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Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 18, 2004 at 17:40:05 from (64.228.11.78):
In Reply to: Re: Re: what more can they do posted by Paul in Mich on January 18, 2004 at 07:38:22:
Paul: What happens if there is a power failure half way down the field and the tractor and planter start going in circles. Be interesting seeing you chase that one with the combine. Probably you will be able to program all the planting mistakes into the combine computer and it will follow on it's own. Kind of reminds me of the story my dad used to tell about his on farm personal potato patch. This is in the days of horses. Just as potatoes were emerging he would drag a spike tooth harrow both ways on potato rows , for weed control. One day while doing this a rein to horse broke. The horse and spike tooth made about 6 circles before he could rein him in. Of course spike tooth crossing rows did damage, remanance of plants every where. He hitched up his horsehoe rower and rowed the whole patch back up. Had one of the best potato crops ever. I remember another time, my dad and I along with a guy named Mike were planting corn. I was planting with 656, dad was broadcasting some fertilizer with 300 and Mike was on 1066, cab and duals with 25'cultivator. Now young Mike was also doing some quite heavy courting, kind of burning candle at both ends. Dad and Mike were on oposite of highway from me. Dad come over, tells me Mike is asleep, making about 6 mph. He is turning at ends of field but is not following any systimatic approach to cultivating. He said," At 65 I'm not good enough on my feet that I want to run in front of those duals to get in cab, nor do I want to try the same in front of the cultivator, you better come over." I went over, I to had some misgivings about trying to jump on, when your on foot man that thing was moving. I tried throwing lumps of soil at the tractor, no luck. Finally I made the run for the cultivator tongue, got on and thumped on back window, he stopped finally. Sent Mike home for the day, but not before we gave him a hard time. Near the edge of field was a small mobile home, with a very vocal lady lining there. Dad said to Mike, "You would have looked cute if you had hook the tongue of the mobile, and across the field with the lady expressing her views while hanging out the door. The Mike's of this world may even have a harder job staying awake in these new tractors. I've driven a few of these lately. On a scale from VW Beetle to Cadillac they come close to 9.5.
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