My quad thread got me thinking

[blackpowder]

Horse.
I apologise. I mistook your post about hauling grain in a pick-up as a nostalgic desire for our grain industry's way of doing business in the past. Not as a comment on lifestyle.

[ajl]

'69 model here so 51 years. Like that AC305 furrow. Have a 36 year old AC8070 myself. Still see tractors from the 60's around here making hay in the summer. This area is an ag museum.

[Hamloc]

1964 here. Raised pigs for 25 years now have a cow calf operation and grain. I got out of pigs in 2007.

[farmboy1]

1958 here. Always a farmer except for a 6 month stint in an Ontario factory in the '70's. Back on the motorbike for 3 trips this year after no riding since 2017. The bike felt better at the end of the year than I did.

[furrowtickler]

Was a good tractor actually, except the hi low trans was a weak spot
That ended up out in Sawyfly’s area . Not sure if it’s still going.

[furrowtickler]

Nifty 50 next summer
Over half our grain storage was wood bins, used them for many years . Almost never had to worry about heated grain in them . Biggest danger was climbing over and under all the wires lugging the grain drag around .
Biggest job as a teenager was removing the loft floor of the barn when we moved it for our “new” shop . Pulling 8 in spikes all summer from all that heavy Fir wood ... then saving the nails after . Not much went to waste .
Had cows , pigs , chickens , mom had a huge garden .
Still remember the first “big” bins with air floors .. 3850 bus lol .
Then the first hoppers were the next big step.
Started combining on a IH 915 , then moved way up into an L3 Gleaner.
First field job was cultivating with a 275 bidirectional versatile and a 14 ft cultivator
Thought that was awesome... for about 2 days .
Filling the old Morris seed rites
The bourgault 138 air drill and 40ft air seeder was a big deal.
First big 4wd used was an Allis 305 twin stack with a high / low trans .
Still have the first case tractor , 9270 .
That pulls the planter now lol .

Lots has changed since , we did a very slow transformation compared to many just 10 years younger or 10 years older. Grew up in a very cautious time frame compared to many .

[Chief]

February of 1956, will be able to cash those government cheques soon. Thankful that I can still hustle up a westeel rosco 8 tier bin. Also fun to be able to decide the out come of foot races with my 6 year old grand daughter. Enjoy while I can.

[ry0972]

1972 model, so 48.

[fjlip]

1952 also. What a ride, was alive in WET 50's, no roads to get to towns at times. Saw a threshing machine working on this farm. Picking roots on breaking land at 14. Fencing, hand milking, cream cans to the train station, lots of manure, pigs chickens, cows. Good crops and total frozen crap. Heavy hay bales by hand into barn loft or a monster stack. The dust, no masks like everywhere in 2020, the noise and now hearing loss. Square bins, full of wires, dust, mice and steel grain shovels. Changes constantly to get to present time. Never been easier, but none can work forever. Yes 20 years younger will see even more change. Those will see if Ag survives in the highest cost place on earth, with the climate that has always changed. Good stories people.

[AllisWD45]

1952. I am told in Sept/52 my Dad took Mom into hospital at harvest. I was born and she stayed in hospital for a week. He had started a 40 acre wheat field with his new IHC 6 ft combine. He brought us home and he still hadn't finished it. Bought a new ****shutt 110 Sp combine the next year.

Hmm. Didnt know Co ckshutt was a swear word although farmers had been known to swear by them and at them.