Elbert Co, Ga
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Awesome work. I'm really impressed with your corn as well, and I know the feeling of being proud of it.
Where did you get the hydraulic cylinders for the row markers on your 4 row planter? I want to add hydraulics to my sprayer booms but don't really know where to start.
Where did you get the hydraulic cylinders for the row markers on your 4 row planter? I want to add hydraulics to my sprayer booms but don't really know where to start.
whiskeybent
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Any of the Tractor Supply, Northern Tool or Agri Supply carries them and I think they are all from the same manufacturer. The ones I used for my marker arms could have been half or 1/3 the capacity, but I didn't know much about them when I bought them.
Whiskey,
I miss my days fabricating. Nowadays I watch everyone else build everything while I just inspect. I do get a chance to make things at the house now and then though time just doesn't allow much with 6 days a week construction and trying to fit family in and a few projects at home.
You are definitely a skilled fabricator.
I miss my days fabricating. Nowadays I watch everyone else build everything while I just inspect. I do get a chance to make things at the house now and then though time just doesn't allow much with 6 days a week construction and trying to fit family in and a few projects at home.
You are definitely a skilled fabricator.
whiskeybent
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The old rods are probably toast by now, but the leads make somefine jumper cables.
Triple C
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Good stuff whiskeybent! Kinda glad our places are bout 20 miles from each other. Otherwise...you'd have all our deer eating at your place! HA! Corn and beans are off the charts. Can't wait to see what that corn field looks like come fall. I'd take one of those box blades if you ever get the urge to build another.
THE LLC
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You ought to convert that field in front of your house into a big corn field!!!
Triple C
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I've never tried corn. Always heard it was too hard to grow down here. After seeing T.P.'s corn growing I need to rethink that.
THE LLC
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It's not hard to grow---if you have the right variety. We grew a field of it in the plot in front of our cabin about four years ago. We planted an old timey, open pollinated white field corn. We grew it to make grits out of (the bomb by the way). The only thing with corn is that unless you have a big field that you can leave standing all winter, you're tying up ground that could go to a more productive forage like wheat or annual clover. Since space is what so many of us have little of it's just a matter of return on investment.
whiskeybent
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I've always been in clubs where a certain day was set aside to plow and plant. It didn't matter whether it was under 6 inches of water, we was plowin' and plantin'. Man, it was some dog of dirt. Clods the size of golf carts. I tried corn down there a time or two with no success to speak of. I just couldn't get a decent seedbed for anything. This piece of land will be treated much better if up to me.
Seedbed prep and adequate rainfall I think is the key for corn, besides the obvious lime and fertilizer. I really hate even talking about rain this time if the year, it makes me nervous.
Seedbed prep and adequate rainfall I think is the key for corn, besides the obvious lime and fertilizer. I really hate even talking about rain this time if the year, it makes me nervous.
whiskeybent
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QUOTE="THE LLC, post: 42853, member: 42"]You ought to convert that field in front of your house into a big corn field!!![/QUOTE]
Agreed, that'd be a beautiful site to pull in the gate to and to look at off the front porch.
Agreed, that'd be a beautiful site to pull in the gate to and to look at off the front porch.
whiskeybent
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A little, I was actually in a good club with some real good deer and some great people. It was a high priced club to keep the members down and it worked as far as keeping deer on the place.
But, I wouldn't go back for love or money.
whiskeybent
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I haven't done much over the last few weeks other than sprayed glyphosate on my beans and did a little bushhogging. Honestly I've worked enough here over the last 6 months I needed a break from it. It's been nice just to pull up a chair and have a few beers and do absolutely nothing.
The deer are loving the beans. There's no ag around me so I'm sure this is the first time they've had soybeans. The top pic is in the fence and the bottom pic is unfenced.
The last shot of nitrogen has gotten my corn close to 6' now. It's also been forever since I can remember getting rains like we've gotten this spring. It's been nice.
The deer are loving the beans. There's no ag around me so I'm sure this is the first time they've had soybeans. The top pic is in the fence and the bottom pic is unfenced.
The last shot of nitrogen has gotten my corn close to 6' now. It's also been forever since I can remember getting rains like we've gotten this spring. It's been nice.
whiskeybent
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Come on! I'm there every weekend.
