Tilling

[showcrop]

or doing tillage? When did tilling become doing tillage? Why use two words to say what used to take just one? I am thinking that it is a millennial internet thing.

 

[J Hamilton]

When someone says tilling I think of using a
rototiller and tillage is plowing, disking,
etc. But sometimes I think backwards from
other people

 

[wingnuttx]

Show crop. The same way of thinking can be said of the terminology of pole barn. Should be just barn to get a descriptive point across. So if an
individual builds a structure that the supportive material is part poles and part metal does that make it a metal pole barn? Come guys its just a
plain ole barn. Dont take offense because its my way of thinking. Not trying to change Websters dictionary. Lol. Wingnut

 

[Doug - Iowa]

There seems to be a lot of word games going on these days. Tilling is a garden and tillage is field work, at least how it is interpreted in my area.

A couple years ago we had a big windstorm come thru, and the powers-that-be called it a derecho which was a word I had never heard before. Then last week Nebraska had a dust storm that was called a haboob, (I kid you not, that's what the weatherman called it) another goofy new term. I think it is all orchestrated to grab attention and portray the appearance of knowledge and authority. And maybe to prove that old timers like me calling a windstorm a windstorm are obsolete.

 

[DoubleR]

As far as I'm concerned I'm doing tillage when I have my disk, drag, digger and such hooked up and
working ground. Tilling is when I have one of my rototillers hooked on a tractor working ground.
One way or the other I guess I never thought that much about it.

 

[Russ from MN]

The use of the word barn is a pet peeve of mine! A barn is a building that houses livestock! What most folks call barns are only full of tractors and machinery!

 

[Cmore]

Boy Doug, I couldnt agree more. It was a windstorm until your big event in
Iowa! Then all of a sudden it became a derecho, whatever that is.
And the news people use the term like its an everyday noun!

 

[Butch(OH)]

My exact thoughts also

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

(quoted from post at 03:52:02 05/18/22) or doing tillage? When did tilling become doing tillage? Why use two words to say what used to take just one? I am thinking that it is a millennial internet thing.

Been called tillage for as long as I can remember, and I'm Gen X.

Saying something like, "I'm tilling with a digger," would get you laughed out of town as a clueless city boy trying to play farmer. You do tillage with a plow, disc or field cultivator.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

(quoted from post at 06:20:02 05/18/22) Boy Doug, I couldnt agree more. It was a windstorm until your big event in
Iowa! Then all of a sudden it became a derecho, whatever that is.
And the news people use the term like its an everyday noun!

A derecho is a type of wind storm, like a tornado is also a type of wind storm, and a Hereford is a type of cattle, and a John Deere is a type of tractor.

Face it if it was something you were an "expert" in you would not say, "Why not just call it a ...?" You'd get all upset if the correct technical term was not used.

 

[JK-NY]

I would also say a barn is for storing crops and feed - hay barns etc. I think different parts of the country (and world) often use different terms for the same thing . I have learned a lot on this website over the years about many things besides tractors and that is just one .

 

[JK-NY]

I agree too. Around here tilling is short for rototilling and tiller is short for rototiller.

 

[fixerupper]

A couple years ago I texted to my sister I was going to have a new 60X92 foot shed put up. She texted back saying "that's more than just a 'shed' isn't it"? LOL Well in my neck of the woods a 60X92 is not all that big anymore for a machine shed. And yes, a barn holds animals and hay, a machine shed holds machinery, a turkey building holds turkeys but it is also called a barn even though it is a long steel pole building. A hog house isn't a hog house anymore, it is a hog confinement even though the old hog house confined hogs too.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

I've heard that in Texas, they call every and any kind of tillage tool a plow?

 

[Bill(Wis)]

It's been called tillage here in Central Siberia as far back as I can remember and I'm 85 and can remember things back to age 3. I
always thought it was one word. 7 letters, the same number of letters as tilling. I think it's a regional thing. Quack digger
probably doesn't mean a thing to you or many others.

 

[Fordy20]

The word tillage is a noun. The word till is a verb. Depends how the sentence is structured.

 

[db4600]

Grandma used to hoe the garden, but that fell out of
vogue. Till can be used as a conjunction, preposition,
noun, or verb.

 

[timcasbolt]

(quoted from post at 12:17:56 05/18/22) The use of the word barn is a pet peeve of mine! A barn is a building that houses livestock! What most folks call barns are only full of tractors and machinery!

efore your pet peeve gets you too peeved, you might want to look up "barn" in the dictionary.