some harvesting and dairy pics, trying my hand at photograph

TDS

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Thought you all might enjoy these pics.
R65 gleaner, JD 4840, WD, and "Vidalia"
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I got along pretty good, it was anywhere from -9 to 12, stayed cold enough it didnt melt or plug
 
Great pictures, is there money in milking cows, here in north central south Dakota there is only one dairy left in the whole county and it is owned by a hutterite colony. Twenty years ago, there were over a 100 dairy farms in this county all family owned. I would help the neighbors from time to time, I think they made a descent living, but worked there buts off day in and day out.
 
I can run 8 units, only run 6 by myself, 50 cows, 3800lbs day, 98,000 ssc, 4.2 fat, average age is around 5. Thanks they are all just like family
 
Wow!!! Excellent job- about 75 lbs per day with an extremely low SCC. High fat for holsteins, and you maintain those numbers running six units by yourself.....You are doing soooo many things right! I copped out a decade ago after 30 years, but never had numbers like that.
 
At -10C[15F]minimum,dry snow will blow through. The colder the better, at night or on a cloudy day as well. On sunny days, the darker plants draw sunlight and melt the snow even with a cold temperature. Any wet material on the sieves with the air blast turns to ice pretty fast. TDS, that tie stall looks pretty comfortable with all this cold weather. I milked 42 till Oct 2008 and still miss it sometimes but a fire changed all that pretty fast. Thanks for sharing.....Ron
 
I usually rake the same way you are here. First I've seen someone
else doing it that way. You running a dolley wheel rake too?
 
Nice looking pictures. Do you hand strip the cows after using the milkers? We found it better
not to hand milk a cow after she had her calf. We would bring them in and put the milker's on them. Some would start dripping milk when they heard the milkers. Hal
 
Nice pictures. See you have a steering knob on that WD. Had one on mine till it smacked me on the wrist and thumb was numb for a week.
 
Nice pics sure miss my cows best job i ever had beats
working in a factory.but farmers lung and it still there so
any animals are on grass.how lucky you are take care
 

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