Okay, It's Time

I'm gonna go hook 'er up today; might even take time to check the oil in the old tractor.

Gotta move two stacks of hay first and then perhaps we can get this season started. :>)

Allan

I wanna come down to your plowday so bad I can taste it, but the "powers that be" tell me I gotta keep workin' if I wanna eat. :>(

Heck yeah, we could "summer range, winter range" this buffalo thing if you'd wanna take the winter shift. :>)

Look at ol' Ted Turner puttin' all that real estate back into the 1800s. :>)

Allan

I'm just "play farmin'". This particular place is 320 acres.

When the wife tells me to "Go outside and play", this is where I go. If I had to do it for a living, I'd probably, no, wrong choice of words, I know I'd have a whole competely different attitude. :>)

Just don't see how those big boys do it.

Allan

I will never, ever trade my pride to go no-til or crawl in bed with the devil just so I can indirectly work for the machinery/chemical companies.

Just cannot imagine what that feels like to be tryin' to meet a payment on a down payment. :>(

If this doesn't work, I'll plant the whole derned place to grass and turn it over to 40 head of buffalo and just let 'em have their way with it. :>)

Allan

Now how in the world did you get those boards to shine like that? I'm plowin tough red Ohio clay and mine don't shine that pretty. ha ha. It is that time of year though and the plowin is great here. It was goin pretty nice yesterday until the little breakdown. Made a round and noticed the plow pullin a little harder. Made it back aruond and found my trailing wheel layin in the furrow. It didn't seem to phase the old JD R too much though. Nice thing is that we had all the parts to replace the bearings and seals that got anihilated here at work ( one of the perks for workin at an IH dealership). It's raining here this morning and probably will this afternoon so that'll give me a break to put in the new parts toinight and then take to the field again tomorrow. Can't beat plowin. God bless.

--old fashioned farmer

This darned thing better not give me any grief this year or it'll get parked out in the trees.

I know right where there is half a dozen Massey 4-18 spinners settin' and I could have one settin' here in the yard in half a day.

Darned IH plows just plain pull hard compared to those Masseys! :>(

Allan

It really works on a guy's head, doesn't it? :>(

One of these days, we'll be bellyachin' that it is too darned hot and dry. :>)

Allan

I'll be working alfalfa/sod that hasn't been turned in 35 years.

I want it so sloppy that I can barley keep the tires from slippin' so I can pull it. Darned stuff had me clear down in 3rd gear last year when I knocked out this little patch.

Got 54 acres of the tough stuff yet to go, then I can get to the "easy" 35 acres of wheat stubble. That part will seem like heaven when I get over there. :>)

Allan

With my 706 ger. I could pull a 4/16 fast hitch in low 4, TA up, about any where when I was trying to farm. That gave me a good 4.5mph and the plow worked good at that speed.

Play safe steveormary

That's the way I'm used to also. But, this ol' briar patch is just an old fashioned stinker. Pulls just like cement.

Hope it goes a little better this year; that's why I wanna get out there early before it starts sappin' all the moisture outta the ground again.

Allan

Beats me, never been around one of those one-way "circle plows".

However, I can tell ya that in addition to the obvious time savings, the real advantage is that there is no dead furrow; an absolute must if you happen to be on a flood irrigated farm.

Downside is that the spinners are spendy. :>(

I've noticed that this farm I just bought is a good 6 feet higher on the outside edges of the fields due to the use of the one-way plows over the years. It's gonna take me 10 years to straighten this mess back out.

I use a soft centered paint like aluminum, copper coat or flat black to dress the bottoms. It peels right back off in about 3 feet the next season.

Allan

I was taught to always throw the dirt the opposite direction as the previous year. It's easy to do. Even if it's a field you never plowed before, you can usually tell if you look at it a little.

Of course, the guy that taught me to plow is fussier than most about such things, but his fields sure look nice when he is done plowing.