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What passes for excitement at the wabigoon "ranch"

That low pressure over the ID Panhandle hit us about sundown. Spotty, but got a good half on top of "me." Made mud!

Hopefully this one will swirl straight east and not hang up over any snow.

This Wishek disc I bought it beginning to become a bit of a pain in the ass.


The new center section cylinder showed up yesterday. This one is 4.5 inch so at least the machine will go into the ground straight.

The old cylinder was drilled for 1 inch holes.

The new ones are drilled for 1.5 inch!

Apparently there is a retrofit pin that you can buy. It is 1.5 on one end, is turned to 1 in the middle and then is supplied with a 1.5 ODx1 ID bushing.


I can only assume that it will be 4 days from North Dakota to get them.



So, plan B is to drive to Havre tomorrow morning and buy a foot or two of 1.5 inch stress proof and build my own retrofit pins. FROG SNAX!


My old Atlas with the quarter inch rocker tool post will be earning its keep tomorrow. I just hope I can find my chunk of 1/4 HSS to make a couple tools out of.




On a positive note........the ground is so flipping hard that we have switched to using our other disc instead of the tool bar.

The old Krause is doing a good job of working ahead of the seeder. Slow, but effective. Hired man is headed to Fort Benton for parts in the morning! Nothing too serious.



We are seeding agian after a week long shut down. We just had to scramble to get the pre spraying done and everything worked at least once....mostly twice.


2000 acres of spring wheat to do near the end of May is not a pleasant feeling. Everything has been sprayed that needed sprayed. Everything that needed worked is worked.


My organic ground is a wreck.....just so happens that is where my non functioning Wishek is parked.

Whats the deal with that last picture Richard?

Is that a raised ditch? Contour farming?

terrace.........common as dirt in Ioway..grin

Jim, those grass banks are terraces. You are looking at the low side.
If it weren't bad luck Jim, you'd have no luck at all.

Whats the purpose of the terrace?


As far as bad luck goes....yes, sometimes.


I did not become a machinist, welder, mechanic, fabricator and Human resource manager because I was looking for hobbies!

Pure survival.

The terries hold back heavy rains, prevent soil erosion. These are tiled out.

most of Iowa is in corn/beans......and alot of the ground is pretty steep.........the terraces limit water runoff and erosion

For Jim, years back I felt really bad at supper time, there guys came on TV, and somehow, I cheered up a bunch.

Thats pretty good.


I twisted off pretty good yesterday....but I have it together now.

The Steiger’s been busy the last few days.

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Saw a friend in town earlier. He said that they are trying to work some ground with tall stubble like that.

It held so much snow that it is still mud.


My ground is all like cement.

Jim, the bottom-stuck was at about 11pm and we hadn’t seen that wet spot. The top-stuck was me getting a little greedy and trying to turn once I’d passed our SxS tracks which were the no-go line.

The tracks are a little past worn on the Cat which doesn’t help.

Anybody have a miracle cure for a respiratory infected cow?

We’ve been injectng her with penicillin for two weeks now and been to the vet twice. She still is short of breath, foaming at the mouth, and sticks her tongue out after walking anywhere.

Vet just says bad infection and were lucky she’s not tits up.

He's Haw was an after dinner staple at our house in the 70’s Dad always wanted Dinner done by a certain time so we could watch it.

Where oh where are you tonight......

Draxxin. If she dies after a dose of Draxxin, she was gonna die anyway.



I have seen critters act like that before. It might not be a respiratory infection at all, at least that might be why she wont respond to antibiotics.


More than once I have seen that and it ended up being congestive heart failure, or at times an infection of the pericardial sack.


Heck, even a virus of the pericardium can cause those symptoms.

Thanks Jim, see if I can run some down tomorrow.

Be warned.....its very expensive!

Jim, you didn't mention Vet. MD as one of your hobbies.

Nobody’s got a piece of DOM tubing you can make a bushing out of?