One of those Day's

Why is it that when you make plans to get things done somebody throw's a monkey wrench into the plan's? Monday I called my spray guy about when he could spray my ground sprayed for burn down for no-till beans, Saturday at the soonest as we are still spraying for corn. Ok Saturday it is. My cousin called Tuesday and said Joe can spread lime on Thursday if you want him to, Cool set it up. So Wednesday I spent the day getting things ready for both of these guys to do there jobs. Well Thursday morning my cousin started hauling lime in bright and early and had 2 loads in by noon (Joe will be there by 1 pm), Joe calls and the spreader is down and he's fixing it and should be there by 5pm. I went with my cousin to get the last load and the ride over was not bad but we waited for 1/2 hour to get loaded so no big deal. The ride back liked to jarred my insides out, Man that truck rides rough in the passengers seat. Well we got back about 3.30pm and cousin left and I went to work brush hogging and doing some clean up work. At quarter of 7 Joe rolls in with the backhoe and he looks like 10 miles of bad road and asks me if tomorrow morning is ok to start, Sure its ok as the rain will be tomorrow night. We all left for the night.

Friday morning, I get to the farm at 7:30 am it rained for 10 mins and quit, Not looking good. Joe calls and he will be there in about 1/2 hour, Ok I'll go to town and get another cup of coffee. In town I pass my spray guy going the other way, Oh crap! I get coffee head back and there both there in the field one spraying the other spreading lime. They kept getting in each others way so not my problem as the two of them are friends anyway and they worked it out. While they were doing there thing I got the skid steer out and cleaned out some brush in a ditch line I need to gravel to slow the water down. Well they got it sprayed and the lime spread and no rain so now all I have to do is run the harrowgator over the worked ground to work the lime in. Joe asks me if I can follow him down to his next job as his guy just had a wreck, Sure. 25 miles later he pulled the backhoe into the next field. Back to the farm so he can get his Tarrow-gator so he can take it and go. He leaves and I jump on Big Bertha (Case 930) to start harrowgating. Dead battery, Great! I left the key on. I took the truck over for a jump start, Get it started and head to the field and its getting dark like it's going to rain. It get done about the time the sky opened up. Got to the barn but was dripping wet. 10 min later the sun is out. Go figure! Got home took a shower and called it a day. One guy late one early and one screw up day. But its all done! Bandit

Sounds like a typical day "down on the farm". Glad to hear it all worked out anyway.

Sounds a bit hectic.

My day went much better than I had dreamed. As most of you know I got a new knee the 2nd of Apr and had to have my BIL do my tillage then my SIL took 2 days off to get my fields planted. But I had other projects that I just haven't been able to manage on my own. One being a shed to erect (small plastic one for feed storage for the wife's dirty birds). Another was new front tires on my backhoe plus an outer wheel bearing on one of the Fords.

Well 2 weeks ago 2 of my sons came for a day from Fargo and got the shed up....




Then they pulled and packed the wheel bearings on my boat trailer.

Then my SIL pulled the front tires off the backhoe for me and my wife's boss broke em down and put the new tires on, only charge 25 bucks.







I still have to get the lugs on but another son, my oldest is going to do that tomorrow. He helped pull the Ford apart today and my parts will be in at 8AM.

Another and my last son showed up just in time to help get the tires set on and 3 lugs on each wheel. He showed up cause he wanted to do some shooting. He was acting really disappointed that I was working on the backhoe when he showed up. But by just getting the tires on with 3 lugs each we had plenty of time to shoot some too.

Then this afternoon I was going to pull the carbs of my boat motor and go through them. When I started it the other day it ran very poor and the idle adjustment screws made no difference in how it idled. Ran fine wide open. Well just for the heck of it I decided to start it before I messed with anything. Now the darn thing purrs at idle and all I had to do was tweak the idle screws about 1/8 turn each.

I hope you have a better day tomorrow.

Rick

Be interesting to see how the burn down works with the lime on it too. It really shouldn't work at all.

Great pics Bandit! Sounds like another day in the life of farming lol if I may ask what does the lime do? I have heard of using it but never really knew why, thanks for posting love seeing how things are done in other areas

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I our ground you have to keep the soil PH up or the fertilizer cant be used by the crop. This lime is not a powder lime but it's called AG Meal and it's like large sand and it's wet. Soybeans grown in ground with a high lime (PH) content are really dark green almost dark blue and grow very good. There are 6 or 7 places to get lime at around me and the lime is totally different from each other. Ware I got this from just opened up 4 years ago and has a very high Calcium content to it. I put 2 ton to the acre on this ground as it needs it and in 3 or 4 years I will add another ton or 1 1/2 ton to the acre to get the PH back up. With Lime there is an old saying "Half Lime is Half Acid" and it's true. I have seen ground farmed by guys that never put lime on that give it up because it wont produce anymore and a new guy comes in the first year and spreads 2 to 3 ton of lime an acre but no fert and grow 45+bu beans an acre that year ware the year before it only grew 25bu beans. This is the best time of year to spread lime on bean ground, And you never spread lime on ground that your going to plant corn on because it locks up the nitrogen for 6 months to a year in the ground and the corn cant use it. Lime is as important as fertilizer to growing crops around hear. Bandit

Thanks for the explanation! I use the summer fallow method here and have never done any lime application, I did add 30lbs of a fert mix when I grew a test Sunflower and Safflower oil seed test for the University here a few years back, they did a soil test but I do not know what the numbers ment, thanks again
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