BORING HOP YARD
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I just wanted to echo what jollygreengiant is saying, I look forward to your post, but I also understand how life can take priority.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
Between the River Hills & the River Bottom
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racer-john
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Whiskey Foxtrot Tango!!!!!
XJSuperman
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Fixed it for you.
jollygreengiant
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Lol. I know, I know. I almost expected a ban for saying something so sacrilegious on GJ, but it's true.
82355
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Do you have to have a CDL to drive your semis because of crossing the state line? We are around two hours from a state line in three directions and three times that to the West, so I have never had to worry about that. Or maybe Missouri requires a CDL anyway?
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cliftonbros89
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Law says as long as it’s our trucks, hauling our own stuff, and we weren’t hired to do so then we do not need a CDL. The state of Illinois does recognize this as well, surprisingly.
I’ve been stopped 4 times over the last 10 years. All in Illinois, right after crossing the river. Three times by Illinois state troopers, one time by both an Illinois state trooper and the DOT truck. They try to point out that I do not have a CDL each time, but they know just as well as I do that I am not legally required to have it. They just try to give me grief about it. But in the state on Illinois they try to do whatever they can to catch you. They’ll give the farmers grief all day long but don’t pay any attention to the coal trucks that are going up and down the same road all day. The same coal trucks that are also constantly breaking down on the side of the road as well.
I can understand being qualified to do a job. I can understand having a license. But they really get carried away with all this CDL stuff. I can drive a truck just as good, if not better than some people that have a CDL. The last couple years with there being such a shortage of drivers they’ve just been handing them out anyway. They’re getting the money from it so why not pass a few guys who have already failed multiple times.
Maybe I’m hardheaded, but I guess it’s my way of sticking it to the man. But I’m not putting out the money to get a different looking card to stick in my wallet. It’s ridiculous. If they can let people start hitting the road at 16, only take one test they’re whole life and say they’re qualified forever to drive, then I see no reason why I should have to go any further with it. If I can drive a big *** tractor down a narrow 2 lane road with a big *** field cultivator behind me and not hit any of the people that are flying past me and passing in no passing zones and not hit anyone then I think I’ll be fine in a truck.
82355
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Oh, I agree. For years I drove the old man’s semis, and just hoped I didn’t get pulled over. First offense was only a $50 fine anyway. Then Nebraska changed the law, and a CDL was no longer required for me.
I have had temporary CDL’s, but I have never bothered to take the test for a full CDL.
Martin
I have had temporary CDL’s, but I have never bothered to take the test for a full CDL.
Martin
Do you have a list of Tools that you stock (Maybe add a link (in here) so we can open with all the tool you sell)? Maybe we can give you some business or share with our friends. (The Macnaught Grease Coupler is one I use a lot here on my equipment).
Have A Safe and Blessed Day.
Have A Safe and Blessed Day.
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cliftonbros89
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I could do that. I don’t have a website. Just a Facebook page. I haven’t added anything to a like Facebook store, cuz I’m sure they’ll want a cut of it. But I’ll post a link to the Facebook page.
People suggest and almost insist I have a website, but there’s more involved with that than what people think too. It’s a lot of work to keep up with it, keep things updated, keep track of packaging and shipping. Yeah it’s more potential business, but it’s also a lot of work too. Not to mention it’s not just free to get all that stuff started either.
So that’s why I’m just taking it slow and one step at a time. Building things as I go.
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cliftonbros89
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Clifton Tool & Supply LLC
Clifton Tool & Supply LLC, Perryville, Missouri. 454 likes · 27 talking about this. Clifton Tool & Supply is your official distributor for grease and oil handling equipment from Macnaught as well as...
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Here is the link for my tool business Facebook page. Most of everything I post is what I have in stock or will soon have in stock.
Like I mentioned most of my stuff is all local I occasionally post other local businesses that I work with.
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cliftonbros89
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I try to keep a variety. But it’s definitely tough to keep it all. I like to have a good selection. Especially, when I pull up somewhere. If you don’t have it they won’t buy it.
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cliftonbros89
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I’m finally planning on taking a step to get some lights in the tool trailer. A little different than I originally planned. But after a few suggestions and doing some searching I’ve finally made a decision. Don’t worry. There will be a post on it. I ordered a few things and waiting for them to get here next week.
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cliftonbros89
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So just a quick update on the tool trailer. I bought several 12 volt LED lights online. I decided to just try 6 to see how it looked. It was fine. But it definitely could’ve been brighter. So I added more. I need to get a better picture with all of them. It definitely brightened things up.
Hung the lights, wired them up, hid the wires so they’re not out everywhere. Still some more to do on that. I got to thinking about it and decided to give myself a few options. I can still use an extension cord to plug up the 2 existing lights, which I need to do something with the wiring for those. They guy before just kind of ran it and let it go. But for the LED light I didn’t want to have to get a big expensive marine/rv battery. It’d be pricey, plus it’d have to be maintained. I’d also then have to find a place to put it. So instead I ran a wire to hook it up to the hot wire on the truck through the trailer hook up. But then I also got one of these little Milwaukee adaptors. Wired it up (it wasn’t the permanent setup in the picture below, that was just to test). So I could use some light without having to run the truck.
With just the first 6 lights a Milwaukee battery would last awhile. But with all of them going a Milwaukee battery can really drain. I haven’t fully timed it yet. But one of the higher amp 12 volt can last about a half hour or so. I think that should work for now.
Still work to do on it. But there’s a lot of other jobs to do too. I’m just glad when I take the trailer somewhere people will be able to see what’s actually in it without opening the doors or trying to plug in to an outlet somewhere.
Hung the lights, wired them up, hid the wires so they’re not out everywhere. Still some more to do on that. I got to thinking about it and decided to give myself a few options. I can still use an extension cord to plug up the 2 existing lights, which I need to do something with the wiring for those. They guy before just kind of ran it and let it go. But for the LED light I didn’t want to have to get a big expensive marine/rv battery. It’d be pricey, plus it’d have to be maintained. I’d also then have to find a place to put it. So instead I ran a wire to hook it up to the hot wire on the truck through the trailer hook up. But then I also got one of these little Milwaukee adaptors. Wired it up (it wasn’t the permanent setup in the picture below, that was just to test). So I could use some light without having to run the truck.
With just the first 6 lights a Milwaukee battery would last awhile. But with all of them going a Milwaukee battery can really drain. I haven’t fully timed it yet. But one of the higher amp 12 volt can last about a half hour or so. I think that should work for now.
Still work to do on it. But there’s a lot of other jobs to do too. I’m just glad when I take the trailer somewhere people will be able to see what’s actually in it without opening the doors or trying to plug in to an outlet somewhere.
82355
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Saw these on the Facebook and thought of you. DB 120 planter. Not sure whose it is, they just said in Nebraska.
Close up.
Martin
Close up.
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Sifan
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With that planter, Some fields along the river, one pass you're done!
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cliftonbros89
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That’s a little above my leagueSaw these on the Facebook and thought of you. DB 120 planter. Not sure whose it is, they just said in Nebraska.
Close up.
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cliftonbros89
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We’ve got places you couldn’t even unfold that thingWith that planter, Some fields along the river, one pass you're done!
82355
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You guys are crazy down there!
Martin
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jollygreengiant
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Lol, you think that's bad? Farm up this way just sold for $50,000 per acre. No development potential.
I know there are other areas that are more expensive but that much for just farmland is way beyond crazy! I remember farms selling for under $10,000/ac less than 20 years ago.
Farmall450
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That's insane
jblnut
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That's a lot of Loonies !!Lol, you think that's bad? Farm up this way just sold for $50,000 per acre. No development potential.
I know there are other areas that are more expensive but that much for just farmland is way beyond crazy! I remember farms selling for under $10,000/ac less than 20 years ago.
realvc
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I think they are going to plant turnips on all of it and make it into a large deer plot. I could be wrong though.
82355
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Lol, you think that's bad? Farm up this way just sold for $50,000 per acre. No development potential.
I know there are other areas that are more expensive but that much for just farmland is way beyond crazy! I remember farms selling for under $10,000/ac less than 20 years ago.
What is that in non Canuck dollars?
In 1997 my old man bought a half section across the fence from his home place. He paid $1,760 an acre, and everyone thought he was crazy. Last year he bought the dry 80 on the other side of that half section. He paid over $12,*** for it. Land has gotten stupid around here. Irrigated is selling for $16,***.
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cliftonbros89
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Oh believe me I know. That was big talk around here. There isn’t nothing in my area worth that at all. No one would think about that here.You guys are crazy down there!
Martin
About 10 years ago good laying, good dirt river bottom ground started going for about $10,000 an acre. At that point it was game on. Everyone that sold river bottom ground thought theirs was worth that too. Which also drove the price on hill ground up.
But after while people started refusing to pay that. So prices did come down, on the river bottom ground anyway. People still think any hill ground is gold, no matter how bad it is.
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cliftonbros89
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To put the land value here into perspective, I know last year, the leveee district took the numbers from the last 14 farms that had sold that were river bottom ground. They throw out the two lowest and the two highest. Then they averaged the rest and I believe the average price was around $6,500 an acre.
When I was a kid my dad and uncle had bought out my grandpa. While in the process of this their uncle passed away. He had a farm they were renting from him. It was 108 acres and his wife gave my dad and uncle the first chance at it. I believe at the time she wanted $2,200 an acre, which was unheard of. That would’ve been mid 90’s. Today that farm would probably sell for 7 easy.
But as I mentioned in the previous post there was awhile that some of the ground was going for 9-10 an acre. But people started refusing to pay it. Especially, at the time the river was a constant threat. No one was going to pay out that to take the risk of possibly loosing a whole crop or most of it every other year. So that has slowed down for now.
But this around here isn’t near the type of ground up in northern and northwest Missouri. But no doubt that was the shot heard around Missouri last week. But it wasn’t just one guy that drove the price that high. It takes at least 2 to have a bidding war.
When I was a kid my dad and uncle had bought out my grandpa. While in the process of this their uncle passed away. He had a farm they were renting from him. It was 108 acres and his wife gave my dad and uncle the first chance at it. I believe at the time she wanted $2,200 an acre, which was unheard of. That would’ve been mid 90’s. Today that farm would probably sell for 7 easy.
But as I mentioned in the previous post there was awhile that some of the ground was going for 9-10 an acre. But people started refusing to pay it. Especially, at the time the river was a constant threat. No one was going to pay out that to take the risk of possibly loosing a whole crop or most of it every other year. So that has slowed down for now.
But this around here isn’t near the type of ground up in northern and northwest Missouri. But no doubt that was the shot heard around Missouri last week. But it wasn’t just one guy that drove the price that high. It takes at least 2 to have a bidding war.
Sifan
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Thinking, Auctioneers didn't have to beat to hard on sellers to take off the reserve
jollygreengiant
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Man, I'd love to have land around here at $6,500/ac.
These astronomical land prices are going to cause a whole lot of issues down the road that nobody really seems to care about.
These astronomical land prices are going to cause a whole lot of issues down the road that nobody really seems to care about.
jollygreengiant
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Not quite $37,000 in USD at current rates. So it's not quite as bad when you look at it that way, but then everything up here is much more expensive because of that.
XJSuperman
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Any harvest updates from the south?
I went through the river area just north of STL last weekend. Beautiful time of year to drive through. Grabbed some Stag before heading home.
I went through the river area just north of STL last weekend. Beautiful time of year to drive through. Grabbed some Stag before heading home.
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cliftonbros89
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Well we’re not done. Still have second crop beans to cut. But they’re not quite ready to go. Yields haven’t been great. But, considering the conditions we experienced this year some farms did better than we expected they’d do. But everything I’ve heard around here has been all over the board. Some guys says they had less than average corn and early beans were junk. But I know one farm that claims to have had an all round record year for corn.
We’ve had a very dry fall. It’s been great to get the crops out. But it’s actually made things a bit of a pain too. All the dust and debris on the beans hasn’t settled at all. It’s also meant very little to no fall pasture. Also no rain, to little rain has meant nonstop working. I think I’m almost on 2 months straight with absolutely no break.
We didn’t do a ton of cover crop but what we did do we finished up with. We also have all the wheat, only about 250 acres, drilled. As well as another 45 +/- acres of forage wheat to cut for hay in the spring drilled as well.
Most of the fall tillage is done, except about 66 acres which still has beans standing on it. But given we’re nearing being done early and drier conditions we may get a chance to fix up a few hill farms with a few water ways.
As usual we’ve had some technical difficulties as well. Truck issues, combine issues, people not watching what they’re doing issues.
We may get a few beans cut by the end of the week. But by the weekend there is talk of an actual rain. Maybe a couple days worth. Which may mean a little break. Looks like it could do something as a cold front will be coming in and temperatures will definitely be taking a dip.
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cliftonbros89
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I’ve still been lacking in my GJ posting. But it’s busy all the time. Between the farm and the tool business work is all day every day. Since the end of summer I’ve been in the process of adding about 6 brands to the tool business and am possibly going to add others by the beginning of the year. It’s a little hectic but I think it’s getting somewhere. Just takes time.
jollygreengiant
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Feel free to send that dry weather up here anytime. I think in the last 3 weeks there's been maybe 2 days where guys where able to cut beans. And they are calling for snow next week...
Good to hear the tool business is booming!
Good to hear the tool business is booming!
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cliftonbros89
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I’m not sure I’d say that it’s booming just yet. But it is taking off.
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cliftonbros89
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We went from lows is the 60’s and dry to 2.5” +/- of rain over the weekend and low’s in the 20’s.
It’ll definitely be a few days until we can cut anymore beans. Cooler temps and gradually shorter days won’t help things dry very fast. But on the other hand a frost or two should knock out those couple green/tough spots in the bean fields that have still been holding on.
It’ll definitely be a few days until we can cut anymore beans. Cooler temps and gradually shorter days won’t help things dry very fast. But on the other hand a frost or two should knock out those couple green/tough spots in the bean fields that have still been holding on.
XJSuperman
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If you get any of the wind we're getting up here today, your beans will dry out real quick. Blustery up here and coming from the North.
82355
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Are there many beans left to be cut down there? Most everyone has been done with beans up here for awhile. In fact most people are done with corn as well.
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cliftonbros89
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Finished with beans just yesterday. I know a few guys who finished up this weekend. There’s still some left. But it’s definitely getting down to the end. I would imagine this week will be about the end of the majority. Which is really just about right on time.
82355
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It's interesting to see the differences in farming across the country, even for a place that is relatively close.
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cliftonbros89
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Hey everybody!