Farming with Farmall Update

[jrwhitler]

A while back during summer, I posted some pictures of the equipment I was using to farm roughly 33 acres of land I rented. A lot of progress has been made since then. Harvest went relatively well. I was away at college and unable to come back to run the combine or take any pictures, so my dad took some. The all crop 60 was able to harvest around 15 acres without much trouble. Unfortunately, the weather was not going to cooperate long enough to allow the all crop to finish on its own. My uncle came to the rescue with his modern combine equipped with a 25 ft grain head. All in all, 1375 bushels were stored in the grain tank in the top of our corn crib. After seven trips to the elevator pulling the 200 bu. gravity wagon with my pick up truck all of the soybeans were sold, and have made a healthy contribution to my college tuition.

I've attached some new pictures as well as some old ones.

 

[SmokeEater2]

Great pictures! That first one would be a good fall calendar picture.

 

[notjustair]

Those little A's make great auger tractors. I hardly ever run mine any other season, but during harvest it often runs 10 hour days. That offset pto is perfect. She sips the fuel, too.

 

[f2355j]

Thanks for posting, GREAT pictures you have a nice lineup just right for making some college money.

 

[rankrank1]

This has been one of my favorite posts of all of 2015 and a fine one to end the year. The reason is not because of the great pictures either. (and the pictures are quite nice by themselves).

This is one of the few posts that I have seen all year that has any level of fiscal responsibility to it. You took a modest 33 acres and farmed it with equipment and methods that made you a profit which is what any business is supposed to be. I applaud you on it.

Yeah you had to use old equipment to do it but lets face it 33 acres is not going to support buying a modern 150 hp cabbed tractor with heat, AC, and radio. A semi to haul the grain, etc. Most modern people would have ignored those facts and lost their shirts in the process.

 

[robgIN]

Congratulations and thanks for the follow up on the story . That shot of the beans in the bin above the corn crib is just how we used to do it before we got the second metal grain bin . There and in similar bins in the mow of the big barn . Lots of shoveling back in those days. Great pics.

 

[Jeff M NY]

Very nice pictures and it shows just how much can be accomplished with older equipment. Nice job.

 

[NEKS]

I like the picture of he F-20 hooked to the plow. When I was 14 years old did a lot of plowing with a set up like that. Have a F-20 in the shop right now I'm working on to get running.

 

[bass]

love the photos. just because the tools are old does not mean they cant toat the load; your photos prove that. Just like Charlie, my super c, it might take him a little longer at two rows at a time and he's not made of plastic and parts made in communist china, and need a computer to check the timing, he can still plow the mustard just like the farmalls in your photos. keep the photos coming.