Dave,
Boy, Great pictures and it brought back a lot of memories. My
Grandfather was born and raised on a farm in Sunderland, Vt. He wanted
to go to College but his father said he he had to work one more year on
the farm before he could go. It wasn't the horses, my grandfather was
licensed? or able to drive steam tractors and he was needed until a
replacement was found.
His last job was as an engineer for the State of Pensylvania. No...he
didn't drive stuff, He was a professional Engineer and was a mine
inspector. He made sure that mines, especially coal mines met
regulations and especially had put in settling ponds (important if you
were mining coal.)
When he retired, he, of course, bought a small farm in central
Pennsylvania and raised sheep. As an aside, my Grandmother was raised
in Connecticut and did not believe sheep did well in the rain. I think
she thought they would shrink. I can still hear her telling my
Grandfather that the sheep need to be brought to the barn because it was
raining and he straining to read the paper.
In order to keep the grass down in the pastures, he bought a Farmall
Cub. Being from Vermont, he saved money, and bought one with a cracked
block. He pulled the block himself and had it welded up and then put to
service pulling a horse drawn sickle bar that he found at a Farm Auction
and he cut down the draw bar so it be pulled by the Cub. I have more
than a few hours driving that tractor (Drive it like a man, son) long
before I had a license. This is the long way to say that I enjoyed the
pictures and they did bring back memories
Thanks,
John Graves
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