OT For The Buffy One & Farmer

Took the sunrise cruise on the HMS Surry across the James. Had the foresight to set my live trap for 3 consecutive nights and had a nice sack of fat cats going over to the mainland under the Cat Witness Protection/ Relocation Program.
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Ok, the cats thing not true. Headed down to rural Smithfield to yur kind of
place.
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3 barns in all, 80-some horses.
Heres a cpl of my subjects being escorted to the party.
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Shoeing area.
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The only thing Western on the place.:mad: :p
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The following is un horse-related so just take it as a public service message, trivia, words of wisdom, or any way you care too. I know I come off as the all-knowing, all-seeing, learn-ed one but this is too much of a good tip to waste for fear I will be taken as a blowbag. (Ahh.., thats the good thing about that being the prevailing sentiment, ya aint gotta fret on it any much.)

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When tooling around the country side and ya see a mudtrundler fulla muskmelons with a brother tendin over their sale, STOP.
If you are the lover of melons it is widely-accepted & common knowledge that nobody knows their business around a melon like a brother. And no, this is not a way of making a sneaky racey comment in code. Some of my best and longest-standing friends have been black and I have loved em like a..
well...., brother.:)
I mean ya dont go to the shoe store to buy a pig or run into the smoke shop to buy a picallo, why in the name of all that is sacred would ya get a melon anywhere but? Shoofly was about 40, a baptist deacon, we spent 15 min on his porch talkin gardens, weather, the state of the Union, & them dang conehead bike riders. If I ever get his way again believe I'll stop & say hi.

Got a friend I met shortly after moving to VA runs a dairy with his Dad & uncle. Today they had the annual field day sponsored by the VA Holstein Assoc. at his dairy so I stopped for a very few min on my way back.
Look at the size of his cows-growth hormones. These babies are like giants compared to the Holsteins I grew up milking. :eek: They get 60-70 lbs of milk per milking out of some of em. Divided by 8 into gals.-:eek: :eek:
I have a bull calf comin in about a month!! I met the proud Momma and told her her son would go to a worthy cause.:D

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South end, northbound cows.
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Ya know yur near Surry when the cattle are bedded with peanut cleanings.
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Know yur into red not sure if its Farmall or M-F.
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Nice place! Does that surface get slippery? I HOPE you were using your telephoto and not standing that close behind cows, it's dangerous, and I don't mean kicking.
No International pics? I'm crushed:rolleyes:
I miss my 656 with hydrostatic drive.....

Shoer,

Thats some big cows and a lot of milk! That is not the right red tent. It should say Case IH or Farmall or old Mcormick..........IH. Thats O.K. though. It's better than green. The only green I want to see is on my jig. Cool Pics man. CF

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Originally Posted by Buffy

Nice place! Does that surface get slippery? I HOPE you were using your telephoto and not standing that close behind cows, it's dangerous, and I don't mean kicking.
No International pics? I'm crushed:rolleyes:
I miss my 656 with hydrostatic drive.....

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Used to have a 656. Sold it to a chicken farm operator. Also had a 1466, a 1086, and a 3788 articulator. Now have 2 CaseIH 7120s, Case IH 9150 articulator. 1844 cotton picker and 2555 cotton picker. Soon will be trading 2555 on a 2388 combine. We also have an old 856 that runs good and still does a lot of work. Has saved us a lot of back pain. only makes us money, it is so trouble free. Guess thats why they quit making them. Late 60's era. Oh yeah we also have a farmall 300. runs but not in use. early 50s era. And last but not least a Farmall Super A that we mow our grass with. early 40s era. Tuff old tractors. CF

Shoer,

After all this tractor talk I have to admit something. There is green on my farm. JD 4320 diesel and JD 4020 gas burner. We spray with the 4320 and run drains with the 4020. Work horses in their day but about ready to retire. The reds do most of our work now. John Deere tractors are good tractors but pricier than the Case IH. Next time I go buy a new tractor it won't be at a JD dealer. It will be red. Its what my family has always used and its in my blood. CF