The Official Farming Thread...

[Steve]

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Impressive!

 

[Mastermind]

Looks cooler in person. Bad ass actually.

 

[Steve]

Looks cooler in person. Bad ass actually.

No doubt!

 

[Flip]

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That's slick, I'd take that over a skid steer anyday!

 

[Only the Tony]

Things you find walking the hay field.

 

[Only the Tony]

Got to pull the cover on cab tractor to access clutch adjustment. Too tight, dad said he thought it might have been slipping some earlier. Glad I caught it before it burned out the clutch.

 

[Mastermind]

I ran over a baby deer today. I always hate it when that happens.

 

[Steve]

View attachment 297919 View attachment 297920 Things you find walking the hay field.

How in the hell did a crawfish get there? The nearest body of water is miles from there.

 

[Only the Tony]

I ran over a baby deer today. I always hate it when that happens.

Be thankful it wasn't a calf. Had an uncle that did that with a sickle mower.

 

[Steve]

I ran over a baby deer today. I always hate it when that happens.

My fil almost got one last week.

I got one with the bush hog last year in the river bottom. I try to keep the river bottom cut real low now to prevent that from happening anymore.

 

[Only the Tony]

How in the hell did a crawfish get there? The nearest body of water is miles from there.

Prairie crayfish. They are also in the ditch in my front yard. I'll try to get a picture of the funnels they make.

 

[Steve]

Prairie crayfish. They are also in the ditch in my front yard. I'll try to get a picture of the funnels they make.

Amazing the difference a few hours across a state makes in wild creatures.

 

[Only the Tony]

Amazing the difference a few hours across a state makes in wild creatures.

https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/grassland-crayfish-prairie-crayfish
Here is the info from MO conservation

 

[farminkarman]

Well, my youngest daughter ( 9mo) wasn’t interested in a nap today, so she got to come along in the tractor while I hauled water. Car seat strapped right into the buddy seat….I thought it worked pretty slick.

 

[farminkarman]

I ran over a baby deer today. I always hate it when that happens.

Sorry to hear about that. Was it on the road, or did you get it with the haybine?

 

[Mastermind]

Sorry to hear about that. Was it on the road, or did you get it with the haybine?

Got it with the disc mower.

 

[SpaceBus]

I ran over a baby deer today. I always hate it when that happens.

My wife was just talking about this last night actually. She read on another forum that it's very common to encounter baby deer while doing hay.

 

[SpaceBus]

How in the hell did a crawfish get there? The nearest body of water is miles from there.

Birds drop all kinds of weird stuff.

 

[SpaceBus]

Got it with the disc mower.

I would imagine that could ruin a sickle or disc mower.

 

[Only the Tony]

I would imagine that could ruin a sickle or disc mower.

Might clog a sickle but you wouldn't probably even know it with a disc. I cut at night a lot and if I didn't see it in the tractor lights the buzzards would have to inform me the next day. Speed on the knife tips and the amount of inertia behind one of them is actually scary. I'm cutting 10.5' at 4.5 to 6 mph and that is dependent on thickness and ground. Put some more horses in front of that and you can jump to 14'+ cutting widths or run a mower/conditioner.