Recent content by BB_TX

At our cabin where we deer hunt (south of Fredericksburg) we can barely get TV signal. Located in a valley with a fairly high hill between us and Austin and San Antonio direction. Not sure exactly where the transmitters are located. Using a standard fairly large antenna. An amplifier helps a...

Found this in my garden, hung up in my bird netting and already dead. Don't recall ever seeing one like this before.

OK, guys, tell me I am nuts. You may remember me posting a couple years ago about trying to find an old flat bed semi trailer to drop across a creek for a bridge to make it easier to get to the other side of my property. I found one that was exactly what I needed, 40 with good steel but rotted...

In June, one crawled out from under my foot while I was pulling some ground cover around my shrubs. In July, one was relaxing on my front porch one evening. Last night, I was pulling some of my dying garden plants and almost grabbed hold of one. (I'll be wearing gloves next time :eek: ) All were...

Saw in the paper yesterday where an 8 yr old girl died on a hay ride. She was riding on a wagon pulled by a tractor when she fell off and was run over by the wagon. I have read a number of posts on here over the years of some putting together a hay ride. Be careful. It could happen to anyone.

Needed to mow last weekend so backed my tractor up to the rotary cutter. Locked the brake pedal, killed the engine, and hooked up the RC. Got back on and started mowing. At an area that sloped down for 30-40 feet, I was backing down when I went to stop. NO BRAKES! :eek: Fortunately, at the...

Anyone planted buffalo grass in north TX? I have bermuda now. It does pretty well, but even it requires quite a bit of water in our hot dry summers to stay green. And last year's drought really hurt it. Looking for something that can survive better without a lot of watering. Have not yet been...

My little plot pales in comparison to what Jim did last year, but I do have my onions in the ground already. Also bought my other seeds. And feed and seed store said they would have tomato plants in by next week. Maybe a little early to chance that yet. Jinman, you going to keep us up on your...

The load center in my house is 200 amp but a relatively small number of slots for breakers. All were used when the house was wired 22 yrs ago. It is a Crouse Hinds box. I would like to change a couple of the full slot breakers to half slot breakers so that I can add one more 220 v breaker. I...

The last 2 yrs I have planted some pumpkins for the grandkids to pick for haloween. But limited success. Last yr I had 6 vines and only had 4 pumpkins. This yr I had 5 vines and only 1 pumpkin. The pumpkins I do get are nice size, just not many of them. Vines look great running out 20' or more...

Next year will mark 40 yrs of wedded bliss. (my wife loves when I put it like that :p ) For a special trip, we are thinking Alaska again. We went there a number of yrs ago and loved it. 2 nights in Fairbanks, 2 inside Denali NP, 3 in Anchorage. Rode the train from Fairbanks/Denali/Anchorage...

What Gary said.

When I log in to TBN, everything loads very fast. But after moving between different TBN forums and threads for a while, suddenly the load speed drops to VERY slow. I can leave TBN to other web sites for a while, come back, and everything is fast again. Or I can close my browser and reopen it...

I have a 950, next smaller to the 1050. The 1050 has a turbo diesel engine. They were made from 1980 to 1988. I did not think the 1050 came with hydro option. I am pretty sure they were all gear drive. All the x50 series JDs are good solid tractors. But it may also be a little large for only 2...

I know there are a lot of TBN'ers around the N TX area. Hopefully none of you were hit by last night's storm. Three killed in a small town about 10 miles north of me and MF1455v. Must have been a powerful tornado as news video showed at least one house stripped down to the bare concrete slab...