My week in pics, part 1

[putsie]

Been busy this past week with a few different things and thought I'd throw a couple pics up here to share. Started off the week cleaning grain bins in the cool mornings. In the afternoon I switched gears and went mowing some of the old farm yards that are part of our "south farm".

This yards dugout provides our water when spraying our south land.








I should have got a better shot but this next yard is one the main bin yard for the south farm. There's still a few more in another yard down the road a mile.


While I was there I stopped to take some measurements and and reference photos of an old IH discer for an upcoming project




One day a good friend of the family phoned asking if we were looking to sell our old pull type sprayer. His brother had a catastrophic break down on his and was looking for one so I headed out back with the 9330 to drag out it out (been sitting 3 years) and bring it up into the yard to check it over. Had to take a pic. This was our spraying setup for 7-8 years prior to the high clearance purchase. Before that the 1486 had sprayer duty.

[hoss]

nice pics thanks for sharing...thats a pretty good size sprayer lol

[putsie]

Sprayer is a 100ft Brandt QF1500. Good sprayer, but not even comparable to the 4710 JD high clearance that replaced it.

[johndeere9430]

Nice sprayer we also have a QF1500. One question though were you guys using the wind gaurds ?

[putsie]

No we took the wind cones off after we changed to a Raven auto rate system with better nozzles. Didn't need the a wind screen after making that upgrade. Worked real good with no wind drift issues for the 2-3 years we ran it like that (and we will/do spray in the wind if needed).

[steiger9330]

Nice 9330. We have one with a degelman blade, but ours is the row crop special version.

[evk]

Good pictures, & thanks for sharing. If you're bleedin' green, your'e not sick are you? I thought blood was always red.

[putsie]

Jul 4, 2011 22:36:50 GMT -5 evk said:

Good pictures, & thanks for sharing. If you're bleedin' green, your'e not sick are you? I thought blood was always red.

Bleeding green can have a couple meanings in Saskatchewan. haha, and some feel it's a sickness.... in this instance, it basically translates to; I'm driving IH/CIH's but I'm still a JD guy deep down.

I grew up a John Deere kid (though there were some MF mixed in). Now I'm older and farming down the road with my father-in-law who comes from an IH background. We give each other a bad time adout which is better. There's slowly starting to get to be some green stuff showing up on the farm since I've been around, and I'm lovin' it.

[miniskfarm]

looks like a fairly "new" disker. is there a year on the serial number plate?

[putsie]

Jul 6, 2011 22:17:07 GMT -5 miniskfarm said:

looks like a fairly "new" disker. is there a year on the serial number plate?

Never bothered to check out the serial # plate. Now you've got me thinking about it, I'll have to check it out when I'm back in that yard... My guess would be late 70's, pair of them replaced a set of MF 36's.