Post by putsie on Sept 2, 2012 17:50:52 GMT -5
Got 2 weeks of pics here but it was really just a week ago we really got seriously into the cereal grains. We had tried to find some dry durum but didn't find much other than some hilltops on our lightest land. As of last night (Sat) we still have about 100 acres of durum left along with some low spots we had cut out earlier in the week. We would have finished up last night but there's supposed to be a CIH 9120 coming out for us to demo on Monday so we decided to shut down a little earlier.
Once the canola was all finished combining and we determined it would be close to a week before any durum or wheat would be ready. We decided to start in on some post harvest fall work, get a head start on it. This meant back on the 7420 and Schulte mower, to mow out some (what had been) flooded out low spots and field perimeters.
After a couple days of that. We found out we could haul our August and Sept delivery contracted canola into our local Viterra elevator. So I got in the semi and hauled 10,000bu of canola in to fill the contracts. Nice to free up some more hopper bin space.
A few sights from the road... Viterra's down to the last 20-30 bins in their inventory yard. They must have had closer to 200+ back a month ago when we bought/got our two. Their delivery guy was still working at it...
Must be harvest, even the fuel trucks are lining up at the bulk tanks
Finally a week ago we got back to combining full out and pulled into the farms first crop of Spring Wheat in nearly 12-14 years. With the exception of custom swathing a few hundred acres for a guy last year this was the first spring wheat crop I've had anything to do with in close to a decade. For those unfamiliar with the difference between wheat and durum here's a comparison.
The wheat was a brand new variety and actually a pretty impressive crop for us this year. Traditionally wheat crops around here fall over fairly easy when ripe, prone to sawfly and rarely keeps up with the yields of durum. This crop stood up better than the durum (even in the 50mph winds the day we combined it) and kept pace yield wise with a 42 bpa average. A lot more straw though and tougher to shove through the 8010.
The new 4wd showed up as well, so we put it on the cart to try it out
After a couple days of spring wheat it was an early morning (couple hour) clean out of the combine, trucks and auger, and then into the almost 1200 acres of durum. Average bpa from field to field has ranged from 35-45 bpa
Looking north towards the home yard
Neighbors next door were hauling durum straight to town with 3 trucks. They have a pair of 9870 Deere's covering their 10,000 acres.
Was looking forward to running next door to those 9870's but 25 acres in this happened....
After a series of phone calls, trip to town and numerous to the farm (because of course these breaks always happen at the furthest possible place from the yard), we managed to raid a traded in 8010 of one of its wheel and a wheel lug. Notice the "newer" style of the borrowed inner dual. I wonder if this change up was made for a reason?
Back at it...
Hopefully I can get some pics of the 9120 in action tomorrow when it shows up for demoing.
Once the canola was all finished combining and we determined it would be close to a week before any durum or wheat would be ready. We decided to start in on some post harvest fall work, get a head start on it. This meant back on the 7420 and Schulte mower, to mow out some (what had been) flooded out low spots and field perimeters.
After a couple days of that. We found out we could haul our August and Sept delivery contracted canola into our local Viterra elevator. So I got in the semi and hauled 10,000bu of canola in to fill the contracts. Nice to free up some more hopper bin space.
A few sights from the road... Viterra's down to the last 20-30 bins in their inventory yard. They must have had closer to 200+ back a month ago when we bought/got our two. Their delivery guy was still working at it...
Must be harvest, even the fuel trucks are lining up at the bulk tanks
Finally a week ago we got back to combining full out and pulled into the farms first crop of Spring Wheat in nearly 12-14 years. With the exception of custom swathing a few hundred acres for a guy last year this was the first spring wheat crop I've had anything to do with in close to a decade. For those unfamiliar with the difference between wheat and durum here's a comparison.
The wheat was a brand new variety and actually a pretty impressive crop for us this year. Traditionally wheat crops around here fall over fairly easy when ripe, prone to sawfly and rarely keeps up with the yields of durum. This crop stood up better than the durum (even in the 50mph winds the day we combined it) and kept pace yield wise with a 42 bpa average. A lot more straw though and tougher to shove through the 8010.
The new 4wd showed up as well, so we put it on the cart to try it out
After a couple days of spring wheat it was an early morning (couple hour) clean out of the combine, trucks and auger, and then into the almost 1200 acres of durum. Average bpa from field to field has ranged from 35-45 bpa
Looking north towards the home yard
Neighbors next door were hauling durum straight to town with 3 trucks. They have a pair of 9870 Deere's covering their 10,000 acres.
Was looking forward to running next door to those 9870's but 25 acres in this happened....
After a series of phone calls, trip to town and numerous to the farm (because of course these breaks always happen at the furthest possible place from the yard), we managed to raid a traded in 8010 of one of its wheel and a wheel lug. Notice the "newer" style of the borrowed inner dual. I wonder if this change up was made for a reason?
Back at it...
Hopefully I can get some pics of the 9120 in action tomorrow when it shows up for demoing.
