Thanks NIF 98J and everybody else for your very interesting pictures of cats plus iIH harvesting gear in action. NIF we are also in a very abnormal cold spell so early . minus 20 up north and one of my trucking friends has 4 trucks stuck on highway for 3 days with drivers still in cabs well it could be worse it could be me? cheers Atlas

Atlas - Brrrr, that is cold for your area -20'.

I grew up on the wee Emerald island on a nice farm and never experienced that lo of a temp there. Now my roots are well established here in the west with a good bloom on the top end!

Hi Gang, long time no pics, so here goes. Here we are sub soiling this fall with the D6C and a 7 shank sunflower at 14". This was definatly a load for the 17R, 4th gear 1850 RPM (will pull 8-18" bottom plow in 6th no sweat) There were spots where 2nd gear was all it would do (thankfully not many). This was the first time I had sub soiled and was no doubt the deepest this feild has been worked. I can't sub soil every where because of the rocks, but I hope to see a good response here.

Next is a pic from this harvest picking up some flat soft white wheat with the 9400 JD. This feild (same one I subsoiled) went a little over 100 bu wich is pretty darn good for us. Our average this year was 74 bu thanks to a variety called AP700 that only made 42 bu. But over all a very good year.
NIF and 98J very nice pics as always.
Bruce

Here's a few more from 2010 harvest. Note that in the pic with the semi it would appear that my daughter is unattended, however her mother is just out of veiw behind the trailer. Enjoy

Bruce

Thanks for the update and pics Bruce, good looking machinery and wheat. What variety did you have that did over 100? Sounds like some real great yields over there probably thanks to all that rain in May/June.

Hi NIF, Yes the rains in May/June saved and made our wheat. But the summerfallow looked pretty scary by the time we were able to get back on it.

We had two varietys that did well and one that didn't. The good ones were ORCF 102 and Xerpha both went 100+ in good soil and 80 in the more shallow soil. The crumy one was AP700CL it went alittle over 40 in good soil. We got darn lucky with the Xerpha as it didn't break to stripe rust. This year we had Crop Production Service (Western Farm) do a variety plot so we got some real good data from that. I wish we would have had it before I seeded the AP700, oh well.

Get much snow last night? Ours was almost blown/melted away till yesterday got about 3". I'm sure glad that -11 stuff is over with, at least for now, we had a good 8" blanket of snow on the wheat so that was one less thing to worry about.


Bruce

Bruce P, great pixs and a great crop. I am surprised how much trash that your chisel will take without balling up. Thanks for posting; Tad

Thanks Tad, I mowed almost all my stubble with a big rotary mower this year right after harvest and so far it has really helped with the residue. It's still there but it's alot easier to get thru. However the sub soiler shanks are about 30 inches apart so it will eat an awful lot without pluging.
Bruce

Bruce- we have gotten a fair amount of snow recently, it has snowed about every day. It has compacted down a lot and rained a bit on it but there is about 18" or a little more on the ground here now.

Our ORCF 102 did very well for us this year as well, the Xerpha got hit by rust big time but still did all right. We planted both those again this fall along with Westbred 528. Lambert has typically been the main wheat we planted for over 10 years but the rust strains have mutated to where Lambert is affected by it.

Bruce P, Thanks for the extra pixs, I didn't realize that it was a "V" type ripper ( I didn't catch it in the first pixs)and boy is it a stout one at that, no wonder it makes your 6 grunt, nice looking rig by the way. A cousin of mine farms just East and South of Pendelton, he had to do the same thing to get rid of the plowpan. There is just something picturesque and majestic about busting ground or combining that I love,( It must bred into us) The plowing pixs by 98J and NIF along with all the combine pictures by everyone, especially the combine pictures are all keepers. We can't plow in this area or chisel to deep because in most places the soil is just to shallow, there is a lot of underlying free lime that gets brought up if you go to deep and boy does that soak up the "N" when you do it. My grandad used to use a tool called a Stockton Plow, a wood beamed plow with very small maybe 5 or 6 inch mollboard standards that could be sharpened and drawn in a forge and they covered about 7 or 8 feet and were pulled by a large team and he seeded with a broadcaster and a "Buckeye". My neighbor gave me a Stockton Plow along with a McCormack reaper to get rid of them, I guess that I should drag them home some day just to preserve them. ( Roadtrip??) Of course I am still farming with my antiques.
Cuz Casey and I were discussing the combining of 100 bushel grain, if we harvest a ton of barley that is a great crop(I didn't say it was a money maker just a great crop) we just don't get the rainfall to support big crops. When I was a kid, there was a fellow on the far end of Carrizo Plains here in Central Ca. (very low rainfall) his seeding rate was 18 pounds per acre of old Mexican Hard Red Wheat and if it came up to thick he would take his old Cletrac and 70 feet of harrow and thin it out a bit and would usually harvest a bin a day if he was lucky with a 27 Massey Harris, his grain truck was a Model ''A" Ford with a hand cranked cabled dump bed that would hold two bins, so he had to dump it every other day:lol: ( this was in 1967). 10 bushels vs 100 bushels:confused2: but he didn't have much in it, "1" light disking, seeding, maybe a harrowing and harvesting and Pillsbury would pay top dollar because that area would grow 20% protein wheat and they loved it for baking, at any rate he survived there. That whole area has been "SAVED" from so-called immanent destruction from farming for the Kangaroo Rat and Blunt Nosed Leopard Lizard, Kit Fox, and Antelope Ground Squirrel:censored:. Tad