Eating Dust, Terra Tires, and Cover Crops
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The 1650 gets another chance to work on the farm spreading oats for a cover crop on my wheat stubble.
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Your spreader sure beats what dad used growing up. He had a wagon that had a chain drive from a rear wagon wheel, driving a spreader mounted at the tailgate of the wagon. It was used for spreading oats and alfalfa seed. Then the 66 was used to pull a drag to mix it in the soil.
O bet je thought that beat doing it by hand.
Very nice 1650. Flying a drone while running a tractor without auto steer looks challenging. I got mine out for the first time in like a year and half and was struggling with both hands 🙌🤣👍
It's still a challenge, some of the footage stays on the cutting room floor. 😂
Great story and I always thought that your 1650 is like Herman's little brother.
You sure did a lot to those wheels, that 1650 is one beautiful machine. Sounds great to hear her run. Thanks Chris, I hope you have a great Sunday!
I was glad to get them, but I had a ton of hours into getting them ready for paint! Thanks Dan!
Those Oliver fwa were the best looking tractors ever to be made
Yes they are!
Enjoyed the video and the story bro. Safe travels. Ken.
Thanks 👍
Hi Chris, great to see the 1650 and your gehl working. I love them. Greetings from the Alps and Hermanns Fan to you and your Family.
I sometimes forget the Gehl has fans too! Thanks and I hope all is well in the beautiful Alps!
Chris, it's always interesting to hear the stories of the tractors you got and rebuilding them. Thanks for sharing 👍 Michael
Thanks Michael! I'm grateful to know as much as I do about it.
Morning farmer Chris!
Good morning! Looks like another beautiful day in southern Michigan!
Love the back story and the 1650 turned out beautifully. Thanks for the video Chris.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it
I love the history, thanks for the video. See you later. 1650 looks great.
Thanks 👍
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Hello!
Good morning Chris I love that 1650 I would love to own one of those
Good morning! It sure rides nice in the field.
For whatever it's worth, 220's had 3&5/8" axles, I think. I really like seeing that girl out earning her keep. Beautiful machine!
Thanks! That's definitely more than a 1650.
You sure Ross didn’t own those rims at one time? Seems like something he might farmer-cobble. 😂
Rim Job of SADNESS! Tune in tomorrow on Ross the Oliver Man!
Tearing down a 550 to replace the water pump, coolant hoses, and to clean it all up. What do you use to clean the grease/grime off the engines and frame when taking one apart?
One of the best tools I have is a steam pressure washer. Get that cooking good and hot and it can take the paint off if you get too close. After that, I like mineral spirits. It won't take older paint off if you're trying to go that route. It dissolves iil and grease well and air dries, but not fast like brake cleaner.
I really like oats to seed with alfalfa and rye in the fall. I'm trying to decide if its worth planting any corn next year or not. If i don't, I'll harvest the rye and feed it. I can replace about one third of the corn in my steer ration with ground rye and not lose daily gain.
I seed oats with my alfalfa and orchard grass mix. I'd say the oats will winter kill, but three years running I've had to burn down oats when I plant corn the next spring
I think you might be on to something. I bet you could've used the skid steer to dump the oats into the augar from the wagon to the spreader. But hindsight is always 20/20
😂😂😂. I was told a story some years ago about a wife cooking a roast. Before she put it in the oven, her husband asked, "why did you cut it in half before putting it in the oven?" She replied that when she was young her mother taught her to do it that way. So she called up mom, "why do you cut the roast in half ?" She gave the same answer, " your grandma taught me that way" Another phone call to grandma and she got her answer. Granny told her " I didn't have big oven like you do now. I cut it half because that's the only way it would fit in my oven!"
When I drill cover crop oats I use the skid steer because getting an auger to hit the drill is a big pain in the Kanootsen. I fell into the "this is the way I usually do it" trap. 😂 The moral of the story is I need a bigger auger wagon.
Ahh, it is Sunday. Cover crop, a practice that these billion $$$ operations who destroyed the term "grass waterways" and tree lines are now learning the word "Cover Crops". The farmer behind us had a little water wash about 15 years ago on a gently sloped hillside. His idea was to just disk it in. The next year it came back and was bigger. This has gone on all of these years to the point that Herman could be in the bottom of the now Grand Canyon-sized cut down through that field and only be heard and not seen.
The problem could be traced back to our education systems as Vo-Ag classes were done away with or just became 10x20 greenhouses to teach how to grow houseplants. No more soil conservation, no more soil judging, no more tours of farms that practiced good stewards of the land farms. And of course, no tours of farms that grew gulleys in the name of a few bushels of crops and their inability to raise their disks and shut off their sprayers at grass waterways. Yes, Vo-Ag in rural areas may still be being taught but even there educational funds are being directed to multi-million $$$ sports fields and multiple gyms. Education, real education, is coming in second.
Education has been taking the back seat for a good 40 years or better. The Dunning Krueger effect is now in control.
Thanks to no till and reduced tillage, I've eliminated all me grass water ways. A pass with the disc every year or so it getting them smoothed out to where they are easier to farm. If a guy wants to see the benefits of CRP and reduced tillage, just look at the crops in those waterways the first couple years you're able to farm them.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I remember as a young lad when fields were cropped in triangles (if cropped at all) due to the oil well rod lines radiating out from a power unit. The oil income for lease owners made farming a dirty hobby. Some farmers would make a deal to farm in those triangles and one has to remember, this was the days of 2-row equipment so getting into those triangles was not the problem it is today. Access was no problem as there were lease roads to every well so well servicing equipment could get to them. Some of those triangles did get pretty big as rod lines (the steel lines that went back and forth to make the jack at the well work the sucker line in the well go up and down, putting black stuff in the tanks for sale.) got very long.
I don't think the deer liked the drone very much 😂
Well Ed, I replied about putting a pow pow on the drone to fix the deer problem and they hid it. I used a different word, and I think that hurt their feelings. 😂
@@ThatOliverGuyChris 🤣🤣
Looks like you made it back frome yooper land. I was watching your live stream until it crapped out 😂
😂 My wife and daughter were watching it so they knew when to get out of the car and take pictures. They switched to the iPhone chaperone and looking me up on location sharing. You'd think they'd head over to the bridge and see if anyone was looking over the edge, but nooooo.... 😂
@ThatOliverGuyChris 🤣🤣 they figured if you were still moving, you must not be in the water🤷♂️. My wife says we are going next year, so maybe it will actually happen. She's from the UP, so home keeps calling her
As popular as Herman’s little brother is, you may have to come up with a name, sticker, etc. To keep in the same time frame, was thinking of possibilities over on the Addams Family side….🤔
I like the way you think. Maybe Lurch?
@@ThatOliverGuyChris😂 Yeah, choices are limited……Lurch is a big dude, probably better than Pugsley or Fester? 😉
@@davidmarley9471 I had been thinking Eddie. Isn't he child of Herman?
@@ThatOliverGuyChris Yes, I think so…🤔
Tires look overinflated
What pressure would you recommend?
The old rule of thumb growing up, was 1 psi for each inch of tire width. Not sure that applies to flotation tires.
@@robertheinkel6225 I think this might break that rule. The rears are 66 inches wide. I have them at 10 psi.
Tire heaven? You mean you sent them out to Iowa to be used again?
That could be! These were two matches shy of being a level K10!
Flotation at its finest
How many buckets did it take to fill the spreader? The auger looked lonesome, no one to play with it.
I didn't count, I'd say too many. 😂