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Basic repairs to farm house deck completed

August 10, 2013 Tom Salzer

By the kitchen door (and it’s a farm house, so that’s usually the front door!) is a small deck. Over the years some of the boards developed some rot, making the deck unsafe to use. We fixed that today. We replaced four boards. There are a couple of old deck […]

Sprinkler moved to new field

August 7, 2013 Tom Salzer

This morning, we finished irrigating the field along Ferguson road. The sprinkler and pipe were moved to the field immediately east of the driveway, called the Center field. Our first sprinkler set today was four hours in the northwest corner of Center field. We are looking forward to getting our […]

What comes first: the tractor, or the implements?

August 6, 2013 Tom Salzer

We have a compact utility tractor, a Massey Ferguson model 1529, that we call “Big Red.” It’s narrow for working between Christmas trees and in nurseries. Big Red also doesn’t have a whole lot of power: about 28 HP, with around 23 HP available at the power takeoff (PTO). Now […]