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Amos 
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Posted: 03 May 2010 at 9:44pm |
Here are a couple pictures of my Dad at 79 years of wisdom planting oats with his tractor and my drill. I pull it behind my 210 with a Great PLains coulter cart but he doesn't have any use for that arrangement, so he did it this way. The thing I will probably never understand is why he never put the markers down. Guess we'll see how good a job he did in a couple weeks when the oats show up.
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 03 May 2010 at 9:59pm |
I know what you are going through. My Dad is 88 and going like a 65 year old.
Here is him on one of my WD45's. This was last year, He will be back out there this year too. I am just happy He is here!!!!
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Amos
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Posted: 03 May 2010 at 9:59pm |
Here is the way I use the drill.
Don, I know what you mean about being glad that he is still here. Just wish sometimes he would listen a little closer to what I say. Of course he has been doing this since before I was born........He keeps telling me the reason he doesn't here what I say is because of the 210 he bought new and how noisy it was. I guess if I was listening to him I would not be putting a couple hundred hours a year in the cab of this 210. It sure does sound nice, and boy will it pull compared to his 8010 when you ask it to!
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Russ-neia
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Posted: 03 May 2010 at 10:32pm |
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Has anyone told your dad that the KHD emblem is just a box put over top of the A-C emblem? Held on with adhesive, just pry apart slowly...
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Amos
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Posted: 03 May 2010 at 11:47pm |
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We have discussed similar things about his tractor. I am only to work on it when he asks (interpret it won't run at all or he was told it was going to cost a lot to fix(or what he thinks is a lot)). The tractor burns quite a bit of oil and has massive blow-by, won't start unless the block heater is plugged in below 50 degrees, torque limiter slips when making shifts pulling hard.....but it is his tractor. He bought a 8030 because I was telling him how I did not want my 210 to sit outside on the manure spreader all winter when it only takes me a week to haul manure out of every barn every other month. The 8030 had way too much power and was a fuel hog (his words), so the 8010 came to replace it. Not that it uses much less fuel, if any, but it does not have the power the 8030 did, though the tires are much better, cab is in better shape. It gets about 60 hours a year.
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Stan IL&TN
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Posted: 04 May 2010 at 7:33am |
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It's always nice to see orange out in front of green. Dad always used a green planter with orange out front also. Thanks for sharing.
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Jim Lindemood
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Posted: 04 May 2010 at 7:39am |
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If he is out there doing it, guess he can do it any way he wants. Looks like he has done it a few times before. If he is like my father was, he probably has some strong opinions on how to do things - LOL
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DMiller
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Posted: 04 May 2010 at 8:52am |
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I had a cousin that never put a marker down, ran by eye and feel and to this day I do not see how he did it but the rows were even, the lines straight and his ability far beyond my putrid efforts!! I cannot seem to get it right even with markers!
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Eric[IL]
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Posted: 04 May 2010 at 12:35pm |
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Amos, thanks for sharing the great photos and stories about your Dad. Your Dad probably uses the lower corners of the front cab winshield to gauge planter passes? So, using a marker becomes time consuming & unnecessary. Do yourself a favor and purchase a good box of disposable ear plugs. Put them in your pickup and or even that 210. Put them in when running it to save your hearing. After a few seasons of using them, you will develop a habit for them. And, you can still enjoy the AC engine sounds with the ear plugs in.
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