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My brother was out scouting some of his beans & they had some serious cupping going on, looked like Dicamba damage.

A fella called him while he was out in the field telling him that they had a drone crew from Kansas spray a bunch of pasture for trees a couple weeks ago & several neighbors were reporting dead & heavily damaged beans.

The drones were putting on Tordon 22k & it drifted & traveled, apparently there are around 1000 acres of dead or heavily damaged beans in that area.

Hope that business has good insurance…
 

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My brother was out scouting some of his beans & they had some serious cupping going on, looked like Dicamba damage.

A fella called him while he was out in the field telling him that they had a drone crew from Kansas spray a bunch of pasture for trees a couple weeks ago & several neighbors were reporting dead & heavily damaged beans.

The drones were putting on Tordon 22k & it drifted & traveled, apparently there are around 1000 acres of dead or heavily damaged beans in that area.

Hope that business has good insurance…
Dang....
 

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Anybody know stuff about welding spring steel?
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Got a one of these with a few broken tines.....

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i consider myself pretty decent welder but i havent had much luck welding that before. i would suggest to replace the broken ones. if you wanted to try preheat whole tine to 350-400 then weld it with 7018 and then post heat back to the 350-400 cooling down 50* every 30 mins until ambient temp. if you do that and it doesn't crack at the weld it should hold. also while cooling if you peen it where welding it should help it keep from cracking. or if you have a ton of dry silica sand heat it up post weld and bury it to allow it to slowly cool.
 

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Is Tom contemplating plowing something down there?
You got a spot with some decent topsoil?
Sam's been "plowing" the universe down here, hence the busted tines.....poor kid, thinks he's a farmer.

Pretty much less that zero actual dirt here.... just flint, limestone, and goopy red clay.
 

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i consider myself pretty decent welder but i havent had much luck welding that before. i would suggest to replace the broken ones. if you wanted to try preheat whole tine to 350-400 then weld it with 7018 and then post heat back to the 350-400 cooling down 50* every 30 mins until ambient temp. if you do that and it doesn't crack at the weld it should hold. also while cooling if you peen it where welding it should help it keep from cracking. or if you have a ton of dry silica sand heat it up post weld and bury it to allow it to slowly cool.
Thanks buddy!
Way too technical for a 16yr old hillbilly.... guess I'll see if I can find him some replacement tines, lol.
 

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What is the address?
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30 minutes south of Matt will get you in the ballpark. Did a couple small briskets as well and those disappeared quickly. Steer last year was smaller than I prefer, not a problem with the ones I have appointments for this year. Couple of popup showers and a bit muggy as well. Setup and played with pigeons for a while as well.
 
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