Picture for Today Spring Field Work

John B. · Mar 20, 2013

For those who remember farming with horses.
When man and animals worked together. I love the 2nd picture.
They say, "Those who work the ground are closer to God". I don't think a person can get any closer than this while living on earth!

larrystinescorner · Mar 20, 2013

Thanks again for another great picture,see ya later !

Murray2 · Mar 20, 2013

Thanks again for the nice pictures. Alway's enloy looking at farming pictures from years long past and see the hard work that went into farming. Providing food for many others, although i don't believe the farmer's realized the important role they played in putting food on the table for others to survive. Cheers, Murray

Dick2 · Mar 20, 2013

I remember watching Dad do that kind of field work. They didn't think it unusual that they walked up and down the fields with the horses. He did have a platform on the back of the drill so he could ride on that when planting - but mostly to make sure that each feeder was planting right.

Suffolk1 · Mar 20, 2013

Those men were tough! That's a lot of walking to cover a field. I'll bet they knew every rock and detail of each field.

Wheat Farmer · Mar 20, 2013

I am old enough that my first paying job was driving a team, but young enough that I had a seat. White team was Pat & Dolly, and the bay team was prince & Mid 50's. No photos :>(

Wheat Farmer · Mar 20, 2013

I know a single tree and a double tree, but was there a name for the other tree behind the two double trees in the first photo?

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 20, 2013

Our neighbour plowing (hilling in this photo) our garden in the 80's. He worked with horses in the woods into the 2000's. His last horse a big black percheron is retired on my sisters farm. His will asked that it never be pulled, he would rather it be put down.

Waltmo · Mar 20, 2013

That is part of the double tree to make it a double.

Waltmo · Mar 20, 2013

That is the part of the double tree to make it a double.

Bobl1958 · Mar 20, 2013

Some people call them "eveners"

Gerry....WI · Mar 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 09:19:57 03/20/13) I know a single tree and a double tree, but was there a name for the other tree behind the two double trees in the first photo?

It's called an evener.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 20, 2013

If you got a drag cart to ride on you were a lazy farmer.They said it was hard on the horses,until everybody else got one.

oleclint · Mar 20, 2013

First pic,Top rite. Did anyone notice the huge corn crib? Think of the labor needed to grow and harvest a crop big enough to fill that crib!clint

Keith Molden · Mar 20, 2013

Durned BTO's 4 horses gonna break the small farmer LOL. Great pictures Thanks, Keith

4020deereboy · Mar 20, 2013

That is cool I've always wanted a team grandpa never would let me have a team growing up I think because he spent half his life behind one

hawkeyeford · Mar 20, 2013

Great Pics! Thank You for sharing.

Paul from MI · Mar 20, 2013

Great pictures! That explains how Dad found so many arrowheads back in the 20's and 30's.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 20, 2013

Can,t help but think of how QUIET farming must have been back then. No loud smoke belching tractors.
Farmers were just content with just making a good living and not interesting with keeping up with the Jones.

GregCO · Mar 21, 2013

Really neat old pics. What I like about it is the fact that the farmer walked every mile the horses did. No free ride.

Greg

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