[AT] Spam> Re: OT; News from Oklahoma

[Ralph Goff]

Herb, that JD 4wd is actually a fairly typical sized tractor for this area 
and he is certainly not a big farmer by today's standards. Thats about a 35 
foot air seeder behind the tractor and the plastic tank in the foreground is 
liquid fertilizer. What you can't see is the other fertilizer tank hitched 
behind the air seeder. Its makes for quite a train of equipment when you see 
it all stretched out going down the field. What you are seeing on the side 
of the air seeder tank is probably the fill auger. They have their own 
hydraulic drive auger mounted on the side to fill up the tanks with grain 
and fertilizer. We have come a long was from the days of a five gallon pail 
and bathtub (what I started out with nearly 40 years ago).:-)

Ralph in Sask.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> Re: OT; News from Oklahoma


>
> Ralph
> Dad occasionally commented that a farmer was the biggest gambler in the
> world in that he gambled on the weather.
> The photo you included was of a sizeable farmer with a large JD FWD 
> pulling
> a preparer/seeder?
> Also, the two plastic tanks were probably used for?
> The larger tank in the background had something from the side and then 
> over
> to the center; probably piping or an access ladder?
> Apologies for all of the questions.
> Herb
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: 5/15/2009 1:50:54 PM
>> Subject: [AT] Spam> Re:  OT; News from Oklahoma
>>
>> Kind of a miserable spring day here in SAsk. with snow and cold. Its been
>> below normal most of May with hard frosts some nights. Everything is late
>> (including spring seeding). Took this picture yesterday while on the way
> to
>> try seeding some flax. I did get 36 acres done before it started up
> snowing
>> again. Today I could go snowmobiling instead of seeding.
>>
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> 06
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT; News from Oklahoma
>>
>>
>> >    H.L.
>> >    Glad you got the rain and hope you now get the dry weather to get 
>> > the
>> > planting done.
>> >    We had a nice drying weekend here in west central, Ohio. The 
>> > tractors
>> > and planters were starting to roll on Monday, and in full force on
> Tuesday
>> > and Wednesday morning. More rain for Wednesday afternoon and most of 
>> > the
>> > night. Got up to 3 inches in some places. Not so much here and only
>> > standing
>> > puddles in the fields.
>>
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