Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[AllisWD45]

When i first started farming in the Early 80's my neighbour long gone now had an 830 he bought new in late 50's. He used it until he retired in the early 90's. He was always proud that he farmed a square section of land on 500 gallons of fuel in a year.
Just a few years before his health forced him to retire i saw the 830 going to town on the dealers semi. i asked him did he trade on a new one and he said oh nooo they had a super good deal on a complete overhaul so he took them up on it. The tractor still sits in the bush on their old yard. That and the same JD 55 combine he farmed with all his life raised a family educated them all and made him enough money to be reasonably wealthy.
I remember when i started farming i bought some seed wheat from him and after seeding stopped in to pay him. As i start writing the check he said please could i date the check for Jan 2nd of the next year. No sense sharing it with the taxman and as he said he knew i wasn't going anywhere and he didn't need the money right now.

Sometimes in the spring at sunrise i can swear i can hear that 830 in the distance.

[fjlip]

820 was weighted plus cab so pulled better. 830 would spin. 12' DT with twisted spikes...6" deep, 3rd gear was all it had.
16' JD 6" spaced cult with diamond harrows, 4th gear, 5.5 mph wow! Rolled coal up hills. All day on 3/4 tank...2 1/2 days per 1/4 section. Oh and a 14' KBA JD disk harrow, no wheeled transport. Later 18' disker.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

It's funny how you guys refer to this old deafeningly loud equipment in the past tense as if it is ancient history.
As I type this, I can hear my neighbor a half mile away disking with his 95 Massey with the rattle trap cab. he grew up running one in Saskatchewan so recently got his very own. And has the hearing aids to prove it.
I was running my d8k this morning, hearing protection is not optional, neither is a snow suit.
I have another neighbor who has a fleet of 830s, 820, 80 and R John Deeres, which he does most tillage work with.
Our 1600 cockshutt with a straight pipe still gets used whenever I can find a purpose for it. And that's not even the oldest tractor in the fleet.
Lots of other examples around here, where old tractors and combines go to die.

Black powder talking about power hop and unable to reach the clutch reminds me of a story of my dad told.
The neighbor was moving a garage up a steep gravel driveway with steel wheels and a hand clutch. Spun out and the steel wheels started jumping and hopping as they dug and the operator couldn't even reach the clutch it was throwing him around so badly. I don't remember what the outcome was.

[sumdumguy]

Those old combines are worth a lot just for the steel. It surprises me how many just phone the junk guy to come and take the old equipment away for nothing.

[blackpowder]

The painted manufacturers emblems cut out and framed worth more than the whole thing for scrap.

Earmuffs, dust masks and mechanix gloves weren't thought of then.
The gloves I still cant wear today as none fit.

[woodland]

Putting the pumpkin crop to use tonight.😎

Had a slight intermission after the neighbours called saying a calf was coming home from the field we just moved a bunch to today. Hopefully he finds his mom and stays put for the night. There’s a few other pumpkins leftover and hopefully they become pie with some fresh whipped cream on top………… Yum!🍀

[Guest]

Those are the best of times woodland

[foragefarmer]

Those are the best of times woodland

So true, I got more excited than the kids when it came to trick and treating.

I remember when I was trick or treating through town with my pillow case and the plastic mask on, all the locals would try to get you to talk, so they could figure out who you were.

Just simple fun, on worries of candy or all the apples we got laced with any kind of B.S. added to them.

[Rareearth]

When i was young i heard of many legendary pranks done in small towns. Basically every thing in town that could be moved was moved onto main street by the kids. Next morning depending on age and if it was a weekend all kids and parents moved things back, outhouses, grain augers, etc

The best i heard kids 15 years older at the time, disassembled a wagon from outside the museum and then re-assembled it on top of the elevator annex in town ( they knew how to disassemble it and put it back as well) .

[SASKFARMER]

[AlbertaFarmer5]

There is a house couple of miles away that we all call the haunted house. Partially burnt decades ago, surrounded by creepy trees, but standing straight. A few years ago I took the kids there on our last stop of the night. I suggested they should go up to trick or treat. They weren't convinced. Then I pretended to get stuck, then shut the vehicle off and said it had stalled and wouldn't start. No choice but to go to the house and see if anyone lives there who could help us out. I suggested I had seen some movement in the window.

Long story short, I had to restart and drive out in a hurry before I got too scared myself...

[LEP]

Neighbor had an outhouse that every year some kids would knock over.

One year he moved it two feet ahead … stopped that prank from happening again.