Friday Crop Report on Thursday!

[shtferbrains]

My old menonite grandfather who learned to farm in Kansas with horse power used to call it green manure. The roots go down deep into the soil profile and bring up all kinds of nutrients. We don't harvest or haul any of them off the field so they are there for following crops.
The difference is they used to "plow" them back in and they decomposed quickly. Now it's just standing there and takes more time. Will decompose but not qualified to say how much immediate benefits that will provide this year crop.

Not recomending tillage.

[woodland]

Where is a good place to buy one of these in Sask or Alberta




Woodland will this work




What’s guys thoughts on JCB

Totally depends on the machine’s condition when buying that yellow iron. Ours was bought cheap knowing the motor was tired and the undercarriage was almost pooched. All new Cat undercarriage with swapping the pads over was around $50k two years ago. No labour as we did it ourselves. That has a 3306 which is a great common motor. Fits legally on a tridem for easy moves unlike our 8.

Any service records with it? Oil leaks?

JCB………. Don’t know nothing about them. Not sure about parts availability down the road if it’s sticking around a long time?

For me it better say Cat or Deere on it. I can still go get parts for my 3020 or D6C and those machines are wayyyyy older than me. Wreckers are helpful for common machines too. Blew a final drive on our Deere (made by hitachi) hoe and bought a set of used finals from BC for $3k compared to a new one at Brandt for $18k. Now there’s a spare in the shed.

Maybe I’m just bitter after getting burned on parts availability on Dresser (IH) wheel loader years ago.

Happy shopping 🍀

[makar]

Pull the transmission dipstick, if its overfull finals are leaking into it, not a deal breaker. Narrow pad is better for farm use. High drives also carry oil in the track frame and like to crack up.

[woodland]

Does the hoe have a hyd thumb? We’re adding it to ours and it’s a hassle. Definitely necessary to make it way more useful for cleanup and such.

[shtferbrains]

Can't pick anything up with no thumb!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Does the hoe have a hyd thumb? We’re adding it to ours and it’s a hassle. Definitely necessary to make it way more useful for cleanup and such.

I second that. Always easier and cheaper to buy a machine that is set up the way you want it, then to try to add or swap accessories after the fact. I use the Thumb on the track hoe almost all the time. Trees of course, but loading manure can almost double the size of the bucket same with frozen chunks of dirt or peat moss. Moving scrap metal Garbage old buildings etc .
Same with a cat, if you need a ripper or a winch or hydraulic tilts or angle blade or sweeps / canopy, find a machine that has them to start with.

I tried to figure out who builds the JCB track hoes, since there are only a few manufacturers sold under lots of different paint jobs, but it appears JCB May build their own. That definitely could make parts availability an issue.

[fjlip]

JHC saskfarmer has more construction equipment than my RM does.

Not a big deal, nothing new Grandfather and Dad had a TD 9 in 1968, our farm was cleaned up and ditched after that in a few years. Way ahead of most farms then, 100% of bigger acres have equipment of all kinds here. Neighbors even have a Volvo Rock truck.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Not a big deal, nothing new Grandfather and Dad had a TD 9 in 1968, our farm was cleaned up and ditched after that in a few years. Way ahead of most farms then, 100% of bigger acres have equipment of all kinds here. Neighbors even have a Volvo Rock truck.

A rock truck is next on my list. Quit abusing the tandem hauling dirt. Still trying to establish if I'm allowed to use it on the road though.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

One more accessory that you definitely don't want to live without on any tracked machine, is the self-cleaning tracks option. Especially at this time of year.


















Now if someone would just get busy and invent that it would be much appreciated.

[SASKFARMER]

The 7 has a new under carriage and motor has been done 450 hrs ago. Clean and no leaks crawled all over it.

The Track hoe was new Demo were now going with the Deere 240 it has a thumb and set up like we want.


Off to Manitoba for parts early this morning for our HD 11 1974. Parts are tough to find on these older machines.