Mike, have you tried pumping the water out of the sloughs and water a part of the field. Not to make a bumper crop, but more so just have something to harvest for seed next year?
Mike here we roll when the crop is tillering. Gives the plat a chance to get past the seeding ridge and if it’s too dry to roll then it buys time for rain? Just a thought.
Hey mike love your Channel an all the great information you explain, have you got any rain yet, i really wann see you guys get a boomin crop like what year was it, 2020 or something, thanks for sharing, i was just wondering if yall got any much needed rain yet
@@mikemitchell2554Mike you should plan ahead and bring a lawn chair and fishing pole to field when you know there are standing puddles in field and checking up on the crew. It would give them a good laugh 😂
@@mikemitchell2554 Pull the roller behind the seed/fert cart when you are drilling/seeding the low harvested crops peas/lentils to do the job in one fell swoop instead of having to go over the field again with a roller. I want to see a long train of machinery going across the field. Rollers pull fairly easy, maybe a few more horses would be needed for the longer train but it would be worth trying.
@@mikemitchell2554 Mike, just an idea for ya. Try pulling the roller behind the seed/fert cart when you are drilling/seeding the low harvested crops peas/lentils to do the job in one fell swoop instead of having to go over the field again with a roller. I want to see a long train of machinery going across the field. Rollers pull fairly easy, maybe a few more horses would be needed for the longer train but it would be worth trying.
Who put all those silly poles out in the middle on nowhere? Come on power company, bluetooth that electricity so Mike can roll his fields and not have a mini heart attack everytime Will gets way too close to one :)
@@mikemitchell2554 Mike, just an idea for ya. Try pulling the roller behind the seed/fert cart when you are drilling/seeding the low harvested crops peas/lentils to do the job in one fell swoop instead of having to go over the field again with a roller. I want to see a long train of machinery going across the field. Rollers pull fairly easy, maybe a few more horses would be needed for the longer train but it would be worth trying.
Why don't you use center pivot sprinklers on the south farm seams like a few center pivots would make up for loses on the rest of the farm it would even out at some point just wondering take care have a successful year Thanks
Pull the roller behind the seed/fert cart when you are drilling/seeding the low harvested crops peas/lentils to do the job in one fell swoop instead of having to go over the field again with a roller. I want to see a long train of machinery going across the field. Rollers pull fairly easy, maybe a few more horses would be needed for the longer train but it would be worth trying.
The problem is our rollor length do not match the drill width.. And to pull a 85ft rollor plus the length of teh drill, we would never get it around our roads and in our approaches
@@mikemitchell2554 Get a roller the same width or a tad more than the width of the drill and have steerable wheels on the roller for turning around corners when it is folded. Similar steering idea as the big 100 foot Bourgault drill. As well, you could get rid of the packer wheels on the drill and drag a bar or a length of angle iron behing the openers the same width as the drill to help fill in the seed trenches and then the roller coming behind would do the packing.
@@John-nc4bl I appreciate your feedback, but I simply couldn't pull it. Takes min 250hp to pull a 80-90 ft rollor - and I simply can't pull the drill I have now, yet alone give up an additional 250hp.
@@mikemitchell2554 Again Mike, thanks for your reply. I didnt think that it would take that many horses to pull a 80-90 ft roller on level ground. Hilly ground, yes I would think. The diameter of the barrels would affect the HP reqd. In my estimation, machinery is going to increase in size as time goes on. 62ft combine heads now with that GTS Brazilian head and they will probably go to 70 ft in a few more years. RAIN,RAIN, RAIN.
this dont do anything, the perfect machine for this is the roller with something like Kverneland ACTIROLL but there is a lot companys that make this type of cylinder, doing excelent job fast with minimum fuel
@@mikemitchell2554 Mike, just an idea for ya. Try pulling the roller behind the seed/fert cart when you are drilling/seeding the low harvested crops peas/lentils to do the job in one fell swoop instead of having to go over the field again with a roller. I want to see a long train of machinery going across the field. Rollers pull fairly easy, maybe a few more horses would be needed for the longer train but it would be worth trying.
