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On 2/18/2023 at 10:11 PM, edwardporter1 said:

Same on a A2. Miserable machine but easy to repair as it was always broke

My father in-law was always a Massey-Harris combine man. When I started dating his daughter as a sophomore in high school, he was still using his 21-B MH. Then he moved up to a 90 Special, and added a 92.

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He preferred his 90 Special over the 92, so I operated it for him.

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The 90 Special and his two WD-9 McCormick Standards, 1953 Ford F-350 and the top of his Ford Galaxy. By the way, those two WD-9s are IH Tractors on a Montana Farm!

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He had a term for those early Baldwin Gleaners his neighbors had. "Silver Seeder." He said the first rain after harvest showed all of the "seeded" wheat growing. (Later he reluctantly operated my CII!)

His experience with Gleaners went back to a pull type that had a Model A Ford engine as a power plant that harvested on the place when his dad had it leased. I remember him telling me how they carried a 5 gallon can of gasoline on the combine. One hot day, the Model A engine coughed and quit. The combine man grabbed the can of gas (in a hurry to get back to combining), removed the gas tank cap and started pouring. He slopped some on the engine and it blew up on fire. That man burned to death and the field burned along with the combine.  Gary😉

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WD9's Very neat and useful with their cabs, combines must have been dusty without but doesn't look bad there

A 65 Galaxy was one of my first cars, purchased for its drive train, 289, FMX transmission and 9" rear to go towards my V8 Pinto project, sorry getting a little off track 😁

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The guy that l went on the harvest with had a Super 93 that he kept in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado to cut wheat on the terraces. His wife called it her combine because she liked to run it. During the spring and summer months, we didn't have cabs. But after the wheat harvest was over, we went back south to Leoti, Kansas and started on corn. The boss sent me and another guy back to his place in Oklahoma where we loaded the cabs on two trucks and took them back to Kansas and installed them there. They didn't have A/C but had heaters which came in pretty handy that fall. Not positive but l think l remember a sticker on the cabs that said they were built by Egging.

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5 minutes ago, twostepn2001 said:

The guy that l went on the harvest with had a Super 93 that he kept in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado to cut wheat on the terraces. His wife called it her combine because she liked to run it. During the spring and summer months, we didn't have cabs. But after the wheat harvest was over, we went back south to Leoti, Kansas and started on corn. The boss sent me and another guy back to his place in Oklahoma where we loaded the cabs on two trucks and took them back to Kansas and installed them there. They didn't have A/C but had heaters which came in pretty handy that fall. Not positive but l think l remember a sticker on the cabs that said they were built by Egging.

twostepn2001, Egging is likely correct? I remember my cousin had an Egging cab on his IH 1206 when he bought it new. This isn't his, but is an Egging cab. 

 

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Hardtail, combining (especially barley) was a terrible dirty situation. Combine cabs were so welcome when cutting that crop.

Talk about "DUMB"! When Dad and I bought this IH 403 Windrow Special combine with an 18' header, there was a 403 combine on the lot setting beside this one with a 16' header and a cab. I wanted the 18' header. Talk about stupid. I should have had Johnny Bourke just trade headers. I'd have had a cab and 18' header. I've cussed that all of these years. Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk?  Gary😁

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The first I can remember a combine,  my dad had a Case 2 row drag type and an International No. 61 drag type 2 row.  Anyway, in 1954 he bought a 90 M-H 4 row because it had a 38 inch wide cylinder.  Later he found a used International 151 to add to the Massey.  We harvested nothing but milo (grain sorghum ).  That was the dirtiest, itchy crop that we know of and that 151 where the seat was exactly in front of the grain bin and the grain bin was about as high as where your neck was sitting in the seat.  If you were going into the wind, it was allright but when you turned around and the wind was at your back, that was the dirtiest itchy feeling.  We always used umbrella shades so one day my brother and I took the umbrella off and laid it on the platform and left the support pipe on and when we had to go with the wind at our back we would stand on the seat and steer with one foot (it was the earlier combine where the steering wheel was almost flat and we would hold onto to the umbrella support for steadiness.  Anyway, that worked pretty good.  When we got to the other end and turned around then we would sit down in the seat and be fine.  I'll admit it was a little dangerous but we couldn't take it the other way.   We finally got a Tractor Supply cab with AC for the 410 Massey.  

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Gary, your reply about the Gleaner reminds me how my A2 caught fire. I believe it had a Chrysler  6 cylinder . Lot of oil and grease slopped on it. A spark set it to burning. Grabbed a fire extinguisher and tried to put the fire out. What a dumb arse I was as I should of fanned the flames. Insurance  covered my loss as in another dumb move I fixed the darn thing back up.  Sold it shortly after and bought a 105 Deere. All that learning experience  , the cost would have paid a Harvard education

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For Tubacase47, but anyone else who knows Case tractors too. What model of Case is this? I just got it off of Facebook today. I don't know squat about Case tractors after the cross motor tractor hit the market. I can look up the cross motor tractors, but this is a whole new game for me. Gary😉

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On 2/20/2023 at 1:27 PM, Old Binder Guy said:

twostepn2001, Egging is likely correct? I remember my cousin had an Egging cab on his IH 1206 when he bought it new. This isn't his, but is an Egging cab. 

 

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Hardtail, combining (especially barley) was a terrible dirty situation. Combine cabs were so welcome when cutting that crop.

Talk about "DUMB"! When Dad and I bought this IH 403 Windrow Special combine with an 18' header, there was a 403 combine on the lot setting beside this one with a 16' header and a cab. I wanted the 18' header. Talk about stupid. I should have had Johnny Bourke just trade headers. I'd have had a cab and 18' header. I've cussed that all of these years. Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk?  Gary😁

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Dad bought a 403 the year before he died and it was1 year old with not much use. Remember IH Credit paid it off. was 16' Hydro with a factory cab with fan. Shortly after i put a Meade Artic Breeze on it and that artic breeze got the nickname of the Shower. Fewyears later i put a Mark IV on the roof and it was nice. Ran it and later traded for a 715 Diesel, Hydro, Factory Air, 17.5 ft head with hyd reel drive. Ran a long time. To this day with that little 301 diesel engine running so many RPMs the oil had to be changed every 50 hours or it would use a half gallon a day i said the RPMS just beat the oil to death

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Good morning Gary.  The tractor in question is an "L," probably 1939 or 1940 as I can see a starter just above the belt pulley.  The cab is factory but I would not want to be in it; a family in one of the clubs I belong to has one and after driving it once, I swore never again because it nearly gave me claustrophobia.

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Thank you Tubacase47 for the history lesson!

I bothered rpm Sallie tonight. She was so nice on the phone and so helpful. Working burning the nighttime oil for the Red Power Magazine. Thank you so much Sallie.

I'd been using Avast protection for this antique steam powered computer. Last night, I had to give the locked up computer an "enema." I spent six hours trying to get back into my Facebook. It was a straight forward operation but when it asked for the connection, I put in my cell phone number as they allowed. It would say they sent me a code to check back in. But I never ever got the ring from Facebook. I was very upset when I went to bed last night. I did an early potty call this morning and it got me thinking about my FB problem. So I came in here and started working on it. I used my Avast account to see if FB answered my problem I sent them last night. I was still having the same problem. So, I went to the ol' Microsoft and I got right in. That really ticked me off, so I uninstalled all of the Avast things I'd purchased. I downloaded Malware Bytes Premium on a 12 day trial. Then I downloaded Microsoft Defender, restarted the computer and haven't had a problem until I came here to see if I could still get into Red Power Forums. Nope. So I went to the listed phone number and that is where RPM Sallie came in to help. So, guys, you didn't get rid of me! I'm here for the journey. This site is on my bucket list and you probably won't get rid of me until I kick THAT bucket. I think I've been doing this for nearly 15 years. So I'm way over half done doing this to you people. But, if you ever have a problem logging in, don't wait years like Tubacase47 did, look up the phone number they have listed for Red Power Magazine and call. They can and will help you!  Old Binder Guy, aka: Gary

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ln the past there has been some posts and pics of different Post Offices on here. Some were similar in design all over the country. But this one is really different. l have heard of this Post Office but up till today never seen any pics of it.

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The Dean Post Office is located in Deaf Smith County, Texas in a caliche rock cave on the North bank of the Palo Duro Creek served as the local post office from 1892 to 1899. It is located near the site of an old Indian campground and reliable live water spring. Individual “boxes” were hand dug into the wall for the settlers in the area to come by and pick up their mail This location is near the site of an old Indian campground and reliable live water spring. The site made for a perfect resting point for horses and dependable water going from Amarillo area to Hereford.

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5 hours ago, twostepn2001 said:

ln the past there has been some posts and pics of different Post Offices on here. Some were similar in design all over the country. But this one is really different. l have heard of this Post Office but up till today never seen any pics of it.

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The Dean Post Office is located in Deaf Smith County, Texas in a caliche rock cave on the North bank of the Palo Duro Creek served as the local post office from 1892 to 1899. It is located near the site of an old Indian campground and reliable live water spring. Individual “boxes” were hand dug into the wall for the settlers in the area to come by and pick up their mail This location is near the site of an old Indian campground and reliable live water spring. The site made for a perfect resting point for horses and dependable water going from Amarillo area to Hereford.

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twostepn2001, Wow that is neat! That is really archaic compared to Grandpa Jäger's first post office after he settled in the Judith Basin in Central Montana. This was his first post office. The builder, Moses Latrielle (known as Mose LaTray there) is shown with Grandpa's first post office in Reeds Fort, which is surrounded by Lewistown now.  Gary😁

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I'd had trouble getting on here the past couple of days. RPM Sallie got me back on. I guess I just have to find the correct starting place on the correct venue. 

I don't know anything, so just decided to throw some things here I've gathered over the ages. This first one was recent, but it happened a long time ago. This can happen to any brand.

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This was a postage stamp size photo my cousin had in Lewistown that I photographed with my phone when I was down there for a family reunion two years ago. The 1918 Aultman-Taylor 30-60 gas tractor and Grandpa Yaeger's 1917 Dodge touring car. At this late date, I'll collect any old photos, good or bad!

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A horse pulled, ground driven grain binder and some men discussing it. I can't tell the brand, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was something made by McCormick or Deering, or one of the companies like Champion they bought out, to eliminate competition.

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An at least a late 1923 Model TT Ford Truck is copying JI Case, I think? These Model TT's will darn near climb telephone poles. Not fast, but they have the same worm gear drive a Fordson tractor has. However the cars and truck of this vintage have to climb the hill FAST! They have no fuel pump and the bottom of the gas tank's sediment bulb is at basically the same height as the carburetor! If you have a long hill to clime we have to back up them. I've done it.

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A late photo of a 1912 Chase truck in Canada.

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A swarm of Maxwell automobiles in Dazey, North Dakota.

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I probably have posted this photo before, but if you didn't see sights like this when you were a kid, then check this photo out. You missed something. I saw so many similarities when I was a kid. 

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This early (small crank disk) 20 hp Case engine and threshing machine took a bad fall. I would have cried but would have loved watching this happen. I'd bet this shouldn't have happened.  

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This 25 hp Case straw burner is making a great threshing scene.

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A New Huber return flue engine is moving a church somewhere.

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And you can see how much excitement it causes when a new Advance (or any brand) engine arrives on a railroad flatcar in a small town. I personally wouldn't have stopped the engine in that downhill attitude. It can be destructive if not dangerous, left too long.

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And this photo excites me. This 32 hp Reeves cross compound Canadian Special is the very steam engine my dad and brothers farmed their farm with in central Montana from 1920 through 1928. It has had a lot done to it, including a different boiler from a sawmill in northern Canada. The most recent restoration was quite involved, but I'm so glad it is being taken care of. I did get to go back to the National Thresher's Association's 50th anniversary show at Wauseon, Ohio in 1984 as a guest of the owners, since I represented the family. It was great getting to operate it under steam. I played in it hours and hours and hours and hours as a little kid. I smoked my first Camel on it too. I turned rather green. 

This was it when the Yaeger's plowed with it.

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This is where the engine set from 1942 through 1954. They pulled it up in the "junk pile coulee" when WWII broke out. It is setting in the lower right-hand corner and wasn't really visible from the county road above our place in the distance.  Gary😉

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Thanks again Gary good stuff as always.

 

But how could implicate the crash of thrasher and Case engine on operator error.............. he surely was not talking on his phone. 🤣 But then again he could of been watch a cowboy get bucked off his half broke horse from the fright of the racket the engine made.

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14 hours ago, ray54 said:

Thanks again Gary good stuff as always.

 

But how could implicate the crash of thrasher and Case engine on operator error.............. he surely was not talking on his phone. 🤣 But then again he could of been watch a cowboy get bucked off his half broke horse from the fright of the racket the engine made.

ray54, They were able to do stupid things back then too, and got stupid prizes.  This Model TT Ford Truck is set up to Typewrite, photograph selfies and drive. So doing stupid things is nothing new! Gary🤪

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This a pic of the store/post office in the small community where l was raised, Cone, Texas. The post office was in the front corner of the store and had a big wall of those brass (?) mailboxes. l can still remember our box number...154 and l think the combo was 753.

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ln the back of the store was big meat case with all kinds of sandwich meats. Bologna, (in Texas it's called baloney!!!  lol) pressed ham, head cheese and pimento loaf. Postmaster's wife would make sandwiches for the cotton gin crews and farmers. l think she sold them for 25¢. Beside the store there was a huge wooden box with a lid where the Sunday was delivered to and a old coffee can. Just open the lid, drop a quarter in the coffee can and grab a paper. Lots of times l would ride my bike on Sunday morning just to get the paper. The store wasn't open on Sunday's because of the Texas blue laws but l could go right down the highway to the gin office and get a candy bar out of a huge glass jar and put a dime in a box next to it. l found one just like it at a "antique" store several years and latched on to it and put it in my toy room.

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ln the 60's when we lived there, it was thriving farm community. Two stores, two cotton gins, a restaurant, a school, 3 churches and a farm supply store. But very little left now. The store/post office in the pic and the restaurant and the gin office are completely gone. The school building still stands and has been renovated into a summer camp singing school by Southern Baptist Convention. The two gin buildings still stand and are used as farm equipment storage.

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On 3/2/2023 at 11:29 AM, twostepn2001 said:

This a pic of the store/post office in the small community where l was raised, Cone, Texas. The post office was in the front corner of the store and had a big wall of those brass (?) mailboxes. l can still remember our box number...154 and l think the combo was 753.

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ln the back of the store was big meat case with all kinds of sandwich meats. Bologna, (in Texas it's called baloney!!!  lol) pressed ham, head cheese and pimento loaf. Postmaster's wife would make sandwiches for the cotton gin crews and farmers. l think she sold them for 25¢. Beside the store there was a huge wooden box with a lid where the Sunday was delivered to and a old coffee can. Just open the lid, drop a quarter in the coffee can and grab a paper. Lots of times l would ride my bike on Sunday morning just to get the paper. The store wasn't open on Sunday's because of the Texas blue laws but l could go right down the highway to the gin office and get a candy bar out of a huge glass jar and put a dime in a box next to it. l found one just like it at a "antique" store several years and latched on to it and put it in my toy room.

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ln the 60's when we lived there, it was thriving farm community. Two stores, two cotton gins, a restaurant, a school, 3 churches and a farm supply store. But very little left now. The store/post office in the pic and the restaurant and the gin office are completely gone. The school building still stands and has been renovated into a summer camp singing school by Southern Baptist Convention. The two gin buildings still stand and are used as farm equipment storage.

Jackson's Grocery sounds a lot like Ed Turck's Grocery (and post office) in Moore, Montana. My wife's parents had one of the brass boxes with the "safe like" dials. I remember their box was 95, but I never knew the combination. But Turck's Grocery was where every high school kid stopped there on their way to school. Well the elementary kids walked there too. Ed and his family lived upstairs in the former (Depression Broke) bank. You could help yourself with things during the slow part of the day, usually around supper (Dinner is at noon in Montana) time. Just leave money on the counter or sign an IOU. Ed's wife Judith used to play her huge Hammond organ at Old Faithful Inn each summer. During the school year, I was invited for supper (Ed cooked, Judy didn't!). Afterward she'd play piano and I'd play her Hammond. Not the one she hauled for gigs. She had a smaller one upstairs. She was a fine musician. Apparently I measured up, or she wouldn't have had her son Phil invite me at HS.

The interior of the Turcks' Grocery Store.

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Cigar smokers at the Turck's Grocery and Moore Post Office in 1937. Ed Turck is the one 4th from left.

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Ed Turck gave me this check blank from the State Bank of Moore.

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A neat old photo of Clary's oxen team in front of the State Bank of Moore in 1910.

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John & Katherine Wilson with their fancy old Touring Car beside the State Bank of Moore. I haven't the foggiest idea what brand of automobile this is. Roger would be more apt to know.

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A recent photo of the old bank building. I don't think it is in use anymore, I don't know? Time marches on. Gary😉

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Here is a  pic of my first "nice" car. A 1968 Chevy Impala. Saved my money from when l went on the wheat harvest to buy it. lt had a 327 with a 3 speed automatic. First thing l did after l bought it (even before l took it home for the first time) was went to a muffler shop and had some Thrush glass packs put it. lt wasn't the fastest car around but it sure was comfortable to drive. l had found a brand new 1969 "Bahama yellow" Plymouth Roadrunner with a 383 and a 3 speed Torqueflite automatic with a factory 8 track tape player at the same dealer. But l let my older brother talk me out of it. He said "why make payments on a new one when you can pay cash for a used car?" Aw well......l don't have either one 54 years later. l do remember that for 1969, you had the option of either a 8 track tape player or a cassette tape player if you ordered a car from Plymouth.

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4 hours ago, twostepn2001 said:

Here is a  pic of my first "nice" car. A 1968 Chevy Impala. Saved my money from when l went on the wheat harvest to buy it. lt had a 327 with a 3 speed automatic. First thing l did after l bought it (even before l took it home for the first time) was went to a muffler shop and had some Thrush glass packs put it. lt wasn't the fastest car around but it sure was comfortable to drive. l had found a brand new 1969 "Bahama yellow" Plymouth Roadrunner with a 383 and a 3 speed Torqueflite automatic with a factory 8 track tape player at the same dealer. But l let my older brother talk me out of it. He said "why make payments on a new one when you can pay cash for a used car?" Aw well......l don't have either one 54 years later. l do remember that for 1969, you had the option of either a 8 track tape player or a cassette tape player if you ordered a car from Plymouth.

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I had a 68 Impala convertible.

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Throwing on some more junk because I don't know anything anyway. While the subject above was on cars, I have to post this photo of my wife with our 1967 GTO, back then. Farmall Kid was 31 months old and his little sister was 13 months old. They're both in their mid to upper 50s now! Sharon's dad was a died in the wool Ford man and he was calling her "Barney Oldfield" when I was dating her. I don't think anyone ever passed her in this GTO? The Sears and Roebuck car seats weren't any protection back then either. But I didn't have much protection riding in the back of pickups chasing things when I was a kid either.

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I thought of our Texans here when I saw this John Deere GP pulling this cotton picker in Texas. Maybe that was a John Deere test farm, because there are sure a lot of observers here.

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I saved this horse team and corn binder for your corn country fellows too.

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The first tractor built by Peter Davidson in Barnes County, North Dakota in 1904. (maybe the last? I don't know?)

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A farmer is disking with his Bull tractor.

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An IHC 8-16 Mogul is pulling a binder. Note the height of the grain straw bred for tying good tall bundles.

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Early February 1923, one of the prototype IHC Farmall Regular tractors.

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Someone is using those old track units on their Farmall H to grade a road.

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A 1456 IH Farmall. 

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A CaseIH 500 tractor. Gary😁

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First of all, I don't know anything. So I'm just throwing photos here from this month's download file.

This is an 1896 Morrison electric automobile. Note the headlight.

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This is a Tesla???

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A three wheel Knox Martin truck hauling a stick. If there are hills to descend, he should have a "headache rack" I'd think?

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An ice bridge across the Missouri River at Bismarck, Dakota Territory, pre-1883 when the Northern Pacific Railroad had their new bridge built.

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An IHC truck hauls coal with a unique coal delivery box. The truck was listed as a "Model 63."

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I had to save this photo. It is the interior of an International 1947-49 "K-5" truck like my dad had when I was a kid. His steering wheel still exists in part on Farmall Kid's 1944 Farmall M, "Toot." I did knock the horn cup off. They're identical to the Farmall wheels then!

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I had to keep this photo. I should have used Adobe to remove that cell tower though. This is what over the road trucks were like when I was a boy.

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Unloading a McLaughlin steam engine from a railroad flatcar. It doesn't look new, so I don't know what the story is.

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North Dakota homesteaders harvesting their corn crop.

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This looks like an IH literature photo. A Farmall Super H and a small IH combine. If it was a "real" picture someone would be chewing his bottom end for driving on the windrows.

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Son Mike performing some mechanical work with Grandpa Lynn's Thorsen 1/2" socket set, on a McCormick-Deering #5 rod weeder.

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That training plus growing up on a central Montana Ranch helped him in his former occupation as a CSMS (Maintenance Shop) supervisor for Uncle Sam. Here he's sharpening his pencil with his double cylinder steam powered pencil sharpener. It was quite a shop though. I never got to see an M1 tank hoisted in the air in the shop bay, but they did that.

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This is an Iowa family of 12 moving from there to the Malta, Montana area for their homestead, ca 1900.

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A "Blackfoot" Blackfeet Indian Camp in northwest Montana ca. 1910

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This was Carl Eliason and listed on Facebook as the inventor of the "snowmobile."

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A John Deere GP is pulling one of their Combine Harvesters. John Deere bought this design from Holt, when Holt joined Best to form Caterpillar in 1925. A 1929 Model AA Ford truck is full of grain from the combine hopper.

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A John Deere GP is pulling one of their 6' cut 12A combines.

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A photo from Facebook showing a repainted John Deere "Track Loader."

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This was our family's John Deere Track Loader at harvest time. They were still using this old thing in the mid 1950s. Worn out, it finally ended up as a culvert in a hillside road.

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I was fascinated how they used a horsepower winch to raise and lower this "overshot" hay stacker.

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Last but not least is this Facebook photo of how to teach a Millennial how to drive a stick shift.  Gary😁

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