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forestcreature1
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Southern IL for the county
Thanks for the good wishes!
Primary uses (keep in mind that I have a 3046r/loader/cab & a massey ferguson 2605h [2wd/open station]:
1) plowing, the "r" has r4 tires and they were not meant to plow with.
2) lake work day, the cab gets in the way of communicating with the shovel crew
[when we have hot weather work day, I will be using the a/c in the cab]
3) hydraulic dump wagon [filler with the 'r', dump with the 'd'] <-- bad sign that I am making up rhymes...
One thing that I would prefer to have is draft control - but I suppose then I would have to go find some old deere 3pt mounted plow..
The MF2605H has draft control that works perfect with the 1947 Ferguson 3 bottom plow [which is why I bought the H]
((side trivia - back in the day, one brand of plow did not play well with another brand's draft control -- probably still true if you can find a compact w/draft))
If you are not in clay or rocks, you probably won't know/care anyway.
I have plowed with the 'r', but it is a pain with the 1943 Ferguson2 bottom due to the lack of traction [plowing clay here] and the r4 tire won't fit in the furrow.
Now, I bought the 'r' [and also had a 3032e before that] without any field work involved.
So they were properly configured for their uses, landscaping - mowing - road maint.
Old farmer died, I took over the lease of one of our four fields (3 acres) since the 'new' farmer [nephew of the dead one] could not get his massive deere equipment back here to the field next to me due to trees & the narrow road on top of the long dam.
I am using the field as 'tractor play pen' more than anything else.
I started off with a 4100 gear, and it was a great little machine.
After many years, I needed more mass to deal with rip-rapping the lake shore, so went to the 3032E.
Allergies flared up, eyes would swell shut, so traded that in for a cab. [3046R]
Life is good with a cab [in case anyone was wondering]
<reread farmer thing in case anyone's memory is as short as mine>
Then Deere came out with the D and was touting it's pulling power.
Paid off the car in Aug, so there was "deere money" available....
I plant sweet corn in 6 row blocks [think chess board using rectangles] alternating plots in the field to not plant in the same plot each year.
I plant a block per weekend over the spring to get corn on a regular basis.
Neither I, nor the food bank have any refrigeration, so I pick & bag a bushel at a time. [pick on Sunday eve, drop off Monday on the way to work when I have some come up]
The whole field is over-seeded with cowpea to help the soil.
I also started with sunflower this year since our spring was so messed up, and that turned out well. (just going to mow & till that under).
IF the 'd' pulls hard enough, I may go look for a pull type plow [3 or 4 bottom, maybe a 5] to see how that goes.
(for those who want me to go no-till, buy me a no-till system, I accept donations!)
Lake work day is Sat, so if things all line up, I will be able to report how it goes.
(they don't work in the rain & if it does rain, I will be in the cab)
On non-lake-work-days, I maintain the semi-oil-chip-gravel road by myself in the cab when the pot holes get too bad.
(dump and back drag cold patch)
OH - one last thing.... When everyone is out mowing, and it's hot, we all wave at each other (I mow a lot of common ground) and I have noticed that the other lake people do not use as many fingers to wave at me as they used too....
I do know that my tractor is #1 though [I can count fingers...]
