Robinhood02
Crackpot Cruiser

Hey dude,
I just bought my third argo, wife says I have to sell one, but still a cool day. I was gonna ask you about your halftrack plan again
Argo Super Tracks 18" for 6 wheel argo
There are some tracks for a 6x6, I have 8x8s, would these super tracks work for a half track, how would you do it, and what are the pros and cons. I am getting ready for a moose and caribou hunt in Fairbanks Alaska when I get back, have 2 cabbed argos, and I have to SOMEHOW find a way to track them both. One is an 83 KB I/C, and the other is a 90 magnum. I have 22 runamucks all around everything

Are you still looking for a stalker? i have one here.

We use 35 foot belt headers on our combines. We only have manual tilts for cutting the rice that grows on levees, but we do have autosteer on our combines for harvesting beans.(we don't plant the bean levees, and smooth them out before harvest) Since we're just getting started, the field behind my house still has bean stubble on it, so I'll take some pictures and post a thread showing each step in the rice growing process.

Our growing season down here starts about now, the we usually start rice harvest late August-early September, but don't get done harvesting beans until the end of October and sometimes into early November. We try to get all the water drained off the fields for harvest, but sometimes the weather won't let us. Being that it's so flat down here, a couple inch rain will fill all the ditches and back up the water into the fields. We run Goodyear R2 rice and cane dual tires on most of our equipment, but a few have R1.5s. Rice is our cash crop, we just grow soybeans for the rotation so we don't sap all the minerals from the ground. Good hybrid rice will yield 175-200 bu/ac, and good soybeans yield 65 bu/ac on the high end. We have also grown medium grain that yeilded 200 bu/ac. Do y'all farm on rolling hills like the pictures I've seen and harvest with tilted combines to stay level on hillsides? Do y'all irrigate your crops or just put them in the ground and let nature do it?

That's what the landlord wants.(they obviously aren't our favorite landlords lol) The way we rent the ground is we get 75 percent of the harvested crop, and the landlord gets 25 percent.(I believe this is right, my dad handles all of that) As far as fertilize, I just spread it LOL I don't really know what we put out but I think we put around 250 lb/ac out. In case you missed it on my profile, I'm only 16 and haven't learned everything about it yet.(I plan on a career in engineering anyway) It's really cool to learn about how y'all farm up there, how long is your growing season?

LOL, we don't farm rice like the Chinese. We build levees that are about 3 feet high on the to sort of staristep from the top elevation of the fields to the bottoms. (The ground elevation in our area doesn't vary more that 10 feet.) We have wells at the high points in the fields that pump water up about 60-100 feet from the aquifer below us. Once the rice gets big enough, we put a permanent flood on it until it matures and is ready for harvest. I couldn't find a good example of midseason rice growing on Google Earth, but if you look just to the East of the coordinates I gave you for our HQ, and move the slider to say 9/2009, you can see us harvesting rice. Yes, it is white table rice.(although recently there has been a market for medium grain so we've been growing some of that)

We farm about 4000 acres, rotated roughly half soybeans and half rice. Looks like y'all have a big sawmill up there in your town. What exactly are "feed peas"?

Those are one of the many local graineries. Those particular bins belong to some of our landlords. Everyone who farms thier ground is required to bring all the harvested rice to their graineries. We also have our own bins at our HQ: Lat:35° 9'43.58"N, Lon:91° 5'36.36"W. We started putting rice in the ground last week, but rain stopped us. We just got started back today. How many acres do you farm?

Rice and soybeans, and a little bit of sweet corn because it's delicious!

Well, do you have the pics yet, very interested!