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May 24, 2023 | 17:21
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Gas engine drives fan on airdrill. Bad oil leak, it backfired and
caught on fire friday night.
The only thing I had to extinguish it was the carharts I was wearing. While smothering it with them I realized if it didn't work I was going to have to call the fire department in my underwear...
Got it out and went to the beerstore wearing the charred remains.
Picked up a fire extinguisher when I got the new engine...
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May 24, 2023 | 17:36
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Teaching no. 1 son to seed. He seeded a 20 acre field and never turned the monitor on.
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May 24, 2023 | 17:57
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My back, again not a new thing but this is starting to become a game changer.
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May 24, 2023 | 18:50
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Not grabbing those $175/ac rents
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May 24, 2023 | 21:20
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Tried to plant in corn plots today before rain after the seed rollers on the new drill would not work
Well I turned that into a circus .
Went and picked up my ole JD planter yesterday from a buddy I sold it too 5 years ago
Blew a wheel bearing hub on way home , thank goodness I know the odd guy . I pulled into a guys yard i know very well and got beside his shop on nice cement pad . Got wheel off , took back to shop , cleaned out all the grease and old bearing shrapnel out of hub , got all new bearings and such , put back together but the hub got wore on one end . So jimmy rigged it so seal would set with JB weld , let sit 5 hours and got er back together and home 12 hours later .. 3 hour job 🙄
Well went to plant corn plots this morning, all planned out before rain …. Well dam meeter chain broke in the first 100 yards , rain comin , got that fixed , JD sucks with odd size bearings and chains BTW
Got 3 plots in , realized the planter not going in the ground on unworked canola stubble consistently enough… at all. Harrowed last fall but ground way to firm and still too much trash
Rain comin
Well , went and got the coulter harrow to try to work the rest of the stubble to finish plots
Well that was no good , so had to go to plan F , Fak it , and till the whole plot and have to re plant plots , then it rained .
Love the rain but never rush to do a job half assed ….. just a train wreck .
Then honesty, not even kidding , after I got home , my ole dog had to be put down , she been sick a few days but at 12 years old , the vet came out and said sorry .
Just finished burying her an hour ago .😞
Supper glad for the rain , but a frustrating, sad day .
When I *** things up , I *** them up good
Thankfully for an awesome rain for this whole area though 👍👍
I hope everyone’s day was better than mine lol
I swear I could literally write a country song Tonight 😵*💫
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May 24, 2023 | 21:24
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Didn't check that auto locking pins engaged on loader bucket before loading mixing wagon. Seems to take a long time to jump from one tractor and run around mixing wagon and shut other tractors PTO off
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May 24, 2023 | 21:34
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Marketing.
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May 24, 2023 | 22:34
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 Originally Posted by Rinker
Marketing.
Me too.
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May 24, 2023 | 23:08
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Losing the old dog makes a bad day.
Only thing worse would be running over it because it was too deaf to hear the tractor.
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May 25, 2023 | 06:59
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Marketing
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May 25, 2023 | 07:18
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Originally Posted by crusher
Marketing
You are not alone
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May 25, 2023 | 08:34
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Seeding by far the worst for me lol.
Being told you have to switch crops again because Fortress not down long enough... Unloading reloading dry fertilizer because it bridged. Fixing actuator young bull cut off because it doesn't do anything anyway....After all that starting, finding some 2-3 yr old cigarettes in the old tool truck and lighting them up after 5 months abstinence.... Biggest mistake so far....but year not over yet. The dollar a bushel on new wheat sales hurts too I guess.
My body from waist down can't do some of this anymore lol. But the win was, without hired man it was, peaceful......
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May 25, 2023 | 09:13
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Originally Posted by shtferbrains
Losing the old dog makes a bad day.
Only thing worse would be running over it because it was too deaf to hear the tractor.
She was a beauty ..
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May 25, 2023 | 09:48
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most things this spring.
had to reseed a 54 acre piece top blew of manifold in middle of cart. yes it’s a tow between and camera didn’t pick up.
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May 25, 2023 | 10:05
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Thing is. Seeding has no practice run, there is no manual, and every lesson learned the hard way. With a Mad Max menagerie of systems. And you get one shot for the whole year, to stare at the mess for a year. Well sown is half grown.
Seeding can't be taught, it's learned and imbibed. Seed placement for example, comes with a feel you can't teach.
I teach slow down, take all the steps in order. There is a reason for them. Like transfering Dangerous Goods.
And every year a new series of learning experiences..... Gonna be great to hand more of it off.
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May 25, 2023 | 10:27
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sorry to hear about your pup, furrowtickler.
Yeah Marketing. didn't pre-sell enough '23 crop. content with the average on '22 crop though.
prebought too much fertilizer.
used a spin spreader to play around with nitrogen rates in wheat on pulse stubble. The damn thing was applying at double the rate because the gate was an inch open when the gauge said it was closed. So the rate was wayyy off. We usually apply 100-110lb N, I've got some strips that are 140lb applied plus whatever the N credit from the pulses are. Will be peeling that off the ground.
All told, a pretty good seeding season though.
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May 25, 2023 | 11:29
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Originally Posted by jazz
Not grabbing those $175/ac rents
Here I was thinking 40 dollar rent….
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May 25, 2023 | 13:12
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Originally Posted by Marusko
sorry to hear about your pup, furrowtickler.
Yeah Marketing. didn't pre-sell enough '23 crop. content with the average on '22 crop though.
prebought too much fertilizer.
used a spin spreader to play around with nitrogen rates in wheat on pulse stubble. The damn thing was applying at double the rate because the gate was an inch open when the gauge said it was closed. So the rate was wayyy off. We usually apply 100-110lb N, I've got some strips that are 140lb applied plus whatever the N credit from the pulses are. Will be peeling that off the ground.
All told, a pretty good seeding season though.
Manipulator willfix it
Protein will be high
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May 25, 2023 | 15:13
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Originally Posted by makar
Teaching no. 1 son to seed. He seeded a 20 acre field and never turned the monitor on.
He recognized that the 20 acres needed some tillage. Smart kid!!
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May 25, 2023 | 15:18
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Originally Posted by caseih
Manipulator willfix it
Protein will be high
I'm debating manipulator......
it's strips in the field, 30ac total
goal was to get a handle on whether it makes sense to cut N rate after a good pulse crop
manipulator throws another variable into it
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May 25, 2023 | 21:27
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Originally Posted by furrowtickler
Tried to plant in corn plots today before rain after the seed rollers on the new drill would not work
Well I turned that into a circus .
Went and picked up my ole JD planter yesterday from a buddy I sold it too 5 years ago
Blew a wheel bearing hub on way home , thank goodness I know the odd guy . I pulled into a guys yard i know very well and got beside his shop on nice cement pad . Got wheel off , took back to shop , cleaned out all the grease and old bearing shrapnel out of hub , got all new bearings and such , put back together but the hub got wore on one end . So jimmy rigged it so seal would set with JB weld , let sit 5 hours and got er back together and home 12 hours later .. 3 hour job 🙄
Well went to plant corn plots this morning, all planned out before rain …. Well dam meeter chain broke in the first 100 yards , rain comin , got that fixed , JD sucks with odd size bearings and chains BTW
Got 3 plots in , realized the planter not going in the ground on unworked canola stubble consistently enough… at all. Harrowed last fall but ground way to firm and still too much trash
Rain comin
Well , went and got the coulter harrow to try to work the rest of the stubble to finish plots
Well that was no good , so had to go to plan F , Fak it , and till the whole plot and have to re plant plots , then it rained .
Love the rain but never rush to do a job half assed ….. just a train wreck .
Then honesty, not even kidding , after I got home , my ole dog had to be put down , she been sick a few days but at 12 years old , the vet came out and said sorry .
Just finished burying her an hour ago .😞
Supper glad for the rain , but a frustrating, sad day .
When I *** things up , I *** them up good
Thankfully for an awesome rain for this whole area though 👍👍
I hope everyone’s day was better than mine lol
I swear I could literally write a country song Tonight 😵*💫
Sorry to hear about your dog. We put ours down two years ago. Still find myself looking for him when I come home sometimes.
Best friend ever.
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May 25, 2023 | 22:28
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Originally Posted by Marusko
So the rate was wayyy off. We usually apply 100-110lb N, I've got some strips that are 140lb applied plus whatever the N credit from the pulses are. Will be peeling that off the ground.
We put 120 lbs N down on pea stubble in 2020. Only place it lodged was where it was triple seeded. Maybe an area the size of the air seeder. Almost triple digit yield on the wheatland. If ur growing older or taller variety, may be an issue.
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May 25, 2023 | 23:09
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Things when fairly well this year, always takes me a while to figure how things work from the previous year but usually have everything running smoothly just before I'm finished. And I can't figure how parts break just sitting there over winter?
I did have the hydraulic lines to the fan reversed, so the fan was running backwards. Took me a while to figure that one out and then the flow was turned down. I can see now the first rows are a bit heavy in the middle and sparse at the ends. It always amazes me that everything works out as well as it does and the stuff even comes up. 
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