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my appologies and the winner...

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I appologize to Hiker. I was e-mailed a picture and never got it posted. Here it is. Mighty fine photo if I do say so myself.
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And here is the winner of horses and wagons. sw!!
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Way to go sw,Greg and I had to vote for your picture because its now special to us too,thx for poem and picture!!!
 
Should actually thank my Mom for the picture, she is busy scanning old pictures for the museum and enlarging a bunch of them, she shared a few with me. That one is Guy Roberts with his four horse, must be about 1960, cause I remember that rubber tired wagon, he was our neighbor. He always had teams and would do about anything with them that you could do. He used to clean the moss out of the ditches using his two Shires and a harrow section. We hated that, they would shut the canals down to a trickle and Guy and his team would drag the canal with the harrow to loosen up the moss. Then they would turn the water back into the canal and we had to either wade in or stand on a bridge and scoop the moss out with pitch forks. It was hard work for a bunch of kids who should have been busy catching frogs or fish instead of slinging moss. Guy was one of the last to use teams very much and he died around 1970. His old place is now a subdivision, Gramps and then my brother had it leased for quite awhile but his grandkids got greedy and sold it so now it is chopped up.
 
oh yea, I should have also included the fact that his widow Opal made our wedding cake when Hanta Yo married me. She was a real character, she gave Hanta a pair of her cowboy boots. She said "I'm too damn old to be messing with horses and riding so you take these and ride like the wind girl". I thought it was hilarious. She must have been about 85 then, still full of energy and she could gab like you wouldn't believe, I still remember the party lines we had and she would gab on our line all day long. You could be talking to somebody and she would pick up the phone and take over the whole conversation :lol:
 
That is a good picture SW. I enjoy seeing pictures of the oldtimers and studied that one for quite awhile. Thanks for sharing and the stories to go with it. Makes it even more interesting.
 
You really think that I could get her to use a team to harrow with no radio, no AC and no padded seat? I don't think so Tim :lol:
 
No A/C for me but I always laffed and told that if something horrible, like a wreck, happened to me & the only part of me left was my backside....look for the letters D R O F.....(.that's FORD backwards as it seems it should be branded into me from all the hrs I spend on the tractor in the summertime!!!)
 
I just gave away an old '72 Ford 2WD truck....I was ashamed to ask for any $$$$.

One of the kids here in the valley took it home and parked it in the yard...much to his parents dismay!!!!
 
Congrats for the picture sw and thanks for telling us the story behind it!! Ya always wonder about the story a picture has to tell and if they only had voices of their own, what would they say!! :D :D
 

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