[AT] HATS was Re: OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935

[charlie hill]

Well I didn't know what kind of hat Barmah was until I just looked it up 
online (the internet is a wonderful thing) but I've always
liked that style hat.  Maybe I'll look for one.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Larry Goss
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 11:06 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] HATS was Re: OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 
1935

Well, NO, it's not more than I wanted to hear, Al.  You had me with the 
mention of Barmah hats, cause I know who you bought it from.  Harvey lives 
in White Sulphur Springs, and he hits every show and festival along the 
eastern mountains from Lake Erie to Atlanta.  Good hats! And Harvey is a 
tractor collector, too.

The "old fedora" was the standard piece of headgear until sometime in the 
1950's.  My grandfather was a farmer, and he always wore an old fedora.  My 
father did, too, and I suspect both men felt more comfortable with that than 
with a ball cap -- you couldn't lean against the flank of a cow while you 
were milking in a cap that had a hard bill on the front.  But I wear a 
Barmah. I got acquainted with them when I visited Australia back in the 
90's.

It's been less than a week since I talked with Harvey by phone.  He's 
interested in buying a tractor that I have for sale.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Al Jones <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:05:08 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [AT] HATS was Re:  OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935

I have always liked the way men wore "fedora" type hats in the 30's and 
40's.  Wish that was still the style today.  It used to be such a TREAT to 
get a free Wayne Feeds cap at the feedmill, or a Pioneer Seed cap, etc.  I 
used to just about sleep in a feedstore/ball cap but since I have been 
teaching, I don't wear one much anymore.  Besides that, most of the "low 
crown" caps that are popular now don't fit my enormous head very well. 
Anymore I wear a wide brim Barmah hat I bought at the Got to be NC Festival 
one year, to protect me from the sun. I like to wear my reproduction IH 
"turtle shell" helmet, aka pith helmet aka safari hat, but  it doesn't give 
as much sun protection because the brim is smaller.

In the wintertime I usually wear a cap with a hood over it when I am doing 
farm work.  My Carhartt jacket has such a heavy hood that if I turn my head, 
such as looking before I pull out on the road, my cap stays still, so when I 
turn my head back, the hat is now "Crooked!"  So I usually just go hat-less 
then too.

I guess that is more about hats than anyone wanted to know.....

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 17, 2012 7:27 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>My daddy wore a dress hat every Sunday and he wore the old dress hat the
>rest of the week.  He had felt hats for winter and straw for Summer.
>
>I hate wearing a hat.   The only time I wear one is when I have to wear a
>hard hat and now that I'm nearly bald on top, I wear a straw hat (the 
>panama
>type)
>if I have to be out in the sun for more than an hour or so at the time,
>running the tractor or whatever.  That is only to keep my head from getting
>sun burned.
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Larry Goss
>Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:35 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>It brings back the original significance to the Mark Twain quote, 
>Charlie --
>Pa's down in the pig pen.  He's the one with the hat!
>
>Larry
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:26:32 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>Shop foreman wearing a suit and hat!
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Larry Goss
>Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 5:01 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>Humm.  Not a hard hat or a pair of safety glasses to be seen!
>
>Larry
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Richard Walker <rick427 at roadrunner.com>
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:36:00 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>If you have a fast internet connection and twenty minutes to watch this
>video, it's fascinating.
>
>A documentary film made in 1935, showing the processes of steam
>locomotive building, including casting, forging, machining, and assembly.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YblqWGmIYTg
>
>
>- Richard
>
>
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