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Erik Ks farmer

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When we got married 5 years ago my wife was a city born and bred who wanted no part of getting dirty on the farm. I am picking up some more acres for next year and she heard me talking to a neighbor who just retired about helping work ground and haul grain. Would you believe my wife got mad cause she wanted to help? She has gotten pretty good at driving these old straight trucks and even ran the combine some in wheat this year. I had to be quick on the stick and tell her I was just looking for help for the days she's at work. (She's an RN).
 
Congrats. Yup,when the wife and I got married,she said she'd never milk cows.

Didn't take long for her to eat those words.
 
My wife of 49 year's was a city girl who grew up in the heart of town and had no intention of ever moving to the country. Well she did and after a couple year's she was driving the tractor and helping with the livestock, even had baby pig's in her kitchen to warm up from winter farrowing's. She loves the country. There is no way you could ever get her to move back to town unless it was a matter of necessity.
 
My father attended a Farm Bureau dinner (all men) one time and sat next to a man who boasted on and on about his wonderful wife. The man finally said to my father: "Tell me about your wife." My father replied: "My wife is a wonderful disciplinarian." My brother and I still laugh about that and how true it was. But then, her two uncles were Prussian Drillmasters.
(;>))
 
Very lucky indeed. My other half of 9 yrs has owned horses for around 40 yrs and if it has to do with them like giving shots or reaching into a sheath no problem, however asking her to run a machine is almost taboo. No plans on ever learning how to operate the tractor and I get 'the look' and I must retrain her each time to move the 4 wheeler for me.
A couple years ago she did learn how to run the lawnmower as she wanted to use in pasture but never used in yard.
 
Same here, mine was a semi city girl, grew up in rural ares but never lived on a farm. She now drives the tractor when we bale hay and helps put small squares in the shed, also feeds in the morning during the week after I've gone to work. Still gets upset at times about things but gets over it pretty quick. Luv her
 
Me too!

My wife thinks nothing of hopping on a tractor or tossing bales to help out.

But I was most proud of her when our tedder broke - she tedded the field the old fashioned way - something I wouldn't have been able to do myself.
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Erik,
You are one lucky fella. My wife can't hardly separate herself from the computer, both at work and at home. She is quite a techy, and I am totally opposite. Give me a pitchfork and I'm good to go. LOL
Kow Farmer Kurt
 
Betty likes to tedd, rake, and haul hay,also haul and bin grain with gravity wagons. Last fall she made fun of my corn crop by bringing a folding chair and book to the field with her. That field was making less than 20 bushels per acre though. Joe
 
I got. Good one too, she came from a small town, says she
always wondered about those slow farm vehicles on the road.

Now she loves to do the tillage, get her set up with the plow
and stay out of her way, or in spring on the field cultivator.

Helps a lot with rock picking and such mundane stuff too.

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 06:11:25 08/28/13) When we got married 5 years ago my wife was a city born and bred who wanted no part of getting dirty on the farm. I am picking up some more acres for next year and she heard me talking to a neighbor who just retired about helping work ground and haul grain. Would you believe my wife got mad cause she wanted to help? She has gotten pretty good at driving these old straight trucks and even ran the combine some in wheat this year. I had to be quick on the stick and tell her I was just looking for help for the days she's at work. (She's an RN).
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Buy her a tractor and get out of her way.
 
My wife grew up on a farm.

When I was farming, (before no-till), during planting time in the spring she'd work the ground ahead with one tractor and I'd follow with the planter on another tractor. We'd get done in a hurry. She once said she'd rather cultivate corn than do housework.

I don't think our neighbor's wife had ever set foot on a farm before they met in college. Within a couple of years she would wheel a big John Deere and 28' tandem disc around with the best of them.
 
You are a lucky man Eric. If your wife likes to do the things you do , and help out, it brings you closer. While my wife, also a city girl, is still to much of a girlie girl to run tactors, she is a huge help in the dairy barn. Bruce
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Mine too. She grew up in a small town, but not much farming experience. When I had our little place in hay she drove the tractor on the baler all the time until the kids got bigger. I always said any woman that can drive a 1948 John Deere D, an IHC #45 hay baler, & a wagon made out of '35 Ford axles---and keep the whole works together could drive anything on wheels. We don't make hay anymore, but she's canning, freezing, and gardening like crazy. 49 years together coming up!!
 
The tech the local Case dealer sends out to install autosteer systems grew up in downtown LA or Sandiego or somewhere about thataways. Didn't know what a tractor was til she graduated college and answered a help wanted ad.
 
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