Actually, the boards have all the spring tension removed. They sort of just floated over the rye, except in the very thin stands. Even there the boards did not seem to cause as much damage as one would guess. I know it is impossible to see in my pics, but there is actually one board missing due to a helper bending it up bad enough to have it removed this spring. I was not able to see any difference in that spot vs. the rest of the swath. So it was the rollers which did the most damage.  I went fairly slow though... about 5.5 mph.

It rained all afternoon, and all night last night......but I am not going to complain too hard. There are a lot of guys worse off then us like you said. My biggest disappointment was in some of the hard rain events, I had muddy water leaving my No-till fields. That made me sick....but not much I can do right now. I will be adding more covers to those fields.