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Not so pretty fall colors

cert

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This year is real dissapointing as far as bright vivid colors like we are used to. Storm clouds are rolling in as well so that didn't help with the pictures.

The road to nowhere...
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Spring calving pasture just brush hogged. The field in the back is flat and the hub of deer activity.
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The "hospital" in the calving pasture. 5 acres of hillside and pine trees for the cows to hide in when they calve or when they are sick. Also a good place to find deer.
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This is where the ashes of my father-in-law and my brother-in-law rest. They help me look over the cattle.
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The view from the corral...
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Nicky, sorry the pictures arn't any better. Mother Nature doesn't like to make it easy sometimes. :D
 

Nicky

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I think the pictures are great, thanks!! I'm sure the colors are not what you're used to, but I just can't imagine all those trees changing colors. I just love what we do have...quakies, hawthorns etc. I'm about to upload some of ours to post today. Wish we could come visit some fall...too bad you are so far away :wink:

BTW the picture of the tree where your FIL and BIL are is very touching.
 

Turkey Track Bar

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opps I was logged when lazy ace posted! Sorry

Thanks for sharing your pictures cert. Those trees are really pretty, even if they aren't their usual spendor. Our's here never get so vibrant.

Thanks again,

Cheers---

TTB :wink:
 

Mrs.Greg

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Wonderful photos cert :) The part about BIL and FIL was touching,often feel the same way about my Dad in law,you just know hes there
 

Soapweed

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Those are still very pretty pictures, cert, even if you don't think this year is as colorful as most. It looks like beautiful countryside, no matter what the time of year.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Looks perdy colorful to me......course we go from green leaves on the trees to our first freeze and the leaves turn brown and stay hangin on the tree thru half the winter. Not pretty colors like you have at all. Only 1 kind of tree down here turns a pretty color....sometimes....and that's the sweet gum trees.
 

cert

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The leaves will all be gone in a matter of weeks. Probably sooner if the wind doesn't let up. We've had several pretty good frosts already.

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

I grew up in row crop country. Farming those hills was a learning experience for me. I mowed the pasture in the picture last week. It is steeper than it looks. Good thing for good tight brakes on the tractor. I had to lead the tractor a good ways up the hill to make sure the brush hog took a full cut.
I bet Red Robin knows what I'm talking about. :lol:

Those hills are nice for feeding hay though.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I'm gonna be nosey.......in the second picture to the right of the tank, there's a small wood fence, fencin in one lone stake with an orange flag on it right in the middle. Looks like it woulda been a horse fence???
 

cert

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
I'm gonna be nosey.......in the second picture to the right of the tank, there's a small wood fence, fencin in one lone stake with an orange flag on it right in the middle. Looks like it woulda been a horse fence???

The fence you are talking about is/was a small corral. It will not hold cattle anymore. Neighbor uses it to lunge the colts in the spring and summer. Hasn't been mowed or disc this year. One of these days I'll fix it up so I can cut calves and pretend to be good at reining.

The orange flag is the result of the gas company trespassing and marking what they "thought" was going to be their right away agross the farm. I took the rest down and forgot that one was there. They didn't get their right away. :roll:
 

Red Robin

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cert said:
I bet Red Robin knows what I'm talking about. :lol:

Those hills are nice for feeding hay though.
:lol: I know exactly. I assume you also run fluid in the drive tires. Do you run duals? I'm single wheeled but duals or 4wd would be nice on those slopes. That uphill break is a lifesaver. I have to go off one little hill where I get into a slide. It'll sure make you nervous for a minute or two. I just have to go off that rough spot a few times to cover it all and it's not too dangerous I guess but it feels like it. I have another spot where the front gets too light to steer at all. I have to steer the whole thing with brakes coming up one hill with a curve close to the top. No problems yet and I guess there won't be unless I hang the bushog on something and raise the front end off the ground.
 

cert

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Yep Red Robin does understand. :D Lilly, all that flat ground is boreing. A person can fall asleep farming that country.

All the tractors have fluid in the tires. And all the tractors have well adjusted brakes. And that uphill brake gets used quite a bit. No 4WD here and the land dual gets put on for plowing but that is it. We have a set for each tractor though. AND several hundred pounds of weights for the front. I do feel safer on the narrow front end tractor on the hills though.

In one field I spend all day rakeing hay off the hillside so Den can get to it with the baler.
Hey RR, How do you get enough lead up the hill to keep the haybine from cutting back around you? I still havn't figured that one out yet. Next option is going to be tractor bar tread on the haybine. It sure helps with the rake. :)
 

Red Robin

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Why do you feel safer on top of a tricycle front? I've never road one.

My swather , if I leave the crazy wheel unpinned will go completely behind me or into the rear wheel. I always pin it though. My friend who cuts my hay (I combine his seed) has a 12' JD hydroswing. He's never said if it gets behind him or not. I think it has a hydrolic streer wheel so I guess he can keep it off of him. At least on these hills it does keep you awake. I'd like to get a swather in some of those big flat Canadian prairies I see pics of here. I'd like to spend a week swathing and never open a gate. That'd be fun....for awhile.
 

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