Life on the farm

[buckeyefarmer]

Oh, the push button radio, hadn’t seen that in awhile.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That looks like a 1960 to me...

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Thanks for the info. Ours didn’t have a go kart.

That engine was great. Gas tank behind the seat.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Those old trucks along with Fords and Internationals and a few Dodges hauled a gazillion bushels of corn/beans to the local elevators all thru my growing up years. Add sideboards to the combination grain/stock bed and completely overload them. Very few had hoists. The elevators all had cable operated drive-on contraptions that would lift the front wheels of the truck to dump them into a submerged elevator hopper. The waiting lines in the evening would be clear out of town in all directions. Wish I had a mainstreet picture of that.

The first 1960 Chevrolet truck I ever saw was hauling wheat. I though they were ugly at the time. I grew up in wheat country, and recall the old lifts they used to dump the trucks. I also recall the words of wisdom were if you were driving a Chevy, you had to shut the engine off when it was on the lift. Apparently the old "dip" oil system on the Chevy engines didn't work when the oil all ran to the back of the crankcase and it would throw a rod. I guess Fords, with their pressure system, didn't have that problem. Chevy put in the pressure system, at least in the Bel Air series of their cars, in 1953.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Another thread made me think of this.

Poor mans lime
About every fall dad would get a dump truck load of limestone dust that we would spread on our fields using an old drop spreader that has metal wheels. Not having a fel, we had to shovel the lime dust into the spreader. We put a screening wire over top to screen out the occasional stone that was too big for the spreader. Somewhere I have a picture of the old spreader.

 

[Big Barn]

That engine was great. Gas tank behind the seat.

Even on the slightly "bigger" trucks. Like our 40 series two ton. !

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Another thread made me think of this.

Poor mans lime
About every fall dad would get a dump truck load of limestone dust that we would spread on our fields using an old drop spreader that has metal wheels. Not having a fel, we had to shovel the lime dust into the spreader. We put a screening wire over top to screen out the occasional stone that was too big for the spreader. Somewhere I have a picture of the old spreader.

My Dad was in the materials business...sand and gravel, limestone, etc. In those days, they had dump trucks with spreaders...that reminded me of the tail spreader on a combine...that distributed the lime across the fields.

 

[ovrszd]

My Dad was in the materials business...sand and gravel, limestone, etc. In those days, they had dump trucks with spreaders...that reminded me of the tail spreader on a combine...that distributed the lime across the fields.

Lime/fertilizer beds are still used here today. V shaped bed with a drag chain in the bottom to pull the material to the back of the bed where it fell on the fans. Rate was determined by height of the gate over the drag chain.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Lime/fertilizer beds are still used here today. V shaped bed with a drag chain in the bottom to pull the material to the back of the bed where it fell on the fans. Rate was determined by height of the gate over the drag chain.

Oddly enough, My Dad's company had two lime plants; one in Pierce City and one in Monett Missouri. This was in the late 40's; don't know if they still exist though.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yesterday a pickup entered through a normally locked gate that was open for a delivery...

Truck drove back to the far corner of the farm so farm hand went to investigate.

Person said he was county building inspector and was here to inspect open sided 20x60 shade structure on the back 40 acres...

Said no permit on file to cover this structure with the response this is AG to which inspector said all structures require a permit since 2016..

There is an exception for canvas or tarp roof but after replacing the expensive tarps every two years the decision this year was to go tin... which now requires submital of full set of plans in triplicate a with engineering calcs for evaluation...

Of course a submittal will be made.

Life on the farm...

 

[two_bit_score]

Yesterday a pickup entered through a normally locked gate that was open for a delivery...

Truck drove back to the far corner of the farm so farm hand went to investigate.

Person said he was county building inspector and was here to inspect open sided 20x60 shade structure on the back 40 acres...

Said no permit on file to cover this structure with the response this is AG to which inspector said all structures require a permit since 2016..

There is an exception for canvas or tarp roof but after replacing the expensive tarps every two years the decision this year was to go tin... which now requires submital of full set of plans in triplicate a with engineering calcs for evaluation...

Of course a submittal will be made.

Life on the farm...

Everyone should get prepared for more foolishness like that.