Case Nutty 1660
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the garden took a Beating,, Again
This Barley field was 2 1/2' high and still had 45-50 bpa before this last storm hit that took it to the ground
This is a shot of the field I had just finished cutting with the 600 and had windrowed the straw for small squares, they were Beat into the ground and full of dirt and a total loss like the above Barley pics
As you can see here the water was running about 40 feet wide here, the strips caught the washed dirt down about 120 feet or this would have been 10 times worse than it was, you can also see the road rock it washed
The rains kept coming and keeping me out of the fields,, not that there was any crop left but still the Rain came down
My friend and hay buyer brought me his Sweet W-14 to bunch bales with, it had been 22 years since I had any seat time in a loader but I had not forgotten how to run one
The first pallet of parts books from a fellow dealer that had been CASE since 1966 the same year we started the dealership, cih gave the Case line to titian who had to build a store,, so my Case parts now come from NY State, there would end up being over 500 lbs of parts books from the 20's through current CE items
a water leak prompted me to speed up my remodeling of the kitchen counter,, Well I DID have the time with the crops gone and still WET so it all worked out fine,, I did end up spending a bit more time and money than I was planning though
I had to buy a new tool to cut the top out as I had less than 1/2" from the back splash,, WICKED to use if one made a mistake the way I set it up but it cut it out in no time and I still have all my fingers, I DO NOT recommend this setup
Jill got new curtains after this shot was taken,, I really do Love the new deep sink and faucet
The "New" to me VAI was brought down to do a rear rim replacement as it had been ran loose at some point Lucky for me I had a couple sets of 24" rims for them on hand
The 430G was put to work for a few hours on fixing roads up where the summer storms had washed them, here my water diversion ditch had silted in and was letting the water run down the road instead of off into the hay fields where it can do some good
The W-14 made pretty short work of bunching the 500 plus bales
I could not run over this water way second cutting to bunch the bales so the 955 was brought in to lay it down, I only made 4 round bales but every little bit helps this year lol
Heading to the last field to cut,, surprisingly the Millet I had planted was not affected much at all from all the hails
I was trying to beat a storm when I planted this Millet, instead of 15-20 lbs I got over 50lbs a acre, it was so THICK I cant believe it made any crop at all let alone what it did but that was all in thanks to the ground it was in and the heavy repeated H20 I got, it was 22" high, I have the 955 set to leave a average of 6" of stubble you can do the math,, the growth mat was the thickest I have ever cut with it being as short as it was, I had to PUSH it through the cutter bar/guards, the sickle ran very quite cutting it but pulled Hard as there was just so much material in each stroke to cut, I had tighten the sickle drive belt after the first round, the drive pulley got warm enough by the time I got the 9 acres cut it had discolored it, i let the header run for ten min at a idle to cool it down a bit even though the belt was Tight this was the first time I had ever really heard the 159 engine at work
the garden took a Beating,, Again
This Barley field was 2 1/2' high and still had 45-50 bpa before this last storm hit that took it to the ground
This is a shot of the field I had just finished cutting with the 600 and had windrowed the straw for small squares, they were Beat into the ground and full of dirt and a total loss like the above Barley pics
As you can see here the water was running about 40 feet wide here, the strips caught the washed dirt down about 120 feet or this would have been 10 times worse than it was, you can also see the road rock it washed
The rains kept coming and keeping me out of the fields,, not that there was any crop left but still the Rain came down
My friend and hay buyer brought me his Sweet W-14 to bunch bales with, it had been 22 years since I had any seat time in a loader but I had not forgotten how to run one
The first pallet of parts books from a fellow dealer that had been CASE since 1966 the same year we started the dealership, cih gave the Case line to titian who had to build a store,, so my Case parts now come from NY State, there would end up being over 500 lbs of parts books from the 20's through current CE items
a water leak prompted me to speed up my remodeling of the kitchen counter,, Well I DID have the time with the crops gone and still WET so it all worked out fine,, I did end up spending a bit more time and money than I was planning though
I had to buy a new tool to cut the top out as I had less than 1/2" from the back splash,, WICKED to use if one made a mistake the way I set it up but it cut it out in no time and I still have all my fingers, I DO NOT recommend this setup
Jill got new curtains after this shot was taken,, I really do Love the new deep sink and faucet
The "New" to me VAI was brought down to do a rear rim replacement as it had been ran loose at some point Lucky for me I had a couple sets of 24" rims for them on hand
The 430G was put to work for a few hours on fixing roads up where the summer storms had washed them, here my water diversion ditch had silted in and was letting the water run down the road instead of off into the hay fields where it can do some good
The W-14 made pretty short work of bunching the 500 plus bales
I could not run over this water way second cutting to bunch the bales so the 955 was brought in to lay it down, I only made 4 round bales but every little bit helps this year lol
Heading to the last field to cut,, surprisingly the Millet I had planted was not affected much at all from all the hails
