[AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads

[Cecil Bearden]

Down here in Oklahoma, and I might add that my authority was partially 
raised in Arkansas.  Would tell me that the scoop with a large yoke and 
handles was a slip.  However we have what is called a "rolling fresno" that 
was converted to 3 point hitch.  It is like a large piece of pipe with about 
1/3 cut out.  You load it and then back up about a foot and it latches and 
then carries the load on a skid on each end of the "pipe"   When you get to 
the dump site, you let the latch loose and it rolls enough to dump the dirt. 
You latch it again and it skids empty to the borrow site, then you start the 
process over..   We used it once digging out a spring for a neighbor with a 
MF50 diesel.  Dad was driving and he would end up driving with the brakes 
because the fresno was loaded with mud.  He had the front wheels about 3 to 
4 ft off the ground!!!   About 3 months later we had to put all new bearings 
in the engine and the lift never did work right...   This was a tractor only 
8 months old.  The first new one we ever had.!!

Cecil in OKla


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads


>
> Rick, fresno is a name I have definitely heard before and I think it might 
> be what these early scrapers were called here. I think I might even have 
> the remains of one laying around the farm somewhere.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Strobel" <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com>
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>
>> Fresno maybe??
>>
>> RickinMt.
>>
>>
>>> > supply his own team of horses to use on the equipment. Now I am trying
>>> > to remember the name of the scraper type implement they used to dig 
>>> > the
>>> > ditches and build up the grade. Sort of a big scoop shovel shaped 
>>> > thing
>>> > with two handles and pulled by a team of horses as I recall. I've 
>>> > heard
>>> > there was quite an art to making it work and not getting hurt in the
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