thehickdaddy
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just want to apologize in advance if this takes too long. but I just want to tell you guys about how much fun and pride I had last weekend when I got to help my dad and his uncle plant yet another crop of oats. I am very proud to be the fourth generation to farm on the same ground family farm, celebrating 113 years this summer. and we farmed with case. I plowed with a 1935 Case L and 3-16, following behind my great uncle on his 930 comfort king 6spd with 4-16. and I might ad that I was in 3rd the whole time and always had to throttle back to keep from getting too close, even when he was nudging the hydraulics in the heavy, wet spots 
but after working the seedbed, we planted with a case 400 which has been here since new. the case L has been here since 1964ish. the seed and fertilizer were hauled by a pair of 1959 Chevy Viking two ton trucks with straight six gassers followed by a four and 2, just like they had done for the past 40 years soon, we will cut the hay with a Hesston with a slant 6 Chrysler, fluff hay with a Ferguson to30, rake with a Oliver 66, and bale with a SC and a 24 Wire special baler with v4 Wisconsin, haul oat hay back to the 1916 barn with the two Vikings, and load up the barn loft with a single cylinder, Wisconsin powered Case bale elevator, just as the routine has been for over half a century. so I don"t know if I am bragging to say I participated in history, or if I wanted you to know that there are places where time stands still. but either way, that was my weekend
but after working the seedbed, we planted with a case 400 which has been here since new. the case L has been here since 1964ish. the seed and fertilizer were hauled by a pair of 1959 Chevy Viking two ton trucks with straight six gassers followed by a four and 2, just like they had done for the past 40 years soon, we will cut the hay with a Hesston with a slant 6 Chrysler, fluff hay with a Ferguson to30, rake with a Oliver 66, and bale with a SC and a 24 Wire special baler with v4 Wisconsin, haul oat hay back to the 1916 barn with the two Vikings, and load up the barn loft with a single cylinder, Wisconsin powered Case bale elevator, just as the routine has been for over half a century. so I don"t know if I am bragging to say I participated in history, or if I wanted you to know that there are places where time stands still. but either way, that was my weekend
