Adrian Billheimer
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Here are 2 pics from yesterday, I'll post more later.
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Fun aren't they? It can be a mess to straighten out though. We had our first one last May. We're planning one for May 1 this year, weather permitting. We had 18 tractors plowing last year. I had to laugh, the guy who runs the sprayer for the fertilizer plant said the roughest field he ever sprayed in his life was where somebody had a plow day. I found out what he meant. I think I need to spend the bulk of my time this year helping some of these guys get their plows set up right.
grandpa Love
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Real horse power!
BarnyardEngineering
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Sounds like it'll be the last plow day you ever hold. Folks come to have fun, not to have someone lecturing them about how they're doing it wrong. It won't matter how nice you are about it, that's how they're going to take it.
If you want people to have fun you probably should just resign yourself to most of them rooting up the ground rather than plowing.
If you want people to have fun you probably should just resign yourself to most of them rooting up the ground rather than plowing.
Took my dad to a horse plow day when he was in his early 80's. He's been running draft horses his whole life. He ended up going around and helping younger guys straighten out problems they had with harnessing and horse behavior.
About 20 years ago, he got a good education in the bureaucracy. He wanted to take a 4 horse hitch and an authentic stage coach to the local fair and give kids free rides. He went to the fair manager with his proposal, and as he said (in so many words) You'd of thought I broke wind at the church social. No free rides, she said- that's unfair competition with the carnival rides. He needed to come up with a proposed ticket price and submit it to the fair for consideration. Also had to propose a course away from the pedestrians at the fair. He had to have an assistant (with background check) to help the kids in and out of the stagecoach. Had to have a million $ liability insurance. At the end of the meeting, he rose and said Thank you kindly and left.
About 20 years ago, he got a good education in the bureaucracy. He wanted to take a 4 horse hitch and an authentic stage coach to the local fair and give kids free rides. He went to the fair manager with his proposal, and as he said (in so many words) You'd of thought I broke wind at the church social. No free rides, she said- that's unfair competition with the carnival rides. He needed to come up with a proposed ticket price and submit it to the fair for consideration. Also had to propose a course away from the pedestrians at the fair. He had to have an assistant (with background check) to help the kids in and out of the stagecoach. Had to have a million $ liability insurance. At the end of the meeting, he rose and said Thank you kindly and left.
I plowed with the wife's Super 55 at two plow days last year. I got an old Oliver 2 bottom out of the pasture last month and got things freed up on it, put tires on it and a shin. I want to plow with that behind one of my 66s this year. My son wants to plow this year, so I told him we could try trading off and he could plow with which ever one he likes best.
I think some of these young guys would appreciate a little help getting things set up. We hosted that one last spring, then the club had another one at the show grounds in September after the wheat came off and we got some rain so we could get a plow in the ground. Those younger guys who didn't grow up plowing seem to get a little discouraged and end up parking it and just watching after a while.
Adrian, Our Tunkhannock Club also had a plow day yesterday. We ended up with about 10 or 12 tractors plowing. This was the first of three plow days this year. Must be done fairly okay as the same farmers invite the club back next year. Good to know your club still is ongoing. Good luck to you and maybe I'll see you at your show this year.
tomstractorsandtoys
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I had one last summer and will agree about the mess to fix. Everyone had a great time and we had a good many younger fellows out so it was worth a few ridges in the field.LOL I opened up the lands myself and did all the finishing furrows and headlands. Tom
tomstractorsandtoys
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I like the top pic as my dad had Belgian draft horses. He bought a brand new Pioneer single bottom riding plow. Usually used three horses on it. I have some old pics of him discing with 12 head hooked up. Tom
steve_in_mo
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We'll need pictures. My grandfather owned a 1951 Oliver 66.
I could have bought it but didn't have a place to keep it.
It does a little parade duty for its current owner.
I could have bought it but didn't have a place to keep it.
It does a little parade duty for its current owner.
showcrop
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I'll bet that 95% of those that come would like to have a little advise and be shown some things. Plowing is something that it takes instruction while doing to see the effect of an adjustment in order to get the idea across. I am sure that there are some that come hoping to get some help.
wingnuttx
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Adrian...... Thank you for the photos. Something we don't get to participate in the area where I live. Now speaking for myself, I love learning new things. If I'm interested in a topic or subject I have little or no experience with I'll ask a question. I'd love to meet the person who knows it all. I'd buy a ticket to meet them. When a person is either not interested in teaching OR learning....., well that would be sad right? We all had to learn and grow as adults since the time we wore diapers and drooled. Hey... And thinking about that...,, in about 25-40 years well all be wearing diapers and drooling again. Ha. Ha.
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super99
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Barnyard, You missed that shot by a mile!!! The club that I belong to (Antique Engine and Tractor Assn, Geneseo, Ill) has a 3 day working farm show and we plow everything after the crops are harvested during the show. There is a drivers meeting each day before the show starts. Everyone is told that we will help them get their plows set to do as good a job as possible with the old, worn out plows that they have. 99% of them are glad for the assistance, probably only half of them have plowed before and most of the other half just plowed after Dad or Grandpa set the plow and have no clue how to set them up. It keeps me and another guy or 2 hopping trying to help them all out. Only people that get upset are the old guys that don't want anyone touching their plows, everyone else says thanks for the help and are happy to be able to plow and do a good job. A few with really worn plows will come back next year and tell us what they replaced or fixed and can we help them again. If you have guys doing a lousy job plowing and won't accept any help, if they get mad and leave, your better off without them. Chris
Hey, come on up. Or better yet, join the Old Iron Club and you'll get the newsletter. LOL
9am May 1, a mile and a quarter north of the house here, up Brown road. Bring a tractor or just come and watch. Pizza at noon. If
the ground is dry enough, we'll come back down and plow on the corner of County Farm and Brown too. Last year, some of the
Mennonites rode their bikes over from over on Cedar Lake road just north of where you bought that red Ford flat bed. If they can
ride that far, you can drive up here.
9am May 1, a mile and a quarter north of the house here, up Brown road. Bring a tractor or just come and watch. Pizza at noon. If
the ground is dry enough, we'll come back down and plow on the corner of County Farm and Brown too. Last year, some of the
Mennonites rode their bikes over from over on Cedar Lake road just north of where you bought that red Ford flat bed. If they can
ride that far, you can drive up here.
kcm.MN
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- NW Minnesota
Nice-looking horse!
Used to be 2 or 3 folks that would post pics of their horses. Always enjoy seeing them.
Used to be 2 or 3 folks that would post pics of their horses. Always enjoy seeing them.
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