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Don(MI) 
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 Topic: Stories from Fathers Day
Posted: 16 Jun 2019 at 8:42pm |
Got to hang out with Grandpa and dad this evening. Grandpa was telling stories of farming as a young man (he is 85 now). Talked about farming under the moonlight. Lights from the tractor, and farming until Midnight if he had to. On the tractor, wd and D-17, I am sure probably others too. Getting the field worked or just planting corn to beat the rain coming in the morning. His dad would drive the pickup truck to the field to check on him. And grandpa would say "another 1/2 hour and I will be done". Supper waiting on the table at home or in the fridge, at 11 PM. I could just picture a Full Moon, An Allis Tractor, headlights and dark silhouettes across a farm field with a Star filled sky. Wish I could paint a picture! 
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Galatians 5:22-24
"I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!"
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JayIN
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Posted: 17 Jun 2019 at 6:01pm |
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My Dad always said that the worst thing that ever happened to farming was putting headlights on trActors.
Then you could hire the town drunk to plow all night and you could rent all the neighbors farms.
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sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"
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shameless dude
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Posted: 17 Jun 2019 at 9:41pm |
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lots of times I could disk at night by moonlight, could see better and farther than having the headlights on.
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Sugarmaker
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Posted: 17 Jun 2019 at 10:00pm |
Spent many nights doing spring plowing. The day our youngest daughter was born I plowed till 2:00 in the morning. Just got in bed and Cheryl said lets go. With the kids to drop off and the hospital a hour from the farm. Kelly was born two hours later. I remember one night on the 45 in the back 40. The stack was red and the front wheels were off the ground most of the time! Just kept it wide open with the 3 bottom 14's! We disc at night too. But we didn't plant anything at night. Good memories! Cool evenings! Dad didnt take the heat housers or chains off until we were actually planting. That heat felt pretty good when the temps were in the low 50's! He never had good lights on the WD 45s. Regards, Chris
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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.
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LionelinKY
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Posted: 17 Jun 2019 at 11:41pm |
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I miss doing tillage work at night. Dad and I would plow during the day running 9 bottoms total between the 2 of us. In for dinner and then night milking. After milking, plows unhitched and disk behind 1 tractor with cultipacker behind the other worked down the field so that hired man could plant the next day while we plowed the next field or 2. Repeat until planting was done. Just something about working ground at night.
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"My name is Lionel and I'm an Allisoholic"
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Don(MI)
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Posted: 18 Jun 2019 at 3:39pm |
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Awesome stories keep them coming!!!
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Galatians 5:22-24
"I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!"
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Don(MI)
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Posted: 18 Jun 2019 at 5:40pm |
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Galatians 5:22-24
"I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!"
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