READY FOR SPRING

johnday · Mar 15, 2004

We only have two seasons also, winter and construction.

JayC · Mar 15, 2004

Are you rubbing it in? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

SageBrush · Mar 15, 2004

Yep, mowing season is very close here. We just planted our early spring garden... taters, greens, carrots etc.. We hit 73 degrees today... heat wave!

I do miss the snow, we didn't get much. Just lots of cold rain.

_RaT_ · Mar 15, 2004

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Ask Daryl, Mr 5030

Bird · Mar 15, 2004

( mowing season is very close here )

What do you mean; very close? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I mowed for the 3rd time today and it was way past due; just been too much rain and it was still too wet today but not raining, so I got it mowed.

SageBrush · Mar 16, 2004

( ( mowing season is very close here )

What do you mean; very close? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I mowed for the 3rd time today and it was way past due; just been too much rain and it was still too wet today but not raining, so I got it mowed. )

Well, I could mow. But, its not 10 inches deep yet. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

frank_f15 · Mar 16, 2004

Bird , today is march 16, but i don't think i will run over to the other garage and put the RFM on yet this what it looks like today at 1pm, and it has not stopped snowing right now i got about 10 in on the ground, know what i will be doing in the AM.

frank_f15 · Mar 16, 2004

RAT, this ones for u. taken out the living room window(i was not going out there) if u look close u can see the cherry blossoms on our trees(or are those snow flakes? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Bird · Mar 16, 2004

Frank, that's sure pretty; not sure I'd want to live there, though. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

wroughtn_harv · Mar 17, 2004

Frank I live about thirty to forty miles the way the crow flies from Bird. Here in Texas that means we can have two different seasons, one for him, one for me, at the same time.

But yesterday at eleven my thermal came off and I worked the rest of the day in a t shirt. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Of course it's in the low forties this morning and is expected to be in the high seventies this afternoon with good chances of bad weather, thunderstorms etc.

There is hope for ya'll though. Someone, maybe TBN?, will come up with "virtual tractoring" and you'll be able to plow, dig, level, mow, etc without leaving the office. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Of course the kids might be able to program it but it's going to take some tough old bird to instruct them on hazards like subterrainian congestion when digging postholes, clumpyitis when leveling clay, bumpetybuttosis when working rocky ground, and of course, properpanic nueruosis after a stiff leg slips into the trench. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I can see a whole new industry. There'd have to be the live action seat with real deal imitation controls and immediate feedback. The deluxe model would come in green or orange, next level down, red.

For one tenth the cost of a real tractor you could have all the sensations. Including a tee'd off wife because you'd be in tractoring instead of doing chores. The cost ratio would be approximately the same for projects.

Sure make it tough on us contractors though. We have enough of a problem with folks with just the wrong amount of knowledge explaining to us how to do our job. I can just imagine my reaction when a virtual expert explains to me that the clay when wet isn't really that bad. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif