Plow that broke the Plains
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Topic: Plow that broke the Plains
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Subject: Plow that broke the Plains
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2017 at 12:44pm
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The Plow that broke the Plains - documentary [TUBE]6DRP7KxjFXQ[/TUBE] ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
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Posted By: Tom Elder
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2017 at 5:07pm
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I use this sometimes to furnish backdrop on my hobby videos. a nice one
------------- 2 1949bs,one with belly mower one with side sickle bar |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2017 at 10:17pm
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The Great 30's Dust Bowl, brought to you by Deere; Sustainable soil saving farming, brought to you in 60's by AC's no-til system...
------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2017 at 4:39am
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Good one, tbran!!!!! Made my day! Well, gotta get to work. Only 14 more Tuesdays to go. ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2017 at 6:33am
 Oh good grief. Can't slam Deere "For really not inventing the plow and taking credit for it" and turn around and blame Deere for the dust bowl. Can't have it both ways. I'm not saying you said those words in quotes, but the gist of it has been said on here. And I'm pretty sure Deere did not have a dastardly take over the world plan to destroy the plains, simply built what people wanted to buy. |
tbran wrote:Posted By: JD Dan
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2017 at 12:31pm
Tbone 
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Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2017 at 12:36pm
Good one!!!!
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Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2017 at 12:57pm
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There wasn't the technology yet to no-till in the 30's. Almost no herbicides and didn't really have the power and weight to pull no-till planters. If you would've tried to sell a no-till planter, no one would've bought it anyways. Shoot, you still had farmers at that point that thought if you pulled the plow with a tractor fast than a walking pace that you'd "burn" the ground. |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2017 at 8:56pm
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if there had been as many lawyers in the 30's as today, Deere and the farmers would have been sued to hades and back.... just saying :-) geez... lighten up...
------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2017 at 9:06pm
Whoa whoa whoa.....you mean they really thought that????? Wow! (Can't blame 'em, I guess....it was totally new technology to them)
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Posted By: CALEBnOK
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2017 at 9:37pm
| Too bad the plains were pretty much broke by 1914 by the use of steam and gang plows. Wasnt so much the oneways fault as it was mother nature's and the fact that they just kept trying to grow crops and then having to plow them under. |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2017 at 8:19am
My Grandpa was born in 1927 and started farming with horses when he was a kid. He said he head some farmers that thought that. Amazing how far things have come in 90 years. Some better some worse. Tillage practices and no-till in some areas are some of the better ones for sure. |