No. Please don't shut off your ears, just here me out...
I dislike green paint. I dislike it so much as to have won an art project award in 4th grade, painting a green machine with bullet holes and rust stains. Really, it was good art.
I have a JD 7000 planter now, it is set up conventional, not no-till, or as my dad calls it: "no-grow."
I had that cyclo machine until I just couldn't risk my sanity or my ears. When I plant corn, I like to here myself think. I like to be one with the dirt that I loving pounded to dust in the weeks prior. I don't want you to think I gave up easy. We are talking 8 years of planting, in horrible pain, before I pulled the trigger. Hey... Ol Yeller had to go at the end of that movie. We all cried, but we were better people because of it. But we knew it had to happen. pulling the trigger seems easy, but it is not.
Something cheap to make life easier? JD 7000. parts out the wazooo aftermarket, more advice than drunk uncles at Thanksgiving, more soothing than the Statler Brothers singing 4 part harmony while you run the tractor. No stress, just planting...
Idle the tractor, make a mends with our Savior, and then lift out of the ground on the headlands. All can be done on a whisper that will make Bill Anderson jealous. No stress... Just gentle planting.
I liked my Ford 309 for gentle easy planting, but precise it is not. JD 7000 is. Hands down. Colorblind I am. Yoda I am not.
Don't shoot the planter. Craig has a list that loves you and wants your leftovers. Craig has helped me many times.
AS I pulled my IH 5100 soybean special through the field today, I reminisced about my cyclo-nightm-air. I wanted to own a 706 or a nice IH 560 diesel. But, I pulled it with trusty Blue paint. I will run my Farmall Cub later this week. In the meantime, I will pull red with blue, green with blue, different shade of green with blue, and green with orange. The mst important part is that I will see sprouts in a week, and the sprouts will grow tall and dark green and I will walk through those fields and the only color I will care about is the color green that I see in these fields when no tractor can cross them. I love that color the most. Because of that, I don't care what color I used to grow those beauties. I just care about those gorgeous ladies that make my farm so elegant.
I'm sure you know the feeling. That is what farming really is about.No one is going through the motions when they care. I was told a while ago in Sunday school that if really didn't believe and I was just going through the motions, that I should leave. I thought it was silly to think any would do that. Then I thought about the guy who would pewp on your porch if you ha a green planter and red tractor. That guy is just bored and going through the motions. He doesn't care, or extremely good to the point where his machines are too new to care. MY machines are antiques... or "classic." ...or just downright too important to the operation to screw around with the latter...
I don't go through the motions. I care. I know you care. So caring means loving and learning and understanding. That means understanding that you love the result and the process, but you don't care what color the machines are as long as they make your toil reflect in the stand you raise. Why else would you farm?
I'm so proud to have read all your own toil and experiences through the years. You have come so far so fast. That is the mark of true intelligence. You learn and you love it and I love reading it.
Now... I posted about a cyclo-air I gave away... I don't suggest you do that. I do suggest you have a back-up unit, which is code for "buying more farm equipment and justifying it to the family." I don't suggest drinking, either. I can't anymore. Kidney problems... wetting the bed... But I do suggest digging deep down and pulling up your inner drunk, full of lack of inhibitions. Find that man. Don't beat your kids or cut off people in traffic, but do make a decision to find something that doesn't serve a want to own, but serves a need to fulfill the greater goal. Keep the old planter and wax the paint and tell the grandkids that you used to use it. Use it as a cheap way to fulfill inheritance obligations to lesser family members. That will think you cared and that is all that matters.
That is why I always have had the most admiration for you and your blog of farm tribulations.
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