touchdifferent
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Started off, getting Jenny started spraying for the cp33's. She got all but 1.5 acres out of the 8.3 done. I made a 10' boom using a piece of emt conduit. Here's my spray rig. Worked great. Was getting right at 3/4 acre per tank.This is how we kept the sprayer filled. 30 gallon barrel, so we could fill the sprayer & barrell. It'll have to do till I can find a real spray rig to go behind the tractor.
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The corn I planted last friday is starting to emerge, bout 1 1/2" tall.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04708_1.JPG[/image]
The corn I planted on May 8th is about 6" tall & doing great.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04701.JPG[/image]
Looks like I was drunk when I was pulling the planter though. Crooked rows. Do you think the deer will mind?
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04717.JPG[/image]
Clover is in full bloom nearly everywhere. There may be a shortage of honey bees, but I know where they all went. Looked like we had 3 counties worth of honey bees in the clover yesterday.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04703.JPG[/image]
I then jumped on the tractor. Since it had the brush hog still hooked up, that's where I started. The old man I bought my farm from likes to mow the dam on his pond. Over the years, it's grown up with sumac & mulberry bushes. Was getting so thick, bout wiped him off his mower last summer. I cleaned it up wide enough that he could drive his truck across the dam again. He was like a kid in the candy store. Tickled him to death. Mowed down some sorghum/sunflower stalks from last year.
Unhooked, & got the disc hooked up. Disced about 7 acres where I'll be planting beans, disced up a half acre road bed & a garden size patch beside the pond. Gonna plant a mix of sunflowers, buckwheat & millet there next sunday. (gotta get the buckwheat from Racks & Beards.) Dove ought to love me for it.
Got that done & hooked up to the 3 point spreader & top dressed most of my clover plots.
I got the no till drill reserved for Wed, so hopefully, I can get the cp33's in this week. Gotta get all this pretend farming done so I can get back to work.
My ole dogs were sure draggin saturday night.
Bout forgot, spent an hour & half with my dozer man saturday. We're gonna get the road put in to the shop in the next 30 days. He's gonna have to build up a 2' burm about 100 yds long & put in a 3' road tube. Also talked with him about doing my pond later this summer.
This is my big bean plot. The untilled area to the left is going to be cp33. The spot where I was standing when I took this pic, is where we'll be building our 40x80 shop with an apartment for us to live in for a few years till we can build our dream home. Gonna be a nice view to wake up to every morning, don't ya think?
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04709.JPG[/image]
I hated to have to mow this established WW/WR plot, but since this is going to be planted in warm season grass, it had to go.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04714.JPG[/image]
Couple of the 1800 new trees we planted this spring.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04704.JPG[/image]
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04705.JPG[/image]
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04721.JPG[/image]
The corn I planted last friday is starting to emerge, bout 1 1/2" tall.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04708_1.JPG[/image]
The corn I planted on May 8th is about 6" tall & doing great.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04701.JPG[/image]
Looks like I was drunk when I was pulling the planter though. Crooked rows. Do you think the deer will mind?
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04717.JPG[/image]
Clover is in full bloom nearly everywhere. There may be a shortage of honey bees, but I know where they all went. Looked like we had 3 counties worth of honey bees in the clover yesterday.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04703.JPG[/image]
I then jumped on the tractor. Since it had the brush hog still hooked up, that's where I started. The old man I bought my farm from likes to mow the dam on his pond. Over the years, it's grown up with sumac & mulberry bushes. Was getting so thick, bout wiped him off his mower last summer. I cleaned it up wide enough that he could drive his truck across the dam again. He was like a kid in the candy store. Tickled him to death. Mowed down some sorghum/sunflower stalks from last year.
Unhooked, & got the disc hooked up. Disced about 7 acres where I'll be planting beans, disced up a half acre road bed & a garden size patch beside the pond. Gonna plant a mix of sunflowers, buckwheat & millet there next sunday. (gotta get the buckwheat from Racks & Beards.) Dove ought to love me for it.
Got that done & hooked up to the 3 point spreader & top dressed most of my clover plots.
I got the no till drill reserved for Wed, so hopefully, I can get the cp33's in this week. Gotta get all this pretend farming done so I can get back to work.
My ole dogs were sure draggin saturday night.
Bout forgot, spent an hour & half with my dozer man saturday. We're gonna get the road put in to the shop in the next 30 days. He's gonna have to build up a 2' burm about 100 yds long & put in a 3' road tube. Also talked with him about doing my pond later this summer.
This is my big bean plot. The untilled area to the left is going to be cp33. The spot where I was standing when I took this pic, is where we'll be building our 40x80 shop with an apartment for us to live in for a few years till we can build our dream home. Gonna be a nice view to wake up to every morning, don't ya think?
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04709.JPG[/image]
I hated to have to mow this established WW/WR plot, but since this is going to be planted in warm season grass, it had to go.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04714.JPG[/image]
Couple of the 1800 new trees we planted this spring.
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04704.JPG[/image]
[image]http://hardwoodfloorsbyrandy.com/DSC04705.JPG[/image]
