Brokenbear
5 year old buck +
First severe drought then 10" of rain in 7 days with floods that are just now dry enough to plant so we are planting yesterday and today our fall covers, brassicas and legumes to be followed with cereal rye in a few weeks ..
New to me a used 3P606NT drill to learn up on (and how!) so what should have been a days drilling became two running into today ..2 days in a row in this heat is dancing around being stupid for this old man by the way ..
Calibration of the big n small box was very close ..would have worked as the first guesstimate was only 15% off so did the math and reset the feed handles and boogied to the field
Now the first day (Yesterday) real feel was 119 F and aggravating it was as the 3 drops from big and small box worked flawlessly during calibration
In the field the remaining 6 drops on the small seed box plugged ..one at a time ..run/ unplug ..run/ unplug .. finally pulling them all down and cleaning out the entire drop system
Now this is absolutely pilot error as I should have anticipated the lethal little silk egg pouches spiders leave in hollow spots ..but in my defense my old VanBrunt Drill had those steel slinky type drop tubes that were evidently not attractive to spiders ..
I expected to be done yesterday but as the first shot was fired.. the plan went awry so the most acres were done today ..kind of hard to push it as the rain forecast kept shrinking and though cooler air no rain in sight ..
Long story short I had just finished my last round today and headed to the barn when I heard thunder and low and behold black sky to the northwest ..
I cannot believe it worked out to get a rain out of nowhere after all the trials and tribulations.. finished planting and rain !
I guess it reminds us there is always something good to come ..
Bear
New to me a used 3P606NT drill to learn up on (and how!) so what should have been a days drilling became two running into today ..2 days in a row in this heat is dancing around being stupid for this old man by the way ..
Calibration of the big n small box was very close ..would have worked as the first guesstimate was only 15% off so did the math and reset the feed handles and boogied to the field
Now the first day (Yesterday) real feel was 119 F and aggravating it was as the 3 drops from big and small box worked flawlessly during calibration
In the field the remaining 6 drops on the small seed box plugged ..one at a time ..run/ unplug ..run/ unplug .. finally pulling them all down and cleaning out the entire drop system
Now this is absolutely pilot error as I should have anticipated the lethal little silk egg pouches spiders leave in hollow spots ..but in my defense my old VanBrunt Drill had those steel slinky type drop tubes that were evidently not attractive to spiders ..
I expected to be done yesterday but as the first shot was fired.. the plan went awry so the most acres were done today ..kind of hard to push it as the rain forecast kept shrinking and though cooler air no rain in sight ..
Long story short I had just finished my last round today and headed to the barn when I heard thunder and low and behold black sky to the northwest ..
I cannot believe it worked out to get a rain out of nowhere after all the trials and tribulations.. finished planting and rain !
I guess it reminds us there is always something good to come ..
Bear