"Old" Farm Pics

[Karin L]

These pics are old to me, all of them are over a few years old. Just lookin at them makes me realize how much this ol' farm has changed over the years.


Seeding time. Grandpa filling up the seed drill and Sandy makin sure thing's are goin smooth. Sandy was killed by a car in front of my uncle's place a few years ago.


Spraying the barley crop. This feild was what it was before Grandpa rented it out to the neighboring dairy farmer down the road.


Harvesttime, and a good lot of hay to boot for the winter. The two feilds...the one with the bales and the one being harvested, have switched...field w/ bales is now used for silage, and the one harvested is used for forage. I don't think we put in the fence for the new pasture yet in that pic...sure is pretty though. One other thing...that tractor, the 5488 IH tractor, that's been since replaced with a 7240 Magnum IH tractor with a good front-end loader.


Auger fell on the tractor in a wind storm...luckly it wasn't buggered up, dad and grandpa just righted it back to where it was and it was ready to auger up another few hundred bushels of grain...the loader arms too on that tractor have been since repainted a years ago.


These summer storms are neat...cloud formation is something else... and have a bad tendency of coming up whenever we finish cutting this feild. Never fails.


Another one...this storm had been the cause for tornado warnings around Westlock area, especially north. Lucky it was a false alarm.


After a good rain -- double rainbows over the barn. Probably a couple of pots of gold at the end of them, but I didn't look.


Cleaning out some old, dried up manure that's built up over the years. Still got some more to do, only did half of the barn, but now that it's piled up again... ah well. Good excersize.

[Karin L]

Grandpa working on the swather prior to harvest.


A lot of bales...and the field's half done, yet.


Heifer peeking above the tall grass at me...yes, this is a heifer, folks. One year we had backgrounded a bunch of heifers...bought them off of another uncle of mine. Don't know why dad didn't keep with the heifers, they're sure a lot troubleless than the steers...only have to worry about vaccinations and dehorning, no worries about finding stags or bulls, and they're a lot quieter than steers too. Mind you, they fetch a better price, market wise...oh well!


Steers getting ready to be shipped out that very morning...I like the one on the far left, he's got quite a bit of ear to him, and they were pretty hairy in the winter. They were all nice animals, all were around 1000 pounds, if I remember correctly, mostly cause they've just been on pasture the past few months, and we had to take them off it the night before this pic was taken.

[veme]

Thank you for the wonderful tour

A very beautiful place & nice cattle

veme

[Up North]

Thank You Karin.Beautiful phptography - that cloud formation one is just fantastic....The 86 Series IH brings back memories...

[Karin L]

Thanks...and your welcome!

That tractor that has the auger fell on it is an 844 tractor (Case IH; yes, we LOVE our IH equipment!!), and it's still going...seems to me that we only gas it up once a year...kinda strange, I know.

[egads1]

Love the pic's!!! I always look for the posts with pic's. I love looking at what others are doing or have done.

[Lilandra]

Thanks for starting this thread. I have some pics I'd luv to share too!
These are some pictures we found at the newspaper I work for. They are of the family farm and were submitted by my husband's grandma for a sequentenial memory book the town put together in 1985.
enjoy!


This is my husband's grandfather


This is his grandfather, aunts (the children) and neighbors moving a small barn

[Karin L]

4Hmom...now those are old! your welcome, and thanks for sharing yours!

[titansrunfarm]

What cool pics, thanks so much for posting these!

[Mid Tn Mama]

Very interesting. It's nice to hear how things have changed. What you planted or raised then, what you do now. How many generations was the farm in your family. Lovely photography. Magazine material.

[Horselover]

Thanks for the wonderful pictures--both of you.
To Karin--there was a pot of gold at the end of each rainbow. It was
the farm. To me a farm is a pot of gold! How I loved my childhood days of living on our farm.
I live on one today, but it is not the same.
Wish I could post pictures that might interest you all, but I don't have the equipment to do so.
But, thanks so much. Love 'em.

[Karin L]

Mid Tn Mama, the land has been passed through 3 generations now. My great grandpa started here after he had worked in the US for a while; he came over from Sweden. I'll probably the fourth generation on this farm if I get it.

thanks

My grampa in the 1950's

Well, that didn't work

[stef]

for posting those wonderful pictures.

Funny, I was just thinking about Canada the other day.

It's quite beautiful.

Stef

p.s. enjoyed your pics, too, 4HMom

[hrslvrtrailridr]

Spectacular pictures, thanks for sharing, all of you.
You need to make a postcard of the barn photo with the rainbows.

[Bercado]

Wow, thanks for the photos. I'd love to see it in person.

[ellebeaux]

Thanks for sharing.

[Tricky Grama]

Great pictures-thanks!

Patty

[Karin L]

And thanks for the compliments! I appretiate them.

Oh, and btw.....your welcome.