[AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Fri Aug 20 08:47:45 PDT 2010


Mattias,  have you ever looked at Saskatchewan on Google earth?  The whole 
place is pretty much one big field!  I love it.  A little town here and 
there and a rocky ridge here and there and
the rest is just big open fields.  I hope I get to visit there sometime.  If 
I got along with cold weather better I'd like to live there or somewhere in 
the US grain country.  I'd take a job driving a tractor, combine or grain 
truck in a heartbeat and be happy.  I feel the same way about Australia and 
wish I could visit there too.

Charlie



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From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:14 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?

> Mattias, I'm not sure what you mean by the combines not cutting the straw.
> I'm guessing you refer to the fact that the combines sometimes pick up a
> "swath" of grain rather than direct cutting the standing crop. We don't 
> see
> as much swathing now as we used to. Now most cereal grains are direct cut,
> sometimes desiccated prior to harvest although I prefer to just let nature
> do it's own desiccating.
> Canola is almost always swathed as the pods will shatter if left standing
> until they are dry enough to harvest.
> And my fields would be considered small by local standards. I think the
> biggest is 130 acres on my farm but I know of one in the area that must
> contain well over 1000 acres of canola. Of course he has 5 big New Holland
> combines to harvest with.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?
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>
>> It looks so strange when the combines don't cut the straws.
>>
>> Mattias
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