Posted by NY 986 on May 25, 2017 at 13:08:39 from (184.53.48.73):
I was just thinking about a story told to me (more than once) that talks about the trials and tribulations of farming. His grandfather was farming back during the late 1960's and his 5 plow tractor goes down after lunch on Friday needing to plow under manure being applied to a field not quite thirty acres. He makes a few calls and finds that nothing available as a demo or rental to pull the 5 bottom semi-mount plow. While the Oliver 77 with loader and Oliver 880 are busy with the manure chores including cleaning pens the plows for those two tractors are still around but have not been looked at for a bunch of years. The farmer decides that he will resurrect the plows but it will take some doing plus the big tractor operator is none too keen about being around manure. Over a half day is spent chasing a tire, acetylene, hydraulic hose, shares, and the shins did not look too great either along with the actual repair work. Not wanting to chance anything the Olivers are brought up to the garage for oil changes and the loader removed from the 77. Instead of the manure being rolled in by late Friday the Olivers were heading to the field at 6AM just getting started on turning under the manure. The guy who would have plowed Friday had to work at his regular job Saturday.
The field is turned by 1:30 Saturday afternoon but now to disk it. The 15' disk is too big for the 880 especially pulling the packer. The farmer has a few thoughts. The one neighbor has a 10' disk and the farmer has an old Dunham packer that would match but the neighbor would never let the farmer hear the end of it if something were to happend to that disk. The next option would have been to grab the uncle's 8N but that would greatly lengthen the time of the job plus having to find somebody to run one Oliver to pull the packer. He finally settles upon asking the neighbor who could pull the 15 foot disk but insists that he runs the tractor and has to be around his schedule. By about 3PM the neighbor's tractor is lined up to the farmer's disk and a problem is noted. The hose is too short by a couple of feet and the neighbor is fussy about not using "foreign" cylinders with his tractor. The neighbor has the farmer go down to the one dealership after finding somebody still there after the noon time close. The only problem is since the employee was off the clock so late he had tipped himself a few beers. The farmer decides that the best way out so the hoses can get made is to take the employee across the road to the diner so the employee can have a couple cups of coffee and a not so light late lunch. By a little after 5 the hoses are on so now it is waiting on the neighbor to get started. The neighbor does a couple hours work before heading off to dinner at the in-laws.
Sunday dawns and the neighbor works a couple more hours at it before church and once home and having had breakfast finishs at about noon. While the farmer would like to see it dry a pinch more he notices some ominous clouds starting to build at a distance. So he hitches the 880 to the 4 row planter and proceeds to put seed and fertilizer in. Once ready he questions that if with no breakdowns he may finish planting before the rain but there is no guarantee. He still would like to see the ground air out a little more but the conditions make planting possible if not perfect. The farmer heads back to the shed to presumably get its last fill up to finish but as he gets within 100 feet on the shed big drops of rain splatter the 880's hood and fenders and no sooner than the whole rig going under cover the sky opens up with rain. About 4 acres left unplanted.
Tuesday comes and now to do something about the broken down tractor. The farmer calls the dealer and finds it will be nearly a week and a half before the tractor gets looked at. The tractor being only around 5 years old started its stay on the farm off pretty well but the past two years have been one problem after another. The farmer starts thinking that within two weeks he needs to be plowing for 20 acres of sweet corn for the canning factory and another 20 for red beans. The farmer needed a few things at the Oliver dealer and found out that a new 1850 was coming in by the week's end. A couple of days later the farmer signed for the 1850 diesel and decided he wanted a spring reset plow so he traded for a new 546 plow.
Some here might just say that the above was just a fictional story by the college acquaintance and if I had to put money down I would say that it happened as told to me. Anyways, just something I remembered while waiting on the rainy weather to change today and a very late spring for a number of reasons. That I am not the only guy who had plenty of setbacks over a short period of time.
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