Hi NIF have you fixed the transmission on the D6 yet. Darrol D8h i really like your planting pics takes us back a few years. Atlas

Atlas- yes got the D6C going again, the last few days have been great weather with warm and sunny. Finished putting fertilizer on the winter wheat this afternoon and it just dried out enough to start cultivating as well.

Sunk the 275 in a wet spot this afternoon, this is the first year we have farmed this ground so there is always a few surprises.

And like always, it happened right next to the road so everyone that drives by can see it. lol
Jim

Atlas: The pictures of your operation and the Heidrick’s operations are great. The line up of their Cats taken in the late sixties brought back a few memories of seeing those tractors earning the keep. I was always amazed at the way Heidrick’s would modify their tractors to meet their farming needs.

Sugar beets were big in the Sacramento Valley for years but now there are none left as you probably know. I was fascinated by the advancement in beet diggers that you photographed.

I have been busy with planting the new walnut orchard, and while I have been monitoring this form I have not had time to post until today. I will post some photos of the walnut planting as it progresses. Hopefully we will plant this week but the weather is supposed to turn on us so you never know.

Darrol D8H: I captured your photos of your planter set up. It is nice to see someone that is as “Scotch” as I was when I started farming.

98J: Again you have some wonderful panoramic photos with Mt. Adams in the background. I can see Mount Lassen clearly from our place but it never shows up in the photos I take.

NIF: I thank you for starting this thread. I used to spend any free time on the computer over at Red Power as I have some older McCormick’s and Internationals. This thread is now my first view when I have time. I too have had a few crawlers in the mud next to the road and always one of the neighbors would call or drop by to have a laugh with me or at me.

CR: We have sandy loam soil. In the thirty plus years that I have farmed it I have learned the following about replanting orchards where there had been an orchard before. You can get away with new almonds on old almond ground, but you cannot develop a good walnut orchard on land that has grown walnuts within the previous ten years. You can develop an almond orchard on old walnut ground if you fumigate well. And you can plant walnuts on old almond ground and they do fine. This has worked for me, but as with most things, I would have to learn it all over again in a different area.

To all you guys who have contributed, thanks. Back in the old days we did some plowing, but mostly big disk oneways. Our water erosion wasn't too excessive, if we planted wheat after wheat. When we summer fallowed as we did in my plow picture we had horrendous soil loss. The 7UD4 did much better with the loads we were pulling. These pictures were 1948 and 1949 to the best of my memory.

Was interesting to read about Almond and Walnut planting, no such trees here.

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Hi guys Iron Appraiser how many trees per acre do you plant for walnuts and years before full production. Rotation eelworm can Almonds hoste the same eelworm as Walnuts.cheers Atlas

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One of drills had a wooden box, very old. I had no money to spare at this time, going as cheap as I could.

I'm still using an Ontario with wood boxes!

Bret 4207. Here is picture of my drilling rig pror to the one with wood drill box. Every fill stop was 30 bushels of wheat to be scooped on and 1200 pounds of dry fertilizer to luged into boxes. No longer do that.

Let's not let Sheldon Lewis have all the fun. Farming......sort of, and definitely steel tracks. With the switch to no-till, some of the diversion structures are more trouble than they are worth. Here my good friend Chris Brace is a work knocking one down with his D8:





Love to watch this ol girl work.