Good Day Everyone! We have had a few "blogworthy" days lately and with the great weather break we had to get caught up on planting I am a bit behind in posting the latest news! Yesterday we decided to up our production (and life expectancy as farmers~ ha!) and added a 1948 Farmall Cub tractor to our farm. This tractor has just gone from antique to being employed full time at Big Lick Farm. It runs well, and will pull such attachments as a disc plow (to cultivate hard packed soil), harrower (to break up dirt clods and make a finer seed bed), sickle bar mower to cut grass and cut down our cover crops and also (the main thing we're excited about) a cultivator which is a bar with many little shovels on it that can be driven between your rows to cut small weeds and aerate the soil.
Again we have the help of our friends and neighbors Norm (who I just posted a blog about) and his son Scott who makes a living working and repairing tractors. I consider him a tractor whisperer or "tractor guru". What great friends to have when you acquire such an antique piece of equipment with many mysterious attachments!
For now our tractor is being housed in Lookinglass at Scott's shop but in the next few weeks as the weather improves and its new life begins at our farm it will be dusted off and do what is was made for!
No comments:
Post a Comment