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No Bo, I don't think anyone ever gets used to it, some are able to deal with it better than others... me not so much, low blood pressure = poor blood circulation - hands & feet get cold quick!
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Well the month January has been rather quiet, grain prices have been lower than Fall, so I haven't made any deals lately, still have about a third of my 2016 crop to price yet.
I get a call from my neighbor last night that his turbo blew mid afternoon, sitting out on the road just off the hiway a few miles from the country elevator, can I come him a hand tomorrow & bring my trk to empty his & tow him to town? Sure! :D Last 3 weeks have been like Spring with Sunday's temps @10C, this morning cool off to -15C & with 30 - 40km/hr wind, windchill was like -25C. DAYUM it was cold!!! :eek: Even though we had to hand shovel the trk, it was still difficult to keep warm, for me anyway. :( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pspaouv93p.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pseibbresj.jpg Neighbor in tow @about 50 - 60km/hr, 50 some km to get it to a repair shop. Whole trk was covered in oil, squirt some windex to try to clean windows & it froze in seconds. :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psevwf5cs5.jpg Anyways, it was good to get out & do something different today. :) Last week, same neighbor was at another neighbor's for a visit & bought that guy's B train hoopers, old trls, but didn't have a tractor to pull them home. Couple days later he takes me trk shopping to help him pick out a trk, he settled on a low mileage 2001 9900 International w/ 550hp ISX Cummins, 18spd, 4.10 46's, pretty sweet workhorse, very clean & everything felt tight. I drove it home for him & picked up his trls along the way cause he doesn't have a cdl. So I guess now this Friday I'll drive his semi to finish hauling the last of his malt barley, 10 mile haul. I'll drive there loaded, he can drive back empty & get some practice. ;) |
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Talking to my neighbor today, the shop said the turbo grenaded & sent all kinds of metal into the engine! :eek: :( Oil filter is half full of filings. Had 20% of its oil left in the pan. Needs an inframe @$20k or a reman @$23k. :rolleyes:
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That's some shitty news for your neighbor **** repairs can break a person. One thing I do miss living in the city is you always could depend on a neighbor for help any time and for anything in a small town. I do miss the farm life.
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Spent the day out in the farm shop working on a lil mini project.
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Auger runs like a champ! :cool:
Using the 1/2 inch impact didn't work, there's enough initial resistance that the impact goes into ratchet mode & hammers away at very low speed. A 2 spd drill worked great. Use 1st for a minute, then 2nd for another minute, cleaned the corners out to about shovel on each side. :) |
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Should have used the dozer to clean the corners out, a little work, a little play, a little work,:lol::lol::lol::D
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Ahhhh........ hmmmm........... steel tracks on a steel floor.... might be all day to clean the corners on one load, :eek: :D :p
Got done hauling fert this morning, and spent the afternoon cleaning the salt out of trk/trl & auger, then did an oil change on trk. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pscgc5fpwk.jpg 2015 I had major problems with fertilizer gumming up my drill & causing irregular seeding rates... today, seeing this build up on the auger flighting of the auger I used to fill the bin is quite concerning. 5yrs ago this never happened, flighting was virtually clean polished steel. Added time every day during seeding watching for signs of trouble. :( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psffmqxmfg.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps3vjwvmn9.jpg |
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Is the fertalizer salt just too moist, or is there more to it?
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No, the product is dry, and the humidity Wed - Thurs was low 40's. The formulation of how it's produced is somehow different. In 2015 the fert build up was a brown colored oily mush that gummed up my drill in the seed rolls, throughout the air tubes and primary heads. This yr the fert build up on the auger flighting is different in being hard white stuff, not oily at all. I don't know what to think, It's just the last 2 yrs that this has become an issue. :thinking:
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Heading 3 hrs north of home to pick up 700bu of yellow flax seed...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psur1efdrf.jpg It's spring like weather since March 20th, took a week to melt & dry up, been servicing trks, tractors, augers, air drill, getting ready for spring planting... weather permitting, I hope to start spraying burnoff late next week & then start seeding durum April 24th... long range forecast doesn't look good for that to happen, but perhaps it's wrong. :) |
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I went about 1hr north of home yesterday to pick up a (new to me) conveyor with a farmer invention shaker screen attachment on it... in the past it was a painfully slow process to gravity screen fertilizer from the bin, more than an hour to put on 10mt 2 - 3 times a day. Last couple yrs I've had help to take the time to do it while I'm seeding, but no help yet this spring, I didn't want to waste 3hrs a day loading fert trk. Now with this shaker screen AND 15 inch conveyor I can load trk in 10 minutes. With over 200mt to put through the drill in a season, that's close to 30hrs time saved. :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psgdbh2ons.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps1vicwgar.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps0mqny36h.jpg I was gonna start seeding today, but wet weather started at 7am this morning & forecast don't look good for tomorrow either... so far it's been a bit of a drizzle. The fields are crazy wet, gonna be a lot of butt puckering next couple weeks. |
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Unofficially finished planting May 18th, the last 300ac had too many wet spots throughout & I was hoping they would dry. May 23 - 26 the wind blew up to 50mph everyday, the wet spots seemed like they dried & I tried to finish planting May 27... I didn't go half mile & sunk my drill on the side of a hill :eek: :( First time in my life of farming that I had to split the cart from the drill to get out of the mud hole... that was about 4hrs of not fun :rolleyes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps1ux9ez7t.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psrrntjeey.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psicwwl6sm.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps60c2vsrk.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pss7wfknzg.jpg Where I buy my fertilizer & chemical in town, they also have specialized equipment to rent like this Valmar... I filled it with fertilizer & was hoping to broadcast on the surface the last I was trying to seed & with just seed in the cart it'd be a lot less weight to drag around... just about sunk it 3x :( Gave up, done seeding! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pshzn8k5bp.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psehigcl6s.jpg With that Valmar, I broadcast the last 20mt of fert on the land I seeded, don't want to store fert till next season anymore b/c I went thru an exhausting wreck this spring from fert I kept over from last yr. A half section that was a swamp last yr that I never got seeded meant 20mt of fert left over. took it all out of the bin, put floor dry in the bin bottom to collection any moisture that might accumulate at trap... added 60mt on top last week of March this Spring... May 3rd when I just started seeding, couldn't get the fert to come out of the bin.. beat on the slopes of the hopper with a fence post & using a hockey stick to poke from the bottom for 2hrs by myself with no success... phone fert agent, two guys come out with a big plastcic sledge hammer & a vibrator snake... two more hrs go by & we kinda got it to flow, but the fert was coming from around the edges & that started a corkscrew effect that started to literally crinkle the hopper slopes & dents appearing up the side of the bin :eek: so we quit... and I go to town to get 10mt of new fert so I can atleast get some seeding done that day. Next morning two guys come again with a picker trk & basket, and a gen set with a big hammer drill with a home made 5ft drill bit... essentially a half inch rod with sickle sections on the end with 1/2 rod stubs welded perpendicular on the 5ft shaft. I managed to get the manhole cover on hopper slope open the day before & we worked the hammer drill through there for better than a hr AND THEN THE FERT DROPPED!!! It was a bit of struggle getting that manhole cover slid back in place, maybe half tonne hit the ground. Put 15mt on the trk, go fill the drill, take another 15mt out, looks like we got it, the workers leave. Next day take another 15mt out & it flows ok. But after that the last 45mt to come out was a lumpy mess that took better than an hr each trk load. That wreck cost me more than a day's worth time of hard labor over the period of the week of seeding durum... never again store fertilizer through summer, fall, winter! That shaker screener/conveyor was a god send, it would've been 10x the job if I was still using my screw auger. :) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psldgbrwk6.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psm4mtmnjp.jpg Land rolling peas, took 2 days to go over 650ac http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psk4zhpna7.jpg Pick rock football size & bigger b/c the land roller aint pushing them in the ground. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pswqnxkoa2.jpg This is why I spray ahead of seeding... somehow I forgot a small area in the middle of the field... probably tank went empty, went seeding rest of day, next morning spraying again in a different area, didn't check "plane" view on monitor when finish the field :rolleyes: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps1wcjysdd.jpg The swamp half I didn't seed crop on last yr, it's bottom ground that has several square miles of higher ground of water run off that goes through; the last 7yrs the quality of soil has been diminishing with the ten feet of rainfall accumulation, plus whatever the winter snowfall amounted to; I decided last yr to seed it this spring to a forage grass blend of alphalfa, brome, crested wheat grass... cut/bale next summer for 7 - 10yrs, then maybe rent it for pasture after that or could farm it again... though I won't be farming anymore in 10yrs. I put my 9390 on the little grass seeder, tractor is 21ft wide, seeder 33ft wide :D ...but I did find a couple of spots that I did get some wheel slippage :eek: ...the Ford FWA would've been stuck!!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psnenhfedz.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psf6hl0fyc.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psmktmcgub.jpg |
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As wet as it was this spring, now it's gotten incredibly dry with about a half inch total rainfall throughout entire month May, but the biggest kick in the nutts is the strong winds last 3 weeks that has dried out the surface & created a 2 inch gap to moisture.
My durum on gumbo land, it was so wet when seeding that the drill compacted the soil bad!!! A good soaker rain anytime after seeded would've cured that problem, but the high winds turned the clay into brick hard & my durum on a 1000ac has come up patchy, 7 - 10% never germinated... for Kriest sake - one extreme to the next! And my yellow flax is shallow seeded at about 1/2 inch, same problem, surface dried out - patchy germination. Got a boomer last night, 3 tenths in the gauge... it'll help, but not sure if it's enough... plus it's kinda late for the majority durum that germinated 5 weeks ago, a 2nd growth now, gonna cause problems come harvest :rolleyes: About 20% done in crop spraying... lack of crop growth also means lack of weed growth ...probably take all month... whatever, go tinker in the Lil Giants shop. :) |
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Looks to be quite big investments in equipment in order to run a farm this size. Quite some maintenance I would guess) Do you hire people now and then to help with maintenance, and general work on the farm, or you manage most of it your self?
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The most important tool on the farm is a grease gun Oyvind, it virtually eliminates most any other additional maintenance ;)
Half my equipment is a few yrs old, the other half 20 some yrs old & primarily operated by me alone - never abused. Other than my combine that goes to town for a yearly post harvest check up, I do my own wrenching/service/welding on machinery. Good - experienced help is hard to come by nowadays. I do the majority of the farm work by myself... everybody wants big $$/hr wage, but won't do any heavy labor or long hrs when needed. I don't have time to babysit & train somebody new every yr, nor can I afford to let just any idiot try to operate a half million dollar piece of equipment applying $100+/ac ag products... 6 more yrs after this one & then it's FREEDOM 55 :D :cool: |
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That sounds like its shaping up to be a rough year.
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Starting out to be a less than ideal yr frizzen... as nuts as it was last fall with the crazy wet weather, crop under snow for a month, crop riddled with disease & trouble with the help; some of the price deals I made afterwards with durum ($422/ac) & yellow peas ($450/ac) were at the right time & I managed to do alright. :) Next week the grain cleaner is coming to the farm to clean brown mustard, try to get the sample to the buyer's standards so he'll honor the $0.36/lbs contract I have with him... hopefully be another $250/ac to add to the pot.
Alberta has had some decent rainfall so far, but Saskatchewan, Manitoba & much of the mid-western USA is drier than normal, price of wheat has risen 30% in the last couple weeks... a lower yielding - higher quality crop is cheaper to harvest & easier to market. :) I've never played the stock market, I figure I gamble away enough with just farming ;) |
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Painfully slow, maybe 75 bushel/hr, but it's getting all the crap out :)
Could be 120hrs to clean these two bins :eek: 17hr days x 7 :( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pspq2ailwp.jpg |
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Finished 1st bin mid afternoon, 50hrs in 2.5 days. Moved to next bin, up & running by 5. Crazy hot today, I think it's peak was 36 :eek: 40 - 60% chances of rain next couple days, haven't been in the Lil Giants shop for 10 days.
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Finished in crop spraying Tuesday, finally... here's what remains of $100k of chemical used.
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That's a whole lot of lunch money!
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How's the crops looking out your way Joe?
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Finished up my durum yesterday, still have yellow flax to do in maybe 2 weeks (I hope), then I'm done done! Big change over last yr! I worked by myself for much of harvest, this tandem/pup worked really well, heaped is about 1400 bushel... usually dumped it 4x a day.
https://s26.postimg.cc/8hcgvhhnt/014.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/bqvhfov55/015.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/xv5nckjah/024.jpg This Spring went from crazy wet during planting to bone dry in less than a month & virtually no rain all summer... I say virtually b/c the tenth here & two tenths there was never enough to soak up the ground to make it muddy... wicked compaction created by both the tire tracks of the sprayer & tractor/seed cart lead to patchy crop germination throughout all my durum, the durum was seeded at a depth of 1,5". My peas were seeded nearly twice as deep @3" & no issues; the yellow flax @0,5", 1st 350ac came up great - last 250ac I sprayed out early July b/c germination was 20-30% & I don't need any additional weed populations than I already have :eek: https://s26.postimg.cc/6w1shewtl/018.jpg As dry as it has been, crop volume is about one third of last yr, BUT quality is near perfect! Now if the price would reflect that it would be a great yr... apparently much of Europe & Russia are pulling in bumper crops - keeping the price down below last yr's levels. :( |
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Today's good fun on the farm
https://s26.postimg.cc/c3kg43yd5/004.jpg https://s26.postimg.cc/ldwk7n92x/005.jpg This half section native pasture is 2 miles straight south of my farm... the guy that rents this, he's another 1,5 mile south. He calls me July 20th to say 12 cow/calf pairs (out of 35) were at his front door that morning :D This bog has been so full of water the last decade that the cows never ventured into it... but this summer with zero rainfall, now the bog has dried up quite a bit & the fence is on the ground that far in. Today I put in two 8" diameter x 8' length post here & on the other side (had to drive 3/4 mile east to get around to other side). Probably December, after the temps have been -20's for a few weeks, hopefully the bog is frozen so I can unroll 3 strands of wire with my quad... not sure yet what use for posts, probably steel T bar. |
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This year's update on growing year 2018...
Late spring melt April 20th, following week started getting machinery ready to roll, May 1st - 4th putting out granular chemical for oilseeds & pulse crops... few months earlier bought a mid 90's StrawMaster heavy harrow with granular chemical applicator... using this implement, the harrow tickles the ground for light soil disturbance to get good ground contact with the chemical to make it more effective & the added benefit to get weed seeds actively growing so when I come back in a few weeks with the pre seed burnoff, the weeds were a plentiful & a few inches tall... smoked them! And I've never had granular chemical work so well before, my peas were so clean that I never sprayed in-crop, saving me about $30/ac in costs. :cool: Started seeding May 5th, working by myself, as I have 8 out of the last 10 yrs, got it done in good time with little delay or effort. Finished May 22nd. Got a good soaker rain May 24th, 7/10 of an inch, that got everything germinated & off to a great start. Next 3 weeks, started to get into in-crop spraying of grasses & broadleaf control, got rather hot & windy and crop starting to suffer from lack of rain. June 19th got a 6 tenth rain & from there on till end of July was avging close to an inch a week. Crops were looking FABULOUS :cool: August 7 - 11th got a wicked heat wave in the low 40's... b/c of the lack of moisture in early June stalling plant growth, then good moisture throughout July, peas & brown mustard flowered off late July, and when that extreme heat hit the crops were just beginning to set seed. From the date peas & mustard flowered off, I should've started peas last few days of August & mustard would've been ready about Sept 10th... but b/c of the rogue heat wave everything came in two weeks sooner https://s33.postimg.cc/dnbds2fxr/001.jpg https://s33.postimg.cc/ilyw6pemn/004.jpg The pics above are of brown mustard, and just like the peas, the crop mass was huge & looked like a bumper crop... but that 5 day heat wave was just as deadly as a killing frost at the absolute worst time in the plant cycle and yields were half what they should of been... that four days of 40 heat cost me about $400 000 is lost revenue :( The durum wasn't hurt quite as badly, as it's cycle is much different than the specialty crops & it flowered off much sooner. But the side of the farm it was planted on, I've been dealing with some group 1 chemical resistance weed issues & the other groups I used in my durum crop weren't 100% effective in every field. One field didn't make 20bu/ac, majority of the acres were 35-40bu/ac (very good) & about 300ac that I had sunk my airdrill May 2017 seeding, I chem fall last yr & this yr went close to 60bu/ac Occasional low spot would spike the yield for a few seconds (I've never programmed the yield monitor or moisture, yield reading is about 30% high) https://s33.postimg.cc/67c46fzzz/009.jpg Markets currently for durum are really poor, elevators are offering $6.25/bu for any grade - any protein :confused: WTF?! The one shining light of this yr, I got a full time guy 2nd day into harvest, turned into the best hand I've ever had, I've never had anyone WORK WITH ME so well before :cool: Despite a couple of day long breakdowns, we mowed off a rather large crop (material wise) in record time! We finished Tuesday Sept 11, started raining next day & every day since with no sunshine in sight the next 5 days :eek: I got about a truck load of green spots to combine yet, but everything else is in the bin. If I had gone it alone again this yr with my after 4pm partime drivers, I'd probably still have 1000ac out there yet turning to shyt right now... not that it matters right now anyway with how durum is current being traded, but just saying... I gave this new guy the same flat salary I paid the last guy & b/c we did the harvest so quickly & efficiently with zero mistakes & zero adverse weather delays, his hourly wage works out close to $100/hr... the last guy was about $45-50/hr & aside from his wage, b/c of his BS not doing his job or not showing up costed me over $100 000 in losses in 2016 that were a direct result of his poor job performance. New guy will be back in the Spring. :) Despite the huge wage I'm paying him, he's gonna make me money. :cool: Saturday mornings is crib at the vet clinic, Doc's quote of the day, as it pours rain outside & crackling thunder, "the Devil's hauling rocks" :lol: https://s33.postimg.cc/551xnwwm7/012.jpg |
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The last 3 weeks we have been having November weather, cold and wet nearly everyday, hmmm this is interesting & helps to explain why
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ne...eather/113160/ The majority farmers in my area are either done or within 10% of finished. Get north of the #1 hiway and many are 50-75% done. Get north of the Yellow Head hiway (#16) and many farmers haven't even started their harvest yet :eek: The next two week forecast is getting colder & talking snow flurries :( A shocker to the system to go from 25-30 Celsius to single digits virtually overnight... I'm just starting to feel better after being down & out last weekend with a wicked head & chest cold... I rarely get sick, but a drastic weather change like that kicked my azz for 5 days :eek: |
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Joe were down to one day of shelling corn and 3-4 of beans, so far we have mudded about 2/3 of our fields and barely completed 1/4 of fall tillage. Definitely been a different year, not often you can't get across the field with a combine with 6 30 inch tires.
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The prairies finally got some decent 20-25C sunshine about the last 10 days of October. I did my last 2hrs of combining on the 25th of Oct, surprisingly the snow didn't flatten it & the quality was still #2. I had just enough time to get my combine cleaned, serviced, put away; did a couple days of discing; loaded out 6 B's of pre-contracted durum, sold & shipped a carload of brown flax, everything put away in storage on Oct 30th. It was 20C on Oct 30th, changed to -8C by 7pm Oct 31st :eek: It's been quite a mild winter till just this past week has been -25C with -40 windchill... Friday is suppose to be +7 :lol: A couple posts back showing my pounder at the pasture, last winter was mild till late January, then it turned -20's -30's & we got bombed with quite a bit of snow. I never got that bog fenced last winter... I tried to string wire that December but out towards the middle it hadn't quite froze yet & I sunk 850 Polaris quad, had a **** of time getting that out! completely destroyed the double strand barb I had strung out, twisting loops in the wire to pull from with the winch... Renter put cows in June 1st, cows found the hole in the fence a month later... Checked the bog last week, walked it 1st tamping with a crowbar, then drove my quad back & forth a few times... it's good to go :D Friday afternoon's job, string 3 strands. ;) Next hurdle will be trying to pound posts into frozen ground :rolleyes:... I'm thinking of using a piece of 2 7/8 drill stem, put a point on it, use the pounder to punch a hole, then with a chain hook on the pounder head & links welded on drill stem, pull it out & pound a skinny 3-4 inch wooden post in... probably 40-50 posts. Good times :) |
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-27C Supposed to get a truck today to pick up mustard. Plugged tractor in @7am, go for coffee for a couple hours. Come back to yard 8" auger out of my dad's, I don't think this Chevy has a posi rear :confused:, didn't get very far.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pstxqw7sq3.jpg Yes, the grille is broke & headlight bent downward. Clipped a small deer early morning in November. Get it fixed in March, after winter weather & driving in the dark. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psj5mdq0wu.jpg Stupid steering turns the wrong way :rolleyes: keep dragging it till it straightens out :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psha1qeofw.jpg Dispatch calls @noon, trucker broke down in Sask somewhere, loaded headed for Alberta, ECM troubles, won't be seeing him today. Brutal cold all week, I've got 4, maybe 5 B's in my yard in hopper bins, contract is 6 B's; hope it warms up when I need to plow my dad's yard. :) |
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Brutal cold this week... tues had two trks, 4pm was -24 & 30hp Kohler motor worked good; 2nd trk came after dark 8pm, it was -28 & higher humidity, just about didn't get motor started, it ran rough for entire load, carb icing.
Next day one trk, -28. Dragged my 125000 btu diesel heater out to the shed 30 minute before trk showed up. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psotp4argd.jpg While loading, the trker tells me his electrical plug on lead trl shattered in the cold that day, got no lights, needs to get to town to fix it... I tell him we can fix it here, I should have what you need. :) Two of us stood in front of that heater for an hour, bare hands, it was almost as good as being inside. :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psbiyzxfnd.jpg |
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Looks like fun, we just got 4+ inches of rain so we are swimming here!
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Fack I hate deer! ... this gonna be expensive, the inside tires have chloride, thank goodness the outside two don't ...fack I hate deer! Useless, thieving, property destroying varmints :mad:
GPS auto steer on 3 tractors & sp sprayer, I've lost count how many horns I spotted before running over them... my luck ran out. :( https://i.postimg.cc/bNfRW4Nr/002.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/3xnCyRj0/003.jpg |
Re: Something new to rc
An early melt starting late March, a slow melt too allowing most of it to soak in rather than run to all the low spots... I did my granular chemical with my heavy harrow April 16 - 19th... the entire time while doing that I couldn't any green vegetation (weeds)... my neighbors to the east starting seeding, what they were spraying for burn off prior was likely nothing but a waste of chemical. I started cruising the fields on my quad Easter Sunday looking for weeds, nothing... Tuesday afternoon started to see some weeds poke through the cover... forecasted to be a wet weekend, start seeding the following week, maybe May 1st.
WRONG! We got bombed on Sunday!!! The snow started some time during the night & didn't let up till 7:30pm.... unbelievable amount of snow! My trk about 4pm https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psgqohrcns.jpg When it did quit at 7:30pm, I use the Apache sprayer to get out of my yard with its 7foot tall tires to get to my dads yard to bring my Ford FWA loader back to pull out my trk & clear the snow away. https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psw4z5vwk4.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psmyykxnsb.jpg Pics I took the next day https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps6dbmsmvl.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps0vj7yc8f.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psdvjdirtr.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psbvdjm793.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psqnnx3hoo.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psknnitfxw.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psod4ug51c.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psk5dedob5.jpg |
Re: Something new to rc
Today's adventure, May 2nd (actually started yesterday without my involvement)... a used oil recycling plant is 3 miles north of me, the last 6 months they've been doing a major expansion/upgrade with no production, just all new construction. A zoom boom was traveling on the east side of their property on a high narrow road when the shoulder let go.
A kid that works there got his dad to come with a 140hp FWA to pull the zoom boom back on top... they short chained it, almost got it back on road when boom started to straighten out behind tractor & boom touched tractor tires. They stopped, lengthen chain a bit, try again, now zoom boom won't move! I get a call, they ask if they can pull it down the embankment into my pasture... I said ok, not realizing exactly where they were, I should've went to look right away :rolleyes: I got there an hour later to see what was going on to discover what a bigger wreck it turned into. I headed out at 6am this morning with my 9390 to pull it out. 1st couple tries on a short rope down in the bottom couldn't budge it, spin out right away, HOLY $@*&!!! Stretched out all the straps, chains, ropes that were on site... a couple of straps were 4"... starting pulling from good solid ground, 1st gear - low throttle... one of those 4" straps vaporized when it snapped, I was looking right at it, it seriously disappeared, I wish somebody was filming it, I've never seen a strap obliterate like that before. :eek: I had my 6" 75000lbs strap & two 20t shackles with me... I went to town with the foreman to help shop for two 6" 100 000lbs straps & another 20t shackle,,, $900 total, back to the site. https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psmnwou4rs.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...pswjhab6ur.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...pskz94afgj.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psuxgorxky.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psh5wi6t95.jpg Pulled him to the top of the hill to a good spot where they could cross the fence & get back on their property. https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psza9gty6v.jpg The embankment where it went off https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps5g3rv2hz.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...pszvcgy2e6.jpg Pics I took at noon today when I got back, still alot of snow. Forecast for the next week is single digits & maybe more snow on the weekend. :( https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psvxymbdte.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps9glj8qsv.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps4ltc8ukb.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...pspftiiseg.jpg |
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