Farm Machinery From Past Times

[Just Plain Curt]

Just a few pictures from a recent trip to a local rural museum.























All shots with my Minoltina AL-s Rokkor QF 40 f1.8 shot at 1/250 f8 Kodak 200 ASA. No Photoshop, just actual pics.

[byuphoto]

Curt, these are ecxcellent and colorful photos. I love old farm equipment

[GeneW]

There is some neat old equipment there, Curt. Excellent photos -- some of those things were still in use when I was a boy -- grew up on a farm (long time ago...)

Gene

[Randy]

Really nice photos Curt! If those things could talk, eh?

[PeterW]

Thanks for showing these Curt. I too love old machinery, of almost any sort.

PeterW

[doubs43]

First picture, far left: you've captured the dumbest thing to ever be on a farm. The only thing it's good for is kicking the crap out of itself! (That's a joke, fellows! I've seen many of them in use when I was younger.)

Curt, those are very nice pictures and seing some of those farm impliments brings back a lot of good memories.

Walker

[doubs43]

Here's an old Studebaker farm truck.



and a thrashing machine.



Walker

[kamera]

I had an old manure spreader like that which had horse-drawn tongue cut shorter and adapted for use on a tractor. We also had an old iron wheel hay rake. In New York State there were a lot of antiques and farm machinery available and both of these items we got, we actually used behind a Ford 8N tractor.

Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI

[herron]

My father-in-law has an old manure spreader like that one
in the first picture sitting on his property.



There are old farm machines (from his father's day...and
my father-in-law is almost 90!) out in the woods, overgrown
and untended, and in much sorrier shape than these!

My own grandfather had a pre-war Willys farm truck. When I
was a kid I thought it was reddish-brown in color. As I grew
older, I realized it was all-over rust! I seem to recall an
image of it in an old family album. Next time I visit my folks,
I'll have to remember to look for it!