Well, I kinda left a lucrative construction career, or took a break from it, construction management/project management & general contracting/specialty contracting, high dollar, complex projects, mostly highrises in NYC. (did not respond to the initial thread on this, little background here, also spent many years in the trades, sitework, underground utilities, very proficient operating equipment etc.
Back to the farming, where I grew up, everyone around us besides residential neighborhoods, was small family dairy operations, boy has that changed, we had horses, upwards of 30 at one time, on 98 acres. We also had a Ford Tractor dealership at one time, I never lost interest in these things over the years, having some land in 2 places, the other is an active stable on 50 acres.
I remained good friends with the dairyman/farmer who planted this soil here before I was born, he's still in it and since I have been around here full time, I have helped him as needed, doing some trucking, grain, hay/straw, as well as harvesting hay, oats, spring planting etc. He was doing 250 acres in corn, 150-200 in hay, and now about 150 in oats. He stopped with the corn and gave up some rented land he's had since before I can remember due to health reasons, and a fire (arson) stopped his dairy operation in '95. I enjoyed and am proud to have worked the same fields, it don't pay much but the work was fun, even with breakdowns, maintenance, weather and repairs, I liked spring planting the best. It was interesting to run the larger equipment, though I never learned the combine or the round baler. I was also able to help with some welding repairs, using my machine. His health is delicate, so whenever he needs a hand I am glad to help, been friends a long time and it's hard to watch things decline, hard to say how much longer they will be in it. I've been full time at our place and 1-2 of his 3 sons must have helped out to get through this season, though they both have full time work away from the farm. We have been friends for years, I buy hay from them when I can, we have a guy near us who provides the majority of it, + I have to truck it 30 miles if I do buy from them, so it limits things on that.
Currently I work with another person at our stable, which at times may have 20 horses, though we have had close to 40 (don't want to see that again) however, now we are down to 8 and soon 6, and it will stay around that for the winter, we do the chores, maintain the place and repair what we can, not a lot of money in this and I may have to go back to construction, land taxes here are ridiculous. For some silly reason I have enjoyed a good part of it, some not, sure keeps a person in shape with all the hard work, but you can have the cold winters and frozen pipes LOL !
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