The Way I See It…

[Anonymous]

The Way I See It...

Okay, I live on what is considered the last spot in the first world (province of Saskatchewan) unaffected to any notable extent by the world financial collapse.

Hell! We don't even have a case of the "new flu".....yet.

Or so I'm told....by the talking heads in the media, Mayors, Premiers and political types in general.

Yet, as I get around and talk to the business people and farmers all, is not as rosy on the front as the leaders and their 'slingers of shit' would have me believe.

I pay attention to people like Robert Menard @ worldfreemansociety.org, Daryl Bradford Smith @iamthewitness.com, Mohammed Rafeeq, Ognir (Noel) @ theinfounderground.com and there respective associates.

I for one am NOT, drinking the Kool Aid offered up by the PTB or their Spinsters.

Let's get something straight, right off the bat...I can't speak for anyone else, nor do I wish to, because that would require representation on my part and I don't "re-present" anyone...PERIOD!

I stopped by the local landscapers supply on Friday and he let me know right off the hop that not one brick had left the yard this spring, as I stood surveying a couple of acres covered with pallets of landscapers brick.

He stated that, "it's really quiet out there."

I consulted him on how to go about reclaiming a pasture/farm yard to turn into a garden.

He simply said flood the land before tilling it up.

I planned on doing that but the water well was down below the spring run-off level and my pump wouldn't lift the water up to pump it on the sod.

So, it was a dusty job grinding the 3 inch thick mat of turf off the pasture with a walk behind tiller.

Ten hours to be precise and then I must rake it up before tilling the soil.

Good thing I had a damn good tiller, that I spent a year and a half searching for.

No one makes one anymore...I'M SERIOUS!

You can not find a half decent walk behind rototiller, even if your life depended on it.

I looked at a Troy-Bilt along with a few others and determined they were nothing more than up-scale yuppie junk.

Even their own "Owners Manual" states the life expectancy of their equipment is 7 years or 130 hours.

I am of the opinion that it would be junk before the 130 hours were up.

Back around Christmas I was perusing the local Kijiji site when I spotted a "Howard Gem" for sale.

I had never heard of or seen one before now.

The ad said it was built in the 50's or 60's and the owner wanted $500.00 for it.

From the photo it appeared to me to have departed off the Ark and I even came across some Yankee who was pitching one similar on Ebay for $2500.00 US.

So I phoned the owner and he didn't seem to know too much about it except that it did run and he would fire it up for me when the temperature was above zero.

So, sometime around the end of March I contacted the owner and arranged to see it run.

I showed up and it was sitting in his yard running...on one cylinder chugging away like a crippled John Deere so I ground him down $50.00 and then instructed the two helpers with me to load it in the truck.

I proceeded to push the loose plug wire back on and the motor purred perfect then, herded it up behind the truck.

Well, fat chance of that happening at 865 lbs. with no place to lift on the front except the muffler.

So we used a trailer with a built in ramp and leap frogged it onto the truck.

Some of you Australians and U.K. residents will know exactly what this "thing" is and some may even know what there all about.

There are even some haywire YouTube videos on these "things."

It is the largest one that Howard made I think, with an 810 cc twin cylinder JAP engine and 30" wide tiller.

Possibly originally purchased by an Experimental Farm or University.

An honest to God thing of beauty...commissioned by the Queen of England no less.

And Arthur Clifford Howard is one of Australia's most noted Engineers and they have a plaque to commemorate him.

At the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia in the Stable Square is a 'Historic Engineering Marker'; the plaque text reads:


Howard's Rotary Hoe Arthur Clifford Howard (1893-1971) developed the first commercially viable machines for soil cultivation using powered rotors. His first model was built on the family farm at Gilgandra in 1912. Marketing his 'Rotavator' began in 1922 from factories established in New South Wales and later overseas. The principle of rotary cultivation has been adopted on farms worldwide from the smallest holdings to home gardens and the largest enterprises. Cliff Howard also developed tractors and other farm equipment over a long and productive career. His name endures on a range of machines sold. Dedicated by The Institution Of Engineers, Australia, 1988.

YES SIR! I got me the real McCoy, The Rolls Royce of Rotovators and not a shady "made in China" reproduction.
This thing is built like a Sherman Tank, able to withstand a nuclear EMP blast (magneto spark-no electronics) and with a little fiddling; it will continue to run perfect.

I am of the opinion that one should always buy the very best you can afford.

So, over the winter I get all geared up with a ten man Army surplus tent, wood heater, a small generator, a 22 lb. sleeping bag rated for -45, a water pump, a bunch of 200 litre barrels for water, a near mint 1990 Toyota 1 ton dually along with a trailer and all the necessary miscellaneous gear to go along with this venture in mainly Spuds and pickling cucumbers

Some of the locals, including some relatives think I'm out there growing dope.

So be it, I'm not informing them of whether I am or I'm not and with a motion sensor activated deer cam I will keep a photo record of any activity on my Ponderosa, should someone come around when I'm not there.

Trespassing on private posted property is just that...an offence...punishable if need be by the courts.

You gotta love the new infrared technology out there.

You can keep an eye on anyone, even in the dark.

To be continued....

Jack from out Back

http://www.allotment.org.uk/articles/rotovator.php

http://www.donaldantiquerototillers.com ... ctures.htm

http://www.donaldantiquerototillers.com/British.html