[AT] The last question I had on my list for December.

[Gene Waugh]

I never plowed with it myself, but my 'idea', mind-picture of plowing is 
the 1953 or so IH M pulling the JD 2-16" plow---I guess this, in my 
out-of-focus memories, is the core, the heart of farming---as we knew it 
back then!!

Gene

Ron Cook wrote:
> That's nothing.  The darned things show up in Western Iowa as soon as 
> you turn up the soil.   I haven't figured that one out either and we are 
> alot farther than 10 miles inland!
>
> Moldboard plowing with a pull type plow would be one of my favorites, 
> and after someone invented those darned power take-off driven rotary 
> stalk cutters I found at new least favorite thing to do.  Cold, windy, 
> and very dusty!  I sort of liked it when we got snowed out of that job!  
> And I hate snow.  Especially the 21 inches that keeps blowing around 
> outside this past week.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
>
> charliehill wrote:
>   
>> Don, I never could figure out how the sea gulls knew.
>> We were at least 10 miles inland from any body of water where the sea gulls 
>> would normally hang out and 30 miles from where you are sure to find them. 
>> When the first farmer stuck the first mold board plow in the ground in the 
>> spring (actually winter here) the sea gulls would show up in a matter of 
>> minutes.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] The last question I had on my list for December.
>>
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