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Finally finished 1st crop hay this last Saturday. Started at 9:00 am and I crawled outta the chopper cab at 8:30 pm... Dang - I'm gettin' old for these 12 hr. days... Very nice crop considering we'd had nearly zero rain since May 1st or earlier.. Some fields running 6T+/acre.. Loading big wagons with 40,000# in about 8 minutes.. Sumbish can really go through hay (CLAAS 940 Jaguar).

Thursday, the fields I ran seemed to have enough metal in the rows to build a Model-A.. I ended up with 4 electric fence posts, two sets of bail/pickup teeth, about a half-dozen pieces of old barbed wire, several pieces of electric fence wire, a very large washer, and a 3' section of some kind of pipe/beater from an old manure spreader!! I have NO idea how the cutter went over it w/o hitting it.

Only 600 acres left and then...

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We have been told that we have 4 or 5 more days of over 100 degree days.

Only good thing about this year so far is that the weeds have been knocked back.
Only thing green is under irrigation.

We were able to get all wrapped up last weekend. Finally caught a rain yesterday just in time as I see the low spots had all started in the durum and the hills were sitting in dry dirt. Got about .70 at my parents and the neighbor by my place claims 2 inches. It came so fast it ran over the roads and the washouts ran the soil down. But I don’t even care. Whole attitude change in one day.

Damn!

Looks pretty new too!

Bad weld?

Looks like it cracked right in the seam of the weld.

Glad you got some rail C Hell.


We have not gotten any yet. Just been dusting it in.


Been kind of an odd spring.


Might get some showers tomorrow.

I ran out of fertilizer so I came home early. Seeded today because my seeder (Dad) had to leave for a trip.

Still, could be worse.

Jim, those weeds are stealing all your moisture!

Appears to be mostly yellow mustard?



We had a little summer fallow that was almost out of hand but my dad was able to pull the toolbar through it. Today I see a fresh flush of Russian thistle popped up after the pre-spray but with the 12" sweeps on the old Concord I bet I killed most of them. Some idiot was leasing the farm across the county road and he had a helluva mess last year. The entire road ditch is filled in with tumble weeds and of course a bunch blew across our land. Fuuckin' bastard.

Did break the main 6" air tube today, seed and fertilizer was momentarily blowing off the rear window, that was a first! Luckily it was a relatively easy fix and I was going again within an hour.




C, glad to hear you guys got a little relief!. Hopefully more is on the way!



Kroo, what make drill? That doesn't look good(obviously).

Some yellow mustard, some volunteer spring wheat and an ASS load of field pennycress.



I have never seen anything like it before. Its like it was seeded to weeds....no skips either.

By the time it dried out it was too hard to farm with a toolbar. Hence having to find a disc.


I still have to try and seed that.......

Field pennycress is what I believe we call fan weed.

Early season weed, we get it and purple mustard about the same time. And yes, it will fill in thicker than hell!

That ought to be covered under warranty...

Had to pull the windmill and replace the leathers yesterday..

Always amazes me how much work that is for replacing a small part... (it just happens to be at the bottom of the well)



My windmill guy had some new help. He wasn't much though... he didn't know tighten from loosen.

Ya looks like the weld had been cracked for a while. Some rust under the paint. We lost a day but did 400 acres yesterday to beat the rain.

It’s been raining here since 4:00am and calling for an inch.

The new look is hydraulic. That half of the seeder is now a nice medium brown.

Warranty. Ha ha . I bought a new swather a couple years before I quit farming. 210,000 dollars out the door. A swather is used for 2 or 3 weeks a year. The warranty on paper is one year but if it's only used 3 weeks that's the real world warranty. It don't break the rest of the year because it's not used. Warranties my ass . Ed k

Ran out of fertilizer last night.

Waiting for the rain......so far it is going around us.

I hate getting fertilizer delivered in the rain. Always clumps.

I guess the worst that can happen is I lose a day waiting on rain that is going around us.

Well, besides the 800 acres of wheat that a half inch of rain and three days of wind will crust like concrete.

Barry's post has me wondering, how deep are your wells? We have a 463 foot deep drilled well. A three horse submersible pump on three hundred feet of 1 1/4" pipe.

I wish I had a windmill.


I read where Aeromotor was producing agian.

I have a lawsuit on Case now, over warranty.

3 wells at the ranch here.

They are about 100'.

Only one has a windmill. Last time I had the leathers changed was 4 years ago. Not bad for this country.