"larslog" wrote:

I have a 9U D-6 with a 1673 cat motor in it stamped on a tag on the fuel pump housing 230 horse power.I also have a Allis-chalmers HD-11 with a 6V-71 in it,both of these are farm cats.

Pictures, we must see pictures:wave: Tad

Please Tad.

We need pictures of an HD11 "Power-No-Shift" doing the breast stroke. And not one of those girly type photos either. A real honest to goodness mud wrestling photo. Please include the extraction.

Casey

Great thread, . I wish I had a picture to reply with. Instead I'll just post a random picture of me at a plowing match five years ago.

On my '26 2-Ton beside my cousins '06 Challenger. My tractor will eventually be the right color and have the right seat. Workin on a T35 (side aircleaner) right now.

Many thanks to guys like Sylvester, and Dunefanatic, great guys I'm happy to have dealt with, .. guys that make this amoung the greatest of hobbies.

I have to admit, the few times I stood in Sylvesters shop just outside of Brandon, all I could think of was tearin the cardboard off a 24 pack of Labbats Blue, for the Bluebombers of course, ha ha.

Cheers guys

Hey Cuz, I think that I will start with the good stuff first and then digress to the matter of which you make mention:lol: and I am sure that all will have a chuckle at my expense

The POWERNOSHIFT doing what it does best














You know, tis a wee bit sideland when an 18 foot disc won't cover the uphill track




and now for the coup de gras

OOPS!!!!
Yea, go ahead and laugh, I know you will anyway



I thought that I might have to don swim fins,mask and a snorkel to get it out, I tried a few things to get it done without help and was somewhat successful but not quite and thanks to a neighbor and a Challenger 65 the job got done:thumb:, but no pixs of the event:lol: I think the worst thing of all is, while working and trying to unstick it, I came to the stark realization that I am not 25 years old anymore. but we did get it out, no harm no foul, except my pride:lol: Tad

Tad, that is what Mr Deas Plant would say. Good on Ya for fessing up.

I hope you don't get done too soon, I'd like to get over there and turn a round or two to get that first time over smell in my nostrils again. It's been since the early 80's since I helped make summer fallow.

Thanks for the photos

Casey

Well, they say the thing about tracks is you will be farther from hard ground when you do stick it. At least you could still see your tracks

Interesting part is when you get off you realize that if you had been on foot you would have totally gone around that patch.

Tad- thanks for the pics, they give me the urge to do some field work. It will be awhile though as we still are mostly snow covered here. It looks like it would be hard to see wet spots there with the heavy volunteer growth and stubble.

NIF, I wanted the volunteer to get a real head start this year because of the wild oats that went to seed last harvest,(don't know where they came from but they showed up in force) I figured that they would have a better chance of getting started lying on top of the ground the way mother nature intended instead of being six inches under and then the hard seed would be there for the next three hundred years and their demon spawn would be making my Beardless and Kanodas look like chocolate-chip cookie dough (horsey people do not like wild oats in their oat hay seed) also the purple vetch is getting a good foot hold, which doesn't bother me much, being a legume, it is good for the ground, but it can choke out a barley crop and makes a real problem in the vineyard, it will climb vines and fences like you wouldn't believe, as far as the wet spots, you have to trust me on this one, this is so far from the norm living here in an almost rain free environment:lol:. The story that I love to tell. In the Good Book, Genesis 7, the story of Noah," And it was made to rain for forty days and forty nights, and a great flood was brought forth so that every living thing upon the earth would be destroyed"(a bit of paraphrasing) well Shandon got almost an inch out of that one. oh btw, what is this "snow" that you mentioned??.

Nightcrawler, that is one cherry little Cat, I'm not talking about the Challenger. Be proud of that one, Well Done

M diesel, I knew I was pushing my luck, I had been spinning through for about three or four rounds with the disc closed up, my luck ran out. I did it to myself.


Cuz, I finished the first time over the next day, but you can come and try your luck at the mud bog if you like, but you have to dig it out. (actually the Challenger is still sitting across the fence),
if we get another rain there is always the second time over. I couldn't agree more, there is nothing else like the smell of fresh tilled earth and diesel smoke.

Thanks All Tad

Tad-those wild oats were an enemy of farmers here for many decades but not so anymore. Modern herbicides make complete oat control easy in the crops we grow here. We have a type of vetch too but it is not a problem in ag fields, it grows in pasture, CRP, etc. I kind of wondered about the wet spots, I didn't think there would be many there in a low rainfall area. Here it is highly dependent on the year, sometimes we have to leave wet spots be and go unseeded in the spring and are not able to fertilize winter wheat in the wet spots. Other times we can get on the whole field though we have put in many miles of drain tile line as well.

As for that "snow" word it is a cold, white, fluffy substance that falls from the sky anytime from October to June in my neck of the woods. It has been known to have the ability to make objects such as cars, barbed wire fences, and mail boxes disappear from view and can make pavement roads into very decent ice skating paths. but the plus side of snow is...the cops can't pull you over for driving on the wrong side of the yellow line on the highway:lol:

NIF, all I can say is BRRRRRRRRR:lol:, it sure is pretty though. I have decided that for me the optimum is where the wind chill factor included is a constant 90 degrees F in the shade @ 0% humidity, tempered with a sweetened iced tea or better yet an ice cold beer along with the ability to sit there and ponder what the real working people are doing., maybe next lifetime. The wet years that are good to us here usually wreak havoc on the guys 20 or 30 miles to the West where Ray 54 hangs out, they usually have about four times the rainfall and can drowned out or plan on a Safflower year.
We had at one time here in the land of fruits and nuts(AKA California)a herbicide called Fargo for wild oats, it worked great and one called Carbine before that but like all things that work well, none that I know of are now available in CA. I don't know of any herbicide to kill out wild oats from Kanoda oats they are just too close genetically speaking, rotation is about the only thing that keeps them in check. One year the wild oats stared early way ahead of everything else and they were coming from about 6-7 inches down, I went through with about 4-6ozs/acre of Roundup and boy did that knock them back for many years.
You might have to put some snow shoes on that 6C so you can start a bit earlier:lol: or at least hook it to a snowplow and pretend that you are farming:lol:

Thanks Tad