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Also Sunday morning my brother-in-law took off all the forms for the concrete. Here’s a better look a the completed finished product.
Between the River Hills & the River Bottom
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Well today was a bit of a change. Yesterday evening dad got a call from the Deere mechanic who inspected our combines way back when. He wanted to work on our 9770 today. So that’s what we did.
The main thing that needed to be done was replacing this plate.
If you notice on the one that we removed those brackets were broke off
Apparently it’s become a rather popular problem on this series of combines. A design flaw it seems. The new one is designed a bit different. Although it a bit of the fault of Deere it still cost us a little over $600 just for that part. The pain in the *** part of it is getting to it.
It’s hard to see in just a picture without seeing the actual process
The red arrow is pointing to the plate at the bottom. The blue point to several of the things that had to be removed to take the plate out. With the help of the Deere mechanic and his apprentice who just graduated high school last week, today was his second day, it took the 3 of us about 3/4 of the day to remove everything, put in the new plate and put everything back. The mechanic said it usually takes one guy 2 full days to do it and usually at least 1 full day with 2 guys. So hopefully me assisting made things a bit quicker to make the bill a little cheaper. I enjoyed being able to work with a legitimate mechanic. He’s been working for Deere for a long time. He’s very patient and willing to help teach you a few things working of stuff like this. Just things to pay attention to more or things to make the job a bit quicker or easier. It was a pretty enjoyable day.
There were a few other bearings we replaced as well.
After they cleared out for the day I put away everything I’d drug out of the shop.
Had to use my DeWalt impacts, several sockets and wrenches. At least everything was the usual sizes. 10, 13, 15, 18 and 24. It makes things easy when you only need a few sizes. Especially when the vast majority is all 15 or 18.
When I finished putting **** away I put all the scrap metal that’s accumulated from the last month or so, with all the replaced parts, and took it to the scrap metal pile. Then I checked on all the cattle, put out mineral, and put a fresh dose on the wicks for the flys. Luckily the flies haven’t been bothering the cattle much at all yet.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings. Things are starting to dry after a full day of sun today.
The main thing that needed to be done was replacing this plate.
If you notice on the one that we removed those brackets were broke off
Apparently it’s become a rather popular problem on this series of combines. A design flaw it seems. The new one is designed a bit different. Although it a bit of the fault of Deere it still cost us a little over $600 just for that part. The pain in the *** part of it is getting to it.
It’s hard to see in just a picture without seeing the actual process
The red arrow is pointing to the plate at the bottom. The blue point to several of the things that had to be removed to take the plate out. With the help of the Deere mechanic and his apprentice who just graduated high school last week, today was his second day, it took the 3 of us about 3/4 of the day to remove everything, put in the new plate and put everything back. The mechanic said it usually takes one guy 2 full days to do it and usually at least 1 full day with 2 guys. So hopefully me assisting made things a bit quicker to make the bill a little cheaper. I enjoyed being able to work with a legitimate mechanic. He’s been working for Deere for a long time. He’s very patient and willing to help teach you a few things working of stuff like this. Just things to pay attention to more or things to make the job a bit quicker or easier. It was a pretty enjoyable day.
There were a few other bearings we replaced as well.
After they cleared out for the day I put away everything I’d drug out of the shop.
Had to use my DeWalt impacts, several sockets and wrenches. At least everything was the usual sizes. 10, 13, 15, 18 and 24. It makes things easy when you only need a few sizes. Especially when the vast majority is all 15 or 18.
When I finished putting **** away I put all the scrap metal that’s accumulated from the last month or so, with all the replaced parts, and took it to the scrap metal pile. Then I checked on all the cattle, put out mineral, and put a fresh dose on the wicks for the flys. Luckily the flies haven’t been bothering the cattle much at all yet.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings. Things are starting to dry after a full day of sun today.
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Hope all is well around the farm!
Hdonly0
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Included in part of Saturday was also part of Sunday’s trip. Among the trailer purchase was a few others. The people buying the scrap had also ended up purchasing contents of some of the buildings. Which included several things. Again to keep a long story short. We ended up with several of the contents. All for cheap.
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Shelves, cabinets, other miscellaneous things. Some mine, some dad’s, some my brother-in-law’s. Some stuff isn’t even pictured. But I can tell you the most expensive thing was $25. That being 2 Rigid wrenches, that we found out brand new have a valve of possibly a little over $1,200. Not counting the trailer we spent a combined total of less than $300 for a trailer and truck bed full of stuff. Honestly not entirely sure where it’s all going to go. It was a little over the top to say the least. But dad was in bargain/hoarder heaven.
On the other hand I did get to see this.
No it wasn’t for sale. But it was pretty cool. Had everything except an engine. Was supposed to have been built in ‘76. I’ve never been right on top of military plane like that before. Especially one half apart. That part was pretty cool.
From a tail number search, this F-15A was built in 1971. Only year I can find anything with this tail number. I could be wrong.Here is a small bit of this particular planes history. Love the F-15 as I used to work on them back in the early 1980's.
0286 MSN 0007/A007. First flight Jun 14, 1973 at St Louis, MO.
Used as the trials aircraft for armament development and external fuel stores testing
Assigned to the combined McDD/USAF F-15 Joint Test Force at Edwards AFB, Sep 1973 to Nov 1980.
WFU and redesignated GF-15A. GIA at Technical Training Center, Chanute AFB, Rantoul, IL Mar 1982 to Aug 1990.
Preserved and on display at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, IL from Apr 1994
[The museum was scheduled to close on December 30th, 2015]. Plane moved to St Louis Science Center.
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Well I’m not sure how many people actually read this thread or even regularly follow along with it. But sorry for my week and a half hiatus. It’s been a bit of a busy time with a few unexpected occurrences to say the least. So I’ll try to catch things up a bit.
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So picking up from where we left off...
Deere mechanic finished work on the 9770
I finished the ground work for soybeans, also finished spreading all the dry fertilizer on the fields. It was nice to get a few jobs out of the way and have them done.
Dad continued on spraying fields as I got them ready. My uncle continued planting the worked hill ground.
Dad and I got the drill prepped and ready to go. Which was a bit of a pain in the *** at first. I had sent the drill monitor off awhile back to have a software update done. So when hooking it back up to the drill it required us to recalibrate everything and add the sensors to the memory all over again.
We had a few brief rain showers in between a few things. As well.
Also the new grain bin is up. The bin wasn’t actually supposed to arrive until this week. However, there were apparently 2 bins that were supposed to go up before ours that didn’t have the sites ready yet. We were moved up the list. It’s up and finished except for electric. We have a guy who has done the last few and is supposed to do this one for us too.
We have a new Snap On guy in the area now. Not to sure about him though. I did buy a new ratchet. I decided to just pay for it rather than start an account with him. He had a corporate guy with him at the time. That guy seemed like a jerk, seemed more focused on trying to distract you with chrome and flash. I didn’t care for that much.
On the the other hand I got some good deals from my Matco guy last week. I decided to treat myself a little bit since this past Friday was my birthday.
Dad and I swapped tires on the sprayer again. We put the skinny set on as he’ll now be spraying the standing corn and beans afterward.
We’re also keeping plenty busy as we still have about 80 acres of beans left to plant/drill. But yesterday I also started cutting hay. We for once are supposed to have a clear week this week. So we’re going to get as much hay cut as possible. So between what I cut yesterday and my uncle cut today we have about 90 acres of clover hay on the ground. I just about got all of it tedded too.
So that’s a bit of a brief summary of the events of the last week or so. I’m having trouble adding pictures at the moment. Hopefully I can get some up soon.
Deere mechanic finished work on the 9770
I finished the ground work for soybeans, also finished spreading all the dry fertilizer on the fields. It was nice to get a few jobs out of the way and have them done.
Dad continued on spraying fields as I got them ready. My uncle continued planting the worked hill ground.
Dad and I got the drill prepped and ready to go. Which was a bit of a pain in the *** at first. I had sent the drill monitor off awhile back to have a software update done. So when hooking it back up to the drill it required us to recalibrate everything and add the sensors to the memory all over again.
We had a few brief rain showers in between a few things. As well.
Also the new grain bin is up. The bin wasn’t actually supposed to arrive until this week. However, there were apparently 2 bins that were supposed to go up before ours that didn’t have the sites ready yet. We were moved up the list. It’s up and finished except for electric. We have a guy who has done the last few and is supposed to do this one for us too.
We have a new Snap On guy in the area now. Not to sure about him though. I did buy a new ratchet. I decided to just pay for it rather than start an account with him. He had a corporate guy with him at the time. That guy seemed like a jerk, seemed more focused on trying to distract you with chrome and flash. I didn’t care for that much.
On the the other hand I got some good deals from my Matco guy last week. I decided to treat myself a little bit since this past Friday was my birthday.
Dad and I swapped tires on the sprayer again. We put the skinny set on as he’ll now be spraying the standing corn and beans afterward.
We’re also keeping plenty busy as we still have about 80 acres of beans left to plant/drill. But yesterday I also started cutting hay. We for once are supposed to have a clear week this week. So we’re going to get as much hay cut as possible. So between what I cut yesterday and my uncle cut today we have about 90 acres of clover hay on the ground. I just about got all of it tedded too.
So that’s a bit of a brief summary of the events of the last week or so. I’m having trouble adding pictures at the moment. Hopefully I can get some up soon.
BORING HOP YARD
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Just so you know! I check in everyday to see if you have updated your thread, I also do the same for many others here. I kind of put you and " Out on Quaker road in the same bucket" I have only 2 acres out here in Oregon but my Dad had 360 acres.
I very much enjoy your day to day challenges, sometimes I am faced with the same issue, just on a smaller scale. I wanted to write and let you know that yes people are reading and following along. Thank you for sharing!
I very much enjoy your day to day challenges, sometimes I am faced with the same issue, just on a smaller scale. I wanted to write and let you know that yes people are reading and following along. Thank you for sharing!
djones1a
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I am one of the followers of your stories. My grandfather was a farmer in the boot hill of Mo. I enjoy hearing the everyday problems of a modern day farmer. Looking forward to the pictures of the grain bin going up.
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Ok. So the big main reason I haven’t been very active in keeping the thread up to date...remember that nice 10 wheeler with the aluminum bed we bought after our last truck turned over?? Well guess what...I f’d it up...major! Remember that trailer we just redid? With the new axles, rims, fenders, lights, and paint? Yeah I f’d that up too!
What happned? Dad was getting ready to spray at a farm up the road. The truck was loaded down with the water tank, which was full. Then of corse the trailer which was hauling the chemicals. I was taking the truck up the road so dad would have the water and chemicals.
Our two lane highways around here are a bit narrow. There’s no shoulder at all. The white line in spots is broke off in the ditch. All these roads always have deep ditches that drop off quick. I was going up the road, 40-45 mph, watching what I was doing, paying attention. Suddenly my front end dropped off in the ditch, then as quick as that happened my back end dropped down in the ditch, I was trying to slow down, I was trying to slowly guide myself out of the ditch. I was leaning pretty good when I hit a gravel driveway. The truck jumped up from hitting the driveway, also at that point my turned front end finally caught some traction, a little too much traction so suddenly, so that shot me to the left, all the quick movement caused the 2,500 gallons of water in the tank to shift too! With the suddenly shift of all the weight it set in truck right over on its side.
So there I was, another truck turned over, right in the middle of the road. It didn’t look good. Water tank exploded on impact, the trailer came unhooked. Which was a good thing. Luckily, not a drop of chemicals was spilled. Everything stayed on the trailer. But the frame of the trailer was bent, an axle bent, a rim bent. The truck was worse, bed bent, twisted and broke. Cab was bent broke and twisted, windshield broke out.
I remember the whole thing very vividly. Not once was I worried about myself or my life. I was just immediately super pissed. I was turned on my side, still in the seat, the engine starting shutting down. I immediately jumped out. Which I didn’t fully realize til I was out that I went out where the windshield was.
As I crawled out a car pulled up and stopped. Just happened to be a girl who I went to high school with. I had her call my phone since it had been in my shirt pocket and I now had no idea where it was. I found it and immediately called my dad who was waiting on me and the truck. While I called dad the girl who stopped insisted on calling an ambulance.
So besides the truck being totally screwed I came out ok. Several bruises. A few down around my waist, pliers on my belt caught me pretty good, bruise on my leg, big bruise on the back on my left arm, bigger bruise on my right arm, my chin also managed to catch either the steering wheel or the shifting lever. I had a scrap on my chin. At the same time I guess my teeth cut the inside of my mouth pretty decent. I had to have that stitched up.
Once again having trouble loading pictures. So besides being a little sore I haven’t slowed down. There’s no workman’s comp or sick days around here. I was right back at it the next day. Haven’t had a day off since. I have had 2 appointment at the chiropractor since. Just to get myself lined back out and to help a spot in my back where I’ve got a knot, if it counts I had a knot there before the wreck.
So yeah it’s been exciting the past week or so. This happened 2 days after my last update. So it’s been almost 2 weeks now. Bruises are fading and stitches are healing up good. Still super pissed I wrecked it. We’ve since had to improvise to haul water and chemicals for spraying.
Insurance is really liking us this year that’s for sure.
What happned? Dad was getting ready to spray at a farm up the road. The truck was loaded down with the water tank, which was full. Then of corse the trailer which was hauling the chemicals. I was taking the truck up the road so dad would have the water and chemicals.
Our two lane highways around here are a bit narrow. There’s no shoulder at all. The white line in spots is broke off in the ditch. All these roads always have deep ditches that drop off quick. I was going up the road, 40-45 mph, watching what I was doing, paying attention. Suddenly my front end dropped off in the ditch, then as quick as that happened my back end dropped down in the ditch, I was trying to slow down, I was trying to slowly guide myself out of the ditch. I was leaning pretty good when I hit a gravel driveway. The truck jumped up from hitting the driveway, also at that point my turned front end finally caught some traction, a little too much traction so suddenly, so that shot me to the left, all the quick movement caused the 2,500 gallons of water in the tank to shift too! With the suddenly shift of all the weight it set in truck right over on its side.
So there I was, another truck turned over, right in the middle of the road. It didn’t look good. Water tank exploded on impact, the trailer came unhooked. Which was a good thing. Luckily, not a drop of chemicals was spilled. Everything stayed on the trailer. But the frame of the trailer was bent, an axle bent, a rim bent. The truck was worse, bed bent, twisted and broke. Cab was bent broke and twisted, windshield broke out.
I remember the whole thing very vividly. Not once was I worried about myself or my life. I was just immediately super pissed. I was turned on my side, still in the seat, the engine starting shutting down. I immediately jumped out. Which I didn’t fully realize til I was out that I went out where the windshield was.
As I crawled out a car pulled up and stopped. Just happened to be a girl who I went to high school with. I had her call my phone since it had been in my shirt pocket and I now had no idea where it was. I found it and immediately called my dad who was waiting on me and the truck. While I called dad the girl who stopped insisted on calling an ambulance.
So besides the truck being totally screwed I came out ok. Several bruises. A few down around my waist, pliers on my belt caught me pretty good, bruise on my leg, big bruise on the back on my left arm, bigger bruise on my right arm, my chin also managed to catch either the steering wheel or the shifting lever. I had a scrap on my chin. At the same time I guess my teeth cut the inside of my mouth pretty decent. I had to have that stitched up.
Once again having trouble loading pictures. So besides being a little sore I haven’t slowed down. There’s no workman’s comp or sick days around here. I was right back at it the next day. Haven’t had a day off since. I have had 2 appointment at the chiropractor since. Just to get myself lined back out and to help a spot in my back where I’ve got a knot, if it counts I had a knot there before the wreck.
So yeah it’s been exciting the past week or so. This happened 2 days after my last update. So it’s been almost 2 weeks now. Bruises are fading and stitches are healing up good. Still super pissed I wrecked it. We’ve since had to improvise to haul water and chemicals for spraying.
Insurance is really liking us this year that’s for sure.
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From a tail number search, this F-15A was built in 1971. Only year I can find anything with this tail number. I could be wrong.Here is a small bit of this particular planes history. Love the F-15 as I used to work on them back in the early 1980's.
0286 MSN 0007/A007. First flight Jun 14, 1973 at St Louis, MO.
Used as the trials aircraft for armament development and external fuel stores testing
Assigned to the combined McDD/USAF F-15 Joint Test Force at Edwards AFB, Sep 1973 to Nov 1980.
WFU and redesignated GF-15A. GIA at Technical Training Center, Chanute AFB, Rantoul, IL Mar 1982 to Aug 1990.
Preserved and on display at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, IL from Apr 1994
[The museum was scheduled to close on December 30th, 2015]. Plane moved to St Louis Science Center.
Thanks for the info. That’s interesting. I didn’t really know anything about it. I wonder how long it’s been sitting down at the airport.
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Thanks guys. I really didn’t know if many people followed along or not. I have to say since I’ve been busy anyway the last few months my own thread has been about the only part of GJ I’ve been able to keep up with. I’ve been missing out on quite a bit lately.
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Still can’t get photos to load from my phone or my iPad. But I’ll try tomorrow. A combination or poor service and aggravation with the Tapatalk app seem to be keeping me from doing so.
Let’s hope I can get them up tomorrow evening.
Let’s hope I can get them up tomorrow evening.
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I follow along as well 
Sorry to hear about the truck but **** happens. At least you were ok enough. I await pics of the bin
I gave up on Tapatalk and a few other forum apps and went back to using a PC when I'm posting pictures. I signed up for a Flickr Pro account when the morons over at PhotoBucket decided it was a good idea to charge $400/yr for hosting. Flickr Pro is $35/yr and I have zero complaints after probably 8? months.
Sorry to hear about the truck but **** happens. At least you were ok enough. I await pics of the bin
I gave up on Tapatalk and a few other forum apps and went back to using a PC when I'm posting pictures. I signed up for a Flickr Pro account when the morons over at PhotoBucket decided it was a good idea to charge $400/yr for hosting. Flickr Pro is $35/yr and I have zero complaints after probably 8? months.
Ret Nailbender
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I have been following your post and enjoy reading about life on the farm. Glad you were not inured more in the accident and a belated Happy Birthday.
ambenz
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This city slicker is also following along and I wanted to give you a shout out.
My Aunt and Uncle owned a farm when I was younger and I had some nice memories of those visits. My cousin also owns a lot of land in Nebraska as her parents farmed.
She is mostly a landlord today.
Sorry to hear about the accident....damn dude, 2500 gallons of water weighs almost 18,000 Lbs...add the chems, the weight of the truck and trailer, going 45 mph is a whole hand full of kinetic energy...got to be a better way.
Get Well Soon!
Hope you heal up good with no future issues cropping up when you get to be 60.
When I was in my 20's, I dropped a heavy case on my toe at work and 35 yrs later, had to have surgery on it.
No fun getting old after you turn 55.
Watch out for any accidents in the near future, these things happen in "3's".
Thanks for sharing a bit of your story.
When us city slickers get out on the rural roads, your story here, is food for thought as we should all be mindful of farm equipment and be patient, giving farmers a wide berth and respect the rules of the road. You guys have your hands full with all you have to load and transport!
My Aunt and Uncle owned a farm when I was younger and I had some nice memories of those visits. My cousin also owns a lot of land in Nebraska as her parents farmed.
She is mostly a landlord today.
Sorry to hear about the accident....damn dude, 2500 gallons of water weighs almost 18,000 Lbs...add the chems, the weight of the truck and trailer, going 45 mph is a whole hand full of kinetic energy...got to be a better way.
Get Well Soon!
Hope you heal up good with no future issues cropping up when you get to be 60.
When I was in my 20's, I dropped a heavy case on my toe at work and 35 yrs later, had to have surgery on it.
No fun getting old after you turn 55.
Watch out for any accidents in the near future, these things happen in "3's".
Thanks for sharing a bit of your story.
When us city slickers get out on the rural roads, your story here, is food for thought as we should all be mindful of farm equipment and be patient, giving farmers a wide berth and respect the rules of the road. You guys have your hands full with all you have to load and transport!
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rabakoe
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Just another member here who appreciates the time and work you've put in this thread. One of my favorites, for sure. I had been hoping the dry spell in updates was due to a lack of time as you finished up planting. Equipment can be replaced, glad you're okay!
I believe some of my great-great grandparent's family ended up farming in Missouri. How they ended up there, I don't know. Most of them stayed right here in Wisconsin. Plenty of dairy farm history in the family. It's a shame to see so many of the small family farms disappear in this state. Lots of CAFO's now..
I believe some of my great-great grandparent's family ended up farming in Missouri. How they ended up there, I don't know. Most of them stayed right here in Wisconsin. Plenty of dairy farm history in the family. It's a shame to see so many of the small family farms disappear in this state. Lots of CAFO's now..
SW50th
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Wow, glad you made it out of that!
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cliftonbros89
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=7749
This link takes you to a site with a some history on this jet.
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=7749
This link takes you to a site with a some history on this jet.
MacTexas
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Your thread is one of my must reads everyday. Glad you were not hurt any worse than you were.
NKlamerus
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Dang man! Can't imagine what was going through your head after rolling, glad you're out safe though, could have been much worse.
Did y'all have the rebuilt trailer insured as well?
Did y'all have the rebuilt trailer insured as well?
XJSuperman
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Wow, just read this whole thread yesterday and this morning. My family has a collection of two-cylinders in northeast Ohio. The Eastern National Two-Cylinder Expo is in Wooster, OH this year for the second time. Maybe yall sneak out for a weekend since planting should be done.
I work for Deere in new software for precision ag. So I get to see your operation from both ends of the spectrum: antiques and brand new.
Id like to hear and see more about the older equipment you have. Esp that industrial yellow 80/820? you have in the barn with the combine pics. Dad has a couple Rs, As, G , H, B, and a slew of garden tractors. My uncle has a few and we still have a couple my grandfather bought new. Around 25-30 in all if I count em.
You mentioned wanting a skidloader but you have 3 tractors with loaders. I get the versatility of a skid, but eliminating a redundant loader tractor would help with cost on a skidloader. Im probably out of line here, but if you have redundant tractors that you are only putting a 100-200hours on a year, then maybe they pay for a skid purchase.
Anyhow, love the thread, love the collection, and its nice to hear from a farm in MO, and of course the other resident farm thread up in MN. Im in central Iowa, so hearing current farm news from both directions works well for me. Lol.
I work for Deere in new software for precision ag. So I get to see your operation from both ends of the spectrum: antiques and brand new.
Id like to hear and see more about the older equipment you have. Esp that industrial yellow 80/820? you have in the barn with the combine pics. Dad has a couple Rs, As, G , H, B, and a slew of garden tractors. My uncle has a few and we still have a couple my grandfather bought new. Around 25-30 in all if I count em.
You mentioned wanting a skidloader but you have 3 tractors with loaders. I get the versatility of a skid, but eliminating a redundant loader tractor would help with cost on a skidloader. Im probably out of line here, but if you have redundant tractors that you are only putting a 100-200hours on a year, then maybe they pay for a skid purchase.
Anyhow, love the thread, love the collection, and its nice to hear from a farm in MO, and of course the other resident farm thread up in MN. Im in central Iowa, so hearing current farm news from both directions works well for me. Lol.
bluejeep
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Your thread and Out on Quaker Road are some of my most favorite threads on this site. Glad you are ok. Metal can be straightened or replaced..... Keep posting!
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Glad your ok buddy. I love following your thread!
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Good to hear your bruised ego was the worst injury-at least that seems to be the “bruise” that lasts the longest for me.
Reminds me of a few years ago when I missed the drive coming out of a field at 1:00am with about 700 bushels of corn on our straight truck. Somehow I didn’t turn it over, which given the condition of that truck would have probably totaled it out and been the best thing that could have happened! We finally sold it this winter-I don’t miss it at all. LOL!
Equipment can be replaced; I’m glad your not much worse for the wear.
GGB
Reminds me of a few years ago when I missed the drive coming out of a field at 1:00am with about 700 bushels of corn on our straight truck. Somehow I didn’t turn it over, which given the condition of that truck would have probably totaled it out and been the best thing that could have happened! We finally sold it this winter-I don’t miss it at all. LOL!
Equipment can be replaced; I’m glad your not much worse for the wear.
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Toothaker
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I'm glad it wasn't worse than it was, and that you're back at it already. When you have the time and have your picture issue worked out I imagine we'd all like to see pictures of the wreck - if you took any.
sgfarm
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I am another lurker who daily checks on this thread and Quaker road. Glad to hear you are ok. Thanks for the updates.
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Still having a bit of trouble uploading pictures. Maybe when I get a little extra time I can find another way to upload stuff. There’s several pictures of recent work, the new grain bin, and yes there are pictures of my wreck. I took some on my phone a few minutes after it happened. I figured they’d be good to have for the insurance.
Still dealing with the insurance too. Haven’t heard any for sure figured yet. But yes the trailer was insured as well. There’s been an adjuster look at both the truck and the trailer. Not sure if the water tank will be covered yet.
Anyway getting back to the daily routine (without the pictures for now). We got my uncle set back to planting beans. Dad starting spraying some of the corn this morning too.
As for me I started the morning finishing tedding the last of the clover. By the time I finished some of the hay was ready to rake. I started raking at about 11 this morning. I rolled just about nonstop on that til about 6. We had nothing but sun today so the hay was really drying quick. So I just kept going.
I didn’t get everything raked up but I got a lot of it. While I raked dad had started baling a little after 1 this afternoon. I took over baling for dad around 6, he went to attend my nephew’s first t-ball game this evening. I stopped about 8:30 to fuel the tractor back up. By then the sun was setting and things we getting damp so I stopped. But so far we’ve baled 303 bales. Not bad for an afternoon. We’re not done yet either. Going to be making a whole lot of hay this week. Hopefully the weather cooperates with us.
Still dealing with the insurance too. Haven’t heard any for sure figured yet. But yes the trailer was insured as well. There’s been an adjuster look at both the truck and the trailer. Not sure if the water tank will be covered yet.
Anyway getting back to the daily routine (without the pictures for now). We got my uncle set back to planting beans. Dad starting spraying some of the corn this morning too.
As for me I started the morning finishing tedding the last of the clover. By the time I finished some of the hay was ready to rake. I started raking at about 11 this morning. I rolled just about nonstop on that til about 6. We had nothing but sun today so the hay was really drying quick. So I just kept going.
I didn’t get everything raked up but I got a lot of it. While I raked dad had started baling a little after 1 this afternoon. I took over baling for dad around 6, he went to attend my nephew’s first t-ball game this evening. I stopped about 8:30 to fuel the tractor back up. By then the sun was setting and things we getting damp so I stopped. But so far we’ve baled 303 bales. Not bad for an afternoon. We’re not done yet either. Going to be making a whole lot of hay this week. Hopefully the weather cooperates with us.
Jon69RagTop
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I’ll second this, glad you’re okay.
2Busy
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Glad you came out of that okay, more or less! Long-time follower, first time to post, thank you for sharing your daily life with us!
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cliftonbros89
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Well hopefully by the weekend I’ll have the time and means to start posting some pictures. I guess it’ll just have to be a big collage of stuff by then.
Well this morning I got things ready for my uncle to drill the last of the full season beans.
I headed out to rake the last of the clover. That took a few hours. I finished that and went straight to the 7230 and baler. Cleaned out the radiator real good before I started and blew all the dust off the baler. I got started and ran hard til I was finished. Total of 102 acres (I was off in an earlier post I thought it was mid 90’s) and 510 bales all together. Basically 5 bales to the acre so it turned out pretty good. I did a rough estimate on the math on how quick I was moving. I came up with about 1.3 bales per minute. That included stopping about 6 times to clean off the screen that slides in front of the radiator, and also putting a new roll of net wrap in the baler.
Dad hauled about a few loads of bales out of the field this morning and I hauled a load this evening.
Dad had my uncle cut some of our fescue patches. There’s a chance of rain Saturday. I’m not entirely sure how we’re going to get everything baled up and get all the bales in the shed before it may rain, including the clover bales we have to move. That was on shares so only part of them are ours. But it’s still a lot of hay to move.
Dad had a doctors appointment up in StL today. Just a check up and bloodwork. But it just so happened he’d also got tickets from my neighbor (he gets them for free from the construction company he retired from) for a Cardinals baseball game this evening. He wanted to take my nephew to his first game. Especially now since he’s started t-ball. So dad was only around this morning.
So lots to do in the next few days. Hopefully we get lots of sunshine and a good breeze the next few days to dry the hay. Unfortunately, I think it’s supposed to be hot and humid. A bit cloudy too.
Amongst other news I had a few packages arrive today. I used a few coupons from SK club and the SK 40% off father’s day coupon (even though I’m not a father, so it’s happy not a Father’s Day to me). Picked up a few sockets, 3/8” impact socket set, regular and deepwell, SAE and metric. Got a good deal with that coupon and my points from SK club. Plus a short 24mm wrench. That’ll be in the pictures too later. I’m going to have to slow down after this order, plus my haul from the Matco guy last week and my new Snap On ratchet from last week.
Well this morning I got things ready for my uncle to drill the last of the full season beans.
I headed out to rake the last of the clover. That took a few hours. I finished that and went straight to the 7230 and baler. Cleaned out the radiator real good before I started and blew all the dust off the baler. I got started and ran hard til I was finished. Total of 102 acres (I was off in an earlier post I thought it was mid 90’s) and 510 bales all together. Basically 5 bales to the acre so it turned out pretty good. I did a rough estimate on the math on how quick I was moving. I came up with about 1.3 bales per minute. That included stopping about 6 times to clean off the screen that slides in front of the radiator, and also putting a new roll of net wrap in the baler.
Dad hauled about a few loads of bales out of the field this morning and I hauled a load this evening.
Dad had my uncle cut some of our fescue patches. There’s a chance of rain Saturday. I’m not entirely sure how we’re going to get everything baled up and get all the bales in the shed before it may rain, including the clover bales we have to move. That was on shares so only part of them are ours. But it’s still a lot of hay to move.
Dad had a doctors appointment up in StL today. Just a check up and bloodwork. But it just so happened he’d also got tickets from my neighbor (he gets them for free from the construction company he retired from) for a Cardinals baseball game this evening. He wanted to take my nephew to his first game. Especially now since he’s started t-ball. So dad was only around this morning.
So lots to do in the next few days. Hopefully we get lots of sunshine and a good breeze the next few days to dry the hay. Unfortunately, I think it’s supposed to be hot and humid. A bit cloudy too.
Amongst other news I had a few packages arrive today. I used a few coupons from SK club and the SK 40% off father’s day coupon (even though I’m not a father, so it’s happy not a Father’s Day to me). Picked up a few sockets, 3/8” impact socket set, regular and deepwell, SAE and metric. Got a good deal with that coupon and my points from SK club. Plus a short 24mm wrench. That’ll be in the pictures too later. I’m going to have to slow down after this order, plus my haul from the Matco guy last week and my new Snap On ratchet from last week.
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cliftonbros89
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Busy last 2 days. Yesterday we finished getting the last of the clover bales out the field and into the shed. I got started on raking all the fescue we had cut. Most of it had been sitting for a couple days and some of it was a little thin. So we decided not to ted any of it.
Dad got some of it baled yesterday evening.
Today was more of the same. I raked all the patches of fescue we had cut. A patch of the neighbors, patch of my uncle’s, the side of the levee in the bottom along our fields, a few small patches on a hill farm, a patch of pasture out at the retirement farm, also a patch of pasture at our place. I raked all of it except for the pasture at our place. My uncle insisted on raking all of it with one of the 60’s and our 660 bar rake. It took him most of the day.
After I finished raking dad got to baling and I got started picking up bales and putting them in the barns. Luckily everything has dried really well the past day or so. So everything was baled up just in case it would decide to rain this weekend. All but a little over 40 of the bales are in the barns.
All in all this week between the clover (which we split) and the fescue we baled 677 bales this week. Which brings the total for this year thus far to 1,101 bales of hay, between rye, clover and fescue. Part custom and part our own. So we’re caught up on that job for a little while.
Of corse there will be more later in the summer. More fescue, wheat stubble clover, not sure if we’ll bale any straw yet. But we may. Round and square.
I have plenty of pictures from the week. I’ll do my best to find a way to post them all this weekend.
Dad got some of it baled yesterday evening.
Today was more of the same. I raked all the patches of fescue we had cut. A patch of the neighbors, patch of my uncle’s, the side of the levee in the bottom along our fields, a few small patches on a hill farm, a patch of pasture out at the retirement farm, also a patch of pasture at our place. I raked all of it except for the pasture at our place. My uncle insisted on raking all of it with one of the 60’s and our 660 bar rake. It took him most of the day.
After I finished raking dad got to baling and I got started picking up bales and putting them in the barns. Luckily everything has dried really well the past day or so. So everything was baled up just in case it would decide to rain this weekend. All but a little over 40 of the bales are in the barns.
All in all this week between the clover (which we split) and the fescue we baled 677 bales this week. Which brings the total for this year thus far to 1,101 bales of hay, between rye, clover and fescue. Part custom and part our own. So we’re caught up on that job for a little while.
Of corse there will be more later in the summer. More fescue, wheat stubble clover, not sure if we’ll bale any straw yet. But we may. Round and square.
I have plenty of pictures from the week. I’ll do my best to find a way to post them all this weekend.
NKlamerus
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Staying productive!! Can't wait to see some photos!
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cliftonbros89
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Well Saturday I managed to get all the bales from the levee up and in one of the barns. Just before a rain shower came through. We could use a decent shower once but it only ended up being about a tenth. By then it was after 1 and dad decided we’d just take it easy for the evening.
I went to Menards for a few storage containers. I’m trying to find something that would work good to keep my individually bagged o-rings organized in a kit for the truck. I haven’t had any lucky just yet trying to find exactly what I’m looking for.
For Sunday dad is back to spraying some corn. The earlier planter stuff is starting to get pretty tall now. I’m hauling some water for him for that. We still had our 1,000 gallon tank on a wagon that can use. Also, we’ve been able to borrow another water tank from the levee district to get us by for right now.
I went to Menards for a few storage containers. I’m trying to find something that would work good to keep my individually bagged o-rings organized in a kit for the truck. I haven’t had any lucky just yet trying to find exactly what I’m looking for.
For Sunday dad is back to spraying some corn. The earlier planter stuff is starting to get pretty tall now. I’m hauling some water for him for that. We still had our 1,000 gallon tank on a wagon that can use. Also, we’ve been able to borrow another water tank from the levee district to get us by for right now.
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cliftonbros89
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So as I left off, Sunday dad did some spraying I helped him with that until later afternoon. Then I had a thing to attend to for my girlfriend’s family.
Monday dad started spraying the bean fields. I picked up some chemicals for him and hauled water for him. That was majority of the day.
Tuesday we had a tiny little rain shower. But it didn’t amount to anything really. At least not on our end of the county. I spent the morning greasing both of the combines. I also put the shields all back on them from after being inspected and worked on. That took about as long as it did to grease both of them. We also hauled off some more corn in the evening to pay some more bills. We also moved the trucks and combine and header to the wheat field in the bottom.
As for today dad and I each hauled off another load of corn. Then I went to the bottom to get the header ready to go for wheat. Had a few guards and sickle sections to replace. Also had to lock it up in place for wheat too.
This afternoon we started in on wheat. I took a load to our landlords bin for their part. I also hauled another load, part of ours, straight to the elevator. We don’t plan on putting any of the wheat in the bin this year. Just hauling it straight off. While I was running the trucks and my uncle was running the combines my dad was getting the balers prepped. We planned on baling just part of the 108 acres of wheat in the bottom.
So this evening dad baled up over 30 round bales of straw, then we got the square baler out. We baled 3 wagon loads this evening. I think we only have 2 more free wagons right now so that be all we do for square bales. Since we have more wheat to cut and have to get beans drilled on the wheat ground right away we may not have time to work in getting all the wagons unloaded and baling more up in between everything else. Especially since we’re also hauling all the wheat off too.
So for tomorrow, more of the same. More straw to bale. We should finish up in the bottom field tomorrow and will probably move to the other farm in the hills that has wheat right away. We also have both trucks and the grain cart loaded ready to go for the morning right away. Going to be a busy next couple of days.
Monday dad started spraying the bean fields. I picked up some chemicals for him and hauled water for him. That was majority of the day.
Tuesday we had a tiny little rain shower. But it didn’t amount to anything really. At least not on our end of the county. I spent the morning greasing both of the combines. I also put the shields all back on them from after being inspected and worked on. That took about as long as it did to grease both of them. We also hauled off some more corn in the evening to pay some more bills. We also moved the trucks and combine and header to the wheat field in the bottom.
As for today dad and I each hauled off another load of corn. Then I went to the bottom to get the header ready to go for wheat. Had a few guards and sickle sections to replace. Also had to lock it up in place for wheat too.
This afternoon we started in on wheat. I took a load to our landlords bin for their part. I also hauled another load, part of ours, straight to the elevator. We don’t plan on putting any of the wheat in the bin this year. Just hauling it straight off. While I was running the trucks and my uncle was running the combines my dad was getting the balers prepped. We planned on baling just part of the 108 acres of wheat in the bottom.
So this evening dad baled up over 30 round bales of straw, then we got the square baler out. We baled 3 wagon loads this evening. I think we only have 2 more free wagons right now so that be all we do for square bales. Since we have more wheat to cut and have to get beans drilled on the wheat ground right away we may not have time to work in getting all the wagons unloaded and baling more up in between everything else. Especially since we’re also hauling all the wheat off too.
So for tomorrow, more of the same. More straw to bale. We should finish up in the bottom field tomorrow and will probably move to the other farm in the hills that has wheat right away. We also have both trucks and the grain cart loaded ready to go for the morning right away. Going to be a busy next couple of days.
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cliftonbros89
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I really to intend to find a way to post pictures soon. Even I’m annoyed with how boring my post look without them. But I will get around to it.
Still lots of pictures. Enough some of them will likely have to go without caption. I also have to admit I haven’t got any pictures from the last few days. Just been running around too much. I was also unable to get any pictures from this evening either.
My uncle finished with the combine this evening dad and I were still baling. We had my uncle’s truck hooked to a few of the wagons so he just decided to jump in my truck and go home. Unfortunately and conveniently, my phone and my water jug were both in my truck. When he’s done doing his job he just takes off and he’s gone. This type of thing happens a lot. So no pictures from this evening. But more opportunities tomorrow.
Still lots of pictures. Enough some of them will likely have to go without caption. I also have to admit I haven’t got any pictures from the last few days. Just been running around too much. I was also unable to get any pictures from this evening either.
My uncle finished with the combine this evening dad and I were still baling. We had my uncle’s truck hooked to a few of the wagons so he just decided to jump in my truck and go home. Unfortunately and conveniently, my phone and my water jug were both in my truck. When he’s done doing his job he just takes off and he’s gone. This type of thing happens a lot. So no pictures from this evening. But more opportunities tomorrow.