Darrol, hope all is going well with your recovery.

Would like to keep this thread going. Bleedinred and Bruce P. did either of you manage to get a few pics this spring? If so then please most them, though I do understand about the rush to get work done this spring when the weather was good.

98j- keep them coming, wheats looking good out there

We have had pretty bad weather for spraying, got one day in last Tuesday which finished our winter wheat off and then were rained out until yesterday when we had a few hours of great weather 60º and sunny and I sprayed about 150 acres of spring wheat before some dark clouds rolled in suddenly and rain stopped me at 6pm a couple hours away from finishing up our lower elevation ground. Forecast calls for rain every day for the next week. The spring wheat is looking very good down there where it is warmer than our home place, it should have been sprayed way earlier if the weather allowed it and was almost as tall as the booms in some spots, it should easily make 70+ bushels down there.

Sprayed only for broadleafs this year on most of it because it is very hard to find any wild oats in the wheat anymore.

We had one field of clearfield wheat that was sprayed with Beyond to get the goatgrass and another field planted on CRP takeout sprayed with PowerFlex to kill the grasses but the rest of the winter wheat was sprayed with a mix of Orion and Bison (which is MCPA and Buctril together) and the spring wheat was Bison and Affinity.

58' homebuilt sprayer with foam markers, fence row nozzles, and a 500gal tank

the 70hp massey handles it well most places in Low 3rd (5mph) but struggles on steep uphill pulls and has problems turning on a few steep spots due to the front end coming off the ground.

our 65' chevy with a 1300gal tank and 5hp pump also used as a fire truck later in the summer

The tractor and sprayer leave a wide set of tracks on the hillsides as the tractor has to have the front wheels turned uphill to drive straight across and the sprayer slides downhill a couple feet. Look carefully at the picture to see that the sprayer is not following straight behind the tractor (I was not making a turn at the time)

Hopefully a few more people will get some more pics on here to keep this thread going.

NIF, I've been busy hauling wheat out of the elevator so don't have much to report, other than I am getting to know the road to Spangle, WA pretty well. Our weather has been similar, allowing periodic bouts of wheat spraying so that is pretty much on track so far. I did get my alfalfa seeded last Monday and hope that with all of this rain I won't have to go back up there and do it again. I bought this 806 5-6 years ago and have been whittling away at making a silk purse out of it. Aside from that front end taking a mile to turn it worked ok on the alfalfa drill. Making an equipment run down to Oregon this week and will take the camera along for a picture report. Looking at the five day fat chance of much sun coming our way.

NIF, I hope to be harvesting oats and beardless barley in a couple of weeks. There is a nest of ravens on the combine, I have to wait for them to leave and that will give the wild oats a chance to drop and let the wild vetch dry a bit before harvesting. My crops are not very good this year, plenty of rain, not enough of something else. I think every weed in the world grew with all the rainfall except the Kanodas and the Belford. Anyway, hope to fire up the old 453 in a few weeks and exercise it a bit, and maybe some hillside pictures. Tad

BleedinRed, the MFWD used by IH was just horrid to turn, they used the same King spindle U-joint assembly on the tractors that they used on their trucks and they both took 40 acres to turn them. The 806-856 tractors were an almost indestructible unit as were the 1206, 1256 1456,(except for the TA) I have a 2 wheel drive with duals 1256 that I farmed my hills with, It will stay up there if you cut everything out a bit on the downslope but it is a bit hard on brakes, it is much easier now with the HD11 Powernoshift, some of this ground goes over 55%. When you get your 806 to where you want it it will last for years, after all it is already close to fifty years old. Glad to see there is another IH fan out there. Tad

These are from a month ago.
Here is some of the newly planted potted black walnuts that are now in the process of being "June budded" to English, a three year old orchard and some of this years wheat.

Hello All, I didn't get any pics of spring work as I was in a mad dash to get it done between rain storms. The summer fallow needs worked again but we have had almost 2" of rain since Saturday, so it will be awhile untill we can get in the field. The rain is a very welcome sight for us here in Asotin County. We had a very dry and windy winter, and it will turn off hot here one of these days so we'll take all we can get. There will be more pics when the tracks start rolling.

Bruce

planted corn may 10 {after frost}[grand dad always would look @ full moon & say we might get frost-- for a good many years now in both spring & fall it has been roughly a week after?? this one was 10 days]---planted bal on may 15-- came up 1 day apart-- didn't have any action shots of rotary hoe as its hard to take pic @ 10 mph-all you see is dirt @ trash flying higher than tractor anyhow--included pics of getting ready to give the wolly cupgrass & assorted broadleaf weeds a drink of ignite @ atrazine...

Hi everybody; Been following this thread from the beginning,great pictures! Thought I would post a classic 9U pulling a 12' offset disc. These were taken almost 3 weeks ago, we have been rained out since then

This has been an excellent thread...great pics and discussion. Makes me want to drop the blade on my D6 and find an implement to pull.

Hey everyone, It is 5 weeks now since both knees were replaced. I am going crazy being confined to house. Walking with walker. Going to threapy 3 times a week. Can ride with wife to the fields and watch my helpers screw things up according to my ideas how the work should be done. Just kidding of course. Irrigated corn and beans are planted and up. Now planting dryland milo with 16 row planter. Spraying weeds with burndown and premerge chemicals on milo ground. Will start wheat harvest next week. Won't cut any 70 bushel wheat in this country. Side dressing corn with 16 row applicator.
This thread has helped pass the time for me. Hope everyone will keep it going.