Rain fall totals! Ah F$&k monsoon totals!

[SASKFARMER3]

Verdin man 6.5? Yea we didn't need any of this.

[stonepicker]

After the extreme dryness of the late 80's, i said i wouldn't complain about rain again. I feel for everyone who is getting too much though.

[farmaholic]

Checking, does any RM crown a road anymore? With the technology in "precision farming" you would think they could apply some of that technology to road grading and set the blade to maintain angles and pitches with potentiometers and make everything consistent. No money to be made by construction equipment manufacturers installing such technology? Only ag gets ****d?

[rodweeder]

Trouble with RM's anymore, they are trying to save dollars by cutting back on passes. With the heavy traffic now on these roads, they need to be doing weekly runs,they also site high cost of gravelling. We have black, and I mean black mud on the knolls on the road now. which is full of water, which soaks down the road bed. If it ever stops raining, roads will be spungy all summer.

[johndeere1]

Rod weeded I couldn't disagree with you more. The graders are busy trying to catch up on roads after the rain stops. It's a constant battle. The graders never get caught up. The black diet on the roads is from using graders to build them 40 years ago. It would cost a fortune to recap all the roads.

If you think it could be done better get on counsel

[checking]

Farmaholic.

If I went down that road, it might be seen as an off topic highjack of an sf3 thread! The answer is "no".

Nice gravel/dust ridge left on one side of a road to trap rain events and washboards that are never removed. Farmers see it.
Grader operators only want a bowl to mix dry gravel and a scrapping of clay. It then blows dust into your yards and fields as they recreationally move it on days those graders should be shop parked.

It will never change.

[fjlip]

Wow! sounds like all RM's have the same grader operators! NO crown, washboards, muddy knolls, gravel all winged into the ditches all winter. Soon be able to drive in the ditches, no, that's all water now!
What a F'ing mess all over!
And these inland hurricane type massive coma swirling rain events from HELL! WTF is causing this?

[cottonpicken]

In case your not connected to what is happening the shit has hit the fan in Manitoba and sask,it is sounding bad...real bad

[rodweeder]

Disagree all you like JD, does 3 fast passes since the snow left fix a road? During May, we never saw a grader, super B's on this road are double what they were two years ago. Everyone of them drive straight down the middle in the same tracks. The last two weeks of May and the first one of June there were ruts 10" deep. This road was built up the last time in late 60's with sc****rs. Yeah, they could have packed a bunch of top soil on top,,,, And it has been tried for years, one new guy on council has about the chance of hell to change how it operates. Just say'n.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Regarding graders. We have the opposite problem here. Richest county in Alberta ( or used to be at least)and lowest taxes. They grade the roads so often I think they wore the gravel out. Crowns so steep it is hard to stay on in the winter time. They even found the perfect solution to undersized culverts......
Build the road high enough that the water can't wash over it anymore. Spend a small fortune to make a road 3 feet higher and back the water up for miles instead of installing adequate culverts. I am the lucky recipient of much of the water that gets backed up.

Regarding rainfall totals and livestock from above. in 1999 we got 12" in 10 days, most from 2 events. Pastures turned into a few isolated islands, not much fun having cows then either, can't move them or feed them. Crops that year were either complete write offs, or spectacular, nothing in between. No where near that bad right now.

[Kodiak]

Heard there was 11 inches at Rocanville SK. Can someone verify?

[Goodtime]

Over 8 inches in the past week and still coming down.....this is ****ing gross.