Bushhogging corn

Finished the 20 acre of corn I had out Thursday. Looks like the company I had spray it was afraid to get within 60 feet of the field edge and the weeds were so bad just kept plugging the combine. So I bushogged that 60 feet--about 5 acre. The 1655 would pull down with the 7 foot bushhog then when I stopped to clean the trash off before putting it away tractor wouldn't restart. Had to shut it off because the clutch is a little tight and the PTO keeps turning.
Any hoo being diesel I tried the simple stuff first. 1) check that air isn't plugged then that the fuel is getting to the pump. Still didn't restart--yeah dumb me didn't pull the air filter to be sure the air was getting in. That's next. And loosen the fuel line AT the pump instead of out of the filter. If it's more serious then that I'll call for help.
Suspect I was just being too on the surface and that air filter needs changed.
Any way the crop was pretty good for our area. Looks like 180 bu/ac for the harvested acres. And that is as good as I ever done. Course I'll have as gentle conversation as I can with the spray company. Missing the whole outside round is just not acceptable.
The weeds were so high they were jamming up the combine intake screen.

The spray company should have insurance for goof-ups like that. You had a yield loss. If the sprayer was equiped with GPS mapping they should have a color map of the acres actually sprayed. A few years ago I finally bought my own sprayer because of mis-sprays/over sprays done by the custom sprayer. Best money I've ever spent, but on the other side of the coin, I can't blame someone else for spraying mistakes. Jim

Assuming they sprayed it in May or June, why did it take till mid September for you to notice. When I was spraying those spots were called re-sprays and the customer was never charged for our mistake.
AaronSEIA

If you hogged it all down before the spray company saw it you many have a little trouble proving it.

It's early and the weeds are still green. You may have been able to combine those rows after the weeds dried out more.

Gary

Kind of an odd way of going about trying to fix the situation - with $6 corn a person can go 1/2 a header width and get some corn out even it it's thin. 50 bu corn (probably more?) on 5 acres at $6 is $1500 and the spray company ain't gonna help you on _those_ dollars for sure.

Mowing the stuff down first & then talking to the spray company doesn't give them much of a chance to observe the situation, they might be a little harder to deal with and wouldn't blame them. As well, you didn't give thm a chance to correct the problem back in July when it would have been observed and coulda done something about it, so wouldn't surprise me if they consider 1/2 the problem to be on you.

I had a similar thing many years ago, was done with the 70 acre field combining it before it sunk in that the coop missed spreading pre- and fert on 3 out of 20 rows across the whole field. I didn't bother saying anything since I figured it was on me to not notice it early on - my field, my crop, my responsibility to watch it. As well I was done harvesting so it was hard for them to do a yield check on those rows after the fact. Just chaulked it up to learning, and watch closer from then on, haven't had such problems since.

Not trying to pile on you, tough enough when things go wrong, just my humble opinion, I'd talk to them but not expect too much at this point? Maybe you get a discount on next year's application or something.

--->Paul

I really don't expect "help" from them--just don't want iot to happen again.
I think they know what happened cause long in late April I got a call they had gone back in to "help" me by spraying roundup along the road and had killed 16 rows. I had used some left over non roundup seed to do the outside. I suspect they know what happened and were trying to corrected and quit at that point.
So what I want is for the company to tell me what happened and what they're going to do to prevent it from occuring again.
I've been after them about spraying the grss filter strip along the woods and they have always sprayed right to the trees but never spray the ditch along the road.
In addition they have sent "newbies" and missed patches or hit patches twice.
Just cause I'm one of the early planters is no reason to get the inexperienced. Usually need to spray 4th week in March.