until they quit making them.

He then drove Cryslers, he never went under 65mph LOL.

He,s the one that had the snow plane & later a motor tobogan.

Ray

[Roger Byrne]

Ray, that's an interesting conversion of an old coupe. . . .I wonder what the wind-chill-index was when you were behind that big prop?

Here are a few photos from Down Under that were posted by Adrian Whiteman from New Zealand on the MTFCA forum a few weeks ago. He didn't identify the makes of the trucks and these first four are foreign built. . . . I'm not familiar with them.

Now these next two are American made trucks and I can identify them. The first is a Republic and the second one is a Denby. I worked on two different Republic trucks for the VanHorn Museum and a Denby for another collector. Both trucks use a 4N Continental engine and Fuller transmissions.

[Old Binder Guy]

Ralph,

You were pretty small in that hat picture. It's a neat photo. I also remember the DeSoto very well and when they ceased production. The auto industry has changed a lot since that ad.

Roger,

I'm glad you could post today. Those are some neat trucks. Some showed chain drive in shrouded chain guards. Was that pretty common? I've never noticed it before.

I seldom go back to the beginning of this mess, but last night I went looking as I'd sent a link to this forum to a relative over in the Judith Basin. I opened this picture of my lovely wife taken on her dad's WD-6 and Van Brunt grain drill in 1949, before she was in school. I go back sometimes to see how many downloads these pictures get, a day or two back sometimes. This picture had 1659 downloads.

On the next page, I was shocked to see this picture I took of the IH 1256 I used to own, shown here with the Renn blade and chained up, with 2174 downloads. Since I'm headed to Silver Creek, maybe this can be my IH Tractor on a Montana Farm? Gary

[664 CDN]

Ray, that's an interesting conversion of an old coupe. . . .I wonder what the wind-chill-index was when you were behind that big prop?

Roger, the snow plane was built by Doc,s brothers who owned a foundry and built threshing machines.

This picture is of the snowplane I remember. it had a flat head ford V8 engine that was not covered like his first one.

If you look close at the first snow plane the prop looks crude & is driven by a multi Vee belt, the one I remember was direct drive by shaft from the V8.

As a side note , when anyone was traveling on the road with horses and heard the snow plane coming they would turn into the nearest laneway so the horses would ,nt be spooked and cause a runaway.

Doc also had the first snowmobile in the area after he wrecked the snowplane, it used a canvase track with wood slats.

Ray

[Old Binder Guy]

I went to Silver Creek today and kind of played, I guess... hope my master doesn't find out. After I posted my light bulb collection, I forgot about these things that were in a display case so I dug them out today and photographed them. This first pair of photos are of an Edison Electric somewhat replica of Thomas A. Edison's first light bulb. This was the first time they did this, and was for the 50th anniversary of that first light bulb, which took place in 1929. It appears it would work, but I'm not going to be the one to try it out. I'm old enough to remember cameras and "flashbulbs" and I wouldn't want to only get one flash out of this light bulb.

These are kind of frilly for an old greasy hand mechanic handling them, but I own them and they go on a pair of those twisted wire, brass socket lights that were in that box of electrical parts I posted. Incidentally, my wife DOES like these shades and brackets. As I said in the last light bulb post last week, I hope to set up a scenario of these lamps and a bunch of those old parts in that box.

These last two pictures might draw a quick glance from Palouse? His father and uncle took 16mm moving pictures in the 1930s and 40s. I've never used this movie camera but I've watched hundreds of movies as a kid on that Ampro 16mm movie projector. My parents bought a bunch of Abbott & Costello movies, the Little Rascals, underwater movies, Clyde Beatty circus movies, and one that particularly turned my crank was of a little chimpanzee. The one of Chimp that I remember most was on the farm. They had him eating at their table, drinking from the milk cow's udder and all sorts of things. I guess it didn't take much to entertain a small mind? I begged and begged for a chimpanzee, to no avail. My dad and uncle both had 16mm cameras, so we had quite a few movies around our farm. I remember myself on my tricycle and a few years later driving my Model T Coupe, Model TT and the Nichols & Shepard steam engine. In later years, I showed the movies onto a screen in a dark room, and videotaped the movies off of the screen with a camcorder on a tripod. I'm going to have to look for that video. Now, I guess I need to get that VHS videotape or the 8mm camcorder tape onto a DVD? Gary

[Old Binder Guy]

If some of you haven't seen this rotating 360 degree photo in an email, maybe this will work for you to view it here. It is taken from the rough summit of Mount St. Helens in Washington. It probably even has the Palouse in there somewhere? It may be too far away. Just left click and aim the arrow where you want to go. It's kind of fun. Gary

http://www.fullscree...m/st-helens.htm

[Loadstar]

If some of you haven't seen this rotating 360 degree photo in an email, maybe this will work for you to view it here. It is taken from the rough summit of Mount St. Helens in Washington. It probably even has the Palouse in there somewhere? It may be too far away. Just left click and aim the arrow where you want to go. It's kind of fun. Gary

Gary, that sure is an interesting shot of the mountains. Wonder how they do that?

I've got a not so old but not so new picture here from a friend of mine taken back in 1975. I know its the wrong colour for this forum but I know that pull type combines are a bit of a rarity down south so thought it might be of some interest. At that time the 6601 (closest to the camera) was the "big" pull type, equivalent to the 6600 self propelled. Not sure if the back one is a 65 or the bigger 96 pull type.

[Roger Byrne]

Back in the fall of 2009, I posted a group of photos showing the Craig Beek Model T Collection in Moline, Illinois. Craig has finished a new addition to his collection, a 1912 C-Cab Delivery Van. This summer he also took 11 of his cars to the national ACCA car show that was held in Moline. All of his cars were evaluated by internationally rated ACCA judges. . . . the most knowledgeable and picky people you can imagine. A quick note, when a car is first judged in competition, the best award it can get is "First Junior". After it has achieved this rank, in later years, it can go on and be judged in the "Senior" division. Well, 10 of the cars that Craig entered had already won "First Junior" in some previous year and the other car he took was the C-Cab Delivery. Here are the results: the C-Cab won a "First Junior" and all ten of his other cars won "First Senior" in their class!! I think that may be a record. When I first talked to him after the event, I asked him how the show was and his comment was simply: "Things went pretty good." A bit of an understatement I'd say! Craig is a guy that has helped hundreds of car restorers over the years and he has spent his whole life working on his collection . . . it's great that he could accomplish such a feat.

Below are a few photos of his cars that were at the show.

[PALOUSE]

A friend sent me this.

Car driven by its owner for 83 years

Rolls royce. How long have you owned a car???

Mr. Allen Swift (Springfield, MA.) received this 1928 Rolls-Royce Picadilly P1 Roadster from his father, brand new – as a graduation gift in 1928. He drove it up until his death last year…..at the age of 102 !!!

He was the oldest living owner of a car from new. Just thought you’d like to see it. He donated it to a Springfield museum after his death.

It has 170,000 miles on it, still runs like a Swiss watch, dead silent at any speed, and is in perfect condition. (82 years)

(Rumor across the pond has it that he fed it Model T's for breakfast....)

[Delta Dirt]

quote from Palouse:

(Rumor across the pond has it that he fed it Model T's for breakfast....)

That's just the laugh I needed for tonight!!!!

and------------that is definitely a "piece of machinery" in the picture-------looked like Mr. Swift was a "sport model" in his own right-------that car and Swift for a name, I am betting he broke the speed limit once or twice just to stake his claim to the name Swift.

Been out of class for a few days------------Those snow pictures from Roger look "colldddd" to this southerrnnn redneck------but sure are scenic. Following up on Palouse's humorous remark--------it appears to me that the dog sled might be passing the automobile in the picture?????

Delta Dirt

Avon, Ms 38723

[Old Binder Guy]

If some of you haven't seen this rotating 360 degree photo in an email, maybe this will work for you to view it here. It is taken from the rough summit of Mount St. Helens in Washington. It probably even has the Palouse in there somewhere? It may be too far away. Just left click and aim the arrow where you want to go. It's kind of fun. Gary

Gary, that sure is an interesting shot of the mountains. Wonder how they do that?

I've got a not so old but not so new picture here from a friend of mine taken back in 1975. I know its the wrong colour for this forum but I know that pull type combines are a bit of a rarity down south so thought it might be of some interest. At that time the 6601 (closest to the camera) was the "big" pull type, equivalent to the 6600 self propelled. Not sure if the back one is a 65 or the bigger 96 pull type.

Ralph,

I can't answer what kind of photographic equipment took that photo and how it manipulates with your cursor. I thought it was kind of interesting though.

You were apologizing for the color of the equipment on your post. I noticed it had 31 downloads, so it set pretty good with the "folks." The pull type combines are of interest to me, regardless of the color. Green paind doesn't bother me, I just never owned and ran any of it. Gary