Keep up the good work and dogged determination. I had to start from scratch also. Ain’t easy but we farmers are and have to be stubborn and bull headed but we’re also humble proud people. Someone has to feed this world and make it a leave it a better place for the next generation that follows. I still run the old orange classics and gleaner combines myself. Keep on keeping on and God bless you for 2024 crop year.

Love seeing all the orange paint

Hey bro I like the loyalty I hope u all the best with me being a beginning farmer starting in January we need all the farming we can get I always like the orange but I'm a New Holland guy gd luck brother love ur videos

If you have any extra shop time available, spend it on that 305. Would mind having one of those myself. I have an 8070 here.

I want you to know I've been in your shoes. It's heartbreaking to hear this. My father would not let me rent the farm I grew up on, but I was allowed to rent another farm 1 mi. away. It was only after he died my mom said If I wanted to farm it I could. Years later I now own the rented farm that I was able to purchase. I was 47 when I finally realized my dream to own a farm . It sucks when you have to go through this stuff. I am retired now and would never put anyone through what I had to . I truly wish you well.

Sorry about your family issues. That sucks . Be pretty neat to get the 305 running.

you keep going it will come right in the end

Those look like an awful lot of tractor for farming, how many acres are you running? There's an old 1950s AC video on KZfaq (J&L channel?) that goes through a table of different models and the number of acres the tractors could plow in a day, disk in a day, plant in a day, etc. which I thought was a marvelous idea. Right size your equipment by comparing acres vs time of the season. Maybe you have May 10th to June 20th to get corn planted. That is a lot of days and hours even if half of them are rained out. But I see some farmers running big new paint so they can get all their corn planting done in a week. Then they sit around and fret about the equipment payments. You've got the right idea, buy cash and fix up, just make sure you're right sized. I have an old farm-log/diary from my family recorded in the early 1940s and running nearly a square mile of dairy, potato, and grain farm they supported two families and several full time hired laborers with two 25hp tractors (Fordson and Case). There are a lot of entries about so-and-so was plowing a field all day. I'm on small acres at the moment, but I'm transitioning from conventional tillage+chemicals to no-till, winter rye cover, planting corn/beans into the standing rye, then flatten the rye with a roller after the corn/beans emerge, and using/saving heirloom seed. So my inputs are barely anything and simple 1950s tractors can cover a lot of ground. I got the path from a farmer selling 5,000 acres of premium priced full-organic grain to the food companies. His heirloom game is buying 20yr off-patent hybrid seed he can legally keep and grow (he will need to do some crossing to keep the performance up). Get some Bloody Butcher or Reid's Yellow Dent seed to try out a small patch if you are growing any corn (know that they need wider in-row placement, I'm using 9in, vs the hybrids that can grow tighter).

I hear what you're saying. My dad and I it's the damn situation . It is a struggle for sure. I said fuck it and walked away. Too hard on my nerves and relationship between wife and I. I have regrets but man it was aweful .

When am I allowed to come play with the 8095??

gleaner combines are very unrated