Fall work.... vol 2

[putsie]

There's never an end to the work.... It's been busy around here, cleaning up, servicing and putting away equipment. We been cleaning seed as since the end of harvest and have been keeping the mill running the long hours. As a result we're finished cleaning flax and 2/3 done the durum and we haven't even had a snow yet!! (hardly ever happens). The plan is to get done the durum before the weather changes for the worst, it's always more of a pain to fight with cold and snowy equipment. We'll clean just enough lentils for ourselves in the spring.

We had to haul some of the durum up to the main yard from one of our south yards.




This old 22-36 McCormick-Deering is cleverly camoflaged in the trees. Don't even know there's a tractor there in the summer.


Sure glad we don't have to haul out of bins like this anymore. The word is that this was one of the biggest and most "modern" wood bin of its time in this district. Said to hold over 7000 bu and has a cement floor.............. still not gonna use it, NO WAY!


Loading up clean product

Grade 1, Certified AC Navigator durum ready for some lucky South Sask Viterra customer.



Oops............ This one doesn't fall on me, I came back from hauling in seed and found this. It takes a long time to fill a 750 bu cart with a 7" auger.... but not that long. Good thing it was just screenings. lol.


Friday afternoon the weather was beautiful and the breeze was just right for burning off some hay that the neighbor declined to cut this year for whatever reason. The big reason for burning was to prevent the long grass from catching snow and plugging up the road all winter long. Being that I farm the land and it happens to be the road that goes to my parents farm also provided a little insentive for playing with fire.
Got the 9370 and cultivator on standby.



That's looking better




Also happening on the farm has been some dealing on air drills. It's now official the deal is final on a new 58' CIH ATX400 drill (CIH badged Flexi-Coil 5000HD). The 3430 air cart will remain. Delivery date is supposed to be in Feb. I decided to split the cart and drill so I can put the cart in the quonset for the winter. Last time hooked up as a pair.



I kinda get a kick out of this pic. A bit mis-matched



As always, questions & comments welcome

[djt14]

Looks good man. Kinda nice to see a white 9900 without yellow fenders haha, I like that last pic. Kinda like in the spring when we pull headers around the yard with our lawnmower. I always get a kick outta that.

Thanks for sharing.
Dallas

[70ds]

Nice pics. Thanks for sharing. It is always fun to burn stuff.

[ManitobanFarmerKid]

58ft is that the rear folding model? I thought that the winged model only went to 52ft.

I once saw a lawn mower backed up to the hitch of a parked air drill with a sign that said "Horsepower donations accepted"

[putsie]

Thanks guys.

Oct 30, 2011 19:50:14 GMT -5 ManitobanFarmerKid said:

58ft is that the rear folding model? I thought that the winged model only went to 52ft.

It's a conventional drill. The ATX 700 is the rear fold hoe drill. Wasn't enough advantage to justify the difference in price. We checked into it, the only advantage of the 700 was the narrow transport due to the fold back design (which doesn't matter to us) and the available (extra cost) option of adding Concord style packers.

The 5 section drills are available in 45',51',57'(9"spacing), and 58 (12" spacing).

[evk]

This "ole' River Bottom" row crop farmer always enjoys looking at how other people farm on the wide-open plains. I sure like the air drill you decided to order.