Bouncy in here! Now we're discing to smooth all of the ground out. You can see how it compares (If I'll just jump through the sudan real quick) from after being disced once, I'm not sure how well you can see it in the video, but right about here is where it splits. This has been disced, and this hasn't. And the disced part definitely looks a lot smoother than when it was just chisel plowed. And then we're just dragging a drag behind the disc, just to smooth everything else out as it goes through. Ummm... Still out here discing, just about 45 minutes later than the last clip, and a big old thunderstorm is overtaking us. Not pouring yet, but hopefully we can get back to the other end of the field before we're treading mud. It's dark. It's only 4:04. It looks like we would be plowing at eight at night. We're back discing in this field again after the rain is over. The last time I was filming was when it started raining, and that was last Thursday night, the ninth of August, and it is now Saturday afternoon, the eleventh. He's discing in a load of manure that I hauled earlier this morning. He's probably going to have to redisc both this field right here, and that next field up there. That was the oats that we were chopping. He wants to put alfalfa in that far field and put more oats in this field right here, around this strip of sudangrass. We'll do a couple more rounds. Either one side is flowing heavier, or I'm turning one direction all the time. When the outside wheel keeps making a bigger turn, this side's going to be seeding more. It's probably what I'm doing. I've been going around one way. Could be. This operation is quite the lesson in "Doing things on the cheap." The old grain drill is probably 60 or 70 years old. Payments were finished on that, if there were any, probably 60 or 70 years ago. The old tractor is a 1951. I have no idea what the original purchase price was. I believe my uncle bought it new. My dad bought it many years ago for two hundred dollars, and it's still plugging away for us. So I could sit here and say this is the smart way to do stuff, but the real truth may be that, because I'm not very smart, I'm eligated to using this old equipment. But at any rate it's still working, and I don't owe any money on it. There's no choice. There's no other way to do farming these days, and stay in business, unless, of course, you're smart, which I don't happen to be. Wisconsin certified. This certifies that Wisconsin agrees that these are oats. It is time for rolling! I just came back from rolling that far field that we're going to plant into alfalfa, hopefully today, but I had these cultimulcher plow blade things down, and now I've got to put these back up, because we already planted this field, and we don't want to dig up the seed in this field. So that's why I'm going to put these back up, so we can just roll it flat and make it even. Sorry if this may be a little bit shaky. And I believe that's it with this field. The reason we planted fall oats instead of something like winter wheat or winter rye or triticale would be the reason because, as my dad puts it, we're "land poor", so we need as much land as we can. So we're putting in oats to hopefully grow up, and we'll be ready to chop it this October yet, and then we can easily plant something again in the spring next year like we did with this. Hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching!
