Post by 70ds on Sept 28, 2009 22:01:29 GMT -5
It is crazy busy around the farm now. Last week was a damp week that did not cooperate with the wheat drilling very well. We ran as hard as we could. Late in the week Johnson Farms pulled in to chop our silage. We luckily had just got the 535 off of the scrapers and got the dozer put on it. It can stay ahead of the trucks better than the 8630 or 7520. Here is the first load coming in.
The silage was NK300 forage sorghum and it was as tall as the cutter so the trucks were rolling in pretty fast.
The 535 doesn't have any trouble keeping ahead of the trucks. It has enough horse power that it can push a load right up the pile and not even breathe hard.
Dustin brought the cutter in to the shop to get it ready the next morning.
The trucks lined up in the yard.
Working on the last field. About have this truck loaded.
The next truck didn't make it back soon enough so the cutter had to stop. He was close but not close enough.
Done with the silage and the pile is covered. The other bunker still has some 08 silage to use up in it then we will start using this silo.
We are going to put wheat in behind the silage. We usually no till it in but the fields were a little wet and the trucks tracked them up pretty bad. We grabbed a disk with the 535 and smoothed them up before the drills came in. Then the 535 got put on a field cultivator to work wheat ground.
We picked up some custom harvesting up by Wilcox NE. We got about 1000 acres of Soybeans to cut for a couple different farmers. We sent the crew up with the 2 7088s. Here they are pulling out of the yard.
They had to move a half mile between fields so they left the headers on. One of the combines was getting over for a car and caught a sign post and broke out a guard and a sickle section. So it has to be repaired. The other combine already has a bin full. The soys are making around 60 bpa. They aren't having to haul very far so we only sent 2 semis up.
We are also trying to cut the 4th cutting of alfalfa. It is exceptionally good this year. It has been a really good summer for alfalfa. The hard part has been getting it baled without a bunch of rain on it.
Since the 535 is back on the field cultivator we have been able to stay ahead of the drills easier. Which has freed up a couple guys to start cutting some of our short season beans that are ready so we can drill wheat in behind them. We have around 250 acres that are ready to go that will end up put back to wheat. Depending on how the fall goes we may drill more in behind some of the later beans too.
The drill is rolling in right behind the combine.
Once we get the conventional tilled wheat done and free up a couple of operators, we will hit the beans and corn that are ready a lot harder. We also have some corn ground that we want to put into wheat as well. It is shaping up to be a busy couple of months coming up. That is all for now. Questions and comments welcome.
The silage was NK300 forage sorghum and it was as tall as the cutter so the trucks were rolling in pretty fast.
The 535 doesn't have any trouble keeping ahead of the trucks. It has enough horse power that it can push a load right up the pile and not even breathe hard.
Dustin brought the cutter in to the shop to get it ready the next morning.
The trucks lined up in the yard.
Working on the last field. About have this truck loaded.
The next truck didn't make it back soon enough so the cutter had to stop. He was close but not close enough.
Done with the silage and the pile is covered. The other bunker still has some 08 silage to use up in it then we will start using this silo.
We are going to put wheat in behind the silage. We usually no till it in but the fields were a little wet and the trucks tracked them up pretty bad. We grabbed a disk with the 535 and smoothed them up before the drills came in. Then the 535 got put on a field cultivator to work wheat ground.
We picked up some custom harvesting up by Wilcox NE. We got about 1000 acres of Soybeans to cut for a couple different farmers. We sent the crew up with the 2 7088s. Here they are pulling out of the yard.
They had to move a half mile between fields so they left the headers on. One of the combines was getting over for a car and caught a sign post and broke out a guard and a sickle section. So it has to be repaired. The other combine already has a bin full. The soys are making around 60 bpa. They aren't having to haul very far so we only sent 2 semis up.
We are also trying to cut the 4th cutting of alfalfa. It is exceptionally good this year. It has been a really good summer for alfalfa. The hard part has been getting it baled without a bunch of rain on it.
Since the 535 is back on the field cultivator we have been able to stay ahead of the drills easier. Which has freed up a couple guys to start cutting some of our short season beans that are ready so we can drill wheat in behind them. We have around 250 acres that are ready to go that will end up put back to wheat. Depending on how the fall goes we may drill more in behind some of the later beans too.
The drill is rolling in right behind the combine.
Once we get the conventional tilled wheat done and free up a couple of operators, we will hit the beans and corn that are ready a lot harder. We also have some corn ground that we want to put into wheat as well. It is shaping up to be a busy couple of months coming up. That is all for now. Questions and comments welcome.
