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How I spent my day (pics)

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oldtanker

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Spent my day chopping corn for my BIL until he can replace the tractor of his that burned (posted about it the other day).


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That's when it was going good, before I found the gooey ground....


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Wasn't stuck too bad and the tractor, 1206 Farmall ran well. All in all we got a lot done, bout another day and half.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 20:48:26 10/23/13) Corns awful dry, ain't it, Tank?
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Yea, about the time it was ready we got about 6.5" of rain in about 4 hours. Then it rained 1-2 inches every couple of days. When it got dry enough to get in the fields it was past the point of where it should have been. Then the tractor they were using on the chopper burned (prior post). And it's been wet again, just now getting dry enough to get in the field. What's a guy to do?

Rick
 
I"m 3 hrs SE of you, and I remember 1985. Super wet. Bought a 2470 Case to put on the chopper. Oct 25 and no silo filling done. Switched wagons on the road, pulled them home with a 4430 that couldn"t get into the field. Couldn"t get the 4020 hooked to the 4430 in the field to run the chopper. It was 4WD or nothing. Lots of silos in Stearns county did not get filled that fall.
 
(quoted from post at 22:01:10 10/23/13) I"m 3 hrs SE of you, and I remember 1985. Super wet. Bought a 2470 Case to put on the chopper. Oct 25 and no silo filling done. Switched wagons on the road, pulled them home with a 4430 that couldn"t get into the field. Couldn"t get the 4020 hooked to the 4430 in the field to run the chopper. It was 4WD or nothing. Lots of silos in Stearns county did not get filled that fall.
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LOL, it's called farming I think! I may have to start working around the gooey spots sometime tomorrow. Leave that for the combine. They may have to wait till the ground freezes to get some of it. I was over there chopping with the AC 8070 that burned last week before we got this wet again. Got the outside 24 rows done just before it started raining. Didn't rain hard last week, just every day.

Hey if you are ever going to be in the Fergus Falls, Alexandria, Wadena area for a couple of hours give me a shout. Maybe we can get a cup of coffee.

Rick
 
Nice looking "12" (from what I can see of it). Course I'm a little biased toward em. I think the first thing I'd do is yank that loader off the front, get the weight balanced toward the drive wheels... but that's just me.
 
Well guys I'd like to have a better quick-tach loader for it but there are other things I need right now first :( . And the 1206 is the only tractor I have that will handle round bales.

Yea the corn is dry. We were dry all summer. Then about the time the corn was ready we got 6.5" in about 4 hours :shock: . Then it rained off and on for about a week. When it was dry enough to get in the field the corn was past it's prime to chop. They were a little behind and beans were now ready. So the BIL started combining and I ran their now crispy AC 8070 a day and a half chopping. Got a little rain, enough so they couldn't combine so my BIL ran the chopper another 1/2 day. Then it rained some more. It's now just dry enough to get in the field. Getting crops out whenever you can around the weather is called farming I think :shock:. Going to be back at it in about an hour.

Rick
 
rrlund, would that corn be drier than what you chopped last year? I remember you posting pictures of your trench with what looked like very dry corn. If I remember correctly, you said it took a couple weeks for it to start to ferment. How well did your dry silage keep and feed?

Personally, I"ve never seen corn that dry being harvested as silage. I first thought perhaps they were harvesting "earlage".
 
(quoted from post at 06:56:30 10/24/13) ARe you storing this in a trench or upright silo? ARe you adding water to it at the blower?
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Upright silo. I don't know if they are adding water or not. I'm not the one making decisions over there :? , I'm just a tractor driver for them :eek: . Heck driving a tractor isn't all that hard, after all NASA trained a monkey to fly a rocket ship with a couple of lemon drops :shock: ! All they had to do with me is hand me a pack of Life-savers and toss me in the cab :lol: . Told me to figure out on my own :wink: .

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 07:42:50 10/24/13) Looks like a 806 with a white grill.
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Hood and air intake system was changed by the PO after a tree fell on it. It's a 1206. I'd like to find the hood and air intake to make it right.

Rick
 
Used to be in Fergus a lot.....BIL raised there, started in the coal yard at Otter Tail Power. Shift operator, went to Milbank when that plant started. After a dozen years he came back to Fergus as Plant Mgr. Retired now, lives in Sartell. My sis is buried in Fergus.
 
It looks quite similar to what I chopped last year. It turned out OK,wouldn't have known it was that dry after it finally fermented. If I hadn't covered it with plastic to trap what little moisture was there I think I'd have had a mess.
 
Needs to be drier for a upright silo or it will freeze to the walls in the winter. I don't know how low the moisture can get for silage to ferment but I bet you are safe in the high 20's yet.
 
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