Re: Getting new people started in grain farming

Posted by The tractor vet on November 19, 2013 at 20:48:28 from (75.19.119.134):

In Reply to: Getting new people started in grain farming posted by BMAG on November 19, 2013 at 19:32:12:

You can do it if you can shop wise and have a nose for a good old piece of equipment , ya know how to repair what ever come up , you have a decent shop that you can work in in the bad weather and you have the tools to work with . so if your going to grain faarm what do you need ?? are you going to go NO TILL Min. till or tillage . Fuel costs are the killer with tillage . Time factor is another with working away . I did it for awhile and i really did not own the equipment so to speak . I had one tractor that i owned a junk plow that i bought for 200 bucks a junk 370 I H disc and a really good 1240 J D platless planter . I became a seed corn saleman and got my seed at cost anything else was needed it got bought used and sold as i was also jockying equipment along with fixing tractors . as for a combine i got hung with a Maseey 300 that i bought at a sale and was hoping to make four or five hundred bucks on over what i had in it including trucking . Well lets just say that it was a tuition payment in jockying iron as after running it thru five sales and never having a bid on it i was stuck with it . A buddy and i were at a sale in In. and i saw him buying these Massey two row corn heads for four to seven BUCKS . Yea they were the old style and when i asked him why he told me that scrap was two hundred bucks a ton and they weighted in at about a ton and a half . Then it hit me hey wait that will fit on that massey so i bought one , dang i had to out bid my buddy and i had to give seven dollars and fifty cents for mine . when i got it home i had to do some work on it and the replacement parts were high , I swapped my junk parts for good parts off the heads my buddy bought . I mounted that head on the 300 Massey . OK time is getting close to do corn . I made a comment to one of my tractor customers to the fact that if he knew of anybody that may want a field opened up or some small acres shelled to give me a call. Well he end up calling me with close to 80 acres to shell and i got 24 bucks and acre . I left the combine at his place over night and was going to go do my corn the next day. While i was fueling up and going over it a neighbor asked me if i could do his 86 acres , so up the road we went . finished that up and the guy across the road asked me to do his . My 650 dollar screw up along with the seven dollar and fifty cent head had already paid for it's self and was making money . The next year i was at a sale and i bid on a 1805 Massey got it for 4250 bucks gave a grand to have it hauled home . Put three batterys in it refilled the master cylinder with brake fluid and it was fine . the next week i ought a set of Massey 880 hyd. resets they were 8 bottom onland for 200 bucks . I took them to the farm i was renting . Told the wife that as soon as i was done with service calls monday i was going to the farm and start plowing . Now this was the first time for me with a tractor that big with a plow that big on a farm with field that small (big field was 10.2 acres , the small field was 3.2 acres ) set into plowing at around 6 pm and was home at the house 19 miles up the road by 10:45 . Wife asked me if i was going to be plowing the rest of the week , NOPE DONE , what i am DONE . The year before it took me and my trusty old ratty 706 with four bottoms five evening to plow that farm . I borrowed a disc off another Jocky to disc it with the Massey and that 24 footer with the harrow on the back did the job in one pass where my 370 I H would have required two to three . Now the dumb thing i did was sell the Massey and plows , yea they made money and the guy that bought the massey he was a BTO he farmed a whoppen 185 acres and he worked away . He also became a good customer of mine , not on the Massey but his herd of Olivers . The Massey came out of the shed in the spring he filled the tank on it hooked to his 11 shank chisel and went at it . Then he would hook to the field cultivator and the tillage was done and back into the shed till next year. some years i would go thru a hald dozen tractors before i could get done as i was selling them out of the field . Found no better way to sell a used tractor then let the prospective buyer roll some dirt with it . So if you can fine a good barginnd you can fix the LITTLE stuff and make a good machine out of it use it and sell for a LITTLE profit as you DO NOT HAVE TO MARRY it for life . I use to buy a lot of I H tractors out of the dead row or snatch up the one running with bad T/A's . I am good at putting them in and it does not take that long to do if you are set up to do them as i could have three apart at the same time on three different splitting stands , with no interruptions two days in and out New clutch rebuilt T/A new MCV pump valve body spring kit new PTO input shaft. and a Warranty .

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• Re: Getting new people started in grain farming NHBalerman 18:08:55 11/21/13 (0)

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