notjustair
Well-known Member
Boy howdy I pulled a good one today.
I should be combining wheat ahead of impending rain but the unloading gearbox went out on the 9500. JD couldn't get the parts until tomorrow morning, so since I'm also not done planting beans I decided that better happen. The 25th is fast approaching.
I had the planter filled so I hopped in the tractor and went up the hill to a 40 on the section corner. It would be a full 40 but there is a jag of timber that juts out into the middle of it.
I've been fighting the monitor for the 1760 so it hasn't been rare this year for it to beep random rows so I kind of ignore it. It usually irons itself out after a few acres. It never ironed out and was hitting on what seemed like random rows so I kept checking the pin connectors and stuff. It wasn't until I was about half done that I lifted the lid on one of the boxes. Still brim full. I was mad until I realized that some weren't!! I quickly became queasy.
I had unfolded the planter and started planting without taking the covers off of the vacuum tubes. Half of the 12 rows weren't planting - the outside 3 on each side. So every two passes I was missing the center six rows. Except for the headlands of course. That had six missing in the middle and three on the outside and three on the crop side.
I can't say as I have ever gotten into such a pickle. I stepped off that field five times row by row (including digging in the rows) to determine exactly where the skips were for the whole field and get my mind wrapped around the fix. Then I offset 15 feet and went back over it like I was planting but I switched the row shutoff back and forth shutting off the left or right half each time. Of course, I do my own spraying so I wanted the rows to match exactly. It also makes it nice that it was right there on the road. Ugh. What should have taken me three hours took me six.
Am I the only dumb one today?
I should be combining wheat ahead of impending rain but the unloading gearbox went out on the 9500. JD couldn't get the parts until tomorrow morning, so since I'm also not done planting beans I decided that better happen. The 25th is fast approaching.
I had the planter filled so I hopped in the tractor and went up the hill to a 40 on the section corner. It would be a full 40 but there is a jag of timber that juts out into the middle of it.
I've been fighting the monitor for the 1760 so it hasn't been rare this year for it to beep random rows so I kind of ignore it. It usually irons itself out after a few acres. It never ironed out and was hitting on what seemed like random rows so I kept checking the pin connectors and stuff. It wasn't until I was about half done that I lifted the lid on one of the boxes. Still brim full. I was mad until I realized that some weren't!! I quickly became queasy.
I had unfolded the planter and started planting without taking the covers off of the vacuum tubes. Half of the 12 rows weren't planting - the outside 3 on each side. So every two passes I was missing the center six rows. Except for the headlands of course. That had six missing in the middle and three on the outside and three on the crop side.
I can't say as I have ever gotten into such a pickle. I stepped off that field five times row by row (including digging in the rows) to determine exactly where the skips were for the whole field and get my mind wrapped around the fix. Then I offset 15 feet and went back over it like I was planting but I switched the row shutoff back and forth shutting off the left or right half each time. Of course, I do my own spraying so I wanted the rows to match exactly. It also makes it nice that it was right there on the road. Ugh. What should have taken me three hours took me six.
Am I the only dumb one today?
