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ParticipantEd,
In my experience the art of good bales is in the windrow. Balers seem to like “same-sized bites” each push of the plunger.
Like any cutting operation sharpen the (baler) knives.
Participant“….clearly needed to have the leverage taken off. ”
Hi Donn – what behavior(s) or signs do you see that indicate this?
ParticipantTried to edit my previous post but no luck ….. my first link
Here’s a whole list of record keeping software (free – I’m pretty sure)http://agebb.missouri.edu/download/index.htm
was to a page with MOSTLY ancient spreadsheets that I couldn’t get to work. I think some were generated with a 286 and Windows 3.1 —–I apologize but the farm record book does work and might give one an idea of how to set up a record using Excel.
Sorry.
ParticipantAs I sit here with paper records/receipts all over the place and try to read some of my mileage numbers that were scrawled with a half- frozen pen in the pickup I might suggest looking at some of these sites for ideas and downloads. Quicken and Quickbooks are so general and designed for “other” businesses (rentals for one thing) tha I gave up and started searching elsewhere.
Here’s a whole list of record keeping software (free – I’m pretty sure)http://agebb.missouri.edu/download/index.htm
Also a free Excel sheet already setup
http://agebb.missouri.edu/mgt/mofar/ (scroll down and click on the highlighted Farm Record Book in Excel to check it out)
Farm Record Book in Excel
Download a free Farm Record Book in Excel. For producers comfortable with basic Excel, this spreadsheet farm record book offers the ability to: track income and expenses, cash flow summary, expenses by vendor, receipts by buyer, enterprise receipt & expenses, and checking account balances. For questions contact Whitney Wiegel, MU Extension Ag Business Specialist at: (660) 584-3658, WiegelW@missouri.edu.ParticipantI’ll add an Idaho 2 cents on what’s happening in the forests here. One of our Congressmen has proposed some sort of plan to wrest control and management of national forest/public land from the federal govt and put it under the direction of the Governor and his hand-picked panel of “experts”. The claim is that the state has managed the forest much better than the feds as evidenced by “acres burned” last year. The state manages a fraction of the acreage that the feds do in this state and the state land has much less remote and a lot easier/closer to access for fighting fires. But the real rub is when you look at what state managed ground looks like from the air ( a moonscape – probably another reason not much state round burned) vs federal lands.
ParticipantNot that this is the route you want to go but to show how wide your options are, there’s a guy in Indiana who converts JD square balers (like a 336) to ground drive. Dris Abraham at Historic Prophetstown Indiana runs one — I think there are a couple of pics on their website google Historic Prophetstown. I admit that the windrows weren’t any monsters like you’d run with a swather setup but it seemed to make decent bales. I think he ran 4 on that machine but can’t recall for sure.
ParticipantAsh seems fine to me. You do want something tough enough to not snap too easily but weak enough to break before any other component in the system – IMO it’s meant to act similar to a shear pin/bolt.
ParticipantI replaced my collars recently with a some adjustable heavy farm collars from Sugar Valley and those boogers are stout!
ParticipantIn the old time-honored text from John Deere “The Care and Maintenance of Farm Machinery” the tillage sequence was disc, plow, disc again. Anyone discing down their trash before plowing down? Reducing OM particle size can really help with speed of breakdown.
ParticipantGreat – I recognized his name from the draft community somewhere.
ParticipantNot cold here. Geese showed up and have started their morning and evening honk-fest. AND most everyone is out of the woods as “mud season” has begun. Also, county roads are posted for restricted weight traffic. It’s late winter (and will be for another 2 1/2 months).
ParticipantSorry NB axemen – my understanding is that WH was “adding” a KV to their sulky as an option but I probably didn’t get the story right. At the time we were discussing retrofitting plows w/ KV bottoms (or that style). I do know he mentioned the bottom WH was using/going to use was quite a lot more affordable than actual KV’s.
ParticipantThanks Erika. I just heard that White Horse is going to offering their sulky plow with a KV “style” bottom. I think it is also available as a retro-fit for existing WH sulkies. Heard it from Ivan Yoder in Iowa – a dealer of Pioneer, WH and I & J equipment.
ParticipantThe other thing to remember is that there were tons of companies in the plow making business (P & O for example) that were eventually bought up by JD, IH and the like.
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