I started milking cows in 1981, and by 1992 my equipment line looked like this. I had a 1987 CaseIH 885 XL cab two wheel drive tractor. A 4 furrow 3pth kenvernlands plough, 10 foot disc 18 foot vibra shank cultivator. I had just bought a brand new Ford 5640 4wd with cab and loader. I had a 185Nh tandem axle manure spreader, a NH 3pth rake tedder and a New Idea 4x4 round baler. At that time I hired my corn planted and chopped. About the next year I turned the CaseIH 885 in on a CaseIH 5140, 4 wd with a cab. I also had a IH W4 , which I used to pull the McCormack 13 run seed drill, and a 72 AC Allcrop combine. I could grind my own grain using the belt pulley on the W4 belted to a Wetmore hammer mill. I was milking probably 30-35 cows in 1992, and we were also into doing some market gardening then. I had a 1953 Super A with mounted scufflers to keep rows of tomatoes, peppers, sweet corn , and Spanish onions weed free. We still milk cows, and have an almost completely different group of equipment now, almost 30 years later. And we currently milk 70 Jerseys, our barn can tie 105 cows under the milk line. It was easier to make money farming in the 80s and 90s no question in my mind.
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Today's Featured Article - Gatherin of the Orange - by Rick Nikolich. In July of 1998 I was talking to fellow Allis Chalmers collector Mike Schilling about the annual "Gathering of The Orange" AC show coming up in August of 1999. He got this wild idea that we should get a convoy of AC tractors and drive them from Charlotte, Michigan 105 miles to LaGrange, Indiana.
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