If you don't get the rain......which seems to happen most of the time ( ain't life grand??) then it gets a little more tricky. If the moisture is close enough, one last trip with the weeders ( coupled with the cooler nights) will bring the moisture up. If you can get it close enough, then the double disks will hit it.
Too deep and no other choice........roll on the depth bands and dust it in. Or......break out the deep furrows.......... My set of JD HZ's......



...a detail look at the split press wheel arrangement on the HZ. The opener
is between the press wheels...



If it all works right, you get a stand like this;



Natch......it never ALWAYS works right. Got some too deep this past fall,
so I was back in with the B's ( double disk) to sweeten things up a bit.

Ideally you get a good rain at the right time that starts the weeds early enough
so you can kill them before seeding.....especially the grasses ( cheat won't germinate until the soil temperature drops; it's pretty cagey that way) This shot
is from a fall when we had PLENTY of rain......enough that you couldn't get on the ground for quite a while. The weeds got pretty big before I could get at it
with the weeders. Flex harrow tied on behind the 840 weeder;



Did all my seeding that fall with my old 9U to give her some exercise....D5 beached in the stubble in the background. Can't beat steel tracks on fallow ground for pulling drills....a really light foot print.



A closer look at filling the 'B's'......3 ten footers in a squadron hitch;

Thanks 98J, you really got your old farming methods illustrated fairly well, just wondering though did people pull sprayers with steel tracks there? I know alot of the wheat gets sprayed by air but just wondering.

Looking forward to seeing some more of that D6C, glad to here its still running.

Now I am off to see if the Colts can win the Superbowl.....

NIF AND 98J Thanks for the informative pictures plus crop info .Just few more questions why do you small flat treads on the harvesters is it cause walls of tyres take sideland sress better. At one point the header seems to jump up and down is it large rocks hitting the auto levellers under the header. Does anhydrus hydras amonia leach les in heavy rainfall than granuals .thanks Atlas

Atlas- diamond or plus treads are designed to have traction in all directions unlike tractor tires and you generally try to cut the steep stuff across the hillside not up and down. On the older combines the leveling keeps the tires vertical and diamonds really have an advantage there.

And yes Ammonia fertilizer will leach less than granular like Urea or Ammonium Nitrate providing that there is plenty of clay in the soil. A positive charge on the ammonia molecule binds to the negative on the clay particle prevent leaching as much. However the clay also ties up the N so you mainly see anhydrous applied in sandier soils.

On our farm and a small area around us we apply 100% of N in the spring because our soil leaches so bad. Head south to the prairie or northwest to the palouse and most of the dry fertilizer is shanked into the ground in the fall with maybe just a little applied in the spring because they have deeper silt soils.

We broadcast all the urea fertilizer in the spring just as soon as we can get in the field, either with our own barber metered feed spreader or have it floated on by the custom applicator. 11-52 which is mostly phospate is applied with all the wheat/barley seed in the drills at planting time.

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Thanks 98J, you really got your old farming methods illustrated fairly well, just wondering though did people pull sprayers with steel tracks there? I know alot of the wheat gets sprayed by air but just wondering.

Looking forward to seeing some more of that D6C, glad to here its still running.

Now I am off to see if the Colts can win the Superbowl.....

Yup......used to be a lot of spraying done with steel tracks. Still some being done. I see this D6B spraying all the time down around Dufur:





A different D6B that works down near The Dalles:



A distant shot of the old girl at work last spring. This small grower makes
his chem fallow with this D6B, then has another grower custom no-till
it in the fall.

Still quite a bit done with yellow paint.......just rubber on the ground instead of steel:

Then there is the 'yellow paint'......with neither steel or rubber on the ground.

No steel tracks, but there is a Caterpillar sign on the front of my truck. We were loading sunflowers out of a bag today. The unloading machine rolls up the bag as it augers the grain out. These bags are becoming more popular. They are filled right on the edge of the field at harvest to save time and then emptied and the grain taken to town at a less busy time. The bags cost just a few cents a bushel and make for pretty cheap storage, the big expense is the loading and unloading machines. I think around 50k for the pair. There is a knife that slices the bag open as it goes, but in the picture the bag is above it. Just have to slice it with a pocket knife and slide it back into the knife on the auger.
Jim

Really great pictures..Nice collection of iron. And I like the Fergi too, of course I have an old M.F. 135. That's another fine piece of engineering. That Perkins Diesel is a wonderful engine. Really enjoyed your pictures!