Farming
(From ACT One Video Productions in Westerville, Ohio - owner is Steve Brandenburg, Lees Creek school graduate)
Click on the link below for a short video that includes multiple members of the Bond and Walker families:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI05-x4YT5I
Click on the link below for a short video that includes multiple members of the Bond and Walker families:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI05-x4YT5I
Click on link below for short Bean Farm Drainage video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEn89fz82ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEn89fz82ow
Modern Farm Equipment
Click on link below for video showing modern corn harvesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkNPjH6rRuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkNPjH6rRuI
Historic Farm Equipment
The Myers family bought one of these from war surplus disposal around 1950. The tractor is a 1945 Case VAIW-3 Army-Airforce airplane tug. The tug had been painted with silver paint, eliminating the Army green.
The engine was an industrial engine produced for many applications and was considered bullet-proof. Bore 3.25, stroke 3.75, 6:1 compression, 6 volt, with a governor controlled max rpm of 1425. It was designed to run forever and had only 13 horsepower. But it always started, even in the Winter.
The Myers application was to prep vegetable gardens, mow weeds, plow and disc ground on our mini-farm. To accomplish our farm needs, dad purchased some old worn-out farm implements. These consisted of a horse-drawn sickle mower, a single-bottom plow and a disc. While the tractor was always ready to go, the implements always needed attention, especially lubrication.
Then there was the fun of just running around the farm as fast it could go, which in 4th gear was pretty fast. And we had fun pushing over anything that needed pushing over, including an old wooden shed. The tractor was unstoppable in First Gear due to its high ratio gearing.
While we don't know the total weight of the tug, each solid cast iron rear fender weighed 875 pounds. This was not a tractor to drive over wet or soft ground. It was designed for asphalt and concrete at airports so you had to be careful when plowing or discing to not let the tractor get stuck in soft ground because you would have to manually dig it out with a shovel. And it used a Lot of Gasoline when farming in soft dirt.
Lastly, we boys often got home haircuts while sitting in the tractor seat when the tractor was parked in the barn.
The engine was an industrial engine produced for many applications and was considered bullet-proof. Bore 3.25, stroke 3.75, 6:1 compression, 6 volt, with a governor controlled max rpm of 1425. It was designed to run forever and had only 13 horsepower. But it always started, even in the Winter.
The Myers application was to prep vegetable gardens, mow weeds, plow and disc ground on our mini-farm. To accomplish our farm needs, dad purchased some old worn-out farm implements. These consisted of a horse-drawn sickle mower, a single-bottom plow and a disc. While the tractor was always ready to go, the implements always needed attention, especially lubrication.
Then there was the fun of just running around the farm as fast it could go, which in 4th gear was pretty fast. And we had fun pushing over anything that needed pushing over, including an old wooden shed. The tractor was unstoppable in First Gear due to its high ratio gearing.
While we don't know the total weight of the tug, each solid cast iron rear fender weighed 875 pounds. This was not a tractor to drive over wet or soft ground. It was designed for asphalt and concrete at airports so you had to be careful when plowing or discing to not let the tractor get stuck in soft ground because you would have to manually dig it out with a shovel. And it used a Lot of Gasoline when farming in soft dirt.
Lastly, we boys often got home haircuts while sitting in the tractor seat when the tractor was parked in the barn.