In late October, 1958, my dad had an accident with a corn picker and his left arm was amputated below the elbow. My older brother had been discharged from the army for 2 days and just returned home and I was 10. 4 days later 42 neighbors, friends and relatives driving corn pickers, tractors and even elevators to finish 130 acres of corn.The lumber yard brought out 9 rolls of snow fence to build 3 temp cribs and told Mom just to take care of it and return it when the corn was gone! The Philips 66 station furnished the fuel. Everyone ate in the garage at noon and again about 2:30 when things wrapped up. They ate in the area of the garage as it had 3 rows of food!I even stayed home from school! Dad was not out of the hospital at that time but it was explained to him everyone was just about finished and they wanted to get it done while he was under high rates of meds and wouldn't argue with them! Dad farmed until 1974 when my brother and I took it over.
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Today's Featured Article - Usin Your Implements: Bucket Loader - by Curtis Von Fange. Introduction: Dad was raised during the depression years of the thirties. As a kid he worked part time on a farm in Kansas doing many of the manual chores. Some of the more successful farmers of that day had a new time saving device called a tractor. It increased the farm productivity and, in general, made life easier because more work could be done with this 'mechanical beast'. My dad dreamed that some day he would have his own tractor with every implement he could get. When he rea
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