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Tap how did you fare

lazy ace

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Watching the radar and listening to the scanner. It looks like it moved over your country and someone said there was fire south south west of Bison?

Well hope you got some rain we are watching it pretty close now.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

Mike

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lazy ace said:
Watching the radar and listening to the scanner. It looks like it moved over your country and someone said there was fire south south west of Bison?

Well hope you got some rain we are watching it pretty close now.

have a cold one

lazy ace

Ace, have ya'll had ANY rain? Did the fires get much of your's and Brents or Les's place(s)?

Any hay to be had up there? Update me.

Mike C.
 

Tap

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Just came in to get a bite to eat and check the radar. We had a fire just across our fenceline that the rain mostly put out. All 40 drops of it. :mad: I put the rest of it out, and looked for where the other strikes that almost deafened me might have hit. I was sitting in the pickup and saw the one start. It sure woke me up. Some motorcycle riders were standing along the hiway about 300 yds. from it. They were sort of excited too.

Then there was a call about 15 miles west of me in the hills, and lightning had started a timber fire, so off we went to that. It was put out by the time we got there, but we got in on digging the fire line around it. Now I am pooped. We almost hate to see a cloud come over. But we have been lucky so far.
 

Faster horses

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We saw that huge thunderhead build up to the east and south, Tap.
I was gonna get a picture for you and then someone drove in and I
kind of forgot...

It's still there, but different now. It was impressive at one time.
 

Tap

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Yes, FH, that was a huge thunderstorm cloud. I told the guys I was with that someone was getting a heck of a storm. And I was right.

Copied this from the NWS:

* AT 824 PM MDT...RAINFALL OF 8 INCHES WAS REPORTED 8 MILES
WEST NORTHWEST OF USTA.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
AREAS ALONG RABBIT CREEK AND BRUSHY CREEK...
THE MOREAU RIVER NEAR HIGHWAY 73 NORTH OF FAITH...

Only about 50 miles to far east for here. I don't know what we would do with 8 in. of rain. That's for sure more than we, and they, have gotten for the year.
 

lazy ace

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Tap electricty went out last night otherwise I would have posted. Glad Valley area was hit pretty hard and then it followed highway 20 and south. We got a sprinkle and that helped out alot but alot of heavy lightning about every 2 or 3 seconds. What a storm, it did have some rain in it.

Faith got hit pretty hard I guess they told the rodeo crowd to get out and find a storm shelter. My sister has cracked out the ben gay and was going to breakaway rope at the rodeo and they shut down the rodeo for awhile. When they started back up she said the tent was blowed over some buildings were damaged and the arena was under water. I probably would have headed for home but you know about breakaway ropers, I'm sure she stayed and roped.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

lazy ace

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Mike said:
lazy ace said:
Watching the radar and listening to the scanner. It looks like it moved over your country and someone said there was fire south south west of Bison?

Well hope you got some rain we are watching it pretty close now.

have a cold one

lazy ace

Ace, have ya'll had ANY rain? Did the fires get much of your's and Brents or Les's place(s)?

Any hay to be had up there? Update me.Mike C.


Mike rain has been spotty the last couple of days we have had thunderstorms with actual rain in them. We got about an inch the other day that was the first good rain for quite some time. In general our area is in one of the driest parts of the country. People are comparing it to the worst years on record (1934 and 1936).

The fire situation hmmm where do you want me to start. We have had our fare share but everybody up here is in the same boat. Brent hasn't lost any that I know of and Les has definately taking a beating. We have lost between 3000 and 3500 acres of grass. One mile north of us there is probably between 30000 and 40000 continuous acres that have been burned. Jingle bob's country same story if not more. Tap and Liberty Belle have been battling the same story. West of Isabel has been hit hard also. I know I am leaving some areas out that I don't even know about but the local Fire Departments have responded to twice the amount of fires as usual. It looks to me that if you are going to shoot an antelope you may not want to wear green camo. :wink:

Hay is scarce if you have a picture of a green bale sure would like to see it. :D

That is the report from our area. If you have any more questions don't be afraid to ask.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

Tap

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Update from here is that we received .62 hundredths of rain, down to less than 2 tenths on our ranch, last evening. Biggest rain all summer. Lots and lots of lightning, but enough rain to put any fire out.

Lets hope the pump is primed now, and we can grow some fall grass. I can hope anyway.
 

Denny

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We got an inch last wensday and another 1/2 tp 3/4 here last night and today its been a little cooler and the regrowth on hay fields is really coming on now so we may have some fall grass afterall.My hayfields yielded about 1/2 of normal but I keep finding more meadows so I should have plenty of hay when I'm done.Alot of fields we get 1 round bale per acre makes for alot of traveling.
 

John SD

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Denny, here this year we might be plumb tickled if we could get a bale to the acre. Most reports from my neighbors it takes 2-3 acres to make a bale. I didn't even bother trying to cut hay. One neighbor got 4 bales (JD 535) off a 31.5 acre field. Didn't think it was worth it for the hay but now after the fire that alone might make it worth cutting at least a fire guard around the place. I think the insurance figured the yield at 135 lbs/acre.
 

Denny

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I did hay a 11 acre piece it put up 53 5x5 round bales our meadow's are yielding around 4 bales to the acre but the upland hay was poor at best.We have 40 acre's of chopping corn that we are just going to graze it's pathetic,but I have crop insurance on it so that's a plus.
 

IL Rancher

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We jsut finished shreading another 80 acre field and man.. the good moisture we have been getting is leaving a wonderfull situation for growing grass, all the weeds shreaded, leaching nutrients back into the soil and growing grass in wet soild sucking them up.. Hasn't ever been this green in August.
 

lazy ace

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Hey I'm serious anybody have a picture of a nice green alfalfa bale, or maybe a real big fat windrow of alfalfa?

thanks

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

Red Robin

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This was last fall here Lazy ace. Maybe yours will grow back like this did. I posted this before but Idon't have a picture of any alfalfa. Good luck.
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lazy ace

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Red Robin said:
This was last fall here Lazy ace. Maybe yours will grow back like this did. I posted this before but Idon't have a picture of any alfalfa. Good luck.
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Wow thanks red robin. That is some incredible forage. I'm guessing that is fescue? Thanks again

have a cold one


lazy ace
 

Red Robin

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Yes lazy ace it's fescue. It sure doesn't look like that now but it's still fair. We'll cut it for hay soon and then fertilize it and with lots of fall water it'll look something like that again this year. Last year was the best I've ever seen it here though.
 

lazy ace

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That stuff looks pretty tough to cut. Can you get through it with a hydroswing or do guys down there use disc binds?

As you can tell I really enjoy haying season. Sorry for the questions.

lazy ace
 

Red Robin

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lazy ace said:
That stuff looks pretty tough to cut. Can you get through it with a hydroswing or do guys down there use disc binds?

As you can tell I really enjoy haying season. Sorry for the questions.

lazy ace
Hydroswing??? is that a sickle bar cutter? We could cut it with a sickle like you see it if it had a reel to clean the guards. An old sickle mower without a reel would be real slow. We use disc binds. I am a combine fan and my buddie cuts the hay. He has a 12 disc bind (JD) and keeps a pretty new one. This one is a center pivot. He can run as fast as he wants . He pulls it with a JD 7810 and rakes with a vermeer twin v then bales with a 4X6 JD net wrap. It does a pretty good job but he could make better bales if he'd slow down. He only has one gear.
 
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