Why Not Use A Tractor On The Farm? - 1919 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
Apr 23, 2017 18:45:36 #
Architect1776 wrote:
Would make a great movie from digging tunnels through mountains, life on the edge during the revolution etc. the exodus to the USA and settling in AZ.
Certainly would. Put a script together and send it to Clint Eastwood! 
Apr 23, 2017 18:50:23 #
bcheary wrote:
I remember my grandparents using oxen for plowing on their farm back in S. Africa.
In 1946, a year after the Nazi surrender, I snapped this Bavarian farmer in Garmish-Partenkirchen (a luxury Alpine resort) with a team of oxen.
Apr 23, 2017 18:52:43 #
RichardQ wrote:
In 1946, a year after the Nazi surrender, I snapped this Bavarian farmer in Garmish-Partenkirchen (a luxury Alpine resort) with a team of oxen.
Very interesting. Tractors really were not universal in US until after the war and Europe later still.
Apr 23, 2017 19:16:21 #
RichardQ wrote:
In 1946, a year after the Nazi surrender, I snapped this Bavarian farmer in Garmish-Partenkirchen (a luxury Alpine resort) with a team of oxen.
Thank you for your service to our country.Apr 23, 2017 21:53:51 #
Cool, I used one almost that old in Maine in 40s and 50s.. before we upgraded to a '53 Ford 9N model with some new attachments.
Apr 23, 2017 21:58:58 #
Lin41 wrote:
Cool, I used one almost that old in Maine in 40s and 50s.. before we upgraded to a '53 Ford 9N model with some new attachments.
Apr 23, 2017 22:25:56 #
RichardQ wrote:
In 1946, a year after the Nazi surrender, I snapped this Bavarian farmer in Garmish-Partenkirchen (a luxury Alpine resort) with a team of oxen.
Hey that reminds me. I was in Germany in 1947-48, and in the springtime all the farmers would get their 'honey wagons' out and fertilize their fields. They stood on a little platform in the back of the wagon, and as it was being pulled along, the farmer had this long handled dipper and he would fill it up with 'you know what' and spread it out on the field. No, you didn't want to go in the country in the springtime.
Apr 24, 2017 16:21:25 #
bcheary wrote:
I remember my grandparents using oxen for plowing on their farm back in S. Africa.
Still used in Central America.
Apr 24, 2017 16:40:32 #
Apr 24, 2017 17:36:24 #
I have an errand to run and will watch the video later. However, before my Grandfather got a John Deere, he had to plow his half section of Kansas farmland behind a mule or horse. His tractor was not an air conditioned luxury coach, either. He was shielded from the Kansas sun by an umbrella. I can see him to this day in a work shirt and overalls and he limped like Gpa McCoy from all the years of hard work.
Apr 24, 2017 19:10:18 #
SteveR wrote:
I have an errand to run and will watch the video later. However, before my Grandfather got a John Deere, he had to plow his half section of Kansas farmland behind a mule or horse. His tractor was not an air conditioned luxury coach, either. He was shielded from the Kansas sun by an umbrella. I can see him to this day in a work shirt and overalls and he limped like Gpa McCoy from all the years of hard work.
Ah, memories!Apr 24, 2017 20:15:12 #
bcheary wrote: Ah, memories!
Ah, memories!My Mom was 19 when she met my Dad who was 27 in 1945. They got married 3 mos. later. My grandparents were not so sure about this wartime marriage, esp. considering the age difference, until Dad visited the farm and they found out what a hard worker he was. Then they decided that Mom had made a pretty good match which definitely turned out to be the case. I have a picture of Dad digging a deep hole to fix a water leak and Grandpa sitting on a box of some sort holding that big umbrella over their heads.
Apr 24, 2017 20:49:44 #
Ring
Loc: Reed City Michigan
I'm surrounded by Amish farms with beautiful horses. Horse-drawn buggies going by daily to and from the sawmill just down the road. The buggy horses are sleek, beautiful creatures while the draft animals are huge but well cared for. No tractors. all equipment is set up for a team of horses. Tilling gear, wagon, you name it! The farms raise just about everything you can imagine for edibles. They are a totally self-sufficient people. Extremely friendly (wave at every car going by) and very religious. The sawmill is powered by huge diesel-driven generators. They will not use commercial power - totally off-grid. Their homes are lit using gaslights with propane as fuel. A few homes around here have a generator, most do not. They have their own school (not public-at least the lower grades. Not sure about high school). Us 21st Century types could learn a bit from them, IMHO!
Apr 24, 2017 23:16:45 #
Apr 24, 2017 23:18:19 #
Ring wrote:
I'm surrounded by Amish farms with beautiful horse... (show quote)
Very private industrious people living the simpler life. We could all learn from them.
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