Rio Linda Farm Days (30th annual)

We had some fun this weekend, and will be coming back October 11th for “Plow Day”. Some pictures for those that didn’t participate. JM

Looks a great day!

As many of us enjoyed working our iron, the folks on the "hay rides" made a lot of comments regarding Breadler and his hole digging skills; he got down pretty deep and made a very compact heap of topsoil; some of us were a bit worried, as he got it higher and higher and the little 4U machine was climbing a pretty steep angle to get to the top. Pure adreneline for some observers! I thought for sure the D2 was going to disappear, as he kept going deeper...

Big thanks for everyone that participated. We will be back on October 11, 2025 for their "2nd Annual Plow Day". Our goal is to get some of the hay fields back in shape, and be more productive.

I also wish to thank our hosts, as they welcomed us and were very accomodating. We will be back! JM

JM that soil looks like the Capay, Marvin, Willows, Sacramento and Pescadaro soil series, hard and chunky, drys, shrinks and turns to bricks, works well Into even more bigger bricks later on if you work with any moisture in it… although it does work better with moisture but like I wrote it tricks you into even bigger bricks later on. Clods so hard that they will get jammed in between disc blades and stop the disc from turning.

That’s the type of soil back in the day every ranch in those areas had a good fleet of Crawlers, Hd chisels and non name brand heavy discs, sheep’s foot rollers to pull behind the Subsoiler .. I better stop before I get educated again LOL

My poor toolbar ripper did not shatter the soil; it cut a slit in it. Soil profiles varied there; some areas it cut like butter, others I almost stalled the engine. Some very unforgiving soil there. It was everything you described. JM