F.R. “Fritz” Nordengren (beta)

The T-post.

There are dozens of ways to build a fence…and the field fence in the mid-west is typically 3 or 4 stands of barb wire strung on T-posts every 8 feet or so. When the farm has one pond, there used an interior fence that protected the pod from the cattle. It runs down to […]

Ol’ Red hasn’t been out of the barn for at least 1 year, probably 2 and maybe even three. Ol’ Red is a mid 1960’s IH Farmall 706 tractor with a gas engine. The sellers said the tractor was “for sale” when I looked at the place. As we haggled, I offered to include the […]