The old guys around here all farmed like that too. Neighbours main tractor a Ford 5000 didn't have an electrics or a battery from 1980 to about 2005. We would park it on the ramp leading into the barn and roll start it. Block of wood under the loader to slide off as it settled quickly. Only had power steering in one direction as they couldn't afford to fix it.
Their Ford 3600 also didn't have a battery. We started that one with a chain from the pickup.
They would resharpen sickle sections down to little stumps too.
Working in my sisters old dairy barn which was owned by a different neighbour, there is not a single proper plug used in the waterer system, they would whittle a plug out of dry wood and hammer it it.
When the brothers were alive that ran it, (Scottish) the youngest brother broke his chainsaw file some time in the 70's during a winter of cutting pulp and was going to town which was a major trip so he came home with a package of files.
The oldest brother found out and raking him over the coals for wasting money. I noted cleaning up their shop they ran chains until the teeth came off. Pretty near 100 chains down to the chain with hair thick teeth on them, but still kept on the wall incase they needed to run it again!
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