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Post by jimiowa on Jun 17, 2009 9:36:52 GMT -5
 Iowan's & Minnesota residents often trade barbs. This add copy from Duluth Trading Company, I found really funny! I have some brush to clear and will be going to the Farm Supply this weekend and picking up one of these bad boys. The reason Iowa has never been invaded. This bad boy measures a full 21 5/8" long, looks menacing and levels corn stalks, weeds and brush with one stroke. 15" heat-treated, tempered steel blade for strength. Shock-absorbing 6 1/2" hardwood handle. Keep clean and oiled, and handle with care as the blade is sharp. At a glance: Levels corn stalks, weeds and brush with one stroke 15" blade is heat-treated, tempered steel for strength and sharpness Full 21 5/8" long, for you big swingers 6 1/2" hardwood handle absorbs shock, feels good in your hand Keep clean and oiled, and handle with care as the blade is sharp Keep out of reach of children Imported |
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Post by deputydon on Jun 17, 2009 10:16:12 GMT -5
I have a couple of those.............
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Post by bounce on Jun 17, 2009 10:21:09 GMT -5
When I grew up each farm had as many of them as were family members over the age of 6 For sunflowers & cuculberrs, we all lined up and walked every field takeing as many rows as each could handel with out missing any. Better memories than it was doing it.
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Post by jimiowa on Jun 17, 2009 10:35:14 GMT -5
Yes Dad always seemed to have simular Chores to keep us Boys busy each summer and Bounce I agree it's easier to remember than to do it in the hot summer sun..
I never minded the corn in the beans nearly as much as when he gave each of us an antique scythe and told us to cut the weeds along the fence row.
I've had several Corn Knives, but they seem to get away??
So I'll get another Saturday. I only have two city lots, but seem to have more brush to cut every year than I had when I had 2.5 acre's?? Much of it is too small to use the chainsaw but too big for hand clippers.
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Post by jmarriott on Jun 17, 2009 11:00:42 GMT -5
Iowan's & Hoosier residents often trade barbs.
That Iowa corn must be little stuff as we have to use an axe in Indiana to cut down the corn stalks and the beans well I have hear said that this is the state where jack and the beanstock comes from and we know he used an axe to cut down the beanstock. Ha ha.
Mine is nowwhere as pretty as it is a mil surp and ugly but was cheap and still can remain sharp even with sharpening with a grinder.
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Post by jimiowa on Jun 17, 2009 13:56:19 GMT -5
Iowan's & Hoosier residents often trade barbs. That Iowa corn must be little stuff as we have to use an axe in Indiana to cut down the corn stalks and the beans well I have hear said that this is the state where jack and the beanstock comes from and we know he used an axe to cut down the beanstock. Ha ha. Mine is nowwhere as pretty as it is a mil surp and ugly but was cheap and still can remain sharp even with sharpening with a grinder. ;D ;D See now there is the difference. Out here we try to get our chores done before the cornstalks get so big and tough you need a chainsaw to cut them. |
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Post by bounce on Jun 17, 2009 19:04:49 GMT -5
Yeah right, now it takes a quarter million dollar combine to cut corn
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Post by deputydon on Jun 17, 2009 19:31:23 GMT -5
Yeah right, now it takes a quarter million dollar combine to cut corn Hey Bounce I was just told yesterday that a combine and heads will run around  $ 400,000.00 !!!!! The good news is John Deere just announced 3 years NO INTEREST!!! How many city folk spend that kind of $$$ on something they use a couple of weeks a year ? |
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Post by Jack on Jun 17, 2009 22:32:58 GMT -5
We're smarter than that, D-D! ;D
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Post by deputydon on Jun 18, 2009 6:40:15 GMT -5
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Post by jmarriott on Jun 18, 2009 8:08:05 GMT -5
One of the local horse farmers has a couple of small fields that he puts in corn or beans each year, I think the fields might be 40 acres or so. This years one of the two fields is in hay and the deer line up in it after they cut it down.
It is funny to see an old far mall combine with a 3 row head in that field when the field next door has the Mennonite farmers with the 20 row head mowing down corn like a hungry pig.
400,000 is a lot of cash layout.
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Post by bounce on Jun 18, 2009 10:27:23 GMT -5
That makes it funnyer than ever as tuesday on my road a John Deere sales man was changeing a tire on his pickup, the manual was seting on top the endgate. LOL.
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$ 400,000.00 !!!!! 
