Compacts On Top

[Jag]

This last weekend I went to a "Hay Expo" put on by the University of Arkansas Extension Service. All the big boys where showing their equipment, farm tractors, balers, rakes, tedders, mowers... Green, Blue, Red showed, no orange. (They were there last year). Two big things were going around. One, as we all knew, compacts are taking a larger and larger market, even for the rural farm dealers. Two you can buy a 5-8 year old 80 HP tractor (at least in eastern Arkansas) cheaper than a 30-40 HP tractor of the same age...

Also there were some bales of hay to be evulated by everyone to see how close you could come to weight, and food value for cows... The only thing I could get right was the weight... They put on a safety lecture and demo. They had a full size dummy that had a small tab on it's sleeve hook on the PTO shaft when they turned it on it was very impressive... The story, fast PTO speed arm or leg pulled off, slow PTO speed the whole body wraped up...