kcm.MN
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- Location
- NW Minnesota
Road Grading near Stratford, IA
- Thread starter kcm.MN
- Start date
1946 BN IHC
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?? are they any better today?? have seen some that may have been just the same. May be a little more gravel but!
Traditional Farmer
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- Location
- Virginia
Where do you live? You have to really look to find a non paved public road in my area.
A Case pulling a formerly horse-drawn grader with its water tender as a caboose. behind that parade is an early "high-wheeler automobile- not an IHC, maybe a
Sears autobuggy, or, seeing as how its in Indiana, maybe its a 1908-1914 Auburn-built McIntyre.
I did a little grading myself this weekend. Heres how much technology had advanced in 40 years from circa 1910 to 1950. From an entire road crew working up a
sweat to a single person freezing his a-- off!
Sears autobuggy, or, seeing as how its in Indiana, maybe its a 1908-1914 Auburn-built McIntyre.
I did a little grading myself this weekend. Heres how much technology had advanced in 40 years from circa 1910 to 1950. From an entire road crew working up a
sweat to a single person freezing his a-- off!
Part Time Pete
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- Location
- Leatherstocking Region NY
Neat Picture - Over half of the roads in my town are dirt. I guess $6000 a year in taxes doesn't buy you much in NY..
caterpillar guy
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Northern plains SD,ND,MT,WY,NE,CO lots of just 2 track dirt roads.
OregonAaron
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Eastern Oregon, we have dirt 2 track roads all over the darn place! We even have some gravel roads in the middle of town.
Adirondack case guy
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The water wagon at the rear likely served a dual purpose. Water for the steamer and likely had a sprinkler pipe at rear to settle the loose dust from grooming the road.--Loren
Is that a Rumely steam engine. The road crew may have stopped to let the horse farmer around them. That could be a township road crew as doubtful if average farmer could afford a steam engine to farm with. Except for threshing crews agriculture was all horse based at that time. Based on the car, steam engine, & horses what would be the estimated date of the picture.
fixerupper
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Modern machinery for those days. I have a long panoramic picture of a Flour City tractor pulling four wooden belly dump wagons full of gravel and a blade of some sort pulled behind the back wagon. He used this rig to gravel county roads. I dont know the date of the picture though. The picture was taken in the Newell, Iowa area. In the picture the owner was sitting in a 1914 Overland car he bought new so this was sometime after 1914. The owner was my dad s neighbor. I had the opportunity to ride in that car this summer. I think two of the wagons are still around somewhere but the tractor and the other two wagons are probably gone.
onefarmer
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- Location
- 6735 S Lowell Rd, St Johns, Mi 48879
This is my great grandpa DelRoy and his brother Don. Grading Price rd just around the corner from me. I can go stand with in 10 ft of where they were in these pics. Now the road is paved, no more grading.
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