Mark Astner

Father, Farmer, Alberta Roots

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@oatsgrower Wheat is on 10” for yield reasons?

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@oatsgrower Nice. Ok, so how do you find the 15” for the barley? Any yield comparisons done on seedbed utilization with row spacing?

[Kelsey Solick @SolickSeeds]

This here hits home. This is how my life almost ended many many years ago. I was turning left off the highway into a field with a 1755 cockshutt pulling JD 535. Flasher, but no mirrors, did the old weave to look through the belts and from what I could see it was clear for miles. What I didn't know was a bobtailing KW doing about a buck 20 had already pulled out to pass me.. I turned right into the side of him, hit his fuel tank, tore both his right drives off, shot him into the ditch sideways.. he wiped out about 30 fence posts before he got stopped. As for me in the cockshutt, it took that wheatland axle and bent it in a U shape forward and sheared the hub off and spun me around on the highway all in the blink of an eye. Was shaking so bad I could hardly pull the fuel stop, but I walked away... Once the cops came and we were discussing what happened. I asked the officer who's fault and all he said "there is no fault, if you turned one or 2 seconds earlier or he was 1 or 2 seconds later we wouldn't be having this conversation".. it was at that point reality set in.. I will never forget that day.. or sell that tractor.. and since that day I still triple check when I'm turning left and approach farm equipment cautiously..

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Repost!

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@oatsgrower Going to wide row spacing hasn’t shown any yield drag in the crops you have in your rotation?

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@SolickSeeds Nice.

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@SolickSeeds Or is that steel welded?

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@SolickSeeds That’s slick!
Made of puckboard (poly)?

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@V_ShapeFitness With this intake, what is your height and weight?

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@teatpuller30 Oh geez, where was that?

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@MYPrecisionAg No Problem

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@MYPrecisionAg Ok, thanks.

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@teatpuller30 @martindeerline 😂
Simply unrelenting!!

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@stinkynutss @sask_trucker_ That’s Parkside Transport from Millet area.
Jared is a great guy and does a fantastic job.
Certainly recommend him.

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@Jason_hildo That is something I’m interested in as well. Small and clean

[Mark Astner @mark_astner]

@Megrif_07 We used Euro Belting in Edmonton to resurface the drive roll on a Batco conveyor and get a replacement belt.

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