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morton(pa) 
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Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 7:06pm |
Well some of you may have been wondering where I've been lately...
Freshman Year of college here at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown kicked off last week and I've been busy as all get out ever since. But I thought today would be a great day to share my newest experience!
This morning I started my work study/Job on campus. The college has a 300+ acre farm that includes anything from the Equine barns and programs to the Dairy Barn and programs all the way up to Crop Science and Production etc. etc. etc.
For my job I selected "General Agriculture" and had no idea what to expect. I knew it would be something on the farm which is why I picked it, but I had no idea what to expect. I thought I might be mucking stalls or mowing around the orchard or something like that, but I wasn't expecting what I got on my first day!
Tis the harvest season, and we are chopping corn for the silos at the dairy barn. I showed up at 8 am and my adviser said "Do you know how to run a tractor?". I of course replied yes, but told him I wasn't really used to BIG tractors, more so smaller ones. He then asked me if I knew how to unload a forage wagon and I said no, but I could certainly learn! And learn I did!
My first day consisted of driving an 855 Case International (A LOT bigger then what I'm used to! IE B's C's WD-45's) pulling the Ghiel Forage carts from the field, across the street, back to the dairy barn, and unloading them into the silage blower. Needless to say I had a BLAST! I'm so happy I choose this college because I knew I would get this kind of hands on experience. Just wanted to share. I'm really happy that I'm learning to handle the bigger equipment of todays farming world as compared to always running around on B's and C's. Thanks for letting me share!
PS if any of you have son's or daughters, or even if your a HS student looking at colleges, I STRONGLY recommend Del Val. It's a smaller college as compared to a state university, but you get A LOT more individual attention, and you WILL get a hands on learning experience. We have people here from as far away as California. If anyone would ever be in the area and would like a look around campus, by all means let me know!
Thanks for letting me share!
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Russ SCPA
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Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 7:42pm |
Del Val? Penn State's southern branch. I know several people that went there, if you do as well as they did, you will do just fine.
Here our "wagon draggers" for silage were a John Deere 3020 and an AC 175.
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morton(pa)
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Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 7:53pm |
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Nooooo Wayyyy. Delaware Valley is not connected to Penn State at all. We are BETTER then Penn State! They've been trying to buy us for years (I've heard) and we will not sell because we operate just fine just the way we are. Penn State has satellite campus's all over PA but Del Val is not connected to Penn State at all. You will get a much better experience here then Penn State because our farm is on campus, and you are required to have a work study for graduation, which means you will have some kind of hands on experience related to your major before you graduate.
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Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 9:41pm |
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Way to go, Morton!! Nothing like havin' fun while you're learning. (From a retired college instructor)
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Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 9:58pm |
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Way to go!Glad you are having a good time. I majored in Ag Engineering when I went to college. I applied for the assistant herdsman for the summers when school was out, beat out all the animal husbandry majors. The college had all the latest equipment in all different brands. When the jobs were given out the Allis were the first to go, I being lowest on the job list usually got the Ford, the JD usually sat in the shed.
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Kip-Utah
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 10:28am |
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Morton, this takes me back to my college days. My BS is in "Agricultural Education". My Jr. year, a professor offered me a deal that if I could teach a student from Somolia to run a tractor & baler at the college farm, I could skip out of class for the rest of the quarter. I should have turned him down, as I worked alot harder taking on his challenge!! Good Luck with your studies. Kip
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John (C-IL)
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 11:53am |
Ah yes, I remember it well! Student/slave labor. "Tell Morton to do it, he'll do anything!" LOL
I worked in the Ag Engineering VO-AG shop for 4 years. My "boss" was a retired captain in the USMC. He didn't take any crap and he hated the long hairs. He made any one with long hair wear a hair net when they were in the shop. He was a great guy and always looked out for his students and taught the way you are supposed to be taught. Let you make mistakes as long as they weren't a safety concern and then walked you through the right way to do it.
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 1:04pm |
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Good at Del Vallley. I visited there about 1990 to watch my son play football against Del Val. He played for Lycoming. I also graduated from Lycoming with a degree in accounting. Del Vallley is a good school for agricutlure. Do you have any relatives who used to live in Honey Brook, PA? Good luck at school and with the AC tractors.
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 3:33pm |
ask me to tell you about the museum that they have over there on 202.
Maybe the Oliver sulky plow is still there with the tree part in it. I brought that there. Also, maybe there is a hay fork and track there, I hope it is in the barn and not scrapped, as it was the first rusty piece of iron I ever tinkered with. I spent many weeks allowance on the Liquid Wrench to get that thing freed up.
Things change and I don't go there anymore.
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morton(pa)
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 3:53pm |
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Glenn wheres the museum?
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GlenninPA
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 3:57pm |
There is a path/road thru the woods from the ag barns. Some old stuff was over at the ag barns.
The Roth Living Museum.
It is at the intersection of Route 202 & Hancock Road.
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 4:02pm |
John,
Sounds like a prof. I had at EIU. Best teacher I could ask for. He had been in military and he taught shop/machining. He also had a fondness for guns and hunting. Great guy, wish I new what he was up to now.
Adam
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 4:19pm |
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come to OSU/ATI in Wooster, OH if you want a good ag education. They have serveral THOUSAND acres of places to work and learn (although I am a Big Blue fan)
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Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 7:24pm |
During the Great Depression my dad lived above the milk house and worked in the dairy barn at Michigan Agriculture Collage while working his way through school there.
Dusty
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