05-27-2018, 02:58 PM
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2 minutes ago, silverwolf1 said:
Where I am there's a co-op of farmers harvest time and planting time that rent equipment. My fields and pastures are small given the rocky nature of my environs, but I have a bit of a lot of them. I actually cut hay and harvest corn or beans on horse-drawn equipment with a neighbor who owns mules, just for fun. Most of my land that is not pasture is leased out to a corporate farm. I have an 8n Ford tractor I use for odd jobs here, but repair is costly so it sees little use. Equipment depends also on your individual field size. Mine are one to five acres each for the most part, so huge equipment is use-less here. The larger fields are easily done with rented equipment rather than buy one machine that will be used twice a year for one or two days.
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ps- a hobby of mine is rebuilding old horse equipment btw.
If you like horse drawn equipment and own an 8N you are in the right place. The 8N was specifically designed to replace a team of mules and is good for little else. They are cheap to fix if you know that it is a Massey Ferguson T series with a Ford motor. Or you could keep it for parades and upgrade a generation or 3.
