put in 9 hours after lunch

[Mobuck]

Yesterday was long and HOT. Started out easy enough with a trip to the bank and a haircut. Home by 10 and then started getting another tractor ready to mow hay. By 11:30, I was soaked with sweat and not quite finished with the prep work. While eating my ham sandwich, the renter on our north farm called to let me know he was going to be there setting up some corral panels and would help me wiggle the big mower out of it's spot in the pole barn. I grabbed what I might need for that project and headed up to meet him. Stopped on the way to check a soybean field we put in for a neighbor. It had been custom sprayed on 7/1 and I needed to see if the job was properly done. Got to north farm just as the other guy did and helped him set some panels and move some others so I could access my mower. Hooked mower to the little utility tractor we keep up there for lifting stuff and got it out into the driveway only to find one of the tires wasn't quite up to taking a 5 mile road trip. Called home for a back up tire and some air and spent 1/2 hour waiting and sorting through stuff in barn. Got home to find Son had showed up and wanted to re-assemble the mower that went belly up last week. Re-assembly didn't go as well as hoped and I walked in for supper at 8:45 pm.
I ran like this full time when I was 40-50 but that's been a long time back. Regardless of how tough it is, I live this life by choice and will fight to the death to maintain the right to choose.
Happy 4th of July to all.

 

[contender]

But,, but,, but the city folks think farmers only work a few days plowing & planting & then when they harvest & make a ton of money! According to them,, farming is EASY!!!!!!!!
(I've actually heard a few imported snowflakes say stuff like that!)

Not easy getting older & having to recognize our limitations.

 

[blackhawknj]

Karl Marx spoke of "the idiocy of rural life". Which explains why all the countries ruled by the people who put his teachings into practice suffered from decades of food shortages, rationing, hunger-and famine.

 

[reuben_j_cogburn]

I know watcha mean.....
I have been clearing a 5 acre lot of all the spruce tree's that have died since last summer.
I can drop, limb and clean up 12-14 tree's before I drop from exhaustion. All the log sections have to be carried to a central location and stacked, for pick up later. And all the limbs piled likewise to be burned after the first snow... I have 6 log piles so far, and 4 brush piles.
So far I have taken down well over 250 tree's with no end in sight.
Because of the density of the other tree's, (birch and aspen), not to mention all the stumps, I have to do it all by hand. I was instructed to not use the ATV, because of the potential damage that could be done to it.... which is true. When the cutting is done I will have to blaze a trail to be pushed in with a small dozer, so that the wood can be hauled out.
I am the only one that will do the work. The last guy (young), the owner hired lasted one day. And all he had to do was split, (with a hydraulic splitter), the fire wood I brought in last summer.... I s'pose I'll end up doing that as well.
The good news is that I have between 60-70 work day's before I head back to the homestead for the winter. I'll be able to relax a bit and go out and cut my own fire wood.... yippy.....

 

[coach]

I remember the farm near where my parents had a summer home. We always saw him in the fields on a tractor just about every day, weekends included. This was way before any sort of air conditioned cabs. Or at his farm stand selling corn. It looked like a hard way to make a living. I’ve mostly worked jobs where I could have weekends off and reasonable work weeks. Farming looked way too hard a way to make a living, but I appreciate what goes into it.

 

[blackhawknj]

For a lot of snowflakes their idea of "farming" is growing dope.

 

[Mobuck]

"For a lot of snowflakes their idea of "farming" is growing dope."

Well, growing "hemp" is coming on strong. Personally, I think it's a pyramid scheme like the ostrich/emu scheme. The only market is controlled and the only ones making money are the ones selling the seed/breeding stock.

 

[blume357]

Better man than me... I spent the early morning (8-10:30) replacing the metal pan on a prefabricated chimney chase.... I was done for the day pretty much.... 4 ladders and the heat wore this old man out...

 

[Jeepnik]

I grew up on dairys. Now maybe it's easier these days with all the automation, but if people knew how much work went into a gallon of milk they'd never think it's an easy life.

 

[bogus bill]

I had a lot of old relatives that had large farms. My dad told me how he was visiting one of his old cousins that was in the hospital on his death bed. His son that now was running the home farm came into visit and right away the old man asked him did he have whatever field or section plowed and planted yet and Lloyd said no. The father said well get your azz outta here and do it if ya want to eat this fall!

 

[gramps]

I have a friend that has put in 8,000 hemp plants on multiple farms. Quit his job and states he should make $125 million this year. I hope he breaks even?
gramps

 

[bogus bill]

When I was a boy at two different locations we had one neighbor that still farmed with horses and another with mules. You could hear both of them cussing and hollering at them. They also had tractors. I got the feeling they
actually used their horses & mules for entertainment.
From about 1948 to 1958 we had a few cows, pigs, chickens, geese, ducks, sheep and goats and I raised rabbits. Also sold worms as it was a fishing area. All on a few acres. Dad and mom worked elsewhere. It seemed more of a hobby to them.
Mom also had a vegetable and fruit stand. In a few tough times when he was laid off dad had a pickup and we would go buy potatoes, melons etc in one part of the state and then drive to another area where they didn't grow and pedal them. About three of my uncles did the same. My dad had a joker BIL that also did.
One time at a family get together a brother of dad`s got in a fight with a sisters husband. Turned out he sold some bad potatoes or fruit to someone and used my other uncles name. That uncle later tried selling something
and the man thought he was the joker uncle and they got into it. Then uncle herb showed up at the family get together and called uncle frank out on it and they got in scrape.

 

[blume357]

I have a friend that has put in 8,000 hemp plants on multiple farms. Quit his job and states he should make $125 million this year. I hope he breaks even?
gramps

I was actually looking at the paper work yesterday I have from the government for when I tried that too.... 42 years ago.

 

[Mobuck]

I'd like to see how the guy could pencil 125 million out of 8000 plants.

 

[Bull Barrel]

Its Hemp's cousin that is the money maker...