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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #30 on: May 30, 2017, 12:37:12 PM »
Congrats on the progress.

Those thistle are relentless, any fresh bare ground and they just take off.  We have been fighting them for three years now since the fire.  Natural vegetation is taking hold, I am hoping that we only have two more years of spraying.

Really excited to see how this turns out for you.  I will be trying to do the same thing in a year or two.
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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #31 on: May 30, 2017, 11:50:32 PM »
I'm going to be spraying this coming weekend. I wish I lived there so I could keep up on it better.

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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #32 on: May 31, 2017, 12:13:34 AM »
I've been doing food plots (pastures) for cattle 8-10 hours per day for the past 3 weekends with my 1952 8-N.  Love working the ground with those old tractors!

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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #33 on: May 31, 2017, 10:25:19 AM »
I'm going to be spraying this coming weekend. I wish I lived there so I could keep up on it better.

Agree completely.  Wish I were closer or lived there as well.  Need to go back now and spread some more lime, mow and spray the grasses competing with the clover on the atv/utv trails, as well as check food plots for potential spraying.
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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #34 on: May 31, 2017, 10:29:46 AM »
I've been doing food plots (pastures) for cattle 8-10 hours per day for the past 3 weekends with my 1952 8-N.  Love working the ground with those old tractors!

Love those old Ford tractors.  Brings back memories of driving them when I was a kid on my Grandfather's and uncle's farms in eastern Iowa.  Amazing what they will do if one uses some common safety sense.  I managed to pick up just about every implement I needed plus the tractor for a whole lot less than I would have spent on a newer used tractor.  Easy to work on and parts readily available. :tup:
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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #35 on: May 31, 2017, 02:46:26 PM »
My attachments are very similar, except I don't have a post hole drill, I can borrow that from a friend, and I have a spring tooth, I think that is a chisel point in your photo?
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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #36 on: May 31, 2017, 04:38:42 PM »
My attachments are very similar, except I don't have a post hole drill, I can borrow that from a friend, and I have a spring tooth, I think that is a chisel point in your photo?

Bearpaw, if you are referring to the 4th picture down, thats a 7 blade cultivator.  After mowing, then spraying to kill the grass so there would not be too much debris build up, I used the cultivator two weeks later to tear the ground up.  Then I was able to make pretty much make quick work of things following up with the disc.  The Ferguson two bottom plow in the first picture would go too deep for what I wanted to do as the cultivator just rips the top 6-7 inches.

You just reminded me I also have a Woods heavy duty post hole auger with 3 bits, 6 inch, 9 inch and a 12 inch.  Only thing I want to add is a cultipacker.
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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #37 on: May 31, 2017, 04:42:44 PM »
I just saw cultipackers advertised at a good price, I think it was Northern Tool.
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Re: Food Plots With A 1955 Ford 640 Tractor
« Reply #38 on: May 31, 2017, 04:51:07 PM »
On second thought it might have been Rural King that sent the email? You might do an internet search, I can't remember how long the sale was, but it was in the last week or so that I had gotten the email. I'm happy with my roller so I deleted the email. Sorry I didn't think about you then.
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