Getting caught up

Picked up another 8-10 acre field yesterday. With this rain I may not be able to finish plowing all the new ground this week. I hope that I can get back to it by Wednesday. Still have about 5 acres left on the 12acres I picked up and 2 smaller fields of about 2 acres to do still as well. The old 400D with 3-14 is doing a wonderful job. My dad tried to come help with the 450 and the other 3-14 but could not seem to get the plow to work right. He kept plugging the back bottom. I believe he had the plow out of level but he got frustrated and left before I could take a close look at how he had it set up. Plowing down 3+ foot tall grass can be a challenge. He seems to thing that because the 400D is a narrow front that it is knocking the grass down in front of the bottom making it easier to plow where as the 450 is a wide front and is not knocking the grass down making it harder to plow or more prone to plugging? I think that he will hook up the 10' disk and start disking while I plow when I get ready to go back out to the field. It is nice to see him out on the tractors. I know I appreciate the help as well. The price of off road diesel went up to 2.60 a gallon here locally from 2.44. The old 450 is a gasser so it is quite a bit more expensive to run than the 400D. But I guess in the name of saving time I will pay for the gasser to run just so I can hopefully get everything worked up good mellowed and hopefully planted by June 15. I need to go get more seed this week as well. I think I am done picking up bean ground as I now have about 30 acres of bean ground. I will start looking for ground to fallow for winter wheat once I get caught up. I think I can obtain about 20 more acres by September for that purpose. I am glad to be back to farming instead of off globe trotting in third world countries toting a gun.

Thank You for your service to our country. We will never really know the results from your service, but I will say, we have not had any car bombers or sub-way bombers or significent terrorist action here at home. So You, indeed have protected us the US. Happy farming hope you can make it work. gobble

Enjoy your tractors and farming. You have earned it. Thank you for your service.
Richard in NW SC

I'm so jealous - I have not a single bean acre ready and it keeps raining. It has been 31 days today that no one around here has been in a field. All of us are kind of like zombies in town - just walking around dazed and confused with no real purpose. I'm going to go cut a pasture today to have a little time in a tractor. I'm all "odd jobbed" out.

I was at an auction 2 or 3 weeks ago. They had a 400 and 450 gassers in the line. Auctioneer said they run all day on a few gallons of gas. Obviously he does not work very hard. Same guy a few years ago said that they thought the starter needed work on a 300. It had sat for eight years. I don't know if he is that stupid or just dishonest.
SDE