Re: The Height of Ambition

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 20, 2005 at 03:31:55 from (216.208.58.175):

In Reply to: Re: The Height of Ambition posted by Jimmy King on January 20, 2005 at 02:30:17:

Jim: Sadly those little tractors had the ability to do far more than they were ever designed for. Many of them got abused beyond belief. I remember my dad pulling a 140 bushel manure spreader with Farmall 130. Our first bale thrower wagons were 20'x 8' x 8', usually about 150-40 lb bales. Normally we pulled those to barn with Cockshutt 540. However when raking was done and Frank had 300 on baler up around 3-4 strokes to the bale, the 130 hauled some wagons and up a 15% grade.

My dad had a brother, milked 20 aryshires plus replacments on roughly 100 acres. Did all his work with Super A including pto baling with a 67 NH baler. Forked all the manure by hand, raised 9 children and had time to travel the countryside singing in a male choir. Dad always said something was wrong he had 40 holsteins, 3 tractors, 5 boys, loaded the manure with a loader and didn't have time to sing in the choir.

Then we listen to guys tell us you can't have too much horse power. I can show you finincial statments showing we made far more money when farm was under powered than when adequately or over powered. Today one must come in at less than 1/4 hp per acre to compete in the marketplace. Uncle Wallace was doing that 50 years ago, with his Super A.

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