A 1st for me!

oldtanker · Jul 8, 2013

For the first time sense we started to put the family farm back into production I made enough hay to get through the winter! On the first cutting too! For those who have never farmed or those who grew up farming you can't believe the sense of accomplishment! It's almost as good as when I became a tank Platoon SGT! Now I just need to look for a better baler.

Rick

Roger in Iowa · Jul 8, 2013

Congratulations!

You can take the boy off the farm but you cannot take the farm out of the boy! Or something like that.

I finished combining wheat Friday, baled the straw, and beans are planted today.!

DaninKansas · Jul 8, 2013

Saw a LOT of brome being combined over the weekend with swathers following close behind. I thought I was late when I finished two weeks ago.

Dan T in MO · Jul 8, 2013

I'm also trying to get the family farm back into production. Sunday evening, I picked up my first load of feeder pigs. I have 4 "Wessex Saddleback" feeders now and getting ready to hit the livestock auctions. But just the feeling of accomplishment after we got those first 4 off the trailer was an awesome feeling.

ben there · Jul 8, 2013

we never had to buy hay when i was a kid on Galveston Island...water table was never more than a couple feet down...always had grass to make hay...new place is about 120 miles inland and its a whole nuther story...been drought for the past 8 out of 10 years and seems like every time i buy a little better baler it quits rainin again.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 8, 2013

Back in my M60A3 days in 3AD I always tried to drive the Platoon SGT insane by delibertally doing things wrong, but never enough to get in trouble. Kinda like the agravation the guy responsable for putting up the hay feels. Any news on the knee?

oldtanker · Jul 8, 2013

(quoted from post at 16:06:15 07/08/13) Back in my M60A3 days in 3AD I always tried to drive the Platoon SGT insane by delibertally doing things wrong, but never enough to get in trouble. Kinda like the agravation the guy responsable for putting up the hay feels. Any news on the knee?

LOL Scott. Had a solution to guys like you called remedial training. Most often on Fri & Sat nights. Most guys didn't get things "wrong" again when that happened on a pay day weekend. I did as a young E4 on 60A1s (well before the A1RISE , A3 and M1A1s) spend a good deal of time convincing my platoon leader that I was insane. No news on the knee yet.

Rick

Anonymous-0 · Jul 9, 2013

Rick, I did say never enough to get into trouble. Always a fine line to dance making sure the Platoon Sgt is not shure if you are the best trooper he has or the worst one. As for remedial training, My first job as a E5 was to spend 8 hours on a Saturday watching a E3 open and closing a door without slamming it.

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