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- Last appearence
- It's official.
- Olive Brand Sportswear
- I still have a grudge against Texaco
- No GPS?
- CFG Bank Arena
- Van Lines
- Closed Station?
- John Vachon
- Folding Chairs
- TEXAGO
- Fragi-lay
- Classy
- Passenger seat
- No tipping
- The two front doors
- The theme song
- You are correct Dave.
- I was just there
- New to me
- Football-shaped thing
- Working all the live long day
- How do you stop slackers?
- It's [not] a Diamond T
- A Red Brown Truck
- Not Too Long a Long Walk
- What Tribe? Huh?
- Cheap labor
- No Mel Brooks fans?!?
- The real "Gandy"
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Twenty-Mule Team: 1941
July 1941. "Twenty-mule-team-drawn combine. Walla Walla County, Washington. This outfit gets to work at 6 in the morning. Knocks off at 11 for rest, food and water for mules and men, goes back to work at 1 and works till 6." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Thank heavens for internal combustion
Once upon a Shorpy time there was an image of a tractor dealer's store. One of the signs in the window --there were several, if I recall-- read something like "Do your horses work for you or do you work for your horses?"
I didn't realize the truth in the question until seeing the number of animals needed to pull a combine!
Here's how it's done
Whenever I count mules I count ears and then divide by 2.
About 2 mules per horse
4-Leg Drive
What's the ratio of mulepower to horsepower?
Twenty mules it is
Four in each of the front two rows, six in each of the rear rows.
They ain't hauling Borax
Kinda looks like wheat to me.
Horse-Drawn Combine, 1938
Skip to the 0:35 mark for sack filling, sewing and depositing for later pickup
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