Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

That's where I'm headed tomorrow.

Getting some potatoes or you find a great deal, either way theres no snow til Saturday so your good to go...............

 

[Jstpssng]

they like the beetles, to eat,

Now you're getting into the punk rock genre. Like this line from a Blondie song...

You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercury's and Subaru's
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars

Funny, she doesn't say anything about Beetles or any other VWs though.

 

[Skeans1]

I have heard that the Howard tillers are excellent.
Not too sure how many folks here on TBN will be doing 2000 acres.
Landpride,and others are supposedly very good also.
For twice each year use though, I am very satisfied with the durability of my KK tiller.

Howard’s are good but a really good tiller is a Northwest.

 

[goeduck]

When you leave the cities in OR, like 2 main hubs (Portland, Salem) you have a lot of land, not so many people.

I traveled the backroads for work in Oregon for 10 years. Western Oregon has beautiful farmland not far from the cities. Very nice. Eastern (central) Oregon is dryer and a great proximity to the mountains. NE Oregon is one of my favorite places ever, particularly the Wallowa mountains. I did not do much (nor is there much) in SE Oregon. Too bad Oregons big city politics are like ours up here. You just gotta get out of the city, then it is real nice.

 

[Oldpath05]

You probably get the same question we do when we leave the the state with the same look too when you say youæ±*e from Oregon.

Yes we do, are you a round filer or a square filer..............

 

[goeduck]

Neighbor had some trees taken down that were next to his house (within a few feet). I would get a nosebleed up as high as that guy is.

 

[Oldpath05]

Getting tired, think it's time now to take a rest................ Go Rest High On That Mountain - YouTube

 

[Molalla1]

I traveled the backroads for work in Oregon for 10 years. Western Oregon has beautiful farmland not far from the cities. Very nice. Eastern (central) Oregon is dryer and a great proximity to the mountains. NE Oregon is one of my favorite places ever, particularly the Wallowa mountains. I did not do much (nor is there much) in SE Oregon. Too bad Oregons big city politics are like ours up here. You just gotta get out of the city, then it is real nice.

:thumbsup: . . . . :drink: Duck.

 

[BrokenTrack]

That too. I didn't intend to start a ****ing contest; nor did I say that farmers are the main source of pollution. I was merely pointing out why forestry isn't subject to some of the regulations other industries are. Agriculture does contribute a fair amount of point and non-point pollution; as I pointed out earlier, many of our fields were once timberland, with wetland areas and minor streams which stich flow into the lakes and rivers. Those are the same streams and wetlands which we avoid skidding through. There are fields which are farmed in summer, using pesticides and fertilizer; and in spring when the river rises, those same fields are under water.

Most major timberland landowners belong to some or all three of the major "certification" programs, with auditors visiting a percentage of the harvests every year; one big thing they are looking for are water quality issues.

Today I returned to the spot where I had gotten stuck last winter; if I hadn't known where it was it looks like nothing happened.

No, I understood that, and was in NO WAY upset at you. I was just pointing out that farmers get blamed for things they do not do sometimes. It is much easier to fix a problem that is not there, like giving farmers money for conservation reasons, when it would be VERY expensive to get 400 houses on a lake to have proper septic systems.

Overall, I feel blessed to live in Maine because I can go out hiking, find a stream, and take a drink without worrying about getting sick. In other parts of the USA, that is not possible.

 

[BrokenTrack]

Doesn't anyone plow gardens anymore, that's the world I grew up in..................

I plow occasionally. I like that it puts the trash in the bottom and allows it to rot down there. Mostly I use plowing for crop rotation, which happens about every 7 years.

Plowing got a lot of bad press a few years ago, but our soil can get compacted here, so I know that no-till farming just does not work on my farm. We went to minimal till, which is using vertical tillage instead of using roll over plows most years. I heard now they are starting to go back to roll over plowing instead of no-till, but I am not sure how wide-spread that is, What is old is new again I guess.

I also heard that rototilling is about the worst thing you can do for soil long term. It sure fluffs up the soil where the tines hit, but it also causes vibration below that compacts the soil where the tines do not hit. That causes the soil to kind of be bowl shaped, and stems root development and such. I really do not know how much truth to there is in that, but that is what they say.