My dad got rid of his last team in 1954. When talking about it he just said that it got where it was just easier to hook up the tractor than to get the horses harnessed. That happened after he got a Farmall H with electric start. Before then when the F-20 was the main tractor it wasn't always so easy to get it started when it was -20°F. Antifreeze was alcohol added to the water in the radiator which boiled away and had to continually replaced or the radiator would freeze up.
Heat in the house was a coal and wood furnace in the basement. Most of the time there wasn't money to buy coal so we cut a lot of wood. At time we would get corncobs from the elevator in town if they had been doing some shelling. Sometimes they were also used as bedding for the young stock pens.
Dead trees would be cut down and drug home where we would split them with a maul and wedges. Once they were split enough to be light enough to handle we would cut them to length with a buzz saw mounted on the front of a Farmall H. That was usually done right outside the basement door so the wood could be thrown directly onto the basement. It took a lot of wood to heat a drafty old house. The only room that was really kept warm was the kitchen. It was common to have ice on the inside of the widows throughout the rest of the house.
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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