Posted by Gary Mitchell on November 02, 2014 at 08:26:37 from (207.119.113.31):
I read a post on here a day or 2 back about plowing standing corn stalks. It reminded me of a time back when I was a teenaged kid plowing corn ground in the bottoms with a 3 16 Fast-hitch plow hung on the back of a ramped up 460 IHC. Like many farmers of the time we just ran a disk over the ground once and started turning it with the plows. Don’t ask me why, but what I remember about this day is plugging one of the bottoms between the coulter and the moldboard. That in its-self isn’t significant. Unplugging a wad of packed dirt and stalks wasn’t something I was a stranger to and most of you folks have sat there on the ground by an old plow and done that too. When I thought back to that time I could actually smell the freshness of the dirt I had turned up. There isn’t anything quite like that aroma and piddling in the garden now-a-days, while close, just isn’t really the same. On that day or another one a lot like it, in that same field bordering Big Creek in Cass Co. Mo., a mangy coyote had ambled across the field a few yards away, accompanying me on one crossing, not being afraid of a running machine with a human on it, but stop and turn it off, he would no doubt have run as they always do. Anyway, what really bugged me about that memory and other similar ones was that while I still have and appreciate them, my kids will never experience the sights, smells, sounds, tastes, etc. of life growing up on a small family farm of the 1950’s and 60’s in the Midwest. This site brings those things back to me in a way that only nostalgia can, not that the ideas and tips from other people aren’t great too. Guess I’m telling you all thanks, on this beautiful, sunny, country morning here in SW Missouri. gm
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