Nice pics bleedinred,are you going to try the D6C out on the moldboard plow or will it stay on the ripper all fall?


We will start plowing tomorrow now that the moisture is soaked in good, will start with the moldboarding and then go to chiseling.

NIF, sounds like no moldboarding this fall, but might hook to the RH subsoiler and tear up some hard pan. Will be sure to put up some pics of that if it happens. It's a heavy machine, takes lots of power and traction. Looks like a 6D in the pic with the plow? Sure like the long tracks but takes a little more brake to turn. Conditions are better now with the moisture softening the hard stuff. You missed the benefit dinner, auction and dance in Kendrick Sat. night. Good band, made me feel young again, until Sunday morning...

I'd like to see a few shots of the neighbor's sixes, in tandem formation, one behind the other plowing.
Although some farmers get a tad 'spooky' about other farmers taking pics of them.

Rick Dalton's shots are worth taking a gander at when time is slow.
www.rdaltonphotos.biz/Agriculture/Palous...H#1343266172_m4Gh3d3

What a great set of photos. The shots of the Case IH machines gnawing away at that monster crop is very impressive.

In my mind the best starts at photo 227 with the shots of the 1958 or 1959 JD 95H and the RD6 tugging on the JD 36. I would imagine that you could count cylinders pop on the RD 6 trying to go slow enough to not plug the JD 36. My goodness, what a crop!

Thank You for Posting.

Casey

NIF - I like those shots of the two steel ponies above. - Thanks.

Any chance of bolting a telephoto to the nose of your camera and hitting some more of them in action?

Cloudy, foggy, and wet recently here but forecast calls for some sun this week so will hopefully get most of the winter wheat sprayed for broadleaf weeds. Spraying notill wheat in the fall is critical in having a good crop in this area, one year there was a 20 bushel difference in yield in similar fields due to fall spraying.

Took a bunch of pics of the moldboard plowing the past week since we may not be doing much anymore. We tried a flail on a few hundred acres and that seems to make chisel plowing the heavy stubble do a much better job.

8 bottom 18" melroe flex-beam or hinge-back plow they are called. Spring trips with shear bolts for when the bottoms have to trip back really far. Less than ideal plow, it likes visits from the welder and tools much more than our 6 bottom massey.

Plowed mostly backwards or "inside out" instead of the round and round the field that most people used to do. Hillsides we mainly try to plow throwing dirt up the hill.

NIF - Again thanks for your great pictures......those are keepers......all the best.

Finally repaired flex hinges on the heston 60'-- went fron 1 3/4 /18" bolts to 2 1/4 x 18" & brng holder from 3/4" plate to 2" - better not break- at least there- replaced all 20 hyd hoses- can't believe there were that many- wondered if 2U w/ 900rpm cam would pull it @ 4mph- it does- hooked on newest toy -46A D8- tried road gear- not good- threw all trash in air & dirt lit first w/ trash following & landing on top- not quite what I had in mind- stepping up revs & adding whistle & torque converter didn't seem to help fuel economy any - looks like 8 to 9 gal/hr- didn't ck 2U on this rig but probably won't go over 5..wanted to hit stalks crosswise but since I cultivate & leave ridges the heston was getting beat to death -- so 1 pass down row to level & then crosswise to chop stalks into pieces..46A is just as hard on hearing as RD7's- maybe a cab in the future.

Wow, I was just pointed to this thread from another new posting.

"ronm" wrote:

This thread here-
www.acmoc.org/bb/showthread.php?8196-%28...ng+with+steel+tracks
-will tell you more than any other source... I suspect the article in the mag derived from this thread-since it's the best thread ever on any forum, anytime...

He was right, something like 938 posts with really great photos. I just posted links to videos of the D2 & D4 breaking land out of CRP this summer.


My family has been dry farming wheat and barley for over 100 years at the opposite corner of Idaho, and if they weren't using horses they were using Cats. Similar to post #1 we have: 1953 7U D4, 1956 5U D2, 1962 44A D6B and a 1969 84J D4D SA (sadly not running now). The farm has been in CRP since '87. An adjoining piece has just come out of CRP so I've got the machines going and out working the land again (except the D4D which needs an engine rebuild after a cracked oil pan).

The D2, D4 and D6B together:



The D4D SA and D6B side by side:



A scanned photo of the D4D working a field in the early '70s:


A scanned BW photo of the D4D plowing snow in the mid '70s:


The terrain that keeps us running Cats:

Forgot I had these on my Nikon, took them while my wife was cruising down WA195 south of Pullman during fall planting--not steel tracks but this late in the year figure rubber ones are OK. A little of everything, combining garbonzo beans with 5 or 6 CaseIH machines in the same field, seeding wheat, applying NH3, etc.

HHydro, where in ID are you located? Nice looking country. We're slated for the first major snow of the season tomorrow. Can't say I have missed it.

Happy New Year everyone.

-BR