PineRidge
Super Member
Well that's an awesome looking machine.....
One trick pony
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jwnge
Gold Member
- Joined
- Nov 25, 2004
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- 314
- Location
- oak woods and rocks of Wi.
- Tractor
- Mahindra 2015 HST-- Snapper 1650, Snapper 1438
Back on the farm in Kentuck, I liked cultivating corn, I liked seeing the weeds in the rows dissapear and the rich brown dirt between the green rows show up, now I think mowing our rc flying field is best. Just kinda of a quiet time with the dandys flowing out the side chute. A guy can do a lot of contemplating while mowing long fields of grass. This year it will be diesel powered, life will be veeery good..JohnJ /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
milkman
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- Joined
- Sep 22, 2001
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- 3,555
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- BX2200, BCS 735
I guess, mine would have to be plowing also, there's a lot of satisfaction in turning the ground, and a nice neatly plowed field is a work of art. The sound of that old B huffing and puffing was music to my ears. Don't get no better than that.
redlevel
Gold Member
I like plowing too. I guess the two best times in a farmer's life are in the spring, when he is anticipating a good crop year (have you ever known a farmer who, in late March or early April, didn't believe this year was going to be his best crop ever?), and in the fall, when he can see the results of his hard work. To me, all the jobs (cultivating, spraying, etc.) that come between the initial turning of the soil and harvesting of the crop are gratifying, but there are always some little concerns; will it rain on this hay I just laid on the ground? will this foot-tall corn I'm plowing get rain when it needs it? That said, I would have to put two jobs right up there with "breaking land": baling good, clean bermudagrass hay, and picking (combining) two-ton per acre peanuts. To hear that auto-wrap buzzer sound off about every 3 1/2 minutes, and spit out a 1000 bale, and to have to stop the tractor about 150 yards into the field so someone can pull a wagon to dump a load of "goobers" is my idea of a good time down on the farm.
oliver28472
Veteran Member
That is one fine looking Oliver xx55. What model and how many rows? Stock engine? Oh, almost forgot. I like bush hogging.
lmiller
Bronze Member
Definitely the top of the list is watching the snow blow way up in the air, out into the woods and back down my neck /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
FEL work is great too, especially finally getting that stump out and skating it across the dirt with the front wheels driving and the back wheels just barely touching.
Lou
FEL work is great too, especially finally getting that stump out and skating it across the dirt with the front wheels driving and the back wheels just barely touching.
Lou
cowboydoc
Super Member
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2000
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- Tractor
- JD 8320 MFWD, JD 6415 MFWD, FEL, and cab, John Deere MFWD 4600, John Deere 4020, John Deere 4430, John Deere 455 mower, Deutz, and Gehl 4610 perkins skidsteer
Without a doubt mine would be cutting hay. I love the smell of a freshly cut field of alfalfa or grass hay. It's very satisfying as well to get off the tractor and see a nice field of cut hay. Only thing better is getting it put up before it rains. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
droy
Silver Member
Boxblading; someone dug a short ditch on the property east of mine, dumping the spoil to make a levee parallel to the ditch. I finally went to county clerk, & after 2 weeks investigation got landowners name, then contacted him asking permission to knock down the levee to help the land to drain. Wife & landowner still shaking their heads, but I found me a new playground.
BigMccorm
Bronze Member
Mine would probably have to be mowing hay. To know that you have many days of hard labor following is a great thing. Needless to say I am one person that looks forward to hard manual labor. Most people I know hate working. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
