did some plowing today

Charlie M · May 19, 2017

Finally dried up enough this week to do some plowing. Been a cold wet spring around Western NY. Going to plant some corn for my animals on about 2.5 acres in the field behind the tractor and plow. Hit a few large rocks as normal. You might be saying corn is cheap why plant any. Planting corn means I can plow, disk, drag, plant with my old IH 4 row planter, cultivate with my H, pick it with my 1-PR picker you see in the back ground and shell and grind it later. Lot of good times coming with the old machinery.

larbear · May 19, 2017

They say the smart folks chase a little round ball after hitting it with a club, each to there own.

OldFarmall450 · May 19, 2017

Looks good Charlie, we had a delta between 2 creeks where we planted Preacher Hill corn. We used mules until dad got a JD A. He'd leave it on the stalk until fall, then take a trailer and chop it at the ground, and run corn, cob, stalk, and all thru a hammer mill powered by our popping Johnny. We'd feed stock with it. I hope you make a good crop.

fastfarmall · May 19, 2017

I know corn is the most universals used crop in the world, but never heard of chopping the stalk thru a hammer mill, I assume you had to hand feed that, thru there.

OldFarmall450 · May 19, 2017

Fast, the mill had a long tray where the stalks were fed in. It held 2 bags, and a lever to switch sides. If you were fast enough you could tie off the first bag and hang another before the 2nd one filled. Of course you told your brother to slow down and keep everything running smooth.
The horses, mules, goats, and cattle never turned up their noses. We kept a couple truck loads of cobbed corn, and I had the lovely job of running it thru the hand sheller to feed to the chickens.
An old friend of my dads, long gone, always said having a crib full of corn was like having money in the bank. We farmed with mules into the late 80's. Dad liked using them.

leon · May 20, 2017

Sounds like a really good plan to me. Reason enough!

Charlie M · May 20, 2017

You might be thinking of something else with the stalks - I'm picking the ears so I have shell the corn and its the shelled corn that gets run through the hammer mill. If I wanted to chop up the stalks I have an old ensilage cutter for that (more toys). I also grind the cobs after shelling to us as bedding.

rustred · May 20, 2017

nice unit and like to see them being used. was just thinking yesterday while discing with my 660 , i dont need a computer to run my tractor, lol.

bass · May 20, 2017

1978 was a very dry year here in E. Tex. we got 1 thin cutting of hay. Dad got with a neighbor and polled an old hammer mill out of a ditch. it had a flat head v-8 on it. we pulled the flat head off, rebuilt the mill and pulled it with a flat belt off the IH 140 we had.

we shocked out 20 acres of field corn by hand and let it dry in the field. in late august we moved the shocks into the barn in 110F deg temps.

on Sunday mornings we would grind feed for the week. we grounds the entire stalk with the ear still attached, added more ear corn by scoop and added some cotton seed meal. we were grinding about a 16% crude protein feed.

we had a hard winter that year. people loosing calves/cows cause no hay. with what hay we had, and the feed we were grinding, dad's calves did all right.

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