Chewy Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Neat pictures from the '30 and '40's. http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris@Adams Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Those are kinda cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ryan Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Adam's Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 WOW... awesome pictures... The welder one is really cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordgrey Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Ya get the feeling we got it mighty soft these days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70'sChevyGirl Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Neat pics and I agree with Dylan. My husband welds and that would be a cool print for his shop office wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman2008 Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Ya get the feeling we got it mighty soft these days... I love history, especially through pictures. Those were Americans with balls of steel. I salute them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_pappy Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Ya get the feeling we got it mighty soft these days... I was thinking the same thing. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 They sure did make some ugly people back then. Great pics none the less. We do have it easy and have grown soft over the years. Even in my life time things have changed so much. When I was young we had no A/C in the house, color TV hadn't been invented but we sure did know how to have fun. We would hop on our bicycles and head out after supper with instructions to be home before it got dark. Can you imagine telling a child that these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 WOW... awesome pictures... The welder one is really cool: We have one of those torch's downstairs on our wall of history. I believe he's carbon arcing... Not welding... Being in the welding supply business I sent this pic and the one of the guy holding the oxy/acet torch to Walgreens for development. Not sure how an 8x10 will come out, but we'll see. I tweaked them ever so slightly in iPhoto first. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMADreamer Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Ya get the feeling we got it mighty soft these days... Why don't you come spend the next four months with me while we are harvest corn. I'll show you how soft we have it. lol Maybe you city boys got it easy but we still gotta work for a living out here in the country to feed all you people. Those are great pictures though, it's so cool to see that era in color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman2008 Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Why don't you come spend the next four months with me while we are harvest corn. I'll show you how soft we have it. lol Maybe you city boys got it easy but we still gotta work for a living out here in the country to feed all you people. Those are great pictures though, it's so cool to see that era in color. You probably have one of those fancy, GPS controlled harvest machines! Start it up, point it in the right direction and go back to watching the soaps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMADreamer Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 You probably have one of those fancy, GPS controlled harvest machines! Start it up, point it in the right direction and go back to watching the soaps! Well ok you got me there, but you still have to be in the combine, or tractor, and you have to turn it at the end of the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman2008 Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Well ok you got me there, but you still have to be in the combine, or tractor, and you have to turn it at the end of the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightMare Silverado Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 They sure did make some ugly people back then. Great pics none the less. We do have it easy and have grown soft over the years. Even in my life time things have changed so much. When I was young we had no A/C in the house, color TV hadn't been invented but we sure did know how to have fun. We would hop on our bicycles and head out after supper with instructions to be home before it got dark. Can you imagine telling a child that these days? I'm only 24 and I did all that as a kid. Hell I didn't even have to come home during highschool just make a phone call saying I'd be at school the next day and home after. We treat both my little sisters the same and they are 17-15 years old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted August 26, 2010 Author Share Posted August 26, 2010 Well ok you got me there, but you still have to be in the combine, or tractor, and you have to turn it at the end of the field. It's all relative for sure! Go farm 60 years ago... They worked MUCH harder for less... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMADreamer Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 It's all relative for sure! Go farm 60 years ago... They worked MUCH harder for less... I don't disagree with that, I've heard the stories from my Grandfather and I've participated in old threshers events using the old methods. It's hard work for sure. I do know we work more hours now on the farm then my Grandfather and his brothers did 60 years ago because of the equipment we have now which to me is a fair trade for not having to deal with horses. lol I can't really say much though because I'm essentially a part time farmer, there was no room for me on the farm to join my Dad and two Uncles after college, those three do the hard work. I just show up come planting and harvest time and run a tractor for 15 hours a day. I get the best of farming with out all the boring hard work during the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordgrey Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 My dad grew up on the Canadian prairie farming during the dust bowl. Right about the time these pics were taken. No lack of hard work and scraping to get by. He could remember box cars of salt cod and barrels of apples from the east coast being sent out to Saskatchewan just to help make sure folks didn't starve. That was a big part of the reason my grand father moved to family to Nova Scotia. He knew there was food there....... Any time I start feeling sorry for myself I think about what my Grand Daddy Cliff went through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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