The good and the bad new and an update

Well an outfit I worked for part time is going under basically. So all the farm and mechanic work thee is gone. This stinks but I have known since fall. It was not a small outfit. The good news my cloaths dryer was under warranty so that is getting fixed. Had to fight for that one.

I was thinking about you yesterday with the day I was having. I was going to run to town and get a pail of hydraulic oil before I went out to start discing corn ground. I got to the end of the driveway,pushed the brake pedal and something popped,then no brakes on the pickup. I blew out a rear caliper. The wife was gone,so I went and disced. Got home to hook on to the chisel plow and there was a broken hinge on the tractor cab door. Welded that,hooked on to the chisel plow,checked the tires and one had a cracked valve stem and wouldn't hold air.

I jacked up the pickup and pulled the back wheel. The back of the left rear rotor was ground down,inside pad was shot,caliper blown out. Two o'clock and $208 later I had brakes again. Went and chiseled the oat ground,came home,took a bale out to the cows and found two dead calves. One had been dead a while apparently,all the guts were eaten out of it. No idea which one had it,hoping it was a twin to one that's up and walking.

The second one looked like it was born dead. Small calf. Only one I can figure had it was a second calf cow that looks a little like she's had one. I've still got that twin calf here that got abandoned,so we put that cow in the pen with him. We'll see how that goes. If they pair up,it'll be about the only salvation for the whole day.

Tough day Randy. Some days make you shake your head, and ask, why?

R I keep seeing you guys sowing oats in the spring. What are they for, you cut them green for forage or do they make oats? Here we sow in the fall like winter wheat and harvest the oats about mid july.

You had a bad day Randy but at least you could work some land. Tomorrow will be better I am sure. It is tough to lose calves but that goes with the farmers life. If it was easy everyone would be a farmer. Remember, tomorrow will be better!

I use them partly as a nurse crop for alfalfa. I cut them for grain and feed them in the creep feeder with ground ear corn to the calves. I bale the straw for bedding.

Well as my great uncle a preacher used to say your worst day on Earth is better than your best day in He11 will be.(LOL)

I just hope some days aren't previews of coming attractions. LOL

Yes I have come to the conclusion this is going to be one of those years.

TF ..... hopefully you uncle found out the easy way ..... LOL !!!

I'm not going to say you hijacked the poor guys post...but it kind of worked out that way! After your thread, no one looked back at him.

I consider it a good day if I fix something. I expect breakdowns. Actually gobsmacked if I get thru a day without one. But if I can repair it...well...that turns a frown upside down. Especially if I finish up after. Guess I am easily pleased.

I used to know a fella many years ago who grew oats as a nurse crop to alfalfa. Guys around here don't appear to do it. Seemed to me like it was a double crop and a beneficial thing all around. Even better if you have cows to feed and bed. I don't grow either. Oats are a hard sell here as the elevator won't take them. Do OK on the straw though selling to the public. Not much market for alfalfa either. Dairy grows it's own. Horsey folk won't buy it...too rich. So darn...just nice easy grass hay for me.

Maybe I'm sowing the wrong kind of oats but the oats I plant in deer plots very few make it thru the Winter.We always sowed oats in the spring to combine usually on land that had had corn the year before.They'd usually be ready to combine around 2nd week of July.Rode that old AC 60 combine with a bagger many miles.

I don't like to start my own posts just to complain. LOL

Me either. So much easier to slide it in behind someone else's.

Sometimes you're the windshield,sometimes you're the bug.

I had a year like that four or five years ago. By July or August it got so ridiculous that all I could do was laugh every time something unbelievable happened.