Trying to keep up with the Jone's. This is planting next to me. Attachment 198696
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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.
Was it a short mule?Quote:
Originally Posted by KDAVID1
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boatbottom
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by KDAVID1
Bet it was nice to have a stopped up nose for that lol. From what I could tell when they started there was not stopping unless it decided too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superglue
Yep. That Pitstick crew starts planting here and ends up in Iowa. Farms 90,000 acres in 5 statesQuote:
Originally Posted by clfarms1
No these are local guys from where I live.
Now you know how the small farmers plowing with a mule felt many years ago when the bigger farmers started using the first tractors. I bet they were overwhelmed by the sight and thought of giving up also. Hang in there I remember back in the 70,s a lot of the farmers could not make it because of buying so much expensive equipment and the others fared better by not going into so much debt. Don't give up hang in there. We all need farmers and we all need some vegetables to go with our fish.:twocents
We got on this place in '43 after losing a farm in the depression. Lot of changes over the years. Same rules apply now as then. Work hard , stay humble, return thanks and try to OD your kids on hugs and kisses.
I might add....be nice to your banker to that list. :)
Wannabe...
My grandfather said that we'd never go all the way away from mules. Mules would always have a job on a farm. That was in the early 70s.
I resemble that remarkQuote:
Originally Posted by Wind Knot
Pitstick is huge we do some business with them down here. Have a few other farmers from IL that have rented land down here and farm. Im the service manager for Thompson Agriculture and I dont see how they afford any of this stuff. Its crazy expensive!
This new equipment's so hard to keep running, they need to cover as much ground as they can while it is running.
Yep. One small sensor and they are down till somebody comes with a laptop to diagnose
the feelay or BRM of row cropping
One of the sweet potato farmers where I came from runs the newest equipment I've ever seen. He swaps out every year or every other year (can't remember which my dad told me). This is one of the largest sweet potato families out there, and I would not even guess at the dollar value of their equipment. It has to be phenomenally huge. It would scare me just to have that debt, even if it was short term.
I would love to drive some of it though! It has to be an awesome experience. Our little farm never had anything like that, and that may be why we ain't farmers no more.
Sure puts my 601 Workmaster to shame.:rolleyes:
Most companies have a non equity program that you trade every year and pay the difference. But you have to take the equipment. They can sell a one year old easier than a new one. Got to be stout to be accepted in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigcrappiemax
Roger roger, SG. That makes some sense to me now. I didn't know how they were able to keep swapping out like they do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superglue
Interesting thread to a non farmer. Sure appreciate you guys who do it. and the guys who drive the trucks to deliver it.
Some of ya'll may think I'm crazy but I would love to be making my living farming.