so waht ya doin today?

JWFilips

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Cut & Chopped back the under growth from what was supposed to be our drainage swale at the top of our driveway! 3 trailer loads of brush removed. Tomorrow Will bring over the 22 HP Yanmar Diesel with the Dirt blade and recut a trench to the woods. I built up the drive way with whatever I could find to get the blade to dig in mostly on the right side...... keeping the left side of the blade cutting air! Hope I figured it correctly!
Will know tomorrow. Repaired our 100 year old concrete bird bath that split in half in the winter from a fall!
UGL Fast Plug Hydraulic Cement to the rescue! ( One of my old clients)
Shot some 357 Mag Wad cutters this morning ( Got to shoot 5 mornings in a row!) Big improvement in the Groups! May even go back to the 25 yard range now that I got my confidence back!
 

L Ross

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It's a race to see who posts a new video first -- Walter or Bret.
How about Walter shooting Bret's goats at 500 yards with cast bullets. Hey, I'm just kidding, sorta, mostly, as a cat lover and a goat hater. George Dickel don't like goats either. Just sayin'.....
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
It will be Walter. Bret kind of shocked me when he posted a photo from his cellphone.

Don’t prove me wrong Walter.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
More lambs. Our scheme of creating a line of black colored Katahdin sheep seems to be progressing nicely. We only kept ewes that had strong red or brown coloring and located a black ram. Katahdins are traditionally white, but we're trying to be different. Last night "Brain" had twin black lambs. (She was one of 2 bottle babies we had and the other one was very pink colored, so "Pinky and The Brain".) Things seem to be going well so far, although the coyotes were howling just across the road last night! I spotlighted the area, but saw nothing.

Looks to be a gorgeous day developing. Hope to get some hay knocked down.
 

JWFilips

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Our Yanmar is Circa 1980 ! My FIL bought it because we were building our house next door and he knew he would do much of the ground work & etc! However he taught me how to do the grading of the new house property.
So on that same vain I asked my son ( who now owns his GrandPa's tractor) to cut my drainage swale today ( with my supervision and helpful guidance!)
He did a good job with a non-pitch-able dozer blade! If you angle it hard enough you do get about 6" to 8 " of downward pitch but it takes a quick hand on the blade height so as not to burry the tip of the blade too much! All in all he did a good job and learned something about moving earth!
I only had about 15 minutes of clean up with a shovel and then I tested with a running hose ! The swale channel was just as I planned ...Should get another 20 years out of it before it fills up again!
Some Photos
Son on Yanmar:
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Swale test ...Exactly what I hoped for....Drops right out to the wood line behind the shed:
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smokeywolf

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As I understand it, sticking with simplicity of design produced a heck of a fine tractor that can be maintained and repaired with simple tools by John Q. Landowner. They've been compared to a '68 Chevy, in that a shade-tree mechanic can perform whatever is needed to get it back to work.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
The Yanmars have a decent rep. Locating parts is always the bugger with any of the smaller brands, and some of the larger ones too! Nice job!

More goat kids yesterday. Seems to be a year where the males in both sheep and goats outnumber the females by 2-1 or more. No clue why that happens, it just does.

Knocked down a little hay yesterday in a field right next to the road. Naturally I was almost done when I notice one guard was so loose it was ready to fall off! I'm certain that when I get it raked there will be strips of unmown hay sticking up like a 2 year old gave dad a haircut. I'm in for some ridicule from neighboring farmers!

We redid our kitchen, moved it into a different section of the house actually, 5-6 years back and SWMBO bought some very nice, but lightly used, oak cabinetry to fill the space with. Nice enough we never could have afforded it new! I was in heaven since I adore wood. She likes everything WHITE. Now that she's decided that we aren't moving (long story), I was advised last night the white will be making a return to our kitchen. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted!
 

L Ross

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My neighbor's pastures are up wind from my prairie and he does not control his thistle population. I have been mowing them for years, grudgingly, in his fields. I asked if I could spot spray them with Round Up and he said sure. Today Sue and I took the ATV with a tank mounted sprayer and using the wand rather than the boom began spraying thistles. All went well until we got into a back corner and there are just more thistles than we could spot spray. I guess I'll be mowing them before they can form seed.

Then I did the stupid thing. We tried to drive through a ravine with Sue sitting on a boat cushion on the front rack and 15 gallons of Round Up in the tank. We had a minor wreck. Then while reaching for the shut off switch for the pump with my right hand, I lost my balance and when I tried to catch myself with left hand I hit the throttle. Sue had dismounted and was standing next to me. The machine shot forward, slammed into the far bank, dumped the sprayer off the back bending the boom, and the right front tire ran up on the wand bending it. The deep cycle battery I had sitting on the running board to power the sprayer, fell off but only managed to unplug from the tank.

All in all not a complete disaster, but a very annoying one. Then we had to remount the spray tank with the 15 gallons of solution in it, strap it back down and still get through the ravine, turn around and get back through it to get out. The only bright spot I could ascertain was that we did not spill any Round Up into the tiny spring fed rivulet we were crossing. We are careful not to spray too close to the water, (20' minimum), and I would have hated to have has even a minor spill.

It was hot and sunny out and I was sweating like a pig. I am coming down with something that is settling in my chest with a constant tickle and a cough. Back in the AC comfortable house now and we have showered off any wind blown over spray. I just detest failure.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Not the kind of excitement anybody wants.

Hope your malady turns out to be nothing more than a minor bug.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Last evening I washed the truck. It sits on the street under the phone and cable lines and collects bird poop. This morning I washed the car. It is garaged, but the other day while grocery shopping a seagull dive bomb pooped it. Bird poop falling from a utility wire leaves a mostly round spot, but a dive bombing seagull splatters its large volume of poop in a pattern several feet long and quite wide.

SWMBO mentioned, again, the Leyland cypress needs to be trimmed. Done. She was elsewhere when I did it. I'll be back at, again, later in the week.
 

Ian

Notorious member
L Ross, failure is a natural part of trying to accomplish meaningful tasks. At least you're still physically able to get yourself and your lady into situations like that....and out again, and no one got hurt. And I'm quite certain Sue still loves you.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Last evening I washed the truck. It sits on the street under the phone and cable lines and collects bird poop. This morning I washed the car. It is garaged, but the other day while grocery shopping a seagull dive bomb pooped it. Bird poop falling from a utility wire leaves a mostly round spot, but a dive bombing seagull splatters its large volume of poop in a pattern several feet long and quite wide.

Is that what they call . . . . Fowl humor? :rofl: