[AT] Ok now how about George Willer?(roll call)

[Herbert Metz]

Cecil; your posts are always informative.  I, and probably many others that
left the farm decades ago, sure appreciate your good descriptions; keeps
me/us reasonably informed about todays farm world.  And expecially me,
because this part of north GA has very little farm ground remaining;
heavily wooded, rolling, and full of rocks.   Therefore, no farmers to
visit with or observe their operations.
You probably went I-35 & I-70, so you were within an hour of my old home
area (Ellinwood, KS).  Some of the best oil fields in KS were a half hour
north of town (unfortunately, we were south of town).
Thanks for sharing.
Herb

> [Original Message]
> From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 8/7/2009 9:08:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Ok now how about George Willer?(roll call)
>
> I went up into Kansas Tuesday & Wednesday and picked up a Lundell Flail 
> Chopper and a 30 ft boom sprayer that I had bought on Purplewave.com.. 
> It was a nice trip.  Took my F350 powerstroke  and my 42 ft spread axle 
> trailer.  That trailer is about 20 ft too long for maneuverability in 
> parking lots of motels...  It also is too long to get the best prce on 
> diesel sometimes.  However, the coops were only too happy to sell me 
> fuel for cash..  They also had great access and prices..   I traveleed 
> from Piedmont to salina then to Goodland and north.  I was about 12 
> miles from Colorado and 8 miles from Nebraska..
>
> I bought the equipment at a song, and really needed a trip/vacation. 
> My Dad had a stroke from a blood clot from an amputation below the knee 
> from a bad Knee replacement surgery.....  It has been really fun around 
> here to try to get 200 acres of hay cut and deal with him also..  I sold 
> my old 114 NH swather Sunday night to a guy about 20 miles East of here. 
>   He left in the dark to trail that swather home!!  I had bought a NH 
> 617 disk mower to replace it, it has the Caddy with it to make it a 
> trail type.  So far i have sold about 150 bales of hay.  This rain we 
> are getting now will make another crop on the Johnson grass as it is 
> already a foot high..  I rented a 1/4 that had not been worked in 8 
> years and it has about 40 acres of pasture on it that had horses on it 
> about 8 years ago..  I did not want to try to cut it with that swather. 
>   I got tired of sickle cutting speed after running a neighbor's disk 
> mower for 2 years.  As soon as I can I am going to get a 15 ft wide disk 
> mower...  I rented another field of 80 acres, but it only had about 6 
> acres of good bluestem on it, the other was just scrub grass.  The 6 
> acres made 30 bales!!  I will have a lot of spraying to do this fall and 
> next spring.  That is the reason I bought the boom sprayer.  It needs a 
> lot of work, but for $125, I can do a lot of work....  The Lundell Flail 
> chopper is the one I need to get going right now, and Lundell quit 
> making farm equipment and went into the trash recycling business.   I 
> need a few parts that were proprietary to them....  The flail mower is a 
> lot like a M-C rotary scythe....
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
> Ralph Goff wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Ok now how about George Willer?(roll call)
> > 
> > 
> >> Hi Ralph,  I'm glad you checked in.  You were another that hasn't said
> >> anything lately.   I'm sure there are a lot of others I should ask
about 
> >> but
> >> I just take them as they pop into my mind.
> >>
> >> How are the crops in Sask. this year?
> >>
> >> Charlie
> > 
> > 
> > Crops are looking great Charlie. Only problem is that they are mostly
all a 
> > couple of weeks or more behind schedule due to our cold summer. We need
the 
> > rest of August frost free to get this crop and I don't know if we are
going 
> > to make it. Some days we are lucky to get up in to the 70s and the
nights 
> > get well down into the 40s or worse.
> > 
> > Ralph in Sask. 
> > 
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