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rfarmgirl
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 Posted - 10/25/2009 : 08:16:28 AM
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Razor, BE Careful!! and don't go out cutting wood by yourself.
My dad lost his leg this spring cutting trees down. |
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razor2
213 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2009 : 08:41:11 AM
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| That's terrible. I'm sorry to hear that. I catch hell all the time but it's just not practical. I've been in the timber all my life and it's one thing I truly love to do. I'm fully aware of the risks and just live with them. There are a few trees that I won't cut without someone around but most of the time you just have to use common sense and you'll be alright. Closest call I ever had was actually because someone was with me. My dad and I were cutting brush around a small hayfield about twenty years ago. We both had saws and were sawing at the same time within about thirty feet of each other when I was knocked to the ground. I actually saw those stars you see in the cartoons. Dad had cut a dead red elm about five inches in diameter that the top struck me square on the head. Needless to say, we never cut that close together again. Thanks again for the advice and I'll be as careful as I can. The aging part is what's beginning to make it more dangerous. I hope your dad is doing as well as can be expected. |
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RowCropRenegade
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Posted - 10/25/2009 : 09:00:06 AM
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What type of wood are you cutting razor? Just curious, what wood is the dryest when it is freshly fallen?
We are done with beans. I'm tickled with the yields. Starting on corn tomorrow. These wet falls make no till shine a little more, being that the ground is more solid than conventional.
Be careful out there. It will eventually freeze up, ran corn on christmas many times before... :( |
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curious
180 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2009 : 09:11:38 AM
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Everyone using the same four letter word in SE KS, RAIN! We have had, in my area, ONE afternoon of sunshine in the last two weeks and that was yesterday afternoon. Water standing in the rows and more rain today. Thousands of acres of beans ready and no farmer can get to them. Not much corn off either. Going to be a headache weaning calves in this weather IF we can get the summer pastures hauled back in to the winter pastures. If I hate anything in this world, it is ruts in a pasture.
Would like to advise patience to all of us but mine is wearing thin. I guess, just keep on hanging on, about all we can do now! My grip is slipping though, the only good thing is I no longer have a crick in my neck from looking at the sky to see if it is going to rain, I just look at the water running down the drive, add weeks to drying time even if it stopped now. Beginning to detest the weather forecasters! |
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r3020
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Posted - 10/25/2009 : 10:54:01 AM
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Razor, no rain on this side of the state this morning. Will start shelling corn tomorrow.
What you are doing for your neighbor is a wonderful thing, not enough of that type of thing goes on anymore. When my dad was a kid there was a neighbor lady with a disabled husband. All of the neighbors would spend a day cutting them enough wood for the winter. They had a great time and the neighbor lady and her husband stayed warm. That is what makes life worth living. Be careful and God bless.
"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."--H.L. Mencken |
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ndsu84
354 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2009 : 12:38:36 PM
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We had no rain all summer. Now it now rains every day. Lots and lots of dry beans in the fields, markets should go crazy. Edibles are like soys only with lots of vines and branches. Most of the beans are really close to the dirt. So late rains pull the pods down to the mud. A few of my friends have 80% of their edibles left. They will probably have to use flex heads to get them now, which will leave 400 pounds in the field at this point.(If it gets dry) You can usually figure at least 3 drying days after soys will go before the edibles might go.
Our corn is still 30-34 and going the wrong way. Starting to break down.
Go Bison! |
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razor2
213 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2009 : 1:31:07 PM
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| RCR, I cut everything. My furnace will burn anything you throw into it. As for the driest wood when it's freshly fallen, you could probably get a dozen different answers but for my part it's white ash. It burns great green and really splits easily. The best dead tree to cut for firewood is the red elm with thorn probably second. If you have any red elm around (not too many left here), after they die wait a couple of years and the bark will all fall off. You can then cut them and you won't have any mess to fool with. The wood really burns hot and it starts easily. Just make sure your saw has a sharp chain. If you have any osage orange (hedge) in your area, it's the hottest burning wood you will find but it's hell to cut and even harder to separate the brush because of the thorns. If you ever do try to burn some, be careful because you can ruin a good stove or furnace because of the heat it puts out; you need to mix some other kind of wood with it. r3020, I didn't mean to mislead anyone but I'm not cutting the wood for them for free. He's a union plumber and she has a great paying job. If he were out of work or they were having a tough go of it, I would gladly do it for nothing and I have before, but I know that the two of them together easily make as much or more than the wife and myself. Well, it just wet the sidewalk here this morning so I'm going to go try to finish up some beans in a creek bottom about four o'clock. Everyone take care. |
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timdcrossley
392 Posts |
Posted - 10/26/2009 : 08:56:18 AM
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Still have 140 acres of beans but we started on corn yesterday. Corn is close to 170 @ 17-21%. Sheeled til midnight. Gonna shell again today. We will finish beans the next time we have 3 dry days in a row.
Life is good! |
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Kansascowman
1796 Posts |
Posted - 10/26/2009 : 09:47:07 AM
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| You are correct curious, it is a headache weaning calves in this, and a headache finding a place to put the cows if your winter quarters include cornstalks, because the corn is still on the stalk. We got in on the west edge of that deal yesterday and just got a tenth or two, but it looks like we got 2 inches this morning. Sun is shining at least. |
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ndsu84
354 Posts |
Posted - 10/26/2009 : 7:52:59 PM
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KCM-what did you ever decide about Europe? Are you headed back?
Go Bison! |
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ECI
1234 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2009 : 05:07:28 AM
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Just a quick line , everybody be carefull out there !
Had a friend get hurt yesterday ,he's in a Indy hospital
May lose a foot , was working inside a dryer ,cleanin it
out and forgot to shut the controll panel off , and the
unload auger came on , he was tried and just F-up , again be
safe , Ken |
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Rounder
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Posted - 10/27/2009 : 07:01:33 AM
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| Boy, I think I picked a great time to join this group. You guys make "misery loves company" a way of life. Can't say I blame you though. Here in Boiler company we producers are in the same boat. Got rain coming in later today. Have already had 5" this month with another inch or so on the way. I'm scared to death this harvest will see its' share of casualties. Just go slow and realize we will eventually get it all in. |
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timdcrossley
392 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2009 : 07:56:15 AM
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Welcome aboard Roundy. Slow is as fast as I can go in corn this year. Wow. Work 12-14 hr and get 25-30 acres done isn't gonna cut it. We are tring to figure out what we need to buy this weekend to get things speeded up.
Gotta go!
Life is good! |
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jabber1
3097 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2009 : 08:19:25 AM
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Yeah, machinery dealers are having some activity buuuuuuuttttt the number one barrier to a faster harvest is unalterable
1)the weather
and the number 2 is very hard to remedy in season
2)corn drying capacity
Assuming perfect weather in a normal year this crop in our area would almost disappear within 20 days. Wet corn combined with local drying capacity suggests that we will be fortunate to be done in 40 days.
95% of the corn harvest is yet to come here. Very unusual for this area.
Pray for sunshine and no high winds.
Stay safe.
"Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can-------"
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bwill1
37 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2009 : 08:44:24 AM
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| just got started with soybeans at 5 pm yesterday.got 12 acers out. beans are wet 16 17%,dirt is easy to pick up in the head. going to be a long cold harvest in nw iowa. |
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2009 harvest progress report
