I've given up

Trying to keep up with the Jone's. This is planting next to me. Attachment 198696

Seems more and more these days you got to run with the big dogs or you dont have a chance

Hmmm. Let me think..... Spend $525,000 on this setup. Or, keep using my old stuff. I'll get back to you when I come up with an answer

When I was a kid we had red bellied fords and farmalls, The farmal super M was our big dude, might have been super H, with the pair of front wheels together. Most of the equipment was one row stuff but we had a little two row. Single row cotton picker, but we preferred the hand pickers since it was so much cleaner. Still had mules to run the water furrows. When we got 4 row stuff we thought there could never be any thing bigger. I look at your neighbor now and just wonder what's in store. Amazing.

Funniest thing I ever saw was my uncle plowing with a mule. I figured out why the call them stubborn. Dern thing wouldn't move at all--then when it decided to it drug my uncle through a barbed wire fence. I never heard him cuss like that before or sense lol.

I watch RFD TV when I can catch it showing the new machinery and the auctions. It just amazes me at some of this new stuff and the prices people are paying for it. Having never farmed I can't calculate the ROI on a piece of equipment like that unless you were doing custom planting for everyone in the Delta.

I know one farm family that runs 13 planters like that I think and 13 combines, and that is just for their own use.

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Originally Posted by KDAVID1

Funniest thing I ever saw was my uncle plowing with a mule. I figured out why the call them stubborn. Dern thing wouldn't move at all--then when it decided to it drug my uncle through a barbed wire fence. I never heard him cuss like that before or sense lol.

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Was it a short mule?

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Originally Posted by Boatbottom

Was it a short mule?

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was pretty big to me at the time lol but yeah it was a short one. He actually got it to hunt off of. He could lay the rifle across it's head and fire away--it wouldn't move.

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Originally Posted by KDAVID1

Funniest thing I ever saw was my uncle plowing with a mule. I figured out why the call them stubborn. Dern thing wouldn't move at all--then when it decided to it drug my uncle through a barbed wire fence. I never heard him cuss like that before or sense lol.

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Popa Middleton had me plow the garden with "Danny Boy" when I was little. Tough to follow him with the gas problems he had. Had to reach up to grab plow handles. He knew what to do. I was along for the ride.