[Farmall] practically new 140

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Tue Nov 29 19:18:02 PST 2016


We planted tobacco on 4 ft rows center to center if memory serves.  I remember helping dad measure a couple of times to make sure things were set up right.  He never changed the spacing so I'm guessing everything was pretty much that way.  We only had the one tractor.  It was a 140
 

    On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 8:26 PM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
 

 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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