Thread: We are up and running.

Originally Posted by crappiefarmer

No irrigation. We are all dry land crops. Finished planting soybeans Saturday Night. Got a couple weeks now and will be picking winter wheat (Soft red winter wheat). Here are a couple of my tractors from earlier this spring.





big tractor is 300 hp pulling 30' disk harrow. It does not know it is behind it. Could go bigger. The second pic is a 275 hp with a 30' field cultivator. The cultivator could be bigger too.CF

your big tractor is the size of most tractors here unfortunately I do not need a big tractor because I do not do a lot of cultivating and big fields and I don't do anything hey work so I have a little guy that I do most of my garden stuff with I used to to have a 36 horse for a while for about 14 years when I moved down to the valley I sold it wish I had it back but I satisfied with a little 26 horse for what I do around the house here. most of the crops here are all irrigated except for down in Pennington where they raise a lot of dry land farming but around here where I live it's all irrigated mostly hey.

Originally Posted by snake River

your big tractor is the size of most tractors here unfortunately I do not need a big tractor because I do not do a lot of cultivating and big fields and I don't do anything hey work so I have a little guy that I do most of my garden stuff with I used to to have a 36 horse for a while for about 14 years when I moved down to the valley I sold it wish I had it back but I satisfied with a little 26 horse for what I do around the house here. most of the crops here are all irrigated except for down in Pennington where they raise a lot of dry land farming but around here where I live it's all irrigated mostly hey.

Count that as a blessing Bob. You could have a transmission repair bill coming for one of the big ones like I do. Sounds like a burnt up clutch pack in the power shift transmission. Its in an older tractor that looks like the tractor in the bottom pic but with small front tires. We keep our stuff up and it looks just as good as the rest of the tractors. Can't complain about the transmission. The tractor has over 10000 hours on it. All the years we grew cotton finally took its toll as that is what put most of the hours on them. BUT when I get that repair bill, I would be glad to be ding that to that little JD You have instead of this tractor. Clutch pack is gonna be 3 grand right by itself. It will be a 5 or 6 thousand dollar job I bet.CF

Originally Posted by crappiefarmer

Count that as a blessing Bob. You could have a transmission repair bill coming for one of the big ones like I do. Sounds like a burnt up clutch pack in the power shift transmission. Its in an older tractor that looks like the tractor in the bottom pic but with small front tires. We keep our stuff up and it looks just as good as the rest of the tractors. Can't complain about the transmission. The tractor has over 10000 hours on it. All the years we grew cotton finally took its toll as that is what put most of the hours on them. BUT when I get that repair bill, I would be glad to be ding that to that little JD You have instead of this tractor. Clutch pack is gonna be 3 grand right by itself. It will be a 5 or 6 thousand dollar job I bet.CF

Yes I know the big tractor for expensive to work on anything breaks down I don't put that many hours on my tractors I would never wear one out in the rest of my life cattle rancher that I know runs case tractors he caught one of his on fire I believe he picked up another one from the insurance good luck with your season this year.