That train sound is a for sure. I call it the old locamotive sound. .. Was in one years ago. Out on a farm in Wellsville Kansas. Was with folks then and a kid. But remember it like it was yesterday! We went to this so called basement of house. Rock walls with a sump pump that with no electricty to make it work. It had done gone out and the heavy rain before tornadoe had brought water up about 1 ft and we had to stand in the water. Dad open the door outside and I seen this big black cloud coming at our farm. So dod secured door and we went to the corner and held each other. What I am telling is the truth and even right as I write this. My area is under a tornado watch only. Anyway, the localmotive was coming and I was scared as we heard things hitting the house and glass braking all around. Seemed like it lasted a long time to me and figured we were going to die. When sound stopped and all was quiet. Dad open the door and said it was safe to come out. So we did and what a shock to our eyes. For this tornado had dug a wide ditch threw the field. Hit our 3 story pole barn and it was gone. Not a pole standing are wall except in side the barn was a hexegon red wood silo that was tall. We had about 6 young cattle and the were cut some and running wild and crazy like. Dad said try to catch the cattle if you can and tie them to something so they will stay... here comes the dumb part of this job and I admit I was the dummy. lol lol Had this one 6 month old Swiss heffer. So she took off as I got close and I grabbed her tail and for some reason I hung on to it. lol Well I was down on the ground being dragged head first in the wet mud!... My dad seen me and said.. "Dummy let go of that tail!" I did then. lol boy did I feel folish later when dad had shared some laughter with friends over me. Shessss Now I laugh..LOL LOL Well the house did pick up some and moved about 3 inches on the foundation. Will all windows blown inward into the house. Distroying everything inside with glass and , well looked like a bomb went off in there. So to shorten this up some. We worked hard getting the cattle together and loaded for the auction the next day. Spent hours sorting out what clothes we might be able to save and a few papers dad found. Dad said that was it.. and he loaded up the car with what little we had and us. Then took us to California for several years.... That ended my hay hauling days for then. .. We did make the news papers in talk and even pictures, cause it was so bad at time.
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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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