[AT] Re Plowing in Ohio/Long

[charlie hill]

Sandy soil is fun to work and easy to plow but it needs to be a bit damp but 
not wet or dry.  Wheel slip is certainly a big problem compared to heavy 
land.

My grandfather had a similar life experience.   I can't remember off hand 
what year he was born or died but he was 95 and died sometime in the late 
70's.   That means he was born in the 1880's.
He logged and farmed all of his life after having to quit  school at age 10 
to work to help the family.  He moved over the river in 1922 when my mother 
was 4 and bought a 100+ acre tract of woodland that he and his two sons 
cleared with cross cut saws and oxen.  By the time I came along in the 1950 
it was a very nice farm.  He and the boys built every building on it and he 
also built most of the wagons and such in his blacksmith shop.  He did his 
own harness work too.  He farmed until he was in his mid 80's and had a 
Super A, an H and a Super M when he stopped.  Before he died the tenant 
farmers were using big, modern equipment and his children and grandchildren 
had traveled all over the world.  He liked to travel too and would go 
anywhere you wanted him to as long as he was home in time to feed up!

Charlie
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 3:50 PM
Subject: [AT] Re Plowing in Ohio/Long


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> In a message dated 9/15/2007 12:06:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com writes:
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> [AT]  Plowing in Ohio/Long
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>
> As a  kid  we plowed every inch of  ground we   planted -- so I was put on 
> a
> plow as soon as I could be trusted-- 3  plows  were always  faster than 2.
> We farm  near a  small river and  our sand was the easiest to plow-- I 
> loved
> it  exept when you let  one wheel spin more than 1 round  without 
> moving...
> I almost rolled a 4630 JD  over  into the old river  bed  that day...
> most of the ground is  Zip-muck and  sandy loam   mix   you would go from
> 5mph to 7 mph to 4  all in  one  pass.
>
> The one field is 3/4 mile long --- grampa  told  us when  he  plowed with
> horses  he could  plow all day and still   jump over  the land  when  he 
> quit for
> the night.  He saw it  all in his time --  when he started working on the
> farm  they did  have a     tractor ---  a    LITTLE  BULL  tractor.   They 
> went
> back to horses  during the  20's  and  when he last plowed in 1980  we 
> were
> using a 4430  and 5bottom plow   and  then before he died in 1999 he  saw 
> us go
> to  no-tilling.
>
> My Dad could set up a plow well and from using  the   ac-CA,  and  a 
> MF135
>  they are a lot alike hitch wise  but I was a lot safer on the 135.
>
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