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bjrogg:
Yesterday was very windy. My brother and nephew worked at painting the six axle frame. They got two coats on it.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The rest off us worked at changing the wheels on the sprayer. We put short fat tires on for putting fertilizer on the wheat. It carries better and doesn’t make as deep of tracks.
Now we are going to need the skinny tall wheels for spraying crops planted in rows. The skinny tires will fit in between the rows. The fat ones won’t. It’s a little trickier than changing a tractor tire.
We made a special “Jack” to lift the sprayer with a tractor. It takes a couple hours to complete the transformation.
It went pretty good except for the wind blowing and all the dirt in the air.
This is the main reason we started planting cover crops. There many more reasons but this is the main one.
Not sure if you can see it, but the first picture is dirt blowing from neighbors field through the trees in our fence row. You can hardly see our trees. They are going to catch a lot of the neighbors top soil but not all of it
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
This is a picture of our field that I planted in to the heavy rye residue and still alive rye. It is holding the ground in place. Zero dirt blowing. In fact it is catching topsoil from the neighbors.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
I stopped by the beach on my way home. I saw two freighters on the lake. I’m thinking it had to be scary out there in that wind
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We finished painting six axle frame. Putting everything back together. New slack adjusters, and brake chambers. All the air bags and tanks. New air lines. Might have it ready for wheat harvest yet. Still a long way to go but it’s nice to be putting back together instead of tearing apart.
Bjrogg
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