[AT] Still thinning

Wed Aug 13 05:05:30 PDT 2008

I have one of those old 3pt dearborn sickle mowers, I have been looking 
for a trail type one to mount an engine on to pull with the 4 wheeler.
Cecil in OKla

Paul Waugh wrote:
> I am looking for 3 pt hitch sickle bar mower that would fit on a Ford 
> Jubilee, and a old hay rake would not be a bad thing to have, we only have 
> 10 acres, so it would not get a hard work out.  I can not imagine a 4 row 
> cultivator. I plowed 250 acres of corn and beans with a 2 row on an H, and 
> that was heavy enough on the front end. I only made 40 acres in a day, one 
> time.  If you got caught in a rain shower, the front end would sink in mud 
> in a heart beat. And since there was no power steering, turning could be a 
> job with that weight on the front end.
> I totally agree, retiring is a 'process'
> 
> Paul - IN
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson46176 at hotmail.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:38 PM
> Subject: [AT] Still thinning
> 
> 
>>     This subject line applies to my hair and farm equipment both.   :-)
>>     I think I found a buyer for my old IHC 4 row planter (with harrow in 
>> front) yesterday. One of Diana's brothers is wanting to start planting a 
>> fair sized plot of sweet corn to sell and he is looking for something 
>> cheap. I figure my scrap guy would give me around $100 for it as scrap so 
>> I'll offer it to my BIL for that. It "ran when parked".   :-)  And still 
>> should be fine.
>>     I was looking at my old IHC 4 row front mount cultivators today while 
>> I was mowing... I decided to get rid of them too. I used to have visions 
>> of showing them on a tractor but the hauling would be just silly. The 
>> front section is about 10' wide and in one piece. I hate to scrap them but 
>> I can probably get twice as much out of them for scrap (they are really 
>> heavy) as I could get selling them as cultivators even to a collector. I 
>> used to use them on my S-MTA but haven't used them at all in maybe 10 
>> years.
>>    I have two old New Idea hay rakes (on steel) I am not using. I think I 
>> will save all 8 wheels and maybe the one trussed arch section of both 
>> frames and scrap the rest.
>>    My old John Deere rotary hoe will also go this month. It only has value 
>> as scrap unless I tear it apart and paint the hoe wheels like flowers and 
>> sell them. Those sell pretty well but I don't really need another project 
>> right now.
>>    My Old Gleaner F while still a decent old combine is also likely worth 
>> more as scrap than as a combine. There is not a lot of weight in the 15' 
>> grain head but that 4 row wide corn head is super heavy.
>>    It saddens me a little to scrap this stuff but I need to follow the 
>> money. If I took it to a consignment auction it would probably sell for a 
>> lot less than what my scrap guy will give me, still go to scrap and I 
>> would have to pay auction commission to boot.
>>    I was going to scrap about a dozen old rolls of fence wire back in a 
>> woods last year but it was beginning to crumble in places and I didn't 
>> really want the scrap guys scattering bits of wire all over the place 
>> while loading. Instead I planted Virginia creeper, big-leaf winter creeper 
>> and old English ivy around the base of them and they are almost invisible 
>> now under the vines. By next year they will be completely out of sight and 
>> with all of those vines on them it should all rust away completely in a 
>> few more years. Meanwhile it should be a super bird nesting habitat.
>>    I have about 5 small hopper bed wagons and I want to keep maybe two of 
>> them that are extra good. I will pull the beds from the other three and 
>> probably scrap them, nobody wants the small ones any more. I want to make 
>> a couple of flat bed hay wagon beds for those running gears. If I have 
>> enough hay wagons I won't have to unload them right away. I can just pull 
>> them in the barns and pull the pin and unload them when the timing is 
>> right. I have two loads of hay sitting on wagons in one barn right now.
>>    I have one  somewhat larger hopper wagon on a good reasonably heavy 
>> running gear and one very good (but needs paint) larger still EZ-Flow 
>> hopper bed on an EZ-Trail gear. I need to clean the EZ down and paint it 
>> to sell it. It should sell quite well here. Painting it will make a good 
>> January project in the shop. I still don't know what I will do with the 
>> mid sized wagon. I'll probably sit it out and sell it as is I also still 
>> have 3 other wagon running gears. Not real heavy but two would make decent 
>> smaller hay wagons OK so I'll keep them. The third is pretty good but is 
>> made from an old truck frame and is on 20" wheels. I'll probably scrap 
>> that one since most people don't like oddball stuff these days, everything 
>> has to look "store bought".
>>    I need to do some moving stuff around and sort some other smaller 
>> stuff. I'm still waffling about whether or not I want to sell my old Deere 
>> 4020 and all of my larger tillage implements. I am keeping stuff like 
>> seeders and my fertilizer / lime spreader etc.
>>    Retiring is a "process"...
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> farmer
>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at hotmail.com
>>
>>
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