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Hi Farmer,<br>
My wife and I had a similar situation in 1995 when we built a house
on old cattle pasture land. We only had 10 acres, but between us and
our neighbors we had about 70 acres, and were just down the road
from my buddy who was about my age, but farmed for his dad. The
field was full of ridges and holes and was a nightmare to walk
through. I said he could farm it for nothing if it could help make
it smoother. He came with a big John Deere and a 24' disc. After
discing it he still wasn't happy with the results, so he hooked up a
6 bottom plow and plowed the whole field, the plow pulled about 14"
deep, then he disced it again. Our field was now like a putting
green. Good for both parties involved. <br>
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Mike M<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/29/2020 8:04 AM, Indiana Robinson
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<div dir="ltr">My parents bought this farm in 1951 after it had
been badly farmed for many years by a series of terrible
renters. Recalling back I have trouble grasping just how
backward much of american farming was until after WW-II. The
great depression sat farming back a lot as most just tried to
hang on. In those post WW-II days my father was quite
progressive and so were many of our neighbors but there were a
large number that were still farming that should have not been
farming. My father bought a field sprayer after the war and he
kept pretty busy spraying for neighbors as it was the only field
sprayer in the neighborhood. This farm was horribly eroded with
gullies that were deep enough to hide cows. Fence lines were
grown up as wide as 30' mostly with honey locust thorn trees,
many with 12 to 18 inch trunks and a zillion of them with 1 to 3
inch trunks growing only a few inches apart. Back then most
farms had a certain amount of permanent pasture for grazing
horses and cattle etc. On this farm those were covered about
80% with honey locust. Many large areas were even impassable
walking. They had even abandoned one 20 acre field as "worn out"
and no longer worth planting.<br>
<div>We worked really hard during the early 1950's to make a
real farm out of the place. Much of the work until about 1956
was with a Deere crawler, first an MC then a new 40C. The
dozer blade was in constant use both on thorn trees and
filling gullies. Building new fences was also constant.</div>
<div>Another constant was spraying... From the time I was 11 I
spent much of every year except winter spraying thorn trees,
basically with agent orange... Mixing 2-4-D, 2-4-5-T and stove
oil.</div>
<div>It became standard practice for my father and I when doing
field work to refuel the tractors each evening and if we had
come in before dark we would each take out our pocket knives
and working, one of us on each side of a tractor, start
digging out thorns in the tires. We did that while also
discussing the day now done and planning the next day and
future days and projects.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 2:46
AM Steve W. <<a href="mailto:swilliams268@frontier.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">swilliams268@frontier.com</a>>
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1countryguy wrote:<br>
> new tires and tubes for my 4 x4 were over 7,000 dollars
several years <br>
> ago. That makes renting/hiring a dozer much more
affordable. Unless <br>
> you can get some tires that the Mennonite's use In
northern Richland <br>
> County, Ohio.<br>
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I have a few tires around here with TireJect in them. Stuff
seems to <br>
work a lot better than slime but isn't as easy to get. Doesn't
cause the <br>
rims to rot either.<br>
One of the demo mowers I ran last year had air free tires on
it, like <br>
the Tweel. Worked OK but didn't have a lot of traction on wet
grass or <br>
mud. Probably would have been good on ice like on an ATV/UTV
because you <br>
could drive ice studs into them, but they are $$$$$$4<br>
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Francis Robinson<br>
aka "farmer"<br>
Central Indiana USA<br>
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