[AT] Healthy Eating, was "Just checking"

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

Depending on what age makes them antique, all my farming this year was done 
with tractors built from 1944-1972.

The DC Case is a 44 model. We used in to pull my 50's New Holland baler with 
Wisconsin engine. With the hand clutch and plenty of weight to handle the 
baler and a wagon, it’s a good combo. We baled around 1,100 bales of hay and 
straw this year. You'd think I could afford a more modern baler. I actually 
could If I wasn't pouring money into everything else.

We have two Farmall Super A's 51 and 52 models. One has the sickle mower, 
the other has the PTO drive Allis Hay rake (built in the 40's/50's) That's 
about all those 2 have done this year. Actually the one with the sickle 
mower has had the mower on it for 2-3 years now.

The Farmall M is a 1947  model. It has a mounted John Blue spray rig for 
liquid nitrogen. When not spraying it pulls my 10ft Dunham culti-packer ( 
the big kind with 2 rows of teeth for spoining out tracks, not the little 
ones you pull behind a drill). On rare occasion we may hook it to the 12ft 
gang harrow, but that’s one heck of a load!

The 4020 Deere is a 68 model. That’s what I had hooked to the old road 
grader in the picture I posted last week. It also pulls both harrows, the 
chisel plow, subsoiler, drill, corn planter, sprays corn and spreads 
ammonium sulfate on the corn, bushogs corn and milo stalks. Oh yeah, it has 
the job of backing hay wagons under the shed. There is no flat land here so 
backing a loaded wagon up-hill while on grass is better suited for something 
with power steering and enough weight to do the job. Also we use this 
tractor for the scrape blade, hooking up the forklift attachment, and 
operating the only Cat 2 boom pole I have ever seen. We never question how 
much weight the boom can handle, its more of a matter will the front end 
stay on the ground!

The workhorse we use most often is an IH 454, 1972 model. It runs 2 
different bushhogs, sprays, spreads fertilizer, teds hay, handles my auger 
cart, occasionaly used with the scrape blade. Also got a hydraulic dump 
trailer made from the back half of a 2-ton truck that we pull with it.

So if your definition of antique is over 40 years old, that’s what we've 
been doing with our old tractors this year.

We're down to spraying weeds and drilling wheat for this year, I hope. If it 
ever dries up I hope to be done before Thanksgiving. Then the ever growing 
list of "shop work" can begin.

John Hall

-----Original Message----- 
From: ATIS
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 6:15 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Healthy Eating, was "Just checking"

I'm for eating whatever brings antique tractors back to this list.   Anyone 
still using them?   I've drilled seed, spread manure, mowed, cut hay, baled 
hay, plugged pastures and drive posts - all in the last 3-4 months.   All 
with my 1958/9 Ford 861D.  I had to put front tires on this year but other 
than that it has been solid and reliable.

Of course all that was between work shifts of about 12 -14 hours a day(with 
commute) and raising alpacas .   So my dinner has been 2 12oz portions about 
10Pm.  Not sure of the health benefits there other than I sleep well and I 
don't have to take ibuprofen.

Spencer Yost


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