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You'd hate farming around these parts .....some of the terrain is so steep they use hydraulic levelers on the tractors. The soil's so rich they farm it anyway.

I am gonna stop posting pics of my stuff.


Its like Sanford and Son bought a farm compared to youse guys!

I powered out a 1977 Chevy C 65 on a steep ass hill one night.

20 foot box heaped up with wheat.


Breaks would not hold.


I was probably 12 or so.

Friday we had three flat tires(2 on the cultivator, one on the spreader) and the motor rattled off the fertilizer spreader......the second motor, that is; we had pulled the first POS off it in the morning.

We were doing battle with a field coming out of CRP.

Jim;
Good evening to you sir, I trust the weekend treated you and your fine family well.

Truly I hope you keep posting photos with the rest here, as mentioned it brings back a bunch of good memories for this former flat lander.

You and kroo are just south of where my mother was born and raised - Etzikom, AB - well south of there a bit actually. Grandfather ranged his cattle on Forty Mile Coulee back in the day.

I've still got family in Assiniboia, SK too which isn't all that far from you all - not in prairie travel terms anyway.

Anyway here's some encouragement to keep all of you posting photos from north of the medicine line - same line that C Hell farms so near to I see.

Thanks again all, I hope you get just enough rain and not a half inch more.

Dwayne

PS;
My late father was born in a sod house north of Maple Creek - Fox Valley area, but like Etzikom, there's not much left last time I went through.

Anyway, though I do love my adopted mountain home and have lived here 2/3 of my life, the flat lander blood still runs deep.

Thanks again all.

I was today as well.

Got my new to me old Wishek disc hooked up.

Had to unhook from the drill because it is getting so hard we are gonna get way behind.

Headed out south to my organic ground....which is a wreck.

It is former CRP.

My new to me old disc was cobbled together it seems. The lift cylinders won't phase.

Got to looking at it and the center section has one 4.5 inch bore and one 4 inch!

The lift on the wings are both 4 inchers.

Damn and blast.

Thanks Dwayne!

I will keep posting some.

Wife just peeked over my shoulder wondered what I was laughing about.

Birds and farm inspectors.

Yeah I got the look.

Best thread on the fire. Thank you all for what you do. I have family that farms and ranches in Idaho and some in Nevada. Tough way to make a living but I would do it a heartbeat if I could.

Great admiration for you all.

Daniel boy fell asleep when we were moving the rock picking tractor.

No heavy coat for a pillow, just an arm!

Been tending the olive orchard the past week.

Dry conditions make for good shredding, but lucky we got some rain last night.

I'll lay off for the day, but back in tomorrow again.

Morning Jim;
I've got to get ready to head over to our eldest daughter's place to help her and our son in law with some reno work.

Anyway I just wanted to send you a sincere thanks for taking your son along with you as you work - taking time for him and any/all of your kids actually.

As a father a little further down the road Jim, I can assure you that the moments you've shared in photos WILL pay dividends for years to come, both for you as a father and for us as a society. The evidence for that is overwhelming, so a tip of the battered Bailey for making the effort and sacrifice to do so Jim.

Thanks again and all the best to you and your fine family in the upcoming week.

Dwayne

Hey Jim! If it makes ya feel better at least you didn't pay 210,000 for a new sprayer that took 4 years to get working correctly. That will piss a guy off. Ed k

Hey Jimmy,
check out my fancy drill......
I can get some pics of my CC cultivator and old horse disc, if you like.
Don't forget the rigid harrow section with a flex behind on that atv there.
I'm stylin'.

I like that drill!

Could put one like it to good use, planting deer plots down here!

I had one like it once, but mine had rubber tires. They were very good drills.

I have a rubber tired version also.
It has grass boxes too.
Having two keeps my moves between patches down on crappy old logging roads.

Good stuff gentlemen, thank you all for the vids and reports!



We didn't think it was going to rain very much and I left the trucks and drill on the edge of a half section that I finished up last Friday. Went out yesterday to move the two trucks and one got stuck.

Like I told my dad, good problem to have and you know if we'd moved them onto the sod it wouldn't have rained a drop.......


Gonna try to hit the field again tomorrow but I'm thinking it still might be too sticky. And now they're calling for showers and T-storms tomorrow through Friday.

Wish we had decent tarps on the old trucks...lol



And speaking of birds...


Beings we are late this year the little brown 'field' bird chicks can fly outta the way. Most of them anyway. I did stop for one and also had to get out and chase a pair of young(retarded?) cottontails off to the side.

I do not like to run stuff over and yes, it is a pain in the ass to stop and whip around to restart. Time is money this time of year!

Am finally coming to the end of this season. Had some break downs this weekend and spent a lot of time fixing. Got about 400 acres left 3 moves tho. Hope to get it by wendseday. Moisture situation is horrible dust so thick when the wind blowing can’t see the plow behind you. Need to catch one of these thunder storms This week