[Farmall] practically new 140

[John Hall]

Don't they grow cigar wrappers under a tent/cover/net to protect the leaves?

John

On 11/28/2016 10:32 PM, Mike Schmudlach wrote:
> In Wisconsin they used Cs and Super Cs for tobacco. Yes we have tobacco here. Big leaf for chewing and cigar wrap.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 28, 2016, at 7:53 PM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> How common are the 240's in your area? I've only ran across a couple
>> here.  I never understood why nobody wanted to use the 2 row machines in
>> tobacco. I had a friend who was a die hard Deere guy that bought a C and
>> used it one year in tobacco. There were quite a few C's around, but they
>> never enjoyed popularity cultivating except in corn, I imagine that
>> stopped in the 60's since they were so small. It wasn't until the 80's
>> that 2 row cultivation of tobacco took off--and that was with 3pt hitch
>> cultivators. I could see staying with one row units if that is how you
>> bedded your land, but 2 and 4 row bedders were around long before that.
>> Heck we used a 4 row bedder, a two row planter, and did all the
>> cultivating with  two one row Super A's. Stubborn I guess?
>>
>> John Hall
>>
>>
>>> On 11/28/2016 12:49 PM, Grant Brians wrote:
>>> John, I'll admit that I would prefer not to have to have those 34" rows
>>> too. Running two sets of equipment for 80" and 60" wheel spacings is not
>>> too bad, but adding the oddball for Potatoes is more challenging. Our
>>> previous Oliver Potato planter allowed me to squeeze the rows a bit and
>>> use the 60" tractors, but not this one. The yields are better at 34"
>>> than 30" too as weed control is easier. That Farmall 240 tricycle makes
>>> it easy to handle the cultivation.
>>>        Where all of this does get annoying and hard is irrigation pipe
>>> laying and pickup. With the different spacings, we have to try not to
>>> move pipe between different spacings to avoid driving over beds....
>>>        I had to chuckle about your garden comment. One year I planted 14
>>> acres of green beans we had to hand pick - LOTS of labor bills. The time
>>> I planted for the freezer and they came in with the self-propelled large
>>> mechanical harvesters that was a really quick pick! 27 Acres in 11 hours.
>>>                 Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer
>>>
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