Snow on standing crop and a 1010 wobble box?

[GDR]

Thanks for the ideas and comments. A new hergott open box is 2900. A new sch pro drive which is two hundred times the system is 1900 US dollars. It comes with frame adapter, so just bolt it right on. Leaning that route, but do I spend a couple grand if there are zero combine days to come?

No, the enclosed box will not fit old style mounts by a long shot. Combine world has no open boxes just enclosed. Great ton coulle and all the wreckers have none on hand. Found a 110 header with oil bath box for about same price as a ciih box alone, but it is many hours away. There is a tiny shaft I found that is broken in the box, which is the issue I feel, but there are none in Canada, and so four days from delivery. I am finding that finding parts is fracking brutal. I guess fifteen twenty year old machinery is beyond carrying parts for? Ridiculous.

The exacerbating issue I forgot to mention is the brutal green volunteer flax in the oats and wheat. Cutting is nasty, especially at night. 4 mph yesterday while the sun was out. Sub 1 mph at night, because of the flax. Two hours of daylight is just not enough, especially when repairs are constant.

I have left enough crop out in the past. That is my biggest fear. I need to avoid it as best I can, hence the snow questions.

Be nice to catch a weather break here and there. I do know it sure makes me sick and I really look forward to when it doesn’t matter so much when the sheep are 100 % family living sustaining!

No help on the header and dont want to crush your dreams but stick with the mixed farming, keeps a lot of options open even though it can stretch you pretty thin spring and fall. Sheep can be finicky and can have production disasters there also. Good luck everything seems to work out in the end. ( I tell myself that every day these days)

[sawfly1]

Where are you at ,
I think I Have a 1010 open that has only a few hr.s .
Bearing went out in 20 hr.s from
New., for some reason .
Would need a fix .
I think i could find it.
Maybe.

[helmsdale]

I have a late model 1010 with the oil bath wobble box...

It still fails...

RME parts and service techs told me dont phuck with them if they fail, just go with a new one.

Bought a new one to get us going that day, then tore the old one apart in the off season. All that failed was a brass bushing, which subsequently took out a stub shaft. $100 worth of bushings and seals and I have a backup oiled up and ready to go for pennies on the dollar. If we weren't literally a thousand miles away, I'd say come grab my backup and get atter.

[malleefarmer]

No help on the header and dont want to crush your dreams but stick with the mixed farming, keeps a lot of options open even though it can stretch you pretty thin spring and fall. Sheep can be finicky and can have production disasters there also. Good luck everything seems to work out in the end. ( I tell myself that every day these days)

Production disasters in sheep enlighten me? Not familia with raising sheep in western Canada you mean weather predators?

Ps sold some broken mouth ewes 5.80 per kilo dressed will let ya know head

[Sheepwheat]

Production disasters in sheep enlighten me? Not familia with raising sheep in western Canada you mean weather predators?

Ps sold some broken mouth ewes 5.80 per kilo dressed will let ya know head

I was gunna ask the same thing. Curious.

[GDR]

Production disasters in sheep enlighten me? Not familia with raising sheep in western Canada you mean weather predators?

Ps sold some broken mouth ewes 5.80 per kilo dressed will let ya know head

Oh boy, the possibilities are endless. Here is a short list that has affected my friends off the top of my head:

Scrapie- most of flock destroyed, remainder quarantined for 2yrs by CFIA

2 neighbouring German Sheppard dogs attacked pregnant ewes - had quite a few dead/put down and quite a bunch sewed up by vet

One guy has had 2 major cougar and one major bear attack that killed 20 to 30 ewes each.

Clamydia abortion

Adverse weather at lambing both blizzards and even a cold spring rain pasture lambing.

Even just price fluctuations, I've sold lambs from $.60/lbs all the way to $2.70/lbs


Personally I've had 2 devastating years out of 32years with sheep. First time was a copper deficiency (not toxicity which is more common) while ewes were pregnant, lambs were normal till 80lbs then at any sign of stress they would stumble and fall and have no more use of their legs, caused by a weak connection in the spinal column before birth. Permanent damage, had to put down about a 3rd of my lambs, seen it happen to a few, walking normal then just collapse. Was very distressing to watch. 2nd time was this spring, vaccinated the ewes prior to lambing and had a large number of ewes abort 3 days following, then first 2 weeks of lambing majority of lambs were stillborn. Vets tested fetuses for abortion diseases, and deficiency mone of which were found, it is believed to have been an adverse reaction to the vaccine but still unclear. After first 2 weeks lambing went perfectly normal. Barely made 100% lamb crop, should be almost 200%.

All I'm saying is sheep are just like any other farming venture, looks good on paper but always seems to have a wrench thrown into your plans.

[grassfarmer]

Thanks GDR for confirming my suspicion that Swayback is present in Canada (the copper deficiency deal). We always had to inject pregnant ewes with copper sulphate in Scotland to prevent this - it was common practice there. I've been asked by sheep producers here a few times over the years to look at a sheep with a mystery illness - twice it's been swayback but on both occasions they told their vets who dismissed that and said no, too much copper is what kills sheep.
What were you vaccinating the ewes for when they aborted? that sounds awfully like enzootic abortion and makes we wonder if the test wasn't a false negative?

[GDR]

Thanks GDR for confirming my suspicion that Swayback is present in Canada (the copper deficiency deal). We always had to inject pregnant ewes with copper sulphate in Scotland to prevent this - it was common practice there. I've been asked by sheep producers here a few times over the years to look at a sheep with a mystery illness - twice it's been swayback but on both occasions they told their vets who dismissed that and said no, too much copper is what kills sheep.
What were you vaccinating the ewes for when they aborted? that sounds awfully like enzootic abortion and makes we wonder if the test wasn't a false negative?

Apparently copper deficiency and toxicity can produce the same symptoms. We confirmed with lab tests. Seems to be resistance to supplementing copper, feed companies wont add any to their minerals because of past overdoses. It's an issue to manage. The vaccine was just an 8 way, the connection in my mind was a trigger 3 days later. Definitely had the enzootic abortion possiblity in my mind too, 3 different fetuses were sent away all negative and every female on the farm was born here so transmission kinda unlikely also. Still a possibility on the table, see how this year goes.

[grassfarmer]

Apparently copper deficiency and toxicity can produce the same symptoms. We confirmed with lab tests. Seems to be resistance to supplementing copper, feed companies wont add any to their minerals because of past overdoses. It's an issue to manage. The vaccine was just an 8 way, the connection in my mind was a trigger 3 days later. Definitely had the enzootic abortion possiblity in my mind too, 3 different fetuses were sent away all negative and every female on the farm was born here so transmission kinda unlikely also. Still a possibility on the table, see how this year goes.

I think that copper poisoning has different symptoms - it just kills them dead but I've never seen it personally. What you need to prevent swayback is 2 mls of copper sulphate, injected under the skin twice - once 12 weeks pre lambing and once 6 weeks pre lambing. Thats was our routine in Scotland, every shhep got it but the copper levels there were chronically low. That's a weird one with the 8 way vaccine causing abortion and deaths.

[Sheepwheat]

Yeah, gir once you explained better, I understand what you mean by production troubles. One always hopes it doesn’t happen to you...

I always will be a mixed farmer. I just want to rely almost none on grain, and we are getting close to that point. Everyone is going to have a different focus and niche, ideals and ideas. For us, it is to say goodbye to grain farming reliance, it just hasn’t worked. Sheep have.

I am under no delusions that problems can’t occur. When they do, however, there is far less farm killing costs involved at least on our farm.

Thanks for the input to you and grass!