Re: Weekend Farming

Posted by Jonathan on June 04, 2004 at 20:07:46 from (165.121.146.49):

In Reply to: Weekend Farming posted by Bill Pa on June 04, 2004 at 07:11:05:

Your conventional tillage is what requires a big tractor. What I mean by conventional is plowing and harrowing etc... chisel plows are also quite popular and are a good idea, but those pull hard. I worked for a farmer who had a 150 acre farm and he had a White 2-155 (155hp) 2wd with duels, a International 1466 4wd (140hp), and a Allis Chalmers 7040 (140hp) 2wd with duels. He kept several tractors so he would have another to keep him going if one should break down, and he also had 2 sets of harrows for the same reason and he also usually has 2 rigs going at the same time for speedier planting. He pulls his 8 row corn planter with a Allis Chalmers 200 (100hp), which is probably alittle overkill, but it gets the job done just fine. I'd never try to rely on just one tractor to run the whole farm because you are going to have break downs which can cost you sometimes days. Like somebody else has pointed out, the big ones over 100hp are cheaper than the smaller ones, so you might just as well pick up one thats going to be plenty big enough to do the job. Big tractors do the same thing smaller ones do, but at a much faster pace which is very important if you live in an area with a short going season. Right now in my area, most of the farms are still trying to get planted, and our growing season is only about 100 days, and it has rained almost steady this last week which has turned everybodys fields into mud pits so nobody is able to plant anything until it dries out, which is going to take a few days, thats alot of time lost!. the vermont growing season is about all done around Halloween in October, and most farmers have yet to plant their corn.

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