Up until I came back from college, not a single piece of machinery on our place had a jack on it. In the area where we parked everything, there was a pile of blocking, and couple of big iron crow bars. You put a block under the machine, put another block beside it, and levered it up enough to slide a shim on top of the block. When I was smaller I sometimes would cheat and use a bottle jack, but that had to be gotten from the barn, and put back when I was finished.
In later years I have often been surprised at how far an implement jack will settle into the ground, compared to a foot and half long eight by eight block.
I once proposed to buy an implement jack for one of the most miserable items. Dad told me that was fifteen bucks we didn't have.
There wasn't a "real" draw pin on the place. Implements were hooked up with whatever big bolt was available, with no hairpin or anything else to keep them in. I know that both the manure spreader and the potato planter came unhooked at least once.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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