Sam; Good afternoon, thanks for the Versatile videos my friend.
As I've said before, I spent a few years running a Versatile 935 back in the day.
If memory serves you all have an 875?
They had a better Cummins in them I believe - 6 cylinder instead of the 903 V8 that the 935 had. They'd overheat if you weren't watching the coolant and exhaust temps really closely.
Crittr, thanks, I'm sure the deer will enjoy themselves immensely!
Wabs, I'm not sure. Whatever silage variety Wilbur Ellis wanted to sell. Should be around a 95 day?
Jim, it sounds like you had way more fun than me! I'm safely back in the shelter now, might have just opened a cold beer...
Dwayne, yep, that one is an 875, we also have an old 835 that has been basically retired to manure dozer work. The Cummins inline 6 is a great engine, love 'em.
Barry, it's sickening. We're going to have over $400/acre into that feed by the time it makes it into the silage pile. But we're only doing 60 acres of corn, I'd be sick if we were doing 600....
Our spring wheat fertilizer is going to be greatly reduced. High price, drought situation so it doesn't make sense to spread a bunch of that on the dry land. And we droughted out last year so hopefully there is significant carry over of nitrogen. The plan is to just put down 80lbs(starter blend) with the drill when we seed, not going to top dress anything.
Kids these days would cry if they had to run the ol' Style with no auto steer and mouse piss infused warm air blowin' out the vents straight into their face....lol
Kids these days would cry if they had to run the ol' Style with no auto steer and mouse piss infused warm air blowin' out the vents straight into their face....lol
Last year we finally entered the modern tech age and bought a little 'newer' 4 wheel drive tractor.
It's fricken sweet compared to the old Versatiles. Nice quiet cab, hit the auto steer button and play on your phone. Easy beans sitting in there.
Of course the AC did go out and then it became torture. Gotta have Case IH send a service truck down here to figure it out. AC works good until the outside temp gets above 70F, then it quits.
Barry, it's sickening. We're going to have over $400/acre into that feed by the time it makes it into the silage pile. But we're only doing 60 acres of corn, I'd be sick if we were doing 600.... .
Sam, How many tons of feed will you get out of that 60 acres?
That doesn’t sound like enough acres to get all your cows through a Montana winter.