Why are you no tilling and using chemicals to terminate plant life you don't want? Can you no till a field and naturally let it reseed with native grasses? How many no till field will produce a natural stand of grass after 2 years of chemicals and no till? Let us discuss. 👍
In the midwest "no till" has been tried and proven to not work effectively. Any farmer will tell you that turning the trash (stalks and leftover material from combining) into the soil in the fall helps it to break down over the winter and then lead to better growth the next season. Also, there is a natural "hardpan" or layer of dirt that becomes incredibly hard right under the top soil and this cannot be penetarted by roots of plants, therefore stunting growth and hurting production so this must be broken up. Also, as Rick Bork said, most "no till" fields get sprayed heavily with chemicals, and with the prices increases of those recently, any advantage is gone.
@@southernoffroader78 applying chemicals? How many chemicals have you seen us applying? Sight me a specific time you have seem me applying any chemical to my field. On the other hand no till is mostly based on chemical termination of one crop to introduce another. Cover crops and ect being introduced has helped however most no till is patterned with a chemical program. I've read plenty of studies and talked with plenty of people who believe in the no till application. Frankly they feel like it works for them. This works for me I have lower inputs and better results in my soil. You assume that every is the same and will gain from your prospective. I farm in different conditions than many. Westher it be the fact I don't want to buy chemicals and commercial fertilizer or the fact I don't want them in my ground. I do what works for me. Weather I creat a video for you to enjoy or complain about on youtube all while benefiting my cattle and the sustainable future of my farm or if I just do it because its fun. Try having an intelligent conversation on the next reply bud. 👍🤔
It is such a treat to see all this old iron that was working farms, building highways and clearing land for houses and buildings way back when I was a wee lad - still capable of earning it's way today. This is the just some of the engineering that built America. Bravo!
I am a soil scientist (or at least that is what my degree said 40 years ago) and that does look like some nice rich Midwest mollisols. Very rich in organic content.
That's the type of soil I am used to in northern Indiana. Black, rich sandy and moist and will grow ANYTHING well. Wonderful smell too when you turn over a foot of it. You can almost HEAR things growing
I would say you are wrong lol. That is what we call sugar sand, but we had 2 inches of rain on it. When it gets rain like that it binds together better, and islike rich black dirt
@@wesboettcher6105 ...I dont know where you are from but in Florida that isn't sugar sand . We farmed in NW Ohio and that looks like the rich black loam soil.
I have a picture of my dad’s RD 6 hitched to two Oliver sixteen inch four bottom plows. That was a standard load on many Pacific Northwest dry land wheat farms.
I don’t think there is a modern engine you could work down to that slow an rpm while working - gawd them 3 cylinder engines are a thing of beauty - even my eye was twitching with that start up, I tend to go a little quick sometimes but that was some kind of record speed
IIRC, years ago, Ford Motor Company got out the old blue prints for the Model T and built a brand new, 1-off modern duplicate. Wouldn't it be great if someone with Squatch 253's love of Cats and a bunch of money and time could build a new RD-6 from the ground up like Ford did with the T? I can dream..........
I was impressed by what I saw in Britain. PTO operated tillers, as in rotary times cutting and turning like you would do on a garden. Except this is full scale and they move faster than we do plowing. Wheat, green beans, sugar beets ( the size of watermelon) and corn. I didn't see a turning plow used once. Tractors over there have to be street legal with all lights, wipers, and the rest. They carry their own number plates (licence) and get inspected. One day I was on my way to the base when I got behind one of the huge trailers full of those sugar beets. Being in an American vehicle I was on the wrong side of the car to see to pass....... but I did have a commanding view of the ditch! The tractor driver saw me in his mirrors and politely pulled over to let me pass. Just then one of those huge beets rolled off the top of the pile, bounced once and hit my car! It truly sounded like the whole front of the car shattered. I pulled over and got out as the farmer came running! up. I anxiously went around front. That beet had hit my number plate dead center and broke it half in two. The farmer was mortified beyond belief. I found out later that he stood to lose a heck of a lot over an accident. I assured him that it was ok, the car wasn't harmed and I could make me another number plate. He thanked me profusely and we went on our ways. The number plate was identical to the offical one only it was made on my workbench. I carried the broke one in my car until I got back in the states though. Being overseas was a whole different experience. Cheers Terry
Heh, I recall doing something rather similar (Just random pulling, we didn't have a garden plough attachment) as a kid in the 1970s with our 7hp lawn tractor, let's see what this Briggs can do. Astounding that I never broke that 1960s Gambles-Skogmo tractor.
There is a video of an old Case Steam tractor replica that pulls a 40 to 45 bottom plow. Just imagine what it takes to pull that plow! And to have 20 to 40 guys on the plow to adjust the plows.
So it's a hand crank pony motor just like your d6 was that very common so many people didn't opt for the electrical start on the pony motor. have an excellent weekend
@@squatch253 please explain the quick start process that you are talking about? if the cylinders are warm and white smoke is in the stack, why freewheel the engine so long?
It sure was nice to finally see a demonstration of the "hired hand" starting procedure on a pony start Cat diesel. Squatch, you seemed shaken by all of the things going wrong in that start!!!
My dad bought a RD6 in 1948 and was the most useless cat made Weighted 12 ton had about 65 H P engine and I seen dad dig a hole to bury a rock pile and had to pop the clutch 3 times to back out of the hole, Sold it in 1955 and got a TD 24 international cat That is a real cat ,I was 17 and wore out 3 sets of rails in my 50 years of farming
Great video demonstration of the horse power of that day! Speaking of I have to ask: how many horses would a farmer have needed to plow the same field with that same plow?
I wish I had one of those RD6 cats just to play with.... the torque on those engines is beyond amazing.... its to bad they quit making these engines..... so many GOOD designs get left behind for "better" a classic example is the old GMC V-6 engines of the 60's.... they weren't fast, they weren't good at burn outs from the stop sign.... BUT if you had work to do.... You wanted that engine in your corner....
Yep not western pa soil. Black soil mixed with clay, shale and limestone rocks. Can't forget those. That are big as VW's hiding under. I bet 5 bottoms here at best.
🤷♂️ dunno can’t explain it but some engines just irritate me!!! But never a cat 👍 or a GM 71 series 4,6,8 whatever always bring a smile to my ears 🤗 .. now locomotives can do it too, but that’s a convo for another time! ✌️🤙
