Tom, with me it was not Granpa, it was "Cousin Les's" farm. About eighty acres in Hunterdon Co. NJ. The shop was there and the smell of old oil and grease that goes up your nose and stays there was there also. When I was doing a little farming and bought my second tractor, an Intl H, the smell was on it too. Cousin Les had a 1936 JD B and a JD 60 with a side wheel, Gawd could they even build those today? I'm like hunting dog, I associate many things with their smells. Like rural poverty has a smell to it. It goes up your nose and stays there. Watching the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" brought it all back to me.
Terry
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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg
I always liked going into my grandfather's machine shed and smelling the air filled with grease and the aroma of many different cans of oil, kerosene, etc. I haven't been able to find the same smell in any newer buildings.
Unfortunately the old farm place was sold about 6 years ago and the new owners burned every building to the ground, just to be able to plow up a few more acres.  |