Friday update, ten acres left to go! No-tilling Wheat

I have ten acres to go and I am setting in my easy chair at 7 a.m. drinking another cup of coffee.

I miss the coffee from my old job. And my friends from my old job. I also miss parts of the job. Mostly the part of being able to make mistakes and since no one actually knew what I was doing, I would still get congratulated because I accomplished a task.

If one of my openers was plugged yesterday when I was planting wheat, the farmer will see it for a year. Probably won't say anything as he is a nice guy. If half the drill wasn't planting then I will be the butt of jokes for the next five years.

I was once told to replant the soccer field because of some priority. I ran out of seed and it was almost quitting time. So I bumped up a gear and left tracks. There was so much POA that no one even noticed that I only planted half the field.

But, I digress...

I no-tilled 60 acres yesterday. Wheat into silage corn stubble. The first field was mellow and I had to be careful not to plant too deep. The second field went from mellow to concrete to mellow and then back again. I tired matching the front coulters to the conditions but then just put them down and went. I adjusted the openers down a notch to plant deeper. The second field must have been harvested in the rain and has serious compaction.

In other random news:

The tractor below showed up on my facebook feed. Only 9 were made. I wanted one of those American 80 tractors so bad back in the day. What is insane is that we would have bought two of those brand new and paid them off and made money! 

In 1989 we should have bought that tractor and a Freeman 370 baler with the Deutz engine. In 1993 we should have bought the second one and another 370. In 1998 we should have bought a New Holland 1095 balewagon.

But, hindsight is 20-20...