pictures to enjoy...
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Topic: pictures to enjoy...
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: pictures to enjoy...
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2018 at 9:02am
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http://douglascountygensoc.org/photos002.html" rel="nofollow - http://douglascountygensoc.org/photos002.html hope you like...most make you wonder Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2018 at 9:44am
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Very interesting pics. Oh oh oh if you look close at the pic of Sitting bull and Buffalo Bill you can just barely see Ray 54 andTed J in the distance.😂😂😂 |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2018 at 10:19am
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Great pics, i had to go thru them twice. Couple of notes: Two Summers ago the wife and I did a pilgrimage to Ship Creek while in AK. We lived within a half mile of it around 1980. Me and a friend put gas in the old beetle up by Crater Lake back when, We actually used one of those gravity flow gas pumps.
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Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2018 at 11:04am
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It's pouring rain and I needed to do something indoors. Looking at the old photos posted above I thought of opening my files of old family photos and reading again all the printed copy of documents of how our "Last Chicago Farm" was saved from non agricultural use. Quite a story since our family farmed this space from 1883 until 1972.
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2018 at 12:41pm
| Great set of pictures |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2018 at 4:39pm
Dad ready to plant sweet corn on "Chicago's Last Farm". Spring of 1947. This B was close to being new at this time  . I remember it well. The farm address was 3837 West 111th Street. Chicago, Illinois
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Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 9:35am
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I love to look at old pictures. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 11:11am
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I've seen most of those at one time or other, but still pretty interesting. Stop and think about how much weight of logs those 2 horses are about to pull!! Wow...
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 1:45pm
| Yes, that was my thoughts too what a load and the logs for skids |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 4:59pm
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Washington, D.C., circa 1919. Walter Reed Hospital flu ward. One of the very few images in Washington area photo archives documenting the influenza contagion of 1918-1919, which killed over 500,000 Americans and tens of millions around the globe. Most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection... GEES.. I have heard of this, but didn't know 500K AMERICANS died !! And the photo of down town Alaska .... are those wood planks on the road ?  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 5:00pm
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"pictures to enjoy" When I clicked on the link I thought it was going to be the NEW ROOF on the garage !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 10:27pm
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Dang,,,you mean,,,you mean the pic of the HUGE load of 60 logs was for reals,,,??? Chit,,I thought that one was thrown in to see if we was payin attention,,,,but HOW in the heck did they load em that high,,?? They didn't have cranes back then,,,,,??? Thats quite a feat regardless,,, ,
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2018 at 1:28pm
| Kinda like they built pyramids, brut strength |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2018 at 2:01pm
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"Man" is so resourceful,,and I always enjoy lookin and proudly acknowledge that fact. The videos I have seen of how they built the pyramids just flat impresses me,!!! A TV Special I once saw showed where they built a ramp alongside the pyramid that sloped up to the next level and just kept adding to the ramp crisscrossing back and forth till they reached the top....Just flat impressive,,,,, Now these loggers also did quite a feat themselves,,them trees look to be maple hardwoods that would be pretty dang heavy as thick as they are,,!!! Still wonderin HOW they got em up that high,,,!!! Sure feelin sorry for them horses too,,,,,
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2018 at 7:50am
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My grandpa worked in the logging camps in Michigan in the early 1900’s I think for just 1 year. Sadly for him and for me trying to tell a cool story, he was young and they made him be a cook. But anyway, he talked of the big loads and impressive rope and block and tackle rigs and stuff like that, but mostly brute strength and can hooks. The snow would pack and get quite slippery under the skids so subsequent trips down a trail and the horses could pull more than at first. I’m thinking that there load wasn’t the first through a couple feet of powder! STILL!!! When he married grandma, he said he only had 2 conditions: he wasn’t going to peel another potato and there would be real butter for biscuits. Not bacon grease like they used at logging camp! |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2018 at 8:09am
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I’m also very impressed with the ability of man in the old days. We do a lot of work on the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. I’m very impressed that every rock was quarried 10 miles north of town and hauled in by wagon. Some rocks were one rock per wagon. I’ve always wondered how the horses stopped the load coming down the steep stuff as much as being able to pull the stuff. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2018 at 1:27pm
| You ever watch a horse or pony pull, they get right down on their bellies and pull. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2018 at 5:13pm
You put the brakes on before you needed to stop
 . One method was chain the back wheels so they had to slide. Which you had to do before you got to the bad spot. |
Thad in AR. wrote:Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2018 at 9:41pm
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Same as for a hay wagon coming down a steep hill. We used what we called a shoe. It was a piece of steel wider than the tires with curled up sides and a slope on the front end. it was tied to the wagon and when needed, you just set it in front of the tire and it held (for the most part) the wagon back. Lots of horses were maimed back in the day because of carelessness and not thinking. Dad always said that he'd rather we make two good trips down,,,,,,,,,,, than one bad trip half way. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 7:02am
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The cable car was invented after a guy saw a horse get injured on the San Francisco hills pulling a cart of people. Like tadams said, horses will seriously hunker down, it's really impressive!
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 7:24am
| My Grandfather worked as a Lumberjack in Northern Michigan. He was from Ohio and when he had fall work done on my Great Grandfather's farm he would take the train north to work the winter in the logging camps. He worked enough years that he met my Grandmother she was from Buckley Mich. And he saved his money and bought a farm near Messick. He told me stories of working in the woods. He worked as a faller and teamster. On Sunday the only day they had off work he hunted deer for the camp. No license or DNR back then! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 7:20pm
| Thank you for posting these. I wish there were more like them posted. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 7:54pm
| had an aunt and uncle that had a farm that Chicago grew around them. they would sell off a few acres at a time as they needed money. last time we were there was about 1982 or so. all that was left was their house and a really nice barn. a straight street came up to the barn and curved around it and went on. I don't know when it was finally taken over, but i'm sure not until they both passed. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 10:54pm
 This is Ed's place (circled in red), a friend of mine. It's at Hwy 169 and Hwy 212 in Eden Prairie, MN. He still has his barn and tractor shed, chicken coop with chickens, and a few garages. His 2 sons each have a house there too. The city made him give up raising a steer and hog each year a few years ago. Of course they reneged on he was to be able to continue if he sold off some property for some of them huge businesses he said. I think there was some fine print in there he didn't catch. He still has a huge garden and sells produce, eggs, and stewing hens. His boys know they'll be forced out before long, more tax revenue with big biz and all. He's 5 miles from me and my city is 78,000 in 16 square miles. Ain't to many barns around here.
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2018 at 7:32am
Mark, my Grandpa only worked the 1 year as a cook. His older brother worked the logging camps for several years. I think mostly in the UP. Wouldn't that be cool if they knew each other back then.....
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