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East of Broken Bow | Yes, we sometimes look through the old 'Farm Show' magazines, and would poke fun at what people did.
Now, I have no problem with tinkering, and do a lot myself, but the way some people would brag up what they did was what made it funny. I remember one in particular we laughed at.
Seems someone took an old military front axle off an old truck, rigged it up to the front end of an old H, rigged up an apparatus to drive it off the belt pully through a couple chain driven jackshafts. The article even listed the costs of some of the things he bought. We would joke that with only two months of his spare time, he added front end assist to a 30 HP tractor that only worked going forward, and only in one gear, with exposed chains and shafts and no safety shields anywhere, at a savings of at least $100 over buying a 30 HP utility tractor that had MFD from the factory.
Our other side joke was that someone like that had a wife that nagged a lot, and projects like that kept him out of the house, and her out of his shop. | |
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Did everyone have a Rube Goldberg machine in the 80's or was that just in the movies?
