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Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 10:39 am
by Jay In Northern Ca.
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 10:55 am
by TWrenn
What a neat picture! Thanks for sharing.
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 11:17 am
by Rich Eagle
Great photo. I was not familiar with the Gleaners although I'm sure they have been discussed here before. I thought I spied a Fordson gas tank and sure enough there is a Fordson tractor under there. I had one for a few years. (The tank, not the tractor.) It had a small section for kerosene for starting and the rest of the tank held gasoline for running.
How great life was back then in many ways.
Rich
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 11:50 am
by Steve Jelf
It had a small section for kerosene for starting and the rest of the tank held gasoline for running.
It was the other way around. You started on gas (easier starting, little tank) and ran on kerosene (big tank) because it was cheaper. Running that tractor today you would use just gas because kerosene is now a LOT more costly.
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 12:15 pm
by TRDxB2
Jay In Northern Ca. wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 10:39 am
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Your description made me try to colorize... WOW! I also copied this to PAINT and enlarged 200% and photo came out very good without distortion. May try to print it out on laser printer
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 12:49 pm
by Rich Eagle
Thanks Steve. You are so right. What was I thimking?
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 5:12 pm
by Petrah Phyre
Steve Jelf wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 11:50 am
It had a small section for kerosene for starting and the rest of the tank held gasoline for running.
It was the other way around. You started on gas (easier starting, little tank) and ran on kerosene (big tank) because it was cheaper. Running that tractor today you would use just gas because kerosene is now a LOT more costly.
I heard the little tank was to start it on the good stuff, and the big tank held what ever your still produced. Or was what your still produced the good stuff.
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 6:33 pm
by tiredfarmer
If I droved a car in the middle of the wheat field like that my dad would have killed me.
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 11:53 pm
by Allan
I hear you Leonard. The only fire insurance claim we ever made was for a fire started by driving a petrol engined pickup onto stubble when delivering a field bin to pump grain from the combine into temporary storage. Now, all vehicles are diesels.
Allan from down under.
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 7:59 am
by tiredfarmer
Allen my dad also told me not to back up a vehicle in a wheat field so the straw wouldn't collect on the exhaust and cause a fire, and some of us still have gas pickups. The diesels are to noisy anyway.
Re: Old Photo - Gold Was Just A Windy Kansas Wheatfield And Blue Was Just The Color Of The Sky
Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 10:41 am
by WayneJ
Looks like a really good crop. With all the variables in farming, it must have been a very happy day to be able to harvest such a fine crop. An occasion worthy of recording with a photograph. And here we are 100 years later celebrating that harvest!