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if you run a giant ass 8 wheeled tractor out of gas (supposed to call it fuel or diesel but I intentionally called it "gas" because it enraged my dad and grandfather) it's kind of a PITA to get it going again. Have to shut down for a long time and pull the gas (lmao) filters off it and fill them up and reattach them and finally can fire it back up. anyway, if it's that rough ridin' important just come out and fill me up fuckers. sick of this.
Cover crops aren't really a thing in WKS due to limited moisture, closest I can think of is when my uncle would sometimes grow oats in a pivot during winter/early spring then bale it before planting whatever in may.
Is there any reason you wouldn't put up a temp hot fence and have cattle eat the rye down for a couple weeks before you planted the beans? Could you cut and bale the rye for feed?
(please be nice if I asked a really stupid question because honestly I don't know)
Did you roundup the Rye before planting, farm_cat? What's the math on cover crop program? Does that get you a check like CRP?
Tom
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This has always been my thought. We claim to be a premier AG school, then have artificial turf on the football field. Flood Aggie has a natural grass field, which irritates me even more that we have turf.we should have natural grass, like wtf, the soccer team can figure it out but not the football cats?
I would love a natural grass field. We basically dominate all the AG School competitions so I don't know why we can't just spend 5 years creating an indestructible variety of grass that stays green in KS through November.
farming_catHadn't heard about that one. Heard about one near Holton yesterday. The most recent fire that's been close to us burned "hundreds" of acres south of Sabetha on Oct. 5th. We shut our combine down a little early that day. Glad to be done.
Field fires near Highland? Possible source was electric pole?
Tom
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I started doing stuff like taking bales off of the field or running a disc when I was 14 or 15, probably.Yes, we are done. Yields are all over the place ranging from fantastic to nearly complete disaster. I didn't put a lot of effort into getting any pictures, but it does look like I have a few. I'll post them later.
Have you completed your fall harvest, farming_cat fan? How were the yields? Do you have pictures?
We don't have any 8 year olds to run any machinery. 8 years old seems to be a little young to be running machinery alone, but 11 seems plenty old enough. Trying to think back if I was running any equipment at that young of an age and I was probably running some tillage equipment alone by the time I was 11 years old.I agree that tech is really cool and amazing. Do you have 8 year olds operating machinery on your farm? There is a family legend about my 9yo grandpa taking wagonloads of wheat to town in the 30's. Maybe it is the same thing?So facebook has been showing me reels of really small kids driving really big farm machines (can figure out how to link a vid) but the most aggressive is from an account called “Farming Fit Momma”. Most of his vids are related to her working out on the farm but this one had an 11 yo and an 8yo operating $2M worth of machinery and doing a rolling unload of a massive combine into a massive grain cart. I’ll admit that growing up on a farm is a large part of why I turned into an adult with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility but something about this seems out of lil to me…With fancy new equipment it's as easy as pushing a button and everything syncs up between the combine and the grain cart tractor. Then the combine operator can adjust the grain cart from his end if he needs the grain cart to move forward or back.
So facebook has been showing me reels of really small kids driving really big farm machines (can figure out how to link a vid) but the most aggressive is from an account called “Farming Fit Momma”. Most of his vids are related to her working out on the farm but this one had an 11 yo and an 8yo operating $2M worth of machinery and doing a rolling unload of a massive combine into a massive grain cart. I’ll admit that growing up on a farm is a large part of why I turned into an adult with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility but something about this seems out of lil to me…With fancy new equipment it's as easy as pushing a button and everything syncs up between the combine and the grain cart tractor. Then the combine operator can adjust the grain cart from his end if he needs the grain cart to move forward or back.
Went to Morgantown in 2012. Had a blast. Fans were awesome. Offered us free booze during tailgate. We drank them dry and they walked us to a Halliburton sponsored tailgate and started mixing us drinks.Tom and spouse are headed to Morgantown on Friday via Baltimore. Tickets in visitors section 99.
Tom
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TaqMan and TaqLady will be there as well. Driving in from NC on Friday and staying in Uniontown, PA. Section 100. I hope the WV fans aren't as bad as the CU fans from stories I've heard.
I was running a 6620 (non-titan) cutting soybeans during the 2014 OU game while listening on the radio. Radio didn't work in the truck that the old man was running so the two of us were crammed in the cab of the combine listening while he was waiting for the truck to be filled up.Full days work at the farm, then in the house in time for kick off... probably fall asleep mid 2nd quarter.This will be me. We'll probably be harvesting corn therefore I won't get a mid afternoon nap.
Tom
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keep shelling corn late into the night to the sounds of wyatt and stan!
This was my childhood... falling asleep next to my father on the 4455 or our 7720 Titan II as he went back and forth across the fields.
same, listening to Greg Sharpe call the late 90's cats beat baylor a thousand to zero on a crisp fall day, remember it vividly
Bean meal turns into bacon!!!CRUSTY AND DRIED UP!
I assume the corn gets ground in to corn meal. I've just never heard of bean meal.
I think I have about enough info to take over this farm.
Obv non farmer here. It looks to me like you are rolling over a bunch of dried up nothing. I know they are "beans", but like what does the combine thingy actually do? Does it separate the beans from the rest of the plant. Is it all just ground up in to a bean like chowder for something?The combine name comes from combining the processes of cutting, threshing, and separating the grain from the rest of the plant. So yes, the combine separates the grain from MOG (material other than grain) and disperses the MOG out the rear of the combine.
Also, I will actually own a farm with these type of beans some day and I just asked this question on a KSU bbs.
Go Cats
Full days work at the farm, then in the house in time for kick off... probably fall asleep mid 2nd quarter.This will be me. We'll probably be harvesting corn therefore I won't get a mid afternoon nap.
Tom
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Do we have speed anywhere fast enough in our secondary to cover Travis Hunter? I had to laugh on the angle an NDSU defender took on tackling Hunter in the open field - the safety took a grossly short angle towards Hunter, I'm not sure I've seen anyone burned as bad as that.From what I saw, Colorado's OL is not good. Ideally we get to Sanders better than NDSU did and Hunter won't be able to get separation in time.
Didn't really old tractors have metal wheels with spikes? Seems like that would provide better traction in a straight line and might work better than rubber wheels for the limited purpose of tractor pulls.Steel wheels would be against the rules. Each pulling class has a certain tire size they have to use. Plus they have a max weight limit. Steel wheels would probably not be advantageous when trying to maximize the traction to weight ratio.
