Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[blackpowder]

330 Case Turbo disc a total bust here this year. Wouldn't cut lodged straw.
Cant throw old slough even when it cuts it. All it does really well is break blades.
Any comparisons to Pro Till out there??

[GDR]

330 Case Turbo disc a total bust here this year. Wouldn't cut lodged straw.
Cant throw old slough even when it cuts it. All it does really well is break blades.
Any comparisons to Pro Till out there??

I had some unharvested peas to work in this spring. Tried a 330 turbo till, it just rode over the top and could hardly see where you went. My old tandem disc worked but wanted to plug. I ended up buying a disc harrow machine, made it black and chopped up the first pass, but went over twice before seeding. Protills are pretty pricey so I bought a farmet softer. Not sure it's the perfect machine but seems to do good with heavy trash.

[makar]

What were you doing Makar? Building leases or cutting seismic lines?

lease work was close to home, most winters spent on seismic up Alaska highway or zama, never saw the wife much till spring.

[SASKFARMER]

Light snow or trying to snow all way to Moosejaw as today we are doing a staycation in Sask. Yea I would be leaving for Florida next Saturday if the border would open. Home in three days. Sure miss not going I don't like winter. But if we're stuck here may as well enjoy it. Wood getting cut for sled shack and sleds arriving next week. Ah, fun times, Not would be more fun on a pontoon on some lake down south.

[Sodbuster]

I didn’t know that they closed the border at 40,000 feet.

[furrowtickler]

330 Case Turbo disc a total bust here this year. Wouldn't cut lodged straw.
Cant throw old slough even when it cuts it. All it does really well is break blades.
Any comparisons to Pro Till out there??

We ended up selling our 330 , had it 7 years I think .
I thought most times it worked well but had more than enough broken blades over the years . Not a fun job to change .
Never had to run it much though in very dry hard conditions. Leaves a good field finish most times even with limited moisture.
Used both the 330 and a pro till for a few years , rented a pro till a few falls .
Pro till is hands down better , but they were over double the price when we bought out 330
We just used an old Allis tandem disc then used our Gates coulter this fall . Worked well but , and a big but , we had some soil moisture here so not the same conditions as most on here .
The thing is even the new coulter harrows are getting way too expensive now as well .
Schulte coulter harrow looks impressive and much more aggressive than the Gates . But we like the Gates for leaving a good 60 % of the stubble in place for general harrow work and still making the soil tilled slightly. A 5 row harrow would be better than the 4 we have for better straw spread but that needs to be done with combine anyway to be really effective.
I still think the gates is our most useful tool here, can work low areas if you hit em twice and can harrow in conditions that no other harrow is effective like pea stubble in tough morning and damp conditions.
Can cover big acres at 13-14 mph and be still be used effectively in most low areas
But if you need more aggressive tillage in low areas and grassy sloughs ... degelman is hands down unbeatable in most cases and leaves the best field finish .
If you ever watch a Gates coulter harrow working in action , you will see how effective it can be in way more situations than just a heavy harrow.
Leaves pea stubble near perfect for seeding the next spring , even in damp conditions.
Would love to replace the old Allis disc with a pro till but just not practical for our farm at this time .
Sorry for the long post on a relatively short answer lol .
Pro till is way more effective than a 330 in most conditions, especially real dry , hard soil and real wet soils.
If your looking for real aggressive soil tillage and spreading straw simultaneously the Schulte is better than the Gates .

[woodland]

Cows are consuming most of the time here.


Busy moving bunches around to clean off the last of the grazing. Spent the day on the quad at -10 and it wasn’t much fun. Got the feed truck running and getting ready for the corn grazing shortly. The summer waterers aren’t much fun in this weather to keep going but this week is supposed to be warmer.


Supposed to load out some barley this week and move yearlings from the summer pasture to their corn. Still putting tile and moving dirt although this weather has taken the fun out of that. Got a couple garages to move with my FIL too. Going to be a few weeks till things slow up.

Pedal to da metal here still. Looking forward to getting above freezing this week. 🍀

[seldomseen]

lease work was close to home, most winters spent on seismic up Alaska highway or zama, never saw the wife much till spring.

I spent most winters during the 80’s on a seismic drill all over Northern Alberta and Northern BC. Likely drilled down some of your cut lines.