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Quail

03-19-2008 07:57:16

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Can Anyone recommend a good disk to pull behind my 4600 Ford. Want to do light disking for CRP ground upkeep and to establish new food plots. Thks.

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Dave In WA

03-19-2008 14:12:53

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Re: Disk in reply to Quail, 03-19-2008 07:57:16

I'm using a 10ft JD offset behind a '72 5000. Pulls pretty easy until you disc the same spot a few times, then it's like pulling in talc powder. Probably depends on your soil and how much offset you choose to use. An eight footer might be a little easier.

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Ultradog MN

03-19-2008 13:53:31

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Re: Disk in reply to Quail, 03-19-2008 07:57:16

Where are you at?
I've got a sweetheart 201 10' disc like Ford Farmer mentions below. Probably going to sell this spring.

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NWMO 901 SOS

03-19-2008 12:47:45

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Re: Disk in reply to soundguy, 03-19-2008 07:57:16

I've been in MO all my life and use that expression once in a while. Couldn't tell you anyone in particular who used it, but I heard it often enough to pick it up. Never considered the second word much or where it is from, midland, middle'n, ?? :roll: :roll:
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sotxbill

03-19-2008 11:02:41

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Re: Disk in reply to Quail, 03-19-2008 07:57:16

8 foot really good, a 10 foot fair to midland.. but could use a little weight.. any bigger and you'll do it in 1st gear..

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kcred

03-19-2008 12:36:58

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Re: Disk in reply to sotxbill, 03-19-2008 11:02:41

sotxbill , where did you pick up that expression ( Fair to midland ) ?
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sotxbill

03-19-2008 17:36:52

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Re: Disk in reply to kcred, 03-19-2008 12:36:58

folks down here always use it especially when referring to the weather.. ie its fair from here to Midland.. which is about 400 miles away with nothing between us but a cow and a mesquite tree.

however..

others say its about the quality of cotton picked out of the field and every evening they would discuss the days pickings and rate it per the standards.. and todays pickings were usually "fair to middleling" as opposed to good, fair, and bad, or top, middle, and bottom.

but all my life as a child its been

"fair to midland"..

or "anything north of dallas is a foriegn country"

or a "its a blue norther" (cold front)

or " the only thing tween us and canada tis a bobwar(barbed wire)fence" (cold front)

when it comes to weather. But you got to remember, we dont get out very much down here in south texas.

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awhtx

03-19-2008 15:02:35

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The phrase is fair to middlin. It refers to .... in reply to kcred, 03-19-2008 12:36:58

grades of cotton. My family has used this phrase as long as I can remember (and I'm 54). I recall reading somewhere a few years ago that the phrase came from the old days of cotton. When a farmer hauled his cotton to the gin to sell it was graded by the gin operator. "Fair" and "Middlin" were 2 of the grades so "fair to middlin" was a grade of cotton probably on the lower end of the grading scale.

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Spencer Chaffin

03-19-2008 23:28:02

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Re: The phrase is fair to middlin. It refers to .... in reply to awhtx, 03-19-2008 15:02:35

Fair to midline is a cotton grade as the below others are. This was determined after the cotton was ginned. A sample was taken, the lint pulled between the fingers of both hands, to determine the length of the fibers. Also the tint [ color] and cleannest of the fibers were involved.

strict high midling ==== higher price high midling ==== midling===== = fair to midling===== == strict low midling===== ==lower price Then if water damaged and dirty the price got lower

But it has been a long time since them cotton fields back home!!!!!

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Fordfarmer

03-19-2008 08:10:52

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Re: Disk in reply to Quail, 03-19-2008 07:57:16

For light disking, a Ford 201 3-point 10' would be good. I had one of those... wish I still did for the garden and food plots. I also had a Ford 230 heavy duty 12' with (I think)20" blades that I used behind my 4600 w/duals. It could pull it, but would absolutly work the snot out of it in plowed ground. Sold both of them, so just have my old Ford 224 15' for my 7000 or 7600.

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