[AT] Actual antique tractor vegetable discussion

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sun Apr 24 03:45:49 PDT 2011


John we used to irrigate too but now days the cost of running the pumps is 
too much.  Or at least I believe that is why the guys stopped doing it. 
Some still have the equipment.  In fact I still have our old pto driven pump 
and most of the aluminum pipe.  It hasn't been used in 25 years or more. 
Actually the hardest our pump ever got run was actually

-----Original Message----- 
From: john hall
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:31 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Actual antique tractor vegetable discussion

Didn't realize about the irrigation. Back in tobacco's glory days we'd pump
the ponds dry. I've literally sat on the tractor waiting for the pump to
start sucking air and then shut it down. At one time around here you
preferred to plant only where there was ample water for irrigation.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Actual antique tractor vegetable discussion


> John, there was/is very little irrigation done here.  I expect if you were
> going to, you would make the truck middle a little wider, or even go
> cross-ways.  Most irrigation here is hog waste on pasture.
>
> Al
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: john hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>>Sent: Apr 23, 2011 7:39 AM
>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Subject: Re: [AT] Actual antique tractor vegetable discussion
>>
>>Al, are the irrigation reel guns made so they can straddle the plants? How
>>do they get it pulled out, I thought you had to tow those out with a
>>tractor
>>before you started to irrigate? We had the old school pipe that you had to
>>manually lay out. What fun to go in the mud and take it out when it was 95
>>deg.
>>
>>John
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