For You John Deere Fans

The wife and I went "Farm Shopping" again today; I couldn't help taking a couple of shots of this old 60 and a mounted 4 row cutter, which was on the place we were looking at.

Allan

Must be that "regional" thing going on again.

We always run 'em buy the blacksmith for a good sharpening prior to harvest and they would snap that stem like a twig. I also ran a rod weeder right behind the cutter to get the straglers.

Don't ever remember seeing a "root" coming thru the combine. The darned things are dirty enough the way it is without that extra dirt to deal with.

Allan

Picture was taken yesterday afternoon.

I can remember it rained in 1999. But that was early in the year, around May, as I recall. :>)

That is why we have to make our own rain. How would ya like to add the cost of one of these little trinkets to the yearly cash flow? :>(

Allan

I'm no expert on Green - actually, I'm no expert on anything, but unless my eyes decieve me, aint there a second one of them things lurking to the left? The one and only time I ever got to see Classic Tractors on RFD, I do believe a guy had one of them that he restored and fetched pretty good buck. I'm thinkin that single wheel on that thing makes it kind of rare, and you might just become the proud papa of two. Of course, you park them things in the same barn with that red, there's likely to be some kind of ruckus coming out of the barn at night when you're trying to sleep. Know how it is when you got one dog and want to get that second? Sometimes have to introduce them to each other to see if the tails wag or if the hairs stand up?

As for classic tractors, I give up on that. I got myself primed to watch it for a second time ever, and company came over for dinner just before it came on. I give up on that.

Mark

Yes, I didn't even think to get a shot of that old 50 settin' there; I was all wound up in that silly old bean cutter.

Guy told my that he had a 70 too, but that it needed a crankshaft. Groan!

Allan

We had a grand day today. Just absolutely fell in love with the owners of the farm. Come to find out, is only 8 or so miles down the road from the farm where I was hatched and I kinda knew the area anyway.

So, the wife (being the learned one from St. Louis) is yanking her checkbook out and wants this place and wants it right now. She is having visions of calling the cattle buyer and ordering a pot of calves. I finally and somewhat diplomatically got her into the car and out of the yard without writing a down payment.

She is looking at me like she would like to rip my arms off and stuff 'em down my throat and I tell her, "Please listen to me on this one, Sweet pea; you know the family business, but I know dirt and this just isn’t all it seems".

The farm is an irrigator's worst nightmare; However, I can handle that trip tho, 'cause I'm used to it. I can live with the tough irrigating as it has more than enough acres under water rights and another fair chunk of dry land.

The killer is that the place has roughly 80 or 90 acres of pure alkaline wasteland on one quarter, which the owner is calling prime; trouble is, it won’t grow a bloody thing.

Yes, I’d like to have the place, but we are going to have to make some major changes in the bottom line of the paperwork before I’ll agree. I gotta talk to the real estate agent on Monday, I guess.

Told ya I was kinda “picky”. :>)

Allan

Thanks, but we don't have the kind of cash it would take to play in that league of sand box.

'Sides, I wouldn't know the first thing about how to farm anything that wasn't posing as a desert trial run. :>(

I don't see how you guys can survive without rattlesnakes and wildcats. Just don't seem human, somehow. :>)

Allan

Yeah I know, ol' friend.

Been around 'em for 60 years. Count the knives; two on each side of the tractor. Makes four according to my count. :>)

Allan

I never did use a 4 row; always hung another knife to the out side and pushed that outer row to the outside of the rear wheel. So, this would be cutting 6 at a pop.

On the next pass coming back the outer would push the next row over to the one previously cut, thereby still throwing two rows together.

'Course it all depended on how many rows were planted, 'cause the cutter has to match the planter.

Allan

Sorry, ol' Bud, I always think everyone on here is an irrigator.

This was the cutter used back in the 40s thru the 60s for Dry Edible Beans (Navy Beans).

They were usually planted in 18/22 inch rows back then, the wide spacing for the wheel tracks and the narrow two rows pushed together into one under the tractor belly during the cutting process.

The knives run just under the surface of the soil snapping the root of the plant and those divider rods leading back pushed the two rows together. The front wheel vine divider snout is missing from this tractor.

Everything nowadays is planted in 30" rows, of course.

Allan

Dug

I've always liked green; you've been hangin' around that darned Indy too long. Can't always believe everything he says 'cause he's a color-war monger and just likes to start a scrap. :>)

Right John? :>)

Allan

NO! I'm just right all the time....

GREEN and YELLOW is the BEST!

Yours truely,
John

If and when I ever get ya down outta those hills of MO, I see I'm going to have to put in a little extra time on your "old iron education". :>)

Four knives, 4 rows.

(Don't look now, Harley, but your wife's fetish with the four legged monsters (enter H-word here) is rubbin' off on ya a little) LOL!

Allan

: )

Dug

Pretty sure he is just joking around with us. :>)

Allan