Some old farming pictures

JLG · Jan 16, 2016

I like seeing old farming pictures on here, so here's some from my family. They're from building the "new" milking parlor, circa 1964.

bill mart · Jan 16, 2016

narrow front jd 530 with loader. Hand were kept very busy between clutch and loader controls. Bill

SweetFeet · Jan 16, 2016

Great photos!

They remind me of some great times spent at the dairy farms of my two uncles in WI.

daisyman · Jan 16, 2016

Check out the grill.....it never fail with a loader. :<)

Dave in GA · Jan 16, 2016

Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing. I like the old IHC truck in the last photo, too. I have a 1965 and a 1971.

Dave H (MI) · Jan 16, 2016

Those are great! We have a similar structure on our place. Only the foundation and part of the block wall is left as it is older than yours and had a fire. Thinking of rebuilding it to look the same on the outside as it used to, just different inside.

JD Seller · Jan 16, 2016

GREAT pictures!!! Thanks for posting them.

in-too-deep · Jan 16, 2016

Good eyes! I've got a '59 B120 and a '68 1200C.

JLG · Jan 16, 2016

This barn is still up. Grandad quit milking in '86, but kept farming. Raised beef for a little while. (He says he was never run over by a cow until he got beef cattle. They didn't last too long, haha) He took all the milking equipment out and put a floor over the pit. We have a wood cookstove and sink in the milk tank room and meet there every Saturday for dinner. Everyone brings a dish. One of my uncles farms it now. His shop and grain bins are here.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 16, 2016

Love these pictures, I have had to go through them 3 times .

John B. · Jan 16, 2016

It's great looking at those pictures. Thanks for sharing them with us..

JerryS · Jan 16, 2016

Brings back some memories. Summer of '60, I think it was, my summer job was helping to build a small cinder block 10-stanchion dairy barn for a young neighbor who was getting into the business. At quitting time I had to go back home and milk in our own dairy barn.

jeffcat · Jan 17, 2016

That is a lot of bucks when you see someone made tile walls. To clean up you can just pressure wash everything. Big vacuum pump with an oil reserve. Looks as if you needed a milk pickup and is that a De Leval system? Ours was a kit bash of them and surge too.

Brown Swiss · Jan 17, 2016

That is awesome, my grandfather added on to the barn in 75, he thought about putting in a parlor instead, not sure why he didn't!

JLG · Jan 17, 2016

It was built by my grandfather, great grandfather, and a few great uncles. The all went in together farming then. One took an accounting class, one learned masonry, one electricity, and they just built it. Previously they had been milking in a 62 cow stanchion barn which he said they'd fill twice per milking. Got this built and walked the cows down the road a mile or 2 to this farm. Usually milked around 200 here.

I couldn't tell you what the milking equipment was sorry. The cows left when I was 3, haha. It was a double 9 herringbone parlor though.

Dr. Walt · Jan 17, 2016

Thank You, for sharing those wonderful photos. When I saw Picture #8 with all of that Cream in the top of that vat, the first thing that came to mind was 'quick, grab a big ladle and a spoon'. To me, nothing tastes better than Cream "fresh from the Cow". Even though I was raised in the L.A. suburbs, I'm not a total stranger to farming. We had a family farm just North of Colonial Beach, Virginia alongside the Potomac River. The old farmhouse was built in the early 1700's and had a bronze placque on the outside of the chimney from the Historical Society attesting to the fact that this was one of the homes that George Washington - our First President - stayed at during his travels. I have slept in the exact same bed that George Washington slept in. - How many people can say that ?

Doc

LarrySTN · Jan 17, 2016

Jeffcat, I too think the milking equipment looks like DeLaval. I was 5 (1962) when my father built a new parlor and freestall barn. The milking equipment was DeLaval. I remember having a hard time trying to say DeLaval. I have many many fond memories from the good ole days. That year dads "BIG" tractor was a Farmall 400.

J.Wondergem · Jan 17, 2016

Thanks for the pictures. That is a top notch dairy. I first had to hand milk to two years before we had enough money to buy the first milker.

showcrop · Jan 17, 2016

My neighbors moved into a new parlor I think in 1965. Everything about it looked like the pics except for the tile walls.

Alan K · Jan 18, 2016

Very neat pictures. Thank you for posting them.

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