💬 OT The Good Life v.farming

[sktchy]

I wanted to buy an old 4640 and some old stuff and take over doing one of our quarter sections but got shut right down on that.

Dist on the beans is probably from it being so dry and as far as the stalks is it worth looking at different hybrids? Hell the corns 20 foot tall with tree stumps under it I'm sure it's hell to cut through it especially if it yields worth a shit.

 

[GTPpower]

I wanted to buy an old 4640 and some old stuff and take over doing one of our quarter sections but got shut right down on that.

Dist on the beans is probably from it being so dry and as far as the stalks is it worth looking at different hybrids? Hell the corns 20 foot tall with tree stumps under it I'm sure it's hell to cut through it especially if it yields worth a shit.

I'm not sure about the dust. It might be a type of mold we had problems with this year.

I will talk to the seed guy about these beans. Something with a lower maturity might do better.

We don't cut the corn stalks. I'm sure that would really eat Sickles if we did. The stalk is ran between two rollers that push it to the ground while a couple of plates catch the ear to separate the two.

 

[sktchy]

So you just run a ripper through it in the spring and plant it again yeah? Seems the most efficient way to me.

Not gonna lie if I had fields I'd be out walking bean rows with a corn knife cutting shit out for somethin to do

 

[GTPpower]

So you just run a ripper through it in the spring and plant it again yeah? Seems the most efficient way to me.

Not gonna lie if I had fields I'd be out walking bean rows with a corn knife cutting shit out for somethin to do

Some gets disced and field cultivated. Some is no-till. I'd like to try a ripper, but we don't have anything big enough to pull one.

 

[sktchy]

I don't know that our family farm has one either. I've always liked the small farm mindset alot better. Just fixing what you got and doin it over again every year. There's standards and values to it. Things stay traditional and don't change alot other than continually fixing up the main farm house and going on with life. I can go back to the places I grew up and other than stuff added to the junk piles or the old abandoned buildings deteriorating, somebody's new big farm shop once in a while, it's always the same as it was back then. Kinda peaceful really.

 

[GTPpower]

Catching up on some pictures. After we finished beans, we still had some leftover corn to clean out of the bins.



Dryland corn did great this year. Irrigated wasn't as good though.



Still very dry. Saw quite a few fires. This one was around 4-5 miles away.




We had tons of baby calves this year.





It's been mentioned before here, but a corn head doesn't actually cut the stalk. The two rollers pictured here grab the stalk and push it to the ground. One spins counterclockwise and the other clockwise.


The stalk fits between the plates on top, but the ear is too big, and gets ripped off the stalk.


We had a big storm come through during harvest with 70-80 mph winds. It knocked a lot of corn over.



How it should look.



Irrigated ears on the left, Dryland on the right.



Notice how the rows are straight on the irrigated and a lot more crooked/zig zagy on the dryland?



The plant is only about 6" tall when it determines how many rows the ear will have. When the rows aren't straight, it shows the plant was under some stress early on when it was trying to decide on the number of rows.

Saw lots of coyotes this year. I need to do some hunting.



A new JD dealer opened in a new building, then had an open house.











Washed the combine up after we finished.



Decided to sell the head I bought a few months ago. The poly wasn't in great shape though, so I replaced it.













Got it on auctiontime now. Hopefully putting new poly on makes me a little money.

 

[sktchy]

Coyotes seem bad this year, lot of howling and late night gunshots across the river lately.

Or maybe it's the tweakers, I'm not asking.

 

[GTPpower]

The dog, for whatever reason, absolutely loves riding in the sxs.



We had a creek dug out last year, so I spent quite a bit of time smoothing that out and moving dirt.












Here's my reminder that I need to order some teeth.



Happened to win an auction for a grain truck. It needs a bit of work, but it was cheap. I don't think we will keep it though.

 

[DEEZUZ]

3116?

 

[Outlaw]

Our mini Aussie LOVES riding in the ranger.

 

[GTPpower]

3116?

Yes.

 

[Shawn1112]

Partying with some farmers from Brule Nebraska

 

[GTPpower]

Partying with some farmers from Brule Nebraska

Nice. That's a ways from me, but I have a buddy that farms by Bridgeport, which isn't too far from them. Kevin Hall would be the owner. I know his nephew.

 

[Shawn1112]

Nice. That's a ways from me, but I have a buddy that farms by Bridgeport, which isn't too far from them. Kevin Hall would be the owner. I know his nephew.

I’ll run that name past them tomorrow

 

[GTPpower]

So much snow this year. We had close to 2' of snow in about 2 days, followed by highs around -7°.



Then last week, temps went up to the 40's and 50's, so the snow is about all gone by now.


We've been working with cows, keeping them fed and trying to keep them happy.

Lots of planning to get ready for spring field work. I was trying to buy a different planter, but the more I look at them, the more it looks like I need a different tractor to hydraulically run it. So I will likely try to slightly update our current planter instead.

Also, we spray a lot with dicamba. There are a lot of weeds that are resistant, and the only way to kill or suppress them is with dicamba. The courts just revoked the epa's permit for it, so we can't use it this year as of now. This likely will get appealed and changed, bit there is a chance we could really be screwed here.

Court Rules Dicamba ‘Was Unlawfully Approved’ By EPA and Halts Use

Forty million dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton acres would be directly impacted by the ruling the U.S. District Court of Arizona in Tucson made Tuesday. EPA has not said when it will respond to the court's decision.

www.agweb.com

 

[sktchy]

You guys get any of the flooding from snow melt and ice jams down that way? We only had a couple feet of room left when it froze all the way through so when it started raining it got kinda sketch right before it finally all broke up.

 

[GTPpower]

It never really got close here. The river minor flood stage is 10.5' and the highest it got was about 8.3', with a couple of very short lived spikes to 9.5'. There are flood watches going on here in all the normal areas that flood every year, but personally nothing here looks out of the norm.

 

[sktchy]

That makes sense I just saw a lot of warnings and stuff that direction. If it hits 7 here we live on an island and that's considered our minor stage. It hung a little over 5 and then pushed up another foot right before it broke loose and dropped two within an hour, I would presume that was from the rush of it breaking upstream and then breaking it up here. The gauge itself is several miles away so it's a balance between watching that for a heads up and reading the marks painted on our bridge but it's a fun little game we play this time of year every year as well

 

[GTPpower]

The snow all melted quickly, and made a giant mess.






Had to attend a pesticide applicator certification so I can get my license.



Hauled the rest of the cornstalk bales home.





I should paint the box on that pickup....

 

[GTPpower]

I decided it would be nice to have a hitch for the skid loader to move trailers and implements around, but the cheap ones look like they would fold in half, and the better built ones are too much money.

So I bought this plate on ebay that hooks right to the quick attach. It's 1/2" thick and was $160 shipped to my door.





Bought a 12" long reciever hitch adapter on ebay for $25.







Had the local shop cut some 3/8" thick 8x8 triangles to put on each corner for $43.







And since it takes every bit of the 200amps my welder can spit out to penatrate this 1/2" plate, I melted the torch and ran out of filler rod. So here it sits for now.

So I am going to need to do some grinding to fix this melted torch contaminated weld.



Spreading fertilizer.





Celebrated one of my son's 4th birthday. Here is what he wanted, and hasn't stopped playing with it since.



Lastly, all the dirt I was moving after we were done with harvest, ended up making a huge pile of excess out in the field. We have use for that dirt on the yard and where a new building is going up. So I won the auction for this on bigiron. It was insanely cheap, so after I use it, I'm hoping to resell it and make some money on it. Dad and I had to go down by Topeka to pick it up, and I drove it 3.5 hours back home.

 

[sktchy]

I love that pedal tractor. When I was a kid my parents were friends with a guy that used to refinish them and there's some really rare ones worth crazy money. Used to have little toy john deere tractors that were gold instead of painted too

 

[GTPpower]

Yeah, I still have mine from when I was a kid. I restored it in high-school, but it's probably worth too much for kids to be playing with, so it sits.

 

[GTPpower]

Finished up my trailer mover. I just wanted to make sure it would work before I painted it.





I've been working on the kodiak grain truck for awhile now. The heater core was leaking, and that project kind of snowballed. But, it's going back together now.







The hinges on the driver's side door were pretty wore, and I've never had much luck replacing the bushings in them, so I order new hinges. Quite a job to put them in.





There is some repairs I need to do on the tag axle in the rear. sktchy How do I remove these wheels?





Is it the black bolts on the inside?



The dump truck has sat for a week since I brought it back, and the batteries are dead.






I've got them all charging, and I will load test them today. But judging by how they charge, I think they are all bad.

 

[Yaj Yak]

I decided it would be nice to have a hitch for the skid loader to move trailers and implements around, but the cheap ones look like they would fold in half, and the better built ones are too much money.

So I bought this plate on ebay that hooks right to the quick attach. It's 1/2" thick and was $160 shipped to my door.

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Bought a 12" long reciever hitch adapter on ebay for $25.

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Had the local shop cut some 3/8" thick 8x8 triangles to put on each corner for $43.

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And since it takes every bit of the 200amps my welder can spit out to penatrate this 1/2" plate, I melted the torch and ran out of filler rod. So here it sits for now.

So I am going to need to do some grinding to fix this melted torch contaminated weld.

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Spreading fertilizer.

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Celebrated one of my son's 4th birthday. Here is what he wanted, and hasn't stopped playing with it since.

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Lastly, all the dirt I was moving after we were done with harvest, ended up making a huge pile of excess out in the field. We have use for that dirt on the yard and where a new building is going up. So I won the auction for this on bigiron. It was insanely cheap, so after I use it, I'm hoping to resell it and make some money on it. Dad and I had to go down by Topeka to pick it up, and I drove it 3.5 hours back home.

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on your hitch plate i'd put some provisions to hook chains to it.

 

[DEEZUZ]

You usually take the wedges out unless you want to mess with the bearings