WarrenF
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A model 55 Massey Ferguson Plow. I was/am excited about my purchase. If you can see good enough you will note the brand new plow shares.
This is what I bought
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Bird
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That does look like a nice piece of equipment.
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Nice and it looks heavy. What are you pulling it with?
I am pulling it with a Massey 165. Silly me to get excited about a piece of metal. However with all of the turmoil in the world lately, I am making plans and moving ahead with becoming self sufficient. I have about three acres that I can row crop and grow garden. I have an old barn on my place with all the stantions that my grandfather used to milk cows. All I would need to find is a milking machine. I did as a kid milk by hand.....but I don't know if I want to get THAT back to nature. I have had one too many tails filled with manure swat me in the face.....
Recently I purchased a three bar, cultivator that has all the sweeps and knives that I will need. Sure beats a hoe!!!! Now I am looking for a planter. Based on the recommendations of many here....I am thinking a John Deere 70 or 71 or maybe if I can find one a Planet Jr. Then I will be ready this spring to plant a garden large enough to feed three families....me and my grown kids.
Bird
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That's the first time I've heard those mentioned in many years, although I think it's spelled "stanchions". When I was a kid, I always wanted some, like a lot of people had, but my Dad vetoed that; said you simply train the cow to stand still without being confined.
Wow! How many cows do you intend to milk? I would think the machine would be awfully expensive unless you had a lot of cows, but then I never really checked into the cost of the machines, since I never had any choice but to milk by hand.
Or filled with cockleburs.
What you have to do is hold the bucket between your knees and hold the cow's tail between the bucket and your left knee.And I'll do without milk completely before I go back to milking a cow.
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I am pulling it with a Massey 165. Silly me to get excited about a piece of metal. However with all of the turmoil in the world lately, I am making plans and moving ahead with becoming self sufficient. I have about three acres that I can row crop and grow garden. I have an old barn on my place with all the stantions that my grandfather used to milk cows. All I would need to find is a milking machine. I did as a kid milk by hand.....but I don't know if I want to get THAT back to nature. I have had one too many tails filled with manure swat me in the face.....
Recently I purchased a three bar, cultivator that has all the sweeps and knives that I will need. Sure beats a hoe!!!! Now I am looking for a planter. Based on the recommendations of many here....I am thinking a John Deere 70 or 71 or maybe if I can find one a Planet Jr. Then I will be ready this spring to plant a garden large enough to feed three families....me and my grown kids.
So that's like a 2-14 roll-over plow (aka two-way plow)? Or maybe 2-16? No coulters?
You should be OK with that plow hanging on the MF-165 3pt which has 2850 lb max lift on the lower links in the lowest position.
That's the first time I've heard those mentioned in many years, although I think it's spelled "stanchions". When I was a kid, I always wanted some, like a lot of people had, but my Dad vetoed that; said you simply train the cow to stand still without being confined.
Wow! How many cows do you intend to milk? I would think the machine would be awfully expensive unless you had a lot of cows, but then I never really checked into the cost of the machines, since I never had any choice but to milk by hand.
Or filled with cockleburs.
And I'll do without milk completely before I go back to milking a cow.
Bird....you made me laugh. I just took a shot at spelling STANCHIONS.....and apparently missed. Oh well, I just have "dumb dirt farmers kid from Idaho" written on my forehead. Since I am not a cow man or even a dairy man....I figure I cannot get the production from a cow that some do. I am thinking two cows max. Some milk for personal and family use, and some milk to sell....that is if the government doesn't decide that unpasteurized milk is unsafe for human consumption.....
Through herbicides and farming from fence post to fence post, cockleburs are not a problem in our area. THEY WERE, and I had forgotten getting hit with them in the mix....
I think milking cows has caused more men to lose any semblance of clean talk for a short period of time, than anything else in the world. The only problem with holding the tail between your knee and the bucket that I had is this. When the old cow hunched up to relieve herself....I was never fast enough getting everything out to get far enough away. That is where I learned the old saying....raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock. Have a great day!!!
It has 16 inch plows on it. Yes it is a roll over plow....that is really all that is used out here in this country.
There is no problem with the tractor handling the plow....and you are correct there are no coulter wheels on it. The farming practices out here are such that you really don't need them. Because of watering with siiphon tubes in furrows, and needing to turn the trash under....most of the time you disc the area VERY thoroughly and don't have a lot of trash on the surface.
However I am going to get them for the plow....silly me....I just find a great deal of satisfaction making things original if at all possible.
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Good Evenin Warren,
Wow thats a nice lookin piece of iron you got there ! I refurbed an old Dearborn 2 BTM last year and had fun doing it ! Hopefully Farmwithjunk will jump in here and give you some info on that plow setup ! Good luck with it ! And post some plowing pics when you can !
Wow thats a nice lookin piece of iron you got there !
I refurbed an old Dearborn 2 BTM last year and had fun doing it ! Hopefully Farmwithjunk will jump in here and give you some info on that plow setup ! Good luck with it ! And post some plowing pics when you can ! 
chh
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Good looking plow. I'm afraid I would have to agree with Bird. I think I would do without milk before I started milking a cow. Of course, the only experience I have ever had milking was beef cows that would not take their calf. You would be amazed how much a really ticked off old cow can move around in a squeeze chute.
. I think I would do without milk before I started milking a cow. Of course, the only experience I have ever had milking was beef cows that would not take their calf. You would be amazed how much a really ticked off old cow can move around in a squeeze chute.