Wow...that brings back some memories. A neighbor farmer hired me (at .75 an hour) to ride his combine in the fall of '58 when I was a mere 17. It was an Oliver with it's own little 4 cyl. water cooled engine and he pulled it with his recently acquired WD-45 Allis. We did all of his oats plus a couple other farms. The weather was hot so I didn't wear a shirt. The first hour or so I would itch like crazy but after that I didn't even notice. The hills around here are very steep so in one direction I had to hold the bag on the platform with my foot. By the end of the day I had a thick coat of black dust and it sure did feel good to jump in the "crik" to rinse off. Not sure I still remember how to tie a "miller's knot" but probably could. We were very poor and that .75 an hour seemed like a lot to me at the time. Without those wages I never would have been able to go on our Senior trip to Washington D.C. the following spring.
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Today's Featured Article - Good As New - by Bill Goodwin. In the summer of 1995, my father, Russ Goodwin, and I acquired the 1945 Farmall B that my grandfather used as an overseer on a farm in Waynesboro, Georgia. After my grandfather’s death in 1955, J.P. Rollins, son of the landowner, used the tractor. In the winter 1985, while in his possession the engine block cracked and was unrepairable. He had told my father
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