another hobby.

[MercuryMac]

Here's one of the things that I've been doing the last few days.
A friend who helps me with the old tractor newsletter in our Vintage Tractor Club wanted to seed 30 acres. I dug out an old Cockshutt 80 and a Massey-Harris seed-drill' [pic one'] and went to east of Grande Prairie to seed oats. [pic two is backed up to the trailer with mini-bulk bags of seed ready to start loading the drill box.]
Me working, [pic three].

[Tripper]

Love old tractors & there are a lot of them out here & lots of the new expensive ones too! What are you planting oats for?

BoB

[Dr Crankenstein]

Originally Posted by Tripper

What are you planting oats for?

Feed?

Or maybe they're wild oats.

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[bob w]

Mares eat oats. And does eat oats. And little lambs eat ivy.
or, Cheerios?

[MercuryMac]

He's going to cut the oats green and run them through the round baler, to sell as cow feed. I hope he has good luck baling those oats. I remember the first time I round baled greenfeed oats, the tractor was just sweating because oats are heavy and tough. The bales were very heavy.
A couple of guys from the Draft Horse Club dropped by to watch and ask questions. I thought they would maybe want to cut the field with binders and thresh it. They didn't get permission.
I've been hanging around the horse club guys for years, just so I can put a tractor on the threshing machine.

[Bamamav]

The guys around here have already cut and baled their first hay a few weeks ago. I don't grow nothing but weeds and scrub, so I did my first bush hogging a couple of weekends ago. Used the Pa in law's 8N, I haven't even fired up the 55 IH 300 since last fall. I've got to put a kit in the hydraulic pump when I get time.