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Phil -AL

01-14-2003 14:30:01

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I was just reading about Haying Before a Tractor in the research and infor section. The artical mentioned the "buckrake". My grandfather invented the buckrake and I have the original patent application at home in the office. This patent put my dad through vet school and provided a very good income in the depression. My grandfather was able to buy the first private airplane in the state of Idaho.

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Jim.UT

01-14-2003 14:47:56

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Re: A little OT history in reply to Phil -AL, 01-14-2003 14:30:01

My mother grew up on a farm in Idaho and probably has memories (I won't call them fond memories) of riding one of your grandfather's inventions. What part of Idaho was he from? Magic Valley area?

I have a friend who claims that his dad worked for Ford Tractor division and was the guy that hand carried the settlement check from his employer to Harry Ferguson (or his lawyers). He claims it's in his father's journal, but I've never had a chance to read it for myself.

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Phil - AL

01-15-2003 05:28:49

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Re: Re: A little OT history in reply to Jim.UT, 01-14-2003 14:47:56

Hey Jim - My grandfathers farm was in Eagle, just outside of Boise. He sold the farm after a bad deal with another invention with JD. Long story... We stayed in mostly southern Idaho until the University of Idaho shut down Dad's research lab and we all moved to Georgia. Now that was a change! I felt like I have to learn a new language:) Now I love the South.

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Jim.UT

01-15-2003 07:50:43

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Re: Re: Re: A little OT history in reply to Phil - AL, 01-15-2003 05:28:49

My brother lives in Eagle. He's now a Nampa City cop....couldn't make a decent living as a chiropractor (he's a good chiropractor...just no business sense) so he became a rookie cop at age 40. Graduated top of his class at POST....outshot the instructors at the range. He used to do a lot of summer biathlon competition (run and shoot). Now they've got him on the S.W.A.T team and he's been on the force less than 2 years.

Idaho to Georgia....yeah that would be an adjustment! Not very humid in the Boise area!

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Dick2

01-14-2003 14:44:51

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Re: A little OT history in reply to Phil -AL, 01-14-2003 14:30:01

My grandfather patented the first overshot hay stacker when he lived in Iowa (1912-1918). He didn't know much about patents. After he sold the patent to John Deere, he found out that the prototype went with the deal and he couldn't make another one for himself unless he paid a royalty to JD. He moved to North Dakota in 1918 and thought that JD would never find him up there, so he made his own plus one for my dad and one for my uncle. My first job in the field (when I was 6) was driving the team of horses to pull the hay up and dump it on the stack. We used that stacker until we got a Case hand-tie wire baler in 1947.

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John,PA

01-14-2003 17:05:59

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Re: Re: A little OT history in reply to Dick2, 01-14-2003 14:44:51

FELLAS"

I learned, to day in a computer course here at Pensacola, how to use the internet to retrieve written information from certain books. I advised my office girl, who, by the way, is a retired school teacher, not to do this on our office computers. She asked why?

Well, today, so much of this is being done. The information is being republished "under separate cover". Other author's work went into all of the research, trial and error methods, only to have someone else "git the credit", and, also the financial rewards. You see, I asked her, those little r's as well as those tm's?

Make sure someone gits permission from your families before calling someth'n "theirs". My dad learned the hard way. When, Piper took his rib jigs. Never returned them!

John

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