Yes thanks for posting the pics! I lived in Camarillo for five years in the 1980's, they were building houses like the dickens, good to see some good farmland still left. Looks like you are out on the flat going towards the old State Hospital.

Keep posting!

Greg

Yes we are still dry farming limas here. We usually have to pre-irrigate the ground and plant in the moisture. That is all the water that w e have to apply. We are farming right along the coast between Oxnard and Camarillo. One of the photos was taken right next to the State Hospital or Cal State Channel Islands as it is known today. The last decade there has been a small return of dry limas to the area. Three growers planting around 750 acres of beans.

A few additional pictures of the last several weeks. We harvest celery this time of year. With the rain there has been many stuck tractors in the mud. I thought some of you would enjoy the pictures. There is a D5BSA stuck in the mud at the corner of hwy 1 and Las Posas Rd. It's buried to the fenders and been there since the first week of January

Well is been a long time since I posted any pictures, I was out tearing up ground today and thought that this post needed some hillside pics such as it started out with. The Power "NO" shift is still as strong as it ever was except for the faded paint (I will never use Tisco paint again) This disk has 11 inch spacings and works best when the ground is wet but I am surprised at how fast things are drying considering all the rain we got(finally) I don't know what happened to NIF or 98J, it would be nice to hear from them again. BTW I got tired of the black holes in the hardnose so I filled them with headlights. I don't know how long the drivetrain will stand the horsepower but this tractor is incredible, it certainly lives up to its name.
Thanks Tad Wicks

looking good to me
Do disc in lands or up and back or round and round starting with a clover leaf ????

Has that got a V something GM ???

Paul

"mrsmackpaul" wrote:

looking good to me
Do disc in lands or up and back or round and round starting with a clover leaf ????

Has that got a V something GM ???

Paul

Thanks for sharing pictures. As a farmer, I love seeing others enjoying quality tractor time....
If I am not mistaken, he has several videos on YouTube? I love the sound of screaming Jimmies. Never got to drive an AC crawler, let alone anything with a two stroke besides trucks. Thanks for sharing. More please! Lol. JM

Looking good Tad! Are you going to seed that this spring? That dirt looks a lot like what is in the lower elevations of my county.

BP

Hi all, it is an HD 11s repowered with a 6V 71, discussed earlier in this thread about 6 or 7 years ago, boy time does get away. It is not as loud with the spark arrestors as the straight pipes but still quite loud. This tractor makes things look easy, the disk is a 32B IH a little less than 18 feet but pulls like 30 feet with the big spacings, I think this is where the term "drag disk" got its name, it is about the closest thing to a plow that I know, some of these hills I can pull at 1100 rpms in 5th, I idle it down some on pulls so it doesn't get full power, I like to baby it if I can but on these same pulls I would be in 1st or 2nd with a TD18, TD15 or 3T D7 , I know because I have pulled it with all of them. We go round and round and depending on the field and terrain sometime cut the field along the contours of the hills to avoid hard pulls or steep downhills, it just makes things easier. Bruce, this won't be seeded this year, our wet season is pretty well done (something we haven't had in many years), I have seen people seed in April here and get lucky but that is not the norm. I haven't seeded at all since 2010 because it has been so dry, so this is just for fun and fire protection, I get a chance to exercise the 11, make some noise and smoke and have fun doing it. Tad

Even though more than 100 miles separate us, I know I still smell the fresh turned earth. There is nothing like it. Then add in the warm sun, the hawks and coyotes following along catching mice and getting so many that within a few hours they can't move or fly..

Thanks for posting the photos Tad. Even the scream of the 2 cycle bring back some great memories.

Casey