Posted by oldtanker on June 18, 2011 at 05:58:41 from (66.228.255.223):
In Reply to: Weird Farmall posted by Owen Aaland on June 17, 2011 at 19:46:30:
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Actually it freed up men and land. The last mounted unit in the Army ate their horses on the Bataan. From that point on the US Army was "moterized" whit a very few exceptions. At the time they figured that it took about 25 acres to keep one horse. Plus the time it took to put up feed for that horse. Kinda like gas rationing. We had all the gas we needed and then some. What we didn't have was rubber. So slow down everyone to a national 30 MPH speed limit to make driving slower than taking the train, convince people that the men fighting the war needed all that fuel and rubber and people put up with it as their patriotic duty.
Interestingly enough.....up here there are old threshing machines all over the place. I read an article about that a few years ago. Basically they said that the production lines that had just been started in 40/41 to build combines were converted to war production. They still made threshing machines at the time too during the cross over years. During the 1945 harvest season everyone thought that we were going to have to invade Japan. The custom thrasher crews finished up in the north country right after we dropped the bombs. They abandoned their machiens here when they finished because they knew that combines would be available for the next season after Japan surrendeded.
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