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I think that’s a F-20 under the corn picker.  Looks like the rear hubs have a series of bolts holding it on.  I remember Dad having that setup in Minnesota when I was very young. Had a small dump box pulled behind for the whole ears that I got to ride in a couple times while he picked. I remember being bundled up against the cold. He wouldn’t let me ride on the contraption because of all the moving pieces.

I feel your pain about plenty of winter so far. We got 5” early in the week and then 12” more a couple days later.

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A friend sent me a pic of his truck on Thursday. 🥶 Fortunately, I’m not in Montana at the moment. I hopped a flight to College Station, Texas where my daughter and husband live. Here’s leaving Dallas after the first stop.

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I had good reason to get out of the cold for a few days, I came to see my first grandchild!

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Josephine Ruth is a sweetheart!  I’m headed home on Monday to blow snow at the farm but I’ll enjoy the Texas sun until then!

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10 hours ago, Old Binder Guy said:

This is a Model E Cotton Picker (don't know the brand) picking cotton near Ralls, Texas.

l have that pic in my files too. The only extra info l have says it's a experimental model built in 1927. One reason that pic hits home is because l was born in Ralls and raised on a cotton 8 miles north of Ralls. One thing l find kind of odd is the mud on the wheels. ln west Texas they just don't go into fields when they are wet. Wait a couple of days and it's usually dry enough to do whatever is needed. And l would like to know what's in that locked box on the side of that machine!!  🙂

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8 hours ago, MT Matt said:

 

 

I had good reason to get out of the cold for a few days, I came to see my first grandchild!

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Josephine Ruth is a sweetheart!  I’m headed home on Monday to blow snow at the farm but I’ll enjoy the Texas sun until then!

MT Matt, What a wonderful reason to be in Texas! Congratulations on becoming Grandpa MT Matt! I'll bet you can't wait until she's old enough for her parents to bring her to St. Regis to see Grandpa's IH Tractors on his Montana Farm and Great Grandpa's antique tool collection! Enjoy that Texas weather while you're there too.

I'll be 80 in August and I can't remember an earlier WINTER than we're having in Montana. Every year we generally get some early snow to remind us what is ahead. But not the below zero° nights like this year and the dumps of snow. But I pinch myself and convince myself "It IS moisture!" After a non threshing year last year, I don't want to ever see that again. Hopefully you will be able to bring your pitchfork and pitch a bountiful crop into that McCormick-Deering threshing machine next August. I don't have that many more "threshings" to be a part of!  Gary😉

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Gary, the Return Flue Minneapolis steamer is "SHREDDING" corn.  It's the same idea as a hand-fed thrashing machine.  Bundles of corn are placed on a side platform, the operator cuts the bundles and feeds them into the machine.  The stalk,leaves and husks are chopped up in the process and blown into the barn to be used as bedding.  The corn (still on the cob) goes into a wagon for future use.  The small amount of shelled corn that is knock off the cob in the process is saved and discharged at the rear of the machine in a bagger.   I'll tell you those corn bundles are a LOT heavier and harder to handle than grain bundles! 

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1 hour ago, Roger Byrne said:

Gary, the Return Flue Minneapolis steamer is "SHREDDING" corn.  It's the same idea as a hand-fed thrashing machine.  Bundles of corn are placed on a side platform, the operator cuts the bundles and feeds them into the machine.  The stalk,leaves and husks are chopped up in the process and blown into the barn to be used as bedding.  The corn (still on the cob) goes into a wagon for future use.  The small amount of shelled corn that is knock off the cob in the process is saved and discharged at the rear of the machine in a bagger.   I'll tell you those corn bundles are a LOT heavier and harder to handle than grain bundles! 

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Thanks for posting this, Roger! I like learning "new" things about crops we don't raise here. That is a new one for me! I loved watching that 25 hp Nichols & Shepard single cylinder engine turning it too! Gary😁

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It won't interest you as much as myself, but the cornpicker mounted on the F-20 is a model 2MH as I remember.  Dad had one that we used after he traded a 2ME picker for it.  The 2MH had the white painted elevator whereas the 2ME was all red.

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Two things went right on December 7th, 1941. Our aircraft carriers were at sea on maneuvers. They would avenge some of Pearl Harbor at Midway later in the war. AND, atop the hill above Pearl Harbor was our US fuel supply for our military. It was untouched. Had they bombed it, we would have been ham strung. I'm sure the Axis forces thought that by declaring war on us on two fronts, they could wear us down and smash us as in a vise. My opinion was when Hitler declared war on Russia, he was then fighting that European war on two fronts. He put himself in that vise. They were both formidable foes. It took guts, supplies and determination but the Allied forces who fought them attained the victory. 

A crowd celebrating the surrender of Germany in Times Square, New York City, on May 7, 1945 VE Day.

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Japan Quits VJ Day, August 14th 1945, WWII ends on my second birthday.

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My dad (Army Air Force) was at Hickham Field.  He had planned to go swimming that morning but that never happened.  HR never said much else about the day.

He and my mom went back in 1981 for the 40th Anniversary of the attack.

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Since we lost our Anson, maybe Hardtail or someone else can tell me. Is this IH crawler a TD-9 or a TD-14? The size of the man in proportion to the crawler throws me. I'm wanting to say TD-9. But I'm so unsure. I got it from Facebook this morning. I know it's not a TD-18! Gary😉

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don't know what size crawler it is but that ol boy is rolling a amazing strait line plowing

Mike

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I'll second a 9, we were just guesstimating on another thread on construction forum and came up with a collaborative 14 on that one 🤔 also pre 48 according to the Tractractor decal on the tank

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I say TD 9. Missed the marker on the first look, but was looking at the hill in the background. Looks like coastal California, if it is vegetable ground he might plow it 3 times a year, for 3 crops. A good crawler in even ground almost the same as auto steer.

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2 hours ago, hardtail said:

I'll second a 9, we were just guesstimating on another thread on construction forum and came up with a collaborative 14 on that one 🤔 also pre 48 according to the Tractractor decal on the tank

My cousin has a TD-9 with a square/rectangular Bosch diesel pump that has a TracTracTor decal on the tank's back. I didn't know when that decal left the assembly line. Thanks for that information!

I love that decal. I've stared at one for 69 years when plowing! I like the double globe decal too. Gary😁

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