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What is your FAVORITE job on the farm?

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ChrisinMO

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After reading the posts from a day or two ago, I thought it'd be interesting to hear what people consider their favorite jobs.

My favorite jobs are cutting and hauling out firewood, building things and making other improvements, and making hay. I've got lots of fond memories I get to relive every time I start cutting hay.

Christopher
 
Plowing ,Baling.Not stacking or irrigating.Planting and combiningare not too bad.Dont care much for cultivating,either.Working in the shop doing winter projects(Ihave a big one or two each winter),Dont care for(emergency) repairs in thefield or summer.Turning the tractor OFF at the end of the day!
 
Seeing as i'm still young (23), I really do enjoy tractor driving. I'd rather sit in a tractor all day and night plowing or whatever then work my day job. I enjoy any tractor driving related jobs... Hauling silage, plowing, cultivating, anything. Just something about being by yourself and noone to annoy you I guess...
 
#1)Running the combine in the fall. I love the cool weather. Nothing beats a full harvest moon with a light frost in the air. It seems if you are the only person in the world. I will open the door for a short while just to hear the corn going through the combine.
#2) Watching young calves run around in the early summer. They have not a worry in the world: momma to suck a good meal from, and everything is new.
 
my favorite farm jobs 1st. i love doing field work,haying,planting,tillage ect. which i don't really do so much anymore except for haying, and i don't really mind throwing bales either. i actually like milking, when i was younger not so much but it has since grown on me and now i like it probably since working my full time job and dealing w/ the people of todays society who usually just drive me up the wall, at least the girls seem to be content and happy. anything to do w/ my small maple operation.
 
My favorite job was running the combine, an IH 141. Although it had no cab, and was hot and dirty, I would get more done than Dad on that John Deere combine we had.

I also enjoyed plowing, but I had to beat Dad to the barn or else he would get on the 806, and Id get stuck on the 3020. I hated that 3020 for some reason.
 
Where to start?

Tractor related I really enjoy disking, setting tobacco when the plants and setter are working well together, cultivate'n tobacco, and rake'n hay.

I have to say my favorite job is move'n cows onto fresh pasture every other day in the spring and ealy summer. When a group of cows goes through the gate into fresh deep grass and clover and all you hear is munching and a few confused calves fussing life is good.

Dave
 
Tractor Work, Loader work, Watching the calves run when you turn them out in the spring, Brings a smile to my face just thinking about them!
 
Harvest. You are taking in what you took all year to grow.

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I always loved to plow. I couldn't hardly wait until Dad thought I was old enough. I also loved baling hay also. Dad did custom baling and he let me start driving on the baler at 10 and at 14 I was doing any custom baling where the bales were dropped on the ground. I don't recall any job that I was not eager to do except pitching cow manure with tromped in beding by hand in the spring. We had a lot of hogs and that was not as bad.
At 72 I still like to do all farm jobs that I am able to do. I cash rent the farm now and I play farm on my 8.9 acre place where I live. That is along with working in the factory full time.
 
I love the physical jobs. Picking watermelons, picking squash, hauling firewood, unloading hay wagons. Feeding the cows. Not to say I don't like driving tractor either. I love giving the old Super 66 a workout cultivating potatoes, and then hilling them later on with the MF 180 .
 
Running the combine felt real productive even though at the end of the dau I looked more dark skinned from all the dust and sweat.

Worst job was bending over cutting celery all day under the hot Sun. Sooner or later the celery fungus would get on my arms and cause boils.
 
Listening to phone messages and writing down names and numbers of folks that are interested in buying our hay.

Loading sold hay on trucks and trailers.

Getting paid in cash.
 
Makin' small squares. I don't know why, but baling is my favorite job. Driving the tractor or stacking on the wagon, either/or. Second would be handling oats. Dosen't matter what's being done with them, I just love the smell of freshly seperated oats. There isn't much that can beat that smell, outside of a fresh & ready meal. Mmmmmmmm!

Mike
 
number 1 would be plowing i have always liked to plow. cleaning out cattle barns and yards knowing that i'm giving them a clean place to lay. feeding hay to cows mowing and raking hay.
taking care of a new calf then watching them rip around with momma. even better when they discover the other calves then wacthing them head butt and racing with the other ones.
picking ear corn with a pull type picker i remember doing this wearing t-shirt and jeans about a week later i couldn't get enough clothes on as cold front came in north with lots of wind corn falling over due to stalk rot. because the corn was going down so bad i went that night until i couldn't stand the cold any longer ( no cab or heat houser)
 
Not much else to do really, but watching the grass grow and the buffalo graze,they rest is just hobby.
 
sittin in a nice AC cab swathing. just watching the crop go down and there's seldom anything that breaks when swathing.I hate fixin and love manufacturing,Go figure.
 
anything to do with hay in the fall. Something about the sweet smell of grass hay and those nice breezes is my favorite thing to do.
 
I gotta say runnin the combine, followed by diskin cause theres nothin like the smell of freshly turned dirt, then prolly plantin or runnin the turbo-till. really I like everthing but haulin to and from the bins and cleanin the bins out.
 
Cutting hay. Sweet smell, travel at a good speed, no dust, breakdowns are rare. If only haying was a one-pass operation.

I also really like feeding hay in the middle of winter. The weather makes the job a bit unpleasant, but it seems like the only time that my cattle truly like me.
 
All good--plowing, cause it's the first job of spring, smell of the dirt. Planting, caue it's the end of spring work. Harvesting, cause it's the reward for another season. Cutting wood in the winter, just me and the saw and an old tractor. It all works for me or I wouldn't do it.
 
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