Hoosierville&Misc19 May 2007 11:01 am
The last couple of weeks I’ve been driving tractor for a buddy of mine from church. I’m trying to learn the Hoosierville farming methods.
I’ve been plowing, chiseling, and cultivating with a John Deere 4455 and a 7700.
It’s kinda weird, they do everything back and forth out here. I was brought up driving around the field, but now I just go back and forth.
3 Responses
May 19th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Here is how you plant corn and why. First you make three rounds around the whole field to give you room to turn on the ends. Then you go back and forth on the straight side of the field. If you go round and round all the time you knock to much corn down when chopping. This may be due to the fact that we run rather old equipment. In other words, we do not have any of the $500,00 self-propelled choppers or 20 row planters. We have the old pull type harvesters which trail rather poorly in the corners. If you have huge square fields I would go back and forth. Other wise you may get dizzy….
Okay that is very long…
May 19th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
When I drove for Larry Nehr I went back and forth discing (I think) or raking, but it was extremely difficult for me to tell where I’d already been. I think it took me 3x as long, I couldn’t do it by “landmarks” in the distance like he could. :)
May 20th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Nice you can be rooting around on the farm again.
Sorry about the JDs.
(Somebody needed to say those last four words, I figure it just as well be an unbiased ignoramus.)