Milo Harvest Under Way

BigHP:
yeah, the rain is GREAT on our newly-risen wheat! As long as it does not hail, or the wind get tooooo bad right after the rain, the milo will be fine...and yeah, my Big 12 (blue) Cart went over by Bushland. I can't remember the name of the buyers. It was a father and son that came over.. "HHHH" was the name at the top of the check. (their last name started with a "H", and there are four of them in the "business")

Motram:
I believe what you are calling a "tower" is actually the "antannae" mounted on the grain cart. I think Kinze put it there (?), in that location, so the operator of the cart can tell how high up the auger will be (i.e. what it might hit) if it were folded into the working position. I have noticed that this 'antannae' and the auger (in the raised position) are the exact same height.
Is this antannae ~not~ OEM? Honestly, I dont know, as I am the second owner...Anyone else own a Kinze 1040? Does yours' have the little blue antannae mounted there? It really does appear to be [something like] a CB antannae. It even has the spring widget at the base, so it will flex.
If Kinze did ~not~ mount it there, then somebody was onto something when they decided to install it!!

Quote:BigHP:
yeah, the rain is GREAT on our newly-risen wheat! As long as it does not hail, or the wind get tooooo bad right after the rain, the milo will be fine...and yeah, my Big 12 (blue) Cart went over by Bushland. I can't remember the name of the buyers. It was a father and son that came over.. "HHHH" was the name at the top of the check. (their last name started with a "H", and there are four of them in the "business together
Holten, i think is how you spell it.They have two sections and he got his boys to farm it,I heard to give them something to do.They have made two wheat crops on it,but quickly found out that farming isn't as easy as just "sittin' in a tractor all day".That sure is a bright blue cart though!
My brother has been helping a guy over south of Vega and they have been doing seed milo.I think by the end of next week everybody will be going full bore on milo.
My wheat needed some rain.It has been up for almost a month and although I am not real dry,any rain is greatly appreciated.

We only rec'd about 0.25 inch, here at the house.
Over where we were cutting milo last night, though, we rec'd 1.25 inches!!! Another section that has milo rec'd 1.30 inches. What a great deal for the fresh-sown wheat! (I wish all of o u r everyone's wheat could have got that much rain!)

The rain fell gently (here), and did not damage anything. We are fortunate, though....I heard that it hailed quite a bit near Hereford
(, TX). Our county agent said that he was through there last night, just after the hail had fallen ; and he said that the hail was
2 feet deep (on each side of the road, from TXDOT maintainers scraping it off the road). I do not know how deep the hail was on the level ; but it would take quite a bit to make "wind rows" of hail, on each side of he highway [that deep]!
The highway had to be closed for a time, while TXDOT cleared it.

The Nat'nl Weather Service in Amarillo, TX (located at/near the Airport) reported about 0.7 inch of rainfall last night...For you locals,
I heard that the Lake Tanglewood area also rec'd some hail. Also, the weather got kinda' rough this morning (10-11-'07) down around Memphis, TX....also north of Pampa.

Big HP: How much rain did you get last night? Any hail? Hopefully your wheat got a drink.

BrewMax : What about u? You get any rain? Aren't you around Tulia, or is it Silverton? Is your wheat up behind that fancy air rig?
If you are not happy with it, you can drop it off over here...
Anybody else : ? (where ever you live)

It will be a few days, now, before we get back to cutting...in that location, anyway.
The weather men said NOTHING of last night's storms!!!!
The storms were a TOTAL shock to them. I heard one of 'em say that these storms "snuck" in off of the mountains, and headed "our way"....yeah, whatever...
Some of our ~best rain~, around here, has come when no one is 'calling for them' in the forecast. They are, however, calling for a big round of wind later this week...and into the weekend...and they hardly EVER miss the forecast when it comes to the wind!

pknoeber:
I am not 100% sure, but I think that quite a few around Hereford got hail. How bad? I am not sure. Here is what I posted earlier about the Hereford area:

Quote:I heard that it hailed quite a bit near Hereford
(, TX). Our county agent said that he was through there last night, just after the hail had fallen ; and he said that the hail was
2 feet deep (on each side of the road, from TXDOT maintainers scraping it off the road). I do not know how deep the hail was on the level ; but it would take quite a bit to make "wind rows" of hail, on each side of he highway [that deep]!
The highway had to be closed for a time, while TXDOT cleared it.
I hope your family didn't get it too bad...

jd9600guru :
I LOVE the Diverter/dust fan !!!! I DO NOT know how I did w/out it, now that I have it installed. "5" out of "5 Stars". If anyone has feederhouse dust problems, the feederhouse-driven Dust Diverter is a must-have! Thanks for the advice!

jd9500sidehill: Thanks!

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I got quite a bit of milo cut (7 semi-loads) on Saturday (10/13/'07) afternoon. Not bad considering we did not start 'til 12:45 pm, and were back at the house...and we broke off for an hour to go get another semi-truck to dump on to....I only missed about 45 minutes of the Nascar Race. (home about 7:20 pm) No, I did not quit just for the race...the humidity came ~way~ up, in a hurry...and the moisture of the milo was [already] borderline before the humidty came rolling in...It rained about 0.2-0.25 late Saturday night, and then it was foggy for a while on Sunday morning (this morning). I tested some milo, and tried to cut at about 3:30 this afternoon...but the moisture was at about 17.5%
Hopefully, tomorrow will bring sunshine and some breeze...( notice I said "breeze" and not [gale force] wind )
The showers are ~great~ for the wheat, so I'm not uh-cussin' the rain. The radar is lit up right now...I suppose it is raining around Dumas, Stratford, Borger, and in that general area. "Ping Pong Ball-Sized Hail" keeps coming across the screen's crawl.
Geeeeeez, we don't need that! None of us do!

Thanks for the sublime offer
What I need is some sunshine and a few days of low humidty!

Like I said, 7 loads, all grossing over 92k, [hauled] out yesterday afternoon...in just under 6 seperator hours...
I'm sure that the "big boys" like 8010's, 7010's, 9760's, and even your 9650 could do better...but I did get some grain out of the field, yesterday.

I just need conditions that are favorable for harvesting!



You are welcome to come on over, if your combine has some miracle way to instantly dry milo from [near] 18%,
down to the 14's (%) !!

Oh yeah, I got some (what I think is) good video, yesterday. I will try to get it posted to YouTube.com , sometime....

Finished the 2nd Field!

We finished the second field we were in!! The moisture (%) is still quite a bit 'wetter' than it was last Saturday (the last time we were able to cut). Moisture is right @ 16% ; 'my guy' at the elevator has been very kind and lenient w/me.
Here are a few pics from today:

Think I might be able to get another cup full of milo on this thing?



~Different perspective~ (from the milo's point of view)




Here is a pic of my GVL Ez-View Dust Diverter.
(good product! here is their website: http://www.gvlpoly.com/html/ez_view_jd.htm
I took the 'factory decal' off of the Diverter, and put a ~chromed~ JD decal....



Again, thanks for the great advice on the Dust Diverter! There is NO way I would want the Diverter that is powered by the reel's hydraulics. The feeder house-driven Diverter is the only way to go!
Tomorrow we are off to another field, Lord willing! This field made 4,670 lbs./ac.

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Quote:So I guees that means I can spend my money now that I won't have to take it off your hands?

jd
Yep, Guru, you can let go of that cash now...I won't be parting with this Diverter any time soon.

BrewMax:
Wanna tell me where that 900 hr. JD 9600 is? I want to know where to go to see it! You know, approach the fellow when the snow is flying, and all!

BrickWalker
As for the minimum % of moisture pertaining to milo, I do not know. The elevators around here usually cut folks off at about 15-16% ..This year, there is hardly any dry milo coming in..the elevators can not blend the wetter stuff with any dry milo, cause it's just not there...The elevator told me the other day that they really do not want any more milo, unless it is less than 14.5%. My last load yesterday was 17'ish....Good thing I got it in, though, as that field rec'd just over 1 inch of rain last night...it would have been another week before I could have got back in the field, if I had not gone ahead and cut it! I am SO glad to be done w/that field...It has a bunch of terraces, washes, etc...It won't dry out for quite a while, now...