09-04-2007, 04:51 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: West central Illinois
Posts: 590,002
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Thinking about a great day my wife and I had yesterday. I was on a float in a Labor Day parade at a little town not all that far from Flanagan (  PF ). Afterwards we all met at a friends farm where we had a great dinner and were given a chance to drive and ride two of his tractors and his combine. These machines are fantastic. They use GPS guidance. When the corn and bean fields (4500 acres) were planted, he programmed the field layout into the tractor and basically only drove to the field. The tractor drove through the fields doing the planting while he sat in the air confitioned cab watching TV and monitored his progress on monitors. The same GPS program will go into the combine (starting today) and will allow it to retrace the path while harvesting his corn crop. Attached are just a very few pictures.
Oh, yeah, the red tractor is a restored "Farmall" tractor from the 50s. He has two older tractors he's retored. |