Sitting on hold

Got the combine ready. Actually it was ready before I put it away at the end of the season last fall.

Bins are cleaned out of last years crops.

Put new exhaust on the grain truck.It"s ready to as well as the grain cart and wagons.

But the beans are not ready and the corn is still about 24% moisture. If it were the 15th of October I would be running corn but I"m gonna let mother nature save me a few bucks on drying.

So what does a guy do to stay busy?

I"m gonna wax the 35 year old grain truck today.

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Come-on over! I've got sheds that need cleaned out, a loader rebushed, oil changes on both tractors, sheet metal work on the farm truck, some fall plowing done, the list goes on and on!

I'm jeleous that you guys have time to treat equipment like that. I never get about anything fixed on time here.

Know what you mean. Around here the corn is coming out like crazy and so are some of the beans. My beans wont go for a week or less and im gonna let.mother nature do a little more drying on the corn. Gonna spray the crp land today and winterize the sprayer but other than that im twiddling my thumbs farm-wise. There are plenty of jobs I could start in the shop but the timing is wrong. Jim

Oh WOW!

I wanna put a new exhaust on my truck too.

BUT HEY! They want $400 a pop for those silly mufflers? Won't take long to tie up a grand at that rate.

Gotta screw up my courage first. :>)

Allan

My crop work is on hold too, but because of the weather. The fields aren't real wet, but it keeps raining. Plenty of maintenance/repairs to do, plus lots of 'when I get time to do it' jobs... Deer season is less than 6 weeks away and I still need to get a stand built, too!

Going to finish a little rotary mowing today, then grease the Bush Hog and put it up. Waiting for the grass to grow hopefully so I can get a half way decent cutting of hay.

Pretty sure SC won't let us run dual axle trucks with farm plates here.

KEH

(quoted from post at 06:46:47 09/26/11) Oh WOW!

I wanna put a new exhaust on my truck too.

BUT HEY! They want $400 a pop for those silly mufflers? Won't take long to tie up a grand at that rate.

Gotta screw up my courage first. :&gt

Allan

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Put a Farmall M muffler on it.

Hey guys!Years ago,my grain truck needed mufflers.Put on a piar of tractor mufflers(from an M Farmall).That old Chevy sounds just awsome.And not loud,either!

Not much over on the eastern side of Ohio , some corn has been chopped . But we are still trying to get ready . my one friend and i are working on his 5400 Deere chopper , he asked me to sorta look it over . He thought that the one bearing was out on the feeder house NOT , the main shaft for the cutter head is whipped out and Mother Deere no longer makes that shaft and now they want you to buy the new and improved head and shaft for the small price of 4800 then ya have to buy other stuff to make it work. when all said and done somewhere close to over 6 grand. . A new piece of 2 and 7/16th cold roll is about 250 bucks machine in three keyways and turn down the one end and drill one hole . we can FIX . the 1066 is down with the injection pump off and over to Harry's for a rebuild . Should get that back today . Ain't even looked at the 782 New Holland chopper yet . And only god knows what else needs done . I will get fixed what i can since everybody is dragging there feet till the last min. Then it will be OH we need this fixed wright now. I am getting tired of this last min fixen when we had all summer to do it . still tryen to find a decent combine or two . Our beans at best are atleast two weeks away My thinking on this falls harvest will be like our spring a mud bog.

The folks with sand ground are running corn around here, but they are talking 80 bu yields on that stuff too... The rest of us are waiting a week, hope it comes down a bit yet.

Beans - about 2 folks are working on them, musta plated early. The rest of us got frozen beans that were green, now in a holding pattern, not drying. Going to take a hard freeze before they will all go, I think. Could get interesting. Heard this morning of one guy bringing in a load of 24% beans, elevator told him tnot to come back again for a week at least.

See fields of corn picked at a bit, combines sitting on the corner; but haven't seen any traffic go by to the elevator 1/2 mile from me.

--->Paul

I'm just about done for the year, got a few balews left to haul.

Just got back from a run into the Red River Valley in west MN and east ND this morning, 210 mile round trip. Lots of guys out harvesting beets and beans. Round here the only guys doing anything with corn are the guys chopping and putting up high moisture corn.

Rick

That sums up the entire year here. A familiar story from what I hear.

It got warm enough to think about spring clear back in late Feb. March was ideal weather. Just too early. So we waited.

Then April it started raining. And raining. And raining. So we waited.

May started off wet. So we waited a little longer.

June wasn't bad. Just seemed a little strange planting corn in June. Then it started getting hot. July was unbearable. So was August. Then it got dry. Things quit growing. So we waited.

September was dry....until it started raining. Now it just won't quit. (4" last night) So we wait. Corn is mediocre, beans are ok, just not great. The only thing that really prospered this year is johnson grass. Bumper crop there.

Combine is ready. Has been since August. I'm ready to get this year over with. Have been since April. Probably gonna be doin' more combining than trucking when it does start.

Until then. We sit and wait.

I be running period while weather is with ya.i sure do not miss doing it anymore thou.

We have been picking here. Lots of neighbors with down corn from a storm over labor day weekend. Were picking before we are picking up downed corn. Ranging anywhere from 18 percent to 25 with other wet spots here an there. First of the beans should be ready in a couple days.

Tell ya what Gary. I have 8 rolls of roofing to put on the store. Then I want to build a tractor shed on the side of the shop for the loader tractor and the tin is here for the house roof. So that's 3 roofs this next month. And i'm watching the McCook calf sale right now. I need to wean calves next.

We started shellin about two weeks ago. Nothin to serious tho. Ran a couple loads threw to make sure the leg system and driers were gona work ok. Started hittin it fairly hard last week then we got 4inches of rain so at a stand still myself for a couple of days. Corn just doesnt seem to be dryin down in the field very good at all and got beans that are really close. Im affraid its gona be one of those years.

Yup had 9 and a quarter in mine.

From the heads out. Saved the manifolds but had to plane them.

Oh yes they will.