Its been a pretty progressive week. The CIH magnum tractor is back in service thanks to my sister in law driving for parts and my brother's help assembling them. I sprayed the oats which is a nice looking crop and not bad for weeds. Also got my flax sprayed yesterday in near perfect conditions. Not too hot or windy and everything worked, even the A.C. The canola is showing first blossoms, guess it won't get the second application of glyphosate now. Really it is not bad for weeds so should be fine.
Got the rest of the summerfallow worked and looking good (for now).
Just for a test I hitched the old Cockshutt 40 onto the new (to me) haybine and cut some of the grass around the yard and driveway. It is old and faded but cuts grass like crazy and will be a big improvement over the old sickle mower (or wearing out my swather trying to cut hay with it).
I shot
this video Tuesday evening during a severe thunderstorm. Lucky we missed the tornados that were spotted in a few areas that day.
We had a day of hurricane force winds on Wednesday, Shingles were lifting and sheet metal on a shed roof was threatening to lift. Probably not smart but I got up on the aluminum ladder and put few screws in to hold the sheets down, although I was in danger of becoming a human kite at times.
The lucky accident? No, not falling off a roof but nearly crashing my air seeder into a grain auger and hopper bin. I had just moved the air seeder into the centre of the yard so I could cut the grass where it had been parked. Slight downhill slope but seemed fine when I unhitched it. About five minutes later I came out of the quonset to find the air seeder parked up against the side of the hopper bin and nearly on top of a grain auger. Within inches of crashing into the legs of the hopper bin or running over (and crushing) the grain auger tube. That could have been a multiple disaster that would have ruined my good day.
I've had a few hours on the old 479 haybine. It was quite a step up from the John Deere number 9 sickle bar.
ReplyDeleteI met an old guy who had a clever scheme for getting your haybine to cut really well.
He used stub guards and lots of hold downs. The key is to shim the guards like you would a swather. Now you can get adjustable guards like the swathers use. When we set up our haybine we used the older kind where you shim the top guard and use hold downs between the guards to hold the sickle tight to the guards.
However, if you get the thing so you can cut at 5 mph then the sickle drive bearings start going out...
Speaking of accidents.
ReplyDeleteI thought I fixed the brakes on my rather old forklift only to discover there is a leak in the master cylinder. I discovered this when I succumbed to the siren whine of the 3 cylinder Detroit diesel and floored the sucker whilst moving boxes of feed in the rain.
I missed the box, had no brakes, crashed into a pallet of seed left over from a planting job for my neighbor (that I need him to pick up) and ran over the washtub I borrowed from my longsuffering wife and forgot to return. (I was going to braze a washer on the bottom so I could make a washtub bass in case collieguy comes to visit me again. But I borrowed it to sift weeds out of some soybeans I was planting for some fresh market scheme that failed)
So I would say a near miss is still a hit and a near hit is still a miss!
i would blame the cat for that air seeder incident. The 40 looks good on that thing :)
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