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<blockquote data-quote="puppet" data-source="post: 7079810" data-attributes="member: 25962"><p>We are about to reseed 20 acres and I was thinking about the machinery involved compared to my youth.</p><p>In 1970's I worked for a contractor driving Ford 4000/5000 (no FWD) with Ransome 3 furrow ploughs, 7 foot mounted discs , trailed harrows and a 10 foot drill with no GPS yet we seemed to get to get a lot of work done. 1000 acres of combining with three 10 foot NH, most farms having around 20 acres which was a days work each.</p><p>There was a lot of Spring cultivation done in foul weather and wet silage as 20 acres was a good day.</p><p>Now 100hp seems a dinky tractor and all the kit on the back is bigger and mega-money. </p><p>Have we actually moved on much as far as margins are concerned?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="puppet, post: 7079810, member: 25962"] We are about to reseed 20 acres and I was thinking about the machinery involved compared to my youth. In 1970's I worked for a contractor driving Ford 4000/5000 (no FWD) with Ransome 3 furrow ploughs, 7 foot mounted discs , trailed harrows and a 10 foot drill with no GPS yet we seemed to get to get a lot of work done. 1000 acres of combining with three 10 foot NH, most farms having around 20 acres which was a days work each. There was a lot of Spring cultivation done in foul weather and wet silage as 20 acres was a good day. Now 100hp seems a dinky tractor and all the kit on the back is bigger and mega-money. Have we actually moved on much as far as margins are concerned? [/QUOTE]
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