Old Binder Guy Posted December 4, 2021 Author Share Posted December 4, 2021 Denton, Montana, is a small central Montana town that grew up with the homesteaders who flooded into the area over a hundred years ago. I put a list of the homes that were burned. A farm complex burned as well. It started near Stanford, Montana when powerlines arced starting the fire in an intensely high 90 mph west wind. No lives were lost. Storage buildings, vehicles, and the grain elevator burned. Here are some photos of the disaster. Lewistown is the Fergus County Seat and the main center of commerce. But these little old towns that have survived somewhat due to farming, while plenty of small towns died serve people in distances from Lewistown or Great Falls. These little towns like Denton and Moore, where I graduated high school still dot the prairies and ranges in central Montana. Draw a circle 50 miles in radius around Lewistown, and we all considered these townspeople, their farmers and ranchers as out "neighbors." The Fergus County Sheriff’s Office with the assistance from the State Officials have assessed the damage in the Town of Denton and the properties that were damaged or lost during the West Wind Fire. A more thorough assessment will be forth coming at a later time. We want to express our deepest sympathies to the individuals that lost their house, vehicle or storage buildings. The following is a list of all residences that were a total loss: 1210 Buena Vista 600 Main St 700 Lehman 610 Main St 701 Lehman 612 Main St 702 Lehman 616 Main St 703 Lehman 618 Main St 706 Lehman 716 Main St 710 Lehman 804 Lehman 815 Lehman 819 Lehman 910 Lehman 305 Railroad Ave 505 Railroad Ave 205 Keirstad 207 Keirstad 209 Keirstad 211 Keirstad 201 Ketchner 505 Ketchner If you have been misplaced due to the loss of your house, please call the American Red Cross at 1-800-272-6668 or stop by the Civic Center 309 5th Ave South in Lewistown, MT. You can also contact the local Salvation Army at 406-366-2982 or 206-280-9787. It had a most devastating fire early in the morning of December 1st. I don't know much more about the fire that these photos will show. The fire forked several times and burned other areas north and south of town. Gary😢😭 Thankfully the Denton Schools survived. The elevators burning. Aftermath of the burned elevator and the grain pile. Before. Afterward. 1 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dirt Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Sorry about the fire. I had seen a news item on it-----and looked the location of Denton up. That would hurt anywhere. ********** Not to be considered as an advertisement-----just seeking information. Who knows of a sales site or sales yard that specializes in older pre 1950s era farm equipment??? I have a yard full of primarily I-H related equipment dating back from my 1962 Loadstar with rollback----Farmall Ms----TD-14, on back to a couple of Farmall Regulars. All is rusty, dusty, and crusty-----(sorta like me!!!!). I am to the point that I need to clean up my shop yard before I catch the train outta here. Time to find it a new home-------even if it is the scrap yard. Anybody know of someone who specializes in the sale of this type equipment------please advise me if you do. DD (Avon, Ms 38723) 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted December 4, 2021 Author Share Posted December 4, 2021 3 hours ago, Delta Dirt said: Sorry about the fire. I had seen a news item on it-----and looked the location of Denton up. That would hurt anywhere. ********** Not to be considered as an advertisement-----just seeking information. Who knows of a sales site or sales yard that specializes in older pre 1950s era farm equipment??? I have a yard full of primarily I-H related equipment dating back from my 1962 Loadstar with rollback----Farmall Ms----TD-14, on back to a couple of Farmall Regulars. All is rusty, dusty, and crusty-----(sorta like me!!!!). I am to the point that I need to clean up my shop yard before I catch the train outta here. Time to find it a new home-------even if it is the scrap yard. Anybody know of someone who specializes in the sale of this type equipment------please advise me if you do. DD (Avon, Ms 38723) I wish I was closer, Anson. I'd be looking at those Regulars. I know they are too heavy for my IHC AutoWagon you will bring me when delivering those watermelons. I know you'd have to row pretty hard to get them onto a raft and paddle up here to Helena over the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. There has to be someone somewhere there in Texas who would buy them? I'd even consider (CONSIDER!!!) wearing a choo choo cap the rest of my life when steaming a traction engine, if you didn't take those Regulars to the scrapyard. Gary 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 13 hours ago, Delta Dirt said: Sorry about the fire. I had seen a news item on it-----and looked the location of Denton up. That would hurt anywhere. ********** Not to be considered as an advertisement-----just seeking information. Who knows of a sales site or sales yard that specializes in older pre 1950s era farm equipment??? I have a yard full of primarily I-H related equipment dating back from my 1962 Loadstar with rollback----Farmall Ms----TD-14, on back to a couple of Farmall Regulars. All is rusty, dusty, and crusty-----(sorta like me!!!!). I am to the point that I need to clean up my shop yard before I catch the train outta here. Time to find it a new home-------even if it is the scrap yard. Anybody know of someone who specializes in the sale of this type equipment------please advise me if you do. DD (Avon, Ms 38723) Just tried go talk my soon to be retired buddy into relieving you of your inventory but he isn't going for it. Buzz kill! Your only 11 hours and 22 min south of me says the Google machine..... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehammer Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 13 hours ago, Delta Dirt said: Sorry about the fire. I had seen a news item on it-----and looked the location of Denton up. That would hurt anywhere. ********** Not to be considered as an advertisement-----just seeking information. Who knows of a sales site or sales yard that specializes in older pre 1950s era farm equipment??? I have a yard full of primarily I-H related equipment dating back from my 1962 Loadstar with rollback----Farmall Ms----TD-14, on back to a couple of Farmall Regulars. All is rusty, dusty, and crusty-----(sorta like me!!!!). I am to the point that I need to clean up my shop yard before I catch the train outta here. Time to find it a new home-------even if it is the scrap yard. Anybody know of someone who specializes in the sale of this type equipment------please advise me if you do. DD (Avon, Ms 38723) DD, Would you be able to take some pictures of things? Maybe someone would see them and try to contact you that wasn’t a regular here. Not a for sale add just some pictures of what you have? Just a thought. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 Guys, I'm at the age, like Anson, where I'm not sure which side is up, much of the time anymore. If I repeat a photo, sometimes it is on purpose like this photo below of Anson's uncle and father cultivating. But other photos might get posted here and have been here recently. It's too hard for me to remember which ones I've posted and which I haven't. Anson, Are these the two McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractors you refer to? Here's a Regular I got off of the internet, pulling a grain drill. And this. Not only was a dog driving this car, a dog was driving that IHC Farmall Regular above too! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I put this picture of a 16 hp double simple Reeves engine pulling an elevating grader, building roads. These are some of the people who will appreciate getting roads built. I've always liked these Model T Center Door Sedans built from 1919 and 1923. I'm not able to tell what that car is behind it, but my best guess is a Dodge Brothers. Roger might know? Somebody added a water tank between the smokestack and the steam dome/cylinder on this 25 hp Case steam engine, pulling a threshing machine. This is a pretty decent load of grain bundles piled on this bundle wagon in North Dakota. This self propelled steam powered combine didn't need grain cut with binders and bound into bundles to harvest them. It cut standing grain in the field just like a modern Deere John, or an IH Case. This is naturally a "straw burner" steam engine powering the combined harvester. This is a crane hay stacker being used in Montana. I know Roger will know the model of this International Harvester truck hauling this stick. It looks like his wooden seat he's sitting on makes for a pretty fair "headache rack"? I hope that horseshoe on the front grille doesn't give him any bad luck before he gets to the sawmill with that stick. What was Mr. Goldberg's first name? Anyway, he invented this seed bed preparer. A refugee family trying to make the best of impossible times in Texas during the Dirty Thirties. These men are filling a C-model International truck with sugar beets. This may have been Texas as well? This boy driving this Allis Chalmers tractor has stopped to get a cold drink of water from his burlap wrapped/water soaked gallon jug. I can relate to being that age and doing a day's work in the fields. But it was a good feeling getting to prove yourself to your elders, older siblings and cousins, that "I can do this too! Just watch me!" This is a 1902 Moto Cardan "transverse" motorcycle. I don't know one other thing about it? Wouldn't that be something to find one of these in an old delipidated shed somewhere? These appear to be early in WWII production of TD-14's to be shipped overseas for making paths and creating runways. A TD-18 unloaded on a Pacific Island, ready to go to work. Anson on his 1943 TD-14. Last but not least, Mike is shutting off the McCormick-Deering Farmall F-12, his hay mowing tractor, a few years back. The TD-40 is beside it. They're BOTH IH Tractors on a Montana Farm. Gary 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twostepn2001 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Doing a little internet surfing and found pics of these trucks. The Thorco-Ford cabover was used to pull a '62 foot trailer. They were used to haul B-24 bomber parts made by Ford at the Rouge plant to other B-24 assembly plants. lt used two flathead V-8's, each engine had it's own transmission and powered one axle. Used a crew of three to drive it. Driver, co-driver and the third carried a Thompson .45 machine gun for protection against hi-jackers and saboteurs. lnstead of jacking up the cab for engine maintenance, they mounted the engines on a slide out tray. Disconnect the drive shaft and pull the engines out. Thorco also built trucks with side by side flathead engines. Each engine and transmission powered a drive axle. Supposedly designed for more reliability. lf one engine quit, they could still continue to a repair shop. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 On 12/6/2021 at 11:46 AM, twostepn2001 said: Doing a little internet surfing and found pics of these trucks. The Thorco-Ford cabover was used to pull a '62 foot trailer. They were used to haul B-24 bomber parts made by Ford at the Rouge plant to other B-24 assembly plants. lt used two flathead V-8's, each engine had it's own transmission and powered one axle. Used a crew of three to drive it. Driver, co-driver and the third carried a Thompson .45 machine gun for protection against hi-jackers and saboteurs. lnstead of jacking up the cab for engine maintenance, they mounted the engines on a slide out tray. Disconnect the drive shaft and pull the engines out. Thorco also built trucks with side by side flathead engines. Each engine and transmission powered a drive axle. Supposedly designed for more reliability. lf one engine quit, they could still continue to a repair shop. twostepn2001, I did not know about these Thorco-Ford trucks. I did know that Henry Ford built the complete B-24 Liberator Bombers during WWII. Henry met with Adolph Hitler before the war. Lots of Americans looked down their nose at Henry for that. He was interested in Hitler's rebuilding methods, I think? Just my thought. But when WWII broke out on December 7th, 1941 (Tomorrow is Tora, Tora, Tora) Hitler took over Henry Ford's Automobile Factory in Germany to build the Wehrmacht's machines of war. That "ticked-off" (use your imagination with that slogan) Henry Ford. His hatred of Hitler from that point on drove Henry to build the largest building in the United States under one roof, The Rouge River Willow Run Plant. When the assembly lines started moving, Henry turned out one B-24 Liberator Bomber per hour around the clock! (I'm certain Adolph hadn't anticipated this into his calculations?) These bombers did nighttime bombing runs over Germany because of the cover of dark. But when the P-51 Mustang Fighter Aircraft arrived in England from the USA, the p-51 could outrun and outfly Hitler's aircraft. Daytime Bombing Raids began then. The B-24 Liberator and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress eventually took Hitler down on his knees. (Hitler was a dumb @$$ for ever starting a war to the west (France, England, Canada, Australia and eventually the USA, then he attacked Russia to the east. That stupidity spells "VISE" [or plier?] to me.) B-24 Liberator Bomber Plant in Fort Worth, Texas. Likely those Thorco-Ford trucks made plenty of runs to this plant? A British AVRO Lancaster Bomber is dropping a depth charge into a German Dam. These "Dam Busters" were to flood the lowlands. I don't know how successful they were? This B-24 Liberator Bomber was piloted by Captain Jimmy Stewart, USAAF, 'CO' of 703rd Bombardment Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group. Shown here, middle rear, with his squadron officers and a B-24 Liberator long-range heavy bomber, 1943. Even tiny Maiden Montana made it onto the B-24 Bombers nose art? Since I grew up about 25 miles from Maiden, Montana (here 1883 Montana Territory) I had to put this photo here. Because I can? My late first cousin Frank McArthur was a bombardier over Germany. They were required to complete 25 bombing missions, before they could rotate out. He flew 33 or 34 (a family discrepancy!) bombing missions. He told his commander, he wanted to stay with his friends. The Norden Bombsight that was like the ones Frank stared into. I remember him saying they had some kind of a canister that if their plane was hit and likely going down, he was to put the bombsight into that canister and an explosion destroyed it. The Norden was a top secret piece of equipment. However, I've heard a rumor that Hitler had an "American-German" infiltrate the manufacturing plant. A young lady I used to date, her father had been a "watchmaker." During WWII, his duty was repairing and calibrating these Norden Bombsights. Cousin Frank told me that his happiest day as a bombardier was when the P-51 Mustangs reached England for deployment over Germany. They'd outrun the German aircraft. But it was still a game of luck to survive in war when you're being shot at. Gary😊 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dirt Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 ------The howl of the side by side flathead V-8s would sound just about as good as a howling Detroit!!!! Music to my ears. Bet the buzz of the P-51s with the roar of the B24 in the background made somebody sleep good also?? Never heard of the Thorco-Ford either TwoStep-------thanks for another day of living and learning here at the Montana 1 room school house!!!! ***** The two Farmall Regulars pictured in Gary's picture a couple of posts back are not the same tractors that I have on hand. More comment later............ DD 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard_P Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 The Dam Busters photo is a British AVRO Lancaster bomber, not a B-24, as the dam busting was a RAF project, not US. The bomb was not a depth charge, but a cylindrical bomb that was designed to bounce across the surface of the water avoiding underwater defenses against torpedoes, etc. until it reached the dam, where it sank and exploded. It was designed with dimples like a golf ball to accomplish this. Google Dam Busters or Bouncing Bomb to read the story of the development of this weapon. It is quite interesting. And it was quite successful, causing major flooding in downstream. And I've talked to folks that lived along US-24 where those Thorco-Fords and huge trailers for the day traveled. When you saw one coming, you were wise to get off the narrow two-lane highway as it was their road and they were coming through. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted December 7, 2021 Author Share Posted December 7, 2021 A Day that will live in Infamy. December 7th, 1941. Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillman Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 40 minutes ago, Howard_P said: The Dam Busters photo is a British AVRO Lancaster bomber, not a B-24, as the dam busting was a RAF project, not US. The bomb was not a depth charge, but a cylindrical bomb that was designed to bounce across the surface of the water avoiding underwater defenses against torpedoes, etc. until it reached the dam, where it sank and exploded. It was designed with dimples like a golf ball to accomplish this. Google Dam Busters or Bouncing Bomb to read the story of the development of this weapon. It is quite interesting. And it was quite successful, causing major flooding in downstream. And I've talked to folks that lived along US-24 where those Thorco-Fords and huge trailers for the day traveled. When you saw one coming, you were wise to get off the narrow two-lane highway as it was their road and they were coming through. I just watched a video about the Dam Busters ! its even shown at the time I stopped the video. Very interesting video if anyone wants to watch all of it. it claims the Germans used hydro electric power for their steel mills, the missions were important to knock out production In another video I watched recently it said 700-800 Lancasters would form an armada 10 miles wide and 30 miles long that shook the Earth😮 btw WW2 started Sept 1 1939. The USA got dragged into it 2 years later 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twostepn2001 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Another interesting twin engined Ford truck was the GRICO-Mercury. Powered by two Ford-Mercury 239 ci flathead V-8's making 95 hp each. The Ford cabover tractor’s original V8 engine, drivetrain, and rear axle were retained. A second V8 engine, transmission, and driveline were installed behind the cab, under a sheet metal housing, driving the second axle in the tandem. The two powertrains were configured so that either one could be operated individually to propel the truck, or they could be run in tandem controlled by a single throttle, clutch pedal, and shift lever. Another twin Mercury powered truck was the Ford Merry-Neville. lt used the same Mercury 239 ci flathead V-8's. Ford wasn't the only one to build twin engined trucks. The Eisenhaur Company used two Chevy 6 cylinder engines to power their truck. Another feature was it had not just two, but three steering axles. Two in the front and one in the rear. This is a Relay Motor Co. twin engined truck. Powered by two Lycoming straight 8 cylinder engines. l couldn't find much info on this one. But the more l dig the more info l find on multiple engine powered trucks in the 30's and 40's. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dirt Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 The Regulars pictured cross plowing cotton would be 1924-25 models. The two I have left on hand serial numbers identify as later models. ..........even though knowing my dad; either or both could very well have scavenged parts from the two in the picture. Daddy wasn't concerned about originality------and scavenging parts from the dead horse was a common practice back in those days. Both of mine have the enclosed steering gears up front (similar to the F20s).-------most likely added in later years. Both have been converted to L-P. Freight is no doubt a killer for most collectors to consider in moving any of my items up Nawth where most of the collectors reside. A couple of years ago---a near original, steel wheel Regular sold at a farm auction for $350. Weighing approx 4,000 lbs-------it would have brought that much or more at the scrap yard. And--------at that particular time I would have readily have bought the tractor if I had known it was for sale. Shortly thereafter-----my son Reb died unexpectedly. Not that Reb was a big proponent of rusty scrap iron-------but he did understand where it came from. Sorta opens up a new can of worms as the old codger and old scrap iron move forward. DD 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twostepn2001 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Anson, as far as your LP parts and such, if you will post some pics of them, l belong to a couple of LP tractor groups on facebook. l 'll post them for you if you want and if anyone is interested l could let you know. Someone in those groups are always searching for tanks, valves, regulators and other things to help with their LP projects. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted December 9, 2021 Author Share Posted December 9, 2021 A neat photo of an oil fired Holt traction engine pulling a combined harvester in a wheat field. This Best steam traction engine WAS pulling a combined harvester. It's true; anytime you have fire in a ripe grain field, this can be the end result.😭😭 A late 1909 or a very early 1910 32 hp Case straw burner engine on the belt threshing. This farmer/engineer must be building pressure to go to work with his tandem compound Advance engine. Threshing in Iowa with a 16 hp Gaar Scott engine with its front wheels on planks so it will set level, to maintain the correct water level and keep water over the firebox's crown sheet. A 16 hp Reeves double simple engine is busy threshing. This is kind of a neat photo of the threshing crew posing with this 12 hp Case tandem compound engine after finishing a threshing set. The earlier Case threshing machine still is utilizing a slat stacker, still an option. The "Bowler" or "derby" hats were quite popular it appears. Not a Pokey Dot or Choo-Choo cap in the whole bunch. An unusual sight in the USA. These two British Fowler engines are winching cable plowing in California. The far engine pulls that plow out in the middle of the field its direction and this near engine pulls it back. They used flag signals when stopping and changing directions. This is a closeup of the British cable plow. It is steered one direction, then the plow crew goes to the other end to steer it back as that end is dropped into the ground. I know little about this three wheel tractor but I thought this was an interesting advertisement. A Champion Road Grader utilizes a McCormick-Deering power plant setting on a Trackson crawler conversion. A roller mill flour plant in Hebron, North Dakota. Plant workers hauled sacks of flower to the railyards to load flour into a boxcar. A horse team and wagon hauled one load and a brass radiator Model T Ford Car converted to a chain drive, hard rubber rear tire truck hauled the other load. A North Dakota man and wife drive their 1916 Model T on their farm in 1917. The same couple's 1916 Model T Touring Car has its weather curtains and tire chains installed. The engine and radiator are covered so the motor doesn't cool off, as apparently it is going to be driven again soon? The same farmer has his early (ca. 1917) Model TT Ford Truck ready to go work. Note the hard rubber tires in the rear. The farmer and his daughter with a grocery company's IHC "shovelnose" truck. The same farmer and daughter, with the truck converted to a farm truck. The farmer's wife posing with their Dodge Touring Car. Tough times for a Dust Bowl refugee farmer headed to California in his (unknown to me?) Sedan and family. Back to that North Dakota Farm. A team of horses harnessed to a "Two Horse Open Sleigh." (Oh what fun??) The farmer and his daughter as he plows his cropland. He's seeding with his team of horses here. This is a different farm taking a break while binding and shocking grain for harvest. That North Dakota farmer lifting hay up into his beautiful Barn's hayloft with a team of horses. A couple of Illinois farmers visiting and a son is on the IH Farmall M with the "heathouser comfort cover." A G Allis Chalmers tractor is all set up for painting Highway Lines. Seven of these IH mower tractors were built in Canada for tree farms to mow between the tree rows. This one has a narrow front end. I don't know which IH components were used to build this tractor? This IH Super C was also set up to mow grass between tree rows. And since this is IH Tractors on a Montana Farm, here are four from my birthday a year and a half ago. Johnny the 1935 IHC Farmall F-12, Tony the 1940 IH Farmall A, Toot the 1944 IH Farmall M, and Annie the 1939 IH Farmall H out at Silver Creek. I bumped into this little IH Toy Truck that Johnny Bourke gave Mike when I worked as a partsman and salesman for him at Bourke Motor & Implement in 1974 & 1975. I had to take pictures for here. Gary😁 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dirt Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 3 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said: A neat photo of an oil fired Holt traction engine pulling a combined harvester in a wheat field. This Best steam traction engine WAS pulling a combined harvester. It's true; anytime you have fire in a ripe grain field, this can be the end result.😭😭 A late 1909 or a very early 1910 32 hp Case straw burner engine on the belt threshing. This farmer/engineer must be building pressure to go to work with his tandem compound Advance engine. Threshing in Iowa with a 16 hp Gaar Scott engine with its front wheels on planks so it will set level, to maintain the correct water level and keep water over the firebox's crown sheet. A 16 hp Reeves double simple engine is busy threshing. This is kind of a neat photo of the threshing crew posing with this 12 hp Case tandem compound engine after finishing a threshing set. The earlier Case threshing machine still is utilizing a slat stacker, still an option. The "Bowler" or "derby" hats were quite popular it appears. Not a Pokey Dot or Choo-Choo cap in the whole bunch. An unusual sight in the USA. These two British Fowler engines are winching cable plowing in California. The far engine pulls that plow out in the middle of the field its direction and this near engine pulls it back. They used flag signals when stopping and changing directions. This is a closeup of the British cable plow. It is steered one direction, then the plow crew goes to the other end to steer it back as that end is dropped into the ground. I know little about this three wheel tractor but I thought this was an interesting advertisement. A Champion Road Grader utilizes a McCormick-Deering power plant setting on a Trackson crawler conversion. Fire in the fields-------while pulling the thresher with a steamer. That looks like he is pulling a full load in the top picture. How often did the old timers encounter a fire started by the steam engine smoke stack??? Have always wondered-----even realizing they had a screen in the smoke stack. ***** Sorta like that road grader. DD 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Byrne Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Gary's photo of the barbecued combine harvester was being pulled by a Best steam engine. Below are a few more pictures of Best steam engines. The first one is believed to show Danial Best standing beside his 1903 Model A Ford. I've also attached below, a video of a Best engine in operation. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twostepn2001 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Not sure if this feller drives a choo choo or a tractor being there ain't no stripes or polka dots on his hat. Maybe he operates a stationary engine and they have solid colored hats.....? 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 23 hours ago, twostepn2001 said: Not sure if this feller drives a choo choo or a tractor being there ain't no stripes or polka dots on his hat. Maybe he operates a stationary engine and they have solid colored hats.....? twostepn2001, I can tell by the cigar he's smoking, he is just another farm guy, like I was when we married nearly 59 years ago. We lived in this little house on the farm and the Milwaukee diesel engines would go by wanting someone to wave at them as in this May 1964 photo. I'd sit outside on this lawn chair I've had since before I was born, holding my cup of percolator perked coffee, waving my arm off at them. I just wore a generic cap like his too. These weren't steam locomotives, but diesel electrics. The Nichols & Shepard and Russell traction engines were over where Mom and Dad lived, across Beaver Crick. They required the mandatory Polka Dot Cap Gary😁 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twostepn2001 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Gary, you are really fortunate to have all those photos of your life and l'm glad you share them with us here on IHTMF. l only have a few pics of my "early history." Most were lost through the years and l've only got a few thanks copies from relatives and friends. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dirt Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 I dunno TwoStep-------I didn't recognize the Professor without his trademark polka dot cap. My friend Wrangler researched his library going back to the steamboat days-------saying he had alot of colorful pictures even of steamboats; but saw nary a polka dot cap in any of the historic and colorful pictures. DD 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 11 hours ago, twostepn2001 said: Gary, you are really fortunate to have all those photos of your life and l'm glad you share them with us here on IHTMF. l only have a few pics of my "early history." Most were lost through the years and l've only got a few thanks copies from relatives and friends. twostepn2001, I am very blessed to have the photos I have. I also got a lot of pictures from "aunts!" Back then our family shared photos with each other quite often. When my wife wrote her book about Grandma Yaeger in Y2K (2000) I was in contact with relatives everywhere in America. I gained some photos that way, for her book. I've been "borrowing" photos since 1952, when I started copying photos of people, tractors, steam engines and family. I keep expecting this computer to become constipated with photos and quit running someday. But, I learned in the 1990s to keep my photos on other places. (I now have a Terabyte Seagate storage. Since that is what my old steam powered computer has for storage, it should be ample and send a signal when the computer is about to be full?) Now... My mother happened to be a Scots-Irish Hamilton. She had this box Kodak camera years ago. But I found I had to have a darn good reason to be taking (wasting film?) a picture. She watched the number of pictures taken SOOooooo close. About a third of my cameras. And it became worse yet when she started buying color film for her "new" Kodak. It was a Brownie Hawkeye like this one. Now in 1958 Mom came out and took THIS photo of me running the 20-70 Nichols & Shepard engine with that same second camera in color. (Dang, I'd forgotten to put my polka dot cap on.) This was when we went to California in December 1946 and my photographer uncle Bob, Mom's oldest brother took this photo of our family. I'd just turned three in August. My big brother Bill bought a little Kodak Brownie Junior in the Redwood Forest coming home. But I have three favorite photos I took with Bill's Kodak Junior. I've put them here before, but I don't think I've ever put all three here? I'm so thankful I took these three photos. The first is a train wreck at Sipple, Montana in 1953. The steam locomotive is lying on its side in the left background. The engineer was killed and the fireman was badly hurt. I've found this photo in places on the internet that I hadn't posted there! Our three McCormick-Deering TD-40 TracTracTors when Dad got the one with the Holt dozer stuck in a huge mud hole. I believe this one was 1952? This one I took in July 1951, of our hay mowing crew. Alvin, Charles "Chuck" (No, that's NOT Beaver Cleaver.) and brother Bill. Two IH Farmall Cubs and a Farmall M. Dad is in the background getting ready to check cows on "Yank" the horse. The 32 hp Reeves steam engine is still up on the hill, the black spot above Chuck's head at the top of the photo. The McCormick-Deering 28" threshing machine is up the lane. And at right in the shed was Dad's International TD-9 crawler. Gary😉 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Binder Guy Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 On 12/11/2021 at 6:23 PM, Delta Dirt said: I dunno TwoStep-------I didn't recognize the Professor without his trademark polka dot cap. My friend Wrangler researched his library going back to the steamboat days-------saying he had alot of colorful pictures even of steamboats; but saw nary a polka dot cap in any of the historic and colorful pictures. DD Anson, Likely the Mississippi steamboaters hadn't heard of the Kromer Kleen Kloth Kaps yet? Now up on the upper Missouri, they were very popular. This was four of TC Power's steamboats at Bismarck, Dakota Territory. The captain of the Steamboat Packet Benton was looking at the water of the Missouri. But don't be down on Anson. He was very kind to the troops in son Mike's Afghan Kandak a dozen years ago. He sent them Moon Pies. Master Guns is posing with his Moon Pies in Mike's headquarters. They remove their caps indoors. And don't forget Anson served our country too. He's not an ex-Marine. He's a Former Marine! Gary😉 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehammer Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 I enjoy the older family related photos also. Even when they aren’t my family 😊. I don’t have many farming photos from the family past. First one is an accidental pic that my best friend took of me loading up the first tractor I ever bought. We lost him in an accident a few years later so that pic means a lot to me. Second one has been on here before. It is my Great Grandpa on the Farmall 350 picking corn. I would imagine he wore whatever hat he had at the time. Homecoming at church was always the second Sunday in October and they would start picking after Homecoming Sunday. The pic was taken in the mid 60’s I believe. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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