Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

Roy, nice cutting job with flail mower. How does it do on shrubs trying to grow in fields. I have lots of those in my fields.

I'm no expert on flail mowers...but if you really want to learn something, there's a long thread to read:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/118882-lets-talk-flail-mowers.html

Now, there are two types of blades normally installed on a flail mower. The "Y" blades (which my mower has) are good for brush up to about 1.5". They do cut and mulch that brush...
The other type of blade is flat, and I've read them referred to as "Hammer" blades. I've read (no experience...yet) this type of blade leaves a cleaner cut...almost lawn like.

 

[toppop52]

54° this morning! Feels great though. Going to look st ZTR's today, I'm starting to like the Land Pride mowers, kind of a hybrid of commercial/residential units. Late season deals too.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. 56 now going to 83 and sunny, warming up this week. Thought I had not been able to post at all yesterday but I guess I did. Don't know what today will bring except for a grocery run as soon as I get off of here. Need to mow grass in spots so as it is kinda splotchy in height.

Daugen, Was killing hogs years ago back on top of a mountain about 30 ft from the WV line. As we got done an old guy came in and someone gave him a beer. He opened it and sat it by the fire to get good and warm. He said he grew up without electric and got used to hot beer and did not like cold beer. I don't drink beer but learned in China that warm Coke is just as good as cold.

Eric, Hope the fishing trip works out. My dad took his grandson fishing until he said "Let's go home papa, my pockets are full."

Roy, Like the mower and the cab.

Wngsprd, Had to zoom to find it. You were blessed to see that, thanks for the pic.

Have a great day all. Ed

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 76F @ 5:00AM. Sunny. High 101F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Would have missed the chick but for Ed's zoom tip. That's a lot of chicks for one mama, Wng!:laughing:

Hate on stout all you want, boys, that just leaves more for me!:thumbsup:

Got nothing but database errors yesterday morning when I tried to post, so was very surprised to see it made it through after all. Twice.:confused2:

Productive day bead blasting parts from the old motorcycle yesterday. Fine round balls worked great on the aluminum bits, but hardly touched the old, thick paint on the center stand. Tried some new ground glass and it came right off, and left a nice smooth finish, too. Better check the fines drawer on the filter, though, because it seems to shatter into powder when it hits, unlike the glass beads which last for several round trips before giving up the ghost.

Off to town to buy some paint this morning, then a bit more electrical work on the van at the mechanic's. Hopefully will get an aftermarket remote door lock kit installed.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[daugen]

Thomas, I would love to have seen a pic of all those little Quail chicks. priceless is right. You have to wonder how many will make it.
if they are tasty to us, they must be tasty to a lot of other predators.

Ed, i get bloated if I drink more than one beer, and I rarely drink anyway; usually forget the darn thing and find it next day exploded or bulged in the freezer,
frozen solid. Have learned to set kitchen timer to remind me.
Warm beer. Well, I'd rather have wine warm than too cold for sure.
So I guess if you like the hops aroma or whatever warmer beer should be more aromatic I suppose.
I'll pass. As you said, it's what you get used to.

Last day of July. Savor it.

 

[daugen]

Toppop, hope all is going well with you. If you need all new siding, consider the newer stuff with insulation attached to it.
Made a huge difference in my old house in PA. No, insurance will only pay for the basic stuff, but the big cost is labor and they cover that.
If you are going to keep that house a long time, maybe you have an opportunity here to cut your utility costs down in the future. Makes house
much quieter too.

I always try to buy equipment where they have a service dept. Big box stores don't but it's a matter
of what is available locally for you. I'm sure the local JD dealer would love to sell you a ten grand zero turn.
A Kubota Commander is an interesting possibility...A simplicity will now offer Ferris style features due to same corporate parent.
Lot of competing machinery out there.

 

[RoyJackson]

He said he grew up without electric and got used to hot beer and did not like cold beer. I don't drink beer but learned in China that warm Coke is just as good as cold.

Roy, Like the mower and the cab.

I'm not a real big fan of icy cold beer...tend to drink it at room temperature (although a cold one tastes mighty fine after a hot day working outside)

The mower is definitely nice! Does a great job for field mowing!
That's a Curtis cab...about 12 years old and showing it's age (so am I). The Curtis cabs are pretty crude compared to a factory cab, but it keeps me warm in the winter.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Cold morning as cold front blew in yesterday plummeting temperatures to 70˚this A.M., only getting to 95˚ today, almost feels like Fall.

Roy green grass - haven't seen that for a month, and where's the dust on the tractor? Nice mower.
Wngsprd- even with Ed's suggestion of zooming I could not find it. Ed must have blue eyes.
Ed - the only person in Texas that i knew to drink warm beer was my wife's grandfather. He probably did not have room in the old old fridge for food and beer and the Yeti was not around. Hmm, when he started drinking beer electricity was not available in his area.
Ron - now you can really throw a frisbee from the platform without falling.

Tomorrow is August 1, we start the countdown to the annual VFD fish fry
Job one - turn that cow field into a picnic ground.

 

[PJSprog]

62°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 90° today.

Don, my oldest stepson sent The Wife a picture of his dashboard this weekend, showing it was 117° in San Marcos. He always complained about the heat while stationed at Ft. Hood and while deployed to Iraq, and yet where did he move? Texas again. Saw a pic of him and his cohorts at the police academy, too, and he looks happy.

Nice-looking property you have there, Roy. How are you liking the flail as compared to a traditional rotary mower?

 

[RoyJackson]

Nice-looking property you have there, Roy. How are you liking the flail as compared to a traditional rotary mower?

When we bought this place in Spring 2013, I mowed the field with an ancient Woods rotary cutter since it was way overgrown and I had no idea what was in the field.
After the initial couple mowings a couple years ago, I'd been using a finish mower I brought from PA when we moved here. However, the finish mower left a lot of clumps. That was my fault...the finish mower wasn't built for field mowing.
Now that the field is mostly "contained", I like using the flail much more then that old cutter of mine (which, BTW, has been at a buddy's hunting camp for about a year). I think after a few more mowings (on a regular basis), I'll switch over to the hammer type flails and should end up with a more finished looking field.

 

[txdon]

62°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 90° today.

Don, my oldest stepson sent The Wife a picture of his dashboard this weekend, showing it was 117° in San Marcos.

I'm about 100 miles from San Marcos and saw 112˚ on car dash but as soon as I drive for about 20 minutes the dash showed 102˚ outside. I think it has a lot to do with the blacktop parking lots and direct sun on the sides and top of the vehicle.

Our 70˚'s today only lasted an hour, now 80˚ and climbing now they are saying another 100˚ day. So much for Fall weather, need to stay hunkered down.

 

[PJSprog]

Youngest stepson got into another argument with his girlfriend and they broke up over the weekend. In the process, he threw down his iPhone (again!) and shattered it.



The Wife had found for him last week a newer iPhone 6S, after we found his 4C wasn't compatible with Sprint, whose service we were investigating. After the shenanigans of Saturday night, she was ticked, to say the least. He's paying for the phone, and she took him to get his own cell service yesterday. Time to grow up and understand the financial consequences of destroying stuff.

She's also on the phone with Verizon this morning informing them that we are looking at other services, and giving them one last chance to do something about our horrible bill. I doubt they will meet the deal offered by Sprint, though.

While she was out yesterday, she picked up a new LinkSys wifi router as well. This was badly needed, as the nearly 10-year-old Netgear router was starting to become unreliable. Got that set up last night. It's nice to not get kicked off my own wifi again.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 44*, the high yesterday was 86*. Today will be back in to the 80's with a chance of afternoon showers.

Going to see if I can get the neighbors fence done today. Wife is going to Salt Lake for a few days to watch the grandkids, she is going to pick up a water pump for a washing machine. I'll work on that when she gets back. The washer is 20 year's old. I found the part at a business called - e replacement parts- they sell a lot of replacement parts for tools, appliances, most anything. I have had good luck finding parts for older stuff their.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB

 

[hawkeye08]

Worked on moving a old shelter (the costco type with thin pipe frame and plastic cover). It has seen better days but still keeps the weather off some old Gravelys and junk. Of course I poked a hole in top with forks when moving it.. We are planning a RV shelter where it was so need to start prepping for that.

 

[Thomas]

That's actually a field below the house...this is the lawn

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Sure hope there not snow drifting problem.

 

[RoyJackson]

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Sure hope there not snow drifting problem.

Got that covered...



The road to the left is the cul-de-sac I live on...I have had to clear that on more than one occasion since the township isn't very reliable. The road on the right (above the embankment) is VT Route 12. That's Windsor County's problem.

 

[rswyan]

71.2F and lots of sun @ 10:00, forecast high is supposed to be 84F. Mid 80's through Thursday, then a big cool down into the 70's through the following Wednesday. Chances of a thunderstorm go over 50% on Wednesday, and then over 80% on Thursday/Friday.

Started out the day yesterday working on that area under the big oak. Got the old compost pile completely weeded, found a yellow jacket nest under the tarp that had blown off to one side. Moved onto picking up cut weeds and debris in other areas at that point. Got most of it picked up.

Then The Woman decides (out of the blue) she wanted the blueberries worked on ... RIGHT NOW ! Of course, that was in the middle of the afternoon ... in the hot sun ...

I try to arrange my work so that needless suffering is minimized ... but when she wants it, she WANTS it ... NOW ... and arguing is pretty much futile ... at least if I want her remain in a decent mood.

So I cut down a bunch weeds around the plants, did some trimming on the one early bush whose berries are now long gone, she cleaned out around the bases, and she put the hose on the first plant to give it a good soaking (at a trickle) ... I ended opening it up all the way and eventually filled the catch basin around it after the soil became saturated. Added a length of hose to reach the other two bushes and did the next one, and then started on the one on the end and it wasn't long until the flow dropped to nothing ... well recharge rate couldn't keep up ... so I shut it down to let the well fill back up ...

The berries on the two later plants were about ripe ... but had started to shrivel up a little. Hope it was just lack of water. We've had a lot of rain so far this year, just not a lot in the last week or so ... and we hadn't been watering the plants.

About that time we moved back over to to cleaning up around the compost pile, and in her infinite wisdom, she decides to rake up the debris in the spot where most of the yellow jackets were hovering around. A. VERY. BAD. IDEA.

She (only) ended up getting stung on her ear and her elbow ... there was one that got down into her sock or shoe ... not sure what the outcome was on that one. Sure could have been a lot worse.

And at that point, she was done with any outside work for the day. (She doesn't handle pain particularly well but she dealt with this like a real trooper ... I followed her into the house after she went in and she was actually laughing about it)

I went back out and gathered up all the tools and brought them up to the garage and put them away, and then hosed off three lawn chairs and took them up to the burn pile.

Nephew and his wife came over around 20:30. His birthday is in a couple of days so this was our little get together. We lit off the burn pile around 21:00, and tossed back a few of those Old Leg Humpers (a very dark porter) from Thirsty Dog Brewing. They hung out until around 23:30.

Didn't get bird feeders refilled yesterday, so that's first on the list. After that I'll be spraying as the winds are pretty light today.

 

[daugen]

. but when she wants it, she WANTS it ... NOW ... and arguing is pretty much futile

c'mon fess up. How many times had she asked you to do it already?...
I know...the ink ran out in your pen for the to do list. That might work.
or not...
when in doubt, I guarantee you an automatic get out of jail card if you bring her home roses.
And try to say something mushy like pretty flowers for a pretty lady.
See how that goes.
Full report please.

 

[daugen]

yellow jackets are seriously bad news and a possible Epi pen stick for me. Be careful with them RS.
Locally called ground bees. Nasty, nasty bees, act like fire ants, want to bite and sting anything
they can get at.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .08 inches rain since midnight. A morning shower.

Augmented about 60 ft of my hog wire fence where I suspect my little escape artist Kekoa was getting into the lower pasture to visit the cows. One of those pita jobs adding a strip of panels at bottom where it appears he may have been able to crawl under. The only part I'm certain at this point is there are no points I can get him back to our side. Ten feet between posts, strand of barbed wire at the ground level, I never would have guessed he could get out. Of course I never actually saw him, so only have my guesses on where to augment.

Nice lawn and tractor, Roy. Glad to hear you like your flail, wish I'd gotten mine sooner.

Be safe
Have a great day.