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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 2, 2016 15:23:17 GMT -5
 John Deere to the right is pulling a computerized apparatus , the yellow pole behind it, cutting it level, Blue Tractor has the leveling plow. Those 2 pieces of equipment cost about 400,000$. |
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Post by herbinedave on Mar 2, 2016 16:30:13 GMT -5
What are they doing Brad?
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 2, 2016 16:37:23 GMT -5
Dave they are leveling the rice field, undoing last years ruts from the Combine.
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Post by papipeguy on Mar 2, 2016 16:56:06 GMT -5
A sure sign that Spring is coming.
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Post by herbinedave on Mar 2, 2016 18:41:15 GMT -5
Thanks Brad, us non farmers sometimes need a headsup to what is being done!
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Post by charl on Mar 3, 2016 1:41:02 GMT -5
Beautiful! Are you a farmer, Brad?
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Post by stvalentine on Mar 3, 2016 7:13:10 GMT -5
I am always amazed by the prices of farmers tractors and combines. This must be quite a burden if you need to acquire such a vehicle.
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Post by sparks on Mar 3, 2016 7:15:26 GMT -5
Expensive shite considering the return that most of those guys get on their crop. It's not the most lucrative business to be in and it's hard work. I have great respect for those guys.
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Post by tastail on Mar 4, 2016 7:42:08 GMT -5
I love tractors. Reminds me of my younger days and my grandfather. Was always fun riding that old ford in the fields with him. Even better that he always had a pipe in his jaw.
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Post by buroak on Mar 4, 2016 16:29:04 GMT -5
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Post by charl on Mar 9, 2016 7:25:13 GMT -5
That's the way it's going here by us in SA. Except that government is actually not giving subsidies to farmers. The small guys are not making it and companies are taking over.
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Post by crapgame on Mar 12, 2016 17:24:10 GMT -5
yeah farmers are not impresed with 300k$ cars..they have 500K$ tractors that are used 2 weeks a year for some crops!
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Post by Darin on Mar 12, 2016 18:17:31 GMT -5
LOL ... that's what my uncle used to always say. They have 2 combines, each around $500K and grow soybeans and popcorn.
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 12, 2016 19:25:53 GMT -5
Here's what we used to mow the hay with. Pretty sure it didn't cost $500,000. Dad's driving, mom front right, and Nana (granny) on the left, with two aunts and a cousin. That might be the back of my head in the middle.  |
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Post by Darin on Mar 12, 2016 22:20:53 GMT -5
Cool, that looks like what I learned to drive on ... it was a 1955 Farmall Cub.
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 12, 2016 22:29:19 GMT -5
That pic was from the late sixties, so a 55 sounds about right. No idea what the hell it was, we were in south Wales.
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Post by Darin on Mar 12, 2016 22:37:36 GMT -5
Been to Wales ... beautiful country!
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 12, 2016 22:43:34 GMT -5
Yes it was, wild and desolate. There was quicksand and wild horses. We were on top of the Black Mountain in the Brecon Beacons. The final test to become an SAS commando is to cross the Beacons by yourself without dying.
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Post by buroak on Mar 15, 2016 23:28:17 GMT -5
Wales is high on my list of places to see when next I get to the UK. It is a fascinating and beautiful country.
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 16, 2016 0:00:04 GMT -5
If you want to understand the Welsh, read the first few chapters of the Hobbit.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 16, 2016 14:24:23 GMT -5
I used to drive a big Oliver tractor in Oklahoma, back in the day...small by today's standards but probably harder to drive. My brouther bought this for his wife a couple years back...they have more utilitarian equipment for the heavy stuff.  |
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Post by sparks on Mar 16, 2016 20:00:15 GMT -5
That's a nice looking piece of equipment. The Cat dozer in the background makes me giddy too.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 17, 2016 14:39:45 GMT -5
That's a nice looking piece of equipment. The Cat dozer in the background makes me giddy too. As a kid, my dad let me drive around on a D-8...that really ups the giddy factor. There are a fair amount of copper mines here in the southwest, when I made freight deliveries in a 3 axle tractor with a 53' trailer...some of the equipment looked pretty damn predatory, and by scale I looked like a bug that needed squashing.  |
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Post by Yohanan on Mar 17, 2016 19:29:20 GMT -5
I may be mistaken, but looking at that wishbone front end, and the front, and rear rims, along with the back rest for the seat, that looks like a Allis Chalmers B. I have a 1950 model, looks like crap, but still runs good. My tractor has battery start with a magneto ignition, if the battery fails, I have the hand crank to start it. Some of the AC-B's were assembled in England with modifications, such as a straight axle front end, instead of the wishbone front end.
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 17, 2016 21:18:26 GMT -5
You definitely cranked it to get it started.
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Post by charl on Mar 18, 2016 11:22:33 GMT -5
Hmm, if I were to buy MY wife a tractor, there won't be much left of me! The closest she might get to using it (and the last), would be to drive repeatedly over me until I'm not moving anymore!  |
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