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We plow and harrow every four or five years - we are very cognizant of soil issues here on the Potomac so we no-till as much as possible.

The farm never looks better than when freshly tilled. Yesterday.

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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 10478669)

We plow and harrow every four or five years - we are very cognizant of soil issues here on the Potomac so we no-till as much as possible.

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Originally Posted by bugstrider (Post 10478801)

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I would love a few laps in the pattern in that thing - no flak though!

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Originally Posted by bugstrider (Post 10478801)

Looks good. What are the issues regarding plowing? Haven’t heard that issue before, just curious.

Any number of issues: run-off into the Chesapeake Bay (the Potomac River is in the background and the land in the distance is Virginia) from rain and loose soil, wind-borne erosion, chemical drift in plowed fields, etc.

No till works great through four/five years cycles of crops. I also recycle horse manure and other compost material into the fields both in no till and plow events.

All part of the soil plan written with the Maryland Ag folks, who are great. Save the Bay!

Your comment about recycling horse manure brought back a picture in my mind as a little kid of my grandpa doing that with a horse drawn manure spreader on his farm in Illinois.

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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 10478815)

I would love a few laps in the pattern in that thing - no flak though!

Any number of issues: run-off into the Chesapeake Bay (the Potomac River is in the background and the land in the distance is Virginia) from rain and loose soil, wind-borne erosion, chemical drift in plowed fields, etc.

No till works great through four/five years cycles of crops. I also recycle horse manure and other compost material into the fields both in no till and plow events.

All part of the soil plan written with the Maryland Ag folks, who are great. Save the Bay!

Thanks for that. Learned something new today regarding the E.C. and the Bay. My parents have ten acres here in CA but they don’t use the land like you do. They have a manure spreader that they use on occasion. A small one he pulls behind his kabota.

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Pops n Henry (we lost Sir Henry last year) The parents have ten acres of pasture art via fat animals, aka pets. Horses, lamas, sheep, goats, chickens, dogs n cats[emoji849]

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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 10478815)

I would love a few laps in the pattern in that thing - no flak though!

Yeah, it was crazy to see the pics of the damaged B-17’s still flying with missing horizontals and parts of the verticals. A Docent was telling us that there is one story of a tail separating from the B-17 and due to the large surface areas, the tail gunner survived the crash of the tail section after it hit the ground.

They had a good movie of clips of crews standing next to flak slammed birds.

Last year at night. Kinda wished there was some ground fog to give it a UK feel. Same bird when it was at the Mather Air Show
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Are they in Placerville?

I ran the American out of Chili Bar a ton in the mid to late 70's, early 80's.

I love that part of California....my Aunt lived Pollock Pines for decades.

I took this picture from my neighbors J-3 over fiftenn years ago - you can see the problem!

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The wife and I took the old Debonair to New Orleans for a few days. We basically flew along the shoreline from Tampa to New Orleans. This was the view on the way back, not much shoreline to see. I was at 7500’.
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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 10479163)

The folks live in Lincoln which is about an hours drive time the other side of Loomis northeast of Pville.

That is a nice area of the American River. I drive the 49 from Placerville to Auburn every work day. The Coloma/Lotus areas get all clogged up traffic wise. This is the season of blue hairs, motorhomes and visiting rafters sightseeing the 49. That only means I need to give myself more time to get to work. Then if you add the packs of spandex monkeys that take everything over and run their own rolling roadblock cockblocking everybody, that is a whole other issue.

Now, looking at the pic and knowing nothing about crops. I would say it appears as if the topography naturally drains right towards the Potomac. I see your point about things ending up in the Bay. Centuries of farming can have that type of effect.

Cheers

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My son’s wife’s family all lived in Pollock Pines. They just recently moved over to Goodyear, AZ after my son and their daughter were married and he retired. In fact this past winter, we all saw a side of humanity from the valley and Bay Area, we really never hope to see again. There were a series of winter storms that hit the region causing US-50 to be closed due to avalanche risk and mitigation. Freeway sign boards, social media of all three major L.E. Agencies and the local media channels were all warning folks of the weather and asking/telling/requesting/ pleading that everyone stay out of the region. Heavy snow, winds, weakened trees caused multiple and multi day power outages.

So do you think anyone listened????? Oh hell no! None of that stuff applies. Everyone still came into the hills for the snow. Wasn’t the zombie apocalypse, the 200’ tsunami, alien invasion.........snow. The freeway was closed and insanity issued. Locked every single road up and people were doing barbaric things to residence and businesses. People were defecating on porches, fights, vandalism, etc.

Our road that goes by our home was closed due to major repairs, and thankfully they closed the road prior to our driveway as we requested. With a circular drive away, we knew that people would be using our driveway as a turnaround. We had one guy in a Jeep threaten us with physical harm if we did not open the gate for him and that he can go anywhere just because he has a Jeep with big tires and a pretty paint job. By all of his accessories, he hasn’t seen anything more traumatic that the curb at the local valley shopping mall. His green halo ringed headlights were just too clean[emoji1787][emoji1787]. When he threatened to beat my ass and run over my Chevy Volt all over the locked gate that closed our road, my wife responded before I could, by saying that would be the biggest mistake he could possibly make. I was laughing so hard because there was absolute no delay in her response. Her crazy matches my crazy just perfectly. Oh yeah, there were three illuminated sign boards advising of the closure on the road too. There were time six or seven cars were stacked up. The ones pulling trailers were the best to watch. We gave up being nice after the first week of non reading drivers getting all upset they could not bypass traffic via the road that runs by the airport.

Here are some drone shots of the chaos that engulfed the local Pollock Pines residents.

Absolute insanity at its finest!
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We are at 2680’ and we had a good amount.
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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 10478669)

We plow and harrow every four or five years - we are very cognizant of soil issues here on the Potomac so we no-till as much as possible.

Do you chisel plow or moldboard plow it?

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Originally Posted by wdfifteen (Post 10479692)

Do you chisel plow or moldboard plow it?

I honestly have no clue. When we bought this place in 1995 I was commuting to the Sikorsky Factory in CT every week. The farm had also been let go for five years (bitter divorce) for my weekend were spent trying to get the non-farming stuff up to speed.

The good news is the guy that did the machine hire on the farm before it was let go agreed to help me by share cropping, machine hire and getting the crop to market- he has always done the plowing and combining. He let's me spray, no-till and drive his semi while he combines.

Plowing is an art. I did not mean to imply I did the plowing!

He is one of the great guys I know - he even hosts this every year: https://lilmargaretsbluegrass.wordpress.com/our-place/

Two years ago we decided to cash crop with James, meaning he does everything and pays me a fee per acre, since my schedule was so hectic.

Here's the gear:

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Originally Posted by bugstrider (Post 10479682)

My son’s wife’s family all lived in Pollock Pines. They just recently moved over to Goodyear, AZ after my son and their daughter were married and he retired. In fact this past winter, we all saw a side of humanity from the valley and Bay Area, we really never hope to see again. There were a series of winter storms that hit the region causing US-50 to be closed due to avalanche risk and mitigation. Freeway sign boards, social media of all three major L.E. Agencies and the local media channels were all warning folks of the weather and asking/telling/requesting/ pleading that everyone stay out of the region. Heavy snow, winds, weakened trees caused multiple and multi day power outages.

So do you think anyone listened????? Oh hell no! None of that stuff applies. Everyone still came into the hills for the snow. Wasn’t the zombie apocalypse, the 200’ tsunami, alien invasion.........snow. The freeway was closed and insanity issued. Locked every single road up and people were doing barbaric things to residence and businesses. People were defecating on porches, fights, vandalism, etc.

Our road that goes by our home was closed due to major repairs, and thankfully they closed the road prior to our driveway as we requested. With a circular drive away, we knew that people would be using our driveway as a turnaround. We had one guy in a Jeep threaten us with physical harm if we did not open the gate for him and that he can go anywhere just because he has a Jeep with big tires and a pretty paint job. By all of his accessories, he hasn’t seen anything more traumatic that the curb at the local valley shopping mall. His green halo ringed headlights were just too clean[emoji1787][emoji1787]. When he threatened to beat my ass and run over my Chevy Volt all over the locked gate that closed our road, my wife responded before I could, by saying that would be the biggest mistake he could possibly make. I was laughing so hard because there was absolute no delay in her response. Her crazy matches my crazy just perfectly. Oh yeah, there were three illuminated sign boards advising of the closure on the road too. There were time six or seven cars were stacked up. The ones pulling trailers were the best to watch. We gave up being nice after the first week of non reading drivers getting all upset they could not bypass traffic via the road that runs by the airport.

Wow, what a story!

Civilization is indeed a thin veneer.

The farm drains mostly into the marsh to the left side in the pics. I have some rather large ditches since it can really rain here. Those are soybeans in the field.

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We are experimently with new ditch practices (two tiers and leave un-mowed - better filtering) and leaving the pond alone for better absorption of any chemicals in the run-off.

All part of the plan!

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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 10479859)

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Oh my gosh, is that ^ Jack???

Local mountain flood control mid-March - the roar and the power and the freaking shuddering of the ground beneath my feat was almost more than I could face!

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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 10478815)

I would love a few laps in the pattern in that thing - no flak though!

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