A (too?) full day of seat time

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> Hope you are well recovered and back in the seat </font>

I've recovered but the weather hasn't cooperated at all. It's pretty much rained since I finished mowing Saturday evening and we're supposed to get more through Wednesday. Here I thought I'd go back and lower the mower to take another inch or two off and spread out my windrows a bit but now it looks like by the time I can get back in there it'll have grown another couple inches. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[Bob_In_MN]

Gary,

Send some of that rain our way--we're short 2 plus inches for the season. I haven't mowed in nearly a month.

Bob

[Golfgar4]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( we're short 2 plus inches for the season. )</font>

I hear that Bob! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

We're running more than 4 inches short this season! The governor's going to be asking for disaster assistance for the farmers. The ONLY good thing about it is that I'm not mowing my grass as much as I normally would. But if it meant the farmers and their crops didn't suffer, I'd be happy to be mowing every other day! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Bob_In_MN]

Garry,

4 inches short for the season!!! The farmers must really be hurting.

Fortunately we have a high water table where I live (there's a pipe inside my barn and when I stick a measuring tape down it I hit water at 12 feet), but I can see the smaller trees out in the open are getting a little stressed.

I hope you get some rain soon, but I just saw the extended forecast and we're dry through the weekend. I think we experience much of the same weather.

Bob

[Golfgar4]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I think we experience much of the same weather.
)</font>

I think you're right Bob. Although frequently, the weather you guys get goes due east across central and northern Wisconsin, which doesn't help us down here. I think that's what's been happening most of this summer.

Last week I stopped to pick up some sweet corn from the local stand I always frequent. The young man working the stand mentioned that that was the last day they would be selling sweet corn, because the corn was drying up so bad in the fields that it wasn't worth taking the time to harvest it. He said I could have as much as I wanted for $2.00.

I even noticed over the weekend that some of the corn fields have already been picked and the stalks cut down! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] I can't ever remember seeing empty corn fields this early before! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I hope you get some rain soon, but I just saw the extended forecast and we're dry through the weekend. )</font>

Yep, it's the same for us! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[frank_f15]

Gary: have to agrree with u, i only let my tractor get to 1/2 tank then fill it(have fear of running out ) being as i use 2.5 gal cans(easier to load) if i ran for 7 hrs straight at pto speed i would have refilled at least 3 times. your point of the amt. of fuel starting and the amt in the tank when done is well taken. iknow for the amt i use my tractor fuel economy is not really an issue.

[RayDiers]

Here in Central Wisconsin it has been so dry that even the weeds are dying!

Ray

[EagleEye]

Gary, what you just did represents one of my favorite things to do on my tractor (bushhogging). I'll bet looking at that field afterward made it worth it. I'll bet that watching the swallows swooping down all over the place picking off those little insects made it worth it. I'll bet that the sweet smell of freshing cut plant material was a fulfilling experience.

Thanks for sharing the smell of roses [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[loner]

Its so hot and dry in OKLA. The last time I bushoged{2 wks ago} I saw a coyote chasing a rabbit across the pasture and they both were walkin!

[BenderKC]

Not a problem, we got a FOOT of rain in 36 hours. How quickly things green up, even when they were very brown.