Last Friday Crop Report of the Year! Winter is coming!

[woodland]

Always liked the look of those westerns!

I like it too except you can hide a Toyota in the blind spot in front of you. 425 Cat that likes to roll some black smoke and the smoothest riding truck on the place with a daycab to boot makes it the favourite here.

[woodland]

Thanks Woodland. The Western Star looks to be in great shape. F series?

Not sure of the model but it's an '88 that's in as good of shape as our '07 IHC. I've got a twin and so does lots of our equipment. It's brother is a blue '89 WS winch truck in rougher shape since it was previously a logging truck.

" F series" to me means funky transmission since it's a 15 speed with the backwards shift pattern. Gets me every time after running a 13 or 18 speed😉

[farming101]

4964F replaced the 4964-2 about 1985-6. Blind spot in front was bigger on the -2

[woodland]

SF3 you nailed the combines but it's a little D6C that my dad has owned for over 30 years and it's cleared thousands of acres for us and the neighbors.

You guys on here help fill a void since I have lost a lot of the neighbors to the coal mine buying them out and moving away.

Kinda realized this out taking some bales to our yearlings grazing the former home quarter of my best friend. He's now 50 miles away instead of 3. This was two years ago and that's when I joined here and another forum. The last few neighbors left here are about the same size as us but would gladly throw you under the bus for a chunk of ground so I don't socialize much with them.



Doesn't look like much now with the bins and corrals gone but it supported a family and there's many more like it here. It'll probably be dozed over next year. Some call it progress but one neighbor calls it a cancer slowly killing our community. I side with the neighbor.

[farmaholic]

Woodland. There isn't too much worth clearing in our neighborhood. There's more tree lined sloughs north of us but south is really barren (we're on the fringe of both).... a bit of cropland can be gained by clearing the trees around the sloughs but you still end up with a water hole. Drainage....consolidation on your own land maybe but dumping it on someone else isn't a solution. Sometimes there just isn't an appropriate/adequate outlet for it to go anywhere without potentially causing someone else grief. Is marginal land worth clearing? Some sandy, rocky, topographicly challenged stuff around too. Provincial and Federal community pastures were developed for a reason unless improved farming practices can make some marginal ground productive. Our farm is kinda maxed out...maybe a bit of drainage if the C&D gets some work done....but apparently it's not like pulling the drain on the bathtub and away she goes...."supposedly" have to be able to hold it back if down stream can't handle it.....I.can't wait to see how this is going to be "managed/enforced"! (If I live long enough to see any developments at all!) A subject no one wants to talk about.....

[woodland]

Farmaholic we live in the hills of poplar trees. I consider them weeds as they keep creeping in the fields and then they fall on the fences.

Back in my grandpa's time he had a sawmill with his brother and my grandma split them up so our side stayed farming and they sawed logs. Still get along good with them and they got 200 employees up north and seem to be doing good. Too bad they didn't stay together but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

One fellow I know moved here from Lethbridge since as a kid he watered trees every summer. Now nothing delights him more that tromping trees with his cat.

You're not that far away from here but it's a different world for sure.



Here's dad knocking down some rotten poplars in my yard this summer.

[farmaholic]

I'm a bit of a safety/hazzard nut.....track hoe and powerline....

[sumdumguy]

Agrivillers, I am in Maui right now, it's 29 degrees, trying to convince Hawaiians to eat lentils with Canaryseed pancakes, it's a tough sell but... 😆 But really a Hawaiin told me yesterday was the first day since all this summer that the trade winds came back. She complained that it was just too hot until the trade winds came in. And we get a dump of snow at home, hope there is a coorelation. Now if the grain prices go up, she's all good.

[SASKFARMER3]

Enjoy Hawaii.

Which island?

That trade wind thing makes me go hmmmmm as almost ft snow at farm last night and today. Awesome fun snow day sledding and making yard ready for winter plus drag strip out back for sleds

[highwayman]

Read the water security act. That agency has given themselves more power than god when it comes to drainage. Consolidation of potholes or sloughs on your own property is still deemed illegal if it affects the spill level of water bodies to those down stream. Even drainage ditches or canals that have been in place for decades are being revisited and in some cases have now been ordered to be blocked off. All enforceable with some ridiculous levels of fines.

[woodland]

I'm a bit of a safety/hazzard nut.....track hoe and powerline....

It's just triplex😉 and it is lower than it should be and will be raised when we do more landscaping next year hopefully. We'd bury it but do way too much digging and pushing pipe in the ground. He strung it there and never snagged it so all is good. Normally dad is a little lax on safety so everyone else tries to tighten up a bit👍

Good eyes👀

[woodland]

trying to convince Hawaiians to eat lentils with Canaryseed pancakes, it's a tough sell but... 😆

Is that a business trip 😎?

Enjoy the frost free weather!