A few pics from the farm

bradk · Mar 6, 2010

A few fellas were asking for pics of the Oliver 88 gas in the backround in my "Making Steer Feed" post the other day.Here it is hooked to the New Idea manure spreader.

Also a pic for James Howell. James asked as to how we fill the corn cribs.88 diesel at the Kewanee elevator pto and 1800c diesel pulling gravity wagons.

MSJ from MN · Mar 6, 2010

Beautiful tractors you have there.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 6, 2010

Nice pics Brad . Got any pheasants up that way ? They are almost extinct around here . I am trying to put together a hunting road trip for next year . N .dak ,Minn , possibly Kansas too .

keh · Mar 6, 2010

Real nice old tractors and equipment, looks well maintained.

The corn crib is interesting. Wouldn't work here in hot, sometimes humid SC. Don't think it would work here even with a roof on it, rain would blow in and we have rain in winter instead of snow(mostly). There would also be a huge rat, raccoon,and possum problem not to mention birds.

KEH

Ken 46 · Mar 6, 2010

Lot of pheasants in the SW part of Kansas and Panhandle of oklahoma.
Kansas has lots of walk in hunting also

JR.Fyre · Mar 6, 2010

When I saw that, that reminded me of my wife and I son: When he was old enough and big enough I put him in silo when we started to make silage: I explaind to him what he had to do OMG if that
wasnt a big mistake: when the silage started to come down from the top he thought the world had come to an end.I have never seen any body clime
out of a silo so fast,and was he ever mad.
He thought I was trying to kill him, but not realy
from that time forward I went in the silo and he unloaded. O WELL THATS LIFE.
I thought you might want to hear that this little story. Well I gota go talk at ya later
JR.FRYE

bradk · Mar 6, 2010

Oh yeah,lots of rooties!

We have a conservation filter-strip on either side of our drainage ditch.Gooooooood huntin'!!

Larry NE IL · Mar 6, 2010

Nice pic's Brad. I always liked the look of the rear wheels dished out and hubs reversed!

flying belgian · Mar 6, 2010

Is there many people still crib ear corn there? That method was dropped here about 40 years ago. Don't know anybody within 100 miles still doing it. If you can handle the volumn it's still a cheap way to handle corn.

JayinNY · Mar 6, 2010

Nice pic of the loading, now can we see one of you unloading that ear corn?

fixerupper · Mar 6, 2010

Nice clean corn. What kind of picker did the job?

olgentdc · Mar 6, 2010

Thanx for the Pixs Brad , always nice to visit. Would You care to go into detail about the cribbing? , your Area ?, Life expectancy of crib ?, shelf life and or spoilage ? and weather conditions ? ,,,varmint problems ? .. I like Ear corn for Cow feed and Sows on pasture ... .My great Uncles in Louisville KY.Area Used to do exactly as you do , and roof it with junk tin sheets overlayed with hay or straw bales , which naturally would go to ruin with all our rain here ,, but in reality , most all was used for the the sows and cows that were fed on the farm with very little real waste ...varmints of all kinds hung out there, and after milking ,it was a fun place to try out a new 22 at Christmas time ...

bradk · Mar 7, 2010

Here's the picker we used that year('08); Oliver 83NR and 1650 diesel at the pto.Last year we used our NI Uni w/picker attatchment to give it some exercise.

bradk · Mar 7, 2010

You can see the unloading of crib in the post I titled "Making Steer Feed" on Thurs.(4th) on TT.

1936 · Mar 7, 2010

Great corn when higher than the picker. We always had a good crop of rats with ear corn. Hard to beleive that some rats remain from 60 years back. Live in the ground.

bradk · Mar 7, 2010

No there's not too many here either.We've been doing it on our farm every year for the past 60 years.Milked cows up til 2 years ago.Ground ear corn for them too.

It' kinda funny,there's quite a few guys raising steers around here and they buy all their corn from the local elevators.Cuts into the profit,I'd say.

bradk · Mar 7, 2010

J Heitkemper;

Well,the crib was built somewhere in the mid to late 50's.It's showing it's age,but we keep patching her up.We also fill up a wooden double wide crib with a roof,but use the corn from the pole-crib first.We also shell and dry about 15,000 bushel and store in bins.

As far as spoilage,being that it's cool when it's cribbed and winter follows,there's very little spoilage.The pole crib gets emptied by spring rains,then we grind from the cribs with roofs.

Rats,oh yeah,you have to keep the population in check.We lace the area with poison to keep them to a minimum.No bait has been taken in a few months.Squirrels have a hay-day,but we don't mind them much.

I'm in SE Minnesota.

Thanks for the interest!

bradk · Mar 7, 2010

Thanks everyone,glad you enjoyed!!

James Howell · Mar 7, 2010

Nice looking old 88 diesel loading the corn crib.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us and showing me how you load your corn crib.

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