This new GPS stearing is awesome, I just sit here and drink beer, until it beeps 50 yards from a turn. I can't wait until they have one that will turn around too
We have a 32 row planter are averaging about 25 acres an hour.
Yah Mosh, I know what you mean about equipment making it easier. Back when I helped farm, I remember going from a 3 bottom to a 5 bottom plow and from a 4 row to an 8 row planter, boy those were the days.
I remember Ralph (the guy I helped) bring them home behind the new used International 986 turbo diesel. (rrrhhhh rrrrhhh 90hp)
Get up in the morning make sure the tool box was full of extra bolts, wire, and 2 pair of visegrips, go out to the barn and cut off another piece of downspout to replace the muffler. Ralph wouldn't buy a new muffler and so we used downspout to get the exhaust up over the cab, which nothing stayed closed on. You could plow about 4 hours before the downspout split enough you couldn't see or breath and had to replace it.
He only had 400 acres, but the neighbors used to come over and help when they were done. They had the big stuff, Steigers, which they couldn't hardly turn around in some of our fields.
Share with you a small accident I once had while going down the road to another field. I was pulling a disk, cultipacker and harrow down the county road when I saw a 5' snake, which I HATE, crossing the road. I decided I would drop the disc on him to cut him up, you can guess what happen from there, each implement dropped one at a time and came back up the same way. It took about 60 feet of county road for this to happen. Gotta love new asphalt!
