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Re: Does the old iron still do the job?
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Posted by Steven on November 06, 2001 at 06:55:21 from (12.23.185.16):
In Reply to: Does the old iron still do the job? posted by old fashioned farmer on November 05, 2001 at 19:53:33:
I farm with my Dad, our newest tractor is an 84 model. From there it goes to 79, 73, 68, etc. I am currently working on some older equipment to use farming with him. I plan on having equipment from around the 60's. Around here those years of equipment are cheap: too young to collect, too old to use - perfect chance for me to start farming. As stated below I am also in town, getting my education so that I can work all day and go home after work and farm till the money is all gone. I am forced into this situation, I don't like college, nor do I like living in town, nor am I going to like the job that I will have when it is all over. The one thing I will like is the fact that when I retire I can go back to "the way things used to be" and farm until I die. If I die on a tractor I will die a happy man. Here is something I found in a craftshop about farming: Just A Farmer "Just a farmer," you said And I laughed 'cause I knew All the things that farmers Must be able to do. They must study the land Then watch the sky And figure just when Is the right time and why~ To sow and to plant To buy and to sell To go to the market WIth cattle and, well~ You know the books That farmers must keep To pay all those taxes And be able to sleep. And you know the fixin' That farmers must do When machines like mad monsters Blow a gasket or two. I guess when God needed Folks to care for His earth He chose "just farmers" 'Cause He knew their true worth. ~Helen G. Coon~ When someone asks what I want to be when I grow up I say, "Everything." They say how? I say I'm going to be a farmer because then I am mechanic, teacher, finance manager, etc. etc. God Bless the Farmer for he feeds us all. Steven M Gussey
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