Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road

[jblnut]

OMG. what are you feeding this child! He's growing like a weed!!!

Bacon, potatoes and Mac'N'Cheese with the occasional Swiss Cake roll mixed in lol

He sure has grown since he was my little shelf duster

 

[jblnut]

1-1/8" or 27/28mm ish?

Ok well upon closer zooming in I can see it says 1-1/8" on it lol. Never figured my phone would be that crisp

That one gets used for everything and has been on a 1440, 1640, 2144, and now the 2388.

 

[jblnut]

I was lucky enough to snag this pic just as I was hitting 88mpg in Walter !! Everything turnt into a blur ......


And it popped me out here right where I needed to be !! Time to bring the disc home. 3hrs to get there 6.5ish to get home. Lots of seat time in Walter today !!


I chained the frame to the hitch to take out as much bouncing as possible. I also put another chain and binder from the tall green piece in the center back to the frame to really make it solid !!


I stopped after 10 miles and another 20 to check bearings and tires and they were all cool so I went nonstop without issue, well mostly anyway, for the next 150 miles at 33mph. Just cruising along ******* everyone off behind me


I was less than 10 miles from home and thought "This is working very well. I'm almost home!!". Almost instantly (no joke) the truck downshifts 2 gears and has no power. Great. Well it was an easy fix but took way too long to find. The damn throttle cable dealio flew apart !! A zip tie on it all and I got home and fixed it properly.

 

[Mr.zippy]

I was lucky enough to snag this pic just as I was hitting 88mpg in Walter !! Everything turnt into a blur ......


And it popped me out here right where I needed to be !! Time to bring the disc home. 3hrs to get there 6.5ish to get home. Lots of seat time in Walter today !!


I chained the frame to the hitch to take out as much bouncing as possible. I also put another chain and binder from the tall green piece in the center back to the frame to really make it solid !!


I stopped after 10 miles and another 20 to check bearings and tires and they were all cool so I went nonstop without issue, well mostly anyway, for the next 150 miles at 33mph. Just cruising along ******* everyone off behind me


I was less than 10 miles from home and thought "This is working very well. I'm almost home!!". Almost instantly (no joke) the truck downshifts 2 gears and has no power. Great. Well it was an easy fix but took way too long to find. The damn throttle cable dealio flew apart !! A zip tie on it all and I got home and fixed it properly.

Zip ties for the win! I am a bit disappointed though....I thought you guys used bailing wire for everything! Glad you made it home safely. 33 mph top speed would **** though.....

 

[jblnut]

Zip ties for the win! I am a bit disappointed though....I thought you guys used bailing wire for everything! Glad you made it home safely. 33 mph top speed would **** though.....

Mr. Zippy likes zip ties

Honestly, if I had some #9 wire I would have used that instead!

I was told I could go 40-45 but I decided to play it safe and go 33. I figured I'd spend more time on the side of the road changing a tire or something else dumb if I pushed things to the edge.

^^18yr old me would read that and think I was a big pansy and 65yr old me will read it and think "it took until I was 37 before I finally had common sense?!?!?!"

I spend hundreds of hours a year going between 4 and 5 miles an hour in farm machinery so 33mph is quick

 

[jollygreengiant]

Guesses on the wrench size ? Most commonly used one on a red combine .....

....Isn't that all of them?

I kid, I kid lol.

You guys are into corn already?! It's barely black layered here, were a good 2 weeks behind normal. Had a cool summer with a lot of hazy/smokey days.

 

[jeepxj]

ya know i bought these just for cupholder work but Ill be damned if they aint handy as hell and punch way above their weight.

 

[Bob Heine]

ya know i bought these just for cupholder work but Ill be damned if they aint handy as hell and punch way above their weight.

@jeepxj, the teeth on those Knipex water pump pliers are going to ruin those bolts. You gotta get the pliers wrench before you destroy all your bolt heads.

Save those water pump pliers for their intended use -- unscrewing bottle caps.

Seriously, those little pliers would come in real handy in the tight spots I run into all the time.
I will not put them in my cart.
I will not put them in my cart.
I will not put them in my cart.
But they're made to fit in that little pocket on my jeans:

 

[jblnut]

I’m a city boy, I don’t know these things..lol It just looked so uniformly colored I figured it was sprayed with something to make the harvest easier. Like I’ve read they do with oats.

No worries !! I figured I'd reply in here instead of the other thread. If you have more questions or things you'd like to see I'll happily accommodate!!

Most crops come in a variety of maturity ranges so they can be optimally grown in different climates. We plant grain corn that will mature in 90-95 days from planting. That's all dependant on how much rain and sunlight it gets. This year we got very little rain so and a lot of sun so the corn matured faster than normal. It's also yielding around 40% less than normal. Imagine your paycheck varying by 40% each year. It makes budgeting interesting lol.

I don't know anyone that sprays crops to kill them to harvest them but I know it's done. We've never done it as I see it as a practice of a bad manager that has decided to grow something outside of where it should be grown.

South of us in the "corn belt" the corn stalk itself is actually quite green yet when they harvest. They'll plant a more full maturity variety in the 115-120 day range. Our corn usually gets nipped by a hard frost around now and that kills it. So I guess it has gotten killed by something, at least this year.

On nom nom the red beast is munching the last of the corn for the year !!


It's right at 17.5% so it's going into my bin by my barn without running through the dryer first.


Tiny little cobs this year. Things look surprisingly good considering how little rain we got this year.


There is a rain system that is suppose to be here tonight and tomorrow and will hopefully make things soggy again. Once it all dries out we'll chop the corn stalks up with a giant flail mower and bale them to be used for bedding for the cattle.


I had two not so little anymore munchkins with me for a while after school and before supper.


Little Man rode with Grandpa in the combine for a while and Alyssa and I looked for purple cobs. This variety is E095D3 Enogen and 5% of the cobs are this color so it's trackable as Enogen. Miss Alyssa is giving me a foreshadowing of what is to come and I'm not sure I like it lol


Back home and right into the bin !! Each load that goes right into the bin saves around $100 in drying costs so I'm okay with that !!

 

[jollygreengiant]

No worries !! I figured I'd reply in here instead of the other thread. If you have more questions or things you'd like to see I'll happily accommodate!!

Most crops come in a variety of maturity ranges so they can be optimally grown in different climates. We plant grain corn that will mature in 90-95 days from planting. That's all dependant on how much rain and sunlight it gets. This year we got very little rain so and a lot of sun so the corn matured faster than normal. It's also yielding around 40% less than normal. Imagine your paycheck varying by 40% each year. It makes budgeting interesting lol.

I don't know anyone that sprays crops to kill them to harvest them but I know it's done. We've never done it as I see it as a practice of a bad manager that has decided to grow something outside of where it should be grown.

Well I wouldn't say that it's the practice of a bad manager as it really depends on the crop. In corn and soybeans and wheat, yes it's not really needed. But in some crops like dry beans and IP soybeans its almost standard practice. But in those crops it has a lot more to do with quality of the final product. Dry beans are especially bad for not ripening uniformly. So if you don't spray you have to pull them and leave them in windows to dry down evenly and cross your fingers that it doesn't rain while the beans are laying there. I've seen that happen, and the beans can be ruined if it rains enough. The other option would be to harvest them when they are mostly ready, but then you would have some green plants and beans that would stain and affect the mature beans, which causes a lot of problems with the canners and processors. Apparently Asian customers really don't like off coloured tofu lol.

So by spraying before harvest we can make sure the crop is actually able to be harvested and in good quality. We don't use systemic products anymore in dry beans so there's no worry about chemicals getting into the beans. And in IP soybeans it's pretty well controlled, most bean buyers require farmers to have their ok before spraying a field.

 

[jollygreengiant]

Also, is putting corn right into the bin normal for you guys? I know they can do it further south in the corn belt but surprised to see you doint it so far north.

 

[Firstram]

We don't use systemic products anymore in dry beans so there's no worry about chemicals getting into the beans. And in IP soybeans it's pretty well controlled, most bean buyers require farmers to have their ok before spraying a field.

What do you spray?

 

[jblnut]

Well I wouldn't say that it's the practice of a bad manager as it really depends on the crop. In corn and soybeans and wheat, yes it's not really needed. But in some crops like dry beans and IP soybeans its almost standard practice. But in those crops it has a lot more to do with quality of the final product. Dry beans are especially bad for not ripening uniformly. So if you don't spray you have to pull them and leave them in windows to dry down evenly and cross your fingers that it doesn't rain while the beans are laying there. I've seen that happen, and the beans can be ruined if it rains enough. The other option would be to harvest them when they are mostly ready, but then you would have some green plants and beans that would stain and affect the mature beans, which causes a lot of problems with the canners and processors. Apparently Asian customers really don't like off coloured tofu lol.

So by spraying before harvest we can make sure the crop is actually able to be harvested and in good quality. We don't use systemic products anymore in dry beans so there's no worry about chemicals getting into the beans. And in IP soybeans it's pretty well controlled, most bean buyers require farmers to have their ok before spraying a field.

I never have thought to crops other than corn/soybeans/wheat/oats and such ... My bad !!

It all boils down to what the customer wants. Having a nice consistent product is more important than a super high quality one sometimes. I cull perfectly healthy chickens out of the barn the last week before they go out because they're smaller than they want them to be. The customer wants a consistent product.

Also, is putting corn right into the bin normal for you guys? I know they can do it further south in the corn belt but surprised to see you doing it so far north.

It is some years but I like to combine the stuff we sell around 18-20% and run it through the dryer. The stuff we put right in the bins will be fed so it can be wetter as long as we take some out each week.

What do you spray?

I'm also curious!!

 

[jeepxj]

The processing line is configured to certain size. Smaller or larger slows production rates down. Big picture wise it’s better for efficiency.

 

[jblnut]

The processing line is configured to certain size. Smaller or larger slows production rates down. Big picture wise it’s better for efficiency.

Oh boy. You have the big business squash the little guy attitude already

 

[jblnut]

Used round baler belting on a tongue and groove treated 2x6 ?! Da fug is going on here ?!?!


The concrete in the lean-to moves a yeebit so I thought the baler belting on the bottom would be a nice flexible skirt deal. Time will tell.

 

[jeepxj]

Oh boy. You have the big business squash the little guy attitude already

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[Boostingaz]

@jblnut

Love seeing the kids getting involved and helping!! If at least some kids don't stay interested in us blue collar folks we will be screwed in generations to come. We'll all be eating bagged space food living in 3d printed tiny houses.

 

[red]

Betcha that the round baler belting will outlast the pressure treated lumber. (great idea btw)
One thing about farming, you have to be constantly thinking on your feet.

 

[82355]

We got finished Sunday afternoon. Cargill was open from noon to 4:00 pm. Finished off three fields! This was the last dump from the combine.



Martin

 

[jblnut]

Love seeing the kids getting involved and helping!! If at least some kids don't stay interested in us blue collar folks we will be screwed in generations to come. We'll all be eating bagged space food living in 3d printed tiny houses.

At least we'd have sweet phone/cup holders

Betcha that the round baler belting will outlast the pressure treated lumber. (great idea btw)
One thing about farming, you have to be constantly thinking on your feet.

I bet you are correct !! I plan to live here as long as I'm alive so I'll keep y'all posted !!

We got finished Sunday afternoon. Cargill was open from noon to 4:00 pm. Finished off three fields! This was the last dump from the combine.



Martin

Feels damn good to be done I bet !!!

 

[82355]

phone repost

 

[jblnut]

Mixing another batch of steak seasoning. Well, I do 3-4 batches a week but I don't take pictures of all of them lol


Well well well .......


In through the roof hole we go !!


That's Nick in there. They charge $135/hr and this guy is worth every penny. Super stand up dude that knew his ****, worked quickly and did nice work.


Hey look it's out !! 2hrs from his arrival to his departure. Quite happy with that !!


I got some seat time in the 9420 with the new to me Wishek disk. I finally found something that makes the turbo sing on Big John !! It drinks about 17gal/hr when the disk is down about 10" deep. It does a really nice job as well so quite happy with that !!


Kiddos were home from school late last week and "we" were working on the lean-to tin when "we" got side tracked .....


Grab some scrap iron .....


Weld it into handles next to gas cans


The kiddos found this teeter-totter frame in the weeds and asked if we could make it work again. Sure why not !!


I guess I can only attach 10 files ..... I guess I'll boost my post count tonight. Stay tuned for part 2 !!

 

[jblnut]

Part 2 !!!

I tried my damnedest to let them do as much as possible on the project. They cut things and wrenches them and got it all together !!


They were quite excited to try it out !!


It fits in nicely with the other junky looking playground pieces !! Just need one of those 4' diameter Merry-go-rounds that rocket you into the stratosphere when you fly off now !!


The first seed corn for 2024 was delivered a few days ago. We don't even have everything combined from this year yet

 

[loganb]

@82355 How were your overall yields in your area Martin?

Couple hours south of you "highly variable" is the name of the game....had some where bu/acre in cab were so low the moisture meter had a bigger reading....in both corn and beans! Others had some exceptional spots....1 irrigated corn patch with good dirt hit over 300 in the swales where it had more water. Overall across the enterprise in crop insurance terms it's a very off year and insurance payouts will hit. Not what we want but helps ensure a next year

 

[82355]

@82355 How were your overall yields in your area Martin?

Couple hours south of you "highly variable" is the name of the game....had some where bu/acre in cab were so low the moisture meter had a bigger reading....in both corn and beans! Others had some exceptional spots....1 irrigated corn patch with good dirt hit over 300 in the swales where it had more water. Overall across the enterprise in crop insurance terms it's a very off year and insurance payouts will hit. Not what we want but helps ensure a next year

Our yields were bad, but not as bad as South of us. People were cutting beans fields for insurance reasons, that should not have been combined. Single digit yields. Just North of us had more rain, and better yields. We had irrigated beans that did 54 bushels. Two miles North of us, the neighbor we harvest with had 55 bushel dryland beans. I am getting some crop insurance payouts.

Martin

 

[jblnut]

Time to chop up some corn straw for bedding !!


On nom nom the baler is eating corn straw like the BeardMeatsFood guy eats everything he gets around


Mama Bear brought Leo and I supper whilst we were baling !! I spent a crazy amount of time in that buddy seat when I was shorter


Pops and I got the tin up on the lean-to!! I really like it already. Gotta get the clear stuff up on top and it'll be minty.


22 at a time takes a while but it's nice easy mindless work so I get to let my mind wander ...... Not always a good thing though


Time to start feeding the beast ......


Sir there is a locomotive idling in your wood pile


Skiddy hit a fun milestone!! Not sure if anyone else likes numbers that go well with each other like this but I sure do for some reason


WTF is this ?!?! I'm not ready for snow yet !!!!!


Happy birthday to me. This will be a better match behind Walter than the green one Pop's has. It'll haul 25k of whatever I want at road speeds and I'm rather excited to put it to use !!

 

[jblnut]

Leo approves of the new little red wagon ! I should get some radio flyer stickers to put on it


The power company replaced a bunch of poles by Dad's place a few years back and they've been sitting in the weeds since. The guy that hunts my meadows asked if I had anything he could use to build a bridge over my creek and I thought of these.


He's got some metal grating of some kind he's going to put on it yet but there it is. I gotta chain the to the concrete chunks at either end ye so they won't float away in the spring. Sure hope I don't need some sort of unobtainable permit to build a bridge ......


Final work getting done on the lean-to!! The man basket deal made the top plastic stuff go on really nicely !


It isn't even finished for 3 minutes and I have **** leaning on the wall


Grrrrrrrrrr Pops is finishing tillage in the last field of the year !!! Man oh man this Deere sings going through the field !!


Mama Bears birthday was on Saturday so I took her to a hockey game. The MN Wild won after a couple rounds in the shoot out. I wore a Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs jersey from the show Shoresy and it was a blast. I kept hollering quotes from the show and people around us were laughing. Mama Bear was so proud

 

[JJC]

Happy Birthday Mama Bear

 

[cvairwerks]

You should look at a round bale trailer for faster moving the bales....Takes just a few minutes to load and less than a minute to unload. Lets you haul fast and put them in storage at a slower pace. You can even get them with a remote hydraulic dump control

 

[racer-john]

Happy Birthday Mama Bear

Times one!

 

[jblnut]

You should look at a round bale trailer for faster moving the bales....Takes just a few minutes to load and less than a minute to unload. Lets you haul fast and put them in storage at a slower pace. You can even get them with a remote hydraulic dump control

I entertained it a while back but I don't have a big enough area to dump them all before I have to stop and move them into storage. Pops hauls manure and does tillage while I haul bales home so for now at least it works pretty well this way. I take them off the trailer and put them into their forever home right away so I only really have to handle them once. I do that with the skiddy, not the tractor and loader. That'd be a nightmare lol

 

[Jblount3]

Leo approves of the new little red wagon ! I should get some radio flyer stickers to put on it


The power company replaced a bunch of poles by Dad's place a few years back and they've been sitting in the weeds since. The guy that hunts my meadows asked if I had anything he could use to build a bridge over my creek and I thought of these.


He's got some metal grating of some kind he's going to put on it yet but there it is. I gotta chain the to the concrete chunks at either end ye so they won't float away in the spring. Sure hope I don't need some sort of unobtainable permit to build a bridge ......


Final work getting done on the lean-to!! The man basket deal made the top plastic stuff go on really nicely !


It isn't even finished for 3 minutes and I have **** leaning on the wall


Grrrrrrrrrr Pops is finishing tillage in the last field of the year !!! Man oh man this Deere sings going through the field !!


Mama Bears birthday was on Saturday so I took her to a hockey game. The MN Wild won after a couple rounds in the shoot out. I wore a Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs jersey from the show Shoresy and it was a blast. I kept hollering quotes from the show and people around us were laughing. Mama Bear was so proud

I’d say you where good to her… haha great jersey choice and hello from southern Mn

 

[jblnut]

I’d say you where good to her… haha great jersey choice and hello from southern Mn

You ever been sitting across from someone, trying to have a normal conversation, fighting every urge inside yourself to just scream out 'YEAH!' ?

It was the most fun I've had at a hockey game since I wore a custom made Twins jersey that said 'WEDOCOWS' on the back. I used to work where that was the unofficial slogan. Whatcha do at work ? Cow stuff. Yeah, we do cows.

 

[Jblount3]

You ever been sitting across from someone, trying to have a normal conversation, fighting every urge inside yourself to just scream out 'YEAH!' ?

It was the most fun I've had at a hockey game since I wore a custom made Twins jersey that said 'WEDOCOWS' on the back. I used to work where that was the unofficial slogan. Whatcha do at work ? Cow stuff. Yeah, we do cows.

Haha nice. And yes I do have that urge or to quote coach and kick a trash can and yell fn embarrassing

 

[Sifan]

Years ago, had similar situation with LARGE power poles. Guy I worked for was collecting them for new feedlot. My job was to wrap a log chain around the Pole and guide it into the back of the 2t truck while boss ran 1800 Oliver with wide front end and loader. 1st pole of the day, boss had it in reverse rather than forward and backed the front wheel up my foot. FiNALLY got him stopped, right before he rolled over my ankle and broke my leg. He was nice enough to get off the tractor and see if I was okay. Determined I was okay and went back to the task of loading the first pole after telling him to make sure he had it in the right gear!!

Well, when he got down to check on me, he stepped in the wet ditch. When he went to let out the clutch, his wet muddy boot slipped off the clutch. Tractor lurched forward yanking the pole out of my hands, he slammed on the clutch and brakes and before I could duck, the telephone pole swung back and hit me in the head!! Knocked me out cold! Boss tells it that my first words when I came too was "I Quit!"

 

[jblnut]

Leo what'd you do ?!?!?!?! I'm going to try my best to find it in the bale when we break it apart in the pen so I don't find it with the spreader next spring


Greased and fueled up and ready to go play with the skiddy !!


I pulled a bunch of brush out of this line of snow fence stuff as it was starting to take over. There was a lot more than I thought there'd be !!


Pops hauled 13 or 14 loads off like this !


20 ton hoist under this wagon. Goodness gracious


Big John is ready to go play with the tile plow


Laying 4" pipe around 40" deep. This tractor pulls this plow way better than the Steiger did !!


Pulling 68" deep after a 36" prerip and the turbo is barely whistling


We put some tile in a small grassy patch as long as we had it hooked up. This little field is always wet and since it's stupid dry this year we figured we may as well !


After tiling Pops spread ************ and I disked it in. Feels good to get more done than we thought we would.

 

[Sifan]

Where's a friend with a metal detector?

20 ton Better too much than not enough

I was away from in laws farm for 20 years and stepped in when brother in law had heart problems. I couldn't believe the changes, where did these ponds and gullies come from? Now they have a major 5 year project. Thankfully they have a good neighbor to the north that realizes he also has a problem and his tile needs someplace to go and is willing to partner on one main.

 

[drivesitfar]

Looks like you’re busy as per usual. I’m thinking with all those cool bigger machines that your fuel bills for the farm haven’t reduced even though you’re burning wood for heat? That said that is some wood pile and I bet it’s great to have all those bigger better machines.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

 

[jblnut]

Where's a friend with a metal detector?

20 ton Better too much than not enough

I was away from in laws farm for 20 years and stepped in when brother in law had heart problems. I couldn't believe the changes, where did these ponds and gullies come from? Now they have a major 5 year project. Thankfully they have a good neighbor to the north that realizes he also has a problem and his tile needs someplace to go and is willing to partner on one main.

I know where it is in what bale it's just a matter of finding it lol. The metal detector is a great idea !!

I couldn't believe the size and girth of that hoist when I lifted the wagon up ! They said it was a 20 ton hoist when I ordered it but damn ..... It's a beast ! I'm pumped to toss 6-8 yds of dirt in it and drag it around. The smaller green one has its shorts full with 3-4yds so this will be a major time saver !

Having neighbors that are willing to work together on tile projects is important. Things can do so badly so fast it seems if someone gets **** hurt.

Looks like you’re busy as per usual. I’m thinking with all those cool bigger machines that your fuel bills for the farm haven’t reduced even though you’re burning wood for heat? That said that is some wood pile and I bet it’s great to have all those bigger better machines.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

Gallons/yr of diesel is about the same but the cost is all over. Last year we locked in 10,000gal at $3.25/gal so that was nice. This year we're looking at about the same, maybe a little less. So far this fall I've burnt around 50gap of LP at home before I started the stove and "only" 3,500ish for the grain dryer as it was an early dry fall. Happy about that !

The bigger better machines are all tax deductions so it makes buying stuff s little easier. When you sit down and think about the $$$$$ moving around on a farm just to do a simple task it's mind boggling. A few weekends ago I helped a buddy move a deer stand. We had his Deere 6175r hooked to his 32' hyd dovetail gooseneck with his Deere 332G skiddy along to move the stand. Just to move a homemade deer stand we had $275,000 worth of stuff moving around. Sure is handy to have it all though lol.

Thanksgiving was great !! Pumpkin pie and turkey filled kids had them all asleep on the way home from Grandma and Grandpas