Posted by showcrop on February 19, 2022 at 16:05:07 from (75.68.37.174):
In Reply to: technology in dairy posted by Hoofer B on February 19, 2022 at 11:08:34:
I didn't grow up on a farm but I pitched plenty of silage down with a fork, cleaned calf pens, carried buckets of milk to the bulk tank, and stacked thousands of bales of hay. My story however is about my cousin who until he was killed by an accident on his farm five years ago was six years older than me. In the early 1970s His father had moved the 60 milker farm across the river to Vermont into a new barn that could house 120 cattle. The milk house was a double eight. Huge increases in everything but tractors. The big horse on the farm was a 1957 Ford 860. During silo filling time that poor 860 pulled a single row chopper in first gear at full throttle hour after hour day after day week after week until the corn crop was all in. My cousin was taking more and more responsibility, and finances were such that my aunt and uncle were able to vacation in Florida for a month in the winter. While they were gone one year my cousin attended an auction and came home with a four year old Ford 5000. This tractor had nearly 50% more HP than the 860, but when my uncle got back home he was not happy. The 5000 was an extravagance that they didn't need. Come next fall however, the silo got filled in half the time that it took before, and I have a picture of my uncle sitting on that 5000 with the chopper behind it and a smile on his face.
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