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Wow...
Ought to be some birds running around with all that food present...
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Dang Sammo great pics....I ain't gonna embare ass myself by posting garden pics
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No way I can compete with those pictures. Thanks for posting them. I guess I could take a picture of a shovel and my watering can.
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Sam; Thanks so much for sharing your farming photos with us and in so doing stirring up a bunch of fond fall memories for me.
The auger looks just like one we had back in the day, but for the life of me I can't recall the maker right now. It would reach to the top of the tallest Behlen bin we had, which was if memory serves right at 38' and would hold 30,000 bushels.
Anyway, my Mom said she talked to my brother the other night and they'd been swathing a bit and were going to try combining soon, so it is that time of year again isn't it?
Thanks again Sam and all the best to you and yours this harvest season.
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Great pics, one of the reasons I love flying over the Midwest it just doesn't get any better!
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Great pics Sam. Thanks. It kind of reminds me of heading the sorghum with a knife.
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The wheat looks like money in the bank, Sammy. Congratulations
Dwayne, good to see you.
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Dwayne, I wish we had a 30k bin, our entire wheat crop would have fit inside that! 10" Westfield auger BTW, unloads about a bushel a second. 15 minutes for a semi load of wheat. The big farmers have 13" or conveyors now.
Real fun job this afternoon, carrier bearing(right where the rear drive line pivots on the middle of the frame) went out on one the old Versatiles.
Gardening is just like farming!
We have about 90 sunflowers in the back yard. The birds are lovin' it right now.
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Impressive. How would you rate this years crops compared to other years considering the U.S. drought situation?
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Sam, can you take some pics of your Sunflowers?
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Sam; Thanks for the reply Sam, I don't envy the repair job ahead of you on that bearing. I recall twisting an axle on our 935 and having to replace it. They were amazingly soft steel actually but I think they made them that way so they wouldn't bugger up the planetary gears. Then there was the time an oil seal went out in the hub and I had to pump it full of grease....my brother shows up with a couple cases of grease tubes, an air powered grease gun and hands them to me saying something about hoping I didn't want to stay clean that day! Gardening is a little like farming though I guess Sam, though when I pulled the starter off our little Japanese diesel tractor here, it didn't weigh enough to get my arm stuck like when the 935's started came off when I wasn't quite ready for it. Ah, farm wrenching Sam, I've still got some aches and scars from it! That auger isn't a Bergen by any chance is it? Anyway, as with most things, the name of that long forgotten auger will come to me when it no longer matters or will make sense to me! All the best Sam and thanks again. Dwayne
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Griz, we are taking advice on when to sell some wheat....grin Russia is in a little trouble and might stop and exports. They are rumored to be down about 30% from last year's crop. Rkamp, we were very lucky and caught some rain late this Spring and Summer. Not a bumper crop but it averaged around 32 bushel which is good for this area and the amount of fertilizer we put down. People to the south of us cut 20, people to the north are cutting 40-50 bushel. Rain and luck, farming is gamble every year. Okok, my wife likes sunflowers and this was a first. 6' fence and some of them are in the 10-11' foot range. Wind blew one over so I had to rig up 100' of rope parallel freakish [bleep]. A couple weeks ago.
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Looks like ya'll had the better part of a 600' string out on the ground, at the point where that water well pic was snapped,....
Sam, if you have any more views of that pump rig, could you post em' when time allows ?
Looks to be a towed unit ?
Luck with that midship bearing, Bud.
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great photos sammo enjoyed them
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Fascinationg pix, Sammo.. A whole different world from strawberries, lettuce and artichokes.
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Good pics of your little grain operation. You were talking to the dogs tho??
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