Disking Wheat Stubble! - #218

we've got some nice looking corn up here look at the size of those ears [Music] good morning well we are i'm up here getting ready to move the irrigation stuff i got it started up last night at like 12 30. it's gonna be done here in about 15 minutes so i was just checking out the uh north end of this field the kind of the first lanes that we did where we start and seeing if we need to start right over again or not it has been quite a while since we irrigated here uh definitely was before that last rain that we had almost three weeks ago now so it's been a while um so we'll see we've got two more runs to finish the field for the fourth time so we've after today we'll have been over the entire field four times but this corn looks she looks really good so anyway we're gonna get this uh next run going here and then we've got to spray our spider mites so we'll get one load of uh spraying done here this morning and then i think we're gonna do some tillage this afternoon i've been talking about it and i think we're finally gonna get to actually do some ourselves so that's good here's an air that i just pulled you can see where we're at growth stage wise the kernels are getting fuller um probably moved into the dough stage i would say by now which would be uh r four three r one is silking r2 is blister r3 is milk so it'd be r4 is doe stage so filling them out they're getting to be more of their full size but they'll keep packing starch and and weight onto this into these kernels for for quite a while yet you can see there are a few missing kernels um where there was we missed some pollination on just a couple of kernels but like that one there the kernels beside it are gonna fill in that void so no big deal it's so 18 by 44 was what i counted it's very long though i feel like the kernel size is going to be really big because these kernels are pretty thick and fat so good looking corn and there's a lot of them that's the thing is this corn is planted really thick okay the gun is running it's about a six and a half hour pull so this one will be done at uh 3 30. right over there the chicken litter guys are out here working this morning getting that stuff spread we'll go check it out a little bit see what dad's been working on back here getting our waterway put in here so we have water that comes across the road from where that stain pipe is there and there's a culvert right there and it used to come this way meander past the house and then curve back around to that big gully that we had so we're redirecting it to go that way and straight across the field where we'll have a graston waterway that we will farm around and it will uh keep it from being such a pain i mean waterways are no fun to farm around but at least when they're straight with the roads they're they're easier so this waterway is going to come all the way back here kind of dump out in this low ground um this was all grass we mowed it down real tight and dad is going to basically we're going to mine some of this dirt out of here it's kind of this nice black mucky dirt here um so we're going to he's got a lot of work to do here we're gonna try and move a lot of this dirt we're gonna peel off the sod from over there he tried to burn some just that's what that fire was yesterday was him trying to burn this stuff off so it's not so thick of a mat um but anyway we're gonna we're gonna basically make a shallow pond out there uh wetland wildlife area whatever you wanna call it we're gonna we're gonna put it there because we can't farm it because it's too wet and we're gonna build up this half of it everything basically from that uh waterway over here so that it's straight through and we don't have angled point rows behind it and then that water will have somewhere for it to go um but we got to dig some of this dirt out because it's a soft spongy muck uh so we're digging that out it's good topsoil dirt we're gonna take some of the subsoil from where he's digging this out and some of these knobs hills and stuff layer it in there put the good dirt back on top and then uh keep keep digging the good dirt out of here and putting it up on the hills and filling stuff in where we need it to uh you know be better for farming purposes and there's the litter spreader well he moves pretty quick i don't know if he's still spreading her if he's empty spinners are on their stuff coming out he might be going to fill up though yeah there's quite a bit of it out there it's a little chunky but the tillage will incorporate it pretty good mix it in yeah he's going to load up i'm sure this guy's gonna think i'm plenty weird sitting in the middle field filming a guy spreading chicken manure but all for the youtube big sprouter big tires spreads it a long ways all right let's get out of here before he spreads over us all right well time to spray again spider mites and we need to change our nozzles which is why we park the sprayer over here so i'm gonna unfold the boom switch our nozzles real quick and then we'll load up i think we're just going to do one load and see how far it goes uh and then we'll have to look around some more and see if there's more that we've done but probably all we'll do today so this insecticide that we're using requires good leaf coverage it does have what they call trans laminar activity or movement basically that means it will move through the leaf to get to the bugs on the bottom side so we're going to spray this with the same nozzles we use for our fungicide our twin jets and we're going to spray it at 15 gallons to the acre almost identical to what a fungicide pass was i'll talk about the chemical a little more when we get to that so here is the chemical that we're going to be using aggromac and uh for any of you livestock guys out there that used to use ivamek for dewormer for your animals the active in that abamectin same thing here here's the label for soybeans the rate is 1.75 to three and a half ounces per acre we're gonna use two ounce rate so my one gallon jug will treat 64 acres so we're gonna mix up enough for 64 acres i think um and dump that one jug in and we'll spray until it's gone i do have another jug if we need it but uh i'm hoping not we also with this need our surfactant to help it spread out and cover that leaf a little bit better it's that uh li 700 i showed you yesterday all right well we're going to start with these fields right around the farm here and i'm not spraying the whole fields all we're doing is basically perimetering any grass areas so i've clearly got a little bit of spider mites right here we're gonna go down i'm gonna go kind of around this uh low ground and then down uh along the lane in the back there then we'll jump across and kind of work our way up so we're going to be jumping around a lot of different fields here to get up our 60 acres but uh we'll hit most of the spots that are gonna be problems i think seven o'clock in the morning's pretty good time to spray beans and be out in your fields cause they look really good from here i know they're gonna get stressed this afternoon when it gets hot and stuff but they do still look pretty good we just need some rain they're gorgeous these beets was praying along this filter strip on the way uh where we drive by the river to get to their irrigation stuff over there because there was some spider mites coming in out of the uh filler strip there look water there's a spider mite hot spot they're dead now well we're down to about 130 gallons which means we can spray nine-ish acres yet i've gotten the spots that i knew were bad there's a field across the road just down over there that we're gonna go around the perimeter of that one and look and see probably just spray it out there [Music] okay i ran empty because we're spraying an insecticide and because i'm done spraying for a while i'm rinsing everything out so i'm running through a rinse cycle it's doing the tank right now basically the small line well those lines there they're all connected to some little nozzles and spinners in there that spray water everywhere to help rinse the tank out flushes all the lines and everything um pulling water from our fresh water tank and uh then when that's done we'll spray it out and uh have everything kind of cleaned out so we don't have that insecticide setting in the sprayer okay that is done it's always good to be done with sprayer for a while okay um i've got about a half an hour before i've got to go get a haircut today so i think i'm gonna go and try and get my lawnmower put back together so i can take that home tonight and mow my lawn seems like a good idea all right well i didn't get all of the yeah i got it barely cleaned up not perfect but i did get some nice sharp blades that will help so that part of it's done there my little lawnmower is all ready to go decks back on greased it i should probably check the air pressure in the tires but i'm sure they're fine okay i'll be back in an hour and a half we get to go disc when i get back free bales looks like ben lost a couple bundles back well let's go do some diskin all right well this isn't gonna be super fun bouncing over all these tile lines but we'll do what we got to do here uh it's dry can you tell a little dusty and i'm still working on adjusting the disc exactly where i want it i wanna the goal here is to move enough dirt to mix in that chicken litter and just kind of help cover it up which will reduce the smell and it'll help retain the nutrients maybe some of that nitrogen and keep stuff in the soil better but i don't really want to kill the clover so it's a balancing act between deep enough to mix it and move some dirt shallow enough to not be too aggressive and kill all the clover out so it doesn't look too bad where i've got it we're not quite taking all the wheat stubble rose out but we're moving quite a bit of dirt uh i'm probably gonna let it go here for a while we can cover ground in a hurry though at uh almost 10 miles an hour so yeah 100 acres we got to do here so i am going on a little bit of an angle i don't know if you can tell that real well or not um and we're not going to do this stuff over here yeah i don't know if i can show you a map of this field real well on my display here or not um there it is so this part of the field over here is what we've got to do these two fingers here uh those were prevent plant last year this field was sort of part of each and so uh uh those are gonna get discrept that's part of what i sprayed yesterday and uh so we're gonna let them go we're gonna we're gonna disc this stuff and then we're actually gonna hook up our disc gripper i don't know if it's going to happen today but that is the plan and we'll come up here and do those in the near future oh it's so rough i've got a slow way down when i'm going across these tile lines especially where there's some that they drove across because they spread it this way they went with the tie lines instead of bouncing over them so where they put their tires right on the line the ground was soft and then there's a really big kind of divot rut we really bounce over that but we got to get it leveled up anyway so it's okay just rough got a relief driver jack's here he's going to run this for me because i got to go do the traveler stuff here pretty soon so i'll let him bounce over some tile lines for a little bit nothing it's all dust that's all you can see dust loading up another one if any of you were wondering that is pure chicken litter they don't use any bedding no uh wood shavings straw anything like that and it's i don't know what the moisture content is on it but it's not 100 dry obviously um and it's coming out of there's a chicken farm down in hicksville ohio not quite an hour from here that uh they have weighing hens and so this stuff has got a lot of calcium in it they feed them high calcium diets for the egg shells and stuff which it's pretty good stuff i got up here a little early still pumping water so topping off the generator fuel [Music] there's the pipe in the river trying not to fall in here there we go water's really clear today could be the angle of the sun but we can see it pretty good there is some stuff on our screen but when i checked the pressure this morning at the gun we are at the inlet we had like 150 pounds we were higher than normal but we're close so um i guess i'm not too worried about it this stuff usually kind of accumulates and then it falls off when the pump shuts off because there's no suction and it floats away and then you get more the next time you start it up is what it is making the last pull over the fourth pass oh man okay water is back up and running so uh i know i haven't been showing you the process of doing that much here lately but let's be honest you've seen it how many times do you want to see it and uh then some of you probably think that it's repetitive and i show too much of this but i'm trying to find a balance i don't show near all of it that was the 69th pull 69 times i have moved that gun pulled it down a lane and we've covered the entire field four times uh it was 530 acres we've covered now obviously divided by four ish to get the total of the unique acres and um we pumped i think 12.7 million gallons of water in doing so we've moved a lot of water we've spent a lot of time up here it has been a lot of work i think we've burnt somewhere in the neighborhood of 2400 gallons of fuel that we've hauled up with our little tank here so it's a lot it's been a lot but we're making a heck of a difference well anyway i'm gonna go find jack and take over so we can uh do whatever he wants and we'll finish disk in that field well the litter guys are done the lime guys are here well some of this clover will survive we just need some rain it is so dry out here waiting for him to come up and get back to this end of the field [Applause] bouncing bouncing bouncing [Applause] gotta really slow down can't go near as fast as we want to when we're bouncing over these tile lines but what it is it's mixing doing what it's supposed to do okay we are back in the tractor and we're surprisingly in about the same spot where we left but jack's got everything from here to the woods done so we got this one last pass then we can do the back end rows and then we'll be up there by the woods where there's no tile lines which is good we'll be done bouncing so we've basically got these shirt rows from in front of the woods to the road dusty very very dusty uh over to behind that house over there dad's over here he's moving dirt still working on putting that waterway in we have had a um a road grader show up i have no idea where that came from well i have a slight idea but i didn't know we were getting it let's say interesting but yeah he's moving some of that fluffy black dirt out getting ready to layer some other stuff in we're gonna do the whole field anyway he can scrape around us or through what we've already done no big deal also right up here is where that big burn pile was the other day it's gone actually it's over there now but it all burn up you know how you know the tractor you're using is too big for your implement when you can run 10.4 miles an hour at 1600 rpms 15 deer yeah it's not taking much to pull this we're not going very deep and uh it's dry it's very dry here now we're closer to dad you can see where he's scooping dirt out of there layering it up here filling in this area i'm gonna try and level it off for a little bit some of it anyway just kind of moving the good low black high organic matter good dirt out of the low hole it's too wet to farm up onto some of the yellower areas and filling in low spots where we actually need it well the grader is running we've also got a bulldozer here i guess dad's going to get this worked up right let's go see dad was making it too wavy with the pan so he had them come with a grater to try and uh smooth it out here a little bit that'll do a nice job might take him a little while though this thing is pretty crazy to watch like driving all crooked and stuff i feel really bad because i'm dusting the crap out of him and i don't think he's got air conditioning because the windows are wide open but i'm almost done bumpy dusty yeah sorry man okay uh just finishing up the last pass on these ends here the dust cloud here is just ridiculous but this does uh wrap up all the disking that i've got to do so um we're gonna fold her up and head back to the farm i was going to hopefully uh well the intention was to uh get this disc unhooked and hook up the ripper but i'm running out of time six o'clock i gotta get home so uh that's not gonna happen tonight okay well there's another job off the list we've got the stuff the chicken litter that's going to get dissed in is done so thanks for uh to phil for doing that field for me yesterday that was a big help helped me keep keep moving here so we got uh we've gotta unhook this disc and then hook our ripper up and uh start ripping the rest of that stuff but they gotta get the lime spread first which their spreader is sitting there so um probably tomorrow they'll get that done and then we can keep moving with that i've also got spraying out of the way for now so that's another big thing that i've got done and uh off the list so we accomplished quite a bit this week so far which is good i have got to come back and work on that irrigation stuff it's going to be done at about 8 30. and i've got to move it we got to get clear to the other end of the field it's going to be a bit of a process up there which i don't really want to do tonight but i need to i need to get another run or two in yet so tomorrow my wife and my kids and i are going uh away for the weekend we're going up to visit my sister up north of grand rapids for kind of a long weekend here so it's kind of why i've been pushing this week to get as much done as possible and cover that irrigation stuff as fast as possible because i'm sure that nobody's going to keep it running while i'm gone this weekend and it'll be okay we covered most of the field we didn't get over all of it but we did get over most of it so it'll it'll be fine um i am gonna get another one started tonight and i'm gonna come in the morning and start one up before i uh leave tomorrow and then dad can just go shut it down when it's done [Music] but at least we've gotten most of it so uh maybe they'll take care of dad or phil can get that gripper hooked up and get going with that i don't know it's probably too dry for it to do a very good job anyway because man we're dry it's bad um but there's not much we can do about it so anyway i'm going to hook up my trailer take my lawnmower home and mow my lawn because it hasn't been done for two weeks before we go and then i'll bring the trailer back when i go do the irrigation stuff tonight so yeah um yeah so no video this weekend or tomorrow or nothing until tuesday for you guys i'll be back to work on monday so have a great weekend and i'm gonna enjoy a little bit of time away from the farm here for a couple of days and uh yeah if you have any questions and comments leave them down below as always hit that like and subscribe buttons for me would you please see you guys next week

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Length: 23min 16sec (1396 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 14 2020