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Post by eppie on Feb 26, 2010 12:09:25 GMT 1
You guys can still sit still and wait for the spring ? We had lots of snow and the land is still too wet to spread manure. However i dont regret that as it helps me to patiently finish the muck fork i'm building, as i also have to fix my "new" spreader for upcoming season... Its 10 degrees out here, so i dont need to light the shop heater anymore.. Some farms have already spread slurry, but you can see the occasional rut. Some couldnt wait because their slurry pits were fulll. Contractors are already complaining, that if it doesnt dry soon, they will have to plough and seed maize when the first slurry on grassland isnt spread yet, and everything has to happen at once... Thats the fate of those who work with nature..  |
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Post by Farmer from Finland on Mar 8, 2010 16:40:10 GMT 1
Hey Renze!
Snow in Netherlands?OK,i have heard that this winter you have some snow.Not common,or?
Our winter have been like during 70s or 80s.About two month continously under 0 degrees,this area about 60cm snow.
Here slurry spreadung during wintertime is not allowed at all.
My estimation is that spring can't come early.But if spring is coming fast then our problem is water everywhere...
FFF
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Post by eppie on Mar 12, 2010 21:49:49 GMT 1
Yes, we had two months of which 80% of the days were covered with snow. That hasnt happened for maybe 2 decades. Our manure season starts from February 1st but spreading on snow isnt allowed. Tomorrow i hope to get my muck grab ready for sandblasting and painting, and next week i must get my spreader repaired. Too much work, i'm glad the spring doesnt put even more pressure on me yet... |
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Post by dom on Mar 31, 2010 11:47:27 GMT 1
Got some very cold and some unusually warm this winter. I haven't seen any snow in a couple days. Almost hit 70*F today (no idea what that is in degrees C) Just about out of steers, so one last round of barn cleaning and spreading this spring, and no more of that crap (pun intended). Got the whole farm plowed last fall with a new (to me) Landoll 1200 9 shank disc chisel and a Deere 8320 my brother snagged off the lot for demo's. So get spreading done, one trip with Field cult, and should be ready to get the planter in the field. Corn and beans in 30inch rows this year only. Shouldn't be too rough.
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Post by eppie on Apr 1, 2010 22:12:57 GMT 1
Got my muck grab ready: blasted, painted and assembled.
The cylinders are hanging on baler twine, as i wanted them red instead of black like the rest of the grab. Should be dry tomorrow morning, so i can hang them in the grab and get to the nearby dealer to get some hydraulic hoses pressed.
Then in the afternoon i hope to get myself a Euro to 3pt hitch adapter made, so i can hang the muck grab on the back of the 3011 to clean out the freestall where 7 foals have built a 50cm layer of muck. The barn is too low to enter with the loader tractor, so lets see how the 3011 handles it..
Its raining and now its 4 degrees so grass doesnt grow right now... it should give me some time to finish my new (to me) muck spreader as well. The old 3 ton still doesnt sell, since the crisis began, they arent worth half as much as before.
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Post by dom on Apr 21, 2010 15:59:38 GMT 1
I do not miss cows..... the freestall barn (4 rows of stalls 138'long) was stripped to make loose housing for calves up to 900 pounds in 2003 and it is now shed space for anything that fits under the trusses. They are about 9-1/2 feet high I'd venture to guess. New toolbar built on planter for the extra set of liquid fert disks, tanks set up on slight grade in shed to store the fert, now for all to get delivered and some drydown. Buried big tractor spreading manure last week and wasn't down to the "real" wet area yet.
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Post by kevanos on Apr 21, 2010 18:34:59 GMT 1
We've had an unseasonably warm April so far... 6 days in the 80s Farhenheit so far! Around here, we're already in the fields tilling/ripping, spreading Ammonia/fertilizer, and even drilling soybeans. Winter wheat is progressing nicely.
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Post by eppie on Apr 21, 2010 21:08:01 GMT 1
I didnt get my new spreader ready, so its the 2nd round i did with my old spreader while the new one is sitting in the shop: Anyways, when the grass starts to grow, the muck already needs to be out. Grass is getting along, though the nights are colder than last month. Muck spreading is allmost done, in the 1st week of may the yearlings go to a pasture at a relative of my brother, so then i can test my muck grab behind the 3011, and spread the last muck for now. Saturday i have to spread two or three loads at an older guy from our church: His son is a landscaper and will use his Weidemann miniloader to load me up with a couple of loads of horse muck and tree leafs. This guy doesnt call a contractor because the parklane to his pasture cant take anything bigger than my equipment.. I lost about 15 liters of oil during spreading, there was rain coming and i had two leaks: one ram seal and an o-ring under the cab. It had to wait untill spreading was done, so it increased my cost price by 50 euro.... Contractors have most slurry spreading done: Last saturday they came at my neighbour to haul slurry to a field he inherited from an uncle, at 10km distance: There were two Magnums, one with a 10m3 injector tank, one with a tri-axle 25m3 Schuitemaker, a McCormick with a 20m3 truck tanktrailer, and an old Russian Kraz 6x6 truck with a 25m3 tank. Total capacity was about 75 to 80 m3 so they were home in less than 2 hours. Normally they dont do slurry on saturday, but i guess they organised this slurry exodus because at normal slurry days, all 4 combinations arent available Even though everybody was in a hurry and used every dry day they could take, when most slurry was done, it started to get dry.... But at least the muck was out before the grass began to grow |
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