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Bought a battery powered backpack sprayer from Petratools. Mixed a couple gallons of Co-Ral and sprayed nine calves I had trapped in a lot. First time to use it and I was very pleased.

Truck said 97 today when I fed cows. Probably around 5:00. BTW, sometimes you seem to be in East Texas and others in Central Texas. Two properties?

Found this last night. This is a couple counties over from me. He used CoRal which is what one of my wife's Ol cowboy co-workers told her he used years ago. I mixed some permethrin with water in a quart spray bottle yesterday. On one lease we have 13 head. Sprayed em best I could while they...

Our cows are mostly gentle. Probably 1/3 of them I can pet and scratch on. I know.....shouldn't do that. The rest are gentle as long as I don't mess with em. I have squirted them with a syringe of permethrin based product from the four wheeler while they're eating cubes. Maybe need to try with a...

Man it may be Fall at your place now but it's still freaking Summer here.😂

Was wondering if anyone here has ever sprayed cattle from a 3pt sprayer on tractor?

Feels like we haven't had rain since 1998.🤦🏼‍♂️

Last two days there were showers all around us but we didn't get any. Was doing some pasture mowing a month ago but stopped because it's getting dry.

We could use some a little north of ya. Some chances next couple days. Happy Fourth!

You forgot to mention about knocking the cobwebs out of the ceiling corner.😂

I had a stack just like that in the pasture beside our house. Ended up letting the neighbor have them. So at the feed store the other day I grabbed three pallets and took em home. Put em in pasture where the others had been because, well, you know, we just need pallets in the field.

On another note, am I the only one who noticed 2lane referred to Sharn Jean as Sharon Jean? 😂

Recently watched Solace with Anthony Hopkins. Pretty good.

Was gonna load this on dvr last night cuz wife and I are interested. It didn't show up when I did a search on directv.

Poured 2 6/10 out of my guage last weekend. That was accumulated over a week's time. Madison County.

Carlito's Way. 1993. 29 years later I watch it. Not great but decent. Al Pacino would've been 53 at that time and looked early 40's. I'm 56 and look 60. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Dang. Glad I don't have stairs. But I did fall off a ladder trying to gain entry to attic. My knee (meniscus) gave out and down I went. Hit my head on the corner of the wall. Your description of "thoughts on the way down" reminds me of another falling down episode from a couple years ago. Was...

Javier was great a few nights ago. Hope Valdez closes it out tonight. Got a half inch last night. 1 1/10 last weekend. 7/10 the weekend before. Went to tractor supply and bought two sacks of whole oats, mixed with a leftover sack of ryegrass from last year, and disced and seeded a one acre trap...

I think he's 150 or so miles north of me. It would be closer to come steal yours.😂

Nice rain yesterday evening. Broke my new rain gauge mounting it to fence post so don't know how much.

Still warm and dry here.

I'm not aware of that. At least I don't think my hoses have that. For some reason the replacement ends don't fit as tight in the hoses as they used to. Maybe the hoses were made in USA and fittings in China?

Kinda baffled. Back in the 80's and 90's I put many a hose replacement end on hoses and never had a problem. Most of them were those plastic green ones with two screws. The last ten years or so it's like they don't fit hoses properly any more and leak terribly. No matter whether it's the plastic...

Maybe a skilsaw with a cutting wheel in it? I have a Ryobi battery powered grinder I keep a cutting wheel on. Pretty handy but will burn through battery fairly quickly if ya have to do a lot.

Not sure. At the local feed store they called them zipper cream peas. My peas did good last year.

After planting purple hulls for years in my small garden we switched to zipper cream peas the last couple years. I had the idea of putting some sections of cow panel (the ones with probably 4-6" squares) in the rows in hopes they might climb instead of just being a bush. Supposedly they are...

Wife and I watched The Devil's Brigade last night. I recognized the title and assumed had seen it before but had not. Decent older movie I enjoyed. Tonight I watched Saving Private Ryan again. It's been many years and I had forgotten many of the cast. Excellent movie.

Watched a Ray Liotta movie we'd never heard of called The River Murders. Kinda ho hum. My biggest disappointment was it had so much background noise that sounded like a choir humming that you couldn't hear half of what was said.

Hahahaha I'll be around tomorrow.😀

I don't have a recommendation for ya. I have a Mahindra. Don't think it's a stupid question as I'm sure someone will have good advice. You seem to be excited about the next chapter so I bet you do well. Good luck!

We watched Wind River last week and thought it was a good movie. Jeremy Renner is the main character and it's produced by Taylor Sheridan who did Yellowstone.

Now we know. It's all Brandi's fault.😜

Remember all that July rain? Sure could use some now.

If ya get a chance, try Green Mountain Dark Magic. Nothing else compares for me.

Nope. Just summer.😀

Oh boy, a trailer lights thread? Need to see if I can find that.😂

Saw a small house today that had a "pallet" fenced in back yard. Told myself I'll take a pic of it this weekend some time and post it here. Then I see this thread was resurrected yesterday. Maybe should wait a few weeks so it can be resurrected again.😂

I'm guessing this is correct. Heard on radio the other day that they've decided to continue touring with the tech as Dusty would've wanted it that way.

This is what I was considering. Wondering if anyone has done it.

I've used ratchet strainers on electric fence but never a barbed wire fence. Can't recall ever seeing that done. Just curious if any has done it and how well it worked.

Thankful for the shower we just had.

Not so sure. Some did ok during that week in February.

I can swim but I'm afraid I can't "scull".

Y'all be careful. My four year old thread about mother in law with dementia got closed. Guess something political was mentioned. Don't remember what.

I made it to 46. Used to play in the church gym on Sunday nights until I blew my meniscus.

Evidently I thought I was in the good movie thread when I posted that.🙄 As punishment I did determine that Dragoneggs is now 60 years and 111 days old. Happy 60/111 Dragon!

I'm probably beyond help. On another note, I'm glad you're still hanging around enjoying the spectacle with us.😁

Don't worry. Sparc would have to weigh in and give his assessment of said explanation. Probably not gonna happen any time soon.😂

I think mine is a Coleman 4500.😀

Only once have I had to run a generator because of a power outage which was Hurricane Ike in '08. We were three days without electricity then. Generator ran the refrigerator, freezer, tv, lamp, and couple fans. Got lucky and was able to get enough gas to run it. How many generators do you keep...

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Happy St Patty's Day everyone! Time to get to work.

Moss. Sorry. Don't know how to work this new format well.🙄

I'll second that, Miss.

Wife and I watched Edison night before last. I'd never heard of it. She had started watching it then paused it a few minutes in. So I googled it. Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Justin Timberlake, Dylan McDermott, John Heard. It didn't have great reviews. Turns out I thought it was a pretty good...

Saw this two lots over from where granddaughter goes to daycare. :shocked:

Today makes 33 years for me and the missus. Blessed.

We have a 14 x 32 metal building we're thinking bout moving from back yard to side yard. The tractor is a Mahindra 5570 70hp. The building has four 4 x 6 skids under it. Building is full of "stuff" such as tools and saddles. Wondering if I can drag it slowly with tractor?

Bought a Scag Cheetah in 2013. Two or three years later a mower deck spring breaks. Found a Scag dealer in a town closer to me than where I bought the mower. Friendly folks. Bought spring and blades. Fast forward to this past weekend. Different spring broke. Went and bought it and a set of...

Couple months ago I bought a large ( 40 pounds I think ) bag of birdseed at Walmart. Two new feeders in our front yard. Noticed a lot of blackbirds coming through for couple weeks. One day while weedeating I saw one sitting in grass just a couple feet from me. It would kinda fly/flutter for ten...

My entrepreneurial stepdad's latest thing to come up with. A combination holster and cell phone carrier. Looks like you just have a cell phone because your pistol is concealed. I think he's sold roughly forty so far.

Courtesy 2Lane.

RIP Neil Peart

This happened in my neighbor's yard across the farm road while I was in my front yard last Sunday. I heard a loud racket like tires squalling (doesn't appear to be any skid marks) so looked up to see an older model Lincoln Navigator fishtailing out of control across the other lane headed for the...

Got these in the works.

Took the wife, daughter, and two grandkids to Santa's Wonderland in College Station Saturday night. I was impressed. We did the horse and carriage ride which was by far the best thing to do. Over 8 million lights. I've driven by that place many times in the daytime during its offseason and never...

We have forty acres leased with some cows on it. The property is rectangular with the back fence probably somewhere between two and three times longer than the sides. Needed to take two strands of electric fence wire down and have been thinking on how to do it for a couple weeks. I made use of...

It was difficult trying to hold a 2x6 rafter up and nail it. I cut four small blocks of 2x6 and fashioned a cradle. Climb up ladder with trusty ol Ryobi impact driver and screw it to header. Slide one end of board in and nail other end up. Worked pretty good and fairly quick with the impact driver.

This is the main man. I pm’ed.

Made these award stirrups.

:laughing:

Stepdad has always been the inventive type. He built this rake and boom to drag weeds out of the pond.

Not sure how to put this on a pole. Do not have a pole yet.

Stepdad made a rake for the skid steer to drag algae and weeds out of the pond.

No matter how many times I reset and retighten this bottom hinge it twirls right back around again. Not a newbie to hanging a gate but dadgum this one will not cooperate. If I was a welder I would be inclined to weld the bottom piece. Out of ideas at this point.

Been needing to haul calves for a few months but it never seems to stop raining here. Rained day before yesterday. Wife didn稚 shut the gates to keep cows from disappearing into the woods yesterday evening so wasn稚 sure how it would go. Got on four wheeler and headed across pasture. They came out...

Saw this today. Don’t think I’ve ever seen one before. Looks like quick attach levers but what for? The bottom of the pic is hood of my truck.

Over the last 8 or 9 years I have tried different ways of putting out round bales for the cows. The first few years I tried to keep using the same spot. Had a few spots but the idea was to mess up as little pasture as possible. Over time those spots just built enough and were nasty so I would...

Yay looks like another round. But I remember the drought of 2011 so not gonna complain too much. Just ready for a little drier ground.

What was the weather like? Relevant question.

We got lucky and found 40 acres 3 miles down the road to put some of our cows on. The fences on two sides are horrible. I have always said we had well behaved cows because they don稚 give me many problems. Wife and I patch on fence here and there every once in a while. The old barbed wire is...

Made these.

Got it today! Mahindra 5570 w/ FEL Bucket Bale Spear Grapple Mower 3pt Sprayer Happyness

This is a friend’s Facebook post. I thought it was funny enough that I shared it also.

Who knows but maybe in the next year or so the wife and I will be in a position to purchase our very own new tractor. Been operating tractors since I was in junior high forty years ago. Mostly around 40 hp. As a kid we had a Massey Ferguson. Liked it. Then a small Ford. It was handy. Then a...

One more with some different names.

I took the liberty of finding out since I’m a member of a snake Id group.

In the workshop yesterday.

After stretching wire, I’ve used these sleeves and a crimping tool. Or make loops like the the guy did in the video.

I don稚 know what I did to cause this or what to do to fix it. Sometimes when reading the threads I turn my phone sideways so I can blow up the text for easier reading. All of a sudden when I do it splits the screen in two parts. One with the text and one with the page where you click on google...

If ya ever come thru Madisonville and see this place stop in and say hi.:)

Uh oh.

About a mile and a half from me on a state highway I致e seen a rancher several times move cattle from one side of the highway to the other. It痴 not straight across. They move them a couple hundred yards. There will be guys on four wheelers or atvs on each end with road flags communicating by cell...

Well the wife found a blue heeler pup in Stephenville last weekend and went and got him. I can see why many say go ahead and get another puppy soon. It’s not that you don’t miss your buddy but the new puppy keeps you so busy that you don’t have time to dwell on the loss. We’ve had Pepper a week...

Lost my best friend of the last eleven years Thursday night. Sure hurt on the inside.

Don’t know what you’d call it. Put some chicken bouillon, salt, red pepper, paprika, thyme, and onion powder in a pan of rice and water. Added some diced bell pepper, smoked beef sausage, and crumbled bacon on it afterwards. With a Miller High Life. Turned out pretty good.

Yours looks a lot like mine. You can see my ROPS are down. Cant make out what yours says on fuel tank. Wildcat?

Don’t know if these count for this thread. These are not mine but my son in law’s. And only for “play”. It’s the same Ranger in the pics. Originally camo but he painted it.

The Mahindra 4500 is parked right in the way in my back yard but won't start. Was using it last Saturday and everything was fine. Sunday it wouldn't start. Starting some time I ago it started having issues with a safety switch I think. I could slide pto lever back and forth slowly while holding...

Well here we are two months later. As it turns, my wife and I ended up hiring a local construction guy and his helper to put the pavers down. My back yard rises slightly so I had to haul several bucket loads of fill dirt in. They used a laser level and stakes and string then raked out and set...

I've never planted pinto beans before. Was told our summers are too hot so wait til fall. According to DavesGarden website our average first frost is November 18. Will they mature and produce by then?

This happened today. I think the part in my hand is the arm steering knuckle. How do I remove the part from there to hub. Do you beat it out like a ball joint? Don't wanna tear anything up.

Why is it that tractor dealers won't put prices on their websites like car dealerships do? It would be nice to look online and at least get an idea. Don't wanna drive to another town just to walk around looking. Might as well not have a website.

Recent Facebook post from a friend.

I don't live in Oregon or claim to be a lumberjack. Really don't use a chainsaw that much but in 51 years I've used one enough every year that I should know the basics. Never cut anything really big. Have a tree that died last year between our back yard and pasture shed. Got a new chain...

Can anyone interpret this? Btw y'all post your pics here so we can keep up with progress.

Went to Home Depot Saturday and bought two pallets of red 12" x 12" landscape pavers to please the wife. Gonna make a "patio" in our back yard. Never thought about the specs involved. Each paver weighs approximately 17 pounds and there's 168 on a pallet. I believe that's 2,856 pounds. Took the...

I've always liked squash fried. Haven't had any this year because the wife cuts it up, puts in skillet with butter and sausage and cooks til tender. Pretty good. Getting some decent tomatoes this year and making a little bit of salsa? I've always called it picante sauce.

Wife forwarded a link to me couple weeks ago about the benefits of using Epsom salts in your garden. Sprinkled just a bit at base of plants then watered in. Tomatoes and squash and purple hull peas look good. Okra is still small and some of the leaves have white coloring. Snap beans were doing...

Here's mine. This pic is a week or two ago. Crook neck squash, okra, purple hull peas, snap beans, tomatoes, jalapeños, and bell peppers.

Boy, yall's sure looks a lot prettier than mine.

I'm not fast but getting there.

Father in law had a Mahindra 4500 til he passed several years ago. Doesn't get a lot of use. Mostly putting out a couple round bales each week. Recently was on it and it just started running very ragged then seemed to straighten up a bit then died. I don't know where the manual is and thought...

One pint jar was put up the end of June. The quart and other pint were put up last week. Only have two jalapeño plants.

Not sure what's going on here. Possibly a hitchhiker?

Sure is a lot of weed pulling etc. for one pan full of snap beans. Hope they make a second round.

Howling, where did you get your duct tape? From roads and bridges dept?

I have three raised beds each four feet wide and 30' long built last season. Previously always tilled a small garden of six or seven rows and watered by setting a lawn sprinkler on cinder blocks in center of garden. Decided to put soaker hoses in the raised beds. Bought a box from Home Depot...

I guess nothing wrong here except somebody is kidnapping R2D2.

Do they like vegetables? Caught this one eyeing my garden beds.

Saw this yesterday.

I built raised beds last year so really small.

This is not my pic but I did see this same thing on farm road pass by my house one day couple years ago. Had never seen that before or since.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]466782[/ATTACH Purple hull peas in first bed with squash at rear. Snap beans in middle bed with couple jalapeños and squash. Last bed has okra (not seen), cucumber, and tomatoes.

Here's one of my son in law pulling his toy along with my grandbaby's toy.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]465625[/ATTACH Maybe a little late but thought I'd share. Found a group on Facebook called What kind of snake is this? North Texas. You can post a pic and they answer right away.

Here is a set of cornhole boards I made for my son in law. Birch plywood on 2 x 4 frame stained and polyurethaned. Added pinstripe and stickers. The other is a set of washer boards. Also stained and polyurethaned. They weren't pretty very long but made em that way for my son's bachelor party.

Need some 2016 contributions. Here's mine.

Something my son in law sent yesterday.

View from back yard.

Started building a shed couple months ago. Only work on it on weekends and have been sidetracked away from it the last few. Something for horses or cows to get under. Looking online I've noticed them called loafing sheds. Never heard that term before. Doing it by myself with the help of the...

This looks like him.

Went to turn water faucet on to water tomatoes and okra. It was dark out and I spotted this fella. Around here we call pretty much any snake that isn't poisonous a chicken snake. He was on the faucet slithering onto a shrub.

I wonder if this is one of the fields in question?

Y'all always talking about rain so thought I'd share this.

Tell us your password and we'll help you remember it.:D

What is your preferred method of fire ant control in the vegetable garden? This year I built a few raised beds and debating on putting fire ant bait in the beds or mixing pyrethrin in a sprayer and spraying them. Need to do something soon.

Love this time of year.

The other evening the wife needed to dry some clothes but the dryer wouldn't cooperate. Wouldn't start. No noise, nothing. I'm not the most gifted mechanically speaking but decided to give it a whirl. Took the iPad in laundry room and started googling. Several hours and YouTube videos later I...

Here's a pic my wife took a couple days ago. They were across the pasture by her mom's house. When she drove down there they flew up by our house. Waited for her to come back then returned. She said they were also sitting on the rolls of hay I put out.

Have you ever shot a buzzard to keep em from getting a baby calf? Or have ya lost any calves due to buzzards?

Dear sir, I understand you've laid claim to the fact that Pythagoras proved that bears do go in the woods. I however did not see you post any evidence of this claim. I in no way consider myself an astute scientist such as yourself but perhaps could assist you in this matter. I'm surprised the...

How bout them Cowboys!

If in your travels you see this 3 miles west of Madisonville 33 miles east of Bryan/College Station stop in. I'm the goofy guy in the back.

A few more Christmas orders. Before lacquer. After lacquer.

A few Christmas presents been working on.

Don't know anything about this but saw it on countertop at our shop the other day and thought of this thread. May be worth a look into.

As of July 16, I became a grandpa. Daughter had my first grand baby on her own birthday. I have Mahindra and son in law has Kubota but what about this?

The Reach Resort in Key West. Daughter got married here last nite on pier.

Love this time of year when everything is green and blooming. And the place is mowed and weedeated.

A few pics of Brazos River near Navasota. Two weeks ago at my soon to be son in laws bachelor party.

Couldn't help it

I'm guessing this probably isn't what you're referring to

Bird - this ones for you and the missus at the dentist.

Some of y'all were posting about fuel tanks. Here's one we made from a 60 gallon air compressor tank. It has skid plates so it can be picked up with skid steer and loaded in truck. Also has quick coupler so we can shoot some air pressure in it to push the diesel out. Works pretty good.

Meant to post this on initial post

My father in law gave my wife and her sister a couple acres some years back for their own homestead. We trenched across the pasture (maybe 200 yards) to supply our homes with water. So there are three households on this well. In the summer of 2000 the pump went out. He was the kind of fella that...

Kinda cool

Ran across this today.

Well from reading many of your posts lately we probably don't have much in common but I wish ya the best. When going thru rough patches I try telling myself the sun will shine another day. And when one door closes another one opens. But number one in my book is Hope you find comfort and...

In my forty seven years all the tractors in my family have been geared. Recently I got on my soon to be son in laws kubota HST. Just to drive about fifty feet to the truck. Gotta admit pretty darned cool.

Of course chili or cornbread either one goes better with one of these :D:D

Well, as a cancer survivor, I have to wish my best for ya also. As far wanting to stay on pace in the fall winter thread here goes. Nice tractor find for anyone interested. Located at the Texas Renaissance Festival. :D

Still think this one is better :dance1:

the fitting the path

Thought I saw a hydraulic leak on loader lift hose. Took both ends loose but the fittings on the ends won't fit to pass thru space between cylinder and loader arm. How'd they install these at the factory? I could cut hose into but still wouldn't be able to feed new one in place. Don't get...

I know this is a Texas thread but I had to share anyway.

Was looking at Tractor Supply the other day at a mower lift for my Scag. Looked kinda like this. Instead I went home and found one. Have a great day, y'all :)

Well here's to them. :D

I think you can get these at Walmart :D

This is a corner hutch I made for the wife back in '05. It's my favorite because its also my first and 100% by me this table was built shortly after (cant take credit, helped my cousin) These don't hold a candle to you guys. These are stain grade birch. I mixed three parts thinner to one...

So just wondering. The wife told me yesterday that I have a problem staying on TBN. It was in a joking manner of course but maybe I was spending too much time with you guys. Does that make me a TBN pervert?:laughing:

I build stirrups in my parents' manufacturing company. This pair is wenge with a cutout in outer layer for silver. this is elm with wenge brand elm again Oak with a red stain then lacquered

What kind of snake do you think this may be? At home with bum knee, was out in the front yard with the wife watching her get ready to paint when we noticed her mom's German shepherd barking non stop. We can see her drive so I was pretty sure there was nobody there. Wife says there must be a...

Saw this driving down the road the other day. Makes me think of some kind of German WWII fence. I'd be interested in seeing pics of unique fences.

Or you might try this

Farmgirl, Try this. The one on the left helps if ya use it ASAP after getting in the poison oak/ivy. The one on the right helps the itch to not be so annoying if ya get enuff in your system.:D

Woohoo, rain hit about twenty minutes ago. Only lasted about ten minutes but 'twas great to see.

This was lying on the ground in the edge of the woods behind my father in laws house. He's been gone since 2010. I thought it was some kind of root plow. It has a v shaped groove but if ya notice the placement of the 3pt hookups its facing the wrong way. Also the top link hook up is odd. Anyone...