[AT] Deere plant visit
Ronald L. Cook
rlcook at pionet.net
Thu May 4 13:46:39 PDT 2006
My dad had a McCormick horse drawn mower, as far as I remember. Now
that was one colorful piece of equipment. Red, blue, cream. Used for
road ditch mowing, pulled by an A John Deere. The tractor mower was a
Deere #5 used for haying. It had a steel wheel and foot operated lift
until converted in the fifties to rubber tire and hydraulic cylinder
lift and me as operator. I wasn't big enough to lift the bar! The
scrap iron man eventually got the #5. The John Deere tractor mounted hay
sweep along with a horse drawn hay sweep and the overshot stacker were
consumed by a brush burning fire that got out of hand. Alcohol may have
been involved. <g> The same fire and iron man got the Deere corn binder.
Ron Cook
Salix, IA
DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
> Ron it was flat black in the picture but I'm not convince that's the proper
> color. In another picture that Dean found for me there were parts painted
> red,. the trees and the tongue. I remember the one Grampa had and I seem to
> remember some parts were black but that was 50 or more years ago. Boy how time
> flies when you're having fun. My two are #4s but they are not the same one has
> smaller wider wheels than the other and there are some differences in the
> mechanics of the sickle bar controls. I would like to get them close so when I'm
> gone others can see what they should look like. Its hard to find any two
> painted the same.
>
> Walt Davies
> Cooper Hollow Farm
> Monmouth, OR 97361
> 503 623-0460
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