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39 years ago

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thehickdaddy

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i am a couple days late but nothing knew there.

39 years and 2 days ago, i came into the world nov 26, 1983 at 10 minutes after midnight

and a sincere thankyou to everyone who wished my dad a happy birthday last month. My dad was surprised but definitely appreciative
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i am blessed and grateful for a unique upbringing, especially so close to the metropolis of Portland Oregon at 2 million and growing.
 
when you were born i was cruisin down some road in my black peterbilt hauling bovine. happy birthday
 
45 years and 4 months I was born. I like your tractor and truck. Someone is doing a good job of stacking. I don't believe I could go that high at 84 years old. Good luck and stay healthy. and have many more
 
I had just retired from the Navy. and was already skinning my first moose near Susan Lake in Alaska.
Happy Birthday.
 
Happy belated Birthday Hickdaddy. Keep having them there birthdays. Your a year younger than my youngest daughter. RB
 
Thanks for posting.
I'm wondering where the photos were taken ? I started in Gresham 1951. So just curious where you or your dad lived.
 
photo of hay truck taken about 50 miles west of Gresham in Beaverton on the family farm on Rosedale Road

photo of tractor pull taken at Great Oregon Steamup near Salem
 
much of my life has revolved around hay bales. by the time that above photo was taken, i had at least 10 years experience in stacking flatbeds on rough cow pastures. That truck is just going close by because it is only 3 high and center tie layer above that. Headboard has metal shackle with hemp rope tied on. as the stacker works along, you keep bringing the rope with you along the top of the stack. Get to the back of the load and hope off while using your weight to pull rope tight. Back of truck was another shackle under the bed for the rope to go thru, then back up to the loop half way up the back, pull rope a couple times then secure with 2 half hitches and load is tied before the driver can get out of the cab. Drive back to barns and either unload onto the elevator into the second story of barn. or if going onto the lower floor of barns, a steel sheet is used as a ramp so the hand trucks can be wheeled right onto the truck bed so there is no restacking required. Long distance delivery was 8 layers high and that took much more stacking and a couple of tie layers
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thankyou


and i will try. but honestly when i was growing up, i did not know this was a sport

i thought it was just life. in elementary school and high school, i was commonly picked up in a 1964 dodge dart with slant 6 and push button automatic, or a 1966 chevelle 230 straight six with 3 on the tree, or i would just get picked up in yellow truck in the photo above, loaded with hay and help make the delivery on the way home.

on the home farm, most of the tractors were six volt and hand clutch, even as year 2000 came and went. Wisconsin engine on the hay loader had a rope that you had to rewind each time you pulled it. House had oil furnace in the living room but there was no thermostat or fan. Just a brown Spark brand oil stove sitting on the floor. No fuel pump or fan to quit when the electricity went out, just gravity feed from the tank outside, and lit manually with a match. house did and still has kerosene lamps on the counters for power outages in winter storms, still to this day. i did not know that using and living with antiques was a sport, i thought it was just normal ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
 
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