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Sod Breaking

rusty6

rusty6

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I did a little sod breaking today. Making a fireguard just in case. Its a dry spring. Went through first with the four inch spikes and then hitched onto this ancient JD one way disker. Its a poor excuse for a breaking disk but its all I had there to work with. After mulitple trips over the ground it broke up some of the lumps. Really needs a second trip over once it dries up a bit. Almost took out a post on the bison fence when the disker ran away sideways on some hard ground. Had to get a chain on the back end and pull the whole thing back and sideways to get by the post.
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(quoted from post at 22:16:48 04/28/21) Is it staying dry there
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Yes, still no break in the drought here. Every time they forecast snow or rain showers, its nothing. The snow we got two weeks ago did help a bit for surface moisture. Freezes dry at night as we have been mostly below normal temps too. Its not looking good.
 
Hey Ralph , we have just about the opposite here.
We had some heavy rain yesterday, and rain is
forecast every day for the next week. I am ok with
that. It will make the hay grow. Hope you folks get
some rain soon, and things warm up.
 
Because it is. Used to be everyone used them in heavier soil to seed with then barrow the field. Problem was you always had to make strike outs just like a plow. Then do the outside rounds in a circle. Now they are almost obsolete
 
Some of my distant relatives farmed near Cabri, SK and mentioned working summerfallow with a disker. I had never heard the name and after they described it, I realized it's the same (I think) as what JD called the surflex tiller. Surflex tillers were fairly common in North Dakota but without the grain box. Prime use was fall tillage and/or summerfallow in the 1940s and 50s. My Cabri relatives spelled it diskar.
 
(quoted from post at 06:30:48 04/29/21) Surflex tillers were fairly common in North Dakota but without the grain box. Prime use was fall tillage and/or summerfallow in the 1940s and 50s. My Cabri relatives spelled it diskar.
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You are right Ron. Generally known as a "disker" here. John Deere called their version the surflex tiller and that is what I am pulling in the photo. Early fifties model and its about the poorest example of a disker I've used. But then it is well worn from years of abuse n rocky ground. Massey and International made the best. Cockshutt and CCIL were ok too but I never heard much good about the John Deeres other than they were tough and durable. I've also got some video on YT of me working a patch of summerfallow with this outfit a few years ago.
 
That's not a bad idea to have a defendable space between your property and a approaching fire. In southern California fire does a lot of damage. Hundreds
of houses are destroyed each year because people don't provide the proper fire brake. You call them fireguards. the fire departments wants at least 100
ft. first 50 feet thinned 50% the next 50 feet around the hoses cleared. The problem is a lot of people disregard these requirements, and wonder why
their house burns down. I will be cuttings weeds for the next couple months, providing these fire breaks. Stan
 
Our weather pattern is doing the same thing we finally did a
rain not enough to break the drought but enough to help
 
My dad always warned us that spring was the most dangerous time of year for fires. All that dead grass just burns like crazy, especially if there is wind. And we get a lot of that. The older I get, the less willing I am to start and fight fires. If a stubble fire gets my property it won't be one that I lit. Its one of the many reasons I quit growing flax as we had to burn all the straw after harvesting it.
 
Interesting. Where I grew up, summer fallow and winter wheat were the norm. One-ways were very common, but I never saw one set up as a grain drill. These days chemical fallow has largely made the one-way obsolete.
 
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