Posted on 01/23/2017 10:56:06 AM PST by blam
When I was a youngster I walked the furrow behind a one-horse plow for what seemed like hours to me as my grandfather plowed. I couldn’t leave him for a minute. He was my god back then. I can’t wait to see him again.
Um, haven’t you heard? Obummer the degenerate is no longer in power.
Massey Ferguson 135 diesel.
I think a 1970s C10.
First car driving experience when turned a teenager!
The biggest problem was that if you caught on something solid, they would pop wheelies and flip over real easy. We even had extra steel weights on the front end to hold it down.
It's a miracle I am alive after using the old rear engine tractors. We had a blue one just like the first picture.
Isn’t it funny how those of us who ever lived on a farm recall life there as wonderful?
Doesn’t make sense to me either.
Now if they could sell them for $6K they’d probably get some interest.
A water barrel.
American farmers used to plow their fields with just one or two horsepower back in the 1800s.
“...and a roll of duct tape.”
Is that you Red Green?
And people think Freepers are not helpful.
I guess it wasn’t all sunshine and roses but in a lot of ways it was a good life.
I had a half mile drive, sold the farm a couple years ago so I’m not up to date on rock price, but it may be in the ball park. Depends on what he means by an inch, kind of hard to lay an even 1 inch with 1 inch crush and run. If you have a good base, you might consider something a little finer. If the road is solid, you also don’t need all those fines, they are what makes the dirt on your car.
I used to grade the neighbors drive for free but I would drop a couple of grand every time I bought rock, but I usually put down a couple of inches.
If you live in the country and know your neighbors, you could see how much they would charge you to blade and price the rock separately.
Wasn’t it great to drive those things for the first time. After I leaned well I was on it plowing the fields or pulling the tobacco planter, etc.
Our farm raised tobacco too (Tenn). I drove tractor pulling the planters. I was also on the top tier of the barn hanging tobacco, hand-picking worms, tying hands, etc. Hard crop was dark-fired tobacco.
It was a good life to me. I grew up and married a farmer and was happy on that farm too, but he moved me off to Miami,Fl. Guess that’s why the marriage folded. My love of the farm is what drew me to this thread. I may be the only female here. Ha. I love tractors, and agree that this AL factory may be short lived.
My Mother grew up working on a huge farm and literally began when she was 6 years old. They raised a lot of crops but she told me the one thing she did not like was working tobacco.
Bright leaf flue cured here. The old log barns were starting to give way to bulk barns with racks, took a lot of the craft out of it. My grandfather would have been horrified, the golden color, all those holes punched in the leaves. He’d have called it trash. He was also an auctioneer at the tobacco warehouse.
Ariens. My dad loved those. Fun for a teenager mowing the lawn, pretty fast in high.
I guess it depends on what work a person might want to do with their tractor.
I own a John Deere 970, 40 hp diesel and I LOVE IT. I bought it new a little over 18 years ago. The loader and backhoe are on it now. I have more implements than I care to list. LOL
There isn’t anything that this thing can’t do. It is a perfect toy for a workaholic that loves to play in the dirt. I have landscaped our entire 5 acres using this tractor. Oh, and my neighbors love my addiction. ;>)
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