Plow day - teaching son to plow

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

Husband teaching son to plow at a local plow day with our F20 and Little Genius. Thought it was a neat picture.

I already know it is not a good idea to ride shotgun on the drawbar. Sometimes he does stuff anyway...at those times I just tell him to be sure his insurance policy is paid up.

NEKS · Sep 25, 2012

I was in the sixth grade when dad bought a 1936 F-20. Did a lot of plowing with a 3 bottom Case plow. I guess riding on the drawbar is safer then walking tall weeds or grass through the plow.

Kow Farmer · Sep 25, 2012

Great learning experience for your son and great father-son bonding also.
Kow Farmer

donjr · Sep 25, 2012

Jes be happy he ain't got YOU pulling that plow------

MarkWV · Sep 25, 2012

neat picture, one you should frame and keep to look back on years from now

jon f mn · Sep 25, 2012

Farmers been ridin drawbars since tractors were invented. That's probly safer than the way my dad taught me. He just said go get that tractor. lol Of course by then I had been ridin the fender for several years. I can't believe we actually all lived. Great pics as always by the way!

J.Wondergem · Sep 25, 2012

I agree with MarkWV. That's a good shot for down the road in live.

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

Now, Don Jr.... are you implying I'm a nag? LOL!!! I am a worrywart for sure, though.

My husband asked me if I wanted to ride a round, but I passed for taking pics and video. It was fun. I think there were at least 12-15 guys there plowing. Husband said tractors and plows came out of the woodwork like flies to a manure pile. It was great.

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

MarkWV,
For sure will keep it. It will also grace one of our CD covers in my husband's shop. I design all of them with personal photos. I think this one will have to have the song list printed on the inside cover, rather than over the photo.

I will likely put it on the September page of the 2013 calendar I make for my husband's shop too.

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

KowFarmer,
Very true. And one can use every moment possible when they are almost grown. He'll be off to the Marines next spring.

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

jon f mn,

Did it make you nervous when your dad just had you go get it?

Our son has worked with the F20 before, but has never plowed as we have rented out our land since he was about 10. So this was a really neat moment. I did video too and hope to put it all together into a photo/video montage that can be watched on TV...a learning project for this winter.

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

J Wondergem,

Thanks. Yes, I agree it is a keeper. As I told Mark below, it will become a CD cover and maybe a page in next year's shop calendar.

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

NEKS,

Was a 3 bottom hard to pull with and F20? My husband said this was really tough plowing. They hit a lot of rocks. I hitched him up once before our son arrived. Hitched up another guy too, who also had a Little Genius. Easy with them, since the hitch moves so you only have to lift the weight of the hitch not the whole plow.

jon f mn · Sep 25, 2012

LOL, think I was to young and excited to know fear. I was driving our ford jubilee and case 830 case o matic at 6 years old. Stayed home from school to plow the first time in 4th grade. Of course I was second youngest of 9 kids so by then Mom and Dad pretty much just counted heads at breakfast and supper and as long as the number was close everything was good. lol

El Toro · Sep 25, 2012

My late mom was the second oldest of 13 kids. My dad may have thoughts of having that many, but mom had her own thoughts that three is enough. She out lived all her siblings but one
that will be 85 this Oct. Hal

James Williams · Sep 25, 2012

Sweetfeet,what year is that F20

jimmy

KFD68 · Sep 25, 2012

Its good that youngsters are interested in machinery and learning how to plough.

This 13 year old from North Wales was taught to plough by his father and he is now winning ploughing matches [competitions]

In Britain there is a growing interest in ploughing matches, and the older experienced ploughmen hold working days to explain and show the younger generation how to set up and operate a plough.

Mike (WA) · Sep 25, 2012

Never ceases to amaze me how well you guys can plow in your "ploughing matches"- nary a blade of grass to be seen, and you can't tell one set of furrows from the next! I guess we just don't try hard enough, over here- the colonists were always a little impatient, I guess.

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

Jimmy,

We had always been told by my husband's dad that it was a 1936. But fairly recently asked a question about it and included the serial number and a YT poster ID'd it as a 1935 by serial number... but the number on the front pedestal indicates 1936 as it ends in F.

So, I guess it is a 35/36 year.

Kind of like that Johnny Cash song, "its a 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 automobile!"

SweetFeet

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

jon f mn,

That's the difference between boys and girls... my dad tried to put me on his JD A when I was about 6. Could not stop it - kinda scared me and I never really wanted to learn after that.

The suppertime head-count...that is funny! (There were six kids in my family).
SweetFeet

SweetFeet · Sep 25, 2012

Hal,

I am sure being one of 13 is what helped her decide that 3 was a great number. I would have to agree with your mom... we have 3 kids and it is perfect. I literally could not imagine, nor cope with 13 - that is a lot of KIDDLES!
SweetFeet

JLG · Sep 25, 2012

I saw an old John Deere Day video about a farmer taking delivery of an Unstyled John Deere and plow. The tractor was an "A" or a "B", I can't remember. Anyway, they hook the plow up, farmer gets on the tractor seat, John Deere man stands on the drawbar, and the farmers small son sits on the plow, and out to the field they go.

samn40 · Sep 25, 2012

I had my son ploughing when he was 6 he came second in a ploughing match when he was 7 and now he ploughs with the reversible at just 13 yrs old. They learn faster than we do!

KFD68 · Sep 25, 2012

Nice photos - I guess you are in Ireland by the registration number. I'm only a few miles east of you in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.

Do you look at Forum4Farming? I have a photo thread running there called "Wandering in West Wales"

Paul from MI · Sep 25, 2012

Another kid just learning to plow, 58 years after I started learning to plow. '37 JD B and 1-16" Little Wonder IHC plow. Great pices, keep 'em coming.

flying belgian · Sep 25, 2012

Wow, that plow is cutting a very nice furrow. You must have it set just right.

gene bender · Sep 26, 2012

Thats the way we did it. You would plow a field of cornstalks and never seen a cornstalk. 49M with 3-14 little Genius. Sod was the same way and pulled a small harrow section on the plow so when you got done it just looked great.

samn40 · Sep 26, 2012

Northern Ireland, to be exact.... Don't look at the farming forum
just do this one and the FOFH forum.

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