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SVcummins · Oct 19, 2020

Hopefully tomorrow if i can get out of purgatory before dark

Missing a shoe for the drill or i is would have went tonight

banjoman09 · Oct 19, 2020

Looks very dry....great pics and thanks! We planted til moisture was gone then went to harvest.....now may have to plant more and pray for rain

SVcummins · Oct 19, 2020

It is dry beyond belief you can take a leak and it doesn’t even make the dirt dark .😀 I’m praying for a lot of snow this winter

jon f mn · Oct 19, 2020

Man, if I worked the ground that fine I would have a solid brick after the first rain. I really enjoy seeing the different ways folks work their ground, especially the dry ground guys. We are supposed to get 4-6" of snow tomorrow. Had some drizzle tonight. So the ground won't be getting dryer any time soon.

SVcummins · Oct 19, 2020

I’m ok aa long as I don’t get on it wet but sometimes I don’t have a choice last fall it was go wet or don’t get a crop. The half that i got ripped twice last fall wasnt bad but the part that only got ripped once was like concrete

JayinNY · Oct 20, 2020

I hope you get the moisture you need. We either have to much or not enough, im on clay, so water just lays on the surface and makes mud, or it dries out and turns to concrete. Makes it crummy some years to do hay.

4520BW · Oct 20, 2020

Worked my wheat ground Saturday

Drilled the wheat Sunday and finally got rain Monday.

4520BW · Oct 20, 2020

SVcummins · Oct 20, 2020

We almost never have muddy clay but we do make concrete at times as dry as it is this year I don’t think it would matter what you did i will say on the half that go ripped twice the big clods were there but they were soft on the other half the big clods were hard as lava rock. Hopefully get a big tractor in the next month or so and then i can rip that place like it never has been

Case Nutty 1660 · Oct 20, 2020

Looking Good!! Hopefully after you are done planting the H20 will come for you there,, our snow melted off yesterday and soaked in,, zero run off other than on a road where yo would see water run a bit,, sounds like rain showers off and on today as we have now,, I am guessing we got 2" so far liquid,, I see why you need that pulverizer unit, I have seen them advertised many years ago but it was not a unit that would have been used right around me,, the trees shed most of their leaves the last few days also looks like we will get in the single digits this weekend for lows and even showing -1

ADB-Ia · Oct 20, 2020

Nice 4840. Wish I had my 4640 back. I bought it new in 1980. It spent most of its life turned up to 225 HP. I've had bigger tractors since but none that liked to work like that one did. I always hung a ton on the three point for heavy work. It would lean into a load, squat the tires, and go. It has had 2 owners since I traded it 15 years ago with 8500 hours so I don't know how many hours it has now. It doesn't get a lot of use at its present home. I may try to talk the guy out of it. He really likes it though and may not want to sell.

ADB-Ia · Oct 20, 2020

My next door neighbor uses a LELY Rotara to put in food plots. Does a nice job of working up a strip in the middle of his CRP ground. Gives him a good seedbed without a lot of disturbance. He then takes his 6 row 3 point planter to seed it. Works good.

ADB-Ia · Oct 20, 2020

SV, You know it's really dry OR you are getting old when you can't make a wet spot when you pee. Maybe your pressure is just getting low. Hehe.

SVcummins · Oct 20, 2020

If this lely ever quits me I’ll probably quit farming

SVcummins · Oct 20, 2020

We’re headed for single digits here as well which will probably mean fall work is about over with unless a warm spell comes a long . Grandpa bought the lely to work spud ground in the 70s then it got put on garden duty for a few years when fuel got expensive and it was missing a lot of teeth and couldn’t buy any I finally found a parts machine and had all the teeth replaced it’s starting to miss a few again but i still have enough left to redo it again then ill have to start looking again

SVcummins · Oct 20, 2020

No till is just beginning to come into fashion here on the dry land ground we’ll see how long it makes it

SVcummins · Oct 20, 2020

I’d like a 4840 with radials and ballasted to about 22000 pounds .

4520BW · Oct 20, 2020

I have never no tilled wheat. I do use it to no till in hay ground.

jon f mn · Oct 20, 2020

I drive one of those for a year once. It was a beast, but really liked the fuel. They really had it loaded down with all the tires full and weights all the way between the tires and duals and cast duals plus full front weights. Don't know what it weighed but it was heavy.

coonie minnie · Oct 20, 2020

Keep us posted how it works out.

SVcummins · Oct 20, 2020

We like em heavy here to my 3020 weighs just enough under 10,000 barney can’t get us before i put radials on the 4020 i had fluid in inner and outer duals and i put a weight rack off a 4850 on the front and i have ran 20 weights plowing more than I haven’t

SVcummins · Oct 20, 2020

Got the seed in

SVcummins · Oct 21, 2020

Its starting to pick up they neighbor works for the ascs office and they do quite a bit of no till

SVcummins · Oct 21, 2020

Well i know my pressure is not what it should be

Case Nutty 1660 · Oct 21, 2020

Good Deal! are you going to get any of the COLD we are getting this weekend? now they say -3F for a low Sunday night, we also have another 1-6" of snow coming they say,,

GeneMO · Oct 21, 2020

(quoted from post at 19:54:10 10/19/20) Looks very dry....great pics and thanks! We planted til moisture was gone then went to harvest.....now may have to plant more and pray for rain

My dad had a saying. "plant in the dust harvest you must"

I sowed some wheat and fescue on a road bank two weeks ago, and it still hasn't sprouted. good rains yesterday and tonight.

Gene

SVcummins · Oct 21, 2020

Thats the same thing my neighbor that farms a lot of dryland

SVcummins · Oct 21, 2020

We’re supposed to get down to 8 degrees then warm back up again was calling for snow now it shows rain the storm has stayed in the forecast for the last ten days so it’s a pretty good chance we’re going to get hit with something how much who knows.

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