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you need this only been stuck ! time in the last 20 years
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Only once? Must be in Monatana this beast, somewhere around Great Falls?
I know some one here in sw Sask that has a 450HP BUD, his smokes like that all the time too... not very economical, but he doesn't care, he's 6'7" and loves the roomy cab. :D |
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No I'm in Idaho.its a 525/50 and its pushing like 600Hp it pulls 50ft big G Flexible Double Offset Discs. it pulls really hard it gets about 35 gph it has a 500gal tank. but the good side is 1hr 30mins dose 90 acres
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Are you sure on your acre count? 50ft implement, he'd have to be travelling about 11mph.. double discs don't work well at high speeds!
My 51ft air drill @5.5mph = 33ac/hr, but the reality with headland turning & other obstacles throughout the middle, it's more like 28-31ac/hr on mile long strips... less for 1/2 mile square quarters. How deep is he working? My lil 325hp Panther is pulling a Sunflower 35ft double offset @3" & hardly breaks a sweat @4.5mph (sandy clay loam soil)... although I just got it last Fall & it was so dry that the implement was either riding on top or pulling up softball sized lumps... I only did 40ac, then quit! waited for rain that never came. I didn't seed that half this spring, it's in such disarray, weeds & tall stubble... probably disc it early July, seed it to winter wht in late Aug. |
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Here's what I have 'MacGuyver'd' in the last couple days... Princess Auto PowerFist 6.5HP, 2.5g/m hyd pack and a Wire Winder to roll up old barbed wire fence. I've got about 20miles of old fence around native & tame grass pastures that my dad built back in the late 60's - 70's to remove & replace over the next couple of summers. Plus remove some fence permanently.
I took my Ranger to town this morning to plumb it all & get it working. Gonna go out this afternoon to wrap up a 3 wire 1/2mile fence so I can join a 1/4 with a 1/2 section together and farm it as one big field. ;) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psb6032e79.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps3747104e.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps6f7ff691.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps62e06c5b.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psb7433b9b.jpg |
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Wow, that's a lot of wire to roll up! I hope you don't have to back up the entire time?
Cheer's, Neil. |
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Cool toy Joe, :cool:
How the farm life going? I'm just sold last of my firewood stock pile last week, I've got to make up 10 more cubic meters to fill 3 order I have book in. If any one call about firewood I just tell them that I am out of firewood, and I am not taking any order for one Month so I can make more firewood. From Cameron. |
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I just completed a cross Canada trip, and the prairies impressed me.
I can see why you would need a tool for all that wire! I wondered how the farmers installed and maintained it all. |
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i was down to wood mountain park this weekend. Really missed that part of the province!
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A necessary evil to keep new & up to date :( 2014 CR9070 ...my 1st piece of equip with a Tier 4 emissions. :(
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps5da67051.jpg Kind of a cold day here to start this ol dog without being plugged in... drive it outside & wait a half hour before I could see inside again. :eek: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psed7832ea.jpg |
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I live in Idaho as well and was thinking that maybe I saw that beast!!!!!
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Brought home another new toy for the farm.... the middle piece of equipment... the seed cart I got a couple yrs ago, spread out the heart-attack cost. :eek:
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in the big big times now!
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Pretty serious equipment!
Will that save you time? If you don't mind me asking, how many acres do you harvest? |
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Sorta Dean... the neighbor on the other side of the fence, you should see his new 70 foot SeedMaster with 850bu seed cart! My drill cost about 1/3 what his did. :eek: He plants over 10,000ac every spring & has a lot more road miles between fields than I do.
I crop just over 3400ac... with 800ac winter wheat sowed last fall, that leaves 2600ac to do this spring :) Depending on what crop I'm planting and the amount of fertilizer I'm using, last yr with 51 feet I was seeding 300 per day avg... although sometimes I'd peak 400ac in a day. The 1st 3hrs of my day is spent spraying two tank fills of glyphosate covering 400ac. This new drill is 60 feet, nearly 20% bigger, but with laying down more seed/fert per pass, I'll defineitely need to fill cart atleast one more time in a day, which takes about an hour to do. I'm hoping I'll achieve 400ac avg over the duration... maybe peak 500ac in a day if I have more than a day's worth sprayed ahead so I can start right away seeding... but those are killer long days of 19 - 20hrs! Excessive weather delays resulting in high stress with late May - early June planting is a great motivator though. ;) Currently, this is the next 6days of either cloud and/or rain. :( http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/sk-11_metric_e.html It's early yet... I'll sleep well for the next week while waiting for sunshine. :D |
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Hopefully the weather will clear up!
What's the goal of the glyphosate? Sounds like a good investment as it'll speed up the process, Big Red has a good load now. :) The combine from earlier looks nice too. Combines are expensive, but they seem to be replaced fairly often. |
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Chemically burn off all the existing weed & volunteer growth so the new year's crop gets the best start possible. In crop spraying is 5-6 weeks later , the next flush of weeds are much smaller than the crop & easy to kill! After that, the crop flourishes, stools out to canopy the ground and block any sunshine for future weed growth during the growing season.
Actually, the old drill was single shoot & I was using a 4” stealth tip to spread the seed & fert together... this new drill being double shoot with a 1” opener & 3.5” spreader 3/4" above is less iron in the ground & should pull considerably easier... I’m already kicking myself for not going to 70’ width! ...I’ll see how it goes this yr. I loaded up my seed cart today, calibrated the seed drives, ready to go tomorrow late afternoon... after I put out 3 or 4 tanks of spray starting at noon. It's gonna freeze again tonite, the scientific analysis is wait 24hrs for the weeds to recover to uptake the chemical better... but rain is coming again Friday night for the wkend... 2009 it froze every night till May 20th, but I still sprayed everyday & still got a good weed kill. :D |
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I got a bit of a surprise today... I put some water in the sprayer & went to the field to do a pressure check and HOLY $%^& water everywhere! :( 5 section boom & 4 of them are split in many places.
This was 11am, quick call to dealership, bring it to town & start fixing... we got 'er rebuilt by 5pm... I was home & loaded by 6pm, buzzed the 1st tank by 7pm & the 2nd tank by 8:30 with some daylight to spare. :eek: :D Last Fall, I had this SP sprayer in town for its bumper to bumper check (warranty is only for the 1st season), before I left I poured their sprayer guard antifreeze into the tank & flushed it through my booms... they know that... they'll see what they can do for me $ parts & time wise... but my dealership is owned by a much larger dealership in the city & although the small town work ethic & good service is still there - big city still has the final word ...and lately it seems not in the favor of the customer. :( Tomorrow 1st thing, go find out if the drill is gonna work right out of the gate... :confused: |
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Joe- How many hours were on the "old" combine? I got my first combine in Febuary a 1998 John Deere 9510 2500 engine, and 1500 separator hours. The previous owner was great about maintenance so we paid a higher price for it. Since then we bought a 9610 and another 9510, but mine is the best.
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Tier 4 emissions have taken the "F" out of fun!
I'm hanging on to my older equipment and truck as long as I can! EGR is the worst thing that ever happened to Diesel engines. Cheers, Neil. |
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3yo combine, just under 500 thresher hrs. I could have easy gone another yr without major work, but with a falling dollar & the combine another yr older, the trade difference could really sky rocket!!! My dealer made me a good deal on a 2014 that didn't sell last yr before harvest season, carryover stock they wanted to get rid of.
I use a 36' draper head made by Honey Bee, the factory is about 50 miles from my farm. The header is an '02, it's pretty solid yet, I don't see ant cracks anywhere & the dealership won't give me any trade value on it b/c of its age... so as long as the frame holds together, I'll keep using it. I don't know anything about tier 4 yet, I just drove it home that day & parked in the shed. It's gonna be a pain in the neck to buy the right amount of def fluid for the season b/c it has no shelf life! :rolleyes: Other than that, I haven't heard of any problems from others with New Holland or CaseIH combines... John Deere on the otherhand with their re-burn system for tier 4, a lot of combines burnt up in 2012, didn't hear about quite as many last yr. It's the way of future, good or bad, gotta deal with it eventually. :( Here's a video of me seeding yesterday... 1st time using my IPhone to shoot film, you gotta tilt your for the 1st minute, then I got it right side up - with a bit of help from youtube's editing. :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCkeWQPe8I4 |
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seems like the new equipment is working good. I think what impressed me the most was the relatively tight turning radius. :)
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If you can keep it room temp and out of the sun def will left at least 2 years. I need to check but i think we were around 8% of fuel use for the year with 7230's. Just buy a tote and good stainless pump if your never too far from home.
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I do my headlands 1st, so I have about 120' to turn around within... it's proving to be a bit of a challenge to get just the right arc so the drill swings into position asap for the next pass - so when I come back from the other direction there is no gap not seeded.
When I got the combine home that day, I drained all the def fluid as soon as I shut it off the shed into two 10L jugs & took them to my house. Storing a tote over winter somewhere heated is not possible for me to do... I'll have to gauge by how the crop is fairing from one tote to the next vs how much I have left to harvest & use 10L jugs from there. I don't even know yet what it costs per Liter. :confused: I was able to start the combine without def fluid last week to get my sprayer out of the shed. "Out of def" alarm was beeping continually for 20mins it was running to make the swap. Here's a couple of pics of filling my sprayer... I use to fill from the house well, but my galvanized tank rusted out this yr... I got all this water next to farm... Buying a sump was a lot cheaper, easier & quicker than getting another tank! :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pscfb0ef2c.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps8e0ba439.jpg My corrals :eek: GOSH!!! I'm glad I got rid of my cow herd 3yrs ago, this flooding is gonna be a problem for a long time to come yet! You can see a white line on the slab fence, that's how high the water level was in 2011 & the water level then by the time winter came still looked about this deep it is currently. The water didn't leave this pen till August of 2012... and it floods every Spring now. Strong winds last June blew over that section of fence in the water... those railroad ties were 5 feet in the ground, they just popped out of the soggy ground. I was going to stand the fence back up last October, but I didn't get within 30' of the fence & the front axle of Ford FWA fel started sinking quick! What a mess! :( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps725c77f8.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pse3f625b9.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps19a59fc0.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps5b98b75b.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psbe95731a.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psaac79b5e.jpg |
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Hi Joe, when you are planting your fields using GPS how do you program it to know where the rows end etc? Do you make a manual run around the perimeter? Sorry for all the questions, I've had friends and family who've owned farms so I've grown up visiting them. But they weren't as large as yours. Thanks for posting this is interesting reading!
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It looks like you have a big pond Joe! How many acres of water do you think that is?
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The DEF in the combine can freeze. There is a heater to bring it back to liquid and the concentration of urea is low enough that it doesn't salt out. Probably affects the shelf life some, but i'd expect 6 months or so at least from the stuff in the combine tank. Don't run your combine anymore with out DEF or a tech might have reset the computer. Dunno what your harvesting conditions are like, but we had problems with the chaff being sucked into DEF tank through the vent lines under high fuel/DEF use in irrigated barley. Put vent filters on all three machines. Never had any troubles with the cart tractor. I think the 2 year shelf life with the temp between 10-85F if you can manage that. There's a steep mark up on the 2.5G jugs down here. If your worried about storage 55G drums close to the same unit cost as the totes. I'll call the boss and see if he ever figured up the our DEF usage last year.
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Galvanized tanks! lol Joe get with the 1960's :D
yeah that is a big problem with those. I see metal ones still do that. only real way to get away from that is to go fiberglass and even then there is problems. I noticed the other day that the water along highway 39 where the "Great lake of Saskatchewan" is along the highways is pretty well up to the 2011 levels again. The sask highways government is doing sweet all to get that water to go away. Their solution was to raise the highway so that the water was no longer over the road. they didn't put in guard rails and the reflectors are all broken off now. last week my mother sold her chevy tracker to some nice people in weyburn. they didnt make it back with the vehicle. an rv swerved and they went off the road, hit the huge rocks they dumped along the highway and flipped over several times into the water. luckily the tracker righted it'self on the last flip or they would have drowned! i got a feeling its going to be another wet wet year up here... this was 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdLu_cKyW0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdLu_cKyW0w |
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That's pretty wild, I've seen white caps on the great lakes and small lakes around Michigan but I've never seen them on a highway before! How deep is the water in the fields around the highway?
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That seems like a good amount of water. Time to throw in a few trouts. :cool:
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deep enough there was a car in the ditch for a whole year and nobody noticed....
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Thats beautiful country.
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It rain @6am & again @7:30am this morning, a bit of water laying about... chances of rain again this afternoon, I might be sitting all day. I got started seeding brown mustard yesterday, got Big Red stuck! I had to pull the pin & then using 70 feet of tow strap & chain to pull the drill from various angles to get it out... I had to roadgear my tires twice to clean the mud from them... this is one of the hardest pulls I've ever had, it was a bit worrysome, I was out within the hr, rehooked & seeding again. Where I'm seeding now is so flat & gumbo clay, it's hard to tell where the mud might be until I'm in it! That gumbo is like snott, so sticky & slippery. The surface will look dry, then all the sudden the crust lets go & SURPRISE! you're ****ed!!! Being there with the sprayer the day before, I can usually feel out those spots & flying at 22mph, I'll blast through it without sinking much. But it's 100' booms & a lot area each pass I don't drive on. I made up a sprayer vid a couple days ago, I tried to load it last night, but it stopped at 80%, it must be too big. I gotta re-do the edit or make it a 2 part. |
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Hey Joe, I hear ya on that damp clay, been fighting some myself!
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How is planting going Joe?
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I finished the main part Sunday night... liquid fertilized my winter wht Monday & saw how bad the broadleaf weeds were getting already, so I did in-crop weed spraying Tuesday... then went to do some custom spraying glyphosate that night.
I have a self draining 75acre slough bottom that I got seeded Weds, I put it to oats & have a cattle farmer interested in taking it for either green feed bales or silage. I have a couple of 10ac sloughs that are probably a wk to 10days to dry out if it don't rain much in that time, but tomorrow is forecasted rain to start some time in the morning & be possibly an inch worth in 24hrs. The cut off seed date is June 20th, so if I don't get it done by then, I won't do it. My phone has been ringing since Tues to do custom spraying with glyphosate, I've got about a 1000ac to do. But it's been quite windy Weds Thurs today, so I've done none of it... I look out the window just now & the trees are still swaying quite a lot. Lots of crop everywhere is now through the ground, gotta be careful about drift... I farm in a block, there's nobody within my perimeter & all my land is fenced, so there is 10'+ grass berm separating me from my neighbors' lands, I've never had spray drift cross the fence and so far (knock on wood) I haven't killed any of my own crops using different chemicals... as in what I use in my oilseed crops (flax & brown mustard) to kill broadleaf & grassy weeds - including previous yr cereal that has now volunteered would kill the cereal crops planted next to it... but there again I've changed things from the way my dad did it 6yrs ago - he used to have 80ac or so strips all across the farm of various crops so if a hail storm came through he would still have some of each crop in another area... vs today I farm in big blocks - one corner is all mustard, another corner is all flax & last is all spring wht & winter wht... not very often I get hail, last time a bad one was 99, which got about 2/3's the farm. I loaded out the last of last yr's flax on a Btrain this afternoon... wait to get paid a month from now... my last cheque came from headquarters in Ireland. :rolleyes: Other than that, it's been pretty slack since the last couple days... Gosh I love this life - go hard when I have too & goof off when I don't. :D |
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Oh what joy to wake to this morning. :rolleyes: I've been cutting one day a week the last 3wks, being rained out same day I get started again. I've managed to go Sat, Sun, Mon & got a few acres done. Just the last 2dys the trk has been able to get around the field & we were dumping on the go. Before that the trk had to stay at the road & I was carrying each hopperfull out to it... it's gonna be a s.o.b. when I get to the 1,5 mile long strips. It'd be nice to have a grain cart... but to spend 50G's on a tool that I may only use once... but oh the fuel & def fluid I'm gonna burn up without it. :( To date I'm about 10% harvested... 2012 I finished harvest 4dys ago. |
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Hi Joe I could use some of that snow right now it is to hot here. Ed
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Another inch of accumulated moisture from Tues-Wed's snow & rain (total since planting is now 18 inches), the trk was just barely getting around the field with one hopper dump off the combine. Sunday I was cutting around the edge of slough & one side of the combine sunk in the mud, I was 3/4 full. Fortunately the unload auger was pointing to the field & the trk was able to pull under, but it still took Big Red to get the combine out. :eek:
If we could go more than a week without rain, maybe the soft conditions will subside, but in the short term I'm hoping this will work to keep the combine cutting crop continually all day. Most fields are within a mile of a bin to unload. The tricky part to learn is backing up to the auger to unload with no outside mirror on the left side of tractor cab. It's not warming up much & looks to be cloudy till Mon-Tues. I use two hopper bins with aeration that I fill up, dry grain for 4-5 days, then move grain to non air bins. The hopper bins are presently full, so that'll give me some practice in the coming days to figure out how to do this safely & quickly and hopefully the hiredhand is a quick learner too. ;) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps2f1f71ac.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps3ca0550c.jpg I rigged up this air gauge on the supply line to keep track of air pressure. The pressure doesn't drop to 60lbs for a couple hrs which keeps the maxies off, but I should install the bolts in the brake pots so the brakes never come on period. I thought maybe the gauge would also be helpful to see how much air is maintained for the air ride, but is doesn't. The air gauge down on the lower left of trl frame is a weight gauge, it shows about 10lbs empty & 54lbs is about 2/3's full (15mt or 550bu), which is what I filled it to hooked on the trk for a legal load. I intend to just put one combine hopper (320bu) + whatever additional volume it is while unloading on the go. Then tractor/pup zooms to the bin to unload. ;) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps14ea1428.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps2fff1dda.jpg The ride height is connected to the center axle. I'm not sure yet whether to disconnect leveler rod to prevent loss of air while travelling & keep leveler rod in a fixed position? :confused: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psa4d2068d.jpg The yard is pretty wet too! I spent a few thousand last fall for pit run fill & grading after a wet summer's hauling out making ruts everywhere. I got nearly all my grain out during the winter so I didn't tear up my yard this summer... trying to get harvest in might destroy it again. :( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps1374d174.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps268a0c17.jpg My guard dog is a bit camera shy. :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps1ca43a2a.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psc2ab0b06.jpg |
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