Thanks for the update NIF. I think the shot of the '22 with the river in the background is pretty spectacular.

Don't you hate it when that cheezy belt on the rotary screen breaks. On the '02s we didn't have a mirror so we put one on the cat walk that was dedicated to the radiator screen. Then painted a pie wedge on the screen so that it could be seen out of the corner of your eye. At first it was a little annoying but was then highly appreciated the next time the belt broke.

Isn't it exciting when the hydrostatic coupler lets loose. We never lost one on a steep hill but steep enough to make you think about buying new seat covers. The only thing we found that seemed to extend their life was to pack them with wheel bearing grease and tighten up the bolts at the connection before the bolts on the mount.

I noticed that one of the '22s has an extended clean grain elevator,(above the bin extension). Are you using a bushel meter or a re-cleaner, or was this a practical modification to improve on JD engineering?

Thanks again for the update

Casey

Atlas- on the moldboard plows we often break the shares on rocks before they are completely worn out so I would say about 600 acres on average is how long they last.

Casey- that combine has an over the top clean grain elevator designed for harvesting legumes- lentils, peas, and especially garbanzo beans. The seeds chip easily and we get docked for chipped legume seed. The regular style would chip some in the grain tank once it got over half full. At the warehouse where we take legumes they have rubber belts rather than augers for moving the crop around. Many of the 6622 and other models in the eastern palouse which is the legume growing region had this modification. Going into the drier areas into Washington it is rare to see a 22 like that.

NIF,thanks for the reply.Yea those big plows move a lot of dirt around.Do you put any hard facing on the plow shares?We used bare rod tube borium.Could get well over 1,500 acres if we didnt break one beyond repair.No hardface maybe 160 acres.Thanks for all the great pictures of your farming operation

Having never harvested beans or peas I surly wouldn't have known that.

Casey

Hi NIF You appear to run the headers very low lentil and pea harvesting, do you ever have problems with stones or rocks damaging the knife sections. Here in the UK we get loads of wear and tear on pea harvesting especialy on stony fields, cheers Atlas

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Early steam thrashing in the early 1900's.


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Massey combining 1957.


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New Holland 1963 harvesting wheat.


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Lexion 2010. Note guys: we do get a bit of dust in the UK!


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Steam discing with cable and a pair of Fowler steam engines, one each end of the field.


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This is the only Fowler steam disc cultivator in the UK (World?).


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D5 discing. Only 56 ever made.


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The latest Simba disc manufactured in the UK. A multi-cultivator replaces plough prior to planting.


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Running on satellite at present to keep straight, but does not like trees, electric poles or sloping ground?


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Rear view out of cab.


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Satellite in action.


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NIF: this is how we move this equipment down narrow roads.


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Fowler steam ploughing with double Fowler engines: up to 20 acres a day under this system of ploughing with steel rope and winch on engine.


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Steam plough approaching engine.


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Fowler engine plough winch.


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Stuffing the coal in! We used 6 tons of coal with 6 engines in 8 hours ploughing and discing, plus hundreds of gallons of water.


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Running gear on Fowler engine.


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Plouging with Cat chipped to 400HP. We also use a furrow press which helps to make a smooth finish.


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Most ploughs in this area use reversible bodies.


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D9 ploughing.


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17 bottom plough manufactured on farm by Rob Wilson. This is second D9 this season, the first one dropped a valve. Good job he had a spare!


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Has got up to 100 acres a day on large fields.


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Fairly heavy soil in places. Rob said D8 will not pull this plough.


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The farmer/engineer himself.


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Rear view of Cat.


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Wheat planter manufactured by Simba, air seeder.


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Theres always one has to be left in the field, which could be very expensive on equipment if one does not have a careful operator. Paul and Roland, operators of the 2 Challengers, have really enjoyed the job and get a lot of satisfaction out of it. What can beat that?


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Rear view of planter.


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The oldest steam engine in the field. Howard build in 1885. The only one in existence. Richard Vernon, my friend, prised it out of the Henry Ford museum in Chicago 1991. A swap for a Bugatti engine I believe. Richard has rebuilt all 6 engines himself in his workshop right next to his house after work on the farm. Driving the Howard back to the farm along the tarmac road, it slid off the tarmac into a ditch and had to be towed back on to the road. I blame the very low geared steering for my errors, and will never be allowed to forget it!


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The running gear and coal bunker on Howard.


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Compulsory testing of all steam engines etc. in the UK have to have a license.

Incredible pictures. Thank you for sharing. Most people don't have a clue what it takes to produce the things they eat. And the cable plowing! Have read about it , but never seen pictures of it. Thanks again, Mark

I'll say!

I had no idea fields in UK would support such large machinery.

Steam Plowing and Disking what a unique system.

The steam engine was beautiful!

Again, beautiful set of pics in all respects.

"Member2103" wrote:

Incredible pictures. Thank you for sharing. Most people don't have a clue what it takes to produce the things they eat. And the cable plowing! Have read about it , but never seen pictures of it. Thanks again, Mark

Very interesting!! I'll second the statement above, your absolutly correct most people haven't a clue about the blood, sweat and tears it takes to put their food on the table!
Reminds me of a story my neighbor told me,seems a meathead drove down through his cornfields and got stuck. he asked Bob to pull him out and when Bob went to hook his articulating 4WD Massey to this guys truck the Guy had the nerve to say "your not going to hook that tractor to my $25000 truck are you?" and Bob replied "your right I'm not going to hook my $100,000 tractor to your truck. Made him leave his truck set there for 2 days until he let a wrecker down in there to pull him out for $600 bucks and charged him for the damaged corn
Thanks Again for sharing

Atlas- great pictures you added, do you have any idea what year that D9 is and what horsepower it has?

Been a busy fall here, started seeding winter peas on the 14th of Sept. finished harvest running one machine on the 16th. Disked weed patches in lentils and cultivated and hauled the piles of weeds out of the fields then seeded winter wheat on all the lentil ground. Then moldboard plowed and cultivated canola stubble. Disked and rolled CRP takeout. Then seeded wheat on all that ground finished the 9th of Oct.- later than we would prefer and had to scrape mud off the packer wheels a fair amount towards the end. Definitely no lack of moisture this fall, neighbors growing garbanzo beans were not able to start cutting until the first this month and one just finished up this past weekend which means the wheat being seeded now is most likely taking a yield hit from the late seeding.

After seeding was wrapped up we finished plowing wheat stubble then started chiseling and I got that wrapped up a few days ago. This week the weather is good so we are spraying all the no-till wheat to prevent diseases from the weeds and volunteer growing in it. Weather forecast now call for a big storm this weekend with low snow levels so I guess the field work is about done.

Didnt have time for many pics, I took the camera out the last day of chiseling and snapped a few.



Running about 6" deep this 21' chisel with disks on front is the hardest pulling implement we have.





Other two cats ready for pressure washing and put into the shed.

All the D6B was used for was to plow 115 acres with the old 6 bottom massey plow, it is good to get the old tractor out and put a few hours on it each season.




This is how some of our early planted wheat looked on the 10th of October

This variety is ORCF 102 we also planted Xerpha, Westbred 528, and Lambert.



Winter peas on the 10th of Oct.




Have a good winter everyone, it would be great if anyone else has pics to add to the thread.