Just thought I'd add a few more.....
All these pics, are in different tractors! Busy weekend! :beerchug:

Running the 3588 2+2 no till drilling in rye. Believe it or not, there is a marker track running right in front center of my hood. The rye was thick, and about 5' high! :bigeyes:

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View out the front of a 7350 FWA CIH Magnum.

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Me and my girl. (7350 Magnum)

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Me and my kids! (7120 Magnum) :beerchug:

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Looking good! If ya need more help, I'd be happy to volunteer! :biggrin2: :beerchug:

Good looking group Jonathan! Nice pics!

Thanks for the nice pics, Jonathan! :beerchug:

Jon

Looks like you had to go back to your day job to get a break. :biggrin2:

I do have to admit that I do envy you getting to run the big stuff. I used to find operating my 980C's very relaxing.

That's the truth! Both parts! Drilling beans requires a little more "concentration" especially running in stuff so high you can't see the marker track, or anything that might be in the field! Didn't hit any oil wells.... fortunately, they were marked well. But in 5' stuff it would have been easy to do. Otherwise, yes.... nice to go run a tractor again. I hadn't helped anyone farm for about 6-8 years. Just like riding a bike. A little "shaky" at first, but pretty soon you get your "balance" again! :beerchug:

Back during my (somewhat) mis-spent youth and early adulthood, I ran 1066, 1466 and the Big Dog of the time, a 4166.

The 4166 was used to pull a HUGE sub-soiler. Sort of very vaguely remember that the 10 or 12 rippers made that thing about 3 feet high. I think it was a "Taylor-Way".

I don't think IH made such a beast back then. My favorite combo was a 1066 with a 480 disk hooked on.

Next favorite was the 1466 with the very large 45 Vibra-Shank field cultivator.

Thanks for the pix and great memories, guys.

P.S. Pretty lady and great looking children, Jonathan.

I used to work for an IH dealer but switched to the green side just over a year ago. I really liked working on the equipment but just got tiered on the management. Now I am the main forage harvester technician. I must say it is fun working on them. The harvesters are real easy to work on once you get used to them. I don't get out to the field hardly at all anymore. So I work on all the fun stuff but don't get to run it.

I used to work for CIH. In 2000 and 2001 I was a local dealer's main guy on the new (at the time) 2300 series combines. I was 20. Kind of intimidating. Show up on a service call, and the farmer looks at you and says.... "They sent a kid?!" Didn't matter. They always changed their tune when I left and it was fixed! :biggrin2::biggrin2:

I'm sorry to hear you now work for "the dark side". LOL! (No really, I'm sorry.)

Great pictures Jonathan:beerchug: Kinda cushy operators station compared to what I used to have to work with:bigthink: 856 with ROPS for all of the tillage and a Farmall Super C for cultivating acres and acres of corn, two rows at a time:Snooze:
Gives one a lot of time to think:biggrin2: thing is it seemed like I just got done with the first round of cultivating and we took the shields off for round two:banned: