Stinking unrelenting rain

[wolc123]

19 minutes ago, landtracdeerhunter said:

Worked to wet, that Getzville clay will turn into a parking lot. 

Most of it wasn’t too bad today.  I got that 4 acres done lickity split this morning, pulling that little 2x12 1951 Dearborn plow in 6th gear with my JD 4120.  Only a couple small wet spots on the front field.  The soil moisture content out back was just about perfect for high speed plowing.  
 

I’ll get it disked up the first time, as soon as it dries enough, after the next (4) rainy days.  I’ll be using my JD 4120 tractor on the the 8 ft pull type disk that first time.  After that, I’m dying to try that disk on my Durango field car.  It’s got real good Cooper tires, a 318 cu in gasoline engine, a nice Pioneer stereo, comfortable cab, and cup holders.

 I’ll be needing to add some length to the control rope though, to reach the front seat.  The spots I have plowed have plenty of turnaround space on the ends and sides, so lacking turning brakes shouldn’t hurt me too bad.  

Edited June 8 by wolc123

[landtracdeerhunter]

12 hours ago, wolc123 said:

Most of it wasn’t too bad today.  I got that 4 acres done lickity split this morning, pulling that little 2x12 1951 Dearborn plow in 6th gear with my JD 4120.  Only a couple small wet spots on the front field.  The soil moisture content out back was just about perfect for high speed plowing.  
 

I’ll get it disked up the first time, as soon as it dries enough, after the next (4) rainy days.  I’ll be using my JD 4120 tractor on the the 8 ft pull type disk that first time.  After that, I’m dying to try that disk on my Durango field car.  It’s got real good Cooper tires, a 318 cu in gasoline engine, a nice Pioneer stereo, comfortable cab, and cup holders.

 I’ll be needing to add some length to the control rope though, to reach the front seat.  The spots I have plowed have plenty of turnaround space on the ends and sides, so lacking turning brakes shouldn’t hurt me too bad.  

We had 3 - 14 inch plows on the larger Allis tractor. It was a 4 plow tractor in most soil conditions, but not in Getsville clay. Pulled much harder. I always elected to take the Ford 2N with 2- 12" bottom Ferguson plow, my grandfather bought in 1948.  Never stopping on the headlands, I could plow a whopping 3 1/2 acres a day. Pretty good considering the fields only averaged 4 acres in size between the hedge rows. That Tonawanda creek flood plain would grow some good crops, hit the right year.

[wolc123]

3 hours ago, landtracdeerhunter said:

We had 3 - 14 inch plows on the larger Allis tractor. It was a 4 plow tractor in most soil conditions, but not in Getsville clay. Pulled much harder. I always elected to take the Ford 2N with 2- 12" bottom Ferguson plow, my grandfather bought in 1948.  Never stopping on the headlands, I could plow a whopping 3 1/2 acres a day. Pretty good considering the fields only averaged 4 acres in size between the hedge rows. That Tonawanda creek flood plain would grow some good crops, hit the right year.

We also used a 3x14 plow on our largest tractor back in the day (an Allis D14).  Grandpa’s JD M also did ok with its mounted 2 x 12 plow.  Although slightly less hp than the neighbors 8n Ford (which I bought from his widow as my first tractor), it seemed to have more torque with its “2 banger” engine, plus it was considerably cheaper back when they were new and it had live hydraulics.  
 

The mounted plow on that JD M was a pain to mount and dismount though, compared to the 3 point on the Ford or the two point system on the Allis.  
 

We are right in that Tonawanda creek bottomland (Our road is actually a couple feet lower than Tonawanda creek road).  The soil moisture content for plowing was so good yesterday morning, that I hardly missed the hydraulic draft control, that my old 8n Ford had.  That’s nice for maintaining uniform plow depth over inconsistent soil conditions.  My JD 4120 had “position control” only on the hydraulics.  

[First-light]

State of Emergency. Bath school district closed. Heard Canesteo got hit hard. Sucks. 

[Doc]

4 hours ago, First-light said:

State of Emergency. Bath school district closed. Heard Canesteo got hit hard. Sucks. 

Is that from flooding?

[Doc]

Hammondsport got hit too. I guess I got lucky and it went around us. We had a short gusher but no flooding.

[First-light]

19 hours ago, Doc said:

Is that from flooding?

Yes all flooding. 

[landtracdeerhunter]

Hope everything worked out in those flooded areas.

I'm finally able to plow some garden area today

 

[wolc123]

I finished planting my field corn and sweet corn today.  I’m glad the 5 day stretch of rain they had predicted was a typical weather forecasting miscue.  The fields are drying out real good now and most of the neighbors are cutting hay.

A big doe was back checking out my work, when I went back up to the barn for more fertilizer. Hopefully, she hangs around for a few more months so I can get her into the freezer during the early antlerless gun season. 

 

I used the new heavy duty compound angling Tufline grader blade, that I recently traded an old disk for, to cut in some ditches in case we get some more heavy rain.