You made it through last harvest with your old grain truck, but how about this year? Is old faithful looking a bit tired and the duct tape wearing thin? Are you thinking about upgrading your grain trucks? What’s the best answer? Single axle, tandem or tag axle, or semi truck and trailer? Well, there are […] Read more
Benefits Of Your Own Semi
See The Lighthouses Of Oregon
The northwest coast of continental U. S. can be wet and rainy in March, and it’s not hot like Mexico. But it’s green and the daffodils are blooming. We traveled the Oregon coast for nine days in March 2008, and it was a real treat to see daytime highs well above zero when the conditions […] Read more
Your old grain truck only travels about 500 miles a year, so you can hardly justify a replacement. Here are some troubleshooting tips to keep her running right
Why won’t that old truck run properly?” I bet all of us on the farm have said this at one time or another, though perhaps we’ve used different names and adjectives. Old trucks are common on most farms and with the advent of long hauling for grain, our two-and three-ton trucks are not replaced as […] Read more
Today you can get better used equipment for the money than you could 20 or 30 years ago. This is especially true if you want smaller models
Times change and equipment wears out. This is not so obvious to me as it is to our son Ben. Until recently, our harvesting equipment included a faithful Massey Ferguson Super 92 combine and a 1968 Chevy two-ton grain truck. This combine served us well since we bought it in 1983, but for some reason […] Read more
6 gifts for the farmer
Don’t know what to get the farmer in your life for Christmas? Here are a few things that might help out on the farm and make their life easier and safer. 1. A short ladder Want to help the farmer get up in the world without the needless problem of falling down? A stepping stool […] Read more
If you take time now to list the repairs your combine needs for next harvest, you can spend the winter shopping for cheap parts and doing the repairs when downtime is not so costly
Our neighbour needed a new tire for his combine a few years back. He looked around and found a whole combine with good tires for the price of one new tire. “ What the heck’s wrong now?” you say to yourself. The combine has just made an odd bang, clatter or crunch (pick the appropriate […] Read more
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
