Neat picture
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Topic: Neat picture
Posted By: littlemarv
Subject: Neat picture
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2015 at 10:16pm
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I don't know why it took so long, but here is a picture from this spring, standing on the back of the WD while my boy disked up our food plot. Don't know why, but this picture really strikes me as beautiful. Maybe its because I know where we've put the turkey blinds and the deer stands in the woods around here, and all the memories we've made and have yet to make, or maybe its just cause the world looks a little better when viewed over the hood of an Allis. You decide.
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Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2015 at 10:31pm
| I really like it too! |
Posted By: DennisA (IL)
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2015 at 11:48pm
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Great picture, "At Days End". ------------- Thanks & God Bless Dennis |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 2:55am
| food plot???? whew...we call them farm fields around that size! |
Posted By: DanC911
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 6:44am
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Great pic. If you have a chance, it would be nice to see it now that it has grown in. And, if you are lucky enought to "harvest" a deer or 2, share that too. ------------- 1950 WD, 1955 B, 66 Jacobsen Chief-O-Matic, 68 Simplicity 2110, 77 IH Cub Cadet 1450 w/front loader |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 7:39am
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Great shot. ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 7:43am
Picture perfect.  ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: littlemarv
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 9:41am
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Its one acre, we used to rent it with the rest of the land, but with machinery getting bigger and bigger, and the mud hole at the entrace getting wider every year as they tried getting back there, my brother kind of just took it over and now we have a place to do all our "toy farming".
He plowed it under, dad disked a few times, then I put 2000 pounds of lime on by hand. Spreading lime by shaking 50 pound bags off the back of a trailer pulled by a six year old with a twitchy throttle foot is a little tough. We may need to invest in a lime spreader next...
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 Disked it in, dragged it a few times, not sure what brand disk that even is.
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 For some odd reason, the east end didn't grow, and thats way to small to hardly turn the WD around in, good thing I have garden tractors and implements for just such tight spaces.
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 We seeded that end down with Honey Hole food plot mix. I will have to take a picture next time I'm up there cause its growing really good and the deer are keeping it mowed pretty good! ------------- The mechanic always wins. B91131, WC23065, WD89101, CA29479, B1, Early B10, HB212, 416H |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 9:50am
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Hey Marv,,,that is a pretty picture,,,!!! It's the stuff dreams are made of,,,  Excuse my non'farmer ignorance,,,but what is the lime for,,,??? 
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Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 10:05am
Hey Joe, Soil get acidic after a time and lime naturalizes the acid in the soil. That is why regular soil tests are important. It tells you what is needed to keep the soil in balance for the best crops. People that use wood chips for bedding and spread it on fields will need more lime as the wood chips use up the lime in the composting cycle. |
desertjoe wrote:Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 10:06am
| Lime is spread to raise the soil PH if a soil test shows excess acidity. |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 10:07am
| I love the pictures also. To me fresh fit soil is as beautiful as a picture of a lake or sunset. |
Posted By: littlemarv
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 10:12am
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It adjusts the pH of the soil, we test it every year and we usually wind up throwing one ton on every year, we rotate alfalfa, soybeans, and corn, depending on what's planted around us. Its kind of neat to see the equipment we've accumulated over the years for our farming adventures. I got a Case grain drill from a scrapper for $100 (his wife wanted to plant flowers in it) brother got a two row JD corn planter for a case of pop, got a flail chopper and a brush hog along the way, this stuff kind of sneaks up on you.... ------------- The mechanic always wins. B91131, WC23065, WD89101, CA29479, B1, Early B10, HB212, 416H |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 10:21am
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OK,,,that makes sense. I have heard that wood ashes are good for putting on rose bushes, fruit trees etc,,,Since I smoke a lot of meats,,I have quite a lot of ashes,, mostly apple, pecan, and mesquite. I have I big Pecan tree, apricot tree, several rose bushes and 3 big pine trees, I've always wondered bout putting those ashes on them,,but never knew for sure and certainly don't want to harm them,,,,
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Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 6:12pm
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Very nice pictures! Thanks for taking and posting them. Yes things look better over the hood of a Allis! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Ethan Souerdike
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2015 at 6:18pm
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That is a neat picture, cool. ------------- If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. |