Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2018-01-10, 0333

19 right now...high in the low 30's today. I cleared the drive as best I could with the tractor/snow blower last night. It's not completely bare, but I'm hoping most melts and evaporates the next couple days so we don't get re-freeze on Saturday

 

[wngsprd]

31 going to 46...got to almost 60 yesterday, but some snow survived, to give wife proof we had some when she arrived home yesterday.

Happy Birthday, RS! Good to hear The Squeak is up to some mischief.

Buppies, are you gonna connect your new weather station to Weather Underground?

Randy, is today tractor day?

Ron, real nice chipper.

Jbrumberg, glad I didn't have to get out on the roof after the last storm. Glad you got it fixed.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 32 this morning going to 45. NWS calling for 30% chance of freezing drizzle this morning, then mostly cloudy. Took it easy yesterday, need to take mo to Dr this afternoon and get groceries this morning.

RS, Happy Birthday.

Praying everyone feels better soon. Ed

 

[Buppies]

40 high of 45 today rain starts tomorrow they say

Wngsprd maybe one step at a time

Prayers for Riptides Buckeyefarmer Toppop and all other silent requests

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 27° with light fog this morning. Heading to 44° with chance of rain. Going to try clearing snow off roof. Still about a foot of snow in most places up there. Still need to get up on roof and modify furnace exhaust. Beyond that not much planned.
Hope all are feeling better. Prayers.
Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

13F clear sky low 30's for high.

Test run generator last evening may need this coming weekend nasty weather,started good ran for 5 mins, than die...hmmm it has new fuel filter spark plug fresh gas,and no load on generator,I 'll have something to do after work today.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[daugen]

32 going up to 57 today, and 69 tomorrow! :dance1: (course I'd better not dance on the ice...)

headed downtown to pay for my Super A tires and install, then load up the truck with the old rusted out rims and old tires, I'll look
like a real Sanford & Son, and take them over to my neighbor who needs the tires badly. Then the expensive part, headed six blocks down the street to the
Kubota dealer, and pay the balance on my new lawn mower, and figure out when they are going to deliver it. I don't even have a place it will fit yet...
which means today is moving day. Something has to move... and pretty sure it will be the tracvac. You all know how big those things are, hog up a lot of room.
This of course means I have to address the worst parts of my storage, so I can get an implement or two into that space, then I'm moving chess pieces around.
Guess I need another shed...been a busy year.

thinking like an rv site here, ok, plows and discs, which one of you gets the basic covered shed dirt sites, and which ones of you get the deluxe concrete pads? And for no extra cost, some of you get electric included? How am I doing Ron...
Basically I'm putting light stuff in the dirt, and heavier items mostly on rolling platforms like Ron's chipper on the concrete. That's the plan... I am so tired of yanking on a crow bar trying to install a heavy implement sitting on dirt, am truly getting too old for this. So...brains over brawn, rolling implement holders. Lots of guys here have them, I haven't made any custom ones yet, squeaking by with redi-mades which can get precarious if the implement fall off.

of course I do like that idea of one tractor per implement. Seems sensible to me. '

The most important thing I have to do today is go take soil samples in the veggie field area and take them down to the feed store
where we will decide whether or not I need lime. My understanding is that if you don't get the PH right, you can lose
a large part of fertilizer's effectiveness. I don't have any distilled water at home so i guess I have to go buy a jug when I go out.
Guy said do not use tap water for tests.

 

[ronjhall]

I don't even have a place it will fit yet...
which means today is moving day. Something has to move... and pretty sure it will be the tracvac. You all know how big those things are, hog up a lot of room.
This of course means I have to address the worst parts of my storage, so I can get an implement or two into that space, then I'm moving chess pieces around.
Guess I need another shed...been a busy year.

thinking like an rv site here, ok, plows and discs, which one of you gets the basic covered shed dirt sites, and which ones of you get the deluxe concrete pads? And for no extra cost, some of you get electric included? How am I doing Ron...
Basically I'm putting light stuff in the dirt, and heavier items mostly on rolling platforms like Ron's chipper on the concrete. That's the plan... I am so tired of yanking on a crow bar trying to install a heavy implement sitting on dirt, am truly getting too old for this. So...brains over brawn, rolling implement holders. Lots of guys here have them, I haven't made any custom ones yet, squeaking by with redi-mades which can get precarious if the implement fall off.

of course I do like that idea of one tractor per implement. Seems sensible to me. '

I can help with part of your dilemma. Have the new mower delivered to my place. :thumbsup: I will make sure is capable of doing the job. While I am checking it out you can have another barn built with concrete floor. Big enough for all your tractors and mowers.
I think we should be able to trade our old buildings in like a car. Then have correct size building installed that we should have had in the first place. Instead of having 3 buildings I should have built one building 40'X100'14' high.
My neighbor followed my advice. His building is 40'X60' X14'. It is full. He needs an addition. He does not own a tractor or any of it's attachments.

 

[Looking4new]

18 and going to a high of 30. 60% chance of snow/freezing rain by this afternoon. Wind S 16 mph gusting to 25.

I got the driveway all cleaned up from the past 2 or 3 piddly snowfalls. Inch here and an inch there.

The DIL came home and sounds better than she was when she left. She has nothing but praise for the Bracebridge hospital, even down to the food which she says is great, with lots of it. What she hasn't said is how the tea is.
She now has 3 small O2 bottles (good for about 3 hours each), 2 larger bottles (good for about 7 hours each) and a O2 generator for the house. Her O2 levels when resting/sitting are about 98% and when moving around they drop to 85%. This O2 generator doesn't like to run on an extension cord, so I am wondering how it will do on a genny.

The Jeep goes in for a new oil pan today, it was supposed to go in on Monday but the new pump wasn't here yet. There is not a high output oil pump to be found anywhere in Canada, so I will have to settle for stock. We are refilling the oil with 5W30 synthetic.

That is it for today, stay safe all

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. Quite a pleasant change to our weather, dry, sunny and several degrees above freezing.

I have been waiting since the last snow fall for the young man to return with his post knocker and pound in some more fence posts and he's back today - while I'm 80 miles away. I hope they all go in the right place, if not pulling out a few 4" posts is easy, however 8' x 8" strainers don't take quite so kindly to being re-positioned.

Still cleaning up the mess from yesterday.......dropping the trees is the fun part......bucking the branches and clean up makes my back hurt.

Me too jerrybob. Best of all is those few seconds immediately after the trunk hits the ground - when I realize I'm still alive

 

[PJSprog]

41°F and light fog again this morning, going up to 55° today. They say we'll hit 61° tomorrow before the bottom falls out and we drop back to normal winter temps tomorrow night. Rain tomorrow, and maybe some snow as the temps fall down into the teens.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Buckeye, did you check to see if new receiver needs an update?
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No, didnt think of that, thanks.

I put the receiver under my tv, stereo is too far away to reach the other components right now.

Anyone know if receiver is supposed to get the audio from the hdmi, as it comes in from components, and not returned from the ARC link, or optical audio to the tv?
My understanding ARC is only to get the TV audio since it has no input. I need to order an optical audio cable

25° planning on going to work for a couple hrs today.

 

[Bird]

45 for a low this morning going for a high of 56, cloudy, and a little foggy. And I'm just about to leave to take my elderly neighbor to do his grocery shopping.

 

[Peter 315]

45 for a low this morning going for a high of 56, cloudy, and a little foggy. And I'm just about to leave to take my elderly neighbor to do his grocery shopping.

Hi bird, ever get those lawn tractor tires squared away

 

[CWB Wyo]

It's overcast this morning and 34*, today is going to be in the high 30's with a chance of lite snow and wind. They are saying less then a inch of snow.

Happy birthday.... rswyan

Plan on staying in the house most of the day.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[daugen]

productive but disappointing morning. Got all four new tires and their rims to the Kubota dealer, so they can finally start dismantling the Super A.
Time tested method requires the tires to be on to keep the whole thing from falling over after they crack the tractor in half.
The not so good part was so much time took place getting the rims that the tire place screwed up and threw out all four of my old tires by mistake.
Owner apologetic but that was it...two rears were almost new, 20 years ago, and I had promised them to my neighbor. Well, he's so pickled maybe he doesn't remember.
I like to keep my promises as most of us do.

And I believe they will be delivering my Kubota F mower this afternoon. I need to call them back and tell them to offload out on the road.
Lawn is too wet from the snow to drive a truck and trailer on it for sure. He's dropping off my mower and taking back my UTV for service.

Now I really have to move that tracvac to make room, and there's still snow down by the barn.
Watch me get the new mower stuck in the snow...that would be a good picture.

 

[lostcreekranch]

of course I do like that idea of one tractor per implement. Seems sensible to me. '


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It’s what we all strive for.

 

[jbrumberg]

+3F earlier this AM. It has warmed to 6F. It's supposed to get above freezing today; hopefully longer than yesterday's ~ 30 minutes. Possible freezing rain/frizzle tonight as the first "warm" front arrives..... Possible 50F temperatures around here late week. The predicted end of the week rain event will probably end with freezing/frozen precipitation as the next following cold front rolls in.. Typical NE weather.

Good morning to enjoy the smells of freshly ground coffee beans and drip coffee. And wait for temperatures to get a little warmer so I can split some cordwood 1/4's down to kindling size with the electric wood splitter. My only other planned activities are harassing those fat grey squirrels at the bird feeders and feed the wood stove. No red squirrels this year?. One less mourning dove yesterday = a successful catch by a red shouldered hawk.

Rswyan- Although we have not been formally introduced; I wish you a belated birthday. I hope your expectations were met, or even better exceeded.

Wngsprd- I do not enjoy going out on that roof even with low pitch angle. The old beat up, bent roof rake could not keep up with the ice buildup working from terra firma. I have to figure out a better way to seal that stovepipe flashing leak. It's my only problem area.

Have a good one everyone. Enjoy the day.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Fixed the dvr problem, but not sure i'm going to keep the receiver. Played a blu ray thru it, and it kept dropping video and audio.

Check your HDMI cables. Newer components use the newer versions of the HDMI standard that support higher transmission speeds. I have one of these that I hope will take care of a problem in my system:

Amazon.com: Mediabridge HDMI Cable (1 Feet) Supports 4K@6Hz, High Speed, Hand-Tested, HDMI 2. Ready, 18Gbps, Audio Return Channel: Electronics

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Same cable, hooked direct to TV works fine. Cable came with the bluray.
But i did order 2 more hdmi cables, and fiber for sound, from amazon.

Do all hdmi cables support ARC? On the link you posted, i noticed they specifically mention ARC.