Tooth Pulled?

Looks like someone yanked the second row of teeth on this 14' Dunham. Must have tugged a little too hard for someone's taste?

Allan

First about this machine: This gizmo follows directly behind the plow making an absolutely "perfect" seedbed in one pass. They are a totally awesome gadget. Downside is that it takes 80 IH horsepower to tug 'em. :>)

Guess I've never used 'em in front of planting alfalfa, tho. :>)

Now, the rest of this tirade is kinda hard to explain, 'cause in a lot of ways and to a large degree, I'm fightin' ghosts here.

In my own defense, trash farming doesn't do well when one of the cash crops in rotation is dry beans. One needs a pretty clean crop area as not to create a major hassle with every single operation concerning and during the whole crop season with beans.

Now, the "other" part:

In 1983, after three totally hailed-out years, I was forced to sell out. The handwriting was on the wall; continue on, go one more season and the farm ground would be in jeopardy as well.

So, this is what I did. I watched everything my family had worked so darn hard for all those years go down the drain for pennies on the dollar. Tough pill to swallow. Very tough! Tough then and tough to this day.

It took me 20 years to pull out of that $600K hole, but now the wife and I have built and own an online corporation that has been somewhat successful.

But, be it rational or not, I'm still livin' with the guilt of that darned farm sale, plus I’ve missed that farming way of life with every breath I’ve taken for the past 23 or so years.

I've sworn to get every piece of machinery, every tool and all the equipment back that I had to give up on that cold, blustery day back in March of '83

Then, to he!! with the cost, I'm gonna farm just like I used to 'til my time comes and when it does, hopefully on that day, lighting can strike me down while I've got that 9 tuggin' on that spinner and a blowin' black smoke in my face. :>)

That's what I wanna do. Yes, I’m irrational, yes, I’m illogical and probably phobic, but I’m just chasin’ my old memories and I’m gonna pull it off or die trying. :>)

Allan

Aw heck, I'm runnin' around like a chicken with my head cut off lookin' for the old toys. :>)

Going to look at another farm truck this morning; just hope it isn't too darned new (need 'em old like me). :>)

Allan

Aw, this darned thing has nagged and hounded me for almost a quarter century now. Just a sticky thorn in my side that I couldn't ever get over.

I started hangin' out here a few years ago, and just bein' able to talk to some of you "farmer types" and air it out once in awhile sure has helped alot.

So, onwards and upwards as they say,

Allan

Hope we're talking about the same crop because I don't recognize your terms. Maybe it is that darned regional thing again.

Do you use one of these critters to cut with?

Allan

My father farmed the place I now work for years. I learned his ways. I always had my ideas of how I'd do things if I could. Now's my chance...And my way is working fairly well...

Allan, I'm one guy that's pulling for you to get your "new operation" underway. Even if it is different than my way.....John

You bet! And I understand perfectly that you do this for a living and my little project is only going to be nothing more than a 'hobby' for the wife and I.

When money is an issue, of course you have to do what works and consequently most successful farmers today do just as you and John A. down in Texas are doing it.

My main goal, aside from the recovery aspect, is only to smell that diesel smoke, watch that crop boil up outta the ground and feed those cows in the dead of winter with something I have grown with my own two hands.

I hate racin' the clock like this tho, but by everything that is holy, we're gonna get 'er done. :>)

See ya,

Allan