Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Caleb's findings

How has farming changed over 50 yrs
The advancement technology has changing farming dramatically.

Grandad had a ferret and they used to set 300 traps per day. He used labradors on occasions and he had a grey hound that would run down rabbits.

He had a Dave Brown case tractor with no cabs, no heating and no radio. Later he got a John Deer tractor5820 had insulated cab ,CD player and a radio and Central heating front loaders with forks and was much more powerful
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Feeding
out sheep in the old days used a tractor and trailer or the Ute with Grandad driving and Grandma on the back feeding out the small rectangle bales.
There was a lot of manual labour. Grandad changed later on to round bales that he could lift on with his forks onto his hay feeder that automatically feeds out while driving .

He had a silage waggon which he could load on with his front forks end loader and then it would automatically feeds out . BOTH these methods are faster and more efficient and use less physical labour.

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