Moldboard Plowing pics

We just plow around the cell towers, homes, and dog wires in lawns, well ever since I can remember, my friend planted this land, but health forced him to cut back and just do hay, one of the bigger operators rented it, after its been fallow for 6 years, went over and said hello, nothing like the smell of that dirt and some diesel exhaust. One of the problems this field has is the darned geese, it will be interesting to see how the corn does, they totally destroyed the last crop of hay in there, and he had a good stand, I bought several hundred bales off that field.



Here's the rig, you don't see a lot of these around, funny its pulling a 6 bottom Ford



Father & son I think,( I'm spying from the hedgerow like a little kid LOL !) I know the older gent from weighing in at their scale house, another one thats probably been at it 50 + years, good to see him in the field still !!!





From my back step and kitchen window, near my garden, nice 30 acre field.





The end result should end up here, this was a few years back on a bitter cold day, was there to weigh up a load of hay

the Ford plow is a Oliver/White 500 series. They built plows for Ford and Case, badged in each companies colors, as well as their own red color. Those plows were the easiest, pulling, best furrow turners ever built.
Loren the Acg.

Pick out the one most likely to be leading or guarding them and shoot it..
.17 Cal drops them in a Heartbeat..
They will stay about 30 minutes and Leave for a week or so, they do another one..
One more thing they say does work:
Get or make a Life-Sized pattern (Silhouette) of a Coyote..
I got a Life-Sized poster at the local Gun Range.
Make a slot in the "Mouth" and insert a Black Plastic trash bag through the mouth..
Looks like a Coyote with a Dead Goose to them..
Move it every few days..

Ron..

Will take that under advisement, I have a 22 WMR in a Marlin 783 that should work, they'll be grazing on my side of that pond, I've had a heck of a time keeping em out of oats, shoot at em, they fly away, come back at some point, then they go over a knoll, where you can't see me. Ironically, they don't seem to do much damage overall, to the oats, as the oats recover, grow quickly, just the sight of em in a freshly planted field grr.. They can do a number on corn, topping off every plant in a 7 acre field like ours.

I have done what you describe, left one dead and so on, never phased em LOL ! I've even collected all the young, herded em in my grain truck body, a few died, still needed some brooding, let the rest go back into the pond, tried every humane way I could think to harass em off things I've planted. Only other thing I could do is keep the field near the house cut sooner, green orchard grass, they can have all that, next to the water, yet they still have to go after crops.

I have to get the depredation permit from NYS DEC, then we can oil the eggs, harass them and kill if necessary, up to 25 before you need a federal permit. I always wished they did not cause such problems, I've always been fair to all the critters, but these are not native to here and we never had them when I was a kid, so they really are destructive pests when it comes to ag crops, they rapidly wiped out a stand of clover I had some years back.

Hi Loren, well I saw that sod being turned and had to check it out, they were pushing limbs and things back to our hedgerow, I know them a little bit, not like my long time farmer friend who worked that ground for all those years, so while taking a look, I saw the 6 bottom and it was interesting to see it work, and like you said it sure did a good job, and that tractor pulled it without too much sweat.

We used to sell Ford as a dealer, but most tillage equipment was ordered, never on the lot, I never saw any of it in action, too young to know a lot about those. I have a Ford 101, 2 bottom that I thought was Oliver rebadged, also a
single Ford 110 plow.

I always looked forward to seeing the crops go in every spring, was nice to say hello to these guys and let em get back to work, lot more dirt to turn for em around here, they have all the ground around here now.

We have ONE Pair that come back early every Spring..
I am sure they had to have Hatched here...I guess they get imprinted and always come back where they hatched..
I do not allow any to Hatch here anymore..

Ron.

We have ONE Pair that come back early every Spring..
I am sure they had to have Hatched here...I guess they get imprinted and always come back where they hatched..
I do not allow any to Hatch here anymore..

They can sure clip off young Soybean plants..

Ron.

Canada Goose Jerky is very good!!! I don't like the normal roasted goose very much, but jerky is so good that it doesn't last long, and with enough to go around, friends will also enjoy it. Jim

During the hunting season on them, they flock by the hundreds here in the fall, I've taken a few and taken the breast off em, seasoned etc. on the grill, its a red meat, was very good, was always lead to believe they either do not roast well, (fatty/greasy ?) or maybe there's trick to it, so I've never bothered. Being water fowl that migrates through/to so many waterways, they graze in so many non wild areas, I always wondered what could be in the meat, like carcinogens or effects of chemicals say from lawns they graze on and or things like that, say vs raising your own for consumption like other livestock kept for the same purpose.

Eating wild is unknown for chemicals, eating production fowl is a sure thing to be eating Chem. Jim