The township road Commissioner I worked for in western Illinois, 20 miles east and a little south used heavy Bituminous oil to seal their dirt roads, and they spread limestone chips on the roads to dry up the oil and give the surface strength and volume. We had our own oil heater, the oil in the rail cars we got in was 70 degrees, barely flowed out of the cars, the heater got it up to 150 to 170 degrees, very fluid so it sprayed well, and we had the oiler too. First year I was the poor guy on the back of the oiler, turn the oil on & off, raise the boom end for narrow bridges. My ratty old coveralls could stand by themselves they had so much oil in/on them, had a hand towel I wiped the Vasoline off I smeared all over my face, had Mom sew a hand towel onto the sweat band of a solid cloth cap to keep oil out of my ears & hair. I burned my work shoes, cap, coveralls, couple towels, used an entire BIG jar of Vaseline. The next year I sanded & chipped the roads. It costs a LOT of money to pave blacktop roads thru all these rural areas. Between the 1st & 2nd year I worked oiling, the cost of oil went from a Penny or two per gallon to a DIME. WE didn't oil near as much that 2nd year. I'd to know what the oil costs now!
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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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