This will be part 1 of the series on tobacco.If anyone else has tobacco pics please add them to this post.I get a lot of questions about tobacco when I travel.The pics are from random years.
Here is a pic of a tobacco plant bed.The seed is small and you measure it by the teaspoon.We mixed it with sand and sowed with a yard seeder.Now a days plants are mainly raised on a floating bed of water in a greenhouse.
My son Breaking the tobacco patch with a 730 lp and 3-12 Case plow.My oldest is 14 or 15 in this 2003 or 2004 pic
Another year but same boy/plow
Putting lime or fertilizer on with the 130 farmall
Working tobacco ground with dads new 5000 and # 37 IH disc with a Case spike tooth harrow. I am 11 years old.
The Case 311b and transplanter dads driving,big brother on the left.I drove the tractor when dad had to go to work.
Filling the water tanks.
Putting furrows in to drain surface water when it rains.Tobacco will drown or scald very easy without proper drainage.I am a high school senior in this pic.
Discing up plant bed after crop is well on it's way circa 1996,my youngest is 6 and I have a string on the coil wire while he's driving in low at idle.
Case VAS cultivating tobacco.
1953 DC with footclutch cultivating
Tires to make a smooth berm that does not wash like a furrow left by a shovel.Case design works well for tire mounting as the tires are lifted off the ground instead of dragging behind our Farmall,making backing impossible without getting off tractor and hanging tires on shanks
Side dressing nitrogen with 1953 DC Case
Shop built boom sray on 1190 Case
That all I have time for-To be continued.................
Thank you so much for posting this, I know that dad has some pictures on his computer at his house, I hope he will post them. It's awesome that you all captured these when you did. Just as I became old enough to appreciate this for what it was, the buyout set in... I often miss it... but then there are times like BigDave - that I don't think I mind it as much either...
I miss growing it, working with folks, mostly neighbors, and hearing their stories over and over about their special tobacco farming memories. I do not at one bit miss all the junk, governmental and company stuff, that I had to put up with especially the last few years I grew it.
Hi , I am trying to put power variable adjustable track wheels on my David brown case 1494 , I am told it has five eighths UNF studs .The wheels have to have special nuts due to the thickness of the casting I know one company that have got some but due to a very un helpful store-man who says...
Hi i have a David brown 12/10 with a front end loader it run low on fluid the other day then I couldn't get the arms to go up so I put new oil in still won't go up. i noticed the leaver on the left-hand side when your sitting in the seat that changes from front end loader to rear 3 point linkage...
Here's another plow like the one I posted earlier.I dont have any literature on this one either.
Here's pics of the other plow for comparison
I believe these plows are newer than the BE BER series plows and are made to fit a wider range of ttractors,even from other tractor companies...
Figured I would share a few pictures of my 53 DC with the adjustable wide front. Bought this tractor a couple weeks ago from a good friend and fellow collector. Got it home and discovered it was stuck from sitting for so long, finally got it freed up a couple nights ago, but still have a couple...
Hi I have a David Brown 1210 front end loader white and orange model the hydraulic hose come off and I lost a lot of oil it was below dip stick when I checked I put more oil in up to second mark on dip stick problem I have now is loader won’t go up or down or rear linkage arms I undone the pipe...
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