The Official Farming Thread...

[jakethesnake]

Personally,I think Chase has lost his marbles but their his beans…

The rye is anywhere from 2’-4’, most is in the 3’-4’ category.

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I love the mulch factor. If they get up good and you have any dry weather they’ll be some of his best

 

[jakethesnake]

Why kinze decided a plastic hubcap with 14 carriage head bolts was a good idea I’ll never understand. 46 of these on the planter. Now you can imagine liquid fertilizer and a bolt running that close to the ground…….

So yeah but gets rusty then spins around in circles……. I quit putting the hubcap back on and I use 7 bolts on reassembly. Piss poor design

 

[jakethesnake]

I do like the double roller bearing though. Used to have to put a spacer between them. Could be a pain in the dick on occasion

 

[jakethesnake]

That’s how I put them back. No need for the hubcap or all the bolts

 

[jblnut]

Our 7630 had to go to the doctor today so we decided to break out the sweet corn planter and let it have a shot at having some fun.


We got the acre of sweet corn in and filled the boxes up to plant the last 25 acres. It didn’t take that long and now we’re 100% done planting !!! Sure was nice not worrying about vacuum and all the fancy crap on the 12 row planter

 

[Bill G]

Our 7630 had to go to the doctor today so we decided to break out the sweet corn planter and let it have a shot at having some fun.


We got the acre of sweet corn in and filled the boxes up to plant the last 25 acres. It didn’t take that long and now we’re 100% done planting !!! Sure was nice not worrying about vacuum and all the fancy crap on the 12 row planter

Hopefully the weather there is better than here. Do not jinx yourself by saying you are 100% done. It nice to be done but there is always the chance of replanting.

 

[jakethesnake]

Our 7630 had to go to the doctor today so we decided to break out the sweet corn planter and let it have a shot at having some fun.
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We got the acre of sweet corn in and filled the boxes up to plant the last 25 acres. It didn’t take that long and now we’re 100% done planting !!! Sure was nice not worrying about vacuum and all the fancy crap on the 12 row planter
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Wish I would’ve kept my 6 row

 

[Bill G]

Wish I would’ve kept my 6 row

I wish I still had the Deere 495 4 Row, hell I wish I had the 490 4 row. Somewhere the old Deere 999 2 row is still around. We had a near new White 5100 4 row I sold for next to nothing to a guy in New York.

One day I bought a 12 row IH on a sale for what I thought was a good price. Later in the sale I bought a newer CIH 6 row. The 12 row never made it home. I took it to another sale and picked up more in profit on it that I gave for the 6 row. Sadly later I lost my ass on the 6 row.

By the way anyoneed a monitor for a CIH 900 6 row?

 

[JimBear]

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So yeah but gets rusty then spins around in circles……. I quit putting the hubcap back on and I use 7 bolts on reassembly. Piss poor design

The plastic’s don’t goober up, stop rolling & floating like the steel if you get in damp or wet soil.

 

[jakethesnake]

The plastic’s don’t goober up, stop rolling & floating like the steel if you get in damp or wet soil.

This is steel. With a plastic hubcap.

 

[jblnut]

After it was loaded the driver said “at least it drove up here under its own power”. Yeah that doesn’t make me feel better about the crunchy sound coming from the transmission . We should know what the damage is tomorrow sometime. I need this girl to spray with late next week so I told them to get after it !! Anyone know a ballpark on a new IVT transmission

 

[JimBear]

After it was loaded the driver said “at least it drove up here under its own power”. Yeah that doesn’t make me feel better about the crunchy sound coming from the transmission . We should know what the damage is tomorrow sometime. I need this girl to spray with late next week so I told them to get after it !! Anyone know a ballpark on a new IVT transmission
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Shouldn’t be more than a kidney. What are kidneys going for now, $25k or so ???

 

[JimBear]

We got another 1.55” last night with some pea/marble sized hail.

Guessers are barking about rain all week. Supposed to be heaviest up thru central Iowa.

 

[jblnut]

Shouldn’t be more than a kidney. What are kidneys going for now, $25k or so ???

I have a guy I can check with. He’ll know. I’m already down a nut, not sure I want to give up a kidney

We got another 1.55” last night with some pea/marble sized hail.

Guessers are barking about rain all week. Supposed to be heaviest up thru central Iowa.

Depends on where you look but we’re suppose to get between 2-4” of rain tomorrow. Not real excited about that but we’ll take what we get.

 

[Bill G]

Shouldn’t be more than a kidney. What are kidneys going for now, $25k or so ???

Sadly the Deere bill might be north of that.

 

[Bill G]

We got another 1.55” last night with some pea/marble sized hail.

Guessers are barking about rain all week. Supposed to be heaviest up thru central Iowa.

I sure is not looking good. As I have said many times.........1993.

Hell here I think last year was worse that the 1984 and 1988 droughts

 

[Wilhelm]

Wait until you are moving onto a new farm and your young wife comes screaming out of the basement before you move in. You ask what is wrong and she cannot even say. Then your father helps you and you remove 11 of them out.

Or when your you son refuses to feed the hogs in the barn until you get the 5 footer out..............he was actually 66 inches......

Our when your wife screams as she heads down the steps to do laundry and a big black bastard greets her..............

How about when your wife says there is something hissing behind the freezer. You crawl up on top to see a big ole whopper stuck behind.....

You are in the basement doing laundry and a 3 footer comes out across the floor. It is about 0 degrees outside so you know the SOB has made his winter home there.......

I know most of them are harmless and folks clammer about their place in nature but myself I place them on the level of a coyote

Ditch the wife, ignore the snakes?

 

[Wilhelm]

My Runner ducks are planting eggs.
Yes, those are 3 eggs on their box floor.
This morning one on the floor and two in the nest.
Apparently Runners are notorious to just poop out their eggs wherever.



The other day one egg was on the lawn and chicken started picking at it.
Who knows how many eggs I loose/do not collect due to this.
The Runners don't eat their own nor chicken eggs.

 

[Bill G]

Ditch the wife, ignore the snakes?

Unfortunately after three great sons and 25 years she ditched me..... I would deal with the snakes to have her back

 

[Wilhelm]

Unfortunately after three great sons and 25 years she ditched me..... I would deal with the snakes to have her back

Ups, sorry!