Delta Juction Alaska...
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Topic: Delta Juction Alaska...
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Subject: Delta Juction Alaska...
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 1:24am
| anyone on this forum from there? |
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Posted By: boilerpete
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 5:35am
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No, but I spent a week there one night. Back in the 80's. Wife was pregnant w/ #1. Stayed in a motel used by the pipeline workers. Korean desk lady insisted we pay for the cable TV, so we did. Turned it on to find out of the 4 stations, 2 were XXX. Happened to notice that the bedspread on the one channel matched the one in our room. Wife went nuts. Looked all over for the camera, couldn't find one. I had to hold up the bedspread around as a shield while she changed. Oddly enough, she wouldn't take a shower there. Why do you ask?
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Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 6:26am
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Shameless, you thinking bout moving again? ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 7:00am
| He's taking snow artillery coordinates |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 9:48am
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HMMmmmm,,,,I couldn't see much of anything on Google Earth,,,,,,because of all the snow coverin pretty much EVERYTHING,,,,,SOOooooo,,,it'd be right up his alley,,,,,when Ya movin Good Buddy,,,,???   |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 10:32am
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Far out of the way place where no one knows him and he can hide from us??? He gives us enough snow and there's NO WHERE TO HIDE........ I'll post your picture so everyone will know what you look like and we'll find ya...... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 12:22pm
| I been there but do not intend on going back. |
Posted By: Scott B
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 12:54pm
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I've been there. Looks pretty much like Arkansas......but very cold in winter and hot in the summer ------------- D17 Series 1 Allis B- 1939 Allis B- 1945 |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 5:03pm
| Shameless, bet it's pretty up there this time of year. Darrel |
Posted By: BcrazyTH
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 9:48pm
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I spent about the first six months of my life up there. My dad was stationed at Fort Greely in the late 80s. The base there wasn't setup for delivering children, so my mom was taken by ambulance to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks when she went into labor with me. After Fort Greely we went to Fort Reilly, KS for a short time before heading back to Alaska to Fort Richardson. My parents have been in Alaska ever since. ------------- Ben (Eastern Washington) WD45 190XT SIII |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 10:48pm
| Fort Reilly ain't no bargain. |
Posted By: GM Guy
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2017 at 4:14pm
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I will have to check records, but I think we sold a combine part to a dairy up there a few years back, IIRC it was for a K? ------------- Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine. If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help. |
Posted By: caledonian
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2017 at 4:24pm
| I thought they raised a lot of barley around Delta Junction. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2017 at 9:19pm
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Looked it up on Google earth, quite a bit of farm land around the area including a big irrigation pivot. About 950 people in the town. I wonder if the milk would go to Fairbanks.
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2017 at 11:45pm
| the reason I ask....there is a farm for sale up there, and usually when the farm ground sells up there, the farm equipment is included in the sale. this farm has a big Gleaner, but don't see what the tractors are. lots of nice buildings and bins. sure would save me and Eldon hauling our equipment up there! lol |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 8:15am
| I bet there ain't no snow machine that goes with the place. Therefore, if you moved up there, that would leave your snow machine un-attended. .....? YES!!!!!!!!!!!Darrel |
Posted By: 19856020
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 10:50am
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my uncle moved there in mid 80's he had an 8070fwa and lots of equipment shipped up there from the allis dealer here in Hutchinson ------------- 716 917 918 1920 d17 6080 |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 11:10am
Hey, hauling equipment is half the fun! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
shameless (ne) wrote:Posted By: Leonard
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 12:16pm
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Shameless, if you like it cold for a long time, 100 mile drive for groceries, hunting and fishing its a great place. The military has sunk a lot of money into Ft Greeley the last few years, so might be a nicer place than when I was there in the early to mid 90's. Lots of dark in the winter and no dark in the summer. Last field problem I was on in Jan 96 it was -101f without the wind. Leonard |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 8:30pm
| that hot there? whew! the town of delta junction isn't to far away. one farm I looked at for sale up there, they had about every brand of power and equipment there, appeared they about take what they can get? |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 8:32pm
| and one other farm I saw up there for sale had all Case tractors....a whole shed full of them! and mostly all new equipment of every type. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 8:41pm
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SHAMELESS,,,!!!!!,Ya better pay 'tention to what ole Leanard is tellin you,,,he said,,,,,-101° thats exactly the same as MINUS 101° F,,,,that right there is pretty dang cold,,,,,,, them cold temps may not cure your back problems,,,,but will keep em froze where you won't even feel em,,,,til it thaws some,,,,,,in 4-5 months |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 8:49pm
| I been kinda looking at the acreages up there for sale, and seeing how much wood they gots stacked up inside buildings.....kinda scares me! but then, I've only seen 2 that have wood stoves that in reality put out more heat on less wood like I have. plus I can't figgers out why they put the out houses and the wood sheds so far away from the house? PffffT! I know that would change if I buys up there! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 10:03pm
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After forgetting to buy birthday presents may have to go that far to hide from the old la...loving wife. Maybe you can find a old bear to bunk with out in the forest up there if things get to bad. At those temps I would stick around the stockholders so they don't forget to worry what you mite do to them next.Unless the loving wife is that mad.
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 11:05pm
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So, are you looking at the 5,500 acre place for $7,200,000 or one of the smaller places for half a million $?
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 3:17am
| the place I was looking at has now either been sold, or they tooks it off the market! PffffT! it was a nice one, and not as expensive as the others listed there now! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 3:20am
| the one for the 7 million, kinda looks like a cluster to me. i'll bet about everything is a fix something everyday! whew! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 7:01am
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That mean you AIN'T moving north with the infernal machine?
------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 8:03am
| not set in stone yet Ted, shucks....maybe i'll gits a place big nuff for a GOTO? |
Posted By: Harvey/pa
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 10:40am
| Hunted Alaska in ' 72 & '73. My guide owned & farmed several thousand acres in Delta Juct. We became good friends & he sent lots of pictures to me. Back then he said he grew barley & potatoes and had record breaking yields but trucking cost so much he barely broke even, he made more money selling hay for local horses, brome hay & foxtail hay. Dad visited & hunted with him several times after he quit guiding and said Joe took him to see mountains of potatoes going to waste because there was no market. He had all new IH machinery and recieved grant money to clear the land & buy machinery, long strips of farm ground between strips of brush he was not allowed to burn because of damage to the permafrost. He sold out & moved to Great Falls, Mt where I was going to go deer hunting with him but I'm afraid he passed on cause phone is off & letters come back...Harvey |