plowing a garden

[yak651]

Off work today, thought I would post a couple of pics of my brother using my case530 to plow a garden for next year. I come to this site to "dream" of getting a new compact tractor, but for now the '67 case will have to do...

 

[yak651]

The other picture

 

[yak651]

A little landscape work I did with the case and some fieldstone. Hopefully next year we can start to build on it, was once all farm field but we've planted about 200 trees on it (some small, some a little bigger, whatever the budget allows...)

 

[EddieWalker]

Very cool Yak. I like older tractors and would love to have one myself.

Don't forget to start a thread on your home when you start to build it. We all enjoy following new home projects!!!!!!!

Eddie

 

[randy41]

i think next week will be my plowing week. thanks for posting those pics. too bad we cant smell them. i love the smell of fresh turned dirt.

 

[BTDT]

i think next week will be my plowing week. thanks for posting those pics. too bad we cant smell them. i love the smell of fresh turned dirt.

You mean you can't smell it. You must have the Odor option turned off. I usually keep mine turned off due to some of the rambling posts/nonsense that gets posted (sometimes it gets pretty deep).

 

[L3650]

It's been a great fall season here in Wisconsin. With all the warm weather, I was transplanting trees up until Thanksgiving week.

I have a small woods behind my house filled with Ash, Sugar Maple, Oak, and Shagbark Hickory. Several neighbors have been the recipients of saplings that would die off as the overhead canopy closes them off from the sun. I sure wish I could afford a tree spade for the tractor. Then I would need a pod trailer to help with relocation of the transplants. It never ends.

 

[SPIKER]

You mean you can't smell it. You must have the Odor option turned off. I usually keep mine turned off due to some of the rambling posts/nonsense that gets posted (sometimes it gets pretty deep).

yep ya have to watch that rambling BS as it wastes a LOT of good garden fertilizer

Mark M

 

[erich]

My dad bought a Case 530 when I was in high school. I brush hogged, plowed snow, and graded the lane with it til I went in the service. It was a rugged beast as I remember. Dad drove truck for Case out of Bettendorf, Iowa back then. That plant closed down years ago. My first tractor was a Case pedal tractor when I was four. All three of us boys got a Case toy tractor and a piece of equipment one year at Christmas. We had to share the implements. I got the disk, my older brother got the plow, and my little brother got the grain wagon. The tractors were all 830s. When I got a little older I got a battery operated toy dozer. Those are good memories.

Eric

 

[redlevel]

I come to this site to "dream" of getting a new compact tractor, but for now the '67 case will have to do...

I guarantee you there ain't a compact on the market that will turn that sod with that plow the way that old Case is doing in the pictures.

Mark

 

[gclark94560]

Dad drove truck for Case out of Bettendorf, Iowa back then. That plant closed down years ago. My first tractor was a Case pedal tractor when I was four. .......Those are good memories.

Eric

Ah yes - thanks for jogging the memories. I lived in Bettendorf for a short while while in Chiropractic college. Then moved to the far edge of Davenport. My neighbor worked for JD at the time.

I loved to watch the farmers work their crops and loved the never ending fields of corn and soy beans. I discovered that even field corn is good on the cob if you catch it at just the right moment!

Greg

 

[yak651]

Here are some following up pictures, the first couple were from the end of May with my wife and inlaws helping plant. One end is tomoatoes, peas, sunflowers, sweetcorn, cucumbers. The remainder is pumpkins, planted 1lb of seed...

 

[yak651]

Here are some from weeding today. I'm keeping up by the tomatoes and small stuff, the pumpkin area is getting weeder than I like. I don't live out at the land so I can't give it as much attention as I would like, plus this is the first year of the garden so a lot of grass, etc is coming thru as it's all natural, no spray...The wife didn't take pictures of the weedy area, next time I get out there i'll get some pictures of the pumpkin patch...

 

[Bill Barrett]

yak that garden is huge. that old case is better than any cut tractor for plowing a garden like that!

 

[johnk]

YAK651,
You don't need a new tractor. the old one seems to be getting the job done! Nice pics.

 

[jinman]

Here are some from weeding today. I'm keeping up by the tomatoes and small stuff, the pumpkin area is getting weeder than I like. I don't live out at the land so I can't give it as much attention as I would like, plus this is the first year of the garden so a lot of grass, etc is coming thru as it's all natural, no spray...The wife didn't take pictures of the weedy area, next time I get out there i'll get some pictures of the pumpkin patch...

Your garden looks terrific...very impressive. If you don't live near that garden, I don't know how you will maintain it or keep up when it starts producing. My tomato plants are a full time job as is almost everything else I overplanted.

This weekend, we picked a half-bushel of squash and a bushel and a half of tomatoes. By the 4th of July, we will be covered in blackeyed peas and cantaloupes to go along with the other stuff. A big garden is fun, but it is sure a challenge to keep up with. ...and did I mention bugs?

 

[ToadHill]

Some day I'd love to plant a garden with nice rows, I have to spend too much time avoiding the rocks. I raked them out for years but every winter they grew back. Now I just plant around them.

 

[GarthH]

Thank you for all of the great pictures. It is one thing writing about the project; it is much better showing.

I agree with the others very nice garden. You much be tilling to do the weeding as everything looks perfect.

I have an older CAT (1992 - seems new compared to your Case) and I don't think it can turn sod like the Case. I was tilling some sod this weekend and it took quite a few passes before I could see the black dirt.

Good luck with the harvest.

Garth

 

[yak651]

updated pictures of the garden from this weekend. Still need to till the tomatoe, but it was getting too hot!

 

[yak651]

a couple of more