Re: NNG = Field Irrigation.

hank Wrote:
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> > > > thing. Are they very expensive????
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> > > Well I know that farmers around here were
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> > > out at night to guard them from metal thieves
> > > (drug addicts) a few years ago.
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> > > hank
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> > That tells me they cost a lot of bucks.
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> All farm equipment costs a lot of bucks these
> days. Heck that's why, back in the 1960's & 70's
> when I was growing up, we were using 15-20 years
> old & older stuff. Sometimes dad would even work
> out ways to use the old horse-drawn stuff behind
> the tractors. My older brother had a learning
> experience with that. Dad sent him out to spread
> manure, using the old spreader, and Ray was in a
> hurry so he put the tractor in road gear. Well,
> the part that flung the dung was geared off the
> rear axle of the wagon and going that fast some of
> the material was carried right up to the top of
> the arc and pitched off forward...
> Dad bought a tractor when I was in High School, it
> was the first piece of equipment we had that was
> younger than I was.
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> Hank

Should of taught him to not get in a hurry.