[AT] Fordson tractor show 1922

[Paul Waugh]

Oh, and would OSHA have a ball with those exposed chains :))

Paul - IN
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From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
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> How did you steer it??  Steering wheel??, brakes??
>
> Paul - IN
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> From: "Richard Strobel" <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com>
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>> Thanks Ken and especially Guy for starting this in the first place.
>> Here's a photo of the rearend and hit next or previous for the tag and 
>> the
>> right front view.  I believe it came out of Yellowstone:
>>
>> http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2061284830039077051FlNhvv
>>
>> Looks like winter has hit.....
>>
>> RickinMt.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ken Knierim" <ken.knierim at gmail.com>
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>> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:34 AM
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>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Richard Strobel
>>> <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com> wrote:
>>> > Ken, I'm glad you got to see the Butte Mining Museum!!  Sad to say 
>>> > that
>>> > a
>>> > lot of good ole iron is sitting out in the open and has to bear the
>>> > Montana
>>> > weather.
>>> >
>>> > RickinMt.
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> Lots of iron there for sure. Apparently my great-grandfather worked up
>>> to being a shop superintendent at one of the mines in Butte and my
>>> grandmother grew up there. We were looking into the history from a
>>> bunch of angles when we were there. My daughter enjoyed it too.
>>>
>>> We also got to see them putting in the wind generators at a tremendous
>>> rate up there. And of course we had to check out various iron piles.
>>> It was a good vacation this year.
>>>
>>> They indicated the Fordson Museum (wherever it is back east) doesn't
>>> have one of those pontoon types. They only made a small number (5 or
>>> so from what the guide knew) for snow and mud. As Gene noted, the main
>>> reason they didn't catch on is they were too tough to control. Might
>>> work on flat surfaces, maybe.
>>>
>>> Ken in AZ
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