2016 Harvest Thread

[Mike P]

". Too bad they left a t bolt from a clamp in the cold pipe between the 2 turbos and it ruined the turbos....."

Now that's just plain ugly


They were just starting to get the corn and beans out of the fields in Ill where I was visiting a week and a half ago. The size of the current equipment is massive compared to what I remember dad using in the 60's.....a 2 row John Deere tractor mounted picker with a sheller attachment and a 57 Chevrolet 2 1/2 ton grain truck.

Of course back then Dad was farming 320 acres (the home place and a neighbors place he was renting) which was about average for the time. Now if you're farming less than 1200 acres is a small operation. I understand progress but I still find it a bit sad to see all the old family farms gone.

Thanks for posting


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[NTFDAY]

My late grandfather on my dad's side farmed a little less than 100 acres from sometime in the 30's until the late 60's in southwest Ohio. A group of farmers in the area with similar sized farms would travel from farm to farm at harvest time and not a one of them had any large piece of equipment. Noone became rich though they all lived comfortably and for the most part very frugal. All of his land now belongs to a natural gas pipeline company.