Fond memories of Roosevelt Utah! Years ago I was pulling a car out to Salt Lake with a Ford half ton. Burned out a rear wheel bearing, outside of town 10 miles or so. Crawled into town on the shoulder with the thing howling like a stuck coon. The rear hub/brake drum were way to hot to touch, almost glowing. And it was Sunday morning, to help the situation. A sheriff came by and said he'd call one of the mechanics he knew from the local Ford dealership. Limped to their parking lot and the fellow came in, opened the store and gave me a new bearing. He offered to help, but I had a floor jack and tools so I thanked him profusely and went to work. Pulled the axle, I was able to bust the inner bearing race with a large boulder (no shortage it seemed) as an anvil. I always have a heavy hammer in the truck. It cracked it on the 2nd blow. The first blow is a story itself. I was holding the axle tight in my left and and walloped it with my right. The axle went off like a tuning fork and the nerves in the palm of my left hand are still numb, 40 years later. The bearing tapped on and off I went. I've never forgot that little town of Roosevelt and the first class folks that gave me a hand....... Be proud of your neighborhood pal
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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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