John Deere Green

ovrszd · Nov 28, 2019

murphy1244 said:
Thanks for the pictures Richard! I and my Mrs enjoyed them.

Your welcome Murph. Hope you have a good Thanksgiving Day my friend. Having Turkey dinner in the shop today. Guests are already arriving.....

turnkey4099 · Nov 28, 2019

2LaneCruzer said:
My how times have changed since I herded that old 14' Gleaner around the wheat fields in Kansas. Open cab; eat the dust and chaff, water was a (dirty) canvas water bag. Ah, those were the days!

You're just a youngster. My last harvest was on the crawler ( no cab) tractor pulling a 14' header combine.

2LaneCruzer · Nov 28, 2019

turnkey4099 said:
You're just a youngster. My last harvest was on the crawler ( no cab) tractor pulling a 14' header combine.

I'm betting were not far apart in age. I remember my Grand dad's old pull behind Gleaner; I carried water for him one year. There were a lot of them around when I went on the harvest in Kansas, but the custom cutters all had self propelled machines; this was 1959. I actually got to see a threshing machine in action in SW Missouri, ca. 1950. It was belt driven by a tractor, and they brought the bundles of wheat to the thresher in wagons, and used pitch forks to feed it.

bunyip · Nov 28, 2019

There are some huge 'stations' here but the reality is the further north you go the less useful it is and doesn't support a lot of stock and certainly no crops, cattle stations can run one head per 5 acres or so and round up time is done with helicopters and now drones.
A lot of farms down our way are 40-100 acres with a decent rainfall most years.

shovelmike · Nov 29, 2019

Those pictures of the harvesting operation are beautiful, thanks for posting those.

ovrszd · Nov 29, 2019

bunyip said:
There are some huge 'stations' here but the reality is the further north you go the less useful it is and doesn't support a lot of stock and certainly no crops, cattle stations can run one head per 5 acres or so and round up time is done with helicopters and now drones.
A lot of farms down our way are 40-100 acres with a decent rainfall most years.

I think the grazing rule here is 1.5 acres per cow/calf unit. We have a lot of cattle here. Good grass growth season. Excellent hay quality for winter feed.