Ya, we got out the same day after getting into it. The neighbor buried his sprayer, almost buried a trackhoe digging it out, and finally dug it out a week later.
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Spent the last couple of days pressure washing, checking nuts, bolts and fluid levels, sharpening blades, as well as hand waxing the big tractor, ( I know... not many of you wax your tractors, but it helps keep the brush scratches down to a minimum.)
I also touch up the paint on the shredders. Rust is a killer, and I fight the hell out of it down here.
I know absolutely nothing about row crop farming or farming on a large scale, like you fellow do for a living. But I always enjoy the pics, discussions about the conditions, and talk about the equipment.
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I know absolutely nothing about row crop farming or farming on a large scale, like you fellow do for a living. But I always enjoy the pics, discussions about the conditions, and talk about the equipment.
Ditto..
I work part-time for a somewhat large dairy farm. They work about 2,000 acres and milk 1500 cows.. But it's nothing like my wife's relatives north of Malta, MT.. The two brothers, each, own about 45 sq. MILES of wheat land. The size of the strips boggles my mind. They drop a digger in the ground and one hour later, turn around for another swipe!!! And one of 'em also grows a couple thousand head of absolutely beautiful Angus cattle - although I think they're cutting down that part of the operation a little.. I haven't talked to Howie in a year or so..
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Its amazing what you guys do, and without even a single tree, hell a 60 acre field around here is rear and about as a guy wants to plant in a day, heck 25-30 round bales gets us threw the winter till grass greens up.
The JD 569 that I run in the summer has about 20k bales on the kicker without many problems. It breaks the big springs sometimes, and the small chains, but no big deal to replace.
The main problem is if you kick a bale and then decide to back up for some reason, you will bend the kicker.
Steiger had the quietest cab in the industry....hands down. So quiet that most Steigers came with straight pipes. Some guys put mufflers on them but it was not needed.
One day dad kicked the door open for some reason and it was so loud outside he closed the door and shut the tractor off. He thought something was wrong!
That was with the 310 Cummins turned up to about 350. I still miss that sound.
Looks like you guys are getting a lot done. I’ve never seen a tractor as clean as the one with the chompers. We caught .40 on Tuesday night Wednesday we hauled the yearling heifers out to pasture and I fenced the first cow pasture. Today I started seeding the durum had a good day on our crazy hilliest piece did 335 acres. We get 73 acres per fill. Run out of nitrogen first we are putting 125 pounds of urea on. 50 pounds of phosphorous and 85 pounds of durum seed. Got a new variety this year called Joppa. Been out a few years.