I never rode with dad on the tractor when I was a little kid. Mom wouldn’t allow it. She was a nurse and saw too many injured people. I did ride to town a lot with dad in the 49 International pickup but dad never bought me candy or soda pop, that was wasting money. In the summer we would haul oats to the elevator with that pickup. The front end of the pickup was hoisted up with the truck hoist, flooding the engine. The pickup was 6 volt and sometimes it wouldnt crank it over long enough to fire it up. Lucky for us there was a steep downslope going out the door so the guy at the pit and I would get it rolling out the door, dad would pop the clutch and it would be running, with ME running along behind to catch up. We would have to rock it a bit to get the front wheels off the hoist though, then we could get enough momentum to bump the rear wheels over the hoist and it was out the door.
Dad would also pull the Grain-o-Vator to town to pick up feed so I would ride along. In the hot summer going to town wasn’t so bad because we had enough speed up to get a breeze in the windows. Coming home was a different story. A tarp to throw over the ground feed in the Gran-O-Vator cost money and wasn’t even thought of so dad would go to the garden hose the feed mill had and wet down the top of the feed, then came a 10 to 15 mph ride home in a dark green pickup that was hotter than Haities. That pickup was the first vehicle I drove. Wish I had it now just because.
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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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