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Dirtiest job on the farm

tomstractorsandtoys

tomstractorsandtoys

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The most dusty dirtiest job I do is chopping soybean stubble. I use to chop a bunch but now only do one wagon load for the wife for garden mulch and flower beds. If you can see the wagon they are to wet and will mold. These pics were taken with the wind blowing away. The other way across the field you could not even see the chopper spout. Glad I have a cab tractor. Years ago I did this with an open station 4020. Maybe that is some of my lung problems? Tom
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I remember years ago combining soybeans using an open JD 45 Combine YUKKKKKK that dust grrrrrrrrrr Eyes burned and watered and had to blow nose all night despite the masks I wore then ....

John T
 
I think I'd figure out something else for garden mulch, and not even do this one load. Cab or no cab, this doesn't look like any fun. This dirty job would get X-ed right off of my list. I don't care if it meant being in the dog house with the wife. LOL.
 
Soybean dust is some rough stuff to work in. Seems that it takes till the following day to be able to breathe again and quit itching.
 
Do you not have a chopper on your combine? If you do then nothing left to chop. Years and years ago did not have a chopper on combine and had to use a chopper to get the stalks fine enough to work the ground for wheat. But we did chop a couple of loads for cow bedding. 40+ years ago but I don't remember it being that bad.
 

That doesn t look to bad at all
Try running a composter with an open cab skid steer in a poultry barn. Even with ventilation fans on at times it s difficult to see the windrows your making that are less than 8 ft from you
I have a special power vented helmet with filters to keep the dust out of my eyes and nose
 
talk about lung problems. I remember this time of year the flies were moving into the barn with the cows. We sprayed to kill the flies but we breathed the same poison until milking was done.
 
Having to rush to harvest the baccer crop before a killing frost in October. Working in the cold and rainy weather and in the mud for days to save the crop.
 
Two come to mind: greasing every fitting and oiling every chain on a McCormick SP125 combine. about 110 fittings and extreme positioning ones self to get at them inside the straw walkers and behind the engine (under the grain tank at ground level). The second was using that combine in dry beans at 95 degrees. A runner up is tying bales on a wire tie hand tie Case baler sitting on both sides I never got to do the baling as I was 6 years old. Jim
 


I remember as a kid we'd thrash eatable beans and blow the pods up in the barn to mix with the cow feed. There would be dirty dust on every thing up there.
 
When I was young and working at a feed mill the owner rented a silo and blew oats into it. All that oat dust settled all up and down the entry shoot we had to climb up to shovel out the oats. Oat dust is as nasty as any farm dust.
 
Yep....and hauling up 60 feet of silo unloaded cable after filling with haylage...spit green for a day or two.

Ben
 
Combining oats on the JD 45 hi lo combine, no cab of course, might have given you a run for the money back in the day.

Paul
 
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