Geese!

[UGUIDE]

Wow! Just got back to farm this week to try and get out and do some field work (CRP tree maint and getting equipment serviced).

Amazing amount of snow geese and canada geese everywhere.

I lost a front tire on the tractor last night when and so got to experience a nice long walk back to the the lodge. I even had a flock of specklebellies come over top of me which I had never seen before.

Not uncommon to see 3000 geese in a flock and working a field.

Some hunters in area and have large spreads to try and get these geese to work.

My fun for the day is getting liquid filled tire repaired. Valve stem broke in field and hosed the entire tractor with brown carmel like fluid. What a mess!!

 

[mnmthunting]

Sounds like your into spring stuff.:thumbsup:
We are "dead of Winter" up here. -7 this morning -17 yesterday morning, below zero forecast for tonight. Snows everyday, we have huge pile and banks everywhere.

Fluid in the tires are nice until you get a flat.
Just about have to get a tire service out don't you?

 

[FCSpringer]

So thick they are showing up on radar I guess.

 

[SDJIM]

Drove over to Sioux Falls yesterday (120 miles one way) saw lots of geese--in fact they put on quite a show along I-90. They had the ground white in numerious fields right along the interstate--had to have seen several hundred thousand both on the ground and in the air. The rest stop between Mitchell and Sioux Falls on the east bound side had people standing in the parking lot looking in amazment at the 10's of thousands of snows landing in the field right behind the rest stop.

Got home at sunset and was getting things out of the truck after dark and the geese were still going over--couldn't see them but could hear them for about and hour after it got dark.:cheers:

 

[UGUIDE]

MNMT, I armstronged the tire onto a trailer and took it to Wagner. Nearest we could tell the thing was filled with what looked, smelled and tasted like Molasses. It covered the tire and tractor but rinsed off easy with warm water.

$26 bucks for a newer heavy duty valve stem. Deal of the week I think.

Got back to mowin about noon and finished the West farm. Just had some supper and heading over to see how far I can get on the east far.

When coming back from Wagner today I came down the hill towards pickstown that over looks the River and saw these huge white massive things on river that looked like ice. Huge rafts of snow geese both resting on water and flying at same time. Never seen anything like it.

Jim drove by your place again to get some parts at PLatte implement. Honk honk.

 

[mnmthunting]

I got a new 65 horse tractor, very light in the back end. I'm going to have fluid pumped into the tires. Choices are Chloride/water mix. Windshield washer fluid, antifreeze mix. I don't see why oil of some kind wouldn't work. Molasses seems like it would work fine.
Chloride is the cheapest, guess Ill go that route.

Sounds like the geese are stockpiling up in your areas. Waiting ice out and snow melt in the North Country.

 

[UGUIDE]

Here's what it looks like when you bust a valve stem off tire filled with what we could only guess to be "molasses" yes molasses. Brown sticky mess but washes up nice with warm water.

I was visiting the neighbors yesterday morning and after coffee was returning to lodge and saw this flock of geese right off road. They were in that field all day. When the soybeans were harvested this fall they shattered a nd left of lot of grain on the fields which pheasants and now geese have benefited from.

It's snowing right now so not sure if I will get rest of plots mowed off. Got west farm done last night and just east farm left to do. Also noticed and new hydraulic fluid leak in back of 3 point on the big tractor. That's farming!

 

[mnmthunting]

What a mess! Glad for You it cleaned up easily.:cheers: