Talking about a wet fall harvest season!!!

JD Seller

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Well it sure looks like it will be wetter than heck in the fields this fall. We had 4 inches of rain Wed./Thursday and then got 1 1/2 inches yesterday. So it is muddy here. We still have corn silage to get chopped. That is always fun in the mud. We have tractors that will pull the wagons but you can easily pull a running gear into pieces with a big 4wd pulling a forage box.

Combining we are not worried as much. Both combines have 4wd and tracks. The one had that setup last fall and it was a God send.

Here is a picture of the CIH 9420 that will be arriving this week. This is from the sales ad online.

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i remember a few wet falls chopping corn silage. one year we chained the 856 to the front of the 806 to get around. about 15 years later we had to chain the AC7080 to the 1086 to get out of a bad spot. after we got rolling i took the 1086 out of gear the 7080 pulled the 1086 the chopper chopper box up the hill blowing smoke all the way. the last wet year we were chopping in a 40 acre field with a valley in the middle we had the 3394 on the chopper and changed wagons on the hill tops whether they were full or not. because that was the only tractor we had with front wheel assist.
 
I just got a tractor with front wheel assist, but need the combine to get through to harvest first.

Keep telling the wife the front wheel assist just means we can get stuck deeper and have no way to pull it out. She tells me to shut up.....

If you look at some long range forecasts in 10 days I?m supposed to have 6+ inches of snow, NW of me is at 2-3 feet of snow. Really wouldn?t matter what you have tires or tracks any more, it would just be a mess at that point.

Paul
 
That?s some impressive machine JD! Please keep us posted on how she performs! Last fall was one of the wettest ones we?ve had than snow and freeze up came very early November. Roughly 5-7% of the potato crop was unharvestable last year. There were a few farms that had to get a large excavator in to rescue stuck tractors/potato diggers. This fall hasn?t been great but so far is way better here than last year. We finally finished our straw here this weekend and got it all home. I?m not around near as much, most of what I baled was late planted wheat straw so I was about a month later than usual finishing. A few others were baling straw this weekend here as well.
 

While chopping corn silage in a wet year the farm where I hung out as a kid has a big FWA tractor with a truck tire on the front two feet behind the dump truck so it gets a nudge as soon as it starts to spin.
 
What I wonder when I see a picture like this, is- how do you decide which tractor should be the puller, and which one should be the pullee? Or is that the "pulled"?
 
Bone dry here in NC Ohio. Had our first measurable rain in two months yesterday, about 1/4". Been running a grain cart for a neighbor and the ground is so dry and hard that neither the 8430 or cart leave any tire impressions with 60,000 lbs on board.
 
Driest September on record here in Tennessee, we are thru with corn and never saw a drop of wet weather and ground is in good shape. Did get about 2 inch rain last night but no more in for-cast for a few days so wont be long till we can finish beans.
 
Here in SE IN we had predictions of drought-relieving rain for Sunday-Sunday night. We received less than 0.3". That'll be gone by tomorrow. No more predicted.
 
It was so wet last fall that the track guys were leaving pretty good ruts and now we are seeing a fair amount of rain in the last couple of weeks for this fall.
 
In the right order, Ford pulling a Deere (lol) could not resist (ps. I have both. Although lot smaller )
 
Lots of red combines around here in central VA. They have a good reputation. Not many with tracks, and unfotunately, one less today. We are EXTREMELY DRY! Combines have been burning up at a rate of two or three a week, and today, a tracked CaseIH was completely consumed.

I know you and your family take good care of your equipment, and we try to, but it's so dry here we are blowing ours of with a leaf blower after every truckload!

Have a safe harvest!
 

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