hummmmm wonder ifin they make one for my super duty

i think it was moline made a tractor with wide seat and had a high gear for about 40 mph....idea was he could plow all day.. then put ma on the seat beside him and take her to town !!

That makes me think of my old co worker. He ran an axle from the front rim of my old tacoma to an industrial meat grinder, you could run a stillborn calf through it . We were feeding 100s of fox and coyotes at that time, it was a beast.

That would be a nice feature to have on the hobby farm for sure.

When that was being sold there were no hobby farms. People were making a living and raising kids on 160 acres without an outside job. They worked hard and worked long hours. Often milking dairy cows by hand twice a day. Selling milk cream eggs. Growing corn for silage. Putting up hay. Raising a garden, raising a few hogs. They didnt get many days off or "hobby" farm.

Understood, my sister's and I still own the 160 my Great Gradfather homesteaders near Delphas KS, my Grandpa and my Dad were both born in the house there. They were 3 generations of farmers. My Grand parents farmed thrue the depression. They were some tough and humble peaple. Sure miss them.

Its a shame that a living can not still be made that way. If somebody tried raising kids without electricity, without running water, growing and butchering all their food today, social workers would be hovering around incessantly. Especially if the kids all had only one pair of shoes and 3-4 changes of clothes.

Doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice to have on a hobby farm today.

Hahaha!

Unless you're Amish

Pto would be nice on our 5 acres, but we really don't need a tractor.

I offered to buy a girl a new pair of jeans at Rural King the other day. The ones she had on was almost all threads. Then her mother joined in and assured me they had the money to buy their own in style clothes, lol.

I'm impressed, foxpaw.

It is definitely a sad state of affairs.

We are living in times that is the product of "bigger is better". We would rather have the neighbors 160 acres than the neighbor and then complain because the taxes are too high. Its the same in small towns where the big chains can undersell the small business eventually forcing them out. Values changed some where along the line. Farm publications were big on promoting hog and chicken houses and eventually there was no public market if you wasn't contracted. After the removal of the live hog contract on the Merc there was no way a farmer could hedge his product unless he could also slaughter the hog and hedge with a lean contract. Gov regulations are an uphill climb when trying to butcher anything for sale.
I was one of those living the Big Dream while all the time humming "We were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie". When we are a part of something and offering no resistance then we can't wholly place the blame on someone else, I fear the remedy when it comes to trying to turn a 100 car train on a small 5 acre plot of that family 1/4 section.

Yep Hydro that was the Minneapolis Moline tractors. I would hate to have to build an OSHA approved guard for a flat belt system.

And everybody got one bath a week, and all used the same tub of water. Ewwwwwww.

jump in ma were goin to town !!