One more of these days: 2008-02-23 (Neuss, Germany)

[Richard de Florennes]

while I originally planned to stay home this dull today for finishing my current scratch-built beet harvester modell,  I changed my mind later in the afternoon as some sunshine appeared.

Therefore, I once again gave it a try for another certain field expected to be prepared for seeding carrots. However, while passing this field on the highway A57 I could already see that the beds had been formed on the whole field so seeding hat already taken place.

Thus I continued on the highway further until seeing kind of an aspargus field with a tractor on it. Just one mile ahead onother aspargus field with activity and planting activity on another field. So I left the highway next exit and fought my way on the small roads to the fields seen before. Here are the photo results from the first field visited by me today , where planting took place:

[DeerMeadowFarm]

Holy cow, our field is still covered in snow! Even if it wasn't, it would be so wet my tractor would sink out of sight... I bet I won't be able to turn our pumpkin patch until mid-April if I'm lucky!

[Richard de Florennes]

Holy cow, our field is still covered in snow! Even if it wasn't, it would be so wet my tractor would sink out of sight... I bet I won't be able to turn our pumpkin patch until mid-April if I'm lucky!

We have only seen one night with snow this year melting immediately next day; this winter is extremely mild here and for tomorrow 16? Celsius temperatures are forecasted, allowing for some more photos:

[Richard de Florennes]

[Richard de Florennes]

just one or two yards away was this aspargus field just covered by lines of plastic. Of the two tractors involved in the covering work, the driver of the International waved me kind of a fuxx-off signal, so I did not bother to invest any more time there (as I was told later by another farmer, one of the local farms in this village had received a police "razzia" a few days ago due to beeing suspected to employ ilegal workers under illegal conditions. The negative new press was not received with a big welcome of the local farmers and a photographer appearing by pure chance on the scene a few days later was regarded with some suspicion by the farmers ... Nevertheless, after explaining who I am what is my business I was welcome on every further field ...

[Richard de Florennes]

Then I headed to the direction where I thought to have seen another tractor operating on an aspargus field; however to my surprise I found a tractor forming potato beds on a field where early potatos had been planted in the morning - in mid-february!!

[Richard de Florennes]

[Richard de Florennes]

turning down the stubbles just a yard or two away was this CASE tractor with grubber:

[Kiwi6920]

Wow nice pics again, me about the farmers moods at the moment, That 5120 looks mint, she looks like a well cared for tractor

[Richard de Florennes]

Then I saw two Fendt "Ger?tetr?ger" (Tool Carrier) on one field just a few yards away ...

[Richard de Florennes]

[Coxy]

nice pictures

[jcb4cxkid]

nice pics looks like old meats new in the toolcarrier pic

[Richard de Florennes]

nice pics looks like old meats new in the toolcarrier pic

thanks yes this is exactly what I also thought when arranging these pictures ;-)

[Richard de Florennes]

Then I saw - with help of a binocular - a New Holland operating on another field in our flat countryside, requiring just a car ride of one or two miles back in westerly direction ;-)

[Richard de Florennes]

Then I saw a JohnDeere passing by full speed with a strange implement attached to its back. Hardly beeing able to follow him, I reached him to witness him preparing another field for planting vegetables - it is a Lemken power harrow with Rauch fertilizer. A rare 2 WD Case 745XL is waiting in the background with a trailer full od small vegetable plants ...

[Richard de Florennes]

[gogreengelb]

Hiya,It would be interesting to know where you are in Germany.Is it the in the west near Kreefeld/M Gladbach

[Richard de Florennes]

Hiya,It would be interesting to know where you are in Germany.Is it the in the west near Kreefeld/M Gladbach

Exactly, my regular tours lead me through the area between Neuss, M?nchengladbach and Krefeld plus some surrounding areas from time to time ...

Here are some more from yesterday:

First a closer look at the Case International involved in planting operations on this field, than another International with planting mashine ...

[MDFord]

Thats another nice set of pics full of interesting tractors and implements

Do most German tractors have opening windscreens? they seem pretty common over there.

[Richard de Florennes]

yes opening windscreens is quite a common affair over here

[Richard de Florennes]

then a second John Deere arrived in order to apply another kind of fertilizer on this field:

[Richard de Florennes]

then a third John Deere of the same farmer appeared to give the two fertilizers something to "eat"

[jcb4cxkid]

why have they all got front forks

[Richard de Florennes]

why have they all got front forks

because this farmer is specialized in vegatable farming which requires a load of loading tasks (for pallets, boxes and so on) ...

here is some more: