Help on a dream set-up please.

[David_Kb7uns]

Go to Tangent and talk to the boys at Fisher Implement they could give you a very good idea on what they sell in the valley for farming those crops.

David Kb7uns

 

[PDXRyan]

Thanks for that. Yeah, those guys are nice. I went out to the Gresham store the other day but nobody was versed in that many acreage or the machines to use. So then I got to travel over to the other end of the Portland area into Hillsorrow where their other store is. They have a guy that was a bit more versed in larger equipment. He's a dairy guy though so not the best for what I needed but knowledgeable enough to give me some good ideas.
Thanks for the heads up though! I think I'm pretty good to go now.

 

[beppington]

500 acres = 4,667' by 4,667', aka 0.88 miles by 0.88 miles, aka almost 1 square mile.

One square mile is 640 acres, aka 1 Section of land.

500 acres is a little more than 3/4 of a Section.

If you'll pay attention next time you're out in the country, pick a starting marker & then watch 0.9 miles tick by on your odometer ... You'd be farming that 0.9 mile stretch, also at a distance of 0.9 miles from the road you're on, aka 0.9 miles deep.

 

[Don87]

500 acres = 4,667' by 4,667', aka 0.88 miles by 0.88 miles, aka almost 1 square mile.

One square mile is 640 acres, aka 1 Section of land.

500 acres is a little more than 3/4 of a Section.

If you'll pay attention next time you're out in the country, pick a starting marker & then watch 0.9 miles tick by on your odometer ... You'd be farming that 0.9 mile stretch, also at a distance of 0.9 miles from the road you're on, aka 0.9 miles deep.

Great idea, that will put it into perspective for him.

 

[PDXRyan]

Sweet, thanks for that. Now that's the kind of advice I'm looking for here. Getting this stuff into a visual from something easier to gauge than how much a tractor can theoretically cover by some mathematical equation. Which I am working on and understand the mathematics behind it but just don't have the visual picture in my mind that only experience will help.
Hopefully I'll get an internship this spring.

 

[Don87]

Sweet, thanks for that. Now that's the kind of advice I'm looking for here. Getting this stuff into a visual from something easier to gauge than how much a tractor can theoretically cover by some mathematical equation. Which I am working on and understand the mathematics behind it but just don't have the visual picture in my mind that only experience will help.
Hopefully I'll get an internship this spring.

And that's basically what I posted in your other thread also. I commend you on your aproach.

Street wise is ten times book smart.(in the real world)

 

[PDXRyan]

Thanks a bunch Don. I appreciate that.
Yeah, I don't get why that guy and one other guy were flaming me. I guess it's just so easy to do when you're covered by the anonymity of the internet and you've had a bad day or are just grumpy in general.

Other than that, I got my rough draft of inventory back from the teacher today and he had some pretty good advice. I was thinking that I was the only one working the land so I chose single items but he let me know I could have more than one person working the fields at a time. i.e more than one tractor or combine etc.
Thanks again for getting my back!