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BradH 
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 3:32pm |
Saw these out in the pasture last fall while we were cutting firewood. They belonged to my wife's great grandpa. I had the tractor out yesterday and no supervision to tell me no so I drub them back up towards the house. I think I'm gonna get a friend to haul one in town and put in my back yard. It'll make a nice decoration, although my wife probably won't think so. Even though they don't mean much to anybody else I think they're pretty neat. Later, Brad 032.JPG037.JPG
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BradH
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 3:39pm |
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CrestonM
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 4:48pm |
That's awesome! I couldn't have that kind of stuff as yard art. If I did, it would be operational again and tucked away in the barn before you knew it...Lol. Then I'd have to get more yard art, and the process would repeat.
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 5:15pm |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 5:44pm |
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Brad, I think you're doing the right thing !! heck I pulled a 100 year old spud picker home from the scrapyard and put it 'on display'. it looks nice, at least to me !! Yours has 'family heritage', so really it has real personal meaning...
Jay
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 6:06pm |
You know, I walked with my Grandfather when he used similar implements. He used a plow and a very similar cultivator. To me it is a memory I will never forget. Yes, use them as lawn art. People should see how we have progressed in the growing of food. My problem is that I am in a neighborhood that would not "appreciate" such lawn art. I would probably be asked to move. Take good care of the equipment. It is an important piece of our agricultural history Thanks for sharing. Good Luck! Bill Long
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 6:50pm |
That will make a good yard decoration.
And Bill Long, nothing against you but I am glad I don't live in your neighborhood. I don't want to live in any neighborhood that wants to tell me what kind of mail box post or fence I have to use or that I can't have lawn art.
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BradH
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 6:50pm |
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I'd like to think that someday I can fix them up some. Someday when I have lots of time and money to spend. Lots of other project first though. And this whole holding down a job thing really gets in the way of things too. Takes a lot of my time. The wife doesn't even want me to bring my tractor home and put it in the yard. She's really gonna love this idea. Besides, it's no worse than the neighbors behind us with the junk lying around. Or the neighbors across the street with the junk, dogs, cats, ducks, and chickens. Or the rats that the chickens have invited over to visit them. No, a rusty cultivator shouldn't be any big deal. But I'd better get my shed built before I put it in the yard. I'll probably need a place to sleep.
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Brad
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BradH
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 7:00pm |
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Bill, you're absolutely right. People should see how we've progressed in the growing of our food. Most people don't understand how far we've come. I'm not saying it's all for the better either. When my dad started farming with my grandpa they picked corn by hand and threw it in the wagon. Two years ago he worked on a silage crew driving a New Holland tractor that shifted using a thumb button. He's only 65 and he's seen farming go from picking by hand to fully electronic combines and tractors. So if I can keep the memory of the good old days alive I will every chance I get.
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Brad
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 7:43pm |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 7:53pm |
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I saved a 1 row McCormick horse drawn cultivator from a scrapper, it's in my back yard waiting for painting. gotta find out what colors other than red was used and where. anyone know?
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 8:28pm |
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I saved a horse drawn rake. Put it out front rust and all.
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 8:40pm |
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Right after ww2 dad unhooked his team from 1 of those, went to town and bought a new WD with 2 row cultivator and 2 row AC planter, planter had sat on the dealers lot. That cultivator sat in the corner of the field 65+ years, was always there when you drove by. Drove by a few years ago and someone stole it. Good luck with the wife on that 1.
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 8:51pm |
Boy, those look really good yet for all those years. Yep, will be a fantastic reminder of your family history. Good for you!
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 9:10pm |
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Brad you might put a small informational sign beside or on it and you might get by with it. All very neat, like you were trying to enlighten your neighbors.
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 11:08pm |
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me thinks....that Brad and I could have lots of fun being unsupervised together!
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Posted: 14 Apr 2017 at 12:55am |
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Shameless, depending on how old your cultivator is it is probably red white and a dark green. I recently sold an old McCormick Deering horse drawn turd hearse and when I started to restore it behind some of the sprockets and such there s some dark green paint. I did some research and found out that n fact they were actually red white and dark green. the wheels were white and all the iron was dark green and the wood was red. old Oliver green for the dark green. HTH Wayne
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BradH
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Posted: 14 Apr 2017 at 6:34am |
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Got my eyes on a McCormick turd hearse sitting in a shed at the wife's grandpa's up the road. Not as old as the cultivators but I think it would look pretty good behind the WD45. But I'm gonna have to get the Allis in running order before I do much more pulling of junk. The 33 horse Case wasn't thrilled about pulling the cultivators up out of the sod. They were grown in pretty good and I had the front wheels off the ground a time or two trying to pull them up. Made for a fun adventure though LOL.
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Brad
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Posted: 14 Apr 2017 at 7:21am |
 shameless dude wrote:
I saved a 1 row McCormick horse drawn cultivator from a scrapper, it's in my back yard waiting for painting. gotta find out what colors other than red was used and where. anyone know?
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I didn't see that in the picture... I'll have to go look again. Brad, I like that idea!!
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BradH
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Posted: 14 Apr 2017 at 4:49pm |
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My wife's grandpa was in the grocery store I work at today. I told him about pulling them up to the house. We talked for a while about all the hours he spent riding on the two row. His dad pulled it with their tractor and he rode along and operated the cultivator. That's how they mowed hay as well. The mower is displayed next to the driveway at my in-laws house. Those machines have been on that property for many, many years.
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Brad
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Posted: 14 Apr 2017 at 9:54pm |
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thanks Wayne
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