Finding old cars in the woods...

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When I bought this farm, back in the woods were several car bodies from the 1940's, no frames. The frames had been used to build race cars for circle tracks.
Today I know the location of a VW Vandaillia camper that's been sitting along the edge of a field for at least 35 years.
 
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i can only imagine the back breaking work of yesteryears farmers……View attachment 159072
Wekl the Disc I(Sometime scalled a harrow) is designed to be pulled by horse or tractor (likely tractor) the levers are to raise/lower the blades.
The other device is a Spreader. also pulled by a tractor the control arms engage the beaters at the back that Do the spreading and a chains and bars system that moves the contents into the beaters.. I remember it well... Loaded one of those up with load after load and spread it around.. That one looks like it held about half a ton of Political promises.
Used to back one of 'em up around an S-Curve and in between two buildings with so much clearance that if you needed to get to the back of it. You walked around the buildings because there was not enough room to pass the tires.
And that's how I learned to back a trailer.

Back breaking work..... Well... My Teens.
 
Some might doubt it, but I used equipment like that when I was young. Pulled by a team of horses that knew more about what they should do than I did.

Wekl the Disc I(Sometime scalled a harrow) is designed to be pulled by horse or tractor (likely tractor) the levers are to raise/lower the blades.
When I was 9 or 10 (early '50s), my paternal grandfather (north central Kansas) was still using implements such as shown with horses- he retired soon after and never had a tractor in his life. He only had electricity the last year or two before retiring, as I still can see the twin wires running up the walls to a ceiling light, and earlier recall goin up a circular staircase at night at bedtime with Mom lighting the way with a kerosene lamp.

My wife (eastern Kentucky) was near 12 years old before they got electric back in the holler. Many smaller towns in the west (and a number elsewhere, I expect) still had dirt streets (Durango, CO for one).

So those conditions weren't really all that far back.
 

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On one hike I came upon the fuselage of a small plane. Generally planes aren't hauled through the woods up into the mountains and abandoned, so it is a somber vestige of a bad day at best for someone. But it's fun to see old car and trucks like this, invokes wondering how it got there and what life was like when they were running. Years ago I got a ride in a friend's unrestored model A ford, and I remarked how cool it was to ride in a car as it had come from the factory ~75 years prior.

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM
 
Our friend has a lovely old truck and Steve got a shot. He loved it..

Yes @TonyL it's a FORD!-
 

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