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Well long time, to be honest I was led astray in the awesomeness that is oldschool.co.nz and manage to spend a considerable amount of time there, enter with caution. Farm work is basically done for the year, I sold my calves and a couple cows so only have 5 at home, sale yard is always interesting. Guess I didn't take any pics. Cut some firewood I also put my tractor up for sale It never gave me any trouble but was a little under sized for some of the hills I bale, figured I'd try to upgrade if possible. Got $4,000 more than I'd payed two years ago so called it a win for the good guys. Looked around online and talked to the local dealers and found a deal on a demo model with 80hrs in Iowa. I flew out and had a look and a deal was done, even figuring travel and freight I was at least $10k better than anybody local would do. It's 126 hp compared to 90, 3 yrs warranty yada yada. It'll be here tomorrow took a couple pics at the dealer lot. Purty stoked tbh
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I want a ride, looks sweet
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Nov 16, 2016 18:14:02 GMT
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Was the relaxxx comment football inspired? enjoyed the trip report very much
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Sept 18, 2016 3:24:45 GMT
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So I never loaded anymore Glacier pics but did have a fun project at work, move a 40 sea container 3 miles from the farm into town. Called a friend who has moved a bunch and he said he's used his 25 foot gooseneck trailer. Well I've got a 25 foot bed on my truck and the container only weighs 8,000# or so, no problems there. Picked the front up with our excavator and backed under then picked the back up and slid it on. Didn't take any picks till it was sitting on the truck. Blocked up under the dovetail ramp section with some lumber and chained/strapped her down Sitting in the shop in town My inner Egyptian came out. Forklift lifted it fine but wouldn't slide it, rollers fixed that And done
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Yep to much moisture and it will spontaneously combust, kinda like composting but depends how much is in a pile. Ideal moisture is 10-16%, up to 20% is ify and anything over is asking for trouble. If the hay is left unstacked it won't burn, not enough mass in each bale I guess. Over 20% and it does a silage effect with actually very little mold, cows will eat it but not horses. For true silage hay it's baled at 55-60% moisture and wrapped in plastic to stop the oxygen, no oxygen no fire and its also protected from the weather. I have a few more Glacier pics will have to get them uploaded when I have wifi. Only problem there was the 27367479346 people also visiting. We didn't have enough time to get off the beaten track much so just hit some highlights. It was kinda for my grandmas 90th birthday so there was a bunch of cousins I hadn't seen in 10 years. We drove over Friday night ( 8 hrs driving) and drove home Sunday night so kinda missed two nights sleep, it was a fast trip.
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Sept 4, 2016 22:02:34 GMT
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Sept 4, 2016 21:48:14 GMT
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Figured I'd do this in a couple of posts as I wrote it all up a couple weeks ago and lost it before posting. They decided to do a retardant drop on the hay piles for some reason Click the pics for video (hopefully) It was cool to watch but not really effective. I was worried this would affect selling hay to these guys but seems to be all good. They don't know which stack started it but there was some wet bales somewhere. It has been a very quiet fire season, that's a good thing. I did get out on one fire for 6 hours, it was started by a car catching on fire. Mate and I were in a brush truck (F350 with 300 gallons of water) we found a house where the fire was backing against the wind and were going to put it out but the planes showed up and did the work for us Thought we might get hit with retardant but the wind saved us, it's nasty to clean off. Anyway ended up down the canyon where we kept the fire from jumping a little road, it was kinda green grass in the bottom of the canyon so it wasn't moving super fast. It was fun.
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Sept 4, 2016 21:33:05 GMT
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Well been a while. I've been more relaxed this year about haying, helps I guess to get a little more experience. That is until this happened. video below Yep that's the farm that buys all my hay, I had about 320 tons delivered at that point
It burnt about 1200 tons, we spent 11 hours there. The wind picked up at one point to 30 mph gust and it got really exciting, I was moving the stack on the end and the wind started blowing embers onto the stack, 4 bales I grabbed burst into flame. They sprayed them off and we only lost 4-5 out of that pile. The wind was blowing embers everywhere, there was 30 people running around putting out spot fires. The chopper came back and started dropping water again. They have a 500 gallon bucket on a cable they dip out of the nearest water source, lake or river.
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Sept 4, 2016 20:10:07 GMT
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Are these registered as the donor vehicle or as the International? A friend has an '56 Dodge pickup that he wants $500 for, no papers, no rust (ish), good glass, motor is seized. I'm tempting myself
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Aug 18, 2016 20:13:07 GMT
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Ride on Pullmax? WHY NOT
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Jun 29, 2016 21:47:58 GMT
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I like. A childhood friend (mechanical genius) had a 3 wheeled cushman mail cart that he got running and drove all over the hills, lots of good times as 12-13 year olds with pellet guns and wheels. They lived down a two mile driveway with no neighbors so we roamed probably 4-5 miles. Should get some pics it's sitting in the weeds next to its replacement, a land cruiser with a 350 Chevy
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Ho hum. Should be cutting hay but weather man is calling for rain tomorrow. And speaking of water I was greeted by this at work the other morning Lots of water in the wrong place, all courtesy of this That's fixed and ready to bury. Pulled out the trusty 3" trash pump and burnt some dinosaurs. I even had some ducks for awhile but they were camera shy
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^^^ Thankfully that was one problem I wasn't involved in in any way! America, land of supersized food. Been a busy week, baled 2700 small square bales which is about 80 tons and did 114 big rounds which is 70 tons. Took me 2 days to pick up the small ones (70 at a time) and 4 hours to do the big bales. I know which one I prefer! House burning. Yes that was our practice burn. It started looking like this Old and feeling sorry for itself. We lit a fire in the back corner of the living room which is the door you can see. We practiced knocking the flames down without mixing the super hot air near the ceiling (1000-1200 F ) with the cool air at floor level. The instructor had us take off our gloves and feel the difference, floor was comfortable, knee high was tolerable and at about 4' you would have been losing hair off your hand pretty quick. Our gear is rated to 1200 F and it was pretty warm inside, flat out hot actually. After everyone had played around we let er burn. A little smoke Fire out the living room windows More fire Lots of smoke Lots of fire And winding down The owner pushed the dead tree on at last
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May 29, 2016 23:33:46 GMT
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New Holland is big in haying equipment, although being small acreage and buying mostly used kinda end up with whatever is available. Kubota would be my choice in tractors if I was buying new. Firefighting has been slow, went to a couple false alarm kinda deals and went and did cpr at the hospital on a 84 year old lady. She didn't make it so I'm 0-2 on bring people back from the dead. Might want to have your heart attacks elsewhere. We have a old house to burn Tuesday for training, should be fun I'll try to get some pics. We've done various training exercise's in the house the last couple of weeks and finally get to light it up.
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So the life parts been a bit busy. Started cutting hay about two weeks ago, cut about half my total acreage. Although that is three different fields spread out over 7 miles or so. And actual managed to bale it all before it started raining, actually got the last load inside about an hour before the showers started. I did small square bales on fifteen acres owned by the boss man. 1073 to be precise. He has a big shed so stacked them inside with the new harrowbed First load And a little over half done My hay was all round baled and hauled to the buyer, about 100 tons total I finished cutting the rest yesterday, supposed to be hot so should dry down quickly. I have about 2500 bales worth of small bales to do and maybe 70 tons of round bales. Guna be a busy week Also had a nice fountain the other day, easy fix the glue failed and popped off just had to shut it off and glue it back up Cheers
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Back by popular demand. All I can hear is Warren Zevon singing that phrase, classic rock inspired truck? +1 on the dangers of turning a hobby into a business, it can be a lot different. Not that I can talk
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From a a guy who looks remarkably like this Gandalf to the rescue
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ROADTRIP. Boss man wants to bale his fields in small square bales, 14"x18"x42" bout 75# each. So we're talking about 8,800 bales this summer. Mechanical assistance is necessary. The weapon of choice is known as a harrowbed, or bale wagon. I found one that a farmer was selling, he bought it new in 1992 and the paint is barely worn off the tables. Anyway I'll do some pics when I'm using it but this machine was in eastern Idaho It took me 12.5 hrs, I had to stop in Spokane and get the bosses pickup. 2014 Dodge 3500 dually, Cummins of course, six speed auto, pretty basic spec which is still nice. It usually gets 15 or so mpg but with the trailer was around 12 which I didn't think was so hot but holy tomatoes! loaded I dropped to 6 or so, the average over the whole trip was 8.7 by the time I got home. Combined with a small tank (most I added was 26 gallons, and the computer said I had 36 miles to empty) I was filling up at every other gas station. Four different kinds of diesel! This is in Montana, first time I'd seen a set up like this. I also didn't play around with the display until almost home and there's lots of neat stuff, all the temps oil, water, transmission, boost (highest I got was 33#), it has a built in exhaust brake which is the trucks best feature. Any way it has a hp rating on the braking power applied, the gauge went to 230hp!, most I saw was 122 but wasn't all that heavily loaded. And loaded up The scenery was incredible, stayed to two lane as much as possible and took different roads there and back and generally enjoyed myself. The Grand Tetons from the west side
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