Working on Wednesday: Some Cultivator

The Curreys always had a vegetable garden at their home place in Encanto. This photo of Dad showing off his latest acquisition is undated, it was probably taken about 1923.

Here, in his handwriting, is Dad's comment:

I don't know what happened to this machine but by the early 1950s it had been replaced by a real tractor.

[All from my personal collection]

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Because You Can Never Have Too Many Tractors!

Here's a picture of the Farmall Cub when it was new and shiny. And note that I had my very own toy version.

[From my personal collection]

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Sunday Drive: Currey

Roughly ten years later than my post showing the Currey vehicles parked on the driveway at our Encanto home, here's the lineup in front of the Ocotillo house in 1961, minus Mother's silver 1960 Ford Falcon that almost never made it to the desert and the Farmall Cub.

[Dad always had a hard time getting the exposure right to allow for the bright desert sun. From my personal collection.]

  

[From my personal collection]

I don't remember where Dad got this tractor with its skip loader and box blade but I'm certain he got a deal on it. I almost never drove it: not only was it a bit too much for me to handle--although it had power steering I had to literally stand up on the clutch to shift gears--but Dad absolutely adored using this piece of machinery.

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Sunday Drive: Bernice Evangeline Grenfell Currey

Just because...not everyone has a photo of their Mother driving a Farmall Cub.*

[Undated slide photo most likely taken in the early 1950s from my personal collection]

*In case you're wondering, that's the spring tooth field cultivator on the back.

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