Machinery fascinates me sometimes...

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2011

Just saw a guy go thru a field that was plowed last fall and and plant with one pass.......... Had a thing that looked like two big rows of garden claws running on the front then a thing with t solid rows of what look like gears on the back with the planter behind and some chain dragging behind.

Got to the end and lifted the thing on frt, the planter folded up over the other thing on back and all lifted and drove to the next field. Prolly old news to some of you, but I get a kick out of watching them.

Dave

greenbeanman in Kansas · Mar 23, 2011

I also enjoy seeing many different kinds of machinery.

In 1996 or 1997 I attended the California Farm Equipment Show in Tulare. Most fascinating machine to me was a nut tree harvester. An upside down umbrella like device wrapped around the tree, an arm came out to grip the tree which then shook the tree to dislodge the ripe nuts which fell into the umbrella like device.

Seems that man only has to dream of something in order to eventually make it a reality. I keep a pencil and pad beside my bed and lounge chair to draw &/or write down my inspirations---if they might be called that. Perhaps one day my grandsons will build something from my notes.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2011

Don't think I would care much for that machine

Goose · Mar 23, 2011

There's a 30 acre field across the line fence south of our house that belongs to a widder lady.

Last spring, I watched the fellow that farms it plant it with a 24 row planter. Considering all the time he spent jacking around, turning around on the ends, getting lined up for the next pass across the field, etc., I could have gone in with an 8 or 12 row planter and been done and long gone down the road.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2011

(quoted from post at 06:06:27 03/23/11) There's a 30 acre field across the line fence south of our house that belongs to a widder lady.

Last spring, I watched the fellow that farms it plant it with a 24 row planter. Considering all the time he spent jacking around, turning around on the ends, getting lined up for the next pass across the field, etc., I could have gone in with an 8 or 12 row planter and been done and long gone down the road.

Hard to find a 30 acre field in this area..10 is about tops with 2-5 being the norm. machinery is 10ft wide or less because it has to share the road.

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2011

(quoted from post at 05:51:56 03/23/11) Don't think I would care much for that machine

He said ripe, not old and rusted........

Mel in SW Iowa · Mar 23, 2011

My uncle in Michigan was using a tree shaker like your description on his apple trees in 1977 when I
visited. I think they had been in use for several years at that time. They sprayed just before harvest so that more apples would drop when shaken.

Spook · Mar 23, 2011

Sounds like a plot machine. Hunters use them here to make food plots for deer & turkeys. Does a little tillage, plants and covers up the seed.

Cue P. · Mar 23, 2011

Been around apple growing for 20 years now and i can say there is no such thing i've ever heard of. There is nothing you can spray on apples to make them drop (at harvest time) and no grower in his right mind would shake 'em out of a tree - they bruise and smoosh and no one would buy them. Maybe you meant cherries?

RayP(MI) · Mar 23, 2011

I have a 5 station progressive reloading press that loads brass into the shell holder disk, deprimes/sizes the brass, puts new primer in, loads a measured amount of powder, inserts bullet into case, (I set bullet in case mouth by hand, but they have a mechanism for that) and then crimps bullet in brass, and secondarily resizes the brass. How they time that thing to do all those things just at the right time, is a marvel. sure looks Rube Goldberg, but works like a charm. Someone had to have spent a lot of time on that thing!

twopop · Mar 23, 2011

he is pulling what we call a field cultivater,behind that is a cultipacker,then the planter.pretty nifty

Lou from Wi. · Mar 23, 2011

Can't get ours .Our cultivator is 11.6 and has the name Van Brunt on it. Makes it One of a kind and hard to find. LOL.Worth more when it's sold ,cause it's RARE RARE RARE!!!Just like our bridge in Brooklyn and the good swamp ground we have in Florida,where they raise great mosquitoes where they are shipped here to Wis, in the spring. We are thinking of putting all our assets on stock market so others can get in on the ground floor ,so to speak.Just watch the market. Regards LOU & Victor

Bob · Mar 23, 2011

Why is your John Deere cultivator RED?

BTW, those CC's or CCA's had to be about the most WORTHLESS product Deere ever produced. They had NO trash clearance WHATEVER. If there were two pieces of straw in a hundred-acre field that thing would pick them both up and PLUG. Just a MISERABLE outfit!

Lou from Wi. · Mar 23, 2011

That was the trouble. The color Green fowled it up. Now that it's red, Look out field. No need to worry about trash, it's used for gardening lol. LOU.

Lou from Wi. · Mar 23, 2011

Dave. Now that would hurt. dislodged nuts ,upside down in an umbrella. POOF .

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2011

But you are not charging by the hour.

Leroy · Mar 24, 2011

They were and are still a good piece of machinery for use if you use them as they were designed for, if you miss use then you can expect problems.

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