[WPRESTO]

I'm wondering it it's a potato digger. Potatoes are grown in raised hills, and the front blades might compress the hills from the sides, and the rotary fingers (which don't look sharp to me) might turn out the potatoes.

If it were designed only a little differently and pulled in the opposite direction, it might open a furrow and lay some kind of cable or tubing in the ground!

Those rotary fingers must lift something into the chute at the top, which then dumps them into a wagon or truck bed ahead of the device.

[KC0PET]

Horse powered hay baler.

[KC0PET]

Went to our farm this weekend. Harvest time!

[WPRESTO]

Pleasant name for a farm.

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[jabobby]

Here are some photos cross posted from the thread post your K-1 photos. Shots are all taken with the DFA 24-70/2.8 lens.
Best Regards, Bob

[KC0PET]

More harvest operations.

[jabobby]

KCOPET, nice combine & nice shots.
WPRESTO, I like that name and the photo.
Here is a photo of us small time farmers taken in some eared corn.
Best Regards, Bob

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[goatsNdonkey]

Seeing one of those two-row, pull-behind corn pickers kept in working condition isn't common around here anymore. My mom's dad harvested his corn as ears, not grain. He just grew enough to fill the corn crib to feed his own hogs. For much of his life as a farmer, he picked it by hand tossing it into a wagon.

KCOPET, nice combine & nice shots.
WPRESTO, I like that name and the photo.
Here is a photo of us small time farmers taken in some eared corn.
Best Regards, Bob

[rgknief60]

Great mounds of mown hay, with ubiquitous new-technology baling

First time I've seen them totally sealed, except for silage tubes. A farmer told me that the round bales you see
stacked or as singles (as in the picture with the Farmall & Deere above) in the fields loose about 10% usable
hay per year in his area. So the new bagging could really make a difference.

It seems rare to use barns to store "idiot cubes" (as one farmer called them) as was common years ago.
Stacking bales in a 100+ F barn gets old fast.

[rgknief60]

Grandpa was born in 1901, and lived until 93. A lifelong farmer, he worked out a living on part of what was the old 101
ranch. What he could not afford, he invented and built. I'm told that this grain auger, used for wheat, is an example.

Last year we contacted the current owner of the property to for permission to walk the land and view the old family farm.
Pictured are my mother and father beside the auger. I remember this running. Wheat was slowly dumped into the tire at
a speed the auger could handle.


Dad & Mom with Grandpa's Grain Auger


Grandpa's Auger, rear side view

[jabobby]

Roger those are beautiful photos and a beautiful story, thank you for posting that.
Best Regards, Bob

[rgknief60]

Roger those are beautiful photos and a beautiful story, thank you for posting that.
Best Regards, Bob

Thanks for the kind words, Bob. I wish I'd taken pictures of the rest of the equipment Grandpa
built. That is the only thing that did not sell at the auction, or did not get broken down and sold
for scrap. Pre-digital days. Dad grew up on the farm, and it's where I learned what it meant to
disc with the wind, no cab, on Grandpa's Case tractors. Fond memories of one summer at
the farm.

Roger

[goatsNdonkey]

Thanks for the kind words, Bob. I wish I'd taken pictures of the rest of the equipment Grandpa
built. That is the only thing that did not sell at the auction, or did not get broken down and sold
for scrap. Pre-digital days. Dad grew up on the farm, and it's where I learned what it meant to
disc with the wind, no cab, on Grandpa's Case tractors. Fond memories of one summer at
the farm.

Roger

Many years ago, I did a walk around on the farm my mom's parents farmed. The bridge my dad build over the crick in the Forties was gone. House was gone, barn was gone, but corn crib was still there. I eventually found where the ponds had been, which I hadn't visited since I was about 11 years old. I found my granpa's old dump-type hay rake, parked near a shade tree, where it must have been for decades.

I didn't ask permission of the farm's then owners. My uncle, who still lived in a nearby town, said, "If you run into anybody, just tell 'em who you are." I only took a few pictures, and some memories, And I only left a few foot prints behind. I didn't see any people, and the cows I met only wanted to know if I might have a bale of hay concealed somewhere about my person.

[goatsNdonkey]

Forty-four bales of hay.

Auto Sears MC f2.8 28mm + K10D

[KC0PET]

Old farm truck