Oh! OK, now I see what you meant about...

[Poppa]

Ain't nuthin' wrong with a wee hijacking.

I have to admit to the same enjoyment from this site. When I tell people I use a tractor discussion board they roll their eyes like I just said I smoke corn silk. The fact is as others have said numerous times, the amount of information here is literally mind boggling. Just do a search on Hydraulics and see how many of the threads go into amazing detail. Same thing with grass seed, synthetic oils and oil filters and just about any other subject that gets posted to.

Could be the old Ten thousand monkeys in a room with ten thousand typewriters but I am becoming convinced that among the members of TBN you can probably find some one very knowledgable on just about ANY subject you broach.

Witch r a guud thang fer us rednekks. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Back to Tractors

Took the BB out for a workout yesterday. Couple years ago we had a bit of a gully washer come through and it piled a couple feet of silt up against one side of the barn. Over the years, I have used a shovel to dig out enough to allow the door on that side to open but that was about it. Yesterday I took the tractor over there and started working. (Yeah, real close to typing playing) anyway, I was able to work real close to the barn, a lot closer than I might have been able to with a gear tranny as a newbie so score another for HST and FNG's.

I kept lowering the grade and playing with the tilt (manually, no TnT yet) and pretty soon all the doors were able to swing open and then I did something wrong and carved a ditch about twelve feet long and a foot deep on the side I wasn't watching. Well I jumped off that tractor and looked at that and started laughing. Heck, I had just made a screw up that would have taken hours to dig with a shovel. And the best part was that now I had something else to do with the tractor i.e. fillin in the mistake. So, the grading went well and I learned something else: Watch BOTH ends of the implement.

Mike

 

[riptides]

OK,
You have mentioned grease more than once. So I am going to give you a little secret. This is hugely important and the wrath of the office in charge of laundry will be involved.

The other member of this forum can also smile, throw accolades im my direction, bow to my superiour knowledge in detergents, be amazed at my adaptation skill with the other half.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( In two days I have two greasy pairs of Levis. I'm a slow learner but I don't think I'll mess up a third pair. At least not for a week. )</font>

Are you ready?

Levis makes a great pair of black jeans. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Everytime I get to working around my tractor I wear them, hides the sweat a little better too! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[EastTexFrank]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> I think the more appropriate term would be "Renaissance Men" </font> )</font>

Yea, I like it ... although I'm afraid to say I'm beginning to look more like Danny DeVitto as the years go by.

You pretty much summed up our lifestyle for many years in Dallas and isn't it amazing how your values and priorities change when you move away from the big city and the rat race. It puzzles some of our former friends but I still don't see any contradiction about getting sweaty, filthy dusty mowing a pasture all day and then relaxing with a bottle of wine, sitting on the deck in the evening, surrounded by dogs, watching the sun go down. Life can still be good, it's just a different kind of life.

As for the weed-eater trick ... been there, done that. That's when she hosed me down and threw the old towel at me before letting me in the house. In fact she has a routine now. If I'm gone on the tractor or working in the yard for more than a couple of hours, she nonchalantly wanders outside on my return to ask what I've been up to and give me the once over ... just checking. It's funny.

Sorry Poppa, back to your thread.

 

[Slamfire]

My first job outa high school was one the Navy called "black gang", It was the same as the one the Merchant Marine calls "wiper". When I got out, my next job was "oiler" on a headache ball. Y'all ain't seen greasy clothes yet. My wife swears by "Greased Lightning", I don't think it deoderizes though. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Tdog]

Ditto that, EastTex & poppa, on several counts. Substitute New Orleans for Dallas & Atlanta. Been here almost 11 years & very happy.
On the weedeater front [I don't/won't use one often!] - - I can't cut in the corners of our back yard with the Kenmore or the Kubota, - - - so I went out about a year ago with the weedwhacker to tackle the overgrowth. Unfortunately, that's the area where our two 70 pound dogs do there business - - & it was hidden in the deep grass. Yep, the sh** hit the weedwhacker, went everywhere, & covered me pretty well. Luckily I had on jeans that day, not shorts. Definitely got me a hosing off outside before I came in.

 

[Poppa]

Just guess ing you weren't 'Top Dog" that day. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

That brought back a lot of memories of why I like having one dog instead of three /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mike

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( "Who's a redneck??".... people will use that term about me. )</font>

Here's one for ya. My hobby farm backs up to a small retirement community. So there are los of older folks that walk my back pasture fence and watch the horses, cows, chicken, pigs, turkies, ducks.. etc.

Anyway.. one day in in one of my chicken coups gathering eggs, and this older lady come by and starts chatting. At some point she notices I have long hair and asks me If I'm 'one of those hippy's'.

It honestly caught me off guard for a moment.

Anyway.. we both had a good laugh out of it.

Soundguy

 

[MFL]

Soundguy,

That's actually kind of generous. During the wild and woolies, I also had long hair, earings, and dressed uh... unconventionally. I would haved loved if people had thought 'hippy'. Mostly I got drug dealer, gun runner, stalker, child molester. I would try and show them my diploma in English Lit, but they weren't interested. Long hair...must be a pervert.

Sometimes I wish things were that easy. Just pick up the Farmer or Hippy or Redneck or Yuppie handbook, check the rules and regs, and have a simple life.

 

[Poppa]

Speaking of Hijacking, came outside this afternoon just in time to stop one. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mike

 

[DaveNay]

I can see that you haven't had any of the rain that many of us have had this week...those tires are perfectly clean! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dave