John Deere 8335RT with tiller doing first pass

[ALLFARMER]

http://www.youtube.com/watch? 
v=zVuee0wQSbE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
 
Could some one set this up as a link for us? 
 
This is a buddy's new John Deere 8335RT tractor  
doing the first pass on newly cleared land. This  
land sold for an average of 160k per quarter as  
bush this winter. He is working a little quicker as  
the tillers design will not completely chew up the  
stumps so he plans to rootpick it further into  
spring. He is doing like 1 mph to 1.5 mph and  
doing 1 acre an hour. With autosteer and 10  
quarters to do this is super boring work. 335  
engine HP. Land has only been cut off with a v  
cutter then piled.

[Integrity_Farmer]

[farmaholic]

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[ALLFARMER]

She ain't no clearing land with a poppin Johnny
no more! There was 40 to 50' trees on this land
earlier this winter. Seedin her this spring...except
for the brush row piles of coarse.

[furrowtickler]

What about rocks????

[ALLFARMER]

0 rocks in this whole area. Certainly using all the
horsepower she has.

[grgsrvc]

So when you hear the tractor lug down that's is
when it hits a stump? Man that's a lot of time to
sit there. I got bent out of shape one fall pulling a
14' offset at 3.5 mph. I can't imagine how
monotonous that would be.

[tipsy]

Is the ground not froze where your working? Maybe it works better in frozen... can't see it thou.

[boarderbloke]

You know the old saying, "They just don't make it anymore."

Looks like they Do! Wow, would that be a joy to operate, virgin land, and no rocks to boot.

ALLFARMER, your going to have to post pics of this all year! Do you know what crop he's planting first. Hope he can get something established before it starts to blow. Any idea what the fertility is like, what supplements would treed land require? Are those soils acidic?

ALLFARMER, what's the general area or location?

[ALLFARMER]

This is in the La Crete / Fort Vermillion area of
northern AB. He plans to use his McFarlan
harrow on it after this to roll up the roots and
make it easier to root pick. Because of all the
wood fibre in the soil that will use allot of nitrogen
to rot and break down so first crop will likely not
be massive.
This very young farmer has made huge money in
the last 10 years growing a 3/4 canola rotation,
and ya no disease issues. We do get lots of
worms and occasional sclaritinia. The other 1/4 of
the rotation is a cereal crop for fibre. One farmer
up here grows a full canola rotation? Rotation
being snow canola snow. That land and crop not
looking that great though.

[SASKFARMER3]

Nice post pictures please. Soil looks on
lighter side from the pictures?

[wilagro]

More power to you guys farming up in that part of Helberta. It is a very uncertain future up in that area of the province but maybe you will "get lucky" or "global Warming" may enable things.

If I were a young man again I would gamble on farming that far north but be prepared for some rough years ahead. Lot of jobs in the resource extraction industries could save your bacon if things don't work out.

Mixed farming would probably be the best bet same as it was for the early pioneers of my father's and grandfather's days when they came to this province. Dependance on grain and oilseeds farming alone could be mighty risky.

[ALLFARMER]

Ya you bet will post pic's. Hopefully Joe puts
some of that FCC advertising money toward
engineering a photo and video uploaded toolbar
for Agriville

[grassfarmer]

Good point wilagro, unfortunately the mixed farming
approach is usually abandoned in favour of
unsustainable monoculture cropping. I would doubt
global warming will be much of a friend to that part
of northern Alberta. Maybe warm it up a degree but
more likely to suffer worse droughts in an area
already bad for them. How far are you from
permafrost Allfarmer - 50 miles or less? that's got to
be extremely marginal land by any definition.

[farmaholic]

Grassfarmer: It may be monoculture(per field) on a yearly basis but long term is anything but. How many different species do you have grazing on your grass that you use to make a living on?