Posted by wisbaker on November 18, 2012 at 13:22:33 from (207.118.181.192):
In Reply to: just curious. posted by Tuckermac on November 18, 2012 at 07:37:23:
The town I grew up near was rural but only about 6 families really made their living entirely off the farm (and two of those had wives who taught school) everyone else was part timers or hobby farmers like us. I used to work hay for one of the full timers who lived about a mile down the road, coincidentally his late brother had lived on an 80 acre farm next to us. One day after the hay was in we where talking, he had 5 or 6 Fergusons, a Farmall H and an old Case on steel I never saw run the last 15 years I was at home. We got to talking about his brother and how when they were younger they farmed together. He reminisced about how his brother had John Deeres, he admitted he used to have them to but then mumbled something about a John Deere A with a mounted potato digger and a bad shoulder from the darn thing. He finishes the story with "yep my brother would brag how at the end of the day he and his John Deere always got a little more done then I did with my Fergusons, well maybe he did but I didn't have to get off my tractor and crawl to the house like he did." Buy the way when the kids left my folks started getting rid of their equipment, The neighbor's son (former employer's nephew) somehow managed to acquire our Farmall H and Super M, real world he thought they ran cheaper then the John Deeres left to him by his dad.
We had a John Deere A (late styled) their were some things it was better at then our Farmalls because of the 6 speed transmission but if we were working the tractors hard the A would use 1/2 again as much fuel as the A. Once or twice Dad, a brother and me would work fields for corn with the Super M and John Deere on plows and the H on the disc, 1/2 the fuel for both Farmalls, the other half for the Deere. And that was the Super M pulling 3-14's, the A 2-16's and the H on a 8 or 10' Dearborn Disc.
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