DeerMeadowFarm

Well, we opened sales for pumpkins this past weekend. Temps were a little warm which I think kept a lot of people from thinking about fall/Halloween/pumpkins but Sunday was pretty busy. I have some pictures of the ones we pulled from the patch last weekend with my daughter "helping". I hope you like them.

Valtra "Cow"; my only UH model.... but not my last!

Wow that was really cool to see. Thanks for the pictures; I've never seen that done around here.

Very nice!

Looks great! Now you need one of those Forestry trailers to go behind it!

Wow nice work!

Wow nice pictures; thanks for sharing!

Your 165 looks great! I am looking for one around here to restore/use myself.

Nice link; thanks!

Arrrgh! What annoyed me today (and a few times over the past month) was to visit this site, click on the link that says "Show unread posts since your last visit"; read the first page of posts then click on the second (3rd, 4th, whichever) page and end up with a blank page. It's depressing to know there are pages and pages of posts since my last visit with no real easy way to access them... :'(

I love seeing your updates Fendt; please keep them coming!

I like it! She's a runnah!

That's like ....what 10 hours/day 7 days a week for 3 months? A lot of time? I don't know, I don't farm full time so it's hard for me to say. On the weekends I work 10 - 12 hours/day easily but some of that is hand work and/or not on one tractor. To me it seems like a lot...

I like the precision H with the planter and the M restoration set! 

Wow, looking great Fendt!

Very cool work! They look great and your photos are great as well!

Excellent job and quite the photographic documentation; thank you for sharing those with us!

Indeed, if this wasn't a conversion thread, you'd have to look twice (thrice for some )

Wow, no kidding! Excellent work both with the model AND the camera!

Looking good Fendt 626! Pretty realistic photos!

I had a nice wheat beer this weekend and it made me miss my friends from Tuttlingen...

That looks really nice; I love the detail!

Looks great! You just need some small chain and tiny load-binders to finish it off! 

Very nice job!

Well, I?ve visited her for a while and I?ve been a member for a few days and I am really impressed with some of the farm layouts I see here. It makes me want to start on mine which brings me to my questions:

How do I begin? I have a couple ideas in mind but I am at a loss of how to actually start. What is the preferred base material? Plywood, MDF? How thick? What grade of wood is used?

I see that a lot of the layouts here are pretty flat. My ideas have a lot of influence by what I see here in New England which is anything but flat! How do you go about creating multiple layered settings?

What is used for ground covering and where can it be obtained? Is there a good reference somewhere (a book or video perhaps) that would illustrate the various steps in creating a farm display?

Sorry for so many questions, but in reality I probably have hundreds more so I?ll stop now and ask more based on the responses I get.

Thanks a lot for your assistance!

Rich

( Sorry for my apalling curtains )

They certainly get your attention!

Looks like you've given yourself some room to make a nice display. Looking forward to seeing the process...

We still make and sell small hay bales...but we don't have a nice way of lifting them onto the wagon like that; we do it by hand.