Dad told me of the gentleman he was working for wanting a new tractor during the latter part of the war(It started in 39 up here remember)Wilson had put his name in to get a new tractor and when they were available you took whatever was offered. Dad went with his boss Wils. to pick up the new tractor this one day,a John Deere "AR" although they did stop at the local garage to get the clutch lever heated and bent upright like a "normal"tractor and when they got home they took off all the extra tin on the fenders. When Dad told me this we were at a tractor show in the late 1970's and was looking at a fully restored AO.He wondered if the extra tin was still hanging up in Wils's shed! (it wasn't) Mother chuckled when the recycling idea was starting up around here in the mid 80's...she said this was not new. During the war they regularly sent people around to collect glass,tin and rags on different days so the products would be sent back into use for the war effort. She had a bike that sat unused for almost all of the war because they couldn't get a tire for it.
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Today's Featured Article - Usin Your Implements: Bucket Loader - by Curtis Von Fange. Introduction: Dad was raised during the depression years of the thirties. As a kid he worked part time on a farm in Kansas doing many of the manual chores. Some of the more successful farmers of that day had a new time saving device called a tractor. It increased the farm productivity and, in general, made life easier because more work could be done with this 'mechanical beast'. My dad dreamed that some day he would have his own tractor with every implement he could get. When he rea
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