On Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:27:57 PM Dave did opine: > My Grandfather had work horses and kept them up until the 80's, long > after they were retired from plowing when the John Deere took over that > task. > > Now I live in a large Amish area and during plowing season sometimes > there will be team of 8 Percheron's walking down the road, all harnessed > together - 4 in front, 4 in back with an Amish guy walking in the > middle guiding them down the road to the plows or disk. (Oftentimes you > can't see the guy - he is right in the middle) They are huge horses. > They don't move fast but they sure can work. > > Then other times there will be a situation where a giant 4wd tractor > equipped with 4 dual tires comes down the road and meets a team of 8 > horses. Both are on their ways to do some plowing and both are taking > up virtually all of the road. What a conflict - in so many ways. Old > vs New etc.
A friend of mine that went by Cannonball fixed that. He did custom farming in N.E. Nebraska, and had bought a new 30 foot wide disk and a John Deer 8870 to pull it with. The disk folded up, but the first field gate he pulled that 8870 up to needed widened nearly 5 feet. He pulled the posts, did the job, put the posts back in the holes & drove it straight to the machine shop in Laural NE, where it got about 6 feet narrower. Yup. he was a character, but AFAIK he never tipped it, but it sure looked like it would have been easily enough done. JD makes some decent machinery, or did in the 70's. The farmer that mowed the KXNE site had an 8840 & I needed a patch for taters behind the TX building. He came up and asked how much & I waved in the general direction to a 40 x 100 spot. He fired it back up & when he dropped the 7x14" into that poor alfalfa, the sound nor the smoke from the stack never changed. Down & back twice, done. We cut up 10+ bushels of seed taters, but the only reason we got that many back when we dug was the $#@*&% sand burrs, seems the potato bug likes them better than potatos. Mainly the weather killed us, a pretty dry summer. > I have a '55 Case 400 tractor. Much newer than an LA. ;-) Smaller, and likely with more HP, I think that old LA was 31 at the belt pulley and 22 at the drawbar. 4 16's was about all it could pull in any gear. Heck, it was already an antique on Dec 7, 1941! It was in '44 when I buried it. > Dave Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> ... bacteriological warfare ... hard to believe we were once foolish enough to play around with that. -- McCoy, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
