[AT] Just checking....

Sat Oct 31 15:24:08 PDT 2015

There is an old saying,  " a dry year will scare you, a wet year will 
kill you"  It is true.  When it is wet you have to have everything ready 
to go and have help available at a moments notice to get into the 
field.     M neighbor was going to buy my calves I need to haul off, but 
the worms and the late rains have left him hunting pasture for the mama 
cows he has....

Cecil in OKla

On 10/31/2015 9:16 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> John the farmers here are getting hit hard by the wet weather.  Over in
> Jones
> County I heard of one farmer who had 150 acres of peanuts dug and drying
> when that last rainy spell came along.  He lost all of them.  Buyer wouldn't
> take them
> due mold or fungus or something.  Right down the road is a huge field of
> sweet
> potatoes.  They were digging those last week and found that they had soured
> in the ground
> due to wet soil conditions.  I've heard rumors that other peanut farmers
> weren't even
> going to dig their peanuts because they are ruined in the ground.
> A fertilizer dealer I know told me he doubted he'd have much of anything to
> do from now
> until about Feb. because of the current wet soil conditions and winter
> coming on.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cecil R Bearden
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 7:31 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Just checking....
>
> I'll throw a few things out there.  I had to spray my wheat for army
> worms as they had eaten about 2/3 of it.   I could not tell if the spray
> really did any good.  I had used no-till this year as I needed what
> pasture was left for my cows.  I was waiting on the price to go back up
> a little before hauling some off.  I had a client who raised rye and had
> saved me some.  I sowed another 2+ bushel per acre of rye on the wheat
> ground with the no-till drill.  I turned the cows in on what wheat was
> left to graze it and the weeds and crabgrass that was there. When I was
> cleaning out the drill I ran it across the severely over grazed buffalo
> grass pasture. It rained just enough last week to cause the rye to
> sprout and the wheat that was not totally destroyed came back.   I sowed
> each planting in a different direction in order to see where I had been,
> and now it really shows up.  The rye is a reddish purple and the wheat
> is green. With all the forage that appears to be coming up, I am going
> to have to fertilize a LOT to keep it growing.  There is nearly 6 bushel
> of grain per acre sowed!!
>
>    It appears the no-till drill was set at just the proper depth this
> time.  I had turned my drawbar over to raise it for the swather and
> hooked on to the drill without changing it and accidentally it put the
> coulters at the right depth!!!
> Where I sowed in the pasture while cleaning out the drill is coming up
> also.  I wish I had cut the drill back and saved enough to plant the
> entire pasture.  This is the 3rd wettest year on record, so I guess we
> have been lucky.  The prediction is for a wetter and colder than normal
> winter.  If we get any snow, I am going to spread fertilizer on top of
> the snow.
>
> The wet cycle appears to be starting and I still have over 100 acres
> that need to be cut and baled.   It is very stemmy now and the weeds got
> away from me due to my main tractor being out of service and me being
> the only mechanic, driver, and veterinarian. I am looking at cutting it
> with the bat wing mower and raking it up and then wrapping it for
> haylage.  I have some microbes to spray on it to help in fermentation.
> It will need it due to there not being a lot of green left in it.
>
> My New Holland tractor now has to have a new windshield wiper motor
> installed.  The NH dealership hooked up the linkage wrong and the switch
> was turned on before I got it corrected and it burned out the motor.
> During harvest I had a bad hydraulic leak on the NH baler.  I had 2
> replacement hoses made at the NH/Case IH dealership.  One of the hoses
> blew apart while I was working on the baler last week.  Luckily I was
> not under the baler or I would not be typing this.  The other hose they
> made was also starting to leak.  The outer layer of the hose just
> stripped off.  I had been trying to stop the leak thinking that it was
> the threaded connection.  It is in a nearly inaccessible area where it
> cannot be seen and you have to work blind to tighten up the hoses.
> If any of you guys have to have hydraulic hoses made, be very wary of
> Gates hydraulic hoses and fittings.  They have made their crimp fittings
> so thick that the crimper does not get the collar swaged tight enough to
> crimp into the wire, it only holds onto the covering.  I replaced the
> Gates with my own home built fittings. I use the "bite to wire" fittings
> and have an old Weather head crimper.
>
> Well I hope I have stimulated some conversation, it is not all old
> tractors.  The 7030 Allis is the old one I use to pull my Swather with,
> as it is the only one with enough horses to really pull it.   It can
> cut, crimp, and windrow 4 ft tall grass 12ft wide at 7mph.  Now that is
> impressive!!
> My 2-105 White is still disabled with a tire that slips on the rim.  I
> really hate to drill the rim for screws to lock the bead, but it looks
> like that may be the only way to go.  The dealer is not going to stand
> behind them.  I think I will start with #6 stainless screws on 6 inch
> centers on each side of the rim to hold the tire.  The manufacturer's
> rep said to wrap the rim with duct tape!!  I have seen deteriorated duct
> tape too many times to do that... At my age the tires will outlast me,
> so I will use screws...
>
> That's about it in Oklahoma.  Still raining here, and we needed it..
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
>
>
> On 10/30/2015 10:52 PM, deanvp wrote:
>> I'll fire the shotgun at that silly liddle wabbit.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>> Date: 10/30/2015  6:45 PM  (GMT-08:00)
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Just checking....
>>
>>
>> It's quiet Howard Vewy Vewy quiet.   I was wondering if it needed a
>> resuscitation...
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
>>
>> On 10/30/2015 8:32 PM, Howard Fleming wrote:
>>> Just checking status of the list, since I have not received email from
>>> it since the 20th of October.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Howard
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