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The first Montgomery Wards retail store was in the town about 10 miles from me.

I spent a lot of time on a 60 when I was a kid. My dad put a two row cultivator on it and he got me set up and away I went. It seemed like the corn fields were bigger than they seem to be now. Power steering would have been nice.

Wow, you got to work right at quitting time. I hope you didn't go home that evening.

There is no Mass Transit here, I hope I'm not paying for it.

Several years ago my wife and I rode around Lake Superior in the late Spring. We just happened to do it during a cold and rainy time. Fortunately we were prepared and the windshield on our Goldwing protected us pretty well as long as we were moving. Rainy 45 degree weather is still not fun on a...

When I was a kid, it seemed that all of the farms had overhead security yard lights that I assume the electric co-ops pushed.

My neighbor sold me his 12' finish mower when he moved. I already had a tractor big enough to handle it. I could use about 10 more hp, but I go slow in the heavy spots. I only mow about 4 acres and my wife uses a 60" zero turn, so it doesn't take long to mow it.

What's a street? We have roads around here.

In this state, the law requires you to drive in the right lane unless passing. It's another law that far too many people violate.

I don't know or care what my credit score is because I also have no loans or intend to get any. Why do you monitor your credit score if you don't intend to get a loan?

I was rear ended while slowing to make a left turn with signal activated in 2019. My 1999 Goldwing was totaled. The other driver claimed he didn't see that I was turning. I installed modulating brake lights and additional turn signals in the rear and a modulating headlight to my 2019 GW. I will...

Hey, that looks kind of like mine.

My grandfather used to have a plaque that read "Man is only as lazy as he can afford to be." Now it seems the culture is entitlement to a living wage while being too lazy to work.

How much is a burger there? I've noticed that menus at many of the restaurants are now cheap paper instead of the fancy laminated menus they used to have. The prices go up every couple of weeks so they have to print menus too often to have a fancy menu.

I think my Mom finally accepted the fact that she's old at 90. She finally sold the home and 40 acres and moved to a home with only 1/2 acre. When it comes to her age, we called her the queen of denial.

Park it in the barn and you won't see that.

I still do.

We used to call those Purple Grackles when I was a kid. I remember plowing fields and they would land on the freshly tilled soil looking for food. Your picture shows the purple.

My dad used to show his age when he said he remembered buying gas for 14 cents/gal.

Are there any other farmers making hay near you? If you develop a good hay field, they may be willing to make one cutting for you if they can take the rest. I've got seven acres here and a farmer down the road jumped on it here. He's probably making out but I only need about 300 small bales...

I remember my dad putting 10 gallon milk cans in water tanks inside the milkhouse to cool. I was too little for that heavy work. That didn't last long. Sold the milk cows and switched to beef(less labor). My sister's family now milk about 1500 and there's probably less physical labor there.

All of the old phone lines are buried here and aren't causing any problems so I doubt if anybody would dig them up to remove them.

Is this something that was just learned? Why were there no discussions about this a couple years ago? It seemed like EA could do no wrong and that they were good people until recently.

How about a link to the video so we know the rest of the story.

When Fiber Optic was installed the phone company pulled their hardware, so landline is no longer available here. VOIP is available from the fiber if you don't have a cell phone.

I guess you don't know people that live in shacks, they develop shacky hands.

I always thought that one forgotten expense for hay production was storage. If you don't have a barn for storage, forget square bales and round bales will need to be sold or fed asap. I now see a lot of round bales being wrapped with plastic. The wrapped bales must store good enough for horses...

I don't know how many acres you farmed but overall it seems like farming is safer now than when I helped on our family farm of about 500 acres back in the 60s and 70s. My dad would usually get me going on something easy and you learned on the job. He only lost half a finger during his lifetime...

I remember what seems like a hundred years ago helping my brother in law in northern WI on his dairy farm. We were combining corn and I was hauling back to the bin in a large gravity wagon, pulled by an old Allis Chalmers. It was around Thanksgiving with a fresh 6" of snow on the gravel road...

I've found that forks can loosen the roots of smaller trees enough to remove them. A set of forks would be multipurpose and would get you started.

I picked this one up at the factory a few years ago, about a 12 mile drive. No complaints so far. https://tomahawkattachments.com/products/tomahawk-one-cylinder-grapple

So if you cross that chicken with a leghorn, do you get gray meat or is it spotted black and white?

I wouldn't support the crook that owns that place.

I ran hoses from the rear to my snowplow for changing the angle for a couple years. When I bought a grapple, I got tired of moving my hand from the joystick to the remote control. I then bought a diverter valve with a switch that I mounted on the joystick. The diverter is much more efficient and...

I like having one hand available to move low limbs or swat flies so we went with a 60" Country Clipper zero turn with a joystick several years ago. No problems so far.

We bought our 77" Sony from Costco about 2 years ago because their model was identical to other retailers but had a better backlit remote and was a better price.

That reminds me of when I was a kid. My dad had a friend that was a Doctor. He liked to help farm when he had the time. We were picking corn with a one row corn picker and a flat wagon. I was riding in the wagon when the Dr. arrived. My dad started the picker and I saw the Dr. doing something at...

I've got asphalt now and it is getting pretty rough. I'm thinking about getting a quote for chip seal on top of my asphalt. I saw a driveway with that recently and it looked pretty good. The best thing is the price compared to asphalt so I've heard.

Hey where'd you get a picture of my wife?

My neighbor asked me if I could snowplow their driveway last year since their tractor was down and I refused any payment. They later gave me a box of ribeye steaks. I worked on those steaks well into the summer.

My sister and family live near Clam Lake and we were up there a couple of years ago, of course we looked for the elk and didn't see any. We did see a wolf. My brother in law was complaining about the damage that the bears do to his cornfields. He said PETA members were buying the bear tags so...

We don't have any fire ants around here. I always thought it was because we were far enough north. I'm surprised there would be any in northern Ontario.

We can't cut spending in an election year. There are votes to be bought.

Maybe he actually found something more constructive to spend his time at after he got his tractor fixed.

I've got a 30 year old water heater and I've never been able to find the anode rod. I don't believe it has one.

If you've got fiber they probably will provide VOIP phone service through the internet. No need for copper.

I tried to watch a British movie on Netflix recently and gave up when I couldn't understand what they were saying. I don't know why they can't speak English.:D

Maybe the Amish will put a cell phone out in their phone booth.

The only wild hogs we've had around here were a couple of sows that escaped when I was a kid. They got in the corn field and we couldn't find them for about 3 months. A farmer about a mile away called us when he saw them while he was picking corn and we chased them back home. We made sure the...

I have no cell service in the house and no landline available. Fortunately I have good internet and use wifi calling.

Fiber was installed here a couple of years ago and the phone company pulled out their boxes and is not available now. I don't know what the Amish neighbor is doing now. They had a phone booth outside the house.

They put solar panels on about 20,000 acres near me, but I haven't seen the sun in what seems to be about 3 weeks. I wonder how it's working?

I know people that are paying $150 for DirecTv and complaining about the price when they could use an antenna and pay nothing.

We're about 30 miles from the transmitters and tried a couple of different antennas that didn't work satisfactorily. I wound up going with this one at about 25' up on the chimney. Now we have a solid signal...

I didn't see any mention of contacting the Coroner. Your wife is going to need some death certificates and that ain't happening without Coroner notification. Our Coroner would probably be lost with your requests.

A couple of days ago I thought I lost my favorite knife. I was feeding the horses and after throwing a bale of hay in their outside feeder at -5F, I took my glove off to get under my insulated overalls and pulled my knife out of my pants pocket to cut the strings. Since it was cold, I put the...

That's what some of us do so others can stay home and be lazy. Maybe when I'm 70 I'll quit.

I have cold water coming from my well to all of my taps. I also have a line that is recirculated through my geothermal to preheat for hot water. Basically, I already have water that is heated by a heat pump. It's just not quite hot enough. I have two water heaters, but one is not connected and...

I thought they were cold water heaters however my cold water is about 100* since it's preheated by my geothermal system.

My water heater was installed in 1995, so I have been thinking about a replacement. There is no gas here. I can get an $800.00 rebate from the electric company for a heat pump water heater or should I just hope I'll get another 30 years from my current unit?

I lost a nut once and looked for some time. I finally gave up and was putting my tools away when I saw the nut attached to the magnet on the base of my light. Now when I lose something like that, I look under the light first.

How much did you pay for a bale of that weed?

A couple of years ago indot was proposing putting j-turns at a couple of intersections here due to the amount of fatalities there. The public wanted no part of that and the projects were scrubbed and now they are proposing something like a diamond interchange.

I'm sure they would find water for such an important crop as "weed".:D

I guess I'm a tightwad. We do pay a cell phone bill, but I consider it necessary as we have no landline. No charge for Netflix. It is paid by my cell phone company. We don't pay for OTA TV and don't have any other subscriptions other than internet service. Years ago we had Directv and cut that...

When I was still a cop, we had a medical call of an unresponsive subject at one of our slum motels and this guy had overdosed on heroin. He was transported to the hospital after narcan treatment. He walked out of the emergency room about 1/2 hour later and about another 1/2 hour later we were...

When we moved here about 25 years ago, there was an air source heat pump installed. We have no natural or LP gas, so backup is resistance heat. That heat pump was worthless when it got down to 10 degrees. The electric bills were killing us, so we got rid of it and installed geothermal. We are...

When country music on the radio doesn't sound like country music.

The sun comes up late now. It was about 7:30.

I took this picture yesterday morning on the way to work.

Sound of Freedom on Amazon Prime.

Why did everything shut down in 2000?

I've still got this old Mac 35 chainsaw. I haven't run it for years. Made in the 50's. It weighs over 20 lbs. My father used it when I was a youngster.

Was there a pandemic in 2000?

We have a GSD that uses a dogloo full of clean straw. We put him in the garage at night so he won't play with the coyotes. He's 12 now and slowing down but still patrols the horse pasture fences.

I never thought there were any around here until the neighbor got one on his trail camera.

I had an opportunity to buy 40 acres for $10,000 about 30 years ago. It was 500 miles from where we live and I didn't think it was practical at that time in my life. It was farmland that was not drained very well. My 25 acres seemed like it was enough.

I try to help by only seeing the Dr. every 3 years.

My brother lives in Colorado. Colorado: A Fence Out State Colorado has traditionally been an “Open Range” or “fence out" state. This means that landowners who prefer not to have livestock on their property are responsible for fencing them out.

Yeah when I was a kid everything was fixed with recycled electric fence wire and my dad carried a pair of pliers with him everywhere. Now it's zip ties and duct tape.

Does anybody out there avoid meters by putting a well in, or is water too deep to drill a well. Around here everybody out of town has a well.

Apparently everybody had blanks in their guns since no one was injured.

I remember when I was a kid, we used a hammermill in our granary to grind feed for the hogs and it was so loud that my ears would ring for about 10 minutes after the job. It was so loud that you couldn't talk or even yell at somebody else for instructions. My father never wore or said anything...

I don't have a city connection. I don't live in the city, I have a well.

Why don't you use the Android app. I've been using it for several years with few problems and no ads. Or you could just complain about ads. With very little effort you can avoid ads on your PC or android.

We saw "The Covenant" last night on Amazon. I thought it was pretty good. I've always liked most of the movies with Jake Gyllenhaal.

I don't have an expansion tank. My electric water heater has been working since 1995. I have a well with a water softener and a second unpowered water heater that acts as a preheater from my geothermal system and plumbed into my water heater. I did replace the relief valve once. I don't see any...

I would use something like this. https://www.menards.com/main/plumbing/pipe-fittings/polypipe-fittings/1-sidr-11-5-160-psi-excel-potable-water-poly-pipe/1320001/p-1444431554903-c-8570.htm

I remember one that had not been found for over 10 days. I called the Coroner and told him what we had. He showed up with a pickup truck and said he didn't want the odor in his new vehicle. So we loaded the body in the truck bed and he went immediately to the crematorium.

I've got property like that and I figure that I have the best of both worlds because I am able to keep the property maintained so it looks good and I don't have to pay property taxes on it.

You're too late. They've already been bought.

I've known some people that have done some really dumb things when they're drunk or drugged.

Wow, I wonder what her full time job is?

I couldn't read that article without an account. No account is needed with this one. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-secretary-state-henry-kissinger-dead

I still remember clearly helping to drag a dead guy out of the river after he had been dead for about 10 days. That was only about ten years ago though. I still can't get why anybody would want to be a Coroner.

If you're paying for labor to repair your mower, I would think that would be as much or more than the parts.

The last I knew, fog lights are only to be used with low beam.

I won't be there for a while but it is like what is in the link. https://www.in.gov/bmv/registration-plates/vehicle-registrations/historic-vehicle-and-authentic-model-year-license-plates/indiana-antique-license-plates-1905-1919/

My mother has a 1913 Indiana plate that my grandfather purchased. That was the first year of plates here. It was made of porcelain and is in mint condition, hanging on the wall.

What did you hit that caused the rim to bend like that?

Do you have any sleeves over the hose?

7 in stock at Marquette for $304.

Some people can't walk and chew gum at the same time. They can't think that far ahead. I think using your signals is a matter of consideration to others and a narcissist has no consideration for others.

I remember several years ago when I was up there and saw that big goose and then wondered where the giant droppings were.

They couldn't figure out how to override the seat safety switch, so they needed a dummy on the seat.

Now we know what happened to the Columbia.

Around here we leave at least 6 inches of our alfalfa hay standing to go through the winter. Cutting it too short at the end of the season will hurt your stand for the next year.

Wow, I never knew they had a manual for that stuff since it was common knowledge learned by all teens working on the farm when I was a kid. Back then we didn't have manuals for that stuff and learned by following the adults.

I initially believed that the Covid vaccination stopped Covid, but I got it a couple of months after being vaccinated and saw that most of the people that were vaccinated got Covid. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that the gov't was pumping out misinformation, so obviously I won't fall...

That reminds me of buttermilk. When I was a kid, we churned our own butter and mixed the buttermilk with grain to feed to the hogs. None of the buttermilk was used for human consumption. I was at the neighbor's at one point and he was drinking buttermilk out of a store-bought container. I guess...

I find it hard to believe that your little tractor will break it. If so, it might be better to break the hook than your tractor. Why don't you buy it and if it breaks, post pictures.

I would probably also consider the price and reviews, if any.

Isn't there any internet service(cable, fiber, DSL) available for internet there? I'm so rural here that I have no usable cell service. Fortunately My electric co-op installed fiber a year ago and now I can use my cell phone in the house and barn where I also have a router. I never considered...

What voltage do you have while cranking the starter? I had a starting issue with my NH 1530 and finally bought a new battery. I've been running the new battery for about 5 years now and no more issues. I have replaced the key switch on it about 15 years ago.

All of my trees were Green Ash that were killed by EAB. Mountain Ash is not a true Ash and is not affected by EAB.

Seems odd that Ram and Dodge are at the top and Chrysler is at the bottom when they are from the same company. I guess Cal beat me to that comment.

If you peel the bark off and see this. It's been confirmed.

Fifty years ago we farmed about 500 acres and were able to make it. You couldn't pay the bills doing that now. I talked to the guy that farms the 80 acre field across the road from me and he said that he's farming 4,600 acres. I remember when I was a kid, we had an Oliver 60 and my dad found a 2...

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It wouldn't surprise me if somebody at the White House printed money that we don't have to give to the strikers.

I've seen a few of these.

I like this color but the tractor would take a lot of space in my barn.

I recently needed a part for my mom's mower and called the local dealer for price and availability. I had already checked online and found it for $40.00 from amazon. The dealer said they had the part in stock for $173.00. I told them "Thank you very little" and ordered the part from amazon...

Where are you at? Our Hummers left a couple weeks ago.

I was curious what the tomatoes were like from the large fields that are mechanically harvested and loaded into semi trailers around here, so I stopped and grabbed a couple out of a field. They had very little flavor and were very firm compared to my garden tomatoes.

It must feel better to make payments on your own property instead of a landlord's property.

I'd like to report this political thread.

I've often wondered if the ID I had before this REAL ID was a FAKE ID. If it wasn't real it must have been fake.

They need it to get their groceries.

Them's some expensive groceries.

We learned how to hitch up the buggy in driver training.lol

Especially for CA.

Liberals don't think like you, I or a reasonable person does. In their mind, criminals are victims and guns kill, not criminals.

I guess you haven't been to Chicago.

I guess you don't mow your yard. Around here if land isn't kept clean, in a few years you'll need to use a chain saw to cut the trees growing into the fence in order to replace the fence.

Maybe he's got an air conditioner in his chicken house.

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64 here approaching noon.

I cringe every time I see a rusty tractor. Some tractors look like they've never been under cover. I guess it doesn't make much sense to wash it if it's going to rust outside. All of my tractors go in the barn at night. I have one of my dad's tractors that is 58 years old with very little rust...

Maintenance can be costly on something like that.

Mice also love the basements when it starts to cool off.

We've got a CIH/Kioti and a JD dealer about 10 miles from here and a NH dealer about 15 miles away along with a Kubota dealer about 30 miles away. There is also a MF/Fendt dealer about 20 miles away. Big AG supports a lot of dealers around here.

We made it to 76 here today, but it's supposed to be cooler tomorrow.

One thing I've noticed is that you can't buy the flavor of a fresh tomato from the garden. Grocery store tomatoes have no flavor. My brother was visiting from CO recently and said he can't grow a garden but he misses Indiana tomatoes.

If you want to make a short trip to Indiana, you can pick up these at the factory. I bought them a few years ago and have had no problems. Made by Amish. https://tomahawkattachments.com/products/tomahawk-fork-frame-forks/3013

Somebody trying to talk to me while wearing a mask. Take it off, so I can understand what is being said. We're not in a Bank so you don't need to wear a mask.

May need to get the lawn mower out.

I met my wife 28 years ago in the County Jail. She was not an inmate, but was a dispatcher. I was dropping off a customer, who was looking for free meals and a bed after committing a crime.

Did I miss the cost of your solar system as a factor in the cost of your transportation or were your panels free.

it seems like I see more rabbits in town than I do around home. Foxes and owls are more active in rural areas, I guess. They are probably desensitized to humans in town also.

Don't you have to unload the spreader, unless it's a very small pile.

They don't actually do rendering there any more but they do collect dead animals and transport them to a rendering plant in Coldwater, MI. A 3,500 cow dairy in the area can be tough occasionally though.

MIce, groundhogs and coons need to be controlled around here. No armadillos around here, I guess no mice in TX.

I always used that to clean, never as a lube.

I use a dry lube that does not attract dust or dirt. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Blaster-9-3-oz-Advanced-Dry-Lube-Spray-Lubricant-16-TDL/202532762?

So if you are using a gas powered generator to power your equipment then it seems you have gone back to gas. I would think it would be more efficient to just use gas powered equipment eliminating the generator.

Uh, those are Osprey.

Can you keep those hidden in shoes. I bet you have to wear oversized shoes to house those things.

That there is funny, I don't care where you're from!

We had a big storm roll through here a few days ago that took down two trees and numerous large limbs. I finally finished up today. That's enough exercise for a couple of days.

Per month for 30 years.

That could be dangerous around PTO shafts.

You apparently have never been on a hog farm. Hogs are fed a balanced ration of ground corn, soybean meal and vitamin/mineral supplement. They are not fed garbage in the USA.

I used to have some.

I remember the summer when I was 16 and baled/stacked hay all summer. I handled about 10,000 baled that summer and there were a couple of 100 degree days. I was glad when football practice started because I got a break from the hard work.

I've never heard of them. Are they all south of the Mason Dixon line?

I think the fastest way to pay for that is to put all of the cleared land into solar panels. They're paying $1,000/acre to lease land for solar around here. That's more than you could make farming it.

The guy that farms across the road farms 4600 acres. He doesn't have time to pull weeds out of his corn and bean fields. I remember as a kid pulling weeds that the cultivator didn't get and recall when dad started using herbicide. It seemed like it was the best invention since toilet paper. Dad...

It's wrong if the rocks haven't been cleaned up, unless you don't mind destroying a tiller.

As long as your getting your tomatoes, beans, peppers, etc, I wouldn't be so concerned about edges. Clean it up with your tiller when the season is over. If it's too much to handle, reduce the size of your garden. My mom is 89 and she won't quit her garden. It's only half the size it was but...

The Searchers is my favorite John Wayne movie.

I used my 6' tiller on a guy's place that had too many rocks. I concluded that I will never again use my tiller if rocks are present. I haven't heard if the op has rocks but that will make a difference on what can be used.

I've got 240 bales on my trailer that needs to be stacked in the barn. If anybody is looking for some good exercise, come on over. It takes me a little more time to git-r-done at my age. I guess the important thing is I'm still doing it and I don't have to pay to go to a gym.

I got this one recently.

I'm sure the Rooster was tasty.

Mine will be ready soon.

It's hard for us to keep ahead of our zucchini. Luckily my wife gets rid of what we can't use at work. The only thing that doesn't want to produce are my bell peppers.

The first five episodes were filmed in Georgia and the rest was filmed in California. I guess they didn't like the Georgia heat.

D.C. has a lot of trees that produce money and if that doesn't work they can print money for all of their pet projects.

Tree pollen causes breathing problems for many people. I guess we should cut down all trees.

Hey Tom, I think we got it. Thanks for the link to your video.

Not for me.

You convinced me!

That looks kind of like a California background in the pic.

Yesterday the afternoon humidity was 60%, but it only got up to 83 degrees. The corn seems to grow about 6" overnight.

Turn off all your outside lights that attract bugs at night. I've heard too many people complain about bugs that have a big light outside that is on all night.

The smoke from up there lingered here for some time, how is/was it up there? I haven't heard lately what the current fire situation is up there. It's supposed to get close to 90 here today. It's rare to see 100 here though.

So I guess you can't escape the heat even in the north country.

Obviously the electric rates will go up with all of the money being thrown at solar. They're paying $1,000/acre every month for 20,000 acres in this area plus all of the property taxes. Somebody has to pay for all of that and the consumers will pay the bill one way or another.

Get rid of that phone line and use wifi calling on your cell phones.

Actually farmland is disappearing rapidly thanks to the growing solar farms around here. Almost 20,000 acres of corn fields went to solar farms here in the last year. Farmers are getting paid $1,000/month to lease their land for solar panels. Maybe the op is going to plant solar panels.

I had the same questions and assumed he got a heck of a deal on the property because it doesn't seem cost effective to clear that much land unless you're growing houses or Walmarts.

The county saying they don't have money to fix your road, but they then propose to build a new road at a different location at the next commissioner's meeting.

I do a crossword puzzle on my pc daily. About 15 years ago I played some games on a PS and figured out the weeds in the garden were beating me at their own game while I was playing games in the house.

It must be one of those black-tipped bobtail mountain lions common in CO.

Make sure the fuel cap is venting.

Not to mention, I've never heard of a black-tipped bobtail on a mountain lion.

That picture looks nothing like the bobcat posted by the op. I guess they do both have four legs.

We've got one with a single joystick and is a hoot once you get the hang of it and is nice being able to manage low hanging limbs with one hand free.