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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Worked on plowing some sod tonight even tho it's been raining. The sod carried ok, but it was so wet the furrow would have water in it when you came back around sometimes. Lol. Need to get as much done as I can because we are only a few weeks from freezing and more rain is coming. This is the field that had the fence in it that the guy pulled the posts and left the wire lay. I thought I had it all picked up, but found a bunch more tonight. After catching wire on the plow the first time I walked the field again and found more wire, but obviously not all of it because I hooked more with the plow several times. What a pain! If I ever meet the person who left that lay I'll have a few choice words to say! Must have pulled into the yard half a dozen times to cut wire off the plow. Got that land done now, so hope that is the last of the wire.
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You should get into a mess like that with a discbine and wrap it all around the turtles. A bushog is not much fine as well. All the post on here lately about plowing makes me want to do some as well. If the wet spots ever dry up enough to finish corn I might dig the Deere F145 4 bottom out and plow some as well. What model Oliver plow are you using? I had an Oliver 565 five bottom on my 4020 years ago. They were a good plow. Tom
 
That looks like a real mess wire, weeds, and dirt. Your lucky you don't have anything spinning. Some people are just pigs, and have no respect for other peoples property. I picked up a long piece of thin wire on my flail mower it would up so much I had to load it up, and take it home to clean it out. Chain link fence is the worst for me. It will wrap around the blade real faster than you can stomp the clutch pedal. Stan
 
One of the hay fields I did in 1980 was the staging area for the helicopters flying back and forth to Mt. St. Helens after the May eruption. The Army had left by the time I got to the hay, but left some junk along the fence. I was trying to miss it, but suddenly my disc mower hit something, tractor went ka-chug and died. I had hit a camo-colored parachute, and it was wound up tight in the discs. I had a pocket knife, but it was awful dull. While I was sawing away at the 'chute, an old gentleman (who I later found out to be in his 90's) came from a neighboring house. He said "Why don't I sharpen that for you? You can use mine while I'm gone." His was sharp as a razor, and he got back with mine just as I was finishing. I thanked him profusely, and he said "No, thank you for giving an old man a chance to be useful for a change."
 
jon when I was looking at your place on google earth I am not surprised, I think your going to be cleaning up from the P.O. for a while. as has been said before that is just plain nasty.
 
Jon if your ground lays wet won't working it with plow just make it soup next spring??? Around here you can turn ground into a permanent swamp if you plow it that wet and do not get the water to drain out.

I know your MN ground is very different than my ground is. When I hauled feed into MN it seemed that the majority of barn yards where just dirt. They got slimy on the top but you could get around with a semi in them. If you tried that on the ground around here you would sink axle deep. You have to have a good foot of gravel on top of the dirt or your stuck.
 
Here you have to fall plow or you will have a mess in the spring. I plowed this spring, but got lucky that it rained about every other day for a month after and I got a good stand anyway. Bit with this ground on most years you get nothing but lumps if you spring plow. And just running a disc or cultivator over it don't work either because it don't work deep enough and the roots can't go down. And no-til is out of the question here.

Wet spots are going to be an issue here for sure til I get some time to clean up the ditches, they have been treated badly for a long time.
 
I did have a plier, but wanted the wire off the field and it was easier to drag it off with the tractor. Lol
 
I'm actually considering farmer pants with a plier pocket so I can carry a plier and 1/2-9/16 combination wrench in it like dad always did that dinged when he walked. Always remember that about him, always a plier and wrench in that pocket and a pocket knife in his front pocket and a kerchief in his back pocket. Thanks for the memories!
 
Plant beans on it next year, and you will be finding so,e of the rest of the wire. Coulter?s are surprisingly good at making 16 inch pieces of wire.......

We would use the heavy smooth wire on the plow to fold under a cover crop as well as some one mentioned. Barbed wire would not be the plan for that! :)

And up here in Minnesota wet cold dirt, a poor fall tillage job is better than the best primary tillage job hands down!

Paul
 
The older I get the more I have to rely on cordless tools. I would have a right angle grinder with cutoff wheel on the tractor.
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I cut a small hay field this year that I had never done before. Cut with the haybine and raked it all and never found the barb wire hidden there until the square baler took it in. Still cant believe I never saw it before that ! About 50 feet worth buried in the grass. What a mess to cut that out. I was feeding one of those bales a couple weeks ago and found a 16inch piece of barb wire inside a bale, the knife must of sheared in off. We never saw it when unloading and stacking,only when I cut it open did it show itself.
 
If you really want to work, just cut, cuss, pull, a set of bed springs out of dozer tracks! Makes your day!
 
I got a cargo net wound around my mower one time. Have no idea how it ended up in the field, I was able to unwind it. Stan
 
I once wound up several hundred yards of 1/8" aircraft cable in my bush hog. Someone once used it to support maple syrup tubing throughout the woods and then abandoned it . I caught it while mowing a path through the neighbors woods for them to ride their horses. What a job getting that cut out of there! Had to use a cutting torch finally.
 
I"ve ripped out a few fencelines with a Glencoe chisel plow...makes quick work of it. I just straddle the line, ripping broken posts, rock, and wire. Easier to cut wire out of a chisel than a moldboard plow.
 
Friend has a 36v dewalt tools. One battery is bad and he doesn't want to spend a pant load to replace it, very expensive.

Do you know where to buy replacements that don't cost a fortune?
 
JMOR -- You really want to have "fun" - wrap up about a half spool of old rusty Barbed Wire in a Roto-Tiller . :>(
 
George if you have Interstate Batteries in your area, they rebuild battery packs with new cells. Sometimes that works out cheaper.
 
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