A little ditch work in the kingdom

jon f mn · Nov 4, 2018

Don't know where those peasants have gone to, but they were nowhere to be found when it came to digging out the ditches in the kingdom. So today I headed out to do some work on them myself. Just drug the last bottom of the plow through to clean them up and get rid of the ruts that we're blocking them. It really got the water flowing. There was one place that was blocking everything. Once that was open it was like a dam burst. Of course the inevitable happened, I was trying to get the main field ditch clear to the main ditch and found some ruts where someone had gotten stuck before. But this should help a lot to drain this field. Now if it could just stop raining and snowing! Snowing right now and supposed to rain tonight.

dahlin · Nov 4, 2018

Where that John Deere when you need it. That looks real familiar this year its wet here to.

David G · Nov 4, 2018

You will learn as you get experience, but there are times that it is just best to stay out of the field.

Glen SW Wi · Nov 4, 2018

You were doing great until you hit that wet spot!

Scott 730 · Nov 4, 2018

(quoted from post at 14:10:56 11/04/18) You will learn as you get experience, but there are times that it is just best to stay out of the field.

This isn't his first rodeo. Plenty of experience behind the wheel. Sometimes you have to try the best you can, when you can. It isn't going to get any better on that ground unless you wait for the next drought.

2510Paul · Nov 4, 2018

A friend did some tiling. Boy he sure likes it. In your case I guess you will have to figure out if this is just an unusual year or if something like that may be in order.

Ya, you got more guts than I do teasing the "getting stuck" genie. You did good.

Paul

K Effective · Nov 4, 2018

Yeah, if I tried that, all you'd see is the exhaust flapper

Adirondack case guy · Nov 4, 2018

Boy, I hate those slow spots. Were you able to get out on your own??? I wish that I had 23.1s on my 931. I could use a bit more tire. I have a line on a pair of used 18.4x34 clamp-on duals. Maybe I can make a deal on them and mount one on the land wheel. Pic was taken earlier before Kevin got all the beans off on the lower farm
Loren

Adirondack case guy · Nov 4, 2018

John Deere, he!!, he has a Case dc that will take care of that little set back. He will just have to put a long rope on the DC's hand clutch lever so he can operate both tractors at the same time.
Loren

jon f mn · Nov 4, 2018

My DC is foot clutch. But the little woman can drive the 1030 in a pinch. But in this case my friend jeff brought his 2394 over for the job.

Adirondack case guy · Nov 4, 2018

I just bet that Claudia was really disappointed that she missed out on driving the 1031!!!
Loren

Al Baker(pumpman) · Nov 4, 2018

My first thought was , what do you plan on naming your new found river. The second was Isnt it a little late to be planting something? Al

tomstractorsandtoys · Nov 4, 2018

I buried the Deere 4230 clear up to the axles yesterday doing some chiseling. I did not think the 4620 was going to get it out. Had a hard time unhooking the chisel as the three point arms were clear up. It is a bottom that you need to fall till or it will never get dry in the spring. Finished the rest with no problems. Good thing as we had 1 1/2 inches of rain since last night. Wettest that I have ever seen it here. Tom

ditchwitch · Nov 4, 2018

LOL, I actually thought one of his pictures we were going to see that.

carvel minne farmer · Nov 4, 2018

WOW jon that's ugly, where is all that water coming from??

jon f mn · Nov 4, 2018

12+" of rain last month. We only had 3-
7 day stretches without rain this
summer and 3 weeks, not in a row, with
10+? of rain in a few days. Been
raining every other day or so for 2
weeks again, started with snow then
rain all day today. We had 8 days
without rain in a row last month and
most of the soybeans got out here, but
almost no corn yet.

fixerupper · Nov 4, 2018

So did the 2390 do the job? By the looks of it the DC, though it’s a good puller wouldn’t have a ghost of a chance at pulling it out.

jon f mn · Nov 4, 2018

The 2394 had it hands full. It was so
slippery and this ground is so hard it
couldn't get any bite. Took a bit if
work, but we got it.

paul · Nov 4, 2018

Governor Dayton will be coming after you with his deer rifle for destroying his precious wetlands like that!

Fines and jail time for doing stuff like that on his kingdom.

Paul

coshoo · Nov 4, 2018

You must have been holding your mouth right to keep from gettin' stuck in that mess. Looks like you're getting rid of a lot of water, though. Might want to put in some permanent ditches when it dries out next summer, now that you know where to put them.

Frank 41 · Nov 5, 2018

I didn't know that you raised rice up there.

Scott 730 · Nov 5, 2018

Are you close to the peat land that Munkbergs used to own? Remember them having a peat fire there back around 79 or 80 maybe.

jon f mn · Nov 5, 2018

Maybe 2 miles south of the bog.

RBoots · Nov 6, 2018

Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do to get the job done, and with the rain we've had in MI this year, I'll bet we aren't that far off from Jon's situation. I forgot to dump my 6" rain gauge 4 days after previously dumping it, a couple weeks back. After 4 days it was overflowing out the top. Rained 5 or 6 times since then. The dairies waited until drier weather to chop corn, which never came in September, never came in October. They resorted to pulling the semis through the fields with 4x4 articulated tractors, and also were pushing some from behind with the silage blade as well. We were lucky to get most of our soybeans out without being in standing water, but had to mud them out nonetheless. The beans were very tall, and yielded well, but were going down from the bottom of the stalks being saturated. The last 2 fields we of soys we finished last week were in 6-8 inches of standing water. No where for any extra water to go anywhere, and once the water freezes on top, might as well just leave the beans for the deer, the water will never leave. We'll mud out the last 2 corn fields. Did the worst one first thing, last week, during a couple day spell where it wasn't raining. Still had a foot to 18 inches of standing water in parts of the corn field while combining it. Dad says he's seen wet falls in his years, but can never remember one this bad.

Ross

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