We got the tail of it. Rained about 1.5 hours last night. Gave my wheat and clover a drink for sure!
Drought and Survival
- Thread starter dogghr
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Mennoniteman
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Yes, still good here. Most all of the severe storms and rain were west and north of us...we just caught a thin line of the storm. Some areas of Oklahoma had huge storm swaths!Are your buildings still there?
Like clockwork every year after july 4 here
Rain "off",Heat "on"
Holding my breath as well
bill
Well I think the drought here broke...got 3/4” a couple weeks back, 1.1” last weekend and now we had a good rain starting at about 8:30 am till about 1:45 pm...some of it very heavy! Even got runoff from it! Solid rain chances the next 2 days as well...
KSQ2
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Hopefully tractors aren’t as overpriced as trucks right now!Bad news again today. Something happened to my tractor, sounded like it threw a rod. Anyway, parked it, rented one, and got six plots planted with awnless wheat and forage oats. Need a rain and a loan !
Drycreek
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With my buddy’s help I got it to my mechanic today. Probably won’t hear anything from him for a couple weeks. He’s very good and stays behind all the time. He ain’t cheap either, but when he fixes it, it’s fixed !
I did learn something though, as it was a JD that I rented. You couldn’t run fast enough to sell me a JD !
With my buddy’s help I got it to my mechanic today. Probably won’t hear anything from him for a couple weeks. He’s very good and stays behind all the time. He ain’t cheap either, but when he fixes it, it’s fixed !
I did learn something though, as it was a JD that I rented. You couldn’t run fast enough to sell me a JD !
How did it compare to the kubota M6040?
What size JD?
bill
Drycreek
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Bill, I don’t know what number was on it but it was a 65 hp machine. I’m sure if I got used to it I’d learn to live with it except for a couple things.
The good points: You could hang meat in the cab, the A/C was that good.
I liked the throttle and it’s placement. The lever to work the lift was placed better than mine.
The bad points: No bucket leveling gauge.
The implement wouldn’t stay where you stopped the lever. When I lowered my seeder to pour in fert or seed the damn thing would just keep on going down. My PTO shaft separated three times and screwed up the plastic safety sleeves.
The brakes were too far to the right for me and that made the accelerator even farther to the right. Uncomfortable !
I’m probably well on my way to being a grumpy old fart, but I like things like I like ‘em !
I am probably 300 miles (or less) south of you in SW Arkansas. We have had ten inches of rain in the last month. Three more predicted next week. River is flooding into my property. I am sick of it. Neighbor row cropper doesnt have a chance of planting at least for the next month. He was going to plant corn - no way he makes that planting window.
300 miles can be the difference between floods and droughts
KSQ2
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This last year 50 miles made a tremendous difference here locally.
Maybe I need to include “swamp” in my handle??
