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Rain fall totals! Ah F$&k monsoon totals!

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  • boarderbloke
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2007
    • 1991

    #21
    Just under 2" here, since 10am yesterday. Will grin and bare it, especially if other areas are getting 5-7"s
    We didn't need or want a drop of it.

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    • SASKFARMER3
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2006
      • 14485

      #22
      Verdin man 6.5? Yea we didn't need any of this.

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      • checking
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2008
        • 2392

        #23
        4" of rain. The effect is that it gained back a little more, or a little less than the areas seeded around as misses in the spring.

        This was not a million dollar rain event, but if it's prepared to stop it will make half of that for us.

        The worst beating taking place are the municipal roads. Much of it can be blamed on the way they are operated and maintained.

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        • farmaholic
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2010
          • 17476

          #24
          SF3. Better ask for ducks and geese. Cows will either drown or go lame with footrot.

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          • SASKFARMER3
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2006
            • 14485

            #25
            Verdin man 6.5? Yea we didn't need any of this.

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            • stonepicker
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 1217

              #26
              After the extreme dryness of the late 80's, i said i wouldn't complain about rain again. I feel for everyone who is getting too much though.

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              • farmaholic
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2010
                • 17476

                #27
                Checking, does any RM crown a road anymore? With the technology in "precision farming" you would think they could apply some of that technology to road grading and set the blade to maintain angles and pitches with potentiometers and make everything consistent. No money to be made by construction equipment manufacturers installing such technology? Only ag gets ****d?

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                • rodweeder
                  Junior Member
                  • Nov 2009
                  • 19

                  #28
                  Trouble with RM's anymore, they are trying to save dollars by cutting back on passes. With the heavy traffic now on these roads, they need to be doing weekly runs,they also site high cost of gravelling. We have black, and I mean black mud on the knolls on the road now. which is full of water, which soaks down the road bed. If it ever stops raining, roads will be spungy all summer.

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                  • johndeere1
                    Junior Member
                    • Jan 2010
                    • 8

                    #29
                    Rod weeded I couldn't disagree with you more. The graders are busy trying to catch up on roads after the rain stops. It's a constant battle. The graders never get caught up. The black diet on the roads is from using graders to build them 40 years ago. It would cost a fortune to recap all the roads.

                    If you think it could be done better get on counsel

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                    • checking
                      Senior Member
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 2392

                      #30
                      Farmaholic.

                      If I went down that road, it might be seen as an off topic highjack of an sf3 thread! The answer is "no".

                      Nice gravel/dust ridge left on one side of a road to trap rain events and washboards that are never removed. Farmers see it.
                      Grader operators only want a bowl to mix dry gravel and a scrapping of clay. It then blows dust into your yards and fields as they recreationally move it on days those graders should be shop parked.

                      It will never change.

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