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rrlund

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I took on some ground for next year that hasn't been worked in a while. They tried to get ahead of the autumn olive and willow brush with the brush hog,but there were three pine trees that got ahead of them and got too big. They told me to go ahead and take them out if I wanted to. The darned things were a good 6-8 inch diameter.

I went down today,hooked two long chains chain about chest high for leverage,put the tractor in low gear and just started driving. When the chain came tight,I was at an idle and it didn't even make it grunt. They just tipped over and came right out. The last one actually slid sideways a little before it even tipped over. There was nothing but mud in the holes. It's a wonder some of these big trees aren't tipping over on their own.
 
Soggy enough for me to make a fence around some old hay ground for the steers to be on instead of the barn yard. When I dug holes for the corner posts they filled up with water in no time.
 
I got the combine stuck 10 days ago combining beans. We have had about 8 inches of rain since then.

Think I can run tomorrow LOL
 
I had to put the box scraper on this morning and go out and pull some mud away from where I feed. I found a nail with a front tire on the FWA tractor. I couldn't tell right away because it was so far down in the mud to begin with. By the time I figured it out,I had shredded the tube,then I bent the rim in a couple of places getting it out to higher ground. I had to go get a new tube and take the wheel off to hammer the rim back out straight.

It's just feast or famine with the rain this year. In fact,it's pouring down rain again right now.
 
How are you able to get the beans dry enough to even combine, or are you sacrificing all your profits on the beans to the LP company??
Here is a pic of my Davise weather station monitor as I reply back to you. Temp and moisture levels have been like these for most of Oct. not a lot of rain, but we get a bit about everyday.
We can't make 3rd cut hay, cant combine beans that have been foliage free for two weeks, and corn ears have dropped and husks are loose. this weather pattern sure sucks.
Loren
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rrlund,

You might be able to do that with a full sized pine tree... I think it's that doggone wet across the Midwest this fall.

Rain, rain, rain... and MORE rain. I feel bad for all of you farmers! Glad we rent out our farm now.
 
The neighbors pulled in last Wednesday to harvest my grapes. They finished up around 9pm, 45 boxes of about a ton each. It started raining later that night and has rained every day since until today, close to three inches in five days. I went and got a wagon load of corn out of the bin, weighed it, and ground it for the cows this afternoon, then started to mow some grass- standing water n some of the places I mow. I told the goose and deer hunters to park in the yard and walk out back only. Don't need more ruts.
 
Good seeing you check in - Sorry about the weather.

Harvest was going great around here in central Illinois UNTIL we had about 5" of rain last weekend - Kinda think it came from IoWay !!!
 
I guess I'm trying my hardest to look on the bright side. The water line and electric trenches have all settled and the holes for the new barn poles are all settled. Won't have any major surprises in the spring when the bottom falls out.
 
A couple weeks ago I had a 50 year old evergreen tip over in the wind, roots and all. The bottom of the root hole was not just muddy but slimy mushy. A few days later when we drove the loader tractor across the sod to remove the tree the tractor made 3” deep tracks in the sod. It’s very abnormal for the sod to be that mushy soft in the fall.
 
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