Not just a Minnesota thing, frost boils real common in northern Illinois too. I drove for UPS pedalling packages in the Quad-Cities, Moline, East Moline, & Rock Island and surrounding area. Worked for 5-6 weeks before Christmas of '77, then started full time 2nd week of Feb. '78. About April I got to replace a guy who broke his ankle playing basketball for 6 weeks. I got stuck five times in one week, once a day all week long. Front axle on my little truck was a drop I-beam, set a pop/beer can up on end and drive over it and frt axle knocks it over! The townships tried to keep the roads passable but they would get bad over night. Got stuck in a trailer court right in town one of those days! The common oiled dirt roads had no crushed rock base under them like blacktop or concrete roads, The snow being cleared from them all winter drove the frost deep into the ground aggravating the situation.
Never really had a problem with frost boils in farm fields, but had lots of sloughs that stayed wet well into the early summer that we couldn't farm thru some years. Had a place or two we farmed thru planting and stuck the 450 Farmall with frt mounted cultivator 3-4 weeks later.
Before I was old enough to help Dad was hauling manure one winter day, tried driving the M and spreader thru some snow in a slough, broke through the thin frost layer and tractor finally stopped sinking when the drawbar and rear tub was resting on the ground. Borrowed the straight truck the guy he hauled livestock for, loaded 6-8 feeder cattle in it, gated them in the very back, drove out cautiously hooked to the M and pulled it out backwards. Back then an M was the biggest tractor around for many miles. Truck could easily outpull the biggest tractors.
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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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