Hi NIFarmer how often do you change the clutch brake pads on your D6. I used to get gear selection problems on my D7 . regards Atlas ps it is nice to see pics of the Palouse from the air plus horse ploughing.

1. Yolo County California 2006. 85 year old Sheldon Lewis operation D7 replacing levys near Conway Ranch near Woodland under causeway to Sacremento. Early start 7am.






2. Joe Heidricks Cat hauler.




3. Smartest way to buy land - view it from the air. Can spot drainage and any soil or crop problems mush easier and faster. Note Joes initials...




4. Shropshire county UK. My first two cats 1974.




5. My brother and I bought four Lockwoods from USA 1984 - largest covering 200 acres. On our sandland where the pivot missed 7.5 tones per acre. under the pivot, 25 tons per acre. That was an exceptionally dry summer.




6. The last 50 acres sold in 2006 and if I had kept it until now it would be double the price. Its ironic that high wheat prices in 2007 caused high land prices, and since then prices have doubled. Many people, bankers etc, buying land and none of them farmers. Most proabvly more faith than in the stock market.



Best regards,
Atlas

Hi NIFarmer 98J IronAppraiser are you all busy planting spring crops this last week temperatures have reached highs of 70s so plants are loving it. I mentioned yields poatoes 7.5 tons and 25tons ? under pivots.hope you didnt think it was wheat. Last week a farmer from shropshire who emigrated to New Zealand is claiming a world record 6tons acre.regards Atlas. ps more of my stuff to follow if you wish.

Atlas- nope it has been wet here and yesterday it snowed and was very windy with blizzard like conditions for much of the day. It was a nice day today and expecting sunny tomorrow then back to wet weather for all of next week so no farming will be done for awhile.

Nice pictures and please post some more if you have them. Just wondering how much rainfall do you get there? Must be drier than I thought to need that irrigation. We often dont get much rain after the spring crops are planted but still get a pretty good yield because our soil is all high in organic matter with mostly clay and silt soil and no sand particles so it holds water well.

We dont grow potatoes commercially here in the northern part of the state but in the garden I usually do a few rows and some years I just dig a trench at the far end, drop the potatoes in the trench and cover them up. After the plants are up I mound some dirt around them but I never water or fertilize them and they make it all the way through the summer with no water and still produce good size potatoes.

Hi North Idaho Farmer.This is my last attempt to reach the acmoc board. MY comp expert turns up tuesday to fix. Rainfall was mentioned,we in shropshre have 25 inches we grow most combinable crops potatoes veg and livestock in this county. Eastern UK 16 inches heavier soils flat ground and higher wheat yields. south west 40inches mainly grass and livestock. economys of scale coming in fast .large 8000cowmilk unit starting .more stuff coming ifi can sort out this infernal machine. Atlas

OK, there not steel........and to be fair they really shouldn't be called tracks.
And it's Red instead of Yellow. But it's all I have right now. Here my son in law is
spraying Roundup for me on a field that I will chisel later with my D5. The Summers sprayer behind the QuadTrac has a 1500 gallon tank & auto section
control ( 8 sections) on the spray booms. It has been really rotten spray weather around here ( cold, rain & LOTS of wind)......Sunday turned out nice &
he was able to get this place done for me, then back to his own work. Mt Adams looks on in the background.

98J How wide is the sprayer.Atlas

1. Joe Heidricks 50 foot discs, Woodland in shop for repair.




2. D8 after a few jobs on its way to subsoiling for sugar beet.




3. Farmhouse and buildings, some have been added since.




4. Sugar beet. We dont need spy-in-the-sky to go in a straight line over here?




5. Servicing Dutch harvester before sugar beet season starts.




6. On the move doing the job its built for. Fully auto electro-hydraulics auto-steer no hands.




7. Each tyre carries 10 tons when loaded.




8. Addition to fleet, loads of work prior to 2006. My favourite cat, D69U for towing tractors and trailors out.

I was afraid you guys were going were going to stop these pictures. Glad to see them continue. Very ineresting to a South West Kansas wheat farmer. This was in 1955, very little rain hence the tracks from Noble blades were still there with no weeds or volunteer wheat. I used the rod weeders to make a better seed bed. Panting wheat same fall. One of drills had a wooden box, very old. I had no money to spare at this time, going as cheap as I could.

Good pics atlas and darroll.

Warming up big time here, expecting sunny and 65º + here the next two days so that should dry the ground out fast.