Been real busy so I havent had much time to post, got some neat pics I will get a few up now and some more when I get more time.

Jim and Tad- nice harvest pics, running old equipment cant be beat.

It will be mid August before we cut any wheat here if this heat keeps up, if we get more rain and cool weather it will be a month and a half for wheat, might get started with some winter lentils before wheat though.

Still lots of work to be done before harvest, weeds to spot spray, finish working on a combine, and tilling up some CRP ground will keep us busy.

We did sell our 1971 6602 combine to a guy the other side of the canyon that runs a pair of CIH rotary combines with 25 and 30' headers and wanted something to cut peas and lentils with better also his are not full leveling combines so he may use it on a couple of his steepest slopes.

Last day on our place, headed home with its 4th owner the next day.



Stripe rust in spring wheat, it completely wiped out the leaves on most of our early planted spring wheat and the winter wheat variety lambert before we got a chance to spray so the kernels will be filling with no leaves on the plant which most likely will lead to shriveled kernels and low yield.



Orange rust spores on my shoes after walking in the wheat



I made it up to steptoe butte and kamiak butte in the Washington palouse one sunny evening and got some shots, I will put up more some other time. These were taken the last of June.





Lentil crop looking poor, all the yellow areas are diseased from wet weather, even the good areas of the field are much shorter than normal so it will be a difficult harvest, possibly may use the one old 95-H with a 16' header on some of it to get closer to the ground.



Spring canola blooming hard this past week, it loves cooler weather during bloom so the cool sunny weather last weeekend (high temp of 64º on the 4th of July) was good for it.



Spring wheat.

Great pictures and info Thanks for sharing your work/business:thumb: Anybody that thinks their loaf of bread comes easy ought to walk in your shoes for 1 growing season!
Keep it up
upstate NY farmboy

I'm glad that this thread hasn't lost interest.

It was good to see cousin Tad have his machine out and going again. We used to have our Ford/Chevy/Dodge arguments over the combines as we sat in the air conditioned comfort of our cabs, Tad in his 453 and me in my 6602. Please notice that his 453 is still going while my 02 is either in China being processed into a new car or it is sitting in some canyon NE of San Miguel.

NIF it's too bad about this years production. When you talk about the amount of tillage to be used I found it interesting that when our area was trying no till and minimum till with varying degrees of un-success. My neighbor described it perfectly for our area, I quote, "Minimum till = Minimum harvest, No till = No harvest." this proved true for our area. There were those who didn't heed his prophetic statement and carried on with their ways until they went broke or were saved by CRP.
Casey

Casey, That bit of witticism, I think, is entirely correct, out in the nether regions of Eastern San Luis Obipso County were Jack rabbits have been rumored to carry canteens, one grizzled old farmer I knew always used to say, ( he always had something to say about something and it was almost always some pearl of enlightenment), "no f##### ditches, no f###### grain" I think there is a lot to that. Tad

BTW, my 453 probably should have went to China some time back:lol:

Tad, was your 453 a local machine when you bought it? Reason I ask is there was a dealer here that sent a lot of trade-in 453s to your area back in the early 80s. When the 1470s came out he wheeled and dealed so many he had something like 40 of the older machines stacked around town. Some went to an ag project near Wasila, Ak and some went your way. Just curious.

Bleedinred, My machine was sold brand spanking new here in Paso Robles in 1974. I bought it a year later with two light seasons on it. I sure used to drool over the 453's when they came out, I was 17 and had been running a 403 on my own, we had tried a hydro 403 and that left a bit to be desired, so when this machine came up, I beat the bushes to try and buy it. I finally got it done with the help of a great fellow in the local P.C.A. and my dad cosigning the note (Production Credit Ass would not loan to anyone under 21). I worked at the dealership that sold this machine for some time it 1976 and 77. A very bad drought hit the area and I had payments to make and an great guy gave me enough cutting to cover the interest on the note for the bad years, the going was tough but I made it. I don't recall any machines coming from that area, but that doesn't mean they weren't here, by 1986 it was all done and gone for dryland farming here with the advent of CRP, I think close to 95% of farmland when out of production and left us all (except those who received CRP payments) wondering what happened, it virtually killed all the dealers and support structures to the farming industry. Tad

Hi NIF You Guys appear to have loads of problems with yellow rust,our problems driest june on record no rain and temperatures 85 to 90 , Result wheat prices jumped 15 to 20 dollars a ton last week. D8h dont abuse your new knees remember no jumping of tracks and out of cabs ? Farmers in the UK seem to be the main clients for artificial limbs.some guys are on there secnd set of hips and still going strong,One question are you guys diversifying looking at the pictures you seem to have an awful lot of golf courses. Atlas

Hello Boys.....been a while since my last post. Got over my summerfallow with
the first pass (chisel) in mid May. Then mother nature stepped in with a BUNCH of
rain. So, my second trip with the chisel was delayed 'till mid June:





I really need to do something about the paint job on the cab; especially the
AC unit:

In fact, the rain delayed the finish 'till the end of June.....here is the last day, the
27th of June.....fueling up with Mt Adams in the background;

Didn't wait very long to hook up to the rods......did some last weekend and then
finished up this morning:



A little closer look at my D5 latched on to forty feet of JD 800 rods with a set of
flex harrows tied on behind. Nice to get something with a wide swath behind me...the chiseling seemed to go on forever. Pulling the rods in 5th wide open
and the acres melt away pretty fast.