Posted by JD Seller on September 16, 2017 at 17:05:15 from (208.126.196.24):
Well corn chopping went without a hitch. We spread manure and wanted to work it in with the rye cover crop. Well My 83 year old Mother has kind of taken over running the finisher if she is around. She was doing great, really covering the ground. Then the right center disk gang bracket broke. Well by the time she heard it and got stopped the gang was out the back of the finisher. Four tires cut, sixteen cultivator shanks broke, one section of the finishing harrow broke clear off the machine. You can see where the one side was cracked and when it let go the other side sheared off.
Hooked her on to the other finisher and got her back at it. She was all upset. If I had let her leave I just about bet that she would not run it again. So in a role reversal I kind of nagged her to keep going. LOL She got done about the time we got the other finisher hauled/drug back to the shop.
I got the gang welded back in place and installed some gussets on all of the brackets. We will have to pickup the shanks Monday as I only had four. We will go ahead and replace all the shovels while we are there. The harrow just broke a chain link.
I was just thinking about what she has seen in her life time. When she was a teenager her father farmed with two teams of horses. She talks about harrowing plowed ground behind her Father plowing. She then got married and My Grand Father had tractors. He taught her to drive a tractor on a Wallis 10-20. I can remember her helping out in the spring and fall. My Grand Mother would watch the smaller kids while Mom helped out. Now she is driving a 300 HP tractor with auto steer. She was chattering on with the one Grand Daughter the other day about setting the AB line when she started a new field???? I do not know how to do that!!!! LOL
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