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georgeky

05-13-2007 18:01:09




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They are plowing on RFD-TV




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teddy52food

05-14-2007 05:54:09




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 Re: Plowing in reply to georgeky, 05-13-2007 18:01:09  
I saw that too. Last week they were pulling with steam engines . Very entertaining.



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georgeky

05-14-2007 07:02:40




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 Re: Plowing in reply to teddy52food, 05-14-2007 05:54:09  
I didn't understand waiting on fog to lift in order to start plowing. Must have been for laying off the field, or camera's



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teddy52food

05-14-2007 10:43:22




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 Re: Plowing in reply to georgeky, 05-14-2007 07:02:40  
It is hard to plow a straight forrow if you can't see the other end of the field.



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georgeky

05-14-2007 12:41:31




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 Re: Plowing in reply to teddy52food, 05-14-2007 10:43:22  
They weren't plowing a straight furrow when I was watching. I thought that was the reason they waited too, until I saw that crooked furrow. The first one is all that has to be straight, I would have layed it off the day before. I have to lay off the fields for my sons and the two guys that help me, because they want to look back before getting to the end. Kinda Llke using a rear mounted cultivator you can't look back.

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Tallperson

05-13-2007 19:56:04




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 Re: Plowing in reply to georgeky, 05-13-2007 18:01:09  
It is a whole different ball game plowing with a good team. When everything is going right you can hear the dirt hiss as it slides off the mole board. The team knows their business the right hand horse walks in the furrow so if the first cut is straight you hardly need to drive after that. I usually stop at the end of each pass to let the girls blow a bit. Then is it swing around drop the other plow share and head back. I use a two way so you don't end up with a dead furrow in the middle... I enjoy my tractor, but the horses are a kick and you certainly have time to think. Tallperson

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georgeky

05-13-2007 19:01:16




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 Re: Plowing in reply to georgeky, 05-13-2007 18:01:09  
Well, it beat a horse training show all to pieces.



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SuperA-Tx

05-13-2007 18:16:58




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 Re: Plowing in reply to georgeky, 05-13-2007 18:01:09  
No, they are thrashing now.

I liked seeing the horses pull the plow. I cant imagine doing that all day. My granfather did it and refused to get a tractor. He bought a car and drove it one time and ran into the back of the garage. His sons took the thing and used it to run a saw.



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Hugh MacKay

05-13-2007 18:37:17




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 Re: Plowing in reply to SuperA-Tx, 05-13-2007 18:16:58  
Randy: My grand father used to get in the 6 cylinder Chevy, hold the accelerator 3/4 to the floor and ride the clutch to back out of garage. There was an old ice house directly in his path, about 100' away. One day my dad suggested we should demolish the old ice house. He said, "One of these days your grand fathers foot will slip off the clutch, and I like that 57 Chevy too much to see it go through the ice house.

I told that story here one night about 4 years ago, another guy came back said it reminded him of the first time his grand father drove the John Deere with hand clutch. He was putting it in drive shed for the night. He forgot the hand clutch and the last thing they heard before he went through back drive shed wall was ,"Whoa, damnit whoa."

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LA in Wi.

05-14-2007 06:47:21




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 Re: Plowing in reply to Hugh MacKay, 05-13-2007 18:37:17  
My dad used to talk about his aunt who took driving lessons from her husband. He got her to start out in low, then shift to 2nd and then to high. At the next stop sign he told her to go back to low and she said "Why? We already did that".
I drove a Case VAC on a bundle wagon in our threshing ring (some wagons had horses). Old man neighbor wasn't part of the ring, but he walked over one day to watch. He leaned on the rear lugs of the JD D as it powered the thresher. He hated tractors and wouldn't own one. After a while he said to the guy sitting on the seat "This thing's almost shot, it's only hittin' on two".
Us boys would sneak a cold beer out of the stock tank when no one was looking; tank was 1/2 in and 1/2 out of "pumphouse", small bldg at base of windmill. And they all had a tin cup hanging on a nail for drinking that cool water as it came up from the well powered by the windmill.

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georgeky

05-13-2007 18:32:05




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 Re: Plowing in reply to SuperA-Tx, 05-13-2007 18:16:58  
My great grandpa was the same way. He wouldn't let us bring a tractor on his place. He retired from farming when his last team ( Jack and Jim) died in 1974. Jack the young horse died at 29 and Jim the old horse died two weeks later at 31. Pap always said that Jim grieved himself to death over Jack. Pap died in 1977. My best memories as a child was riding the wagon with Pap and that team.



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El Toro

05-14-2007 06:14:31




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 Re: Plowing in reply to georgeky, 05-13-2007 18:32:05  
We were in Amish country in Lancaster county PA.
We saw plenty of mules. They were crossed with
draft horses. Sure were big. We had mules when I was a kid. We even rode them. Hal



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georgeky

05-14-2007 07:11:20




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 Re: Plowing in reply to El Toro, 05-14-2007 06:14:31  
Hal, I have a neighbor that raises mules from Belgium mares and they are something to see. Looks like heads are 3 feet long on some of them.



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Karl Hamson

05-13-2007 21:11:32




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 Re: Plowing in reply to georgeky, 05-13-2007 18:32:05  
I never plowed with a team but did just about everything else. What I remember best is skidding logs from the bush to the landing by the sawmill. Chub, a 15 year old gelding, was best at this. He pretty much did it all by himself except the hitching and unhitching. We would hitch him up to a log and just say OK and off he would go to the mill. If he got the log hung up on a stump or tree, he would look back, figure out which way to get unsnagged, and pull sideways until he was clear. When he got to the log deck, he would stand and wait until someone came and took the chain off the log. Then he woudl head back by himself to where we were falling. He would refuse to move at coffee breaks and lunch time until he got his nose bag of oats.

A slower age and gentler time. I miss it.
Karl

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georgeky

05-14-2007 05:17:58




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 Re: Plowing in reply to Karl Hamson, 05-13-2007 21:11:32  
Karl, Pap had a mule that done this. He went back and forth all by himself, was neat to watch him work. My gradpa told me that when he was a boy him and Pap went to a hill farm in the next county to skid logs off the mountain with a team, with the promise of being paid when finished. After getting all the logs down the hill the man told Pap he didn't have the money to pay him, and would he take something on trade. This was during the Depression. After a while the man decided to give Pap his milk cow. Gramps told me about this 6 or 7 years ago and got fairly worked up as he told me this. He said they walked the cow home about 17 miles with him getting madder the whole time. Said the man had 6 little kids on the porch as they left with the cow. He thought Pap should have left the cow there. some 60 years later gramps still was a little irate with Pap over the deal. I to miss past times.

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