We didn't do much fieldwork- mostly pasture, used N to scrape barn and spread manure, used loader to feed malt in the winter.
It always amazes me how so many, like your dad and uncle, were severely "under-tractored" back in the day. They probably could have got a big ole Case or Oliver for little money, got some bigger equipment, and not had to ride that thing 20 hours a day (and rebuild every winter).
When I worked for PCA in the early '80's, I had to repo a nearly new JD 2440 from a part-timer- he and wife split up, he skipped town, so we repo-ed. Instead of taking the tractor to town to sell, I just drove it about 2 miles down the road to a dairyman I knew, who was operating a 100 cow, 160 acre dairy with an IH 574. He put up a lot of hay, plus spreading manure, so I knew he was constantly changing implements.
He wasn't home, but his kid was, and I just handed him the key, told him we needed to store this for awhile, use it like you own it, oh, and by the way, "Its for sale." Two weeks later, the guy walks in to my office, and says, "OK, you win- how much? I never imagined how handy it would be to mow with one tractor, and bale with another."
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