Grew up on 120 acre farm in central Michigan in the 50's and 60's. Dad worked full time at Federal-Mogul and farmed too. He started with horses in the late 20's. Kept a few dairy cows, sheep, pigs and a flock of layers. By the time I came along it was down to feeding out a few steers and growing the corn for sileage, hay and a few acres of wheat or soybeans.
Our big horse was a McCormick Super W6 assisted by a '49 John Deere B for lighter duty. Many, MANY hours in the seat of that B with a front mount 4-row cultivator. Dad never owned or used a sprayer. Also hauled a disc and a spring tooth drag over fresh plowing. You learned REAL quick not to hook your thumbs through the wheel of that narrow front! We were all conventional till, altho a few of the BTO neighbors were getting into minimum/no till by the time I left for the Navy.
The W6 pulled a 3-16 John Deere plow, a wheel disk or a field cultivator and ran the Allis Chalmers All Crop combine and a M-M 2 row pull-type corn picker.
Neighbor rented Grampa's house across the road from our house and farmed shares with Dad. He had a Co-op E3 with live PTO which worked well on the community Allis Rotobaler. Not real sure who owned that, it went wherever it was needed. At some point Dad got sick of dealing with small rounds and had a custom outfit with a square baler do our hay.
Also had a custom feller come in to chop sileage. I remember thinking what a BEAST that John Deere 70 Diesel was!
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