Where Farmalls are born

• Dublin tractor plant

I hear you about wanting one of those new farmalls. I'm only 35, one of the first tractors I drove was a Super H. I must admit though, I still would like "the latest" technology. I really hate to say this on this Forum, but I now own a John Deere 4115 Compact Utility Tractor. In my defense it's only because there were no red ones available 2 years ago. If there was I would have bought one!! My dad has a hard time with the "color" on my farm. The 1000 cow dairy I am Herdsman for is all green with the exception of the 806, 1256, and 1466. The bosses have a hard time letting the good tractors go!!!

Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!

I am also bi-lingual. There are 7 hispanics here milking the 1000 holsteins (only 1 red & white believe it or not her nickname is "IH".) Love the cows, but there are days when I wish I was the one driving the 1256.

For Van in AR,

Scam or not in 50 years I would like to have something to call my "old Iron." It still red in my book!

Butch

I hope they had insurance on that harvester, some automobiles have been catching fire after the oil has been changed, but haven't found any leakage. I'd better stop, Hal

Insurance is a must around here!! You mentioned a tornado in PA, one passed through here this summer just 1/4 mile south of here. Sent 40 of our 120 calf huts into an 80 acre field, leveled a neighbors brand new house, anothers' barn, 5 stave upright silos, but lucky for them they sold their 80 head of milk cows 8 days before. Several other farms had alot of damage and lost probably 20 head all together. One man was killed and his wife was seriously injured (they were sucked out of their basement along with everything except the water heater.) Supposedly there were 7 different funnels when the damaged was all mapped out. Maybe you saw it on the national news?

Butch

Were milking 20 cows every 7 minutes in our double 20 parlor. It takes 7 hours to milk 1000 with 1 hour for clean-up. It all happens 3 times each day. As for my 4 1/2 year old twin daughers they are learning Spanish too. There will come a day when many people will have to learn it just to visit with their neighbor. I missed out on a great photo op this past Monday night. The farm's Claas 900 Jaguar SP Forage harvester went up in flames. It had less than 85 hours on it. We are waiting for results as to what may have caused it. The truck driver saw smoke and sparks coming out of the discharge spout, they shut it down and exhausted two fire extinguishers but to no avail. It was a total loss. P.S. I'm going under the knife next month too. Young ones are alot of work...although worth it.

Butch