[AT] Ok now how about George Willer?(roll call)

[Cecil Bearden]

I went up into Kansas Tuesday & Wednesday and picked up a Lundell Flail 
Chopper and a 30 ft boom sprayer that I had bought on Purplewave.com.. 
It was a nice trip.  Took my F350 powerstroke  and my 42 ft spread axle 
trailer.  That trailer is about 20 ft too long for maneuverability in 
parking lots of motels...  It also is too long to get the best prce on 
diesel sometimes.  However, the coops were only too happy to sell me 
fuel for cash..  They also had great access and prices..   I traveleed 
from Piedmont to salina then to Goodland and north.  I was about 12 
miles from Colorado and 8 miles from Nebraska..

I bought the equipment at a song, and really needed a trip/vacation. 
My Dad had a stroke from a blood clot from an amputation below the knee 
from a bad Knee replacement surgery.....  It has been really fun around 
here to try to get 200 acres of hay cut and deal with him also..  I sold 
my old 114 NH swather Sunday night to a guy about 20 miles East of here. 
  He left in the dark to trail that swather home!!  I had bought a NH 
617 disk mower to replace it, it has the Caddy with it to make it a 
trail type.  So far i have sold about 150 bales of hay.  This rain we 
are getting now will make another crop on the Johnson grass as it is 
already a foot high..  I rented a 1/4 that had not been worked in 8 
years and it has about 40 acres of pasture on it that had horses on it 
about 8 years ago..  I did not want to try to cut it with that swather. 
  I got tired of sickle cutting speed after running a neighbor's disk 
mower for 2 years.  As soon as I can I am going to get a 15 ft wide disk 
mower...  I rented another field of 80 acres, but it only had about 6 
acres of good bluestem on it, the other was just scrub grass.  The 6 
acres made 30 bales!!  I will have a lot of spraying to do this fall and 
next spring.  That is the reason I bought the boom sprayer.  It needs a 
lot of work, but for $125, I can do a lot of work....  The Lundell Flail 
chopper is the one I need to get going right now, and Lundell quit 
making farm equipment and went into the trash recycling business.   I 
need a few parts that were proprietary to them....  The flail mower is a 
lot like a M-C rotary scythe....

Cecil in OKla

Ralph Goff wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Ok now how about George Willer?(roll call)
> 
> 
>> Hi Ralph,  I'm glad you checked in.  You were another that hasn't said
>> anything lately.   I'm sure there are a lot of others I should ask about 
>> but
>> I just take them as they pop into my mind.
>>
>> How are the crops in Sask. this year?
>>
>> Charlie
> 
> 
> Crops are looking great Charlie. Only problem is that they are mostly all a 
> couple of weeks or more behind schedule due to our cold summer. We need the 
> rest of August frost free to get this crop and I don't know if we are going 
> to make it. Some days we are lucky to get up in to the 70s and the nights 
> get well down into the 40s or worse.
> 
> Ralph in Sask. 
> 
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