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Arkansas Farm Pics
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willie59
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History for sure, Steve, considering the DC-3 took it's first flight Dec 17, 1935. And it shows what a great air frame they are to still be in service today.
I had to slip in a picture of the old plane on the runway. I new someone would catch it.
My thanks for doing so, and if you put a pic of a piston engine plane anywhere here I'm going to spot it. The sound of those things still makes the hair stand up on my arms.
How's this. A pic of my dad in front of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning during training in WWII.
ScottAR
Senior Member
That's cool... Just a cool pic is all...
Back on topic, it's raining again... Word was late cotton was going
to be OK but that is now uncertain. One of my older friends
and his son in law (partners on the same farm, 3000 acres cotton)
bought some cotton futures on the market to "hedge their bets".
Lookin' like their new cotton picker is going to be slogging through mud
on it's maiden voyage. Fingers and toes crossed that this season
will work out.
Back on topic, it's raining again... Word was late cotton was going
to be OK but that is now uncertain. One of my older friends
and his son in law (partners on the same farm, 3000 acres cotton)
bought some cotton futures on the market to "hedge their bets".
Lookin' like their new cotton picker is going to be slogging through mud
on it's maiden voyage. Fingers and toes crossed that this season
will work out.
Nice Picture ATCO
Sorry for the slow reply ATCO, I been trying to get a couple of equipment trades nailed down.
That's a nice picture of your dad. It's amazing what that generation did. Where did your dad train at?
I'm kind of intrested in this beer also. If you think about it, it would be unpatriotic to not talk about it or anyones service to there country.:usa
BTW, I don't care if this thread ends up going here and yonder like a dog peeing in the snow. That's the way most of my conversations go in real life. I'll try to throw a few farm pics in from time to time so maybe we can keep digger off our tail.
Easy fellars, that was a pic for roddyo. For sure, I'm proud of my dad, but, I don't want to stray too far off from the thread we are on; Arkansas Farm Pics.
Sorry for the slow reply ATCO, I been trying to get a couple of equipment trades nailed down.
That's a nice picture of your dad. It's amazing what that generation did. Where did your dad train at?
I'm kind of intrested in this beer also. If you think about it, it would be unpatriotic to not talk about it or anyones service to there country.:usa
BTW, I don't care if this thread ends up going here and yonder like a dog peeing in the snow. That's the way most of my conversations go in real life. I'll try to throw a few farm pics in from time to time so maybe we can keep digger off our tail.
willie59
Administrator
Hey roddyo. Actually, dad trained at several locations. He had his dress uniform pic taken in Biloxi Mississippi. He left the states with his bomber crew from the airfield in Manchester New Hampshire going across the Atlantic to England. When they landed for fuel in Iceland, they had a change of itinerary, flew south to Azores, then across Africa to India to join up with the 10th Air Force. A change I personally am thankful of, as in, if he had went to England, he would have been in the 8th AF, which was not a good place to be for a bomber crew in 1943 and '44.
Looking forward to some more farm pics from you fellows.
Looking forward to some more farm pics from you fellows.
Flood Pictures
I may have some flood pictures before farm pics ATCO.
If you ever get over this way there's a museum in Walnut Ridge you need to go to. It's on the old Air Base. They got a lot of pics from that era I hear.
It will be a little over an hour from Memphis. I have never been in it myself but I have always wanted to go.
I may have some flood pictures before farm pics ATCO.
If you ever get over this way there's a museum in Walnut Ridge you need to go to. It's on the old Air Base. They got a lot of pics from that era I hear.
It will be a little over an hour from Memphis. I have never been in it myself but I have always wanted to go.
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willie59
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Looks cool roddyo, ya ought to go! It's funny you mentioned what the men of that generation did at a thread about farm pics. Dad was born in 1924 on a 300 acre farm near Surgoinsville TN, a for real "out in the country" area. One of those situations where you went to town once a month for you flour, cornmeal, sugar, and coffee. Heck, in the 30's, they didn't even know what "the great depression" was. Everyday was farm life. Now imagine a young man from an area like that all of a sudden find themselves half a world away flying bombing missions in a B-24 bomber. Just a salt of the earth person now doing an incredible task.
As for farming, I have great respect for people who cast their lot attempting to get production from the land. I have been through the south and have seen what ScottAR is talking about, it's sad to see a whole cotton crop rotting away because you can't get in the field to work it. :Banghead
Heck, in the 30's, they didn't even know what "the great depression" was. Everyday was farm life. Now imagine a young man from an area like that all of a sudden find themselves half a world away flying bombing missions in a B-24 bomber. Just a salt of the earth person now doing an incredible task. As for farming, I have great respect for people who cast their lot attempting to get production from the land. I have been through the south and have seen what ScottAR is talking about, it's sad to see a whole cotton crop rotting away because you can't get in the field to work it. :Banghead
The P-38 played a big part in winning the war for us. They were able to stuff enough fuel in it so it could go on those long range bomber escorts plus it was a very agile fighter. I've read there are only 6 working examples left today.
One was raised from under 268' of ice in Greenland and is being restored so we may see 7. http://p38assn.org/glacier-girl-recovery.htm
roddyo, I wish you were closer to me. I host a pig roast every year and the farmer I bought my hogs from retired, I have to get them dressed through market now. I enjoyed going to the farm and watching the farmer pick one to my weight spec, he always came within a pound or two just by eye and then we'd spend the afternoon before dressing it. That was part of the festivity, I'd take it to an old world German butcher with a refrigerator and freezer full of alcohol. Dressing the pig took about an hour, but I'd be there for five or six, lol!
There's no commercial hog farms left within a reasonable distance and the amateurs feed their hogs whatever they can find. The farmer I went to fed his nothing but grains, the meat was absolutely delicious!!
One was raised from under 268' of ice in Greenland and is being restored so we may see 7. http://p38assn.org/glacier-girl-recovery.htm
roddyo, I wish you were closer to me. I host a pig roast every year and the farmer I bought my hogs from retired, I have to get them dressed through market now. I enjoyed going to the farm and watching the farmer pick one to my weight spec, he always came within a pound or two just by eye and then we'd spend the afternoon before dressing it. That was part of the festivity, I'd take it to an old world German butcher with a refrigerator and freezer full of alcohol. Dressing the pig took about an hour, but I'd be there for five or six, lol!
There's no commercial hog farms left within a reasonable distance and the amateurs feed their hogs whatever they can find. The farmer I went to fed his nothing but grains, the meat was absolutely delicious!!
willie59
Administrator
Hmmm, I can see it now...Annual HEF Pig Roast at Steve's house with hog supplied by roddyo! Yum Yum!
Yep Steve, Glacier Girl was restored in the little town of Middlesboro Kentucky, just about 50 miles north of me. I didn't get a chance to go see the plane before it was sold and moved to Texas.
Hmmm, I can see it now...Annual HEF Pig Roast at Steve's house with hog supplied by roddyo! Yum Yum!
Yep Steve, Glacier Girl was restored in the little town of Middlesboro Kentucky, just about 50 miles north of me. I didn't get a chance to go see the plane before it was sold and moved to Texas.
I had a lot rather furnish the Hog as drive to New York ATCO.
I have been going up there every year or two and it's a pretty long drive from here.
willie59
Administrator
I had a lot rather furnish the Hog as drive to New York ATCO.
LoL...yeah, it's a few more than a country mile!
EGS
Senior Member
I had a lot rather furnish the Hog as drive to New York ATCO.
Rod if you are going to New York for a pig roast then stop by Wisconsin and pick me up.
I drove my F-350 down to Lead Hill, Ark. a few years ago, I know how long a trip it is, lol!! Believe it or not, the area I'm in here isn't much different from that area, nice country.
