joe mcgrath

Owner of Ag Machine Solutions, Ltd. Custom manufactured farm equipment. 217-971-6532

[joe mcgrath @AgMachineSol]

Eight hour flight from O’hare to Zurich on an Airbus.

This is not first class, but it feels like it.

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Forget what you learned in school.
In the Midwest, there is only one season.

There’s winter, and you know it’s winter, because it’s cold outside.
And then it’s winter some more, but indoors now.

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@ISchmidtFaced BT, DT.
And did it with pride, I would add.
The handyman has yet to best me, despite its best effort to rearrange my dental work.

Like a wild beast that has been tamed…it never stops being wild.

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Early Unimog with steel outrigger wheels and a front mount cultivator.

I took the picture last week when we visited the Unimog Museum in Gaggenau, Germany.

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Saw these in Vienna.

Took me a minute.

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@wiebe_cam Okay.
I’m gonna make an object d’art of it, since it’s unlikely to see anymore field time.

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@BrianBheher Nice

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@okiefarmer1 Watch where you’re going, not where you’ve been.

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Haven’t seen one of these for a day or two

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@jokreir More 8 rows CYCLO planters would be better.

FIFY

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@farmerschneck @agrivation1 🤣

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@agrivation1 We don’t have rocks around here, so I haven’t seen any rolling in person.

Kinda wondered if there was a yield bump.

Thanks for the information.

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@agrivation1 Nice.
Let’s say you didn’t roll right behind the planter.
What stage of growth is the latest you can roll beans? Or does anybody wait until they’re up?

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@blueheeler96 Yeah, that would present an issue.

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That’s a lot of effort for no more sweet corn that I grow.

But it’s in the ground.

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@RelativeSunshne @BrianRoemmele Same. I always wear them.
Hearing protection and a respirator too, when necessary.

Every so often I still hear, “oh come on, you don’t need that”

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@RelativeSunshne @BrianRoemmele They were not mandatory then, no.
They weren’t mandatory when I was doing this in the seventies, so….