Old Iron
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Topic: Old Iron
Posted By: Jersey Allis
Subject: Old Iron
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2020 at 6:04am
| This questionnaire is going to be mainly for those for my own state of Pennsylvania now most of you from that category have probably seen the small little dairies or Farms tucked away in the western Pennsylvania Hills of Allegheny and other counties out in that general area you guys remember how back in the day many of those Farms never had sheds to park the equipment in and there was always a lineup of equipment sitting out in a pasture or in a hay field not too far from the barn but away from the barn can anyone name what implements they remember from that time from around the 50s 60s and 70s most of the time most people were you still using narrow front equipment up into the 70s I was wondering if the implements from the same era held over as long as the tractors did Also what were the top 5 tools in a tractor tool box in the 50s and 60s? |
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Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2020 at 9:11am
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the one thing I remember growing was the old fellow that owned the farm dad rented our house from was his plow. At the end of the season he would smear it with grease, all over, and then, in the fall he stacked corn stalks around and over it. i'm not sure why the corn stalks ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2020 at 2:42pm
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Made for a water shed and the cornstalks shed the water and let air flow through and sorta keep it dry and wick the moisture out if any got in. and grease was to prevent it from rusting. We brushed used oil onto the plow bottoms at the end of the day, and slathered a layer of grease on them at the end of the season ... and even painted them a few times.
------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: JLS retired
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2021 at 1:33pm
| My job was mowing lawn (I still hate those lime green lawnboys) and brushing used motor oil on the disc blades. I always tried to get my little sister or brother to turn the gang while I dipped and painted with the brush. The runners on the corn planter weren't nearly as bad--there were only 4 of them! |
Posted By: EPALLIS
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2021 at 8:39pm
| "Used oil" got reused for a whole lot things. From painting the plow lays to painting the hay racks! |
Posted By: allisbred
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2021 at 6:45pm
| Not sure about old days, my father still parks a lot of equipment outside in the pasture, in rows, cows eat around it, manure spreader, elevator, disc harrow, and any pivot joints get old oil. I try to keep everything in myself but at the end of day, other than a little paint, he has done fine. |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2021 at 6:45am
You painted potato chips with used motor oil?     ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
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