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bjrogg:
Think we have everything ready for beets todayZ hopefully finish the neighbors and start ours.
All the trucks are serviced. Tractors and carts ready. Digger and topper ready. Rye spreader refilled and tractor on the chisel plow to do tillage behind us. Hopefully we can find enough warm bodies to fill the seats and the weather to allow them to stay in them.
I put in a little overtime last night and worked on this Red Osier shaft. It’s been curing on a old broom handle for several years.
If everything goes as I’m hoping. This could be a very special arrow. I have a point I knapped from a stone I found on my farm. The Red Osier was harvested from my farm. I have a HHB bow I made from a tree on my farm. If it works out I’d like to make a string of natural materials gathered from my farm.
Then harvest a nice buck with it .
Man’s gotta have a dream. Seems like a worthy one
Bjrogg
M2A:
Wishing you a good harvest BJ.
All done here. been waiting on some parts that came today then I can get some herbicide down and some urea sprayed on the trees so I can get that stuff winterized. Got a GAP inspection with the USDA inspecters next week so I hope after that things will slow down.
Looking forward to see that arrow all finished up.
Mike
bjrogg:
Thanks Mike. Glade you have your harvest completed. Hope your inspection goes well. I have really enjoyed your contributions to this thread. I always enjoy learning more about different types of farming just like I do with different types of bows.
Yesterday morning we started digging sugar beets again
First off we sent two carts and 3 trucks over to help our neighbor finish his 20 acres.
While they were digging those my youngest son and I moved beet digger, topper, fuel cart, JCB loader, tool truck, pickup, tractor and cart and one truck to the field we want to start our beets in.
It’s the furthest haul. Almost a 40 mile round trip for the trucks. We want to get this field if we can while we still have help. My neighbors 93 year old dad has suddenly took a turn and was put on hospice. We could lose half our truck drivers at almost anytime. Hope he pops back. He has been doing good up until now. He’s a very nice man
The sunrise was a broken cloudy one but it was pretty mixed with the fall colors.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
I was hoping it would only take about 3 or four hours to finish our neighbors field but it was more like seven.
When they finished the whole crew came to our field and we started digging about 2:00 pm. Things went pretty good for the most part. Conditions were still a little challenging but workable.
We had a few bugs to get out of the new (old) digger. The biggest problem was that the digger wheels slid very easily. They have grouser pads on the spooks of the wheels that help keep the wheels turning.
The new digger wheels we just put on were made for a narrow row spacing digger. They had very small pads and with the soil conditions the combination was allowing the wheels to slide instead of keep turning. Whenever the wheels slide the beets don’t go into the digger and are lost. This means I have to look backwards the entire time constantly watching the wheels. When one stops turning I have to stop, raise digger, back up and carefully lower digger until wheels turn backwards and clear again. This is very time consuming and extremely tiring for me the operator.
This morning we are going to take the old digger wheels with us. If conditions don’t improve we will take off the new wheels and put on the old. In these conditions old almost worn out wheels work best.
We did manage to get 21.37acres off and a lot of the bugs out. Hopefully today is a big day.
21.37 acres down 328 to go.
The beets actually were pretty good. I did one yield check and it was 32.19 tons per acre. For the weather we have had I’m very happy with that. Especially if the sugar content is good
Bjrogg
Just a few pictures. Really could take my eyes off digger for long enough to take many good ones.
bjrogg:
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