Good morning!!!!

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 0835, partly cloudy, 73F with 99% humidity. Forecast high of 93F with 20% chance of rain today, and a low of 69F tonight. After today there is 9 days with a chance of rain in the 10 day forecast. But I won't hold my breath.

I slept in a little later today, but I'm heading out to finish the tree planting. I need to get over to Mamma's and plant the grapevine we bought her for Mother's Day too. And if I think I can finish it today, I'm moving the garden fence so it goes around the new fruit trees and grapevines. I've bought 15 posts and two 100' rolls of wire so I should be alright on that part of it. Unless I move the trail down to the graveyard up past the big oak, I will have to put in a gap at each end. I hate going north of the oak because I have been mowing around the volunteer longleaf pines until I decide which ones to leave. There is at least a dozen of the little pines and the trail would go right through them. I guess I'll decide as I go.

Hope everyone has a good day,

Larro

 

[farmer2009]

47,000 birds -- cheep cheep! Farmer you can probably tell how happy they are just by the sounds in the barns.

Dave funny you should say that. The birds will tell you how comfortable they are. More by their actions though. And more so once they're older. But they do get wooden boxes to "play" on. The official name is enrichments.

 

[dave1949]

Dave funny you should say that. The birds will tell you how comfortable they are. More by their actions though. And more so once they're older. But they do get wooden boxes to "play" on. The official name is enrichments.

I guess even chickens can get bored. :laughing: Interesting that they have enrichments.

I once had 100 day-old chicks I was brooding. I tossed a cricket in the penned area. That was fun. They couldn't swallow it but there was more fancy running, ducking and weaving than an NFL game. Funny how even at a few days old and no mother hen they instinctively know they want to eat this bug.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

50F under partly cloudy skies and a small chance of showers, headed for a high of 72F. Light winds all day. If there's any rain at all, it'll be higher in the hills than here, but it's still fun to watch the clouds. Mother Nature still wants to give us some Spring, but not badly enough to water our flowers. They're almost all gone now, except for a few California poppies, a lupine or two, and a pretty purple one I haven't identified yet. But the yellow star thistle is coming up strong, and it's time to spray out the meadow now that the grass is all brown and dormant. That'll stop the thistle from going to seed and break the reproductive cycle for the year. Still plenty of seed already in the ground, so it'll take several more years to make a difference.

Farmer, that must be quite a chicken ranch you've got yourself there. I can't even imagine how you get through just unloading the trucks, let alone feeding and keeping the houses clean! But thank goodness you do: I sure do eat a LOT of chicken!

riptides, that's a whole lot of green for one part! Seems like you could replace the entire A/C unit for that?

Kev, hope you and your wife feel better soon. Take a picture of your bale spear when it shows up; I'd love to see how it was packed for shipping

Texas Don, good luck with the coop and getting your water goin' again. No fun takin' a bath in bottled water

100F in the south and still frost in the north, you folks have all the bases covered!

Got a hundred fifty dollar electric bill yesterday. The usual is less than fifty, and even though I know we burned a lot of lights in the garage over the wrenching weekend, it wasn't a hundred bux worth. Our electric company makes monthly, daily, and even hourly usage data available on line, so I downloaded the month's worth, popped it into a spreadsheet, and sure enough, found a 200 kWh overcharge. Apparently they'd made a "calculation error", so now the problem has disappeared into the bowels of the billing department for resolution. I wish PG&E was as good at math as they were at keeping the power going. Then again the new smart meter they installed last year is acting up (maybe that's part of the "calculation error"), so made an appointment for them to come out and replace that as well. Hopefully they'll check the meter and service connections at the same time because all the lights in the house dim every time the well pump comes on.


Got the loader arms back on the tractor and welded the stiffener tube back on and the alignment looks good. Still needs a coat of paint and am not sure how to get the thing back off the tractor with no hydraulics in place. Might have to borrow a cherry picker this afternoon...

Happy hump day everyone!

 

[daugen]

heat is causing pollen to be terrible.
Buppies we are sneezing together.
just finished mowing the lawn, after getting "out there" at 6am, when it was very nice out,
and my eyes are burning and itching like mad. Eyedrops help but this is must be heavy duty pollen, feels like
it's scratched my eyeballs. Tomorrow I mow the field in the Kubota with filtered air in the cab. And hopefully feel zero aftereffects, allergy wise. I had the dealer change the filters the last service, and they really do seem to work for pollen.
Once I come inside, I have to wash well to get the pollen off me, particularly out of my eyelids and hair.

but now fully de-pollened, I am off to the Dodge dealer to get my new truck. Only thing I need instruction on is the air bag suspension; otherwise it is identical interior wise to what I'm trading in. Found out i can use the remote control to have the truck lower itself two inches to make getting in or out easier. Neat feature. Land Rover gadgets for the masses.
Well, the truck is a Fiat...kinda. When the truck goes over x mph, it automatically lowers a inch or so, less wind resistance I guess. Man, wouldn't want that thing to malfunction. I'd be going down the road pogo-ing like those hydraulic
ghetto cars.

which somehow reminded me that I miss David/MossflowerWoods updates. How are you doing David?

 

[sodamo]

64°F and .62 inches rain since midnight, another wet May morning.

Old friends arrived from Fl last night. They built here about same time we did, then sold and built in Fl about 5 years ago. Looking at 12 acres here locally and if it works out will be coming back and building again.

Be safe
Have a great day.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[txdon]

Texas Don, good luck with the coop and getting your water goin' again. No fun takin' a bath in bottled water

They fixed it, pressure is back up. They already knew there was a break somewhere from their electronic monitoring when I called.
We are under a tornado watch and flash flood warning for the rest of the day, it's calm now but a line of red is heading this way from the South and the West and it looks like they will merge on top of us.

David, what are the reasons why they prefer Hawaii.

 

[Eric Salop]

A late "Good morning".
Kept busy with no chance to get on TBN while I ate breakfast. In fact, can't remember eating breakfast.

Gathered the sheep in for a bit of a tidy up. This is the first time I've had to move them all in one go since the lambs arrived. Dog did his stuff and together we got the bulk of them where we wanted. Thirty or so proved a bit more difficult and refused to go into the last field, with the lambs doubling back around a barn in the middle of one field and their mothers following. Young fit lambs often seem to think we are playing a new game, just to keep them amused.

I ended up taking them via a different gate up to the top paddock where the "temporary" sheep pen runs alongside the paddock fence. Was just about to close the gate when my mobile rang. It was the railway fencing people trying to find me, so I had to let the awkward bunch out again from the paddock as the fencing gang had to come in that way. Turned out the fencing people weren't here to put the fence up. This was only the advance party, the "veg" gang who cut down any vegetation that could be in the way.

Once fencers were in we walked back around the same field again and got the sheep back in, this time without too much trouble. One fat lamb decided it wasn't going to be contained in the pen and head butted the steel bars. Knocked it out cold for a while.




Spent the last couple of hours walking round with a knapsack sprayer to get the sow thistles. With all the walking, I should sleep well tonight.

 

[KevT]

Eric Salop - Hope the lamb is okay, but love the grass, working on making my pastures to look like that

Red Neck Greek - Here is the pics of the pallet it came in on

 

[KevT]

And here is a pic of both the forks, and Bale spear installed. Either comes off easy enough to use the other. Impressed with Titan implements.

 

[dave1949]

And here is a pic of both the forks, and Bale spear installed. Either comes off easy enough to use the other. Impressed with Titan implementsView attachment 424747.

KevT, In this pic it looks like you have one or two 3pt spreaders? If so, any brand recommendations? Last year a poster said they were happy enough with their Cosmo brand spreader but it took some experience to get the spreader settings, pto and tractor speed all working together to get the right application rates.

I need one of those for my field reclamation project to spread seed and lime, pelletized lime I suppose would work best.

Any advice is welcome.

Nice forks and spear too.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

And here is a pic of both the forks, and Bale spear installed. Either comes off easy enough to use the other. Impressed with Titan implementsView attachment 424747.

Thanks for the pics, Kev. I pictured that bale spear to be at least an eight footer, hence the curiosity. Guess it's for the little bales, not those big round ones? :laughing:

Either way, that looks like a solid set up. If you haven't had forks for your tractor before, you'll smile every time you figure out a new way to use them! :thumbsup:

 

[Eric Salop]

And here is a pic of both the forks, and Bale spear installed. Either comes off easy enough to use the other. Impressed with Titan implementsView attachment 424747.

Looks good Kev. Bale spear and forks on at the same time could be an interesting combo.

A farmer nearby had a very lucky escape last year with a long pointy piece of steel.
The video report in this article tells what can all too easily happen.

Impaled Shropshire farmer 'lucky' to survive accident - BBC News

 

[Larro Darro]

And here is a pic of both the forks, and Bale spear installed. Either comes off easy enough to use the other. Impressed with Titan implementsView attachment 424747.

Kev, I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but if you ever leave the hay spear in their pasture, make sure it is turned down toward the ground. Horses seem to go out of their way to find ways to hurt themselves.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

And here is a pic of both the forks, and Bale spear installed. Either comes off easy enough to use the other. Impressed with Titan implementsView attachment 424747.

I bought a front and back bale spear for my dad from titan. I wish I had gotten the fork attachment ones but didn't.

 

[daugen]

a successful day downsizing, though I'm sure in Eric's neighborhood, anything even this size would be called
a lorry or whatever. Even better, and while this will hardly qualify for Ripley's believe it or not, this photo was taken on my pocket camera, an inexpensive Canon PowerShot, and that of course is no big deal. What is a big deal is that the camera recently went through an entire one hour and five minute wash cycle in a modern Maytag, with extra rinse. The battery was dead, but it charged right up, and the photos on the memory card were ok, as expected. But no way would the camera work.
Well...I doubt it will have a long life but for a non weatherproof camera, this sure is takes a lickin and keeps on tickin.
Also likely indicative of how little water is actually used in a modern washer, never looks like it has enough to wash anything.
But they do.
Canon, you get a :thumbsup: on this one.

 

[dave1949]

Nice looking truck Drew. The chrome tips on the dual exhaust ought to help you catch something wearing lipstick.

Another cool weather day. 62F with a chilly breeze all day. Currently 50F, around 40F overnight.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Nice looking truck Drew. The chrome tips on the dual exhaust ought to help you catch something wearing lipstick.

Another cool weather day. 62F with a chilly breeze all day. Currently 50F, around 40F overnight.

Drew, put a big fresh strawberry on a treble hook and troll it around town behind that new truck. Troll it at a brisk walking speed about 5mph. I figure 30 lb test line, that way, you can let the big ones break your line and you can play the smaller ones to see if they don't give up that easy. (hopefully that parlays into a good busybee worker). Don't forget to set the drag just right!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good job on the Canon, Drew. Nice to know they're good to go through the washer, but what cycle should be used? Delicate, Permanent Press, or Cottons? :laughing:

Inquiring minds need to know!

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 59F this morning and sunny breezy through most of the day made it to 72F. Working on more downsizing and storage for stepson's stuff. Moving day approaches.