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    #25
    One think about the size of the homestead back then...had neighbours with 11 kids in a house maybe 800 sq ft at best.Wonder where they kept them all.Most of us were poor but didn't know anything different.

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      #26
      The old guys here talk about paying for the farms with the first flax crop.

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        #27
        Good stories. You cattle guys deserve some sort of medal to sticking it out.

        To bad the city slicks and the narcistic food babe bitch who never pulled a portchalaca weed in her life will never really know

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          #28
          Jay mo
          Your post about horses reminded me of my grandfather who started farming with oxen. Apparently they had a mind of their own. On a hot day they headed to the slough and stayed their. The move to horses was a big step forward for him.
          Our first tractor was a JD A which we still have.
          We used to have a row crop cultivator which had a big lever to raise and lower the thing. I was too little to do it with one arm so I turned around and did it backwards. Every once in awhile my ass would contact the magnito giving me quite a shock.

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            #29
            I feel young when reading some of these posts. I cut my teeth in a 150 bi di vers back in the mid 80's. My first job was cultivating 450 ac in the fall after school and weekends with a 14 ft cultivator. Thought it was the best thing ever for about a week then I could hardly walk. Pulling the harrow bar with that tractor was the next job for days and days after seeding. Like sitting in a phone booth on wooden wheels. The ole man left the bucket on so I could pick rocks at the same time. Not a bad thing looking back, at least I got out of that sweat box to stretch out. We moved up to the 160 and got a vers header - our main swather for many years as well.

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              #30
              have a versy 150 on my snowblower. Can't beat it for blowing snow. Hydrostatic and no need to crank ones neck 180 degrees, also very maneuverable.

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                #31
                have a versy 150 on my snowblower. Can't beat it for blowing snow. Hydrostatic and no need to crank ones neck 180 degrees, also very maneuverable.

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