Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

I'll spend the day topdressing N on corn. I'll have another guy trying to catch some Roundup resistant Marestail in a few spots in the beans. Also need the spray the cows for flys and fill up the creep feeders.

I have heard rumours of roundup (glyphosate) resistance but never come across anyone who has experienced it before.
Is it just the Marestail, or are you finding other plants becoming resistant too ?

Eric. Maybe you'll have better luck with those 6013's but only time I can use them is on new clean and shiny steel.

6011's handle rusty metal the best and are easier to run. With them listen to your arc. If it sounds like bacon frying then it's right. Only time you want it to sound like someone is being electrocuted is if you are using it as a cutting torch. Yes a welder will also cut.

Another easy rod to learn is 7014. Runs good on AC.

7018 is a structural rod and a DC rod. But it's not a beginners rod. But if you don't get an AC/DC machine spend the extra for the 7018AC rod.

Your power must be different over there. Here I'm using 240v 50a for my AC stick welder. And 120v 20a for my 125a flux core wire feeder.

Thanks for the rod info. I didn't know an arc welder could be used to cut steel. Is that better than using a grinder with a thin metal cutting disc ?

 

[daugen]

had a marvelous time at the car meet today in Lewes Delaware. Lots of Corvettes, lots of street rods and high performance machinery, plus some real oddballs.
I think I saw at least ten cars with chromed dual quads.
Ok, Eric, what is a dual quad?

Easy drive up, going to enjoy a nice dinner home with my friends.

 

[farmer2009]

I have heard rumours of roundup (glyphosate) resistance but never come across anyone who has experienced it before. Is it just the Marestail, or are you finding other plants becoming resistant too ? Thanks for the rod info. I didn't know an arc welder could be used to cut steel. Is that better than using a grinder with a thin metal cutting disc ?

Nope it's probably the worst thing to cut with. But when the rivers rising and your in the flood plain and you run out of gas in the torch and your all out of cut off wheels and you really just need one more cut then weld it back together. Crank the welder up and cut with it. Turn it down and weld it back up. But fun to show beginners.

Oh good ole Marestail. Atleast there is still stuff that will kill it. Over in Illinois they have Waterhemp and some others that have a 3 or 4 way resistance in them.

 

[sseelhoff]

I fixed the things on my van that I could, but the problem is electrical, so I towed it to a shop. They diagnosed it as a pass lock 3 body control module. But I am skeptical, because the symptom is more like a short. I guess we'll find out. $700. Ouch.
Our gator won't start, I'm thinking the $300 ignition box is out on it.
My wife called me to say our washing machine is squealing during the spin cycle yesterday.

When it rains, it pours.

I'll bet it's the Fetzer valve.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I'll bet it's the Fetzer valve.

Yep, Fletch had it figured out.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

had a marvelous time at the car meet today in Lewes Delaware. Lots of Corvettes, lots of street rods and high performance machinery, plus some real oddballs.
I think I saw at least ten cars with chromed dual quads.
Ok, Eric, what is a dual quad?

Easy drive up, going to enjoy a nice dinner home with my friends.

What a great way to spend a day. Me likey new 2015 vettes.

 

[dave1949]

73F after touching 80 today. It was a bit windy for spraying and fertilizer today, but I'm ready. Supposed to be less wind tomorrow. I bought some Bt liquid called Thuricide to spray on the cabbages. They are getting righteously holy. I'll run out the sprayer on the tent worms in the apple trees.

Mowed the yard after cleaning the underside of the mower deck which netted about 7 gallons of compost pile feeder. My mower deck has two hose connector nozzles that are supposed to clean the deck (hose attached blades running). What a bunch of hoo haw that turned out to be. I don't even bother trying anymore.

buckeyefarmer that's a nice layout in your new fridge. Hope it works for many years.

Kyle_in_Tex when it rains--well you know what happens. :laughing: Hope you get a quiet stretch of stuff to repair.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I tried the mower deck hose cleanout once or twice and gave up. easier to raise the front on the mower lift and scrape it clean with a putty knife.

Got some kind of caterpiller worms eating my blue spruce. started spraying sevin, but ran out. can't reach the top anyways, but they have really done a number on it in a couple days.

 

[dave1949]

I tried the mower deck hose cleanout once or twice and gave up. easier to raise the front on the mower lift and scrape it clean with a putty knife.

Got some kind of caterpiller worms eating my blue spruce. started spraying sevin, but ran out. can't reach the top anyways, but they have really done a number on it in a couple days.

Ya, when I tried the hose method I ended up with a puddle of slimy green and a mower deck that was still dirty. I use my floor jack to lift the front end of the mower and use a putty knife too. Those mower lifts probably go a little higher but the jack is good enough.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

Let me tell friend "it ain't a rumor". I've had good luck burning down with "Charger", Metribuzin, Sharpen and R-up, with surfactant and AMS. But I do get some escapes which I catch in beans with "Firstrate". All trade names by the way. It has to little, 4 inches or less, or you'll just piss it off.