More than corn in Indiana...FEL comes in handy

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sassafraspete

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As a gardener....I am most happy to pick that first tomato of the season....but a close second is getting my hands on some fresh from the garden Indiana sweet corn. Did I say I was in love with my FEL? I just drive to the patch, and toss it in. Just another use for the front end loader.

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   / More than corn in Indiana...FEL comes in handy
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Ok, you also know that sometimes we have so much fun with our tractors, we forget the other passions in our life. One of mine is fishing. A sure sign that I am not fishing enough, can be seen in the attached photo.

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Yikes! That's an unpleasant surprise. Careful using sprays that might damage the finish on your boat.
Cliff
 
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MMMMMMMMMMMM! that looks good.

You're a lucky man Pete.

But then you already knew that. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I think I'd be careful with that bundle of badness back of the boat. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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I'm envious! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Every time we try to grow sweet corn the racoons get it a few days before harvest.

As for your boat... maybe the floating insects will attract fish! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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So with the bucket full of corn, do you just fill the bucket with water and lower it over a nice bond fire, then back away and pull out the cooked corn?

Yet another use for a tractor FEL. But don't do this technique with the bucket teeth on, you may end up with no corn and a happy tractor.

Cliff
 
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Cliff, that's a pretty good idea.... I could park it over the edge of a brush pile and use the leaf blower technique from the other thread to get the water boiling.

Dave, I'm looking pretty much like one of those racoons now after sitting down to dinner. I think I know how they must feel after being in the corn patch all night.

Harv, it's a sad day when a man lets his boat sit still long enough for hornets to build a nest on the side. I discovered this last week after trying to replace a tarp. I got stung twice, once when I was yanking the tarp over the boat and walked past the nest, and the second time in the house after inadvertently carrying one inside on my clothing. After chasing down a hornet in my house for 20 minutes, I went out during the night and sprayed foamy hornet spray directly into the entrance hole. I figured my technique of using gasoline on the underground yellow jacket nests was not going to work on this situation. None came out of that foam and I could hear all manner of buzzing inside. I haven't seen a live hornet since, and I can see dead ones stacked up in there like cord wood ....so now just trying to get brave enough to remove the nest.

Although, I could leave the nest on and take my sweet time at the local boat ramp. Wonder what kinds of reactions I would get there from the other boaters? Especially if I ran around waving my hands in the air and acted like a swarm was after me. There might be some high tailing out of there.

I could just leave the nest on, launch the boat, and drive around while letting the water knock off the dead hornets, and larve, and say chum the water real good, then grab the bluegill rod for some hot action.

Thanks guys, for all the ideas.

sassafraspete
 
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<font color="blue"> I went out during the night and sprayed foamy hornet spray directly into the entrance hole...I could just leave the nest on, launch the boat, and drive around while letting the water knock off the dead hornets, and larve, and say chum the water real good, then grab the bluegill rod for some hot action. </font>

I can see the headline now -- "Man poisoned by eating fish tainted by hornet spray". Just kidding. The water would wash the spray off the hornets before the fish ate them, wouldn't it?
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   / More than corn in Indiana...FEL comes in handy #9  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ...Although, I could leave the nest on and take my sweet time at the local boat ramp. Wonder what kinds of reactions I would get there from the other boaters? Especially if I ran around waving my hands in the air and acted like a swarm was after me. There might be some high tailing out of there.... )</font>

I could see that!!! LOL!
 
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Sassafraspete,
We go down to Brown County every year around Memorial Day and stay at a cabin in Nashville, IN. What a beautiful area you live in. Having a nice tractor and a belly full of corn, life don't get any better than that. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 

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