Sometimes, I feel the need to justify my having three farm tractors. Even though I don't farm, I try to find jobs for them. The windy Hill project is something of an extension of my need to justify owning one tractor. We had a farm, I wanted a tractor, so the whole plan grew from that seed of an idea.
Windy hill is something of a living history project. Our goal is a period perfect collection of mid 50's era International equipment. All in working operational order. We have had mixed results so far, but the old disk is a happy bright spot in our short history.
Last year, I was over at an older Farmers place a few roads over. Talking old tractors, live steam, trains, tools and everything else you might want to ask someone who was born with a wrench in his hands. Walking his fence row, following the trackbed for the biggest home model railroad you will ever see we came upon this little disk. "Whatcha gonna do with the old disk Mr P." ...says I, I was going to cut it up last week if I hadn't come down sick" Quickly a deal was struck for the disk and I was off, once again to con Uncle Ted into coming to my rescue.
Amazingly, when we hooked up and dragged it from it's resting place ...everything turned. Ted, usually skeptical of my "finds" was impressed for once. So was his Dad, Paul walked out and described using the exact same model behind his Dad's Farmall H in 1950. You just can't get more living history than that.
Plowday brought a warm sunny October afternoon and freshly turned ground, I pulled the H into the sun, we hooked up and for a few hours it was 1950 again in Ohio, we took turns working the ground we just plowed down on my '51 H, with the disk it might have come with new.
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