That’s when things were built to last, and the people doing the work took pride in it!
My grampa, built houses and other stuff starting in the 1800’s and he taught my pop, uncle, (and me)
I still have a lot of his hand tools, saws and such.
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Morning brother Mo and Greenies. Hope your having a great start. Watch out for temps today. We are supposed to get heat index of 110-115 today, tomorrow and Thursday. BRUTAL! Stay hydrated.
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Morning brother mine! I push the water hard during the hot days. You bet I do! Full body cramps suck big time. Been there when I first started landscaping. That shit will bring tears to a tough mans eyes.
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Same weather that you getting is here as well. Folks out in this shit need to stay aware, cool and hydrate!
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Actually I think Tulsa is a tad warmer than OKC today.
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lol I think ya might be right, brother! However it goes, folks should be careful!
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Good morning @MoBilly and friends
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Good morning @Emeraldgreen . I hope the day is treating you well. 
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Does that rake throw wind rows? It’s a beautiful machine. 
When my friends and I bought our property in 1972, it had an old working horse drawn teter under one of the 100 year old apple trees.
For those who may not be familiar with this machine, a teter throws freshly mown hay up into the air to help it dry. The hay begins and ends laying flat on the ground. Each of those arched springs rides on a cam driven by the machine’s wheels. Each tine simply throws some hay not too far up into the air so what was the bottom side may become a top side. Once the hay was properly dried, it would be raked into wind rows and then bailed. Today, once your hay is cut it’s “simply” raked into wind rows. The rows get raked a few times (depending on the weather), thus eliminating the need for teters.
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Nope. It was one of the first rakes that rolled the hay into rows. A friend gifted it to me a couple of years before he passed. When my front yard is completely done it’ll be a focal point next to a disk, plow, seeder, manure spreader…
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So one might say it was a teter killer. 
Good for your friend for keeping it in a loving and respectful family.
Needless to say, I would appreciate your yard! I love old horse drawn farm implements. When I lived in the country I had a neighbor who a number of them, but most impressive to me, he had a horse drawn road grader. It was beautiful. After he passed they all went to a scrapper. 
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And he probably pulled them and sold them. Scrappers are smart that way. They look for every cent they can squeeze out of what comes in. They always have a section on the property with stuff that doesn’t get crushed. lol
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Many farmers back east display their old farm implements like these proudly as decoration. Most times they totally renew them and place them out in front of the farm.
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I’ll fix what’s broken and keep things greased… but I like the survivor look.
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Sadly, not in this case. The closest yard was a two hour drive by car. No, he brought a mobile crusher out to the site. Several antique cars and trucks along with the farming implements. It was seriously fucked up.
Some in the west do that too, and good on them! That said, there’s no accounting for thoughtless greed, at least by my standards.
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Yep. That’s crap on a cracker right there.
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I worked on a dairy farm for almost 2 years. I can’t imagine using the old horse drawn carriage equipment and throwing and stacking all those bales by hand.
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@Oldjoints
I have seen some that were brought back to factory though and that was amazing. But that would also be a ton of work. I’m too lazy for that. lol
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The baler we used would take the rows and make the bales and kick them out on the back where they were tossed into the back of the truck by the baler.
We didn’t even bother to stack them. We did have to unload off the truck and stack them though.
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We always stacked the bales on the trailer. There were dry creeks between the field and the barn. That required a tight stack. And when I hayed for $'s we sometimes had a good distance to go between fields and barns. You had to make the most out of every trip. A good stacker was worth more than two good buckers. lol
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