The Official Farming Thread...

[hoskvarna]

thanks it’s been nice evenings the last couple of weeks the straw is bad this year short and
black like chaff not much good hay this year some good June hay but plenty of
haylage and silage

how is is your drought situation did you have much rain these last few weeks

Little bit over a inch
Not near enough but better than nothing

 

[jakethesnake]

Dad plunged into his & it was around 18.5%, he ran about 100 acres of beans that were around 11.3%.

My brother just brought a used Brent 1082 auger this year. It’s in pretty good shape with new tires. Anyone care to guess what these tires sell for ???

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2500

 

[JimBear]

The fella showed my brother the invoice,

$7500 each mounted… I about chittered my britches.

 

[JimBear]

Started running some beans ( 500 acres ) for my brothers friend today, he was thinking we could knock them out in 2-1/2 days if things worked well…

The beans weren’t ready until about 10:30, the elevator is closing at noon today & isn’t open tomorrow so that plan has already taken a big hit.

I guess with trucks, carts, wagons & loaded combines we can have 6000bu. ready to go to town Monday.

 

[JimBear]

And we are shut down as the beans are too wet. A fella at the elevator did open up so we could dump 2 trucks. Typical cluster fook, guys get all rammy & then the chit isn’t ready.

 

[Only the Tony]

Rolled a few yesterday, should be able to knock out the rest in a couple of hours today. Only second cutting because of lack of moisture this year. I may do some thinking about when we cut next year to try for three. If for no other reason than to sell some. Prices are stupid again this year. I really think because of the shortage last year that drove up the prices, people think that in a good year they can sell high this year as well. Just like most things, price can jump overnight but takes a long time to return to a normal level.

 

[Lnk]

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Might as well pour it on the ground in front of your sight in target. Any driers in your area?

 

[jakethesnake]

Might as well pour it on the ground in front of your sight in target. Any driers in your area?

I have one. It’s a batch drier but it works good. Just slow. Not something you wanna try to dry every load w. Dry 20000 bushel a year. Or in that neighborhood. Put combine back in shed. I’ll try soon. Good weather coming this week

 

[Only the Tony]

 

[Duce]

JD 2030 is gone. Next is a JD 4020 diesel, it has duals, but not on tractor. I switched to 12 volt, but have all part to switch back to 24 volt.

 

[JimBear]

JD 2030 is gone. Next is a JD 4020 diesel, it has duals, but not on tractor. I switched to 12 volt, but have all part to switch back to 24 volt. View attachment 391729

That should fetch a nice amount.

 

[Only the Tony]

Yeah, I don't think it's supposed to look quite like that.

 

[Firewood Hoarder]

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Yeah, I don't think it's supposed to look quite like that.

Did it twist over time, or did you find something the brush hog didn't approve of?

 

[Only the Tony]

Did it twist over time, or did you find something the brush hog didn't approve of?

Think a little of both. Last straw was hitting a couple of ruts in field and dropping blades onto the dirt between them. Twisted/broke the u-joints and the yokes on the front shaft as well. Didn't realize the shaft was twisted until reassembly time. Luckily just a Weasler trilobe setup so I think we can just get the internal shaft locally.

 

[Wilhelm]

Little incubator orphan is growing


And the dominant junior lady

 

[jakethesnake]

 

[nbbt]

I got some garlic planted a couple of weeks ago. We slightly increased the number of cloves planted from 53 last year to more than 130 this year. I am surprised at how quickly we are using the crop planted in '22. This years batch has rooted well already and it's sprouts are starting to poke through in spots. Last years batch didn't seem phased by the early growth this spring.
We tried a couple of planting methods, most all 3-4" deep to the bottom of the clove, and then covered with about 6" of straw. Cloves are 3.5 to 4" apart with most single lane rows being 5" apart. The ziz-zag rows are a bit closer together.
Varieties in the ground are Chesnok Red, Armenian, German, and Music for the '24 harvest

 

[legdelimber]

I like the ruler markings.
Says to hand dig two feet on either side of the utility marks!
Hell, that's the whole danged trench dug by then, ain't it?

 

[jakethesnake]

Just starting to roll corn. Broke a spring on tractor trailer today. The truck itself. Froeghtliner fl112. Any of you fellas ever work on big trucks. I’ve never broken a spring on one so not exactly sure what’s gotta happen here.

Gotta get the trailer dumped. It’s home in yard gonna put the corn in our tank so no big deal on that end. Just not sure how big a job that might be. Haven’t looked at it yet. Just knew truck wasn’t driving right so I limped home in it

 

[Mastermind]

Just starting to roll corn. Broke a spring on tractor trailer today. The truck itself. Froeghtliner fl112. Any of you fellas ever work on big trucks. I’ve never broken a spring on one so not exactly sure what’s gotta happen here.

Gotta get the trailer dumped. It’s home in yard gonna put the corn in our tank so no big deal on that end. Just not sure how big a job that might be. Haven’t looked at it yet. Just knew truck wasn’t driving right so I limped home in it

Way outside of my wheelhouse.