Recent content by Cole Younger

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    F2 corn soybean special on Oats

    Book says I need different pulley on cylinder and different belt to get cyl speed high enough to thrash oats has anyone tried oats without changing pulley and belt. Problem is I don't have pulley or belt. If I miss some oats in straw it's okay the Draft Horses eat the straw anyway. Didn't know...
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    Tee Pee on farm

    Canton, IL thanks for info guys
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    Tee Pee on farm

    Would like to set up a real Tee Pee on farm on Bluff overlooking Copperass Creek Valley for church campout and leave up most of the summer. Are there any used ones for sale? Where do you even begin to look for one? To stay on topic I'll store John Deere 214 inside when not camping
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    Another family farm photo (Warning..NO tractor content)

    I had to look close I thought they were looking at their cell phones
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    Iowa Red Star Chickens

    This is the second time I have had these. Man they lay eggs like crazy. Only problem is the racoons like to eat them if we forget to lock chickens up at night. Anyone else have luck with these, I get them from the Amish 3 weeks before they start laying 7 dollars a bird. I sell eggs for 2 dollars...
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    Trucking farm produce

    How far north are you Bruce. I have 160 acre in Cochrane, Ontario. Talked to friends up there Sat they said -40 and three feet of snow. Hope to get the Team out next week and haul manure in central Illinois it's cold here too but the snow is all turned to ice kinda hard on the horses working on ice.
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    Chicago Stock Yards

    To get to Peoria Yards you have to go past housing project, always wondered as a kid how long would that pig last in the Housing Project if he jumps out of our truck
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    Stockyards Farm Supply Peoria IL

    This was another cool place from the 70's. As a kid you walk in the front door and go straight to a galvanized 2 hole pig feeder full of warm peanuts, fill your pockets and hands with peanuts, then walk around the store looking at livestock stuff, eating peanuts and dropping shells on the floor...
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    Leaving your truck in 4 wheel drive

    My 95 Grand Cherokee is all time 4x4 and it has 256,000 on it and runs like a champ still replaced transfer case chain last summer at 230,000 miles keep on truckin you'll be fine
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    Hee Haw, Bib Overalls,Union Suits, and Tractors

    The Union Suit is the best.You can take off your clothes in the basement and go upstairs in the suit it counts as pajamas, although I wouldn't answer the door in them or go shoppping at Wall Mart that would be creepy. That's what the bibs are for.
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    Hee Haw, Bib Overalls,Union Suits, and Tractors

    Didn't like any of these growing up in the 70's almost 50 now and think they are all pretty cool. Looks like I've turned into my dad
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    Chicago Stock Yards

    Anyone ever haul in there? We always took our stock to Peoria and sold through the Dick Herm Firm.Those were the days we would stop for Ice Cream or Root Beer on way home. Durring the late 30's my Grandpa worked at Chicago Yards to pay his way through North Western. Not sure what he did but do...
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    Anyone haul livestock in a pickup?

    Dad hauled everything in the 67 F100 pigs ,cows even a pony once. We would watch the cows if they tried to jump over dad would slam on brakes and they would go down in bed once down they usually rode that way to Peoria Stock Yards
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    Chevy Truck story

    It was about -5 that day and we felt sorry for calf so we put him up front with us he was to week to get up on farm but when he got warmed up in truck he had plenty of energy
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    Another Chevy Truck story

    My neighbor was a Chevy mechanic before he went to Caterpillar. He was driving to Peoria in a chevy truck 3 on the tree with a motor he built in his garage, with 2 boys from the neighborhood. They kept rasing him on chevys being junk you know "Rather push a Ford then drive a Chevy" they were...
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