Pictures of the Week

[other dog]

I had one of those weird loads this week that was just....weird. Went up rt. 20 to this location to load some old wood, timbers out of an old barn. The plan was for me to back into this driveway off the highway. The state police had traffic blocked at the top of the hill up to the far left in the picture. I was supposed to back in inside the red lines, then back sort of parallel to the highway. I told them that it was un-possible, there just wasn't enough room. There was a deep ditch on both sides of the driveway, and I told them that if we could put some wood in the ditch for me to cut the corner off, it was doable.

So we threw a bunch of timbers in the ditch and I got backed in.

Then it took 6 hours to load the little bit of lumber. The only equipment they had was this little garden tractor with a loader on it.

We had three old dudes working, one on the tractor, one on the ground, and me on the trailer. One piece at a time on the bucket of that little tractor, bring it to the trailer, then I would move it to where it needed to be. I think two good men could have loaded all of it by hand in a couple of hours, tops. I saw some old equipment there while we were loading the wood.

After being there from 12:30 until 6:30, I took it back to Concord and just left the next morning going to Randolph, N.Y. After I found where it was supposed to be delivered to, it took about 15 or 20 minutes to unload.  Two young Amish men, looked to be in their 20's i'd guess, got on the trailer and each grabbed an end of a timber and just picked it up and threw it off the trailer onto the ground.

I saw a big green machine in a field along the way.

And I saw a ridiculous looking car in the Wal Mart parking lot in Altavista this morning.

I didn't see any girls in any cars until I was almost home. This girl flagged me down in Winfall, and said she was out of gas. She asked me to take her to the gas getting place, said she would make it worth my while. I told her I wasn't driving a taxi, and didn't have time. She had a strange look on her face when I drove off, but I had to get home to clean the cat's litter box.

[fuzzy buzzard]

Man, the 2 pictures of the grain binder made sick - Lord how many hours I spent pulling one of those at 1/2 mph with a 871 Ford tractor.

 

Bet the cat was glad to get box cleaned out!! That was really noble of you. I would have done the same thing.

[NoClueJoe66]

That’s one hell of a place to load, but they sent the best man for the job. You should fix your car up like that so you would be cool and all. I don’t understand why some women can’t read gas gauges, but you made the right call going on to clean the litter box. Wouldn’t want to make the house cat mad

[other dog]

A couple more.

[other dog]

1 hour ago, NoClueJoe66 said:

 You should fix your car up like that so you would be cool and all. I don’t understand why some women can’t read gas gauges, but you made the right call going on to clean the litter box. Wouldn’t want to make the house cat mad

That was the worst part about it, I had already ordered some tires and rims just like that for my Chevrolet, and then this clown gets his first and beats me to showing them off in the wal mart store parking lot.🤬

[41chevy]

Bet the Amish would take those ancient machines in a second!

Donks!

 

Edited October 13, 2019 by 41chevy

[other dog]

8 hours ago, 41chevy said:

Bet the Amish would take those ancient machines in a second!

Donks!

 

 

I think that's the first one of those reaper machines, or binders i've seen since I was a kid. I remember seeing Lee Hatcher pulling one up rt.13 behind his Farmall M and thinking it was a broke down combine. Billy French was the only one around who even had a combine at that time, it was a pull type and he did everybody's combining for them, until my Dad got one.

Anyhow, my uncle Buck told me it wasn't a combine. It had the reel in front like a combine, so I thought "combine".  The wood has long since rotted off of this one. I guess these were used in the threshing machine days? The threshing machine was like a combine, but it was stationary, you parked it in the field and you had to cut the grain and bring it to the machine. All this is a little bit before my time. There's still a lot of old threshing machines sitting around in the midwest though.

A threshing machine and a picture of what the reaper might have once looked like, from the interweb.

[mowerman]

kind of a sin to see that old equipment,just abandoned that way....you know at one time,someone paid a lotta money for those things,,,and they probably did a real good job,in thier time,and they were top notch,.....like the chick man.......also,,,nice job on the parking.lol...thanks for sharing....bob

[41chevy]

15 hours ago, other dog said:

I think that's the first one of those reaper machines, or binders i've seen since I was a kid. I remember seeing Lee Hatcher pulling one up rt.13 behind his Farmall M and thinking it was a broke down combine. Billy French was the only one around who even had a combine at that time, it was a pull type and he did everybody's combining for them, until my Dad got one.

Anyhow, my uncle Buck told me it wasn't a combine. It had the reel in front like a combine, so I thought "combine".  The wood has long since rotted off of this one. I guess these were used in the threshing machine days? The threshing machine was like a combine, but it was stationary, you parked it in the field and you had to cut the grain and bring it to the machine. All this is a little bit before my time. There's still a lot of old threshing machines sitting around in the midwest though.

A threshing machine and a picture of what the reaper might have once looked like, from the interweb.

We had one of the thrashers, a big 500 gallon wood barreled tanker thing, a sickle cutter and a three row planter.  All wood and strap iron. My grandma bought about 1918. Her and granpop used a model T to pull them I was told. I saved some of the metal parts from where they burned them up after WWII when the got modern ones.

[fuzzy buzzard]

Think I am going to have emotional problems with all these grain binder pictures and then, a threshing machine picture shows up - quick - somebody call in a red flag alert!!!!!!!

Think I have spent more hours on a threshing machine than driving Mack trucks. Maybe that's why I'm a little mentally unbalanced

[mowerman]

On 10/15/2019 at 5:17 PM, fuzzy buzzard said:

Think I am going to have emotional problems with all these grain binder pictures and then, a threshing machine picture shows up - quick - somebody call in a red flag alert!!!!!!!

Think I have spent more hours on a threshing machine than driving Mack trucks. Maybe that's why I'm a little mentally unbalanced

ahahahahahahahahahaha,,,,just spotted this.....excellent...bob