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Twice the Productivity

5/6/2016

 
​Yesterday we received our two Case IH Farmall 100 tractors. 
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​I am not going to lie, I am like a kid at Christmas!  I can’t wait to bale some wheat as soon as the weather allows, or fix some of the gravel roads on the farm, or spray any of the pastures that could surely use it. It doesn’t matter what the chore, I just want to put these new beauties to work.
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If you know me at all, you know that my love for red tractors runs pretty deep. My grandfather operated a dairy and row crop farm in northern Indiana. He learned to farm with horses and continued to do so for the better part of his life. After years behind the reins he decided to purchase his first tractor, a Farmall H.  “It wasn’t much, but it sure beat those horses.” He would always say.  Then after several years he traded up to the bigger, more powerful Farmall M. Now that he had gotten his taste of horsepower he decided to add a Farmall 560 diesel narrow frontend. This tractor would later be handed down to my dad when he bought the farm I was raised on. After getting every last bit of use out of that old 560, dad sold it and purchased a much newer model, an International 784. I remember riding with dad on that old Farmall 560, but I learned to drive a tractor on the 784. Dad has since added an Internationl 886 to the inventory on the farm. My love of red tractors is because of the same reason most people have a favorite color tractor, it is what they were raised with.

The two Farmall 100’s we received are identical other than the loader. They are 100 horse power tractors and should prove to be much more capable on our steep terrain when baling hay or pulling the 15 foot batwing mower. It will also be nice not to have to use the pickup truck when raking hay.
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The tractor with out the loader has its wheels set as wide as they will go, so it will become out mowing and spraying tractor. Not having the loader on the front when going down the hills should be beneficial as well making it safer for any operator. 
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​After figuring out how most everything on them worked, we filled them up with fuel and parked them in the barn for the night. I think Greg has claimed the one without the loader as his!
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I want to thank H&R Agri Power in Hopkinsville for partnering with our efforts at Eden Shale Farm and furnishing us these two tractors.   Without the cooperation from people such as them we would not be able to reach and educate the cattle producers of Kentucky. From all of us at Eden Shale Farm. Thank You.
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