thehickdaddy
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89 years ago today, my dad was born.
9 months to the day after his parents eloped.
amazing dad and farmer and friend. His life has had many ups and downs and turns. He has his faith and health and family. He has all his teeth, has started wearing hearing aids now and he wears glasses to read. He still prefers driving manual transmission cars to slush boxes. I am very appreciative to work with him and learn from him. He says he has seen the world change under his feet.
gone are the days of Red Skelton and the closed circuit tv of gorge burns.
i love watching him adjust valves on running engines, adjusting distributer timing by sound of the exhaust, and filing points. Back in the 1950s during the transition of sacked grain to bulk, he designed and built bulk grain tank for the family combine to replace the sacker unit so they did not have to buy a different combine. Pictured below is a brush fork that he says is one of his favorite inventions. He took an existing Little Rhino 3 point blade and built head board and tines for it that all bolt on so they can be removed to still use as a straight blade for gravel or dirt or snow. He built the Brush fork in 1960s to push limbs and tree trimmings out of orchards. Blade was used on rear of Ferguson TO 30 with Sherman 3 speed in overdrive. Dad said the speed of one person using the brush fork compared to the old system of hand loading a trailer or drag slip and hand unloading at edge of orchard was night and day. And with the load on the rear tires where it needs to be, the tractor was completely stable on hillsides. Plus the fact that front mounted loaders in the 1960s were generally too tall to fit thru orchards.
thankyou for listening to my stories and ramblings of my dad.
9 months to the day after his parents eloped.
amazing dad and farmer and friend. His life has had many ups and downs and turns. He has his faith and health and family. He has all his teeth, has started wearing hearing aids now and he wears glasses to read. He still prefers driving manual transmission cars to slush boxes. I am very appreciative to work with him and learn from him. He says he has seen the world change under his feet.
gone are the days of Red Skelton and the closed circuit tv of gorge burns.
i love watching him adjust valves on running engines, adjusting distributer timing by sound of the exhaust, and filing points. Back in the 1950s during the transition of sacked grain to bulk, he designed and built bulk grain tank for the family combine to replace the sacker unit so they did not have to buy a different combine. Pictured below is a brush fork that he says is one of his favorite inventions. He took an existing Little Rhino 3 point blade and built head board and tines for it that all bolt on so they can be removed to still use as a straight blade for gravel or dirt or snow. He built the Brush fork in 1960s to push limbs and tree trimmings out of orchards. Blade was used on rear of Ferguson TO 30 with Sherman 3 speed in overdrive. Dad said the speed of one person using the brush fork compared to the old system of hand loading a trailer or drag slip and hand unloading at edge of orchard was night and day. And with the load on the rear tires where it needs to be, the tractor was completely stable on hillsides. Plus the fact that front mounted loaders in the 1960s were generally too tall to fit thru orchards.
thankyou for listening to my stories and ramblings of my dad.
