Great picture Bill. What year was picture take and year of truck?

Make and model of that green pick up Bill?

My Papaw. He was born 1-1-11. First person born in hospital that year.

Every year during the first week of spring and fall squirrel season I would go stay with him for a week at his squirrel camp. No plumbing, or electricity. He was in his 70s and would stay for a month. You could tell the Great Depression really impacted his life. He wasted nothing and could live off nothing.

We would squirrel hunt in the morning, bait and run trot lines after we got back from hunting.

Always felt like I grew up in the wrong era.

And I thought I was the only one.

It was an International. They made Farmall tractors back in the day. Not sure about the year. Around 1960.

Man I wish I had that truck. You don’t happen to still have it?

His pocket knife he had when he died. It’s clean countless deer, fish, and squirrel. It’s been sharpened a couple times also.

Some of my fondest childhood memories were trot lining the White River where it merged with the Mississippi . Also, enjoyed catching bait. Funny thing, we often used crawfish, but we never ate them when I was growing up..

Maybe once or twice. Lol. That knife is awesome

This photo is of a sharpening and truing room.

I didn’t eat them until I was in my 20s. They were just bait until then.

We used perch traps to catch our bait. Throw it under a low tree limb hanging out over the water. We would bait it left over biscuits or bread that we had for breakfast.

The perch could swim in but not out. Only problem was it attacked snakes sometimes and they couldn’t get out either.

Thank you. It’s priceless to me.

Thank you. I wondered what they were doing with the blades. I’ve heard they had a saw mill because it a way to make money and be able to make your own lumber for houses since hauling it wasn’t easy back then. Once done they sold it and the mill moved on. That’s the story I was told anyway.

An R110 IHC 1953 - 1955

Fast food wasan't the cause.........
Life was a lot tougher back then.......
When you got through eating.....You didn't, much go sit on the couch....
No TV, no internet, etc....etc.....
Work never seemed to get done.....
And there was always plenty of work to go around......
What broke.... you fixed it.... Not bought another one...
A lot of people back then, had truck gardens..... Plowed, planted, weeded, harvested,
canned...... And started, all over again.............
I've seen my Grandmother, sew the most beautiful print dress, out of flour sacks...
And crochet (knit) a sweater, I wore to school, for three years......
Those.......were some tough folks.......
Love the pics.. btw.........

Also a lot of the vaccinations were not available. Look it up.

Truck gardens. Never heard that one

My grandpa Evanoff was a truck Gardner. That's where I get my love of the fertile soil.

Same here

Did he train Dogo’s? Doesn’t look like a bird dog

This has turned in to a history lesson of rural America.

Yessir. I’m not sure for what though. My father just said he trained dogs for hunting.

I like it.

retouched a little