Post by putsie on Aug 26, 2011 19:52:06 GMT -5
With lentils wrapped up with the exception of 100 acres of some previously flooded out, weedy mess. We went to check on our canola swaths not expecting them to be quite ready yet after being down 16 days. Surprisingly it looked better than expected and a 200bu sample proved that the "green count" was low enough to get serious about picking swaths. That was a week ago.
Here's the pics from the last week.
My kind of black gold...
Always amazing how a swath, 10ft wide and knee high can get shoved through a combine at 6mph and basically turn to powder by the time it blows out the back.
The stubble looked so nice and clean once the combine had passed over.
This was canola stubble on last years flax ground that apparently volunteered a bit. I didn't take the pic for that reason I just know it was going to come up as a question. The weather was just taunting me with calm water and hot temps all week long.
After a 640 acres of smooth sailing and a green count under 1% we hit green stuff and had to shut down briefly. Went back to the yard and swapped the headers quick, and went back to cleaning up the weedy flooded lentils that were left. The timing of being caught up worked out pretty good because while checking over the combine I found a hydrualic line to the unloading auger leaking. So off to town in the morning to get a replacement made up for it.
The next morning while waiting for the hose to come from town I decided to empty out the semi of lentils from the day before. The new auger was down at the south bin yard, set up for canola, so I had to dig out the old 10" Brandt.
I don't spend a lot of time in the semi these days, mostly on the combine. But it sure has been a nice rig to haul with
little nicer than the old tandem anyways
Anyways, we got fixed up and back in the field yesterday only to find the green count was still sitting at 5%. The elevator agent told me "do it, we can blend in some good stuff, there's lots around". That's all I needed to hear, and ripped off the last 320 acres, so canola's wrapped up for another year.
Neighbors moving down the road, 8120 CIH, Cat/Lexion 480, 9760 Deere, and a Cat Callenger on the cart.
We already made a call in (yesterday) to book our canola seed for next year. Viterra brand is the winner of the 3 varieties we tried this year.
Durum's next, but still at least week away. Especially for straight cutting.
Here's the pics from the last week.
My kind of black gold...
Always amazing how a swath, 10ft wide and knee high can get shoved through a combine at 6mph and basically turn to powder by the time it blows out the back.
The stubble looked so nice and clean once the combine had passed over.
This was canola stubble on last years flax ground that apparently volunteered a bit. I didn't take the pic for that reason I just know it was going to come up as a question. The weather was just taunting me with calm water and hot temps all week long.
After a 640 acres of smooth sailing and a green count under 1% we hit green stuff and had to shut down briefly. Went back to the yard and swapped the headers quick, and went back to cleaning up the weedy flooded lentils that were left. The timing of being caught up worked out pretty good because while checking over the combine I found a hydrualic line to the unloading auger leaking. So off to town in the morning to get a replacement made up for it.
The next morning while waiting for the hose to come from town I decided to empty out the semi of lentils from the day before. The new auger was down at the south bin yard, set up for canola, so I had to dig out the old 10" Brandt.
I don't spend a lot of time in the semi these days, mostly on the combine. But it sure has been a nice rig to haul with
little nicer than the old tandem anyways
Anyways, we got fixed up and back in the field yesterday only to find the green count was still sitting at 5%. The elevator agent told me "do it, we can blend in some good stuff, there's lots around". That's all I needed to hear, and ripped off the last 320 acres, so canola's wrapped up for another year.
Neighbors moving down the road, 8120 CIH, Cat/Lexion 480, 9760 Deere, and a Cat Callenger on the cart.
We already made a call in (yesterday) to book our canola seed for next year. Viterra brand is the winner of the 3 varieties we tried this year.
Durum's next, but still at least week away. Especially for straight cutting.
. Talked to him last week and He said the Cat was out performing his buddies Deere (these guys wouldn't even look at Deere if it were a give away), and the Deere was out performing the 8120. Now I'm not a die hard CIH guy or anything (still a Deere fan myself) but a Cat 480 pulling away from a 8120?? 
