Hows your "F - - KING" Day going!

[wilagro]

Some very good postings.

All I have to say about these people complaining about bogging down with stuck swathers and combines. For Khristsake...why are you out there when the soil is too wet? My dad, who was a horseman from day one, always said that one should wait until the soil would support the equipment. He hated having to pull people out of the mud with his team of horses when common sense would have avoided the predicament in the first place.

[DogPatch]

I was reading Saskfarmers very first quote. If I were his fuel dealer I certainly wouldn't make my drivers to be pulled through a 1 2/2 miles just to fill a swather.

[fjlip]

I am sure it's his OWN fuel truck. 10000 acre neighbor has his own here.

[freewheat]

wilagro... Another guy from a dry area....

[fjlip]

Probably, freewheat, but I am thinking the crop out there is NOT worth wrecking my machinery and stressing out over. If things don't improve drastically I'm willing to wait for crop insurance after snow and birds get rid of the evidence that there was a shitty crop in the midst of all the water holes!

[freewheat]

I hear ya fjlip. I'm just sayin' though.

[BreadWinner]

Checking when can I borrow your mower, I have a few cattail patches to mow down. Just how long does it take for the 2 ft of water under them to freeze hard enough to support machinery? Some people just dont grasp how wet it is out there, Im even having a hard time wrapping my head around it. From an arial perspective there is more water than dirt in fact most patches of dirt are just islands. By the way my day was pretty good other than the Riders falling on their faces.

[furrowtickler]

By god willie, good post. P.S. b/c the they have too, farm some more s/f, make it 200 1/4's - that will fix the problem.

[wilagro]

freewheat: In this area we have had over 18 inches of rain this summer. Does that sound like a "dry" area?

I still say that it is senseless to "ask for trouble" when trying to harvest obviously wet fields. Some people are brutes for punishment though...I see it all the time. Last week I saw three swathers working one quarter of wet soggy canola. The deep ruts they were making were ridiculous and the field had many holes where they had to pull each other out. Seeing those water-filled ruts, I couldn't see the logic in even attempting to work in such conditions.

[BreadWinner]

Hey Willy we have had 50 inches of rain now, does that sound wet?