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Post by Oatking on Oct 19, 2022 18:36:11 GMT -6
Getting those tracks back on isn't alot of fun. Hopefully they put more range on the tension cylinder then the older ones have. We pushed it on with the loader while inching ahead Hello bob123, thanks for the tip . Today we got the track back on. Holy is that a job! The mechanic thought we could jack the cart up and slide the track in. Well , try jacking a cart up in a soft field. Jack wanted to go down wards into the soil. After many attempts to jack up the one side, I said I heard of a farmer inching the track on. It took about 2 hours but we got it. The reason the track came off is because the front bogie wheel shaft broke off. Basically the front shaft was just being held on by the cylinder. We got the shaft welded in the field and took of both the front and back wheels and started sliding the front side . We chained the track to the bogie wheel in the front and back and slowly drove ahead. We had to reposition the chains as the wheel turned. I am bushed now. We started at lunch time and finished at 6;30. The weld that broke was rusty all the way around the shaft except for a quarter inch of shiny metal. It is a miracle it lasted this long. I might get the lugs re done because the track itself is like new. glad it is out of my mind and field now. If you guys buy a long track elmers grain cart take a good look at the wheels and all weld points. Southwest man take a look at your weld points. easier to fix it in your shop in the winter than in a field.
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Post by bob123 on Oct 19, 2022 21:14:12 GMT -6
Glad that worked for you. Ours has been heavily welded and braced at the front were the tensioner is already, but it is a 2011. Luckily caught before a catastrophic failure
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Post by SWMan on Oct 19, 2022 22:21:31 GMT -6
Oatking what year is your cart? 2000 bushel?
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Post by Oatking on Oct 20, 2022 20:28:39 GMT -6
Oatking what year is your cart? 2000 bushel? Mine was a 2014 and a 1600. I wished elmers would have had a stronger bracket where the bogie wheel pin slides thru the bushing attached to the track frame. Hope that describes my problem. Use a mirror to look between the tracks or take off the outside bogie wheel to check for cracks. oddly enough when we took off the broke off bogie wheel the lug nuts were very loose on just that one bogie wheel , which suggests somebody , ie who traded it off knew it was partially broken. I will be checking those lug nuts more often I guess. Today when I was heavy harrowing I did notice on many occasions my grain cart operators turned rather tight. I will have to be more precise next year on how sharp they can turn the cart. I told them , dont turn sharp, but I guess that is open for interpretation unfortunately. ha ha ! I can laugh a bit now , but when I saw the break down , my eyebrows were sky high , my eyes wide open and my hands were on top of my head! ehhhh! I still think they are an awesome cart, and that is why I upgraded to the 2022, 1300 bushel transfer track unit. connect pro software seems pretty nice to work with also . Mine is a right hand unload which after trying out I wondered why we unloaded on the left side. Oh boy , maybe I will know when the auger is not folded done! Actually with connect pro software , after you unload your cart you can program it so the auger folds down by itself. seems like a good idea.
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Post by Oatking on Oct 20, 2022 20:37:26 GMT -6
I heard Canary seed is yielding almost nothing this year. Its the only crop in my area that failed miserably. That has got to hurt when everything else is bumper. The farmer doesnt know why it failed either. It looked good from the road but the heads were very small and no seed.
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Post by kevlar on Oct 21, 2022 20:39:34 GMT -6
This is how you combine a barley crop that gets sown into mud and gets way to much rain right after you sow it. Should have sprayed it out in July. free image hosting
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Post by victory on Oct 21, 2022 21:58:49 GMT -6
They tell me acres/hr is very good with that system! I see that you have the turbo boost in the back of the side by side. On a more serious note, I had to do that too once and it is not a nice feeling. At least I got something from crop insurance.
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Post by shmiffy on Oct 21, 2022 22:20:41 GMT -6
I heard Canary seed is yielding almost nothing this year. Its the only crop in my area that failed miserably. That has got to hurt when everything else is bumper. The farmer doesnt know why it failed either. It looked good from the road but the heads were very small and no seed. That’s how canary seed was getting to be the last couple years it was grown here. Fuz in the top seeds. Variety makes a big difference
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Oct 22, 2022 20:40:06 GMT -6
Went out baling weeds on the wheat ground, just roll them up and dump them out, sure a lot faster than tying! The weeds in the bottom of the 25' swath are still green, like very green, going to be a smokey fire when I light them up, things didn't seem to cure this year.
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Post by kevlar on Oct 22, 2022 21:14:57 GMT -6
I’ve noticed a few of the last fields combined here have strips as green as grass yet, sure not normal for this time of year. Sprayed a couple quarters the other day, looked like most of the weeds I was targeting were still green and lush, could squeeze moisture out of the leaves yet. Noticed on some of the hills though the thistles had died right off and were crispy, guess the hills being dry they went dormant sooner. But then seen a lot of thistle that had gone crispy but had new growth coming up at the base of the dead plant. Hopefully what I sprayed worked, would have liked to do more but didn’t have time and was beginning to doubt myself, never seen a sprayer going anywhere this fall, and there is lots of ground that should have had one in the field right behind the combines. I noticed on one field beside the yard that was summer fallowed has something green coming up, never looked to see what it was, just seems odd this time of year for anything growing.
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Post by northernfarmer on Oct 22, 2022 22:39:29 GMT -6
Speaking of seeing green in fields, around here we were dry most of harvest and quite a few were done by the time we did end up with a fair rain and some had harrowed fields etc before that rain. Be it harrowed or untouched wheat stubble, grain stubble was sure showing up with strips behind where the various neighbours combines went, from Claas, JD 780's, JD 9X example ( although they had swathed that wheat ), Case flagship. I assume either dumping over the sieves or off the rotors etc but thick green strips up and down the whole fields in question. Usually the timing of harvest is later and the temps are cooler and growth of seeds to germinate and get that large in leaf size so its very visible from the road doesn't happen. The odd part is that our fields only had green on the headlands but very little on the main field and we run JD 9600's and have not been using blank off plates lately due to the easier threshing variety. Just made no sense why we would have what seems to be less loss out the back then a lot of the newer combines. I imagine turning at the ends causes some weird things to happen in the combine and could account for some of the losses we had in those area's. I can only speculate that perhaps our wheat was more ready then some who got itchy feet and dove into their crops and perhaps their heads were not threshing out as well even though the moisture was telling them it was time to get combining. Or some that were pushing their combines beyond what they should.
Certainly we have as do some neighbours a lot of green growth on canola stubble as the plants were struggling for moisture and just like last year after or during harvest with some rain, the swathed stubble shot up shoots and grew like crazy. Better canola crops around this year that had rains we missed don't have any or not near as much growth from regrowing canola. The deer grazed on that re growth canola last winter for a long time as I imagine they will this winter.
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Post by meskie on Oct 23, 2022 0:13:57 GMT -6
Yes the combines end up throwing over when they are not running full it seems. Lots of green fields around these parts also. Every brand has bad fields. Some colours are generally worse but you can tell who has hired men driving the machines and want to get done as soon as possible cause they have lots of acres to take off.
Only had one hard frost and a few nights below freezing around here this year and lots of weeds are still green hopefully the fields we sprayed will get a good kill.
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Post by shmiffy on Oct 23, 2022 0:22:07 GMT -6
Sprayed a section today. Was surprised that I did see a couple green plants. Not much green in the 1400 acres before that. Maybe 3 or 4 barley seeds that germinated after harvest.
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Post by hardrockacres on Oct 24, 2022 7:56:28 GMT -6
Noticed some dandelions started blooming in the grass in my yard yesterday before the snow. So the warm weather from a week back got them to fire up again? As far as green in the fields we found in our wheat this year that we were limited by shoe loss, never had that before as it is always rotor loss that limits our capacity. Had lots of straw and yields above average so maybe this was the cause? Running 9090 Elevations.
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Post by torriem on Oct 24, 2022 8:51:24 GMT -6
Doesn't matter what color combine a farmer has. A combination of fall tillage and fall irrigation makes them all green as grass without a killing frost. I can literally see no difference between the brands as far as what's left in the field. The fields that were the least green were simply the ones that hadn't been tilled. But even harrowing greened them up significantly. All sizes and makes of combines including an increasing number of Claas machines. Lots of CRs as well. The most green field in my area was high speed disced wheat stubble back at the end of august.
Given the incredibly long warm fall, I finally had to break down and spray the winter wheat stubble, lest I have a real lawn in the spring to contend with. A fair amount of blooming canola stubble in the area this year too without the frost. Hopefully none of it went to seed before the first killing frost of the year hit this morning, but I suspect a certain amount did go to seed.
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