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Post by racinfarmer on Dec 29, 2010 15:38:39 GMT -5
I wish I had pics of the day we got our MT865 stuck pulling the dump cart, but NO ONE was in any picture taking mood that day...  |
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Post by Tim Carlson on Dec 29, 2010 17:55:36 GMT -5
are both of em stuck ^^^ Looks that way.. Wow.. a good day gone wrong huh
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Post by racinfarmer on Dec 29, 2010 21:55:14 GMT -5
Yes, they are both stuck. We had almost a foot of rain in the 5 days before they harvested that field and another 6-7 inches of rain the day they started harvesting it. The combines would get the dumpcart about half full and get stuck. They'd dump into the cart tractor and our poor 8320 would be frame deep. The second time they came back we resorted to using our MT865 for the dump cart tractor and even got that stuck. It was a bad deal in general on both sides. Later in the year, it was so bad, corn was floating out of the heads as they were harvesting.
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Post by djt14 on Dec 29, 2010 22:14:35 GMT -5
wow we could almost get our own subject for this haha  |
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Post by Tim Carlson on Dec 29, 2010 22:33:40 GMT -5
wow.. talk bout muddy.. looks like you needed a quad track.. haha..
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Post by djt14 on Dec 29, 2010 22:37:21 GMT -5
if only i had a shrink ray and a large ray i wuld take a quad trac and switch it back and forth between small and little hahaha
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Post by steiger9330 on Dec 29, 2010 22:40:45 GMT -5
Wow. That looks like a nightmare. I know you probably have deadlines for sweet corn to get it picked, but I think at certain conditions a point will have been reached when more harm is done to the field than you will benefit from it.
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Post by racinfarmer on Dec 29, 2010 22:43:28 GMT -5
Wow. That looks like a nightmare. I know you probably have deadlines for sweet corn to get it picked, but I think at certain conditions a point will have been reached when more harm is done to the field than you will benefit from it. It is in our contract that they pick the sweetcorn when it is ready. We have no say in the matter and if we tell them they cannot harvest, we get paid $0 per acre and are put at the bottom of the grower's list for the next season. |
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Post by steiger9330 on Dec 29, 2010 22:54:32 GMT -5
Wow. That looks like a nightmare. I know you probably have deadlines for sweet corn to get it picked, but I think at certain conditions a point will have been reached when more harm is done to the field than you will benefit from it. It is in our contract that they pick the sweetcorn when it is ready. We have no say in the matter and if we tell them they cannot harvest, we get paid $0 per acre and are put at the bottom of the grower's list for the next season. I figured that was the case but wasn't sure. How do you level those ruts out next spring? |
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Post by racinfarmer on Jan 7, 2011 0:45:35 GMT -5
I figured that was the case but wasn't sure. How do you level those ruts out next spring? We have a cobbled together DMI 730B we run over anything that is like this. It is better then tearing up the newer equipment and when something cracks or breaks off it, we just weld it back on, reinforce it, and keep going. It works well for its intended purpose and is worth the same to a dealer as it is to a scrap yard, so it is perfect for its intended use on our farm. |
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Post by racinfarmer on Feb 18, 2011 23:13:27 GMT -5
wow.. talk bout muddy.. looks like you needed a quad track.. haha.. We actually have a 480 Quadtrac but determined that only leads to more trouble in conditions like this. |
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