Posted by jon f mn on September 04, 2021 at 06:05:02 from (174.219.137.133):
Had pneumonia last week which is not uncommon for me, but still hard to deal with. So that meant not much got done in the kingdom for a while. This week after I was on the mend I went out and worked up some sod where the alfalfa didn't grow to replant it. I think the reason it didn't grow was it was so wet the year it was planted and the ground hasn't been worked right for many years and the ground had just gotten too hard. So I started with a couple trips over with my heavy disc to cut the sod some. The ground was so hard that even a heavy cutting disc only got in maybe 3 inches on two passes. The. I went over with the chisel plow. Took two trips to get it to 9 inches deep then and in the ends several trips.
Hopefully that breaks things up some. I used my 400 on the 14 foot disc to work it down. I hadn't had a chance to use it on any real heavy work yet since I re-built the engine last year and wanted to see what it would do.
She did very well with it. Was able to handle it in 5th gear easy without the drag on. With the 4 section drag on it was a real heavy load but still took it in 5th. If you remember I put a 301d engine from a combine in this tractor. That should give it around 70hp or so. I believe they rate those engines at 80 or 90 hp engine hp in the combine. So I'm very pleased with how it ran.
Then I used it to pull the drill to plant the alfalfa with oats as a cover.
Finished on Thursday and got an all day light rain yesterday so it should be good to get it started.
This weekend I'm going to be getting ready to take some stuff to my local thrashing show in a week. I'm thinking about taking a couple tractors and some equipment and my combine to show. So this weekend I'll be cleaning and preparing that. This rain has been just enough to save my corn crop and it's just dented now. I may try to chop some for silage this year if I get time. I would like to use my chopper and I have enough cattle now that I could keep a stack fresh while feeding. Then of course there will be combining I a month or so. With the corn denting early and the dry conditions I'm thinking that should be early as well. That will be nice so I have time to get my tillage done this fall.
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