Toppop, if he talked about each implement and you made a package deal, you were so right to walk on the thief. He got more than 500 bucks i bet from the other guy.
Sorry you went through that. Lots of tractors out there.
Must have washed half a pound of dirt off me after all that yardwork. Beard is coming off soon, acts as a magnet for dust. Besides I have a dermatologist appt late this week and it has to
be off by then so he can check me out. 62 degrees here today, great day to be outside.
RNG, yeah if even a possibility of a paint job for sure no protectant or anything with silicon. Fish eyes forever. I scrubbed and scrubbed near a gas tank opening once with denatured alcohol but it wasn't enough. Should have started off with paint thinner, then alcohol. You worry about softening paint though you don't want to take off.
Got a finger caught in the clamshell apparatus of the tracvac and that did not feel good at all. Then I stood up and cracked my head on the open cover.
That didn't feel good either...but the show went on. Operator error, paying for my sins of positional awareness. Two whacks in one day and I think I earned a glass of wine tonight.
And then I'm going to plant beets. Some basic beets, Oxblood, and some very cool beets, with insides like red and white pinwheels. Some will be planted indoors, rest will be planted with Earthway seeder. It has a beet seed plate.
All the fertilizer that's going down has gone down, at least for now, so I spent a lot of time cleaning out the flinger with the air gun and putting it away clean. Lot of junk blows back up in your face due to design of cone, another reason couldn't wait for a shower. Had fertilizer dust all over me.
Unless I take over more land from my farmer neighbor, which I see as biting off more than I can chew,
any more fertilizer will be for spot/side dress use, hopefully using the gizmo on my 1955 tractor.
Lastly I started out my fertilizer adventure this morning by dumping the first bag in, and watching it come right out the bottom. :shocked:
Oh no, shut the valve you fool. Which i did promptly...not much spilled. Then I set the stop at number 4 out of 8 and took off at 2000 rpm in low range.
If the stop hadn't fallen down, must not have tightened it enough, course it's vibrating away, where I pumped out granular at the number 7 setting for about ten seconds,
I would have had exactly the right amount at 500 pounds. Or about 250 an acre, maybe a little more in spots. Hadn't had any fertilizer in several years.
Really had the itch to go get the disc and come back but could tell I'd make a big muddy mess and not turn the soil over the way I wanted to, where it gets pretty fluffy.
So I decided to be patient. Maybe Monday. Feb 1 is in ten days and my boss, Mother Nature, is going to be ticked if I'm late in planting those onions.
It will be warming up here nicely in February.