Guys, hope you keep this thread going. I look forward to looking in every evening. Dartrol

"Darrol wrote:

Guys, hope you keep this thread going. I look forward to looking in every evening. Dartrol

Yo Darrol!! Got things under control there in Coldwater??? Shouldn't be
much of a problem to keep this going......I will be gone for a couple of days up to Seattle, so here are a few to tied you over.
D5SA:


D5B plowing:



My own D5SA seeding with double disk drills:



D6C closeup:



65B pulling a chisel chopper.....Mt Hood in background;



NIF isn't the only one with some scenery shots
Shearer Sprayers hitting my wheat with a little weed-be-gone with Mt hood
looking on:



OK, straight scenery.......Mt Hood at sunrise:



Wheat in June, just about ready to start turning. Mt Adams in the distance.



One more. A Case-IH 2588 harvesting soft white wheat near The Dalles.

Amazing photos guys!

Hi North Idaho Farmer .What is the difference between a soft white wheat and a red hard wheat ,ie different uses. Atlas

Have enjoyed this thread. Was on a family dairy farm in eastern Ohio for years. Am in east Tennessee now. Agriculture sure is different out west!! Please keep them comming!!

"Atlas" wrote:

Hi North Idaho Farmer .What is the difference between a soft white wheat and a red hard wheat ,ie different uses. Atlas

Hard red wheats are used for bread and flour while soft whites are used for pastries, crackers, pasta and things like that. Soft white wheats need to be low protein while red wheats need to be around 14%.

Having a lack of moisture while the wheat is heading is what causes lower protein so the northwest is best suited for the soft white. Some people here grow hard red but often get docked for protein.

I do have an interesting story about the only time we ever tried red wheat.
In 2002 and 2003 several guys in this area were making good many on the red wheat because we had dry years which made decent protein, so a bunch more of us tried the dark northern spring wheat in 2004. In turned into a disaster as we had 12" of rain from late May to late June and our red wheat made 75bu/acre and had 10% protein, the going price was like $4.50 a bushel but we got docked $2.50 a bushel for low protein.

"Member2103" wrote:

Have enjoyed this thread. Was on a family dairy farm in eastern Ohio for years. Am in east Tennessee now. Agriculture sure is different out west!! Please keep them comming!!

Yep it is different out here and it differs greatly by area here as well. Just an hours drive west closer to where Bruce P. is from if there is a year that the farmers are talking about how great the weather is (meaning the wheat has enough rain in May-June) then in my area we are probably up to our armpits in water and hoping for a drought.

Ill try to throw in a few more pictures, here are some of our combines as I have to get that image of that red combine that 98J posted out of my head.
(remember folks red stands for STOP and green stands for GO.)
just kidding 98j I still enjoy your combine shots especially like the look of the old 70s.

98j: nice to hear from you. We are doing OK in Coldwater, KS. Getting some snow here tonight. Others in these postings, I farm in SW Kansas where most of our rain comes in the summer. 30 bushel wheat is about all I can hope for long term. Good years maybe 50 bushels. Run 9600 and 9750 JD combines and Challenger MT 765 tractors. Don't need Challenger 865's as the MT 765's will pull everything we have. This includes 45' V blades, 49' Fallowmasters, 36' Disks and 40' GreatPlains drills with double disk openers. The rougher or steeper land I no till with chemicals, with the exception of blading once to apply NH3. This holds down soil eroisen. Later guys

These next few pics are for woody who asked about the modified over-the-top clean grain elevator on the 80' machine.

First a look at the 82', notice how the original elevator is not visible above the bulk tank and comes in at an angle.





The modified version on the 80' prevents as much chipping of legume seed.






A look at a few more mods done to improve these old machines, the 6622s had frame problems in one certain spot and nearly all have had the frame broken and welded. In order to prevent it from breaking again we put in these two braces in diagonally



Another problem the early machines had was the torque tubes twisting in two on hillsides, starting with 82' machines they put in a different style which was installed on nearly all of the older ones as well including our 80.

This machine somehow made it all these years with the old style.



new style



this is what the original fan housing looked like



Ours modified with Titan 2 fan blades and it cut out for more air.




at work

Darrol D8H this next one is for you- one farm near here runs two 9750s for harvest, they are the largest operation in the county and they actually farm on two sides of one of our fields. I snapped this pic from the county road as I was heading back to the field last harvest, half a mile away but you can see one of their machines with a 30' header unloading into the bankout wagon pulled by an JD 8970.




a few more pics from the operators seat of a 22 coming across a pretty good hillside, steeper than it looks



on a hillside combine the uphill tire ends up a lot closer to the cab than the downhill one, hard to tell as much on these combines because the cab is off center but you get the point