1926 Case Crossmotor 18-47 Tractor

Aultman Taylor Oil Pull

Franklin Radiator Reflections

Prairie Village Store Signs

Smoothing Top of Foundation Wall Habitat House #54

Concrete Placement Via Pump

Half Bell and Pump

Cut But Not Harvested Wheat

Corn Crop Looking Good

Grain Bin and Lake Reflections

Hardware and Visitor Parking Signs

Antique and Modern Tractor, Unloading Restored Corn Picker

The front tractor is an International Harvester M, a large farm tractor in 1939 to 1952. The diesel M produced 36 horse power, cost $1,700. It pulled a four or five bottom plow. The large, red tractor behind it is a 1990 Case-International 9170. This Case-IH tractor has a six cylinder diesel producing 330 horse power and cost $119,000 new in 1990. The 2013 Case-IH Steiger 400, a large four wheel drive tractor with 400 hp and costing around a quarter of a million dollars used. No wonder the small family farm is going extinct.

The picker is the Overby corn picker now restored and being moved into the Ag Museum. This is a unique machine designed and patented by the Overby brothers. This is the patent model. It has been featured before, click here to see the previous post. To get some idea of how much work the restoration of this machine was just click here for 200 pre-restoration photos. All the wood was replaced, new metal parts made and installed, and everything fitted back together as originally built by the Overby brothers. The restoration was a labor of love and frustration. 

Pelicans in Air and on Water

Unusual Placements: Grill and Hydrant

Puffy Clouds and Blue Sky

Driveway and Cow Skull

Two Pond Reflections

Adee Honey Farms, Bruce, SD

Green Thumb Residence

Wheat Field

Zinnias, Pink and Yellow

Old School House Windows and Wall

Old Station and On Blocks

Pond Reflections

Uncle Millborn and Moline Signs