Good morning!!!!

[KilroyJC]

GM Update:

Delivery somewhere between noon and 3 PM. BUT. . .

six items still on back order, even though order was placed three weeks ago. . .

 

[Buppies]

Kilroy any update on pup in school?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 53 outside with a high of 62 forecast. Clear skies and breezy.

Yesterday turned out to be a busy day, started with a welding project, then attacked the lane with Makita string trimmer and hedge trimmers to keep other’s vegetation at bay and to have some visibility at the road.
It will make it easier for Drew’s RV and no branches can reach it now.
Went with wife to Tractor Supply and picked up 660 feet of 4x4 fence wire. We thought about taking Zoe, but decided that she might be overwhelmed with the number of potential new friends.
The rolls weighed about 300lbs each, so I had to put the forks (and the loader, because I take it off to mow) on the tractor to unload them.
FedEx says that the stapler and staples are on a vehicle for delivery today, so there will be some fencing for me to deal with in the near future.

Today will start with breakfast with the professor, and then likely Drew’s RV, and then the little plane.

Mostly, the plane I was in on Monday was a Super Decathlon.
It’s been too windy to fly RC here all week, today will be no exception.

I’ve been here a long time, but the neighbors were all working farmers that had day jobs and worked on their farms every waking moment. They didn’t like that I had “too much fun” with music, parties and RC and full size aircraft coming in and out of here on a regular basis. However they came to accept me when I would see a combine broken down in the field and go out and help to fix it, often making parts or welding things back together. I knew that we were were accepted when the neighbor on one side planted a row of sweet corn on my side of a field of feed corn just for us. My kids got to milk cows by hand, and learn about real farming from them as well.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Speaking of mad horse woman.
Place near me recently bought. They have built 5 or 6 paddocks so far, and must have 30 horses in them. Every one now a mud hole. Don’t know how they can afford to feed that many.

 

[Buppies]

Very nice story PopG people sharing their talents with others

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Common theme. Up too early also. Wife woke me at 6:30 stirring around.
61°
Got toll notice in mail from last October. They shouldn’t complain about not paying tolls when they are the ones that removed the toll booths. 7 months to send me a bill, with all kinds of threats if you don’t pay it in 3 weeks. I hate toll roads and avoid them if I can, but this was a bridge.
Got up Looking for dimensions I took to make new cellar doors for dads house. Finally found them. Things you think about lying awake in bed. Opening is 4 ft, 1” wide by 8 ft. One door is 2’2” wide, other 2’ wide. Can’t use 1 sheet. Doors sit about 1/2” overlap on concrete edges. . Trying to decide best material to use. I remember them originally being plywood. I was thinking Advantech, then saw MDO. What you all think?
Last ones dad made are just rough lumber, covered in sheet of tin of some kind. Very heavy, but falling apart. His fix is to pile old tin on top.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning, 55 going up to 64 and windy, sunny

Yesterday completely destroyed the lawn tractor deck, not a good day.
Hit a root, pushed in the front of the frame.
When I took it apart found a string had wrapped one of the blades and grabbed the grease nipple and ripped it off, now the bearing is shot.
I have a spare deck, hopefully I can use it and will probably need to buy some parts. Can't have downtime, may need to use flail on massey if I can't get this working.

When my Uncle bought his place in MA, we were the crazy New Yooorkers. People shied away from us, many had never been more than 40 miles from home in their lifetime. We helped out and being kids, joined up with their kids.
By the time we left the area, we were invited to many of the town get togethers.
Working to help on the farms, collecting berries and doing some light harvesting was fun for us. Everyone waved hi to each other (and knew everyone elses business ) . Miss that here. Learned just how many kids could ride on a tractor and how to drive one. We used scythes to take out the sticky bushes no power tools except the lawn mower for around the house. Neighbor did the big fields in his tractor since my uncle could give him some bucks.
We even hosted a few families from there for their first trip to NY.


BEF - maybe add door lifters to help him lift the doors when done? Like they use in cars to lift hatch.

Back to the day job,

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy birthday to wngsprd’s mom.

 

[ronjhall]

Got up Looking for dimensions I took to make new cellar doors for dads house. Finally found them. Things you think about lying awake in bed. Opening is 4 ft, 1” wide by 8 ft. One door is 2’2” wide, other 2’ wide. Can’t use 1 sheet. Trying to decide best material to use. I remember them originally being plywood. I was thinking Advantech, then saw MDO. What you all think?
Last ones dad made are just rough lumber, covered in sheet of tin of some kind. Very heavy, but falling apart. His fix is to pile old tin on top.
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Thought I would recommend cellar doors. I bought a set from Lowe’s in 2005. Price was around $200. Today they are pushing $1000. Repair/replace with tongue and groove pine.

 

[daugen]

Ken, you can borrow my mower if you wish, either the JD or the Gravely. The latter doesn't care what you hit.

fine haul on the radishes this morning.
Will take most of these up to Buppies.

thanks Don for recipe. I think a little salt is fine; pickles are very low calorie but usually pretty salty.
There is a type of Jewish pickle, maybe Kilroy with his NJ experience can chime in, a "half" something. Like it's half cooked and tastes
very differently. I like the salty garlicy crunchy ones, preferably dill gherkins or midgets.

need to get moving
have a good day all

anyone know what bugs are coming out of these seed pods?

 

[m7040]

Good morning, 60 nice clear day

Slept in a little longer than normal. Felt good

Shoulder is cooperating better this morning and knee is also improving some. Progress

I can't have downtime on the mower so will have to get that fixed. Funny thing about diesels when no power I can not turn off the engine. On the old MF there is a rod to pull to stop but not on the modern diesels. Wondering how to stop was looking at the injection pump and saw an unused lever and that turned out to be the stop lever. Bingo

We learned later after moving here with two cross country moving trucks, motorhome and various cars et al that the farmers around here were taking bets on how long we would stay. The excavator friend a street over said good for us and that helped grease the skids around here. There were people however with long time racial biases that had a hard time accepting black kids in their neighborhood. Our kids became used to take up the challenge and stood up for each other. After fighting a few kids in school and winning the fight they became good friends even if the parents not so much.

Now will go enjoy some balcony time with a cup of coffee before heading up to the barn to look at the mower

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Current doors are probably oak. 2boards to cover 2 ft, wood from the farm.

 

[m7040]

Current doors are probably oak. 2boards to cover 2 ft, wood from the farm.
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I will take picture of the door I built for the cellar. I could not find anything that would fit an 200 year old stone wall opening so built one that is very heavy and insulated as well

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The rolls weighed about 300lbs each, so I had to put the forks (and the loader, because I take it off to mow) on the tractor to unload them.
FedEx says that the stapler and staples are on a vehicle for delivery today, so there will be some fencing for me to deal with in the near future.

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Let me know when the fencing party is, I’ll run up for a day of fun.

I used my fencing plyers yesterday working on my mower deck. Makes it easy to pull cotter pins.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 65F @ 6:15AM. Sunny. High 96F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Maybe a bit of cooling by the middle of next week, but until then we'll be in the 90s.

It is more annoying that people cannot follow directions, given in detail, more than once. That, and the rescheduling behind someone else. . .

Slotting you in would mean rescheduling someone else, and then they'd have TWO irate customers instead of just one. Sounds like they probably reschedule people regularly, though, so maybe they're used to upsetting their customers and have stopped caring.

A couple weeks ago one of the contractor's helpers went to use an outdoor duplex outlet and the plastic face fell off of it. They gave me a new outlet, but it was only yesterday that I finally got around tuit. Had a heck of a time trying to find the right circuit breaker, and ended up using a label maker to re-label all of the breakers because I couldn't read most of the chicken scratches that were on there. Then I couldn't find the outlet the contractor left me, but dug one out of the junk box instead.

For some reason I still can't understand, the new LED stadium light isn't going all the way out when turned off. I tried resetting the low limit on the smart switch that controls it, and even replaced the smart switch, but still no joy. Fooled around with it for far too long and gave up. Today I'll move a known good smart switch from another location to see if it works any better.

The parts to fix the tractor were supposed to be in yesterday but I got no call, so I'll have to chase that down today, too. And Amazon says three different orders should arrive today. We'll see.

Happy Hump Day, folks!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temp was 31 and it is going to a high of 49°F.
Wind WNW 10 gusting to 15 mph. Zero % chance of precipitation.

It is cool enough out that the bugs should still be hiding from the cold, I hope. Going to clean up the north side of the back yard today. Maybe hang my grease gun holder, too.

That is about it, have a safe day all

 

[m7040]

Walked up to the barn with Cody and checked over the mower. The battery cable to the starter connection is severed. Must have snagged on a tree branch as I suspected. Good thing it did not cause a short and a fire. No fuse protection on battery cables

 

[m7040]

I will take picture of the door I built for the cellar. I could not find anything that would fit an 200 year old stone wall opening so built one that is very heavy and insulated as well

Here are a couple of pictures of the door that I built

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Like those hinges.

Gave bush a trim. It was covering the old wildblue dish. Need to remove that piece of junk. They only had me send the LNA back when I cancelled. Did not take a before pic, but it was over the dish and thru the fence again. Now to clean up the mess.

Should remove the fence section also, only piece left when I had the side yard fenced in.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning! Low of 48°, going up to 78° again. Today is a transition day --- moisture moves in and an 80% chance of showers / t-storms this afternoon. Same chances through Saturday. Totals are predicted to be up to 1.5" of rain.... not complaining at all.... if it happens....

Wifey was very happy with yesterday's planting endeavor. Transplanted 4 trees, and 6 shrubs. A couple pics of the new planters completed:


Finally, the courtyard project is nearing completion. Now that those planters are in place, the walkway can get installed. And the remaining "dirt" areas can get covered. Wifey is currently planning the final choices of some 'ground-cover' type plants for select areas.

The strawberry planter / bed is in the backyard, assembled, but not set or filled. Today about 14 tons of gravel will get spread to clear the access to fill said planter.....

Need to start thinking about taking the string trimmer for a walk.... weeds are starting to get big. ----A never ending battle.

Everyone have a great day!