Way back many moons ago at my uncles place spring tillage was done with 3 crawlers , and O C 3 and O C 6 and a D 4 cat one set of 2x16's one set of 3x16's and one set of 5x16's . we started early and between my uncles and the neighbor we covered over 1200 acres . Sometimes they ran 24 hours a day and help was not hard to find . Spent may Saturdays playing follow the leader in the seat of the O C 3 and running second gear you were not setting any land speed records . Never had to worry about that wet spot just keep her running for all she had .When it came time to do the discing it was all three again . when it was time to plant then the D4 was not used but the Ferggy 30 came out and hooked onto one of the two row potato planters . There i would ride one of the planters and make sure that the seed taters were feeding correctly and that the fertilizer was working . Then in the fall of 58 two new BIG tractors showed up a Farmall 460 Diesel wide ft. and a 560 Diesel wide ft. and two new sets of plows and two new disc. Then in the spring came the first two new FOUR row planters . That summer was spent between culivating setting irrigation pipe and spraying and with tater wagon building as the new harvester was coming for harvest and the old bushel baskets were going to be a thing of the past and the army of field hands were not going to be needed anymore . Between my uncle and Paul they bought 6 old two ton trucks and installed brownnie transmission’s and installed the beds on them and also made three wagons with the same beds only to find out that we did not have the tractors to handle them with full loads . I set here thinking about the days of driving them old Cheve and Dodge two tons in the fields as they were plum JUNK plum wore out burnt oil had blow by really poor brakes pump three times and pray . And OH that new tater harvester it was more then the 560 could handle on it's own unless it was on one of the flatter fields and the ground was popcorn fart dry . For the most part the O C 6 was hooked to the ft. by a chain. Not untill the fall of 63 did we have a tractor that could handle it even thought Paul bought one of the first 4010's , Not until the 806 arrived . Paul traded the 4010 for a 4020 and the 806 would still out do the 4020 . I will tell ya what i miss about the OLD days of farming , it was the lunch breaks and dinner breaks that we had out in the fields under as we called them the dinner tree , my aunt and Paul's wife would bring out a spread and we would all set down and have a good meal and relax for and hour or so . Now today everything is a rat race hurry hurry go fast no i don't have time to stop and eat , no time to socialize no working with the neighbors . Seems like today not many would drop what there doing to give a hand . Years back if you were out working ground and ya looked across the way and ya saw some one stuck you would grab a chain and go give them a hand , now to day and you got stuck and someone saw you they would just laugh and keep on with what they were doing and let you fend for yourself.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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