Frost Last Night

rusty6 · Sep 8, 2020

My area missed it but a lot of Sask. hit below the freezing mark overnight setting some new records. My crops are all far enough advanced that frost would not hurt them. Might do some good by killing any green weeds that are out there. I tried a sample of wheat this afternoon and it was still 16.5% moisture. Two points above dry. I might just go ahead and combine it tomorrow anyway.
Got some video of swathing oats on the weekend here.
Swathing oats

David G · Sep 8, 2020

I talked with a guy from Saskatoon today, is that near you?

rusty6 · Sep 8, 2020

(quoted from post at 18:07:45 09/08/20) I talked with a guy from Saskatoon today, is that near you?

About 3 hours NW of me I think. Have not been there in about 40 years.

David G · Sep 8, 2020

Closer than me, we will be doing some work there.

kcm.MN · Sep 8, 2020

It's saying we're supposed to get to 33F here, but there was already ice building in the garden hose half an hour ago at 9pm. There's a widespread freeze warning in effect all the way down to central MN. Fortunately this is the last night that cool for a while.

SVcummins · Sep 8, 2020

Cockeyed global warming again really disappointed the world hasnt busrt into a ball of flame yet . We had snow on the mountains today overnight low of 26 degrees

55 50 Ron · Sep 8, 2020

Always enjoyable to watch your machines at work. But having to make the decisions as to when to cut and when note to cut would make it not quite so enjoyable. You mentioned "sheaves" of oats from the binder. We called them "shocks" in North Dakota.

4240 Turbo · Sep 8, 2020

The wind blew all morning...HARD here in CO, knocked several trees over onto powerlines closing schools and closing roads, then all afternoon snowed, heavy wet snow. closed US hwy 50 and several wrecks, on top of a huge wildfire just miles away that started sunday and monday. Pretty bizarre weather.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 9, 2020

With corn/small grain in my area the sheaves were the bundles that came off the binder and then were grouped together to form a shock.

Bruce from Can. · Sep 9, 2020

Beautiful looking crop of Oats. Small grain harvest has been over here in Ontario for nearly a month now. So dry in early summer than crop was light. I’d love to have all that straw, and you will probably just chop it. Nowadays in Ontario, the straw is almost worth as much as the grain. Livestock bedding, large dairy farms feed straw in their dairy TMR ration, and heavy competition from Mushroom farms.
At our house as a kid, the sheaves were gathered into both shocks and stooks, as my mother was a Prairie Chicken, lol.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 9, 2020

Nine months of Winter wouldn't be for me,we usually combined Oats around the 4th of July then many people double cropped with soybeans.

rusty6 · Sep 9, 2020

No combines moving here in July. Lucky if the oats are headed by July 4. The straw goes back into the soil here usually. Theres guys that want to bale it but for what its worth I'd just as soon put it back in the ground. Yes, oat sheaves came off the binder and then were stood up in a "Stook" by human hands to finish ripening before threshing.

big tee · Sep 9, 2020

Thanks for the video--I spent many hours on a sp windrower years ago helping my Dad. First one he had was a old Owatonna and then he got his 800?? Deere. In Rusty oats you were brown at the end the day!--Memories---Tee

Deere 105 combine and Dad windrowing

SVcummins · Sep 9, 2020

Us northerners get hot when it 75 i was ready for winter after about a week of 90 degrees

SVcummins · Sep 9, 2020

We have snow here every year about this time when we start pushing cows off the high ground you better have your cowboy packs on and some good heavy gloves and a couple coats or you will not make it

Traditional Farmer · Sep 9, 2020

I'm glad you like it, wish more Yanks from the Northeast liked it better up there than down here in Virginia.(LOL)

rusty6 · Sep 9, 2020

(quoted from post at 06:20:12 09/09/20) Thanks for the video--I spent many hours on a sp windrower years ago helping my Dad. First one he had was a old Owatonna and then he got his 800?? D

I put in more than enough years on open swathers to really appreciate a comfortable cab. Its either too hot or too cold, too windy, sometimes too dusty. Insects can be a problem. Sunburn and wind burn tormented me. First self propelled I drove was a White (Cockshutt) 504. Then a Massey 655. Moved up to an IH 4000, still no cab. Finally got this JD in 2010 and now work in comfort whatever the weather.
This was my dad swathing with the Cockshutt 50 and a Massey 30 pull type 15 foot. Not the greatest swather and was well used up by the time we got it in 1973.

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