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SALEM, Ohio — When Fred Hippely and his brothers were growing up on their Jersey dairy farm, each spring his dad would haul in a truckload of sand for a warm weather play area.
And that sand became a real farm for the seven boys’ toy tractors and implements.
“Our toys got worked hard in the summer,” Hippely said. “We moved them inside during the winter for our carpet farming.
“You can imagine the havoc caused to toy tractors by seven boys. We had great fun without giving Mom too much gray hair.”
Farm toys were far different a half-century ago.
The Hippely boys got toy tractors and equipment as gifts, but not many, and their father made a lot of toys for them from wood.
“Dad even customized a plastic Farmall tractor by replacing the rear axle with a longer version. He then made wooden wheels that he added on the rear,” Hippely recalls.
“So we had the first toy tractor in the neighborhood with duals.”
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