Casey- yep it decided to give us a good cold snap early, we usually get a few days each winter down around or slightly below 0F but usually in Dec, Jan, or Feb. Forecast calls for -6F tonight a high of 7 tomorrow then -3 tomorrow night. We have 12 inches of fresh powder snow on the ground that did not drift much so the winter wheat should be well protected from the cold. No shop work when it is this cold, too hard to keep the old shop warm with just wood heat when it gets below 10F.

Haven't plowed since 64 -- but 20+ years using offset disc[& lite ground pressure mcny ] has my dirt so loose that the disc likes to stall--liked the looks of the IH plows in this thread [thanks NIF]-- so found one-- turn it over & see if it gets better-- also it should improve cond for roto hoe next year-- didn't get done as it got down to 10 & as day progressed the plow didn't want to go in & once in the auto resets kept tripping- thought had better quit before something got wrecked--was going to leave some anyhow --as to try out another new toy- 60' single heston disc- see if it does better than sunflower dbl offset..also see if any yield dif next year..

I just cranked up my reactor some more.

Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving.

tanker- good looking setup with that cat and plow. Here are a few more for you that have already been posted of the IH plows.

D5 cat in front of a 10 bottom.



an 11 bottom



A few of 98js pics that he posted before, I dont think its possible to post his pics too many times!

His own D5 with a 9 bottom



D5B and 7 bottoms.

Hello Boys! I have been AWOL.......busy and also suffered a lightning strike that
raised hell with the 'ol computer ( like FRIED the mother board) So......some
make up pictures. A great fall....the moisture in the summerfallow was pretty good to begin with, then we got nearly 2 inches of rain spread over 3 or 4 days in September. That made seeding a no brainer. The rain packed the ground pretty good, so I smacked it all with my Melroe ST, then turned right around on it with the rod weeders. Finished up one patch, and then hooked up to the Model 'B's........here they are at sunset with Mt Hood in the background, all set
to start seeding bright & early the next day:



A little different look.....3 ten footers in a squadron hitch. Nothing fancy, but they get the job done:

Drilled one patch, then latched back on to the rods to give the cheat grass a bad time:


A nice load for the D5.....working in 5th most of the time, the 40 foot working width eats the acres like candy. A set of flex harrows tied on behind help on the weed kill & also smooth up the seed bed. The weights on the tiller wheels are old counter weights from our old JD-33H combine. That's my stubble in the background....a nice crop in 2010, right at 70/bu acre. Looks like I need to snug
up the tracks a tad.

Last day of seeding....a lovely Sunday morning. Loading up out of one of my old
Cornbinders. Seeding at 100 to 120lbs per acre with a 50/50 mix of Stephens &
Tubbs (both soft white wheats) Did the first patch with the depth bands on with a little spring tension on the openers. Starting this morning, I have pulled the bands off and gone a little deeper as the moisture has dropped a little. Mt Hood lays off to the west under a ' blue gray October sky' ( with apologies to Grantland Rice)

One of my favorites from this fall. Almost done seeding.....stopped here to check the seed depth & also the drill boxes. When everything is running good,
I can drain the drills in an hour & change. That's Mt Adams over in Washington in the background, with Mt Rainier just visible just above the cab on the D5


All done......one last shot with Mt Hood in the background before I pull the outfit
out into the stubble and park for the day.

Thanks 98, wouldn't know where to find more picturesque farming/mountain scenery than your area. Years ago a group of us ventured up the east side of Mt. Adams, quite a view north and south. That's a pretty good shot of seed wheat compared to this neighborhood where 90 lbs. seems to be the norm. What is your fertilizer program?

Good to see you back again 98j. Sorry to hear about the lighting strike, we had one this summer that fried a few things in my parents house and it turns out the bolt struck a tree near the barn and then jumped over to our good 95H combine and the antenna was gone with the whole roof of the cab turned black as well.

Is that a fairly normal seeding rate for that country or do you crank it up for seeding later? We normally seed at 85-90lbs for late Sept. or early Oct. seeding.

Good old Stephens wheat, haven't grown that in 20 years but it was a fair wheat in the 80's. The saying around here was that if everything went right then Stephens would be the top yielder. We planted mostly Lewjain wheat and a little Eltan before Madsen came out. In the fall of 1987 we planted Stephens wheat on the 30th of August 3-4 inches deep at 55lb/a on summerfallow and that turned into the first 100 bu crop this area had ever seen. It did 107bu/a while all the recrop which did not get moisture until November that year all did 50-60bu. Had the winter been snowy then the wheat would have snowmolded bad since it was so big but we lucked out. We did not break the 100bu mark again until the year 2000.

If you have the time and the pics I am sure people here would like to see some harvest shots you got this year and if you got any of the no-till seeding we would enjoy that as well.

"Bleedinred" wrote:

Thanks 98, wouldn't know where to find more picturesque farming/mountain scenery than your area. Years ago a group of us ventured up the east side of Mt. Adams, quite a view north and south. That's a pretty good shot of seed wheat compared to this neighborhood where 90 lbs. seems to be the norm. What is your fertilizer program?

Hey There Bleedinred! My fertilizer program is pretty simple. I hit it with 60 to
65 lbs of N and 10 to 12lbs of Sulfur, using a double shoot applicator like this one:

The anhydrous tank is forward with the sulfur tank mounted aft. Note the solar
panel on top.....it keeps a battery charged for the rate control system. It's a stand alone set up so the dealer doesn't have to hassle with different voltages
from tractor to tractor. The system is 12v.....most tractors around here are as
well, but my D5 is a prime example of a trouble maker....it's a 24 volt system.
No worries........just plop in the rate controller into the cab, plug into the applicator, select the rate ( you can vary on the go ) and get on with your day.
It's GPS based and VERY accurate. It reads out lbs of product applied, speed
(5.2 mph in 5th gear) acres/hour, total acres applied. Really handy to plot out
your application....ie....if a tank will cover say 35 acres, and at the end of your
first lap you have done 15, you know you are safe to go for a second lap. ( not
a good idea to run the anhydrous dry...if you do you run the risk of 'smoking' the
turbine that works as the flow meter)
A couple of more shots of a similar applicator at work behind a friends D5B.....
a 51 foot working width.......easy to get 200 acres a day if you have a good driver hauling material to you: