Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

66°F and .57 inches rain.

Spent some time trying to get my Lincoln SP135T welder back in service, but no way. The cable liner is toast, couldn’t even remove it, so have a replacement gun on order. One of our gate posts in serious need of repair

Added some temp reinforcement until I can weld it

Picked up some crab clusters when shooing the other day. Something of an extravagance, but got anyway. Pre pandemic we had a hotel buffet that served them.

Not sure where my attention will go today. Still reorganizing a bit at a time.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Some progress pics:

The remaining pieces/parts.....

And the one "completed" (assembly anyway):

3' on each side, 2' across the front, 17" high.

Next pics will be of the complete run of 6 of 'em, possibly even with the trees in them.....

 

[txdon]

Good afternoon! Started off with 49˚F, now 84˚ clear skies South wind.

Yesterday I worked an early shift for a tractor driver that was absent and my late shift. The wind was gusting to 40mph and limbs with green leaves were being broken. My tractor trailer canopy was ripped by the wind and I had to hook up the overflow spare trailer because the ripped material would be slapping people's heads.

The rains that we have been having 2 weeks apart have really made this years corn crop look good. On my "Farm" tours I drive next to the neighbors corn field.

 

[rswyan]

48F and cloudy @ 13:00, heading up to around 54F for the day's high.

Got some bills scheduled for payment yesterday (still have one more to do that I missed)

Then entire front lawn cored, also about 50% of the lawn down around the house. Woman thought it would be too wet, it was just perfect ...

Inspection of Nest Box No. 3 reveals the occupants have been very busy:

Need to pull out one of the mealworm feeders and get it set up out front.

Also need to clean out the other nest boxes before anyone occupies them.

Pulled up Shepard's Hook (used for the Japanese Beetle trap) and brought it down to the house to get it out of the way.

Woman came out as I was finishing up coring down around back of the house and we worked on weeding the asparagus ... which She was quite certain somebody had eaten.

Nope ... just buried in the weeds ...

There were an abundance of earth worms ...

After that I headed up to the shop, where the temp had gotten up to 86F, and flipped the mobile base and shot the top:

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Loaded the steel pieces into the vinegar bath then packed the double-barrel with oak splits and throttled it back for the night and called it a day and back down to the house.

By that time The Woman's vegetable beef barely soup was ready and She had set out a bowl to cool for me before She headed over to tend neighbor's dogs.

It turned out fantastic and I ended up having a second bowl ... which I really didn't need ... but it just tasted so good ...

Agenda for today:

Put wheels and feet on mobile base. Going to need to Loctite the adjustment screws in the feet at the appropriate depth to allow for raising the unit off the wheels ... so that could take a little bit of experimentation.

Clean off steel for SSQA wings.

Start jacking up the Unisaw with cribbing so it can be set in the mobile base.

Shoehorning it in there will be a bit of a trick, as it now weighs quite a bit (>200 lbs) with the motor and the rest of the parts installed. Would have been better to have placed it in there prior to reassembly ... but at least the the table top and extensions are still off.

Plus whatever else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a good Sunday ...

 

[KilroyJC]

62, a nice thunderstorm just passed through an hour ago, but then a nice window of time without rain let me feed the birds without getting wet. Drizzle now, going to 68 with more rain.

Nice job on those trees, Kilroy. Will you build there?

BEF, I know what you mean playing Tetris with your equipment. I've been doing that, too.

Sodamo, I've been in probably 10 TSCs...funny how different they can be...but always found 3 pt. stuff. Sorry yours was lacking.

My wife and I spent yesterday morning at the local garden center...huge place and picked up "just the right colors" flowers to replant the outdoors planters and oak barrel. Got some tomato and jalapeno plants. She is happy. I spent time just breathing in the sweet bouquet of the gardenia section while she shopped. We had them by our front door as a kid, and at the first house I ever bought...brings back great memories...never planted them here, because didn't think they were hardy enough, but saw one variety with a tag that said "down to 0F" but didn't pull the trigger, since $36 and I need to do some research.

Down to Zero...reminds me...anyone ever listen to Joan Armatrading? So good.

No that is not the building site —- that is where we plan to put in a veggie plot. 70 years ago, that was all open land with cattle (meat and dairy) on it, according To locals (and the GIS historical aerial photography). I have to get all the stumps out, then bucket-rake out all the Virginia Creeper and other runner-root vines and plants from the soil, do some grading, then run the plow and narrow and fertilize and….

lots of seat time this summer!

update: maybe somewhere down the road, we may build on another part of the woodlot, but that is far down the (temporal) road.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning, 56 now which is about as warm as it gets today and ALL day rain.

Walked Cody and he got wet but shakes it off. Made coffee and got wife settled in easy chair with a cup of coffee.

Mowed a couple of hours yesterday including some of the tree planting areas. The cable between the battery and starter is dragging on the ground under the mower. Seems that mowing a slope the rear had dragged on the ground and broke it loose. Glad it did not short out.

Also restaked 30 tree shelters with 5 ft long oak stakes. Need to go up to the Menonite saw mill in PA and get a few hundred more to have on hand. The shoulder was getting better but the work out yesterday can be felt today. Surgery needs to be avoided. Agree with the doctor

A little teaser for Kil and his new X:

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That’s what I’m talking about!!!!
BTW I misspoke the other day - 4-way not 6-way blade. Still better than the knackered scrape blade I have for the tractor!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Added some temp reinforcement until I can weld it
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Now my dad would have wrapped it in barbed wire and called it good.

I’ll have to find picture of what he cobbled together on the bush hog instead of a lynch pin once.

 

[m7040]

Drew, try Cloudberries. Very Swedish jam and good taste

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[buckeyefarmer]

1.4” of rain so far today, over 4” the last 3 days.
Had problems with new projector at church, it kept losing sync. Seems I’ll have to update the HDMI cable to support the higher BW, that means renting the tall ladder again. It did this a little when I tested, but I didn’t test this long.

Was my youngest sons first time leading worship songs for Sunday morning service.

Lunch at usual place

Got home, noticed water dripping from porch ceiling. I’ve seen water on the concrete there before, but thought rain had just blown in.

Removed a ceiling panel and saw the drip between the ceiling panels, directly under the right edge of the right dormer.

So when it dries I’ll have to mess with some flashing along the dormer.
Tomorrow is study day for my colonoscopy Tuesday. So not much work the next couple days.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

So here is dads lynch pin.
A bolt, washers, wire, hose clamp.
He said he kept losing the lynch pin.

The problem was the L5030 has larger cat2 arms and the mower had cat1 pins. There should have been sleeves in the tool box, so I went to TSC and picked up a few.