Re: 2023.01.04

Posted by Texasmark on January 04, 2023 at 09:16:21 from (147.160.220.20):

In Reply to: 2023.01.04 posted by kcm.MN on January 03, 2023 at 21:18:16:

44 years ago this city boy thought the country would be good for the brood so we moved to the country. A longtime several
generation, senior neighbor had a good time teasing me in the process of teaching me some farming techniques. He had several
unstyled JD of early alphabet series. In my quest to find what I needed I stumbled across a large, belt driven hammermill and had
raised some corn. The corn was put away but the 7-8' stalks were still standing.

I asked him about chopping them up and he agreed. 6 AM sharp he was at the farm with one of his JDs and a 20' as I recall belt. He
got things all hooked up and cranked up the Deere getting the mill to humming....noisy thing. He put the Deere in wide open throttle
(I guess) and I started feeding wads of stalks into the mill. The mill would suck them in, the RPMs would dip, the Deere would grunt
and the mill would spit out a wad of chaff. Was great sport.

Since we are all killing time here is another story in his teasing: Wife and I were raising 4 chillins at the time and he figured we
needed a good supply of milk. A neighbor had a sideline of raising Holstein heifers and selling them at breeding age to another
neighbor with a dairy. On one occasion another neighbor's White Face bull tore down the fence and nailed a cow at the dairy.

The friend of mine bought it for a song. Problem was the beef cattle genes got to her spiggots and they were only about 2 long
as compared to the normal length for dairy cows......milking machines couldn't deal with the short length.

He comes over one day and says he has a milk cow that he will let me borrow for as long as I want and give it back to him when
finished with it......setting me up!!!!! I milked the cow 6 AM and 6 PM, working my professional job at the time for a couple of
months. Next thing you know I am at his house asking him what he wanted for the cow......he said $800 and that was back in early
1980 time line with a milk cow that was useless otherwise. He said I could pay it out so much a whatever....forget.

Due to the genes, the milk had a very high butterfat content. On one occasion I put about half a gallon of raw milk in a clear plastic
container, in the fridge one afternoon after milking. The next morning when I opened the fridge and looked at the container, I had
about a 50% butter fat floating on the skim milk. You talk about a treat on corn flakes or rice crispies.....absolute heaven. We kept
that cow till I got tired of milking her....whenever that was.

Replies:

Add a Reply! You must be Logged In to Post Name: E-Mail: Subject: (avoid special characters) Comments: Optional Link URL: Link Title: Optional Image URL: Optional Video Title: Optional Video Embed: Advanced Posting Options Email Notification: If you check this box, email will be sent to you whenever someone replies to this message. Your email address must be entered above to receive notification. This notification will be cancelled automatically after 2 weeks. No political comments, hate speech or bigotry of any kind will be tolerated. Violations will be removed and posting privileges may be permanently revoked without notice.   Advanced Posting Tools   Select Gallery Photo  Attach Serial No List  Return to Post  Upload Photos/Videos Choose Files from your local computer Upload one or more videos to your post. Photo and video filesizes should be less than 5MB. Formats allowed are gif, jpg, png, ogg, mp4, mov, and avi. Be sure to use filenames without spaces or special characters, and filetypes of 3 digits lower case.

TRACTOR PARTS	TRACTOR MANUALS

We sell tractor parts!  We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today. [ About Us ]