Back to simple ?

[Guest]

yea me too , too stupid to write stuff down , lol

[farmaholic]

.....and I thought I was the only one. By seaaon 3 or 4 it gets easier.

[sumdumguy]

Where is the efficiency? People in Saskatchewan buying Argon windows to keep the heat out and expensive light bulbs that don't give off decent light, are full of Mercury and get so damn hot that they melt your receptacles. Myself, I welcome the recirculating heat from the fridge and freezer almost all year. My computer keeps my office toasty warm. Just give me an on-off switch and a knob that controls volume and heat and I'm happy. JD tractor I can't run the radio. Who needs that?

[burnt]

Hobby, you would be so proud - my latest tractor purchase was a 1968 135 Massey Ferguson tractor. Handy for cutting ditches, running an auger, tilling the garden, maybe even pulling an empty grain wagon!

Best of all, with its complete lack of the electronic gadgetry that my New Hollands depend on, it will continue to run when EMP hits...

If you have all the crops off, you will have time to find and read the book "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel, One Year After.

Or if you are still harvesting you could buy the audio book and listen as you run up and down that field. Of course, it could get scary if your engine sputters - you will be hoping that it isn't EMP. lol.

If you have doubts about the peril of our electronic dependency, look up www.empcommission.org.

Back to simple might become the order of the day, not just a whimsical dream...

[cottonpicken]

If the lights go out they ain't ever coming back on.

Kind of a big economic drag for people who now have to always continually replace stuff. Especially vehicles.

[Guest]

burnt, that's my other point . these sprayers will not spray w/o gps .

[SASKFARMER3]

Good topic.
Funny doing some clean up for the estate and found older Disc grinders drills saws etc all solid metal. Then found the new fancy ones. Take the oldest plug in all work can drop on floor throw across room or drop from the roof all work. New one in box opened and plugged in F%^Ked.
Just saying. a Deere 4020 power shift is a way better tractor then my 7330.
Put a new style cab on the old girl and their you have something.

[furrowtickler]

Kinda kickin my but we did not go to that Kramer sale . Those low hr 9370's are virtually non existent . Coulda replaced the ole 9270 with 8500 hrs and had a new tractor for anouther 10 years

[burnt]

Meanwhile, I, too, am rooting for Sawfly's 57 year old deep freeze. And also, for samhill's 59 year old icebox! That's got to be some sort of record.

Oh my goodness, you don't want our new gov't to find out about it or it will surely be hit with some carbon tax for its inefficiency...

LOL!

[farmaholic]

Don't move the deep freezers. We had one that got pretty old but not as old as these you're talking about. It was about 45 years old.

Calculate the carbon footprint in materials, manufacturing and transporting the numerous new ones(that fail every seven years) needed today's replace the old relics that lasted "decades".

Built to fail in a disposable/throw away society...