2016 Harvest Thread

[40FordDeluxe]

Thanks for sharing the pics Ryan. Out our way there won't be much of anything to harvest, the drought has pushed most crops to fail.

We could only irrigate for almost an hour every other day. 2 of my family member homes have had their wells go dry, 1 has a new deeper well and the other is waiting for the driller to get there. It may be weeks of waiting there is that much demand.

Isn't it absolute ludicrous how whacked this weather has been this summer? Your area in dire need of rain, we have gotten slammed with rain. We surely don't need much more. Eastern Iowa is dang near flooding and our rivers are super high too.

MikeP, there are a lot of family farms still around here but it has been on the decline for sure. It is sad. And if you aren't a farmer and want to become one, forget about it. Your best bet is to go work for a farmer and hope you have a job for a while. Josh and his uncle farm 4500-5000 acres depending on what other land they can rent. It's just his aunt and uncle, one hired hand, and him all year. They try to get as much help in the spring and fall as they can. They don't have much luck especially since everyone around them is busy doing the same.

It'll be around $6k to fix that C13. The truck has warranty on it from the previous owner but who knows how long it'll take to get resolved. Those compound turbos on those C13's usually die at 800k so a lot of people put on a PDI single turbo kit on them. But, Cat won't honor any warranty after that. So he is unsure what he'll do at this point. Just hope none of his other tractors decide to give up the ghost. (Yeah, good luck with that.)

I should have gotten pictures of their turbo maintainer. It is a $100k field combination work disc. Last fall some how the LH wing cylinder got bent and nearly ripped the ram off. The ram alone was $1500. They had it repaired last fall. Guess what, it happened again Saturday morning. Let's say they're real thrilled and they're only 2 weeks into harvest.