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By Les Kletke Today Johann Schroeder laughs at the amount of money that made the difference in purchasing an Oliver or a McCormick but it 1951 it was a lot of money. “My Dad said, the Oliver was 49 dollars more and that is why they bought the McCormick,” said Schroeder who still uses the tractor today. He lives on acreage near Grunthal and uses the W6 to grade his road and assorted chores around the yard. He noted that at the time, Oliver had some leading edge features but he said the McCormick served the family well. “My Dad and his brothers pooled their money to buy the tractor which at the time was the big tractor on the farm, when the boys left to farm on their own the tractor stayed with Grandpa,” he said of his namesake. “He was a Johann as well.” The W6 was available in a gas and a diesel version which started on gas and then switched to diesel or distillate with the “...I might make it pull of a lever. That model was designatpretty when it retires ed WD6 and it had but for now it is a a little brother the working tractor.” W4 which was more common. Schroeder drove his tractor in the eastern Tractor Trek this year and said there were 4 of the smaller models and 2 of the W 6. “But the other one had some issues and had to pull over, I was pretty happy to finish the ride with mine.” He said the tractor has served the family well and only underwent some minor engine work when it was owned by his dad, Elmer. Schroeder drove the tractor in its working clothes, “Just as it is, I might make it pretty when it retires but for now it is a working tractor,” he said of further restoration. There were nearly 29.000 of the model built at the company’s Rock Island, Illinois plant beginning in 1942. It was rated 32 hp on the draw bar and 36 on the belt. The tractor carried the McCormick Deering name which was a division of International Harvester at the time. The smaller model was also marketed as the Farmal M. This was Schroeder’s first Tractor Trek and he plans to be back. “I had By Joan Airey a lot of people coming up Antique tractor collector and restorer Tom Ryall drives his 1957 to me and telling me they David Brown 2D in Rivers Agricultural Parade. His tractor is numremember working with a ber 386 of 1,644 built between 1957 and 1961. The tractor is 14 horse power 2-cylinder air cooled diesel engine, 4 forward tractor like that or that their and 1 reverse gear. Grandpa had one,” he “It only weighs about 2,130 lbs. The lift for the implements said. “I think it is important is by air pressure. A wide range of mid mounted implements that we keep these tractors were available such as left and right ploughs, a ridger, different around to show people types of cultivators, a seeder for root crops, a hoe for weeding what our parents or grandbetween rows, a 5’ sickle mower, etc,” said Ryall. “It was mainly parents worked with and how they raised food.”
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used for row crop work, vegetables, potatoes, sugar beet, turnips. The tractor was not a commercial success hence the short production life. I only know of two others in Canada. I bought this one in Dutton Ontario in 2018.” Ryall competed in the garden tractor pull at Oak River Agricultural Fair and plans to compete in the Manitoba Ploughing Match at Steinbach on August 10 and 11. Ryall has judged ploughing matches around the world and competed in ploughing matches in numerous countries. Every year Ryall brings out several different antique tractors to the many local agricultural fairs.
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Pull Type Combine Set Up for Remote Tractor Operation The Dickson Henderson families of the Boissevain area kindly donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum digital copies of agricultural activities carried out on farms these families operated in the Boissevain area. One of these photos shows a pull type combine set up to allow remote operation of the tractor pulling the combine from the operator’s platform on the combine. This outfit was owned by W.G. Dickson. Two of W.D.’s sons, Murray and Archie, are on the combine. The combine is thought to be a Nicholas and Shepherd Red River Special pull type combine. The machine has a number of optional features, its own engine to power the threshing mechanism, a cylindrical grain cleaner mounted above the grain hopper, a straw spreader and instead of a sheet metal enclosure at the back end of the threshing body to enclose the straw walkers; it appears the enclosure is made of fabric, possibly canvas. The tractor is a McCormick Deering 15-30 which was introduced by IHC in 1921 as IHC’s response to the success of the Fordson tractor. When one compares the 15-30 to previous IHC tractors, the 15-30 design was a great advance forward and obviously borrows from the Fordson which featured the engine crankcase and enclosed transmission forming the frame of the tractor. For some reason the tractor’s hood has been removed. As the 15-30 featured side curtains, perhaps Mr. Dickson wanted to remove the curtains as they could trap chaff against the hot exhaust manifold and it was easier to remove the hood as the curtains were fastened to the hood with piano hinges. Remote operation of a tractor was not common with combines but was somewhat common with grain binders. This photo is quite interesting as it shows how remote operation was accomplished. A long shaft with universal joints ran between the steering wheel on the tractor to a steering wheel on the combine platform, which allowed the steering of the tractor from the combine. Above this shaft can be seen a rope which appears to work a lever mounted just behind the belt pulley. This would be where the foot clutch lever is and prob-
...one reason for Mr. Dickson to set up the combine and tractor up for remote operation would be that one person could operate the outfit. With WWII ongoing, labour was in short supply on Prairie farms.
ous control levers on the binder machine moved around the field as it moved around a field in to avoid missing portions of the an effort to consistently produce swathed grain. The pickup on tight sheaves with “square” butts this machine was rigidly mounted as the thinking was this type of to the header and there were no sheaf stooked better and was guide wheel on the sides of the less prone to coming apart when pickup so the pickup could not being handled. “float’ to follow the contours of As the photo is dated 1943, back so the clutch was disenthe field. There is a long lever ably this lever works the clutch. Pulling back on the rope pushes gaged, went up to the tractor to one reason for Mr. Dickson to set with a quadrant visible alongside up the combine and tractor up the operator’s platform which the clutch in, stopping movement put the tractor in the appropriappears to be used to raise and of the tractor. Letting the rope go ate gear, climbed back onto the for remote operation would be combine and let the clutch rope that one person could operate lower the header to ensure no results in the clutch engaging. out to engage the clutch so start- the outfit. With WWII ongoswath was missed. Operating To the left of this lever can be ing the outfit forward. Of course ing, labour was in short supply this lever from the tractor would seen another lever, the purpose on Prairie farms. Two of W.G. during all of this, at the approrequire a complicated mechaof which was a subject of some discussion by the committee. Setting up a tractor for remote operation was done by various farmers who followed no one set pattern but rather followed their individual preferences and thinking on the subject. So, while what this lever was used for is not exactly known to us, it could be that this lever worked the engine throttle. There is rope attached to this lever that runs back to the combine just under the steering shaft. However, one would think that if the lever was to work the throttle, then it would be preferable to open and close the throttle from the combine which would require the use of two ropes with a pulley in the appropriate location. There are two ropes visible dropping well down under the steering shaft so perhaps one of these ropes could pull the throttle forward so opening the throttle while the rope just under the steering shaft could be pulled to close the throttle. This line of thinking then priate times, the operator would Dickson’s four sons, Barry and nism so Mr. Dickson probably resulted in the committee wonhave to advance the throttles of Archie, had enlisted in the RCAF thought operating the tractor dering what the other rope that is the two engines to bring them up and the fourth son, Vernon, was from the combine was the better dropping down was used for. We to power. approach. only 15, still in school and only finally decided that this rope may Whatever the reason, the The most complicated pieces available to work on the farm be used to operate a ‘kill’ switch needed to set up the remote operator would be in for long outside school hours. While on the engine in case the clutch conversion would be the shaft days on this machine out in the Archie appears in this photo, rope broke. While someone and universal joints for the steer- he was home on leave from the heat of August, the dust coming could climb off the combine and ing. Probably the farm scrap off the combine and the noise of RCAF at the time. run up to the tractor, climbing heap and the local auto junk But why would not Mr. Dickson two engines running at full RPM, on the moving tractor would be yard were scoured for suitable just have a lone operator on the with the only concession to opa significant hazard as would be pieces. Lumber for the levers and tractor? The combine’s sieves erator comfort being the home running along side the tractor rope for the controls probably generally could not be adjusted made canopy over his head. to short out the magneto. If the were found on farm. while the machine was in opera- Harvest in 1943, even with this person fell, the wheels are right A question the committee had tion and the concave was usually outfit, was a test of endurance. there. So Mr. Dickson may have is why would anyone go to the According to the Dickson not adjusted on an ongoing decided that having the option of trouble of setting up a tractor for basis. family, the outfit was set up for switching off the tractor engine remote operation during the remote operation from a comThe committee then realized from the combine was a wise Second World War and operated bine? In the case of a binder, it that a person on the combine idea. is more obvious as why remote was needed to adjust the height this way throughout the war. When the operator wanted to operation was desirable. When of the pickup header as the move the outfit to begin threshone speaks to people who have The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is open year round, ing the operator started the two operated binders back in the for more information visit at ag-museum.mb.ca. engines, put the threshing body day, the binder man often had to in motion, tied the clutch rope be constantly adjusting the vari-
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Threshing in the Path Head District 1903
The photo collection of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum contains a photo of the Thomas Hunt outfit threshing in the Path Head District of Manitoba in 1903. The Path Head district lies between McGregor and Katrime. Thomas Hunt was born at Dunkeld, Bruce County, Ontario in 1862. In 1874 when Thomas was twelve years old, his family moved to Manitoba. Unfortunately the family history does not record whether they came to Manitoba through the United States or they travelled west by vessel on the Great Lakes to Fort William-Port Arthur and then took the Dawson trail west. The trail was constructed in 1871 and ran west from Fort William-Port Arthur, which is now called Thunder Bay, through Rainy River, crossed Lake of the Woods and ended at Ste. Anne, Manitoba. But as the Hunt Family history indicates that they purchased a team of oxen and a covered wagon in Winnipeg to travel west, it seems likely that they travelled through the US to Minneapolis by rail or steamboat, and then travelled overland to the Red River where they could take a steamboat to Winnipeg. However they came to Winnipeg, the family travelled west by ox drawn wagon and settled in the Burnside district. Tom appears to get a job with a crew surveying the eastern portion of Portage la Prairie soon after arriving. At this time going to work at the age of 12 or 13 was very common. Tom’s wages would have come in very useful for a family going homesteading in Manitoba in the 1870s. In 1888, Thomas married Mary Stinson and around that time took up a farm in the Path Head district. Tom and Mary farmed for some fifty years in the District. Tom was known for his threshing outfits. It would appear that the Hunt family had a mechanical bent as Thomas’s older brother, George Hunt, was selling Champion machinery in the Bagot area in 1898. George reportedly was one of the earliest residents of the Burnside-Bagot area to own a steam threshing outfit and did custom work for local farmers. He also owned an automobile sometime around 1900, a rare occurrence at that time in rural Manitoba.
Given the issues in handling loose grain at this time, bagging grain would have been a very common practice. Storing bagged grain would have resulting in the farmer being able to make use of any building the farmer had handy. The photo shows a J.I. Case 25 75 steam engine driving a Garr Scott 36 X 58 separator. 36 indicates the width of the cylinder in inches and 58 indicates the width of the separator body again in inches. It was quite common for separator manufacturers to design machines with a wider separator body than the cylinder probably in order to, hopefully, do a better job separating the grain out of the straw and cleaning the grain. As usual there is a wealth of information in the photo. The separator is right up to date for 1903 being equipped with a straw blower and “high bagger” elevator. A man can be seen on top of the separator at the straw blower doing something. Most straw blowers could be adjusted in a variety of ways. There was a crank to swing the blower pipe from side to side, a crank which raised or lowered the blower tube and there was a hood at the end of the tube which could be adjusted to deflect the straw
more precisely. Some blower tubes featured a telescoping section so the tube could be lengthened or shortened. All of these adjustments meant the separator man could direct the straw precisely and in so doing result in the separator not having to move as often as the straw stack had become too large. There are two men in the wagon who are bagging the grain and stacking the bags in the wagon. It would appear Thomas Hunt was storing the grain in bags in a building rather than storing the grain loose. Given the issues in handling loose grain at this time, bagging grain would have been a very common practice. Storing bagged grain would have resulting in the farmer being able to make use of any building the farmer had handy. Bagged grain also made movement to the elevator a little easier. With most roads in 1903 being little better than dirt trails across the Prairie, bagged grain
allowed the farmer to easily remove the bags from the wagon if it became stuck in a mud hole or in a creek crossing. However the problem with bags would be that mice would find a stack of bagged grain ideal as the gaps between bags would shelter the mice from predators and bags would be easy to chew through to get at the grain. The engine is being fired with straw, a standard practice at the time. One can see a pile of straw behind the engine to the right and the person on the ground behind the engine probably is busy loading straw into the firebox. There appears to be two water wagons, one on either side of the engine. Why Thomas felt the need for two water wagons is a good question. Perhaps there was no source of good quality water in the area and so a long
haul was necessary requiring two wagons to keep the engine supplied. Water high in minerals or alkalinity would lead to poor steaming or boiler damage, both conditions a competent engineer would want to avoid. A source of good water would be a real asset to a steam engineer. The sheaf wagons used by Mr. Hunt in this image are not the standard racks but rather appear to be the European style of sheaf wagon which featured a sloped front and back to the body rather than the vertical front and back of the standard sheaf wagon. Often the European style wagons featured a floor that also sloped into the centre. While this design would be more difficult to construct it is not apparent what the advantages of this design would be. Further research on this issue is needed.
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