Well I dont figure anyone will complain if I post some more pics so I went through the files and pulled another selection of them out. I also tried taking a few low quality videos with my camera from the drivers seat this past year, they are short and not that great but its something different.

I guess I forgot to mention that the two main cats we use, the SA D4D and D6C cats both have wet deck clutches/brakes which is an improvement over the older cats.



We used to do a fair amount of dry plowing right after harvest, if the ground was dry and got plowed without rain for a few days, the perennial grasses such as quack grass would be wiped out. Not so important anymore with newer herbicides. Our ground gets very hard in late summer and the last year we plowed it was so dry that the plow wouldnt stay in the ground some spots so we had to park it and wait for rain which is what 95% of the other farmers would do anyway. We also got into a conservation program only because of our plowing methods, in order to qualify the guys at NRCS punch in your tillage operations and the computer spits out a number saying how much erosion the farmer causes. Uphill plowing without trash turners on the plow leaves much more residue as seen in this picture.









There is an interesting story with this next picture, the father of the guy who owns the land in this picture was digging a well by hand on the hill in the background in the 1920s or so and was lighting dynamite and went to climb the ladder and it broke, the explosives went off and blew him out of the well. He was temporarily blinded and deaf.

































We have some timberland as well and we cut and skid out a few of the dead trees each winter when it is froze up and have someone haul them off for lumber. Ran over a stump last winter and got it stuck between the transmission and the track, ended up hauling blocks and a jack out, the ground was only froze a few inches deep so we ended up jacking the blocks down into the ground until we hit solid ground, lifted the cat and set firewood under the tracks and took the drawbar off to get over the stump. Not a fun day, ever try crawling under a cat in the snow to take the drawbar off, then packing it out of the woods?




Here are the videos, one from the D4D and two from the D6C, the last one I took with the door open to hear the track noise. Running full throttle in 5th gear in the D4, partial throttle in 6th in the D6

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Thats it for now, I will answer any more questions but wont have any more pics until after spring work.

Hope you enjoy them!

"d4e" wrote:

Richard, I wanted the tallest grouser I could get. Most of the areas we work are real steep and the ground is soft.

98J, Great pictures, keep em coming. I had a D4 84J years ago with that same cab. I think they are called a Pringle cab.It was a great D4, turboed.70 inch gauge with 24 in pads. Some one had put an oversized fuel tank on it. Great for working long hours.

That big fuel tank would be nice, the 84J is my favorite tractor but with only a 40 gallon tank we cant run very many hours with it.

BTW thanks for the pics of the D4Es look like nice cats.

Non-existant user wrote:

That big fuel tank would be nice, the 84J is my favorite tractor but with only a 40 gallon tank we are all very familiar with how to bleed air out of the system

How many gal/ Hr are you burning?- & old heavy vs new clean air crap..

tanker;50762 wrote:

Non-existant user wrote:

That big fuel tank would be nice, the 84J is my favorite tractor but with only a 40 gallon tank we are all very familiar with how to bleed air out of the system

How many gal/ Hr are you burning?- & old heavy vs new clean air crap..

4-5 gal per hour is normal for the D4D, plowing would push 7gal/hour

D6C does 10-12gal hour but never pulls anything to make it work hard, if we pulled something bigger I wouldnt want to know how much fuel it would go through.

Was wondering how thirsty the high winders were- my 2U uses 3 gal / hr on 40 ft finishing disc & 3 1/2 / hr on 30 ft dbl offset disc[ that's the old heavy fuel] w/ the new crap -it doesn't seem to like- it takes a good 4 on the offset-Are all the 2U's used up out there or don't you guys like em for some reason??- I know they were used in MT & WY- as some wheat run guys commented bout that..

Thanks for all the great pictures, videos, and narratives. They are really enjoyable. I'm sorry to hear that steel track farming is starting to come to a close by being pushed out by 4WD super wheel tractors. John

"tanker" wrote:

Was wondering how thirsty the high winders were- my 2U uses 3 gal / hr on 40 ft finishing disc & 3 1/2 / hr on 30 ft dbl offset disc[ that's the old heavy fuel] w/ the new crap -it doesn't seem to like- it takes a good 4 on the offset-Are all the 2U's used up out there or don't you guys like em for some reason??- I know they were used in MT & WY- as some wheat run guys commented bout that..

No 2u's for farming ever been around these parts that I know of, had to look it up to see what a 2u was, looks like its the old D8s. Right in my area there were a ton of D4 7u cats and some D6 9u, heard of a few D7s around other areas but there really was no equipment to match anything bigger than that.

Great pix. Appears to be peaking over the hill at Lenore/Peck area. I live between Spalding and Arrow above the fruit stand. What is your name, if I can ask? Ben Smith

Hello North Idaho Farmer.
These all are very nice and Great pictures but Video also are very nice. Specially I like D4Es very much.

Thanks for posting such a nice pics and video.

I’ve always said that if the pilgrims would have known about the Palouse, there wouldn’t have been an Oregon Trail; it would have been the Palouse Trail. This is the best place in the world to farm!!!
Great Pictures, reminds me of when I lived in Genesee Idaho for 7 years, it is GREAT country!