Back in the Cab of a real tractor.

I went up to the farm on Saturday morning, and my cousin and I hooked up the 3394 to the batwing to shred corn stalks. I spent about 5 hrs. yesterday and 4 today, to cover about 80A of combined corn. Had a minor problem with one of the slip clutches on the center drive this morning, but just needed a good tightening to solve that.
It is good to be back behind the wheel and doing field work.
Tomorrow, I plan to fire up my Case 931 and get back at plowing those fields down. Supposed to be in 40's next 2 days.
Early snow on 8th of Nov. which didn't melt, until last few days kept frost from penetrating into the ground.
Stay tuned for more pictures of plowing tomorrow.
Loren



Pics., from yesterday, and yes, some wet spots.


Temp dropped to 21F and we got overnight snow. Pic of 3394 this morning.




Pic this morning on 30A field down below the farm.
Loren

Nothing but slop here.

I?ve never been able to plow this late have had a few times when the ground would thaw out in the middle of December enough to finish plowing for one day and then freeze back solid again

I think you would be stuck here if it didn't freeze some first. We are going to go try chisel plowing on the frost this week.

The only plowing done here in December is snow. Ground frozen like concrete.

I can only drive a light tractor across the field, over a tile line.

Jon, it can't be that wet down there? As nice as it's been all fall, and you're claiming it's a bit soft out there? Well, here on the river, we're setting high and dry! As long as you stay on the road anyway, what a mudhole! No fall tillage or stalk chopping this year!

Ross

R Boots, I was thinking the other day, that you had not posted here in some time. Glad to see you are alive and well, however I think you have me confused with my good Case buddy JonF-MN.
Looking forward to seeing some more video of your snow plowing adventures this winter.
Loren

I was shredding/flailing last week.Only I was making windrows for making 4x4 bales.Pulling with a 1466.Ground is frozen and no snow.

Good to see you didn't forget about me Loren! I didn't forget who you are, I was responding to Onefarmer's post, but I'm using classic and it probably didn't show up right. He just lives a few miles away from me, so I had to give him a hard time.

Although, in your case Loren, I find it simply amazing that you are able to even get on your fields at all, let alone plow them. I don't remember a fall this wet ever in my young lifetime, my dad says it's been quite a long time since it's been this bad. The spring time is gonna be bad if it's wet. We didn't get any rain all summer long, so we were afraid our crops were gonna be very poor. However, they turned out very well, exceeding most "normal" years. Only thing different was right before harvest time, and basically still going on since then, is we have had "Noah" rains seemingly continually. It seems the longest stretch we have gone without rain since mid September or so was only about a week if we are lucky. We had to mud all of our crops out so we have 2' deep ruts on every pass of every field we farm it seems. Yeah, Michigan isn't exactly "close" to where you're at in N.Y., but it seems that our weather patterns sooner or later end up there. I guess the lake just distorts it enough that you get snow and cold. We had more snow in November than we normally do, and just a few small skiffs since then, all has just been rain mostly, and not much cold. We can only manage to keep frost a couple days at best it seems. It would be quite a feat to cross any one of our fields right now with my quad and not be spinning, maybe not even in 4wd.

Ross

love the looks of those 94s .got a 4494 and its been a good tractor . and some of the best looking tractors ever . is the 33 a 12 speed .or did it have the larger selection . I think 24?

Glad you are mobile. Now do you WEAR your ear protection? Hope you were a good boy and did.

Ross, A lot of our ground is setting on limestone bed rock. It drains down through the seams very well.
In dry years crops suffer, but most years we can grow great crops. On side hills, the topsoil tapers down off of stone outcrops and we get wet areas where the ledges stair step back into the hill, and water runs out of the outer edges of them if-in you can follow what I am referring to. These steps can be 30' tall and step back several hundred yards or better with dirt filtered down over them. The Glacier dug huge valleys unto the landscape around here.
Loren

I guess you haven't operated a modern tractor with a cab. Case tractors at the time this one was built had industry leading, quiet cabs, but the radio doesn't work, in this one, so I wore my 3M radio head set turned up loud to my favorite country station. Does that meet your criteria??
Loren

This 3394, (1984 model) is a 24 speed power shift. 4 ranges, and 6 on the go shifts per range. Constant 4WD.
They were really good looking tractors before the merger and had White hoods and cab. Red paint sucks and faded really quick. The hood on this one had to be repainted. Had I was asked to repaint it, it would have been white again.
Loren

Does the mower leave the stalk ends sharp?

OK Loren, now that you posted pictures of that case when you gonna post pictures of the real tractor you ran????? :lol: :lol: :lol:


Rick

Nice rig Loren - pretty rare to be able to plow in January (dirt that is)
Pete

No, the root balls are splintered and stringy.
Loren

Hi Ross I was just thinking of you lately and then I was talking to Jeff Theis and he said he knew you too. He lives across the road from me. I hadn't seen you post in a while and was hoping you didn't leave us.

I can get across a field over tile line....usually..... Or in the morning if it freezes. I have to to keep warm by gathering firewood.

Jon, I didn't leave you guys, just been incredibly busy the last year. Worked all week, drove truck all weekend, hauled stuff down south in the fall for a few weekends in a row, then worked on equipment/farm stuff at night after the family goes to bed, still doing that currently. It's not like I set and watch the road all day, but hadn't noticed you on your way to the stockyards lately. We used to farm a little field for Jeff, then he wanted to try it for a couple years, now he converted it to a deer hunting haven lol. I luckily had some big timber projects the last couple years, and by doing the cleanups on them, I've acquired about 3 years worth of wood ahead of time, and probably another 3 years stacked in piles off the ground in the woods so I luckily don't have to go mess around while it's wet right now. I heat my house and shop with wood, and I enjoy cutting wood, but I don't enjoy slipping around in the mud which is pretty much everywhere, so I'll just wait for it to freeze.

I enjoy cutting wood too. Really most anything that takes horsepower. I guess it why I like driving tractors so much. Jeff has that land on what's Gratiots version of DeWitt rd. I drive right past it and your place when I take hay to St Louis