Posted by Destroked 450 on November 24, 2018 at 11:03:40 from (66.38.93.182):
Corns been ready to pick for several weeks but we've been getting rain every few days keeping the field muddy.
We got a light shower early in the week but had a few days of no ran during thanksgiving, cloudy so not good drying weather but at least no rain.
Mounted the picker and went at it Thursday morning and finished up in the dark around 6:00 pm last night, had the wagons unloaded and everything put away by 7:00 before it started raining again at 7:30.
Field was soft enough that I could only load 45-50 bushel of ear corn in a wagon without spinning out and getting stuck, it was easier to just swap wagons than deal with making ruts and pulling everything out of the mud.
My brother and his sons keep the wagons emptied out so everything when pretty smoothly.
The only issues were the stalks were dry and keep breaking off causing the head to plug so I swapped out the aggressive quartz roll for a smooth rubber roll, that pretty much eliminated the plugging problem.
The other issue was about three loads before finishing the 30+ year old blower belt broke so, it's a bit of a job to replace that belt and I didn't think we had time so the last few loads had a fair amount of fodder in the loads, not a big issue since it all gets ground into cow feed.
Didn't take time for pics but here are some from last time, same fields and same equipment, just doesn't show all of the mud on the tires.
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