Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Today was a good day. Got all the brambles, wild cherry trees (loaded with black knot) and wild raspberry canes cleaned out. Also the stump from the big tree that came down 3/4 years ago has rotted to the point of self destruction.
Also turned the compost pile. This pile is NOT for veggies or any other food items. This is only for top dressing the grass.
Dump & town run tomorrow. Will get 5 lbs of grass seed too. They only want $5.oo/lb for the seed + 13% tax.
I will check tomorrow to see if the seed is made of gold.

 

[Looking4new]

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can anyone identify this tractor?
Looks like an old Farmall but the emblem seems odd

This is like Don with his nice a/c cab Kubota.
I'll be at this campground not too far North of here later next week, just curious

Looks like a Farmall H, with miss matched tires on the rear.

 

[m7040]

Went down in the meadow to mow and just got back for dinner. Wife told me to cover plants because of freeze warning. Got the mower stuck in mud hiding in the tall grass so had to hike back to get the tractor. This tree is the largest tree we have being 4 ft diameter or thereabout and very tall. Not sure what kind it is.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good day.... got about 10 of the 14 tons of the first pile spread. Did the "ins and outs" around the new driveway planters, and about 3' in front of them down the driveway length.
Also got the "water trap" gulley filled in across the front of the drive. (This was where the idiot neighbor dug out a 6" drop with the bulldozer). A T-storm was approaching, so called it for the day.

Got the tractor fueled up and put away. Just as I lowered the garage door, the rain started spitting. Light rain for about an hour now. The evening news showed a frontal line moving across the area, triggering more storms for the next few hours.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Jay, thank you! We definitely have put a bit of effort over the last few years making our oasis. Dona really has a green thumb and her talent of propagating new plants is plain amazing to me.
She now has 25 Siberian Elms and 25 Bulgarian Black Pines growing from seeds. Not including all the perennials starting from seed.
Takes a season or two before they can get planted, but knowing that they have been nurtured from seed just makes it that much more special to us.

Drew, yes everything gets put on the drip irrigation system. I have laid (buried) over 1000' of main distribution lines. I'm sure there is about the same amount of plant feeder lines. Ground cover plants get a multi-point dripper... almost like a sprayer, but just puts out streams around a foot + in distance in a half circle.

No way that I / we could water everything with a hose. Always swapping out drippers to larger flow ones every season or two. As the trees or shrubs get bigger, they get bigger drippers.

Plus, we use mostly 'drought tolerant' or 'resistant' plants. Over the last 30 years of trial and error, we have learned from "mistakes".

 

[txdon]

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can anyone identify this tractor?
Looks like an old Farmall but the emblem seems odd

This is like Don with his nice a/c cab Kubota.
I'll be at this campground not too far North of here later next week, just curious

I see all as the last three letters. If the Kubota did have an AC cab I would not be training the new person to work the hot Summer.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Another mass shooting.... this one in our state of NM....
targeted innocent people just driving by or standing in their yard. A real shame. An 18 y/o troubled kid was the shooter. 3 deaths and nine others injured, including 2 LEOs.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Fritz, .....yep, I call that stuck.....

 

[KilroyJC]

Kilroy any update on pup in school?

Harry is responding to clicker training, he has stopped jumping up on the trainer, he is not howling the night away, and is working on stay/down/“leave it”. And tail is wagging while doing so!

Thank you for asking! We get two email updates during the week (next should be tomorrow) and pics/video on Saturday.

Harry

7 new items added to shared album

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[KilroyJC]

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.

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!

Well, they lost a customer and any referrals we would have made. Good to have alternate sources.

 

[rswyan]

50F and sunny @ 20:30, but temp dropping rapidly.

Got mealworm feeder refilled first thing, it was empty again.

Had a look in Nest Box No. 3 after that, looks like all 5 nestlings are doing well and starting to feather up:

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After that I started mowing on the west side of the house. Wasn't bad with the sun out. Got that more or less done, except for the area right by the broken off trees which are a hazard.

After that I took the Kubota up and started working on more compost screening and burying the weeds that had grown up.

Got quite a bit done, but still lots to go:

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Took a break during that and came back down to the house and finished off the stuffed peppers.

Got the 2 rock/gravel/junk piles consolidated into 1, screened compost pile enlarged:

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By the I knocked off around 20:00 my hands were freezing.

While I was up working on the tractor the Woman covered up the sprouted seeds and moved Her plants into the entryway inside the house ...

Probably have a quiet relaxing rest of the evening watching NOVA on PBS.

Hope everyone had a great Wednesday ...

 

[Wagtail]

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.

What!?!

The reason that I have 6 fenced paddocks is so that I can rotate the horses, allowing the paddocks to 'regenerate'. Each paddock might get used 3 times a year. AND muddy paddocks mean hoof problems.

 

[Wagtail]

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

I agree... perhaps a simple davit + block & tackle to raise the door up to a manageable angle.

Edit: Ah, I see from added pictures that it's a vertical door, not a horizontal one to a 'root cellar'... or am I wrong?

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of -2.0C, frost on the ground this A.M. It's presently 14C, calm, clear and sunny.

I've got a dental check-up this early arvo and then an evening meal/meeting which should get me home before 2200.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

View attachment 800962
can anyone identify this tractor?
Looks like an old Farmall but the emblem seems odd

This is like Don with his nice a/c cab Kubota.
I'll be at this campground not too far North of here later next week, just curious

I agree... perhaps a simple davit + block & tackle to raise the door up to a manageable angle.

Edit: Ah, I see from added pictures that it's a vertical door, not a horizontal one to a 'root cellar'... or am I wrong?

It's almost flat, slight slope. He's not really using it much himself, but it needs replaced. His helpers put in wood for him.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

View attachment 800962
can anyone identify this tractor?
Looks like an old Farmall but the emblem seems odd

This is like Don with his nice a/c cab Kubota.
I'll be at this campground not too far North of here later next week, just curious

maybe I should bring my camper up that way for a few days. Looks nice.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good day.... got about 10 of the 14 tons of the first pile spread. Did the "ins and outs" around the new driveway planters, and about 3' in front of them down the driveway length.
Also got the "water trap" gulley filled in across the front of the drive. (This was where the idiot neighbor dug out a 6" drop with the bulldozer). A T-storm was approaching, so called it for the day.

Got the tractor fueled up and put away. Just as I lowered the garage door, the rain started spitting. Light rain for about an hour now. The evening news showed a frontal line moving across the area, triggering more storms for the next few hours.

LS, do you line your planters before filling with dirt?

 

[Buppies]

Quite nice day today nice breeze high of 78 how can you beat that

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Dark clouds for background with the setting sun sneaking beams over the house for the trees.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Prayers for our team.