New Farm Toy

This needed to go all over…

this (well not the water parts, just the green parts)…

and up here and out on the front pastures, (but I don’t have that picture)

In effort to provide his daughters with some good clean entertainment and to keep them off drugs, Mr. Vick perused good old Craig’s List for a hopper type broadcast seeder/fertilizer.

Then low and behold he found one. A fellow had it for sale brand new, never used. Why? Because he backed over it at a local feed store and then had to buy it ’cause he dented it. So lucky for us we got a new broadcast seeder for an awesome price and an extra bonus to boot!

What was the extra bonus you ask Dear Reader? Why the fact that it was pre-dented of course. Takes off lots-o pressure!

We were all excited to get to work and become one step closer to being “real” farmers. But then it rained and rained and rained some more.

‘Til this last Sunday, when the clouds finally parted and Dirt was able to show the girls how to get ‘er done.

And away they went, Bet girled the tractor (like manned the tractor, only, it is but she ain’t)

and Anna drove the supply truck. Good girl Anna, don’t drive over Daddy, and yes, she is in there. (Last post was all about Anna so don’t feel to bad for her)

This spinny auger thing keeps the fertilizer, in this case Sea-90 a remineralizing fertilizer that we mixed with lime, loose and feeding through the metered hole to be whirled and flung out on to the pasture. But because of the moisture in the air the Sea-90 still got sticky and the auger needed some help from time to time.

Can you see the stuff being flung?

Here, maybe you can see it better in this picture?

The far back pastures, in the pictures on today’s post, are fairly new and not as needed of remineralizing as the front pastures. All the pastures get manure spread on them but we neglected liming the last couple of years (and it showed) and have never bothered to look into the whole remineralizing thing until this year.

All this and more treatments in the spring ought to make these some real stand up fields, we’ll see a difference we sure.

Well the girls whistled through that job on Sunday and then on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, while I was down doing my civic duty, and glad to do it, they did the rest of the field’s themselves.

All in a day’s work, or a couple of days as the case may be. Just some hard work done by some hard working girls trained by two hard working men, their Dad and Dale. Thanks guys.