so waht ya doin today?

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Intheshop

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You are right of course Smokey but, these are some dang sharp 225-55's:cool:.

You'll know when the right property comes along,am sure of it. I'll spare the long version but,when I bought this place didn't even "walk" the property. It was owner/seller/financer. I got out of the car and wrote a 5k check as a down payment on site,one Sunday afternoon in January. He was like,WTF? ( I had built the house next door,who he'd bought this parcel from and had hunted all over the place years before).
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Made some hay yesterday. Got the timing thing figured out and that was fine, no more bangs. But, right knotter is at least 25 years old and probably 60. Wear is causing knots to hang. I got 2 loads in and there's a 3rd, at least, sitting on the ground with a chance of showers today. Gonna be trying to take up some wear and get it done.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Congratulations on the new addition !

Smokey ,
When you get it , get it homesteaded . There's a tax break for it . It makes the new place , depending on the survey , -$30/yr for us .

I remember that noisey bailer across the road in my youth .......that bang, bang ,bang , sqeeee , bang , bang , bang , sqeee , repeat makes more sense now .
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
I follow the bush plane guys (they were at Oshkosh for the STOL drag races), apparently it was quite a mess with a bad storm last weekend. Lots of damaged planes and a muddy mess in general preventing use of the grass strips until earlier in the week.
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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Power has been out since 1AM. Edison says 10 AM before restoration.
May have to fire up the generator come daybreak.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Tore the knotters apart yesterday. Made some shims, sharpened some dull parts, rounded some sharp parts, polished some rough surfaces, established an interference sliding fit to wipe the knot off one bill hook, cleaned it all and lubed it up. Put it back together and gave her a test run. Picture perfect knots and the 60 year old baler is spitting out bricks of hay now. Of course then the skies darkened and it looked like rain. I'll finish today, after I move the sheep, and start knocking down more.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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My wife and I have turned 7 acres of erodible, marginal crop land into a pollinator friendly prairie. When it was in corn last, the deer, squirrels, raccoons, and turkeys left 50 bushel per acre at combining. Last year it looked pretty ugly and in late Summer, Fall Panicum just blanketed the field. It was too early in the restoration process this Spring to burn. I mowed and we decided to wait and it is now really doing well. As we toured it yesterday, looking for noxious weeds to whack with a machete, we marveled at the grasses and wildflowers and the variety and numbers of bees and butterflies. Sue turned to me and said, "I wish we had done this years ago."
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
After we built the new house, almost 10 years ago, anything Cindy planted was to attract fauna. There was about 3-4 bare acres behind the structure, after the large pile of bulldozed trees were burnt. She also decided to leave all the standing dead hags/trees, which birds have an affinity for. She's a member of the Audubon Society, and was presented with their Bird Friendly Backyard award, as a result.

She's always taking photographs of the flora and fauna. Camera is always at hand, when we sit out on the back porch.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

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Ian, early in the week they had 5 inches of rain and flooded much of the camping areas. Had real problems with
where to put arriving RVs. We got there Thursday and all was pretty much dried out.
As to bush planes, I saw Draco - what an amazing aircraft and the owner is an amazing guy, super smart and super
high energy. If you haven't followed his videos on modifying Draco, you are missing out on a guy REALLY
enjoying his big boy's toys.

And I got some pix today at the doc office.

WRF knee replacent side small cropped.jpg

I've been taking tylenol three times a day.....this AM I got out the tylenol and thought about it,
the knee felt fine, so didn't take it. That was three hours ago and it is fine. Maybe I am
done with pain pills - well, except for after PT. Will take tylenol an hour before I go to
PT today. Walked all over Oshkosh, and it got sore at times, but was generally up to the
program, certainly not perfect, but very usable at 4 1/2 weeks.

Doc says I am ahead of 99% of his patients. I'll take it. :):):)

Bill
 
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Pistolero

Pistolero

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Really good to see the concrete in, Keith. Still a good bit before you can start moving machinery, but you
have the makings of a fine building there, under roof. Electrical, plumbing, doors and windows, bit by bit.

Bill
 
fiver

fiver

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I don't know what the weather here does to the plants but it really screws them over on figuring out growth cycles.
I have 4 choke berry plants from Siberia that decided it was finally spring last night and budded out some leaves,
the climbing roses grew about a foot and flowered this month, they didn't even make it to the trellis their supposed to climb.
I don't even want to talk about some of the same plants planted 5' away from each other in the same soil with the same water.

one more 30-40 pod harvest on the peas and they should be done except for the 2-3 stragglers just flowering now, and some of the Garlic will be ready in a few days.
I think I'm gonna plant more peas next year, except I'm going to spread them around 10-12 plants at a time.
I'm going to expand the Garlic bed by moving them to the other side of the mint box, hopefully they hold back the strawberry's which are shooting out runners every which way like crazy this year.
which is what they are supposed to be doing.

Im definitely going to have to do the green house different next year.
I have water melon and cantaloupe vines growing up in the rafters, broccoli plants that are 3' tall, squash that have straight and crooked neck plants on the same plant, the one single tomato plant in there is almost 7' tall and would maybe be taller but I keep pruning it.
I'm having a hard time pollenating some things because of the jungle like growth of some of the plants.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
doc says some clicks and pops are normal, and no zerk fittings on mine. :)

Or a place for a drop or two of oil. Self-lubricating polyethylene is the claim.
 
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I

Intheshop

Banned
Oh my..... on the "clicks and pops"

Broke my neck in a massive building collapse.... yada,yada. Yes,lucky to be alive,my cousin pulled me out of the wreckage. No lawyers/insurance,just blood curdling pain.

Gotta time it exactly right.... standing in line at a Walmart or sumthin,folks getting quiet, wait for it.....wait.

CRICK,crank my neck in a certain,Tony Soprano way......

Never fails to get folks wound up.... "OMG,you didn't just do that"
 
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