Woke my old 930, from a winter nap

Bruce from Can. · Apr 12, 2023

I have been cleaning out an old fence bottom. Just full of scrub trees, and hundreds of rocks. I drag my Graham chisel plough over the place where the fence was. Then go pick a loader bucket full of rocks. And repeat.

Drags a lot of roots out each pass too. This fence was nearly 30 feet wide when I started working on it, little bit each year, but we can plant corn where it was this year.

Stroby · Apr 12, 2023

Hard work, but great reward.

37 chief · Apr 12, 2023

Growing up on Dad's farm, we didn't have rocks, so I didn't have the opportunity to pick rocks. A different story when I am mowing weeds for others. I pick up a lot of rocks to save my mower. Stan

David from Kansas · Apr 12, 2023

Have a very Graham-Hoeme chisel like that with levers and sweeps. They were very popular in the 50's and 60's.

Tgrasher · Apr 12, 2023

In my wee years, early 50's, I remember hedge rows (osage orange) all around the farm. Gradually they were taken out. Neighbors quit milking so they had no need for fences. We continued milking but as cow care changed, large pastures weren't needed, and the last fence row was taken out. Where once one could only see a quarter mile, (unless you climbed the silo) now you could see two miles. A lot of good memories included that hedge row.

ss55 · Apr 12, 2023

In western Iowa there are very few trees in fence lines, actually very few trees that were not intentionally planted. Are those trees volunteers or were they intentionally planted in the fence lines?

Bruce from Can. · Apr 12, 2023

Volunteer trees, if we dont keep our fields worked or at the very least cut, most of our farm land would return to forest within 30 years. All of the land we now farm in Ontario, was originally covered with forest, and had to be cleared before it could be farmed. Land that had mostly Pine trees tended to be light, maybe even sandy land. Land that was covered with hardwood trees like Maple, Beach and Oak often had good soil and good natural drainage. Land that was covered with Softwood trees like Cedar, Poplar and Basswood, could usually be expected to be wet and have poor natural drainage. As my Quaker ancestors migrated North during the 19th century, their settlements were always in locations with hardwood forests. The types of trees and proximity to a river or stream was important information 200 years ago.

Woke my old 930, from a winter nap

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