Friday Crop Report on a Thursday week 5

[furrowtickler]

3/4 in rain , standing wheat stubble not harrowed . Having a bit of grief in a few areas but mostly ok
any wetter and we would have to go ahead a day or two with coulter harrow .
If it’s been harrowed I can’t see it being an issue
a last year was very good but much different conditions than now . Will know in a few more hours now that sun it out

[ColevilleH2S]

Got my bill from Cat yesterday $190/hr you would think that would leave a bit of room to pay a good wage. Wrench pulling signs along hiway every where you go and don't be in a hurry to get something fixed.

My sprayer that was booked in to the local RME dealership for a once-over last November still has not got called in. Their stories went from, "we'll get it in next week when our sprayer guy gets back from training" to "it'll be a couple weeks" to "we don't know"

Rumors are half the back shop got fed-up and walked out en masse sometime this winter. Coincidentally, I also heard the Pattison shop now has one or two new techs that work exclusively on red equipment.

As the World Turns

[LEP]

My sprayer that was booked in to the local RME dealership for a once-over last November still has not got called in. Their stories went from, "we'll get it in next week when our sprayer guy gets back from training" to "it'll be a couple weeks" to "we don't know"

Rumors are half the back shop got fed-up and walked out en masse sometime this winter. Coincidentally, I also heard the Pattison shop now has one or two new techs that work exclusively on red equipment.

As the World Turns

They were working on combines a week ago. FFS.

[fjlip]

Gossip a while back that half of Brandt Deere techs quit too, can't confirm. Pattison might be on top.

[furrowtickler]

Furrow how is the trash clearance on the SR. There is one for sale at Youngs 2023 model , kinda interested . Also how much rain did you get that you’re able to go.

Learned a few things the past 24 hours .
We set the trash clearing thingy up too high to start working when shanks engaged, Thus it was plunging on headlands . But just briefly, but then you screwed in wet conditions .
got that sorted out and all good .
If wet just do headlands after
it was only where excessive trash or pre seeded areas was the minor issues . Again not harrowed
Spray tracks are an issue as with most drills

My ideal set up would be that SR with a single shank , paired row with furrow closers.
7-8 mph in any conditions
After running Dutch paired row openers set up right I would never ever run a twin shank , simply too much shit in the ground unnecessarily IMO that causes grief in anything less than ideal conditions.
All they are is a fricken straw rake at times, all of them no matter the make of drill .

was not a huge issue, but something to think about
10 days ago it was not even on our minds as we were heading into another bone dry seeding season lol

[furrowtickler]

Hopefully that makes some sense fcr

[furrowtickler]

Our ole bourgault 8910 just rolls wet or dry or straw , acre after acre , day after day .
Just set er and forget er , always decent

[furrowtickler]

First day and1/2 of seeding

[furrowtickler]

Feet sore lol
ahhhh, farming so easy according to Tweety

give er a whirl Tweets
thats on top of welding , fixing, liquid fitting issues, dialing in GPS , accurately setting seed treatments with multiple additives, helping with seed depth , diagnosing calibration issues, loading seed and fert on time
Plus many other things that 98 % on here do daily now,
Chuck would be in that 2% complaining constantly that his hired man did not do it right and it’s bad for the environment lol

[fcr]

Thanks furrow, a friend bought a SR this year but just got started so no opinion yet. He did say it took more horsepower than advertised.We also have a 8810, grease at start of season and go.We call it the KISS airseeder.Always grows a great crop,owes us nothing.