Nearly went over.

fried1765 · Feb 22, 2021

Fuddy1952 said:
I believe what's strange is when someone writes with clear diction then ten year later you have this!:
Yo! I belaheve wats strage ahs when someone wrahtes wahth clear dahctahon den ten year la'er ya 'as dahs!

He is playin wid ya!
Relax !!!

Rebeldad1 · Feb 22, 2021

Gee Ray said:
Rear wheel weights or loaded tires do nothing for ballast.
You might want to rethink this. Isnt adding say an extra 500 or so pounds behind the front axle doing something?

If that is all the weight that you have on the rear of the tractor you may cause undue wear and tear on the front axle of your tractor. The rear of the tractor will stay on the ground somewhat

Adding any weight behind the front axle also adds weight to the front axle as well when its overloaded. With the bucket overloaded you carry most all the load weight on the front tires. Adding ballast mostly helps keep the rear down and stable. Does little to relieve front axle weight. You would have to add a really disproportional amount of weight on the rear to help lift the front. And if you stand back and look at your tractor it would be loaded beyond what it is built for.

bunyip · Feb 22, 2021

Alien said:
I have photoshop6 on a disk and I rarely use it even though it is installed on the laptop. I much prefer paint.NET.
I have never used spellcheck but I did check it out in the office about 15 years ago.

I use Paintshop, it is mine but do get annoyed with all the add ons they want to sell that I don't want, and I dislike spellcheck trying to correct my correct spelling such as 'colour, odour, tyre' et al.
I habitually tap F7 which is a hangover from my report reading/writing days.

Jstpssng · Feb 22, 2021

^^^^^
It's interesting the way that dialects of the same language are spelt. I.E.: here, a "Hangover" is what somebody gets after imbibing too much alcohol the night before. Perhaps that's just a holdover from my younger days.

tallyho8 said:
All of us know someone who can't talk to us without a little ha ha after each sentence and all of us know someone that the world's best comic could not make crack a smile. It seems to me that those who constantly deride a fellow TBNer due to his posts that many of us here on the forum think are clever and comical are all members of that group that you can't make smile by hitting yourself in the face with a pie. These people want everything their way and anybody who does things that are not their way will be victims of their criticism. About 10 years ago one of them highly criticized me because I had an animated horse in my signature and he said it distracted him while he was trying to read. I simply ignored it.

About 15 years ago we had a poster who used a lot of different colored fonts in his posts and ended many lines with ....... instead of a single. So many people insulted him over these simple traits that he quit posting on TBN. I guess the opposition felt victorious that they won.

I have never blocked a person's posts nor do I ever need to because I am intelligent enough that when I come to a person's post that I do not want to read I simply skip it. (happens very, very rarely)

I, personally, and I bet a lot of you also, know some people who are much more depressed and antagonistic during these trying times of the Covid, and lockdowns, and can't do this and can't do that, and want to take out it out on other people but this is OUR forum and our fellow TBNers, so in the words of Jack Nicholson:

"can't we all just get along" jack nicolson - Bing video

Point taken. One of the threads which he started is still running, and his demise was a topic of discussion a while ago. I don't recall that his posts were that difficult to read though, and believe that there were other factors causing friction. Some members can't accept that not everyone thinks just like them.
I do find intentionally misspelled words annoying though, not just in this context but in the outside world as well. That's why I generally choose to skip over his posts.

Getting back on topic, the only reason I've considered loading my tires is to keep that end of the tractor on the ground. It's a bit discerning to have some say that it won't help. Considering how much of a difference putting 400 lbs of wheel weights on made though, I believe those posters who say it doesn't help are mistaken.

JethroB · Feb 22, 2021

Looking back to my younger days, before loaders were affordable and popular, the concern was keeping the front on the ground. Our MF 135 pulling a double bottom rollover plow was the tail wagging the dog. Wheel brakes were your friend. Weights on the front clanging away. Plowed and planted 15 acres of corn for 3 years as my FFA project.

GeneV · Feb 23, 2021

Slowpoke Slim said:
Sounds like maybe you didn't get a chance to see this thread he started, 2010, before the fakery started:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/welding/167793-gloves-welding.html?highlight=

And I quote his opening post in the thread, verbatim:

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I been looking into this welding thing for a while now, and luckily I have a neighbor Harrison who is quite a welder. He has a torch thing and some kind of arc welder calls a stick machine, and one called a mig machne, and he even has this mig machine he just recently got that runs from a rechargable battery. Now right now Harrison's on vacation visiting his second son's family in Arkansas, but when he gets back he's going to start teaching me welding.

Thing is I want to be prepared, I mean the man is going out of his way to teach me, and using his machines and cornsumables whatever they are, so I figure it's just right for me to be prepared to learn when he goes to teaching me. To that end I went over to the school and tried buying one of the welding books from back when they taught welding, only to learn they won't sell the books even though they no longer use them. I tell you I got a little riled over that, and got a whole lot more riled when not a single one of them school employees was anything near helpful. Good lord they got that dang school set up like a prison now, you gotta know who you want to talk to before the guard at the door will even let you in. How did I know who I wanted to talk to. Took the better part of 2 hours before the guard let me in to go talk to some fellow in the office. No wonder the kids don't learn in thse places.

Well, as I was saying, I want to be prepared, so I'm thinking I need some good welding gloves. Harrison has several pair and from what I've seen, he seems to swithc gloves doing different jobs of welding. I know I probably should have asked before he left, but I didn't so I'm hopeing you fellows know something about gloves and welding here.
Now I also have what could almost be described as a fear of electricity, and most of them welding machines seem to be electric, even the battery driven one. Just always seems to me a ounce of precaution beats the snott out of a visit to the Emergency Room over to the hospital, so I'm wondering if I should get rubber gloves like them linemen fellows wear when they ride them fancy boom trucks. I've talked to a few of them fellows a time or two when the wife's sister worked there, and they say them gloves are good for thousands of volts. Now how many volts does a welder have? Would them rubber gloves be sufficient and would they be a good idea?
Of course them lineman gloves are a bit bulky, and I do have small hands, so they just might be too much if a welder don't have thousands of volts. That being the case might be I could get by with them rubber dishwashing gloves. They'd fit my hands better being that they make em for wimmenfolk hands.

What do you fellows think?
Am I being overly cautious?

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Notice any differences in communication styles? "(removed)" typed all of that, presumably all by himself.

There are more. Many more. But you get the point. Look them up yourself, or don't.