jon f mn
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Last month we had some nice weather and it looked like an early spring. But it's been raining and snowing since. Not a lot of water, but enough so it doesn't dry and cold too. Snowed enough to turn the grass white Friday night and Saturday morning, and had some flurries again this afternoon. Between that I got my oats planted. My grandson Randell came over and helped. He drove the 1030 with the disc on. First the heavy disc.
That disc has 24blades and it is heavy! And the 1030 knows it's back there. Went over it twice with that then again with the light disc.
The 1030 hardly knows that 14' disc is back there. Worked up the corn ground pretty decent. Used the 400 on the grain drill.
I did manage to break the carb on my dc. Had to take it apart to change the needle and seat and then it leaked at the elbow where the gas goes in. When I tried to remove the elbow the casting just broke off. So I ended up building it up with braze and then drilled and tapped it. Seems to work fine now.
I put the cattle outside for the summer yesterday. They sure liked that!
I just picked up the two larger Holstein heifers a few weeks ago. They came from a farm that wasn't feeding them and were extremely thin. I really didn't think the one that was milking would make it, she looked terrible. Took a week for them to start eating good, but they are doing well now. One is just breeding age and the other is a first calf cow. Looks like they will fatten up nicely now.
I loaded four more hogs to go to the butcher this afternoon too, that leaves only one left to go next month. Did well on this batch of hogs and the four steers that sold last month.
Looks like rain for a couple days then nice again. Hope to start planting corn next weekend.
That disc has 24blades and it is heavy! And the 1030 knows it's back there. Went over it twice with that then again with the light disc.
The 1030 hardly knows that 14' disc is back there. Worked up the corn ground pretty decent. Used the 400 on the grain drill.
I did manage to break the carb on my dc. Had to take it apart to change the needle and seat and then it leaked at the elbow where the gas goes in. When I tried to remove the elbow the casting just broke off. So I ended up building it up with braze and then drilled and tapped it. Seems to work fine now.
I put the cattle outside for the summer yesterday. They sure liked that!
I just picked up the two larger Holstein heifers a few weeks ago. They came from a farm that wasn't feeding them and were extremely thin. I really didn't think the one that was milking would make it, she looked terrible. Took a week for them to start eating good, but they are doing well now. One is just breeding age and the other is a first calf cow. Looks like they will fatten up nicely now.
I loaded four more hogs to go to the butcher this afternoon too, that leaves only one left to go next month. Did well on this batch of hogs and the four steers that sold last month.
Looks like rain for a couple days then nice again. Hope to start planting corn next weekend.
