junqueyardjim
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Hi Folks. I am retired, age 80, though I still drive a school bus. Spent a lot of time in SW Minnesota in late 40's working on the farm and going to HS. I also drove a school bus during my last 2 years of HS in a brand new 36 passenger 49 Ford that did not even have turn signals. It had the "student stop lights", but no turn signals. They were added to the bus in 1950. I owned a tree nursery in Indianapolis area in the 80's and I did have a couple of Ford tractors, an 8N of about 53 vintage and a later Ford about a 63 vintage with the "selectomatic" transmission, which worked very well for bushhog work and roto tilling. Working on the farm in Minnesota, we had an almost new Farmall M and a new small John Deere, I think a "C", Then we also had a mid thirties John Deere which was a manual start and unstyled which we used for light field work, like pulling the binder. Oh yes, and don't forget the horses. We had four and didn't use them much except for some haying work and on the bundle wagons for threshing. And they were always willing to do the job. I had to put the harnesses on - that was a hard job!:laughing: What fun, great memories!