Posted by Threshing In IL on October 24, 2007 at 06:53:21 from (12.37.12.242):
I don't know why I just now realized this but I sure am blessed. My parents quit farming about 12 years ago and I have been renting 40 acres back from them for the past 7 years to "hobby farm". We do all the farming with the old stuff and leave the bigger stuff in the shed. But last night was just awesome for me! I was out picking corn, with my JD 730 and 2 row NI (which is my absolute favorite!) and my girlfriend showed up and brought me supper and took "her spot" on the fender for the rest of the night. My Dad, who just worked 10 hours at a machine shop, rushes home to haul loads in with his dad's original Oliver 77 that was bought new. The corn yeilds are so good that I have to stop every now and again to let the picker empty out the hopper so it doesn't over flow. All this is happeing under the most perfect, cool, crisp fall sky. Wow, what more could a guy ask for!!I think the part I really think about the most, is that Dad is not going to be around here for ever and I really love the fact that we can still farm together!
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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