CNKS: One of the unique features of our farms in Atlantic Canada, most of them consisted of 60% softwood forest and softwood forest ment construction spruce and construction spruce was Amerian dollars. Yes, a cash crop that was very necessary dollars in our cash flow. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of those that survived the 30s did it as a result of that forest cash flow. Rosevelt was spending his way out of the depression by building infastructure, and that infastructure gobbled up Eastern Canadian spruce. My dad turned to the forest on the 30s, never missed a days work during the depression. At 23 years of age in 1935, was able to buy a new Ford coup with a flat head V8, and paid cash. They did it with horses, and one of biggest agricultural crops was hay to feed all those horses. So great was the horse business in the 30s, my gradfather made a business of rounding up wild western horses on the great plains of western Canada and north western US, shipping them to Eastern Canada for use in the forest industry. Our barns in those days had 34 horse stalls, and breaking those horses was wild. I just remember the end of it in the 40s, as kids we were not allowed out during horse breaking. My grand mother thought my grandfather was a cruel man with some the antics that happened during horse breaking. I've seen her out the door more than once giving her opinion.
After the war was over most returned to the farmland, keeping the forest as back up for cash flow. A lot of folks down that way bought a Ford tractor, kept one horse and could use either for family transportation. I can remember in the late 40s we had a car, going to the village, very common to pass several Ford tractors in 2 miles, with a wooden platform on the hitch, and muma perched behind papa, several sacks of feed and groceries. You would encounter as many horse and buggy combos. With the 50s prosperiety came to our area, most of those folks bought a car or pickup. The horse was on his way out, and most folks wanted a better tractor than the 8N. I'll bet our IH dealers took hundreds of 9N, 2N and 8N on trade for C, SC, etc. Since the horse was gone they took those C and SC to the woodlot in winter. Bear in mind our constant freezing temps often put 5' of frost in the ground where it was travelled. Not much cushion for a tractor around the stumps and frozen ground. W4, H and 300 stood up well, but C and SC busted a lot of spindles, torque tubes and engine blocks. I took my 130 to the bush one winter, hauled 158 cords, busted both front axle spindle housings and one final drive. You can understand how fragile a C or SC would be with a longer wheel base.
For that reason, we always thought the C-SC should have had a heavier torque tube, frame rails same as H and M and it should have had more engine.
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