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

[Ralph Goff]

Heres an interesting alternative for farm road grading. I found it at a 
local auction sale site and it will be coming up for sale this spring. I 
can't positively id the tractor but could be an Allis Chalmers which they 
describe as not running . I guess that might explain the hitch on the front. 
I don't know if it was a two man grader with one on the pulling tractor and 
another on the rear one to operate the hydraulics or if the rear tractor was 
just a convenient set of wheels to hold up the back of the grader.
http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums//index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=20992

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
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From: "Len Rugen" <rugenl at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads


> The road back to the farm where I grew up and Dad lived until about 6 
> years ago used to be a "major" thru road, but it went through some low 
> river ground.  I guess this was OK in horse days and when there were 
> houses along the road, but since about the time of the rubber tire, the 
> center section was abandoned.  The county somewhat maintains the ends, but 
> it gets less and less each year.
>
> Dad was an antognist and made enemies with the county, so there hasn't 
> been any gravel on our end for about 15 years.  After he moved away, I 
> tried to mend things a little, they were nice but said since nobody lives 
> back there, they won't gravel it now.
>
> Several years ago, I borrowed a pull-type road grader, replaced the wooden 
> tounge and generally made it usable again.  I worked on the road, then 
> returned the grader to the neighbor who promptly sold it to an antique 
> buyer.  Oh well...
>
> I now just use the tractor blade, but it won't do as good of a job.  I 
> can't really afford to gravel a mile of county road, then put half as much 
> around my buildings and lanes.  One without the other is useless, so I 
> just live with it like we always have.  If it's reall bad, in the spring 
> the first pass down the road is with the disc, then blade to level out the 
> ruts.
>
> I think it was the world's worst farmer 
> (http://www.worldsworstfarmer.com/), who lives near here that asked why 
> rocks in the garden come up but gravel in the road goes down.
>
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