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

[WoodAbuser]

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Careful where u point that.

 

[KS Plainsman]

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At least you shouldn't have to worry about the neighbors wanting to have a lawn competition.

 

[Hinerman]

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Keep that away from Matt!!!

 

[Workshop]

Evening everybody.
A little late today, been going like gang busters since 5am. Retirement is looking more and more desirable lately.

 

[Fishnuts2]

I got a chance to drive this today.

It’s from the large collection at the dealership where I work. 1934 Ford V8
Quite an experience.


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[Semotony]

Evening everybody.
A little late today, been going like gang busters since 5am. Retirement is looking more and more desirable lately.

Just remember-: each day behind cuts down on number ahead.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Good morning all yall! I can say it that way cause I live in the south. Southern MN.

 

[WoodAbuser]

I got a chance to drive this today.

It’s from the large collection at the dealership where I work. 1934 Ford V8
Quite an experience.


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Sweet ride. Would haul a few chainsaws. Firewood not so much.

 

[Hedgerow]

The first "40" has been run through the combine and hauled to town.

Wheat harvest thus far is 74 bushel / acre @ 12% moisture and a test weight of 60..

bout 175 acres to go. The 40 closest to jean's barn will be windrowed and the straw will be baled.

 

[Hedgerow]

I'm thinking that 30 acres west of the barn will go close to 90 Bushel to the acre. It's pretty impressive.
Not sure how it didn't go down with the last round of heavy rains we had a few weeks back.

 

[Hedgerow]

It’s heavy..

 

[Cat 525]

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It’s heavy..

No heavy wheat here. Straw is rotten and short. 40 acres behind torn out alfalfa made 45 tho. 11 moisture. 59 tw.
Cutting in the Sandhills now. Report in later.

 

[Hedgerow]

This field is going to Andrew's seed company down the road.
It's the king grazer variety they clean and sell.

No yield estimates yet, but the first load was 13% moisture and 61 test weight.

I'll give the straw a couple hours and run some through the baler. Maybe we can knock 500 bales out or so tonight.

 

[Hedgerow]

 

[KS Plainsman]

They're even starting out here in a couple fields. Amazing how fast a week of upper 90's to 100 plus, with wind, will turn the fields.

It's also crazy the difference in field sizes in Missouri, compared to out here.

 

[WoodAbuser]

They're even starting out here in a couple fields. Amazing how fast a week of upper 90's to 100 plus, with wind, will turn the fields.

It's also crazy the difference in field sizes in Missouri, compared to out here.

Can you say flat? When I have driven thru Kansas it seemed like i could see halfway across the state.

 

[KS Plainsman]

Can you say flat? When I have driven thru Kansas it seemed like i could see halfway across the state.

I've been through Missouri and even just looking at the 2 pictures he put up, it looks plenty flat to get more than 40 acre fields, but yeah, we got some visibility out here and I like it that way.

There's a little hill in my buddy's pasture, that's just high enough, that you can see surrounding towns lights at night, and the furthest is 45 miles away.

Edit: It's just interesting that they split the land up into such small parcels. It's hard to find 40 acre parcels out here.

 

[Cat 525]

Had a storm blow through a bit ago! 70 mph wind and heavy rain. See what the crops look like in the morning!

 

[Workshop]

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.

 

[Workshop]

It was a small family crew. My friends mom and dad, my friend and his 11 year old little brother. Dad drove the service truck pulling a 60 ft mobile home we stayed in. Mom drove a C-40 Chevy wheat truck pulling a flatbed trailer with the family car on it. My friend and I drove a pair of C-60 Chevy wheat trucks pulling the combines loaded onto trailers. We put the headers up in the bed of the trucks and away we went. First time in my life I ever drove anything bigger than my 64 Dodge Polara 4 door sedan.