Tractor – Page 19 – Dan Routh Photography

Turning Ground

Neighbor Bill Walker uses a turning plow to get ground ready for next year’s vegetables on his farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Dirt and Dust

Agriculture, Farm, Tractor

Gene Lineberry stirs up soil and a little dust with his disk at the end of my road in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Disking

Garden, Tractor

Steve Tate disks land to get ready to plant winter cover last week at Goat Lady CSA in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Justin Sparks from Wilkes County and a coworker were in our neighborhood this week preparing land. They are on contract with a local dairy to produce silage for cattle feed. They were using some special equipment and while they were tilling the land they were also incorporating barley seed that had been broadcast on the fields. The barley will be a cover crop that will provide green fertilizer for next year’s corn. It’s interesting to see ways farmers are working to be more efficient. It’s pretty cool riding around in the cab of a eight wheel, 450 hp tractor as well.

Farmall M Revisited

Farm, Tractor

Farmall M tractor. A different edit on recent subject.

Tractor Tire

Tractor

For those of you who have wondered what happens when you have a flat tire on a tractor, fyi, you don’t take the tire and rim to a tire shop, the shop comes to you. Curtis Hildreth from Thomas Tire in Asheboro, North Carolina came to the farm to fix a leak on my old International. Before he could remove the tire from the rim and replace the tube, he had to pump out about 55 gallons of fluid. The “water” is in the tires to add weight and help provide traction. Air powered pumps and jacks helped, but pure muscle did most of the work.