Posted by rrlund on March 24, 2019 at 06:57:53 from (69.36.62.131):
The closer I get to being able to cut back and just farm for the heck of it,the more I think about what that would look like. I keep thinking back to what a small farm should be and it always takes me down the road to a guy who farmed 80 acres with a nice looking Oliver 70. I can still see that place in its prime. A New Idea steel wheeled manure spreader on four wheels,a lane with barbed wire fence going back to the back fields,a two bottom trip lift plow,no hydraulics on anything.
I don't know how far I'd cut back even if I had the option of making the place whatever I wanted it to be. After starting out with equipment like that,then building up to 100+ horsepower,I don't know if I'd have it in me to cut back to farming with my Oliver 77 and Super 55. I'd hate to be without the FWA loader tractor,and if I kept that,why not the 53 horse 1550. If I kept that,why not the 90 horse 1850. But then the 105 horse 2-105 with the cab and AC is pretty hard for an old guy to be without once you've had it.
I'll cut back as time goes on without a doubt,but that 80 acre farm and a two bottom plow will always be just a memory I suppose. I get to thinking back to Dad picking corn with the Oliver 66 and Woods Brothers picker,cutting hay with a semi mount mower,baling square bales,that's where I came from,but it's pretty hard to really want to go back to it when the rubber actually hits the road.
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