Think it was some model of Ford, but not sure cuz my notes from the time are kinda scribbly ;-)
Posted on 01/23/2017 10:56:06 AM PST by blam
I went to my grandparents farm for the summer once to make money picking cotton. I picked cotton for about four hours...then came home. That was one of the best lessons I ever learned.
I'm retired from a career as a 'silicon valley' chip-maker.
It was miserable work when I was doing it, and couldn’t wait to get out and away. Looking back, though, it was honest work for an honest wage, physically tiring which meant you slept very well. But what I remember most was the food, it just seemed so much better. Going for a swim with cousins and friends after a long hot day was a pleasure in a way that I seldom experience now. It was just more real. I don’t know that I’d still feel that way If I were to suddenly find myself back in the fields again, though, lol. Got a few decades on me since then.
Although they no longer farmed, my parents moved to the country near DeFuniak Springs in 1959. It was a great place to grow up.
My Daughter has told me many times that her Grandparents place was paradise to her.
Looks like a mule.
My father and his father worked behind two mules, from sun up to sundown. He said, looking at south end of a mule all day was his motivation to go college.
He also said, they were good mules, meaning they didn’t require a 2x4 between the eyes to get their attention.
DeFuniak Springs is a nice place. We used to stop there for a country meal on our trips from Mobile to Dothan.
My dad ran a dairy in the Mobile area (we lived on the farm) until I was about ten...then, he got a job on the railroad and we moved, still in a rural area though.
We were always some of the poorest people around until he got the RR job.
It wasn't that long ago that 40% of Americans were employed in farming and ranching....I think the number is down to about 7% today.
I did a lot of the same except tobacco.
Plenty of hay fields though.
It’s been a few months but my uncle kept a little Allis to work a garden. I don’t remember the model offhand.
I haven’t heard of it being sold. I’m overdue a trip to visit the parents and the close by relatives.
The AC is remarkable in itself that my family would have nothing but Massey Ferguson. Deere was verboten. Ford and IHC maybe tolerated.
Growing up in a farm operation, my grandfather would not have any front loader. Kids were cheaper to operate.
The neighbors had one and seeing it make life easier did make me a tad jealous.
tractor bump
I’d like to the old CJs and a few pickups go the same route.
I saw this in operation at a few antique equipment shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEa3OmN2Mjc&t=6s
“The United States is full of used tractors with twice the horsepower at half the price.”
Not anywhere near the Mexican border they’re not. I hit the auctions fairly regularly and the Mexicans buy up everything and haul it back to Mexico. The auctioneers do the auctions in both Spanish and English. I hate it because the prices are always higher than anywhere further from the border.
My first love was a twenty year old ‘54 Farmall.
Jeees, my lawn tractor has 19 hp.
For me, having a front loader was indispensable. You could lift, push and drag most anything within reason. Always had a back blade, rock rake, landscape box or brush hog hanging on the three point off the back.
By the color and shape of the fuel tank it looks like an old Chalmers.
No self respected Ford would allow itself to be painted orange...
OK..., in traditional Freeper standards, I admit that I didn’t read the entire article.
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