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bjrogg:
Yup that’s a lot colder than we get around here. Normally don’t get much below-14f . Hate when you breath through your nose and it freezes together. The big lake tends to moderate our temperature extremes. In the summer it helps keep it from getting as hot. In the winter it keeps us from getting as cold. It definitely is a big influence on our weather and even more so right along the shoreline. My dads farm where I grew up is four miles from the lake. My farm goes almost up to it. I always have extra clothes. Sometimes it’s hard to believe the difference those couple miles make.
Snow is very good insulator. Especially dry fluffy snow. If we get a foot of snow before freeze up and it doesn’t go away. There will be mud under the snow no matter how cold it gets.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We got loader and my snowblower tractor back to shop yesterday.
Snowblower tractor has broken clutch cable. Had to take access cover off bottom of cab floor to work on it. Took awhile but got old one out. Hopefully they get new one soon. Or at least I don’t need my snowblower.
Also got our new used six row topper home. It was nice that we could buy it pretty local. The lady said she might even come and run it for me if we really got in a bind. Hard finding enough good help that time of year.
Got lights wired on beet digger. Put tank and convoy from four row on six row. It has new chain and the electric hydraulic valves that allow me to fold elevator, run conveyor to unload the bin and change direction of elevator to fill cart or to fill bin. I can do all of these functions and more using one hydraulic outlet from my tractor with the value. Otherwise it would take more outlets than my tractor has. I need
the rest of my outlets for other functions.
I did hit a piece of obsidian for a while Sunday. Not done, but starting to look like something
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We had two four row beet toppers. The topper removes the beet leaves and places them in between the rows. We don’t harvest them . They just go back into the ground.
Now we need a six row topper and again we got one about scrap price.
We plan on using a lot of parts from our four rows. They have almost new flails and a much better bracket to hold them.
We took them off the topper we bought. They were worn out anyway. And we hate these brackets.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
These are the ones on our four rows.
bjrogg:
It also got above freezing and we finished washing our combine. We need to keep working on equipment. Can’t just sit and wait for parts.
Also have more Biosolids coming.
Bjrogg
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