been busy here getting over ground, very dry at this point but I do have enough moisture to get the grops up ,,,I hope anyway hope everyone else is having better luck between break downs and the lack of H20 my year is starting off a little ruff,,, could always be worse though, will be hitting this field tomorrow with the leveler and then start planting,, oh a yes those are Ford weights they came with the tractor and I did not take time to install Case ones yet cnt

Is that Gillette in the background of the first picture?

Looks a lot like North Central ND (Towner County) where I grew up. That's the approximate area where Ande hangs out.

The comment about "woman behind every tree" did apply but shelter belt planting has increased the trees, can't say if it's increased the women!!
I looked up the Wyoming coal stuff and WOW the area south of Gillete is pretty impressive.

that is a new subdivision that was built behind me on ground I used to farm, we do have a lot of coal mines here as well as methane gas and oil fields as well they also mine urainium here as well,,as to the girls here their are many more here now than when I grew up I am sure we had more trees here than girls LOL and we didn't have many trees either

Nice area, reminded me of my time spent in Minot ND. I was told before I got there.. " Their is a woman behind every tree" They were right..

Not much happening here, just to dry. What little snow we did have didn't go far.
caseman-d

Well, Bro,
Like I told you this morning, we're a dam long ways from getting into most of the fields here. Had snow squalls all afternoon. Temp back down in 20s now, and probably won't get out of them tomarrow, with more snow. What do you think we could plant in this field in the upper forty? Took the pic yesterday in the upper 40, the other about 3:30 today. I thought about packing the white stuff around your stuff in the flat rate box, but figured it would make the box soggy by the time it got to you. HeHe.
Loren
Loren

Tom,
Always good to see dirt being worked by a Case tractor. Hope you get some rain. Don

Don, At least some places in the country are working ground. But probably be at least 2-3 weeks before we can get out. I still have snow in the ditches of my plowed fields. Last year I was done planting oats on March 29. Al

Al,

We still have about 2/3 snow and ice cover here. So I'm guessing it will be approx.30 days until anything moves here. Still can't determine what the wheat and hay look like though. Don

Don,
Same here. Some wheat seems to have a little green to it where the snow melted but don't see much green-up on the hills yet. No green showing up on my alfalfa field either. The north facing doors on my machine shed are still froze up. Al

Tom its good to see things are progressing and the equipment is doing a nice job. Those equipment issues we can fix, but the H20 problems all we can do is wait to see what mother nature will throw at us. Can't wait to see the barley going in. Rod.

You sure look dry hope you get some rain after planting. How have you got the Ford weights mounted that low? Thad

the guy that had this tractor before me made a plate for the 1070 then bolted the Ford weight bracket to that I will change it very soon as he covered up the grease zerk on the axle pivot, as soon as I get over another 100 acres with this tool I will fix that problem as those small weights are not really enough for my applications

Tom , There are very few fields around here that you can see the other end .. too many hills .. not nice and FLAT like yours ...

hope you get more H2o ... mark

We're a long ways away from Spring work here in NYS. What will you plant?

this will have Barley John

Case Nutty,

How many acres is that field? Never see that expanse in my corner of the northeast.

Vito

this one total is a little over 60 acres with whats in strips, I have several more that are over 100 acres in each also cnt

Nice pics Tom, I see you had the auto steer cranked up..... :wink: