[AT] junk

[charlie hill]

It used to be fairly common here to seed beans by air or with a broadcast 
spreader pulled through
wheat a couple of weeks before it is cut.  Down in the wheat stubble the 
beans will sprout laying
on top of the ground and when the combine cuts the wheat it just cuts over 
the top of the little bean plants.
I've never done it but have seen it done.   Most farmers here run a 3 crop 
in 2 year rotation of winter wheat,
soybeans and corn.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 7:43 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] junk

Sounds like you guys are having a tough time with the rain. I talked to a
guy who's brother works for a Deere dealer near the NC/SC border. One of
their customers is a real big farm. They are still trying to get wheat out
due to the rain. Running 2 combines with duals and still getting stuck. It's
so bad they keep a big tractor on hand just to pull them out. The wheat is
too good to abandon and accept an insurance payment. It's going to take a
lot of tillage to get the ruts out of the field.

How did the seeding by airplane work? I wouldn't think a soybean could
sprout and survive like that. Dad has told me before about a neighbor who
used a helicopter once to seed some wheat in standing corn. Must not have
worked to well as I don't think he did it but once.

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: Edchainsaw at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:03 PM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: Re: [AT] junk

Sorry It took so long to reply  again... I keep forgetting my cell phone's
not like the old one...    email has to be done by computer ... :(       We
were very busy the day you were here Spencer lol .  I was twix and
between!  lol..


between the last week of June and last week  we had over  20inches of rain
...  some of the locals have not planted beans  yet...  WE were blessed and
got all our corn planted and all our  beans  As well as the neighbor who is
fighting cancer .     Another neighbor who also has cancer hired an
airplane to seed some beans but  didn't want to try it on all his unplanted
ground.

Dad and I are still the major work force but we do have a guy that  lives
rent free in grampa's house that's not really looking for gainful
employment
that helps do some of our heavy lifting now.   Dad  turned 75 in February
and doesn't want to quit just knows he cant physically do  a lot of lifting,
and I am over 50 now and the lead magnet in the Lazy-boy got  turned on so I
am not as powerful either.   Our Jimmy is a  bessing  most of the time--- 
but sometimes he's a curse   lol.

We took 2 tractors to the Wabash Valley show and in the tractor  games  I
scored 2 trophies -- one for the barrel race the other   for  the LaMans
start ---    our 36 B JD is a fast starter  ...   my GrlFrnd and I
finnnished
3rd in the blindfold drover race to  her and her Dad... (she drove once and
he
drove once...)

August 3rd the town of ClayCity, IN is hosting  JD as feature  tractors and
the  local IH chapter..  we are hoping to catch the  RFD show over flow...

Message: 15
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:40:42 -0400
From: Spencer  Yost <yostsw at atis.net>
Subject: Re: [AT] junk
To: Antique tractor  email discussion group
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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Good to hear from you  Ed.   A friend of a friend from Illinois who isn't
more than 100 miles  from you says he is using a boat to commute to work.
Literally.   He  had to put a trolling motor on a little John boat to float
down a river to town  that flooded a road he normally takes. Now that the
river
is down a bit, the  state closed the road because the river damaged it.
So he is still  using a boat to commute.

Dis you get any corn in the ground?    I still think about our visit
several years back and marvel at how two men can  run a farm your size.
Would
have taken 5 families with lots of kids  and grand kids to farm that a
hundred years ago.

Spencer

Sent from  my iPhone

On Jul 4, 2013, at 11:49, Edchainsaw at aol.com wrote:

>  Sorry folks for depriving you of my wisdom  lately  (YA RIGHT   lol  I m
> just trying to be funny is all)
> I UPGRADED my  cell phone  last month and it only accepts my emails 1
time
>  a week to one account ( the hoosier two-cylinder club account is also
> mine).   so I only get updates at random.
>
>  and for several months my Replies to the board have been stopped when I
use
> my cell to reply.   I cant reply with my mother's laptop  either so out
> comes the phone cord and dial up when Dad is not  using the phone... I
sware
> he's  worse than a teenager about using  the phone.
>
> We are getting ready for the  Vigo  County  Fair  Wabash  Valley Tractor
> show this  weekend  and NEEDING some dry weather to bale some  hay,   I
have  7
> bales baled and they were knee deep in   water  last week when we had 9in
in
> 2 days  and had 3in in 2 days  this  week  ....  I wish I could tanker
some
> water to  help fight fires  but they say its too expensive... darn!
>
> eddie
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