I found these photos on the Facebook group The Forgotten Iowa Historical Society. Kudos to whoever took these marvelous images. The Farmall in the first photo has what looks to be a rear tire guard. The man standing on the ear corn pile appears to be wearing an Army Air Force fleece-lined flight jacket. You can see the wooden crib is full.
Not to many people anymore have seen those cribs made out of snow fence.
I've seen some with two rings.
Someplace I have a negative showing one of my uncle's JD 'A' tractors with a Model 226 picker setting next to a snow fence crib in the yard on my Dad and his brothers farm in Sarpy County, NE.
The picker on the JD 'A' in the picture is a Model 25.
The picker on the JD 'A' in the third picture is a Model 226.
I would guess that this was a neighbor helping neighbor event.
Awesome pics. My father-in-law built a snow fence crib when he started farming in the early 80's. Sadly the farm crisis put him under and he returned to construction. I work for the county and some of the old boys remember putting up white snow fence. The county started painting theirs white during WWII because there were shortages and their snow fence kept disappearing about the same time every farmer was using it for ear corn storage!
Awesome pics indeed, the No.25 JD on the A is very cool. We used to put up picket cribs after everything else got filled, sometimes as many as 3 rolls high. I seem to recall Dad would put down old corrugated tin on the ground for a floor. We ground quite a bit of ear corn for cattle feed so they usually were gone by spring.
-- Edited by treekiller on Monday 21st of March 2016 02:08:42 PM
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