how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[Hedgerow]

These windrow’s are freaking impressive..
It’s all the wide pick up can fit.
The baler is a BC 5070 ..
Got about 800 baled up and ready for the boys tomorrow morning.
Should keep em busy till noon.. then off again.
The way this stuff is going, there should be around 4500 bales between the 2 fields.

 

[hoskvarna]

I remember the time I went on a wheat harvest crew.
I was raised in the city. Kansas side of Kansas City. Suburb actually. Prairie Village, Ks.
Anyway, I went to a trade school in Salina, Ks for two years. Had a classmate from Claflin, Ks ask me if I wanted to go cut wheat for the summer. I said sure, why not. We spent a couple of weeks getting stuff ready. Next thing I know we’re just over the state line cutting wheat in Oklahoma. Started in the first field. It was 200 acres. First time I ever sat in a combine, let alone drive one. They were Gleaner L series with 22 foot headers. As I was driving I got to thinking this one field was 200 acres. Just 1 freaking field. My Grandparents farm, that I spent summers at, was 80.
And there was nothing flat about their farm except the BIG field behind the barn where they got their hay baled. 5 acre field. And I thought it was a big field until that first wheat field I learned to operate a combine on.
When I had to leave them to go back to school I took a bus home from Minot, North Dakota.
Best fun and experience for an 18 year old ever.

I went in’82’
Texas to Canada
Biggest field I was on in SD
Was 5mi long and 4 wide
Took us a week to get it done
They called it The Nation
4 JD 7700


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[Hinerman]

I went in’82’
Texas to Canada
Biggest field I was on in SD
Was 5mi long and 4 wide
Took us a week to get it done
They called it The Nation
4 JD 7700


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That's impressive!!!

 

[Hinerman]

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These windrow’s are freaking impressive..
It’s all the wide pick up can fit.
The baler is a BC 5070 ..
Got about 800 baled up and ready for the boys tomorrow morning.
Should keep em busy till noon.. then off again.
The way this stuff is going, there should be around 4500 bales between the 2 fields.

Pics of bales Grandpa...

 

[Fishnuts2]

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These windrow’s are freaking impressive..
It’s all the wide pick up can fit.
The baler is a BC 5070 ..
Got about 800 baled up and ready for the boys tomorrow morning.
Should keep em busy till noon.. then off again.
The way this stuff is going, there should be around 4500 bales between the 2 fields.

Is that baler twine or wire tie?
I worked on a crew for a cousin in IL for a couple of summers. We baled straw and alfalfa for the farms around Lincoln. 100 lb. wire tied hay bales and moved them with hooks.
It was actually better to work with them than those 45 lb. kicker bales that we used on the dairy farms at home.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Is that baler twine or wire tie?
I worked on a crew for a cousin in IL for a couple of summers. We baled straw and alfalfa for the farms around Lincoln. 100 lb. wire tied hay bales and moved them with hooks.
It was actually better to work with them than those 45 lb. kicker bales that we used on the dairy farms at home.

Sounds like hot sweaty work. Think I'll bale out on that job.

 

[67L36Driver]

Morning midlanders!

1/2” of rain last night in the Blacksnake Hills .

 

[Hinerman]

Sounds like hot sweaty work. Think I'll bale out on that job.

I think I will bale out with you, lol

 

[Hedgerow]

Is that baler twine or wire tie?
I worked on a crew for a cousin in IL for a couple of summers. We baled straw and alfalfa for the farms around Lincoln. 100 lb. wire tied hay bales and moved them with hooks.
It was actually better to work with them than those 45 lb. kicker bales that we used on the dairy farms at home.

Twine..

I’ve not seen a wire tie baler in a looong time.

 

[Hedgerow]

Pics of bales Grandpa...

 

[KS Plainsman]

I remember the time I went on a wheat harvest crew.
I was raised in the city. Kansas side of Kansas City. Suburb actually. Prairie Village, Ks.
Anyway, I went to a trade school in Salina, Ks for two years. Had a classmate from Claflin, Ks ask me if I wanted to go cut wheat for the summer. I said sure, why not. We spent a couple of weeks getting stuff ready. Next thing I know we’re just over the state line cutting wheat in Oklahoma. Started in the first field. It was 200 acres. First time I ever sat in a combine, let alone drive one. They were Gleaner L series with 22 foot headers. As I was driving I got to thinking this one field was 200 acres. Just 1 freaking field. My Grandparents farm, that I spent summers at, was 80.
And there was nothing flat about their farm except the BIG field behind the barn where they got their hay baled. 5 acre field. And I thought it was a big field until that first wheat field I learned to operate a combine on.
When I had to leave them to go back to school I took a bus home from Minot, North Dakota.
Best fun and experience for an 18 year old ever.

I worked on the road when I was 19, because I wasn't sure what to do yet and I agree, it's an amazing experience. I got to see parts of this country that I never would've seen, had I not took that travelling job.

Back then, 200 probably was a big field. Back when people could raise a family on a quarter or half section. Nowadays, there's families that farm 8 sections out here and for some areas, that's still not "huge"

I went in’82’
Texas to Canada
Biggest field I was on in SD
Was 5mi long and 4 wide
Took us a week to get it done
They called it The Nation
4 JD 7700


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Now that's huge. Holy smokes! How flat was that?

 

[Douglas Ostrander]

Last fall I started filling totes with an excavator. I have filled 111 totes since April 2022. Yes, it's cheating, but fast! Now running out of cages. I took all the empty totes from the local ethanol plant. LOL.

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[WoodAbuser]

Last fall I started filling totes with an excavator. I have filled 111 totes since April 2022. Yes, it's cheating, but fast! Now running out of cages. I took all the empty totes from the local ethanol plant. LOL.

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What do you do with the tanks from the totes?

 

[hoskvarna]

I worked on the road when I was 19, because I wasn't sure what to do yet and I agree, it's an amazing experience. I got to see parts of this country that I never would've seen, had I not took that travelling job.

Back then, 200 probably was a big field. Back when people could raise a family on a quarter or half section. Nowadays, there's families that farm 8 sections out here and for some areas, that's still not "huge"



Now that's huge. Holy smokes! How flat was that?

Rolling


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[Hedgerow]

Last fall I started filling totes with an excavator. I have filled 111 totes since April 2022. Yes, it's cheating, but fast! Now running out of cages. I took all the empty totes from the local ethanol plant. LOL.

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Hey Doug, have you calculated what a rounded but randomly filled tote holds as far as % of a cord yet?

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[Douglas Ostrander]

What do you do with the tanks from the totes?

I give them away for free on Craigslist. Most are food grade or nonhazardous (not regulated) from the ethanol plants. Still have 26 I need to take the tanks out of. One person made pig huts out of them. Another used them as a septic tank for camper.

 

[Douglas Ostrander]

Hey Doug, have you calculated what a rounded but randomly filled tote holds as far as % of a cord yet?

Piled above the frame is 1/4 cord. If you can keep the length of each cut constant for measuring. You can get more wood in the tote if you keep the cuts to 15-16 inch in length. This is for the shorter 275 gallon cages. Some are the taller 330 gallon size.

 

[Cat 525]

Bout 2" of rain last night and this morning. Let everybody get the kinks fixed in the equipment I reckon.

 

[hoskvarna]

Bout 2" of rain last night and this morning. Let everybody get the kinks fixed in the equipment I reckon.

Wish we could get some now
Before too wet now getting dry
I have not mowed my lawn in a week and a half. Before twice a week


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