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Very interesting. I would have agreed with EddieWalker before I read your post.

The concrete screws hold better than a wedge anchor. Keep in mind if you do use them and you screw them in and out often enough in the same hole, they will start holding less and less because it wears the sides of the hole. If you need to take them out often a threaded insert is your best option.

The only thing to be taken from the insulter's rants, is the glimpse into his character that he presents.

We run mostly Deere and Case, so we expect prices to go up for parts. Time to change over to Fendt.😉

Will the trade dispute have any affect on your business?

It actually has an elevator.😉

Apparently the engine slides out on a skid or something.

That is supposed to be one of the easier machines to maintain, not as much technology.

The herd I managed was just under 200 cows. Here in Canada animal welfare is a big deal, partly brought on by animal rights groups sneaking around on farms and looking for bad situations they can put exploit. It was a naturally ventilated barn with no fans. It worked good down to 10 degrees F...

Where did scc and bacteria count have to be to get the premium and how many years ago di you quit? I have experience as a herd manager but never a owner and I am still interested in dairy.

You didn't milk 80 cows with that thing did you? Did your cows go from tiestall to freestall? That's a tough transition. A saying for dairy farmers: Beef guys might wear the nice hat but dairy farmers are the real cowboys.

How many cows did you milk when you were still in the business?

From a personal perspective I would rather just pay more for milk, simple because I don't consume much. From a farmers perspective I would almost think I would prefer to be able to make a living without assistance. I suppose if it didn't work you wouldn't be doing it.

I feel there is no other livelihood where you can feel the Lord's Hand on you successes and failures so profoundly as in farming. When you watch approaching storm clouds and know they can bring a much needed or crop damaging hail or wind, it brings into context how small your own contribution...

Another saying that fits ''if it was easy everyone would be doing it"

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't paying so little for milk still end up costing the consumers when dairy farmers that can't make it have to be subsidized.

Not just equipment, land costs are always going up as well. The big difference is land doesn't depreciate in value.

I worked on a dairy farm for a few years and your posts sums it up. On a 200 cow dairy the minimum amount of work a day that we got by with was 2 people working from 4 in the morning till 10 at night. Now they have robotic milkers on the smaller farms, but mine guess is what they save in labour...

Even if I have the right of way, I try to make sure the other driver is not going before I go. Remember the saying " You could be right. Dead right"

Could you possibly post more pictures of where on the machine the part is that you fixed? Did you have to pull the transmission out to get to it? I have a 2012 with 3000 hours and I suspect it has a similar problem.

Freunde is friends. Freude is happiness?

Sounds like fun!

You made the right choice. Blowing snow is the way to go, it seems to get rid of the snow, where pushing it leaves ridges of snow that are rock hard after a week and the roadway ends up becoming narrower and narrower. I will note wet snow can be pretty hard to blow as well. I have been thinking...

Merry Christmas ArlyA and here is hoping you can keep posting more of these great pictures for us to enjoy in the new year.

Whether seeding, spraying, or fertilizing eliminating overlap saves money. A GPS controlled machine can cut overlap on the ends down to virtually zero where a manually controlled machine will have to overlap by a foot at the very least to eliminate misses. A foot on 1 hundred passes is 100...

I agree that fixing things can be enjoyable when I have a lot of time to do it but when it has to work today it kind of takes the fun out of it.

Be careful! Don't bend the front weights on the tractor.

I have done enough concrete work to not be intimated by it. You can't make a fouled up job look like a good job in mine experience.

I think Trad is right. The thing about concrete is if you mess it up you can't fix it anymore.

That job looks to be no harder than sitting in mine den.😉

That's how I stack bales. I just put them on a side hill so the water just runs of.

Round bales stacked in rows of two that are right against each other. Not the way I would stack bales but he has a self-loading wagon that stacks them that way.

They are stored outside and have been baled for 4 months. They are actually not mine bales they are a friends.

Question HD: Why are bale that I am positive were baled dry now testing wet when they have been sitting out all summer?

Please do.

Beautiful fleet! Thanks for the pictures.

Pictures please.

That backhoe is unlike the ones I have seen and operated.

Rain causes the nutrients to leech out of the hay.

Fluid film is a very good product that lasts a long time.