My grandfather homes traded in the UP Mi. In 1902 he was from Finland and also worked in the copper mines. He worked the Quincy mine in Calumet MI. We live in Wisconsin and visit the area every year.
Lucky you to get rain. Then again we have been having good tourist weather. Lots of sun and very little rain. Hard to make money mowing lawns when the grass doesnt grow.
We have the same problem with trespassers. We have a farm that borders on a slough & they will cut right thru our fields to get to the water. They drive the crops down & last fall they had a regular parking lot from launching their duck boats.
Just a question, shouldn't you replace both knives on that disc? Unless that crooked knive was fairly new you will get disbalance. But what do I know, I'm just a dairyfarmer from the Netherlands. Love your video's, keep m coming 👍
We caught someone red handed doing donuts in a field of corn, just as it was popping up on state owned ground we rent. If they were such f-ing idiots and hadn't gotten stuck, they might have got away with it. It also would have helped if they hadn't caught their jeep on fire on peat soil. They got what they had coming.
Wes you described donuts with a gleam in your eye of your youth, everyone has done them at one point or another in the country, stubble fields are normally alright if you ask first
hey Wes have ya ever hit a dam skunk while cuttin hay? lol now that sux ass!! Lol I got a momma and 2 kids last year and sob talk about a dam mess!! lol
Thanks for those close-up shots of your (swather?), forgive me for not being sure of the exact term. I've been wondering how those machines work so effectively with such small blades and disks. Now I understand. I used to cut hay (alfalfa/timothy mix) with a seven foot sickle bar mowing machine on a Farmall H. Great old tractor BTW. Every other year or so one of us would end up cutting the legs off of a deer (sadly) so it was necessary to carry a sidearm to finish it off. Just one of the strange things about making hay non farmers wouldn't think about.
First you're expected to feed and support those democrats, then they reward you by damaging your property and crops. Hopefully when you find them, you get it on video.
last bastard i caught doing donuts in one of my fields , ended up with buckshot holes in his truck ,and a shotgun slug through his radiator when he tried to escape ,SOB did $5000 worth of damage to a 5 acre field ,and then went on to ram my truck when i blocked the field entrance ,,,his little half ton dodge lost that battle my truck is a 1974 F600 which i use as a pickup truck
If You see my property you would think I am a rock farmer, when I dig a hole to plant a tree I have no soil to push back around the plant, but I have good filtration and routes running horizontal with the ground, a real pain.
Growing up on a farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland we had a problem with Vetch. It is like morning glory, but much heavier. It would cover a wheat field if you didn't pull it out.
I guess the knack farmers have for finding things out is because we are mostly sociable and talk to other guys in small community's. Up here in Manitoba it's quite often somebody says something and you know a person or a machine they are talking about. I had a guy in my yard talking about a used tractor he was wanting to buy. I got thinking and said yeah I know that machine you don't want it He figured I was joking. I made a call told him the whole history of it from what was wrong to where it had been and told him again he didn't want it. that machine even spent 5 years out of this province before being traded back here. all the info he originally gave me was the make model and low hours for it's age, that whole conversation saved him 60.000 of bad news that he didn't buy. The best thing to do with a "swedish nut lathe" is use it as a hammer, I fix way more things guys messed up with them, than they solved problems using one trying to repair something..
My great grandfather came to America and settled in the UP and worked as a lumberjack and then worked his way down to Custer Michigan and milked cows on a farm he rented.
What is the advantage of a self propelled mower compared to a 9m or wider butterfly on the tractor? apart from that it is self propelled. Here in Sweden most larger farms use butterfly mowers.
first off is that a 995 header? second how long do you leave the grass in for hay? I'm a grass seed farmer and have been curious where our stuff goes besides our lawns. the most we leave in is fescue for max 7 years with yearly spot spraying. also awesome video.
wes I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan and used to work at one of the copper mines as a tour guide and maintenance for the under ground tours, it was the quincy mine hois. I loved that job I wish I would have know your dad was coming I could have showed him a lot of the history of this area.
we have only had 4.6 inches of rain where i live it goes north of us must of time or south which suck's my BIG time for my giant plot of 2 acres , needs water bad glad your parent's got to visit our great state , so much to see & do in this state , BUT every state can about say the same . I like is i can be on lake Huron side watch the sun rise and if wanted to can drive to other side and watch the sun set in lake Michigan beautiful views either side be safe , have fun bcoz life is short
most of the copper mines in the Upper Peninsula closed before the depression. They opened back up during the war to supply the war effort with copper. And then they closed down shortly after. Deep rock metalic copper mining cant compete with open pit mined copper ore.
If I were a farmer I think I would be very tempted to lay a few spike strips inside the entrances to my fields to take care of those trespassing assholes. I you wanna play like that, buy your own land and have a ball.
Wes you described donuts with a gleam in your eye of your youth, everyone has done them at one point or another in the country, stubble fields are normally alright if you ask first
heeeey Wes when are you gona let the new mrs onelonelyfarmer go in the fields and make a ton of hay;) and second are you gona change the namne of the chanel to onehappyofaguywhitanewgirlfriendfarmer ;) sorrry for the tease ;) so glad you found someone thats make you happy ;)
Just had an idea, a cresent wrench with a hammer head on the handle end ... They're notorious for being used as a hammer anyway.. Make millions ! At least 12 or 15 dollars
John Deere calls them impeller conditioning. Everybody else calls it flail conditioning. Designed basically for grass type hay. Instead of crimping the stems it scrapes the wax coating off the stems. Can be a bit rough on leafy type hays.
