billonthefarm
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- Farmington IL
As you are probably figuring out, at long last, we are able to catch our breath a little and smell the roses.
Been trying to get this sign up for awhile now. We took time wednesday evening and installed it. This is a farm we rent and we are here everyday doing chores year round. We winter our cow herd on this farm. Probably the oldest farm in the township. When they came here indians still lived on the back of the farm while the Higgs family lived here on this building site. They homesteaded here and rode on horsback in 1836 to Quincy to get the paperwork. I bet that was a quite a journey.
With most of the cows out to pasture our chores are much less. This is nick feeding the yearlings in the lot here at home. This is the biggest part of chores now. We spend a fair amount of time checking cows in pastures but I hardly call that work!
Its time to mow pasture's as well. This one hasnt had anything in it this year. If things go well tomorrow it will have a group of heifers before evening.
This is our new heifer bull. We got him in march and he just looks better to me all the time. I guess we will know how he works out next spring.
There is about 40 acres in this pasture. Wanted to clip it down before we turned the heifers in here.
I bought this 4630 for $7000 three years ago. I had to do some work on it. It aint very pretty at all. It runs like a top. Had the powershift checked out right away when I bought it. Really works nice for this job. Just today I bumped into a bale ring I didnt see in the weeds and a large culvert over next to the creek that was hiding. Sure would have hated to done that to one of our newer tractors. Things were going just fine till the A/C went on the fritz just before noon. Made for a warm afternoon.
This long long ago forgotton bridge always catches my eye. It connects two halves of this farm. No clue when the road was closed but it was a very long time ago. The family that owns this farm ran cattle across this bridge in the last 20 years or so. The iron work is in decent shape still.
In a unusual move this morning I left wrigley here at home while I went to mow pasture. I knew that the guys were coming over to work on fence and I would be helping them probably and I didnt want wrigley runing around over here as I have no clue if someone had been trapping and left a trap or something like that. Soooo about 11 dad called and wanted to know where I was at. I told him I was over north of Fariview mowing pasture and I then asked why? He said "no reason really, just came down to your house and wrigley is laying on the roof of the cab of your truck." So if you see a blue ford driving around with dog prints on the hood, windshield and cab roof, wave, its me and wrigley!!!!
bill
Been trying to get this sign up for awhile now. We took time wednesday evening and installed it. This is a farm we rent and we are here everyday doing chores year round. We winter our cow herd on this farm. Probably the oldest farm in the township. When they came here indians still lived on the back of the farm while the Higgs family lived here on this building site. They homesteaded here and rode on horsback in 1836 to Quincy to get the paperwork. I bet that was a quite a journey.
With most of the cows out to pasture our chores are much less. This is nick feeding the yearlings in the lot here at home. This is the biggest part of chores now. We spend a fair amount of time checking cows in pastures but I hardly call that work!
Its time to mow pasture's as well. This one hasnt had anything in it this year. If things go well tomorrow it will have a group of heifers before evening.
This is our new heifer bull. We got him in march and he just looks better to me all the time. I guess we will know how he works out next spring.
There is about 40 acres in this pasture. Wanted to clip it down before we turned the heifers in here.
I bought this 4630 for $7000 three years ago. I had to do some work on it. It aint very pretty at all. It runs like a top. Had the powershift checked out right away when I bought it. Really works nice for this job. Just today I bumped into a bale ring I didnt see in the weeds and a large culvert over next to the creek that was hiding. Sure would have hated to done that to one of our newer tractors. Things were going just fine till the A/C went on the fritz just before noon. Made for a warm afternoon.
This long long ago forgotton bridge always catches my eye. It connects two halves of this farm. No clue when the road was closed but it was a very long time ago. The family that owns this farm ran cattle across this bridge in the last 20 years or so. The iron work is in decent shape still.
In a unusual move this morning I left wrigley here at home while I went to mow pasture. I knew that the guys were coming over to work on fence and I would be helping them probably and I didnt want wrigley runing around over here as I have no clue if someone had been trapping and left a trap or something like that. Soooo about 11 dad called and wanted to know where I was at. I told him I was over north of Fariview mowing pasture and I then asked why? He said "no reason really, just came down to your house and wrigley is laying on the roof of the cab of your truck." So if you see a blue ford driving around with dog prints on the hood, windshield and cab roof, wave, its me and wrigley!!!!
bill
