[AT] Fwd: Re: Test

Wed Dec 9 16:54:07 PST 2015

I measured 38,000 acres or about 60 sq miles.

About right.  I lease a hunting property that is over 20,000 acres.  
That is a nice size.

On 12/9/2015 6:26 PM, Dean VP wrote:
> Charlkie,
>
> Wow, is that 35,000 acres all one farm? Owned by one company?  That is Montana, Wyoming type acreage.
> What is grown there?
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA
>
> If we can employ guards with guns to protect money, we can and should employ guards with guns to
> protect people. Bernard Goldberg.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> charlie hill
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 1:57 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Fwd: Re: Test
>
> Dean about 40 miles from me is a 35,000 acre farm that is as flat as
> a pancake, literally.   The elevation of the fields is between 6 and 9 feet
> above sea level and the water in the ditches is mere inches above sea level
> depending on how they have the flood gates set.
>
> Here it is in Google maps:
> https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8429444,-76.5627101,20397m/data=!3m1!1e3
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean VP
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 4:01 PM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
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>
> Charlie,
>
> Out west in NW WA where we have real mountains 1000's of feet high
> surrounding lush farmlands those
> 30' hills would be considered gopher mounds!  :-)  In NW  IA, the farm land
> was called gently rolling.
> I suspect the difference from high to low was quite small too. East of us
> about 30 miles there was a
> large farming area that was flat as a pancake which caused real problems
> whenever they had heavy
> rains.  Whenever we had heavy rains by us it drained away quite well but
> without a lot of soil loss.
> Contour farming became quite popular in the late 50's.
> .
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA
>
> If we can employ guards with guns to protect money, we can and should employ
> guards with guns to
> protect people. Bernard Goldberg.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> charlie hill
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 4:44 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Fwd: Re: Test
>
> Ralph, the county I live in here in coastal NC has a maximum elevation of
> about 55 feet above sea level and that is the
> top of the mound at the regional land fill.   My house is on one of the
> highest hills in the county and it is about 23' above
> sea level!  We do have some hills but as you can tell none of them are over
> about 30 feet high!
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Goff
> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 8:52 PM
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> Subject: [AT] Fwd: Re: Test
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>
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: [AT] Test
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:36:57 -0600
> From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>
>
> Tried sending this yesterday but the photo is too many kb even though it
> is quite small.
> So here is the message minus the photo.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
> On 12/7/2015 2:21 PM, pga2 at basicisp.net wrote:
>> Man, that looks a lot like the Texas panhandle near Amarillo.
>> It's so flat out there that if you stand on a pennt, you can
>> see Dallas! :o)
>>
>> Phil in TX
> I don't think so Phil. I took a look on google earth at the area around
> Amarillo
> and hopefully won't insult anybody when I say it looks dead flat and
> boring.
> Nothing at all like my part of Sask. in the parklands. If you have
> google earth
> just search out Mcdonald Hills , Sask. I will admit it does look a
> little flatter
> than real life. I farm some land there and it definitely has it's ups
> and downs.
> Here is a picture from last summer of another of my antiques. Its
> a driver.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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