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When we visit a fair, my husband is always drawn to the museums of old tools. Partly because they’re interesting, but mostly because he’s old enough to remember using some of them.
He loves checking out the antique tractors but this particular brand was new even to him.
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Cockshutt?
A more colorful name than John Deere that’s for sure.
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No matter how many times I tell him or how many warning signs he reads… he’s always touching things when he’s not supposed to. If he did this with women instead of old farm implements.. we’d have a problem.
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I always wonder where they find these fabulous wagons and carriages. Some of them are in amazingly good shape.
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Ouch!
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Clearly this museum has a sense of humor.
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A library and one room schoolhouse from the early 1800’s.
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The rig in the front of this picture is an early snow press. There were no plows to clear the roads back in the day, they just tried to flatten it as best they could.
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My husband’s father used one of these on their farm. Any guesses what it is?
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River's world..... 
That a feeder fir the animals ? Or a sifter for grains ?
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Neither.
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An early open-air hearse.
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Should be, but no….
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An extra long griddle for debeaked chickens?
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Could be.
But no…
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Where I grew up, there is a rural road known as Cockshutt Road. It was in/near the city of Brantford – once home of the Massey Ferguson tractor and farm implement company. I wonder if there is any connection?
Deb
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It sounds like there should be… but damn. I’d hate to have that road as an address.
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It always made us kids giggle when we saw the name 🤭
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It’s a chicken shuffler, you know like a card shuffler but for chickens. Since chickens aren’t prone to just follow directions, literally and physically, that’s my guess. What a wonderful place y’all visited.
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Ha! Good answer.
I wish it was… but no.
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A potato sorter? A book binder? An egg sizer?
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No. No. And no…
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Yeppers. Only know too well what it is. I just look at it and ache. Had two uncles a bit older and stronger than me, but I got the loft because I was the shrimp. They thought it great fun to load it faster than I could unload it, and the bails piled up in the loft. Pops caught them at it, put both of them in the loft, and he and I loaded it from both sides and swamping them.
It was a quiet supper that night …
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I’m going to give it to you although that’s not exactly right. It’s not made for bales but silage. If you look really closely on the back right you can see some of the metal tubing.
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They would load either bales or loose silage. 😉
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Yes, bales wouldn’t fit through the tubing…
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I love old farm equipment!
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I have developed a weird appreciation for tractors since moving to the Midwest.
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That’s to be expected.
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Well, I saw the answer above and knew my initial thought was wrong but it was related to gold mining. 2nd guess was for transporting pucked veggies from worker to bins.
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I should have taken a better picture so you could see the attached metal tubing that shoots the silage into the silo….
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Nah!!!
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It’s a wossname…
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The Cockshutt tractor was around in the 1940s. Our neighbours in Manitoba had one. That’s all I have on that. But you talking about Hubby touching old tools. If you ask me he is touching the equivalent of women in his mind. I’m betting he is very gentle, yet firm, and highly engrossed in the process.
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Ha! Could be…
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