It's 1957 again!
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Topic: It's 1957 again!
Posted By: Don(MO)
Subject: It's 1957 again!
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:38pm
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Planted my corn today and after looking at the photos I shot of the corn planting made me think is was 1957 all over again. lol I had my 88 year old Dad helping, he did the dicsing for me again this year. Don
        ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
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Posted By: Leon B MO
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:41pm
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That's just plain cool. Thanks for sharing Don.
Leon B MO ------------- Uncle always said "Fill the back of the shovel and the front will take care of itself". |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:41pm
| Don, Great pics. I hope my Dad can still help plant corn when he is 88. Your blessed with the father still there to help. Tracy Martin |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:42pm
| Nice pics!! Just need to hide the red truck and it could be 1957!! |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:46pm
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Great pictures Don. That third pic looks like your Dad found a wet spot, but all the other pics look like the ground worked good.
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: ChuckLuedtkeSEWI
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:49pm
| Under that umbrella, I think I see a devilish grin. I don't think my 80 year old dad could get on the back of my WD45. |
Posted By: Steve-Ohio
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:50pm
| Great pictures, very special. |
Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:53pm
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nice stuff. The WD and two row planter brings back memories. I always liked TTs but that is before my time.
------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 8:55pm
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Charlie - Don's 45 with a disc is drawn to a mudhole like a tornado is drawn to a trailer park, LMAO! Don - great pics! With that 2 row planter you sure get more "fun time" in the seat...Steve said my corn's up. Hope yours turns out good. Mike ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 9:46pm
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Don, Great pics. Treasure the time with your Dad. Wish mine were still around to work some ground with me.
------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 9:50pm
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Terrific pictures, Don. The second one, especially. Thanks. ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: blue72camaro
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 9:50pm
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Don, those are great pictures! I am hoping my old man can still do stuff like that when he is 88!
We got our sunflower patch in today to, the old planter never missed a beat! Thanks for all the tips on everything the other night!
Matt
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Posted By: Leonard
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 9:53pm
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Great pics Don. When I retire in 3 years I will ask my dad to help with the farming also. Leonard |
Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 05 May 2010 at 10:07pm
| my dad was about that age when he plowed a 15 acre field with his old wc & 2 bottom trip plow. it's amazing how straight the plow rows were' I wish I had taken pictures. no furrow to follow with the narrow frt. either. |
Posted By: ToddSin NY
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 1:59am
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Nice job! Thats some nice looking ground you have there. We have one field that size that'd have 4 load of rock to pick first, and thats just the big ones!
Looks like your dad is enjoying himself!
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Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 6:58am
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youre a lucky man!!!!!!!! ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 7:18am
| Special pictures, thanks for sharing. |
Posted By: Hudsonator
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 7:20am
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I always love your pictures Don. Are you going to cultivate with a narrow front this year? I got in such a hurry this year, I didn't make any pictures. We'll have to replant about 4 acres due to the floods wiping out the bottom.------------- There isn't much a WC can't do. WD's just do it better. |
Posted By: Matt MN
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 7:24am
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Don, you really need to cherish these moments with your dad. My Grandpa just passed away yesterday at the age of 91. ------------- Unless your are the lead horse the scenery never changes!! |
Posted By: Ron Tn
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 7:36am
| Great pictures. I enjoy seeing it done that way much more than with the 80' monster planters you see in the farm magazines now days. Guess I am getting old. Ron |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 7:58am
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Thanks for the kind words guys. Dad has gone at it like that as long as I can remember. lol
That WD45 is aways the one that's in the mud it's the one in the mud, blood and the beer, The two WD45's I have don't get that muddy so maybe they know more than this old gal! LOL
I put a lot of "N" on this year we will see if that gets me the big yield (200+) I just do this for the fun of it. Dad is a big help with INFO on farming back in the 50's, He thinks this new way of donig it is wrong, You know that no till stuff!!!!!!!!
He said to make a good seed bed and the corn will grow!!!
Don
------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: CDR,Ky.
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 8:11am
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Those are really great pictures,I'm really happy and thrilled for you,seeing those pictures really made my day!,Thank You. ------------- If you first don't succeed then you'se brute force! |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 8:14am
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Possibly in the year 2057 yours or someone's grandchildren will look at these pictures and wonder :
were they really able to plant corn on Jan. 1, 2010 in MO ?
Gary
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Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 9:58am
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Nice to look back. I can remember using a 45 to plow and to disk. Always fun tractors to use with plenty of power for the time.
Thanks for sharing.
Good Luck!
Bill long
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Posted By: Rawleigh
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 10:03am
| Dad looks like he is enjoying himself!! |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 7:31pm
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I now have all the corn in the ground, Had to mud the last 1/2 acres in but it's in and the rain is comming.
Mark I have No. 3 WD45 sitting in the barn with the cultivator with a WD side dresser on it just weighting for the grass to come up, And then it gets to come out and play.lol
It has a wide front on it.
Don
 ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 7:38pm
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Don, Can you do something about that pink umbrella? That Big IH on there just don't look right. LOL I have a 2 row cultivator (had it on the 45 once) but it don't have have the fertilizer junk added. It looks like you been planning ahead some. I hope the rain coming don't drown anything out down there.
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 7:59pm
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OK Charley, I have retired the red think to back of the barn, My good buddy Rick(MO)
was felling sorry for me last year and let me get a new old stock one from him. lol
It will be on there before it gets a look at the corn field this year.
I can use a little rain now.
Don
------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Hudsonator
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 8:37pm
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Nice cultivating rig. I guess when you get the cultivator on one of those WFE tractors, you don't really want to wrestle it back off over that axle. That's a sweet outfit. ------------- There isn't much a WC can't do. WD's just do it better. |