NIF, that soil your 22s are sitting on sure looks dark and rich. Have really enjoyed reading this thread just beautiful country up there. Truly Gods Country!
Was wondering what the average age of guys farming are up in that area are. Seems I heard somewhere the nationwide average is up into the late 50s or early 60s.

Casey- yield did 86bu/a and test weight was pretty good, close to 60 I would say. I was pleased with it, from the cab it looked very uneven which normally means poor yields but there were enough really good patches to keep the yield up.

Daryl- rails and pads last over 10k hours pretty easy, rollers typically less than that cant give you exact numbers we dont put enough hours on them to keep track. I know the pins and bushings on the D4 were turned a little over 3000 hours ago and are down to the minimum recommended measurement now.

bleedinred- yes it does and it rides pretty good in the field and on the road. We started on the winter peas this week and hauling to the legume warehouse the scale there is a few inches to short to fit our 256" truck on it on one go. 240" wheelbase is pretty common for these type of trucks here.

65c60- Yes lots of farmers in their late 40's to early 70's, only a handful younger than that but there are a couple only in their early to mid 20's stepping right in and farming with fathers and sometimes uncles. The high crop prices of the past 4 years and optimistic future of ag has brought a trend of bringing back the younger generation some say.

Harvest has been treating us well this year despite a very late start, only one slight rain delay this harvest unlike the last 3 years which have had multi-day rain-outs each year. We are not quite done yet but yesterday finished up all but one small field of lentils that we will wrap up in a couple days when the weeds dry down a little more. Some neighbors were completely done harvesting ahead of us because they had little to no spring crop this year because of the wet spring. Others growing garbanzos will not be done for awhile since the garbs aren't ripe yet. Winter wheat did better than I thought averaging in the low 80's on our place, there were some very crappy fields in the area however that were planted late last fall or wheat on wheat that were running 50bu or lower. Test weight is about average at 60.

Spring wheat averaged 48bu/a only a litter lower than normal.

Peas were not great at 1600lb.

Lentils did outstanding, what we have finished so far has done 2000lb/a - one of our highest yields ever with them and we will make more money/acre with lentils than winter wheat this year. The cool July and nice rain towards the end of the month saved the yield loss expected from late planting.


Just a few pics and I will post a few more later when I get more time. The first pic the machine is leveled all the way over at 45%, it did not take much on the override as this was at least a 40% slope.

You just can't beat those "Swing Frame" leveling devices. although I understand they are much more expensive to manufacture.

Here are a few as I said I would try to do better this year. Still quite a grind left, maybe finish this weekend. Some winter wheat outstanding, some seeded w/w with air drill horrible yield but quality high all around. Peas and spring wheat have been surprising as late as they were planted.

What's the difference between the 6620 sidehill and the 6622. A bunch of the farmers here have never heard of the 6622.

The 6622 levels to 45% while a 6620 sidehill only levels to 17% or so. The 6622 also has more horsepower than a 6620. There are farmed hills out here in the palouse and other areas that exceed 50% slope while in the midwest there is not much farmland above a 25% slope.

They originally just had "hillside" combines and level land combines and then in the 70's started making "sidehill" machines that leveled over just enough for most of the hills in the midwest and east.

Here are the rest of my harvest pics, managed to get a lot this year.

First ones were taken when I stopped leveled over to 45% in the above post.

Those are nice clear shots NIF, really enjoyed those. I like how you redid the bottom step on the 22, can't tell you many times I have cracked a shin or knee on the spring loaded one that doesn't work very often. What was the consensus on the tandem after it was over? I'm betting you'll have another next year. We have one more day of north hillsides and draws to finish up. It will be 30 days of cutting when completed, ready to do something else.

Nice pics bleedinred. Yes we like the new truck very well, takes some getting used to but it hauls way more grain and hauls it faster too since it is not limited by Horsepower climbing hills. We plan to get another one, not too picky on the brand but we definitely want another with a 3406B and hopefully similar transmission.