Good morning!!!!

[Steppenwolfe]

Give the LS tractors a look. Great value.

I couldn't do that... Even though I'm sure LS are great machines. I'm married to Kubota... I tend to stick with what I like.

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[daugen]

David, no expense is too great for sheltering your favorite machines...

flung 250 pounds of 34-0-0 on the potato and collards fields, then rototilled everything, still a little wet but this will help dry it out.
Lot of rain in forecast, would be nice to get some collards planted before it comes. Collard field now ready, potatoes another week.
Neighbor and friend put up my garden plastic deer fencing for me, sure appreciated that, and then he ran my little Massey with the rear hiller and did a better job than I did with the Super A. I parked the Farmall and said that's it. It is so hard on my arms to drive that thing, no matter how well it works, that I made a decision it is going to another happy home. Amazes me that no one makes a modern version of "Cultivision", with mid mount implements. And this was after having to take the heavy cultivators off by myself, and then installing the hiller discs, which fought me all the way, rusted nuts, finally I couldn't hold them up any more and gave up. And two minutes later my neighbor comes over and asks me if I wanted a hand. Oh yeah.

Getting so hot in greenhouse last batch of lettuce started to wilt, had to open the door and roof vent, still was almost 100 in there. Some of these plants don't like that heat at all, flowers seem to like it though. Most of the greenhouse is now cleaned out, all the collards are outside avoiding the heat, warm nights now so no problem leaving them out. Hope to get some help on Friday or Saturday to plant them. Saturday I have to put down the row covers as Sunday morning low is in mid to high 20s.

Made an appt with ENT in New Bern, two weeks first opening. Maybe it will go away by then...

Working outside has been good for me, lost five pounds already.

 

[daugen]

Rick, since I put the gator blades on my F Kubota RD, made huge difference in reducing clumps.
Still going to sell mower because it rocks my neck too much while driving. I thought that buying their best mower
would also be their most comfortable. No. Not one of my better purchases but no way of knowing ahead of time.
74 hours, some one will get a nice mower.

 

[Bird]

I quit my first 2 jobs out of school because they had afternoon and midnight shifts and wanted me to work them. Job I retired from after 30 years did not have any shift but days. Although some days were very long. Sometimes in field customers wanted midnights. Being the most senior employee with company. I reminded them that seniority had its rewards. Send one of them young guys. I did works lots of days that started at 2am. By that time in the morning I had my 5 hours of sleep.

I went to work in the Dallas Post Office as a "sub" (substitute clerk) when I was 19. Everyone started on an evening shift back then. You looked at the bulletin board before going home each day to see what time to come to work tomorrow. It could be anything from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. And when we went to work, we were guaranteed 2 hours and could not be made to stay more than 12. So when we went to work each day, we had no idea when we'd get off that day.

But when I became a "regular" clerk; 8 hour days, 5 days a week, I worked a night shift by choice; 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. with 30 minutes off for lunch because all hours worked between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. got paid a 10% night differential in salary. But the last year, I worked only registered mail 2:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

I became a police officer when I was 24 and in those days, Dallas ran one man cars in the daytime; 2 man cars on evenings and late nights. Junior men had a sort of choice; 2 months late nights and one evening, OR 2 months of evenings and one late night. I preferred the 2 months of late nights; 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.; less traffic and cooler temperatures (we did not have air-conditioned cars back then).

Then as a sergeant in a burglary & theft unit, it was one month 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., then a month 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.; just back and forth a month at a time for that year. That was also the year that Dallas got their first air-conditioned cars, but the unmarked pool cars were not air-conditioned.

And then as a lieutenant, back to patrol on all three shifts, a month at a time on each one.

Yep, I reckon I've worked every shift there is, was, or ever will be at one time or another.

 

[LouNY]

David, no expense is too great for sheltering your favorite machines...

flung 250 pounds of 34-0-0 on the potato and collards fields, then rototilled everything, still a little wet but this will help dry it out.
Lot of rain in forecast, would be nice to get some collards planted before it comes. Collard field now ready, potatoes another week.
Neighbor and friend put up my garden plastic deer fencing for me, sure appreciated that, and then he ran my little Massey with the rear hiller and did a better job than I did with the Super A. I parked the Farmall and said that's it. It is so hard on my arms to drive that thing, no matter how well it works, that I made a decision it is going to another happy home. Amazes me that no one makes a modern version of "Cultivision", with mid mount implements. And this was after having to take the heavy cultivators off by myself, and then installing the hiller discs, which fought me all the way, rusted nuts, finally I couldn't hold them up any more and gave up. And two minutes later my neighbor comes over and asks me if I wanted a hand. Oh yeah.

Getting so hot in greenhouse last batch of lettuce started to wilt, had to open the door and roof vent, still was almost 100 in there. Some of these plants don't like that heat at all, flowers seem to like it though. Most of the greenhouse is now cleaned out, all the collards are outside avoiding the heat, warm nights now so no problem leaving them out. Hope to get some help on Friday or Saturday to plant them. Saturday I have to put down the row covers as Sunday morning low is in mid to high 20s.

Made an appt with ENT in New Bern, two weeks first opening. Maybe it will go away by then...

Working outside has been good for me, lost five pounds already.

Here is a website you might find interesting;
also they show a Tilmor tractor which is a modern version of the old Allis.
Tilmor Tractor

And then there is the tuff built;
Tuff-bilt Tractor - Tuff-bilt Tractor Systems

Lou

 

[daugen]

Lou, thank you. Very cool they now make these.
Considering I have over 4k invested in this ancient tractor, wish I had spent it on something newer, with power steering.

 

[daugen]

66 degrees out, very strange, only low of 60 tonight, quite the heat wave for early Feb.
wonder when the paybacks are coming
Pear trees and daffodils about to bud and may by the weekend with two more days in the 70's.

Bird, I can't imagine being in full uniform in Texas in the summer in a cruiser without a/c.

 

[RoyJackson]

Never cared for bourbon, but yep, sure did occasionally have a beer with friends when we got off work at 7 a.m.

I like bourbon, but my after work drink (at 0700, when I worked 3rd shift) was always beer...at least, when I had an alcoholic drink after work drink.

 

[Looking4new]

I much prefer to work nights. No bosses hanging over your head and riding your azz.
I still work nights hauling asphalt emulsion in summer.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

My daughter sent me this pic, she says my granddaughter wants to get it for me for my birthday