[AT] Weather keeping old tractors parked

[charlie hill]

It's mighty dry here too Farmer.  I was over at the farm today and the only 
thing that not twisting up and dying is the yellow flies.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:35 AM
Subject: [AT] Weather keeping old tractors parked


>    The ground here is getting so dry here that if it sprinkles the water
> drops pick up speed from the dry dirt sucking at it so hard. It is a 
> little
> spotty where a few areas got rain. Some of the area north of Indy got some
> big rains. We have not mowed the yard and lots in weeks. Nothing is 
> growing
> including hay. Corn is still hanging on but is rolling badly. Late corn 
> and
> beans are both doing poorly. South west of me the soil is very sandy and
> where they are running irrigation it is beautiful but those without it are
> beginning to hurt. I was south of Dayton OH Monday and saw a lot of spotty
> fields there but not as bad as here. I wanted to plow a patch last week 
> for
> pumpkins but I don't think I have enough rusty iron left on the place to
> weight a plow down enough to get it in the ground.   :-)   I enjoy hooking
> my old IHC 2 bottom behind my SMTA to plow for pumpkins. If the way it 
> digs
> with a shovel is any indication I would have to blast first... I could
> probably rip it up with the 4020 with a semi-mount or a chisel/ripper but 
> if
> it doesn't rain it won't matter anyway. Filling the gas tank on the 4020
> would probably cost more than the pumpkins would make.   :-)
>    The yard is so hard and rough that I tend to hunt some concrete to 
> stand
> on since it is softer.
>    Hay will be high dollar here this year since hay field after hayfield
> has been ripped up to plant corn and beans in addition to the lack of 
> rain.
> The fellow that farms the field across the road no-tilled corn in a former
> alfalfa field just after it started getting dry. He just replanted it last
> week but unless it gets some rain it will not come up either. He said that
> his no-till planter has always gone into about anything but this year was
> tough.
>    I did use my Super M with the loader to move some aged manure to a
> little garden patch this week and will till it in but there is no point in
> planting anything unless it rains. I saw some footage of part of Texas and
> Oklahoma that was flooding. We could use some of that but it would take an
> awful lot of hose...
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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