Office views

[ST Ranch]

Today my office was the hayfield, turning and then baling second crop of hay. Pretty late in the year and hard to dry with short days and frosty nights.  Got about 12 tons done today and hope for the other 12 tons tomorrow.



  

HT John - how are things going down your way - last post I saw you had 30 tons of second cut to do?

Tom

[BargeMonkey]

 Your running an accumulator or a bale wagon ? We are still trying to get ours finished up down here, dont feel bad.

[barbender]

Heck of a view, whatever the case ;)

[David-L]

ST Ranch,  Very nice views haying. I just cut my last of the 2nd cut yesterday. And yes , we are in the noon to 5pm window here as thats when the dew starts to roll in. that is one flat field for sure. good luck.

                                                    David l

[ST Ranch]

BM - WE are using a 70 bale new holland bale wagon. It takes the hard work out of putting up small squares - we put up about 10,000 per year.

BB - Yup a great place to work - imagine I get paid to work where many in the world pay to come to vacation - Banff and Waterton AB are both about 3 hours east on the other side of the mtns in the picture.

DL - Thanks for the support, and yes the fields are flat - in the past [early 70's] these fields were actually flood irrigated the old way, now talk about a lot of work.
Tom

[lopet]

Could that be the Okanagon region ?  I have a son out there who's looking to buy some pasture land . He says, it's getting pretty pricey .
My self, I don't miss the haying part, but if you get paid to do it than it's a whole different game.

[BargeMonkey]

 Unless its for yourself, and you can sell some on the side without hassle hay isnt worth it around here.  As a kid we had 4- 14T JD bailers in various states of death, it was always something. Now we run a 5575 NH behind a TN 120, getting hit with a bale is like being checked hard off the boards. 

[Mooseherder]

You must of played Hockey. :D

[barbender]

This isn't beautiful like some of the scenery you guys have been posting, it just happens to be what I've been looking at for the last week : Looking back towards the landing...

[SliverPicker]

Changin' of the Season



I have only seen the sky that color in the U.P. and in Colorado.  Best when looking straight up in to the north.  I call it "Colorado Blue"



Probably the biggest diameter stick I will pull all year.  51' and 41" at the butt.  A redwood by Colorado standards.

[barbender]

I love the deep blue the sky turns this time of year. Beautiful pictures ;)

[SwampDonkey]

Wow, our aspen don't change color until mid October, but the hardwoods are colorful right now, just beginning to.

[barbender]

 I have to do better with the fall color to hang with you guys ;)

[chevytaHOE5674]

Trees are either bare or just orange around here, not much variation in the color. Sounds like its raining in the woods with how fast the leaves are falling.

[barbender]

We've had a good fall for color up here.

[timberlinetree]

Wow those are some nice pic! On the lake other nite

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

We had a great fall color season too just our peak was about a week ago. Now its declining quickly.

[lopet]

My office view this week was , watching the guys out of my truck burying all my hard earned $$.   As we can't keep them anyways, it might be not a bad place to put them, about two and a half  feet in the ground.


 

Some off them actually went as deep as six feet.  They should be safe  ;D

 

[coxy]

 I know this is dumb but  ;D what are they burying  is it for water  ???

[1270d]

Drain tile?

[barbender]

Drain tile?

That was my guess, too. All I can do is guess, my Ag  k  nowledge  is pretty limited.

[Gary_C]

Yes, that is drain tile. Most all drain tile is now put in with a tile plow and there is a limit to how deep you can put the tile in with a plow. So in places where you have to go deeper to get drainage, you have to excavate a trench wide enough to run the tile plow machine.

That tile looks pretty big so it is probably a main line. Perhaps a 10 inch line.

[lopet]

Gary is correct, well almost it's a 12inch main.

[David-L]

Couldn't leave the farm yesterday, to nice out with all the swamp maples burning up. Great color this year.

                                           David l



 

[Ed_K]

My office got a make over.