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- June 1, 2011 at 8:59 pm #42757
jac
ParticipantA while back Highway posted on here of his guilt of buying a tractor. I feel I am somewhat of a fraud… I like the concept of using my horses to achieve the work i need to do. I also despair at the destruction of the planet and her resources. Big ag for me is never going to work long term and sustainably….. but… I am also a huge fan of fast cars, more powerfull the better and the smell of hot Castrol R should be bottled and sold:D… there… got it off my chest… just waiting for Geoff to “nuke” me now..
JohnJune 1, 2011 at 9:58 pm #67474goodcompanion
ParticipantI would like to take this opportunity to also confess that I love clubbing baby seals. There’s just something about it…
No, seriously. Mike Kane, a mentor of mine, one of the most thoughtful far-seeing farmers you’d ever meet….former motocross racer.
And did you know that Wendell Berry used to drive formula ones? Actually I just made that up.
Ehh…we all have our vices, I guess. Things we like, even though it’s probably wrong to do so. One of mine is marshmallow peeps. Those things are disgusting. But I like them so much. I usually eat a whole packet in a sitting. But then I feel bad about it afterwards.
Anyway, there is no DAP.com pope so might as well carry on liking race cars, I suppose, you can’t be excommunicated.
June 1, 2011 at 11:37 pm #67488Pebbles
ParticipantFrozen peeps are the best!!!!
June 1, 2011 at 11:50 pm #67476near horse
ParticipantNo worries John – I’ve got a tractor as well. BUT you “peep eaters” are very close the edge of acceptable behavior :rolleyes: Yick.
Perhaps we can solve this conundrum with cars that run on peeps.
June 2, 2011 at 2:35 am #67478dominiquer60
ModeratorGeoff,
What about those of us that enjoy an occasional nasty orange circus peanut? You know the kind that make you remember the good old days of Grandma taking you to Woolworth’s to get an Rx and some candy for all her favorites. That awful fake banana flavor takes me back every time:)
It is hard growing up to know what really is acceptable/sustainable to the reality of our effect on the rest of the universe. So we all have our little vices.
I have two Native American quotes that work for this thread.
“the woods would be silent if only the birds that sang best sang at all.”
When a Navajo flute maker was questioned for having a flute made from white PVC pipe he said,”are you kidding me, if we could get our hands on this stuff back when you were trading with guns and blankets, we would have surely used it then as well.”
Enjoy your little guilty pleasures while they are still around and slightly more benign than so many other evils of our civilzation,
Erika,
P.S. I love working my steers, but I also jump at the chance to use the big red IH 1066 that lives out back. When it comes down to buying in corn to make a layer ration or using a tractor to grow our own, I would rather grow our own and know where it came from and what was used on it.
June 2, 2011 at 4:23 pm #67484mitchmaine
Participant@jac 27327 wrote:
A while back Highway posted on here of his guilt of buying a tractor. I feel I am somewhat of a fraud… I like the concept of using my horses to achieve the work i need to do. I also despair at the destruction of the planet and her resources. Big ag for me is never going to work long term and sustainably….. but… I am also a huge fan of fast cars, more powerfull the better and the smell of hot Castrol R should be bottled and sold:D… there… got it off my chest… just waiting for Geoff to “nuke” me now..
Johnhey john,
i don’t mind mixed power. seems to make sense depending on the job. here in maine anyway, there are quite a few animal/ tractor powered farms. some horse powered only. and of course tractor farms, but even the big maine farms aren’t really. so it seems like we (farmers) have a lot more in common, (weather, markets, state and federal regulations, etc.) than we do our differences of size and power choices. and it works better in the end to stick together and have a little strength, than let somebody elses idiollogy split us up. my way of seeing it, anyway.mitch
June 2, 2011 at 6:39 pm #67487sickle hocks
ParticipantI was making progress with the green ‘team’ I picked up, but they were still too nuts for safe farm work. Springs work had to get done…wound up with a 1955 Harry Ferguson.
Don’t have the 6V charging system working yet, so I’m starting with the hand crank (first I pulled an intercostal muscle, then changed technique and pulled a latissimus dorsi)…hands are greasy and stink of jerry can gasoline splashes.
It’s noisy and awful, but I could learn to like this tractor…simple, strong, understandable, utilitarian…and it’s got that stylish 50’s thing happening.
I still plan on using the team for pretty much everything but I have a feeling I’ll keep the tractor as a back up to get me out of trouble (like a sore shoulder or abscessed foot or something right in the middle of haying..) The trick will be discerning when and when not to start it up…a slippery slope.
June 2, 2011 at 11:43 pm #67486reb
ParticipantHi, my name is Richard and I am addicted to old John Deere garden tractors.
Now what are the other 11 steps?
Oh ya, I’m also a Peep eater, and you guys should try putting them in a microwave. I know seems cruel but it is funny to watch them grow and almost blow up. ***WARNING**** Don’t eat right after, they will be hot, Don’t ask how I know.
RichardJune 2, 2011 at 11:55 pm #67475Participant@reb 27363 wrote:
Oh ya, I’m also a Peep eater, and you guys should try putting them in a microwave. I know seems cruel but it is funny to watch them grow and almost blow up. ***WARNING**** Don’t eat right after, they will be hot, Don’t ask how I know.
RichardThe same thing happens when you put them in a hypobaric chamber, and you don’t get your mouth burned when you eat one!
a classic site devoted to scientific research on marshmallow peeps:
“peeps are unique in the animal kingdom in that they are always born as conjoined quintuplets.”
June 3, 2011 at 1:24 am #67479Robert MoonShadow
ParticipantHaven’t got a clue what you’re talking about…”peeps”?
June 3, 2011 at 5:16 am #67477Participant@Robert MoonShadow 27365 wrote:
Haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about…”peeps”?
Be thankful, Moonshadow! They’re meant to be some type of confection made from marshmallow and shaped like a baby chick (hence the term peep). Not sure if it was some experiment gone awry or a deliberate attempt to make sweets unappealing – I find them hideous.
June 3, 2011 at 5:22 am #67480ParticipantThanks for the info, Geoff.
Never liked marshmallows…joined a marshmallow-eating contest as a teenager…won it…now I hate the things.June 3, 2011 at 5:42 am #67485ParticipantJeez an here was me thinking I had a problem:D now as long as I dont start eating microwaved marshmallow peeps when Im watchin motor racing then I’ll be fine..
JohnJune 3, 2011 at 10:55 am #67481Nat(wasIxy)
Participant@jac 27327 wrote:
A while back Highway posted on here of his guilt of buying a tractor. I feel I am somewhat of a fraud… I like the concept of using my horses to achieve the work i need to do. I also despair at the destruction of the planet and her resources. Big ag for me is never going to work long term and sustainably….. but… I am also a huge fan of fast cars, more powerfull the better and the smell of hot Castrol R should be bottled and sold:D… there… got it off my chest… just waiting for Geoff to “nuke” me now..
JohnMe too! I like all transport, and the history of it…it’s just that I like animal powered transport the best. I grew up among bikers though so I’d love a triumph bonneville. I also did a lot of trainspotting with my stepdad as a kid and a steam engine is just very exciting to be around. I’d LOVE to drive a HGV lorry, or a freight train. They were my back-up career choices, lol. Any kind of transport or haulage, I’m there. I actually prefer all that to farmwork with animals, I’d rather be hauling something from land’s end to john o-groats with my oxen than ploughing….but farmwork is considerably safer than the roads thesedays 🙁
ETA: All I bear in mind is that oil will run out – I think personally we should be saving it for the fun stuff – bike racing maybe! rather than squandering it on everyday ploughing! hehe
June 3, 2011 at 3:51 pm #67483Big Horses
ParticipantI hear ya Ixy… I’m alot of that mind too. Grew up with motorcycles, race cars, airplanes, and lots of machinery…bigger always fascinates me…. steam makes me drool!:eek: I still love my horses, but I’ll always have a soft spot for mechanical things. I’m very active in the steam community around here, and still run a 28hp Minneapolis (that I first got to steer about 40 years ago!) traction engine. I still restore antique airplanes for a winter job, and still crush rock in the summer, as well as keep the ranch here going…. variety is the spice of life!
Geoff…I’m right with you on the “peeps”… yuck!
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