[AT] OT Weather

[Cecil Bearden]

We have no wheat pasture here due to me getting it sowed about 2 weeks 
late and Then the rains and early winter.  We now have the 2nd coldest 
March on record and rain is forecast tonight and nearly 3 inches for 
Monday Tuesday of next week.   So far this fall/winter, I have had to 
repair water lines every time I get a break in the weather.  Just found 
another leak that I thought had been repaired..   Not sure if it is from 
the shale roadway we built over a section, or a repaired section has 
sprung a leak.  If I don't readily find the leak, I am going to pull a 
Pex Pipe through it again like I did last month...  I bought a 500 ft 
roll just in case...  Back in the 70's when we installed this PVC we 
were told it had a 100yr life...   That is B.S.!!!!!!!
Cecil


On 3/8/2019 4:01 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> And I can identify with what Ralph says. As I have said before, most 
> of my equipment is over 40 years old. People have many times told me I 
> am living in the past and my reply to them has been: - -  I can't 
> afford to live in the present! I do much of my equipment shopping  in 
> fence rows and the back of barn yards.  My field cultivator was bought 
> new by a relative when they bought their new JD 4320. It had sat under 
> the trees for over 10 years when I got it and put a few hundred 
> dollars in repairs in it and use it to this day; a few years ago I 
> bought 5 bar levelers from a guy who was scraping his field cultivator 
> and put new spikes on it and now have a better unit. My sprayer was 
> sitting behind a guys barn when I got it cheap. I put new hoses and 
> nozzles on it and repaired the booms and now have a good unit; it only 
> covers 12 rows of corn and soybeans but I'm still done in 3 days. 
> Wheat I have custom sprayed because with GPS and 120 foot booms they 
> do not run over as much wheat as I would (the local co-op bought a new 
> JD sprayer this year with the 120 foot booms to replace their old 
> one,also JD. I asked the guy that runs it what the cost was--- 
> $400,000.  I don't mine using old and smaller equipment as long as it 
> works without a lot of trouble. Until 3 or 4 years ago I harvested all 
> my crops with a IH 715 combine which I liked; however I had bought it 
> used and the dealer lied to me about the usage and as time went on I 
> could tell it had been through he$$. I had it 15 years but it got to 
> the point that it broke down every single load. The last year a piece 
> of quarter in thick metal broke inside and got in the cylinder and I 
> would have had to almost disassemble the whole machine to fix it ( I 
> was down to 5 acres when it broke so I had a relative finish for me. 
> That winter I found a IH 1440 at a sale where the guy was retiring and 
> bought it. I have now gone 3 seasons without a breakdown. But, I think 
> even this machine is around 40 years old. The bad thing is, and by 
> then I will be gone, most of what I have will sell for junk.
>           Greg Hass
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