Random pics from Clinton Camp Farm this week

Adirondack case guy · Oct 30, 2014

well, it has been a dervisified week here in Central NY. Got in one more day of soybean harvest before rain set back in, not much but enough to hault harvest. The posative of that, the ground is moist enough so we can sink a moldboard plow in the ground and roll over the soil.
The cousins have been cutting firewood for the two uncle's homes all week. I had mine done a month ago, but I am the extra hand when they need a bit more help on the farm. Monday we will start cutting firewood for the maple syrup operation. We need to fill the woodshed where the sap gathering trailers are setting.
Loren, the Acg.
Loren, the Acg.
Sorry for the doubles, don't know why they appeared.

John B. · Oct 30, 2014

Great Picture Loren...that looks like an awful small bean platform for that big combine.

Texasmark1 · Oct 31, 2014

Lotta work going on at your place. Nice.

The standing water looks out of place with the combine dust adjacent to it. Surely that's not fresh rain water. Down hill seepage?

Mark

gtractorfan · Oct 31, 2014

As much wood as you cut you must have a lot of woodland acreage. Is it enough to maintain this year after year?

Billy NY · Oct 31, 2014

Probably a relief once that sugar house firewood shed is full and it seems you're earlier at least too. It's taken the recent rains to soften up here as well, was a real dry September and first half of October.

Adirondack case guy · Oct 31, 2014

There is over 200A of woodland on the farm. The sugar bush is 60A and has sustained that operation for near 100 years. My dad was a conservationest, and also very frugal. When a tree was desten for the wood pile, it all went into the pile down to limbs an inch in diamiter. He was also very careful to not cause colateral damage to surounding saplings in the woods. I am the same way. My cousins on the other hand just go in the woods with big farm tractors and don't have much reguard for new growth trees. I have conserns about the future of the sugarbush, but I will probably last as long as I do.
When we start cutting wood for the evaporators next week I will cut alone in an adjacent woods and they will haul it out as I get it made. They will continue cutting in the sugar bush. If I work with them, I have to remember to bite my tongue and that makes my blood pressure rise doesn't make for a good working team.
Loren.

Wemedeeres · Oct 31, 2014

Wow that sure is some pretty country by the looks of that 5th photo, around here its so flat your dog could run away and you can still keep an eye on him for a week!!

Adirondack case guy · Oct 31, 2014

John,
The uncle that runs the combine is on the north side of 80. He has done enough damage to this header. He sort of misjudges where the front corners are and sometimes forgets where the back of the combine is. He won't give up operating equipment and will probably die in the seat of a tractor or the combine.
We also have a lot of fields surounded with stone walls and narrow openings, which would mean detaching a wider header and transporting it on a header cart, and then reattaching it to the combine. Not something that he can do easily.
Loren
Loren

Donald Lehman · Oct 31, 2014

Lol! I've still got busted up equipment around here that my father dinged up before he passed away that we haven't got around to repairing yet.

formenwhogrow · Oct 31, 2014

Is that corn going in the silo for high moisture? Or to the elevator for drying?

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