Looking good Tim!! Thanks😊.

Your corn outgrew the clover and looks good now

Keep after it!

Nice video.

Thanks Tim 🤠🤠

If it works for you is all you need

Nice

The windrows are a bit lumpy, but it fluffs it up nice!

I've seen those before, at a farm show IIRC... think I even have a brochure for one somewhere. Might not be the same company, maybe another company bought the rights to it or built their own version... Can't recall. Interesting machine. Gets the job done. Simpler than a rotary rake in a lot of ways.

There are a few of those rakes around. My next door neighbor has/had one. He liked it except for the hooking up and unhooking part. His dad does the raking and prefers this old Minneapolis Moline bar rake they have...

Good day from Ont. Yes those rakes do not rope like roll bar. Ths

Definitely a unique hay rake never seen one till now

Timmy, you forgot the r after the d. WINDROWS.

That, is one cool piece of equipment!

you can by cut belt meteral and the splices to put them togeather. we used them in cotton gins 1/2 3/4 1in v belts

Wes' tireject!

That's a really cool rake from a really cool company! Aebi makes tractors for extreme hillside use. Both a compact type tractor & a two wheeled tractor. They still make a belt rake for the two wheeled tractor but not for the other ones. Thanks for posting this!

Looks like it leaves the windrow similar to a rotary rake.

Nice , never saw one before

First time I've seen one of those rakes. Kinda cool

Excellent. I enjoy seeing the progress.

It was doing a good job

Kaleb wouldn’t approve of this field.

Phosphorus deficiency?

Is that… Mac and cheese

a fall burndown may be a necessary evil. spring burndown lets the legume take out too much moisture.there is nothing left for the new spring crop

What did you use for burndown?? My BIL thought they were nuts because around here on these sandy land hills they'll plant one day and spray their burndown/preemerge the next. Course up here on this sandy land, even if they get a 2 inch rain after planting, a guy could STILL get across the field with a sprayer to do the burndown within a day or two anyway. Far different than the flat land with heavy black clay on our other farm at Needville... there you get a half inch or so could knock you out of the field for a week and by then your corn is up...

Looks like your burndown didn't work on the clover

yellow corn! I have 550 acres of yellow corn because its cold as a witches tit at night and not warm at all in the day.,

Yep, too many idgit drivers now... blindly following GPS right off a cliff if they're not careful. We had TWO LWB semis pulling 53 foot vans hauling beer bottles to the brewery in town, somehow missed their turn and went past the Spoetzl Brewery where they brew Shiner beer in town, and the brewery sits next to a little creek just to the west of it, well first road past the creek is a TINY little alleyway of a street that goes back between the city water works and city maintenance barn and a big water tank and spillover parking lot for the brewery. I mean I could PROBABLY get a school bus down this "street" if I tried, because I'm a good driver, but a long wheelbase semi with a 53 foot van, unless you walk on water you ain't gonna make it. Heck of it is, at the other end of this street, is the flat end of a "T" intersection. Turning right takes you nowhere-- there's an OLD steel frame one-lane bridge that was an antique by the 50's, it's too corroded to hold up auto traffic anymore so it's got huge pilings set in the street with gaps so it's a foot bridge only now, from the spillover parking lot to the brewery VISITOR entrance... NO WAY that thing would hold up a pickup anymore let alone a semi, plus it's a one lane steel truss board deck bridge, NO WAY a semi could even fit onto it even if the pilings weren't there. Turning left the street goes up a block along the RR tracks to the next street, which is a 2 lane regular city street with shoulders to park on, in front of the funeral home. BUT to turn left, you'd have to turn WAY out into the mud and grass along the RR tracks ROW because the storm fence for the city maintenance yard comes RIGHT UP to the corner of the street, no shoulder to speak of there. Well, these idgits decided to turn onto this "street" anyway trying to make the block or go across the old truss bridge thinking that would get them into the brewery, which has it's shipping and receiving truck port completely on the other side BEHIND the brewery off a street next to the John Deere dealer, which is MADE for semis to come in and out of. They also have HUGE road signs with LARGE lettering instructing truck drivers were to turn to make their deliveries or pickups from the brewery... Well, these morons managed to get the semi tractor turned across this little culvert onto this tiny side street, but the trailer wheels COMPLETELY missed the turn-- and since it's on a steep incline downhill below the bridge they just came off of maybe 100 feet past, when the trailer wheels miss the culvert, they drop down about 2-3 feet, the weight shifts, and the trailer goes over... in the process the 50,000 pounds of beer bottles on pallet slam THROUGH the side wall of the trailer before/as the trailer flips on its side, leaving a pile of broken glass bottles four feet high and 40 feet long, and wrings the trailer out like a wet dishrag, thing folds like a kite and is totalled. The first one, the trailer managed to flip the semi too because he missed the culvert WAY more, and the second one the trailer tore apart before the semi went over. Still had to bring in a dump truck and skid steer, plowing through an enormous pile of broken glass to load it up and haul it to the dump... After 2 semis totalling themselves out due to flip-flop drivers in 2 years, they finally put up TWO "no trucks" signs on EITHER SIDE of the tiny "street" so maybe they get a hint... All they had to do was go up a street and make the block back around past the funeral home, lumberyard, and back to the main highway and go back past the brewery to the other side, as the HUGE SIGNS indicated.... BUT people are really stupid now...

Whatever works! I combined beans with an 18 foot rigid head with a batt reel... just gotta be more careful to keep the reel speed just a *hair* above ground speed, and it'll work fine. You had your reel speed just perfect. Seen too many guys running the reel WAY too fast and just bashing the snot out of the crop before it ever gets to the cutterbar. We typically ran grain sorghum with the rigid head and batt reel, they work really well for that because the header is *almost* all the way up for cutting the heads off grain sorghum. Only time IMHO you really NEED a finger pickup reel is if you have DOWN beans, then they're a life saver. Our beans come off in early September so not much of an issue for us.

That, and rescuing R Peak from his Dodge truck in hurricane flooding. Then fixing his truck.

Once it clears the canopy it will thicken up the stalk.

I'm 65 and have a bad back, gotta be careful, it sucks. I agree with you about maybe better rolling after planting your corn.

Corn may look spindly now but will grow out of it. Give some time will look better

Good day from Ont. Yrs ago dad planted mixed grain with alfalfa grass new crop. 2 together just don't work right. I like ida of not using as much spray. Good luck Ths

I'll be 72 in August so I know where your coming from

Have you made any progress with this project?

That is a tremendously good-looking ground cover love the oats, buckwheat, hairy vetch, ryegrass add a couple brassicas we're going into young corn Everything has a purpose and function

i raise annual ryegrass for seed on our farm in oregon does the tag on the bag say oregon on it

Very cool

I haven't tried interseeding yet but I have seen and read, they are applying the seed at around V5. It would be neat to build or retro fit an old grain drill to do the job.

Looking forward to more as the corn grows. Thanks 😊.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Wishing you and your family the best.

Yeah, maybe background some calves and sell as stockers, or run some goats or something like that if you could develop a local market for it, could make some money. Should be minimal regulatory mess to deal with if you're small. Dairy would be a total PITA I'd think, and require a LOT more input and work to make it work IMHO... niche dairy stuff can be a good market, but harder to develop and keep in compliance with all the regs.

Good ol' Lock-N-Loads on the planter granular chemical boxes back there... thought I was the only one that still had those on the planter LOL:) We used them to put Thimet granular in-furrow with the cotton seed as we planted. Course a couple years after the chemical dealer set me up with them, Gaucho seed treatment insecticide came out and we tried it and liked it, so we quit using the granular in the lock-n-load cans and just went for seed-applied Gaucho or Poncho directly applied in-bag at the seed plant, saves a lot of time and messing around setting the granular boxes and refilling even with the faster lock-n-load tech... plus no trailer load of spent lock-n-load cans to return to the dealer... Good technology but it just came out too late to be particularly practical... sure could have used it in the old days when guys were putting out Counter or some of that other really hot stuff on corn through the granular boxes; that stuff you had to be REAL careful with because if you breathed the dust it could seriously mess you up or even kill you... organophosphate stuff IIRC...

Sent a vid to my BIL last year, in this area they'll plant their corn through a thin cover crop and spring grass and thistles (mostly wild ryegrass, some burr clover or white clover, and sow thistles/verbena or henbit) and then spray over the top with Roundup the next day to burn everything down. He thought they were nuts but it works for them, so can't argue with what works! Myself If I were going to do that I'd have a boom on the back of the planter broadcasting Roundup at the same time I was planting, or at least the corn herbicide... Why I was always leery of Roundup Ready cotton and set up our planter to spray the preemerge/band treatment directly behind the press wheels, because on our heavy black clay at Needville, pool table flat, if you got a rain overnight after planting it might be a couple weeks or more before you could get back into the field, and have crop already up and can't spray stuff like Cotoran or Caparol over the top, as it was preemerge only, and even Roundup Ready 1 cotton you couldn't spray after fourth true leaf, which meant if it went to raining off and on for a couple weeks or so after planting, you could easily see that window close before you could ever get back into the field and spray Roundup over the top broadcast... RR2 solved that problem but that came along after I quit growing cotton. Course on the sandy hilly soil here, I've plowed a few hours after a two-inch rain, so it's not that big a deal... technically speaking you could get a few inches of rain immediately after planting and STILL manage to get over it to do a burndown spray the next day, even if you were running through puddles on low ground, if you had to. On the Needville clay, you'd sink to the axles if you tried that.

Corn behind clover loke that should be amazing! I did this a few years ago, but was late after planting to get it burnt down. 90% of the stand came up and never looked back. You already have it sprayed, by the time the corn emerges the clover should be really dead?! Just double check that your maintaining consistent depth With your closing wheel preesure on high you might want atleast a single spiked wheel on each row. You will usually be able to run less closing pressure and get a better close to the trench.

Good day from Ontario Retired I thought cover crops was keep weeds from growing n blow away ground We wpuld plow down sod fields { alfalfa & grasses} for green manure & compose soil This is interesting to see! Ths

Love clover bales, they look black.