[AT] Ten Years Ago

[Ralph Goff]

On 12/12/2015 7:44 AM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
> My 1926 Farmall headed to the local Christmas parade in Dec 1989. 
> Notice the very light dusting of snow on the ground. I still have the 
> tractor but wish I had the truck. The truck belonged to the IH dealer 
> dad worked for. They had just repainted the doors--Removed the big IH 
> logo and replaced it with a Cub Cadet---their customer base had 
> certainly changed. The truck was a 16 or 1700 Loadstar IH, mid 70s 
> model. No winch, instead it had a hydraulic cylinder in the body. If 
> you could get the truck to sit still you could drag anything to it 
> that it could haul, and then some. If I would have had the money, I'd 
> certainly have bought the truck when the dealer sold out at auction 2 
> years later.
>
> John Hall
>
I do like that Loadstar. Much like my 71. Great machinery hauler the was 
it is set up in your photo.
You had some real snow pics earlier too. We don't often have trouble 
with snow packing up on the
wheels as it is usually cold and dry, flows like the desert sands off 
the blade.
Its not a tractor photo but this one of my 39 Ford on the road has been 
pretty popular on facebook.
  I only wish I'd had a better camera back in February of 71. The Kodak 
instamatic was all I could afford
at the time I guess.
Shows the snow as high as the roof of the Ford after the municipal 
graders had pushed through with
the V plough first and then the wing to widen it a little. I'd guess the 
old Champions spent a few hours
breaking through the snowbanks on that municipal road.

Ralph in Sask.

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