
12/08/12, 12:32 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 16,313
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I just wish the men were farmer smarter and they would stick to farming/gardening/homesteading. They hardly make mention of doing any gardening, the hows and plowing, planting. weeding. picking, canning in hardly any detail.
They showed useing a modern bailer, but they were useing it like a stationary bailer and so, same with the combine. Seemed crazy to me. people here were useing stationary bailers all through the war, so I know they had to be useing them as pull tyoes were rare here then. They would have been nearly extinct there then.
They did use the combine in the field. The operator was the owner. He had used it for 50yrs. He should have knowin he was takeing in too much straw, and lowered his cutterbar to keep it from plugging.
They was useing a 2 bottom horse plow behind a tractor. They had 3 tractors there, but no tractor plows.. AND when plowing, One had to walk beside the man behind the handles . Whats with that? He needed to be either resting to take over or doing something at the farm. Didnt show them discing, or harrowing. You dont plant flax or any small grain crop after just plowing.
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