Country images you don't see much anymore

Hoss, speaking of cows, these were even before our time.

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They even had a two cow model.

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And a bicycle pump model.
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Love this thread. It brings back memories of so many things that my grandpa used on his little farm. He used one on these grinding wheels, operated with a treadle, so many times. My job was to keep the wheel wet.
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Pappy, my grandfather had a hand crank one that clamped to his work bench very much like this one. We cousins used to sneak in the garage and take turns cranking it. It didn't take much to excite us.:confused:

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Pappy said:
I have always kept this photo of me, the older boy and my cousins, of my uncles cleaning the area around our outhouse. When my folks bought the house, it only had a hand pump to the kitchen sink. The house was built in 1900 buy my great grandfather and was in the family until the 80s. It is now slowly falling down.
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Pappy I love this photo and you and your cousins just make it a real human interest story.
 
Linda said:
I can't get my photos to upload, I'll have to try again later.
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Linda, are you trying to load them as attachments? It took me several tries to figure out how to do that. I also think there is an individual photo size limit. Maybe if you let us know where you're getting stuck someone could help.
 
Freezer chest style soft drink "vending machines." Not sure what you call them. Little country stores and gas stations often had one.

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Just across the street from me is an old corrugated steel building that is now the workshop of a one-man car repair business. This used to be the village "Womens' Rural Institute" hall, but before that, it was a workshop at RNAS Longside (about 20 miles from here) which was an Airship base during WW1. If the weather wasn't so bad, I'd take a picture of it.
Nothing remains of the base, but I expect that other buildings have been recycled and still exist.
(Using 'Goodle Earth', I can see the ghostly remains of several WW1 & WW2 airfields along the coast here)
 
Steam powered tractors

Before this pull, sawdust was added to the firebox to enhance the night "spark show."

 
Coal home furnaces

We had one like this, but with only one duct up to the whole house. (certainly not exclusive to the country)

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Dedicating an entire room in your basement just to store coal.

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Deliveries from the coal truck

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Having to get up in a cold house on winter mornings and shovel.:p
 
Hand Crank Corn Cutter

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This is the kind of Corn Cutter I used (played with) as a kid on my grandpa's farm. I've never seen the one with the wooden shute.

Great thread, everyone. It's fun to see all the oldies but goodies.
 
jnos said:
This is the kind of Corn Cutter I used (played with) as a kid on my grandpa's farm. I've never seen the one with the wooden shute.
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Hi jnos. Thanks for posting that. Never saw one before and I had to see for myself how it worked, so I'm posting the video I found.

 
Our basement "coal bin" was filled through a window, as shown above, except that the big old Mack Trucks dump truck dumped the pile in the street in front of the house. A black man was left behind with a huge wheelbarrow and gigantic scoop shovel, which he used to haul the 12 tons or so to the window and dump it out into the basement. He accomplished this starting at perhaps 10AM, and was finished by 2PM! My Mother always offered him fresh water to drink. The coal was hard coal, sized just like in the pic above, about 1-inch chunks.

My Dad stoked up the fire in the morning before leaving for work, then again in the evening, when I was quite small. When I was about 5 or so, he installed an electric stoker which fed the coal into the boiler as needed. Here's a kick on this:


The label on our coal stoker was quite colorful, red lettering on green background. By the time the stoker was replaced by natural gas, I was a pretty avid reader. That label said, "Buffalo Springfield Company, Springfield, Illinois!"

Ever wonder how the group got it's name? 1950 vs. 1967. imp
 
imp said:
The label on our coal stoker was quite colorful, red lettering on green background. By the time the stoker was replaced by natural gas, I was a pretty avid reader. That label said, "Buffalo Springfield Company, Springfield, Illinois!"

Ever wonder how the group got it's name? 1950 vs. 1967. imp
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Well Imp, according to Wikipedia (so it must be true;))....The group's name was taken from the side of a steamroller made by the Springfield, Ohio-based Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company. Could it be they made furnaces, too???
 
Apple peeler

This is the Reading model 78 Apple Peeler, pat. 1872. There appear to be at least a dozen apple peeler designs from that era.

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Lehman's, Kidron, OH, now offers new reproductions for only $199. :eewwk:

Demonstration:

 
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