Holy shit, I'm so sorry for your loss, and good luck with the harvest!
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fire investigators don't piss and moan, but i can tell the insurance one is going to be looking at the combine, and the JD one will be looking AROUND the combine.
it has always amazed me the numbers farmers have to throw around. 1-1.5m$ in one building, but crops are worth Xm$, but bills one quipment, taxes, etc is Ym$ it boggles my mind!
here's hoping you can make this come out in the green for you, and hoping it happens fast!
it has always amazed me the numbers farmers have to throw around. 1-1.5m$ in one building, but crops are worth Xm$, but bills one quipment, taxes, etc is Ym$ it boggles my mind!
here's hoping you can make this come out in the green for you, and hoping it happens fast!
Damn , Damn double Damn . I hope either the insurance co or JD takes care of you . Wishing you the best .
SFD Man! I got no experience with farms but insurance companies and adjusters can be wankers. Hiring your own may be a good idea especially if you are headed for court anyway.
Condolences, mlaug. The property and production loss will be a bear to handle, but are ultimately replaceable--glad you're ok.
And it's really a tragedy that your entire collection of pre-war Dunhills and tobacco cellar were stored out there too....
And it's really a tragedy that your entire collection of pre-war Dunhills and tobacco cellar were stored out there too....
I'm sorry for your misfortune and wish you and your family the best in getting the farm back in order.
The building is still smokin' this morning. Incredible.
We got partly re-equiped yesterday. We bought a combine and a tractor and silage chopper. Carl Drost is our long time machinery dealer.
http://www.drostequip.com/
He had six phones call the morning of the fire telling him what had happened to us. He wouldn't say who made the calls, but I guess that's all part of living in a rural community.
Carl called John Deere's regional sales vice president and told him what had happened to us. Carl explained that outside of a New Holland skid steer and a New Holland mower/conditioner....every damn thing on the farm was green. He wanted to relay that info to John Deere so they would understand what kind of priority getting us some machinery was to him personally. The JD exec said he'd see what he could do and would call back in a few hours.
The shop guys at Drost Equipment - this part is very humbling - all voted to have a "shop party" and work late Friday and into early Saturday morning getting us machines that would work.
We now have an old model chopper, its been around the block awhile, but hopefully it'll get us through this year. Our burned machine was only two years old. This one is seven. We ran it today and had some bearings go out, but I think once we get through the bugs we'll be OK.
The combine is four years old. It isn't what we would run, but it'll work for this harvest.
The tractor is a 2010 model, its a little smaller horsepower than we wanted, but it was handy.
The shop guys got everything prepped and ready by 3:00AM and were out here by 7:00AM, with doughnuts. :D
I could kiss those guys.
The nature of modern manufacturing is that one can't go buy a new tractor or combine. They aren't making any without purchase orders and they are a looooong way out.
For example - All of John Deere's 2012 planter production is spoken for. Yep. Its sold. The best we can do is find a used one by spring, but used machinery markets are just as tight, too.
The combine we had delivered this July was ordered in June of last year, 2010.
So, you can see why I was mightily concerned about getting re-equiped with anything approaching the right size we need for our operation.
We still need a planter for spring, but at least the fall harvest can get underway in earnest now.
We got partly re-equiped yesterday. We bought a combine and a tractor and silage chopper. Carl Drost is our long time machinery dealer.
http://www.drostequip.com/
He had six phones call the morning of the fire telling him what had happened to us. He wouldn't say who made the calls, but I guess that's all part of living in a rural community.
Carl called John Deere's regional sales vice president and told him what had happened to us. Carl explained that outside of a New Holland skid steer and a New Holland mower/conditioner....every damn thing on the farm was green. He wanted to relay that info to John Deere so they would understand what kind of priority getting us some machinery was to him personally. The JD exec said he'd see what he could do and would call back in a few hours.
The shop guys at Drost Equipment - this part is very humbling - all voted to have a "shop party" and work late Friday and into early Saturday morning getting us machines that would work.
We now have an old model chopper, its been around the block awhile, but hopefully it'll get us through this year. Our burned machine was only two years old. This one is seven. We ran it today and had some bearings go out, but I think once we get through the bugs we'll be OK.
The combine is four years old. It isn't what we would run, but it'll work for this harvest.
The tractor is a 2010 model, its a little smaller horsepower than we wanted, but it was handy.
The shop guys got everything prepped and ready by 3:00AM and were out here by 7:00AM, with doughnuts. :D
I could kiss those guys.
The nature of modern manufacturing is that one can't go buy a new tractor or combine. They aren't making any without purchase orders and they are a looooong way out.
For example - All of John Deere's 2012 planter production is spoken for. Yep. Its sold. The best we can do is find a used one by spring, but used machinery markets are just as tight, too.
The combine we had delivered this July was ordered in June of last year, 2010.
So, you can see why I was mightily concerned about getting re-equiped with anything approaching the right size we need for our operation.
We still need a planter for spring, but at least the fall harvest can get underway in earnest now.
Wow, this all really kicks the bucket... Having grown up on a farm and my parents still owning one, I know how even the smallest thing can mean setting back to just one meal a day because them animals, crops, and the machines that tend them are all you got come the end of the day. My family just has a modest self-supporting goat farm, and when we lose just one head (usually from the darn jungle cats) or one dries up the teats, it can mean tightening your belts for a while until opportunity knocks again... meaning they start humping and making us some more kids. :wink:
I can't even imagine losing something on such a large scale as yours. But I'm glad to hear things worked out with them guys helping you so quick for harvest.
I can't even imagine losing something on such a large scale as yours. But I'm glad to hear things worked out with them guys helping you so quick for harvest.
Ain't country life amazing? People you don't even know will jump right in and lend a hand. Glad you are OK for the harvest. Hope you can score hay at a decent price.
mlaug, here's to hoping the harvest goes well and everything gets situated without hitches in your claims. Glad everyone's ok.
God bless em !
Sounds like the best you can hope for, for now anyway.
I know we'll keep you all in our thoughts and prayers.
Sounds like the best you can hope for, for now anyway.
I know we'll keep you all in our thoughts and prayers.
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