Stuck Last Spring

rusty6

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This some old video from last spring that was on my nephew's phone and I thought it was worth posting. Spent a lot of time and energy burning off cattails and getting this creek land back into growing condition last year. Including getting stuck with the 2090. It grew a nice crop of oats unfortunately the wet late summer and fall prevented me from baling most of it as the ground just got too muddy to turn the swaths and they never dried enough to bale. I did make two bales but they were way too wet to store.

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Packer Harrow Stuck
 
David I am pretty sure his water issues are from prairie potholes. They are the low spot with acres draining into them. They dry out by evaporation only. The weather in his area turned wetter 10-15 years ago. So the potholes grew larger. They had a dryer, almost drought, season two years ago. Many of the potholes receded in size or even disappeared.

I have a good friend that lives in North Dakota and has land with these potholes. He says that the majority of them are too far from any lower ground to have a route to run drain tile.
 
(quoted from post at 21:30:51 02/23/20) Pretty good indicator of wet ground is cattails growing.

Any tile in it?
Tile? Man, we don't make enough money farming to afford putting tile in the ground in this country :) .

Cat tails took over a lot of land here in the extreme wet years. When it dried back to normal a couple of years ago there was a lot of reclamation going on everywhere. Many of those reclaimed acres were seeded, sprayed, straight through right up til near harvest time. Then heavy rains put all the water back in those sloughs and many were not harvested.
 
A lot of the ground in ND that is tiled has pumped outlets. Have to get the water up high enough for it to have any chance of running away.
 
(quoted from post at 00:50:26 02/24/20) You?d have made it had you put the Twin wheels on .
Yes, the duals make a big difference in soft ground. I leave them off as much as possible when its dry as it takes up more parking space in my sheds. In a wet spring they have to go on though. That tractor will spin down real quick in the mud without them.
 
(quoted from post at 07:41:15 02/24/20) A lot of the commenters seem to think you're out there seeding now...
I guess for those with poor reading skills or in too much of a hurry it might have caused them to miss the first sentence in my post. Clearly stated I thought. Video from LAST SPRING.
This is why I like to keep my videos posted up to date as much as possible.
Seeding is at least two months away for us. If it is a wet spring it could be mid May but right now its looking dry for the foreseeable.
 
I like the Packer Harrow, can cover a lot of ground. That wet spot reminds me of a old timer that said, "his front tires were in water and the rear tires were kicking up dust".
 
A near perfect reminder of what I remember about getting stuck in North Dakota fields. The rear wheels would only spin down to the "hardpan" and that was usually enough to get the drawbar hung up and you were done. I had left the farm for military and college before rear duals came to be used. Back then (say about 1955) shed space was rarely an issue for having duals on as sheds were uncommon.
 
(quoted from post at 12:54:17 02/24/20) I had left the farm for military and college before rear duals came to be used. Back then (say about 1955) shed space was rarely an issue for having duals on as sheds were uncommon.
I don't recall seeing dual wheels or a cab on a tractor here until the late 1960s. I guess if you only keep a tractor for a few years it is not an issue leaving it parked out in the elements. I tend to keep my stuff til it wears out so I like to keep it looking half decent. That 2090 would be pretty faded and weather worn if it had spent much time parked outdoors in the almost 40 years I've owned it.
 

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