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BabyBlue11371
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Joined: 28 Nov 2005
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Location: SE Kansas
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| Posted: Tue 07 Apr, 2009 9:17 pm |
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I Love grafting!!! I hate heights!!!! and yet... my love for grafting won out...... Picture proof...
Persimmon I grafted to today..
What would you do to get your grafting FIX????
oh sorry no close ups on the grafts.. I had other things on my mind...
Gina *BabyBlue*
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Laaz
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Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
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| Posted: Tue 07 Apr, 2009 10:46 pm |
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Gina I think you get the gold medal for the biggest grafting addict ! 
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dauben
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Location: Ramona, CA, Zone 9A
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Ohh, I could have fun in one of those. I've been looking at tractors, but I can't justify the price of one right now. I was looking at an old Ford 9n, but I didn't want something else to maintain when I can't get my other chores done.
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Millet
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Wed 08 Apr, 2009 2:43 am |
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A Ford 9N tractor by now must be around 45 years old. A 9N, and also the 8N, just seem to keep on ruining and ruining and ruining. However, the old saying is still true, "Nothing runs like a Deere." - Millet (1,383-) |
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dauben
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Location: Ramona, CA, Zone 9A
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| Posted: Wed 08 Apr, 2009 3:05 am |
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| Millet wrote: | | A Ford 9N tractor by now must be around 45 years old. A 9N, and also the 8N, just seem to keep on ruining and ruining and ruining. However, the old saying is still true, "Nothing runs like a Deere." - Millet (1,383-) |
There were some old John Deere's I was looking at also, but the Ford had a 4 cylinder engine while the Deere was only a two cylinder. Displacement may be similar, but just my gut telling me 4 is better than 2. The specs showed the Ford 9n had slightly higher horsepower (26 HP if I remember correctly). I don't recall the Deere.
With the economy in the mud right now, some tractors are going for decent prices. Our inspector at work said he say a Bobcat with reasonable hours on it go for $2300.
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gdbanks
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Joined: 08 May 2008
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Location: Jersey Village, TX
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| Posted: Wed 08 Apr, 2009 3:13 am |
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i would be a little nervous just riding in the bucket,
my brother has been buying tractors. he has like 5 last i heard and he does not even have a yard to use them in. about two years ago he sold his business, a transmission shop. now he has more time so he buys them and fixes them.
he finds them through craigslist.
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Millet
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| Posted: Wed 08 Apr, 2009 12:21 pm |
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I have four John Deere tractors, if you count the riding lawn mower. A large tractor, a middle sized tractor, and a small sized tractor, and the John Deere mower. Kind of like the children's story - the papa bear, the momma bear, and the baby bear. Myself, I pretty much just drive the small tractor and the mower, my sons do the farming with the larger tractors. - Millet (1,382-) |
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Skeeter
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Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9
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| Posted: Wed 08 Apr, 2009 11:13 pm |
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| dauben wrote: | | Millet wrote: | | A Ford 9N tractor by now must be around 45 years old. A 9N, and also the 8N, just seem to keep on ruining and ruining and ruining. However, the old saying is still true, "Nothing runs like a Deere." - Millet (1,383-) |
There were some old John Deere's I was looking at also, but the Ford had a 4 cylinder engine while the Deere was only a two cylinder. Displacement may be similar, but just my gut telling me 4 is better than 2. The specs showed the Ford 9n had slightly higher horsepower (26 HP if I remember correctly). I don't recall the Deere.
With the economy in the mud right now, some tractors are going for decent prices. Our inspector at work said he say a Bobcat with reasonable hours on it go for $2300.
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I remember the old 2 cylinder Deeres--we used to call the putt-putts--you could hear them a mile and you could tell when they would almost bog down from their load--it was like they could slow down to less than 1 stroke a second and then pick right back up. I think those 2 cylinders must be a big as paint cans!
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BabyBlue11371
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Location: SE Kansas
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hehehe.. reminds me of when I was learning to drive.. Uncle Nolan (Stretch) put me on a tractor and said when I could plow the entire field with straight lines he'd take me to get my license... it was a miserable OLD tractor.. i had to stand.. Let me just say.. I did not get my license that summer!!!
But I did have fun.. and am probably a better driver for it.. with it's super slow to react controls I had to think WAAAAYYY ahead of it..
It made a kinda put put sound..
I can't recall what type it was.. other than loud.. I don't recall that it ever had a seat..
That was the one and only time I have ever gotten to drive a tractor..
and.. straight or not.. I plowed all 5 acres.. over and over.. was some super soft stuff by the time I was done with it.. maybe Uncle Stretch was just getting out of his chores?? oh well.. I learned any way and had fun doing it.. well.. fun to a 15 yr old....
Though Being in the bucket was scary.. it was exciting as well.. I would do it again.. if only to do more grafting!!!!!!!
Gina *BabyBlue*
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JoeReal
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Location: Davis, California
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| Posted: Thu 09 Apr, 2009 7:13 am |
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I hereby award you as Extreme Grafter! I fell off my seat after I see those pics,  |
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