Cowman Spotted in Iowa!

I just got to meet Mr. Nebraska Cowman hisself! What a great fellow to deal with. He is on his way to Mt Pleasant to learn the fine art of engineering steam traction engines! Wish I were headed there too. I have yet to be unimpressed by the people I have personaly met through this board. You should see his hauling rig. No problem telling which direction he leans color wise. He left me a beautiful Duckbilled F-20 too! Of course she is nick named "Ducky" now. :? )

The earliest F-20s had the same steering as a Regular only enclosed. Not to many about anymore. Duck billed F-20 Foreground. Duckbilled F-30 behind.

Speakin' of steam traction engines, I spotted one today sitting along with a few other very early tractors in an open shed near Bayard NE. Unfortuanately I was accompanying the feild trip of my kid's two-room country school(9 kids total) so I didnt get to check it out further. Also saw and didn't get to stop at a Farm and Ranch Museum on the outskirts of Gering NE...lots of old red and other colored iron sitting outside there too. Looked to be worthy of a possible trip back. Ever been there Allan? Finally, on the highway northeast of Bayard, there was a super-rough looking 2+2 sitting in a farmyard. Part of the hood was missing and the paint was so faded it looked Case orange. Sad sight. But a couple more miles East there was an 86-series something that looked absolutely showroom-new.

That outfit at Bayard is an old timer's machinery club of some kind I think. Howard goes to it almost every year. Don't know about the one in Gering.

When I was a wee lad, my dad used to get up at 2am, cut beans til 8 or 9, combine til dark and then we would haul a truckload of some 200 bushel 100 miles all the way down to that beanery at Bayard. Get back home at midnight, fuel up, grease up and start the process all over again.

I always thought that it was a good thing that the long hill dropping off into the valley was downhill with the load. That old truck had to work climbing back up outta there even when it was empty. :>)

Allan

Noticed the beanery in Bayard. Also noticed those long hills going outta town. Kinda like leaving Chadron in most any direction...

By the way, noticed your pic on another post of all three of your tractors. Lineup looks good! And the more I look at that F-11 on that H, the more I think I need me one of those loaders, even though I don't currently have the "right" tractor to put it on!

Good thinkin'! Ya just did us all a big service. He's a legend around here and now we can put a face to 'im. Looks to be a pretty sharp ol' bird ta me. :>)

Congrats on the duckbill. This is pretty darned handy; it arriving on a Friday and all. Now you can play with the ol' sis all weekend! :>)

Allan