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[switch7frg]

Mutt;>>>
Just recieved funny about A & C .That sure would ring true today . I have tried to send E mail to you I ve' tried 3 ways to do that ,except throw 2or 3 shovels of sand to the flue pipes to clear the way . Nice of you to send the { comics} . CB

[rvos1979]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

Heck, I've gotta mow every three days in the spring even if I don't fertilize. And speaking of fertilizer, as anyone who lives in farm country can tell you, you haven't lived until you're downwind of a field that has just been spread with liquid manure. You also have no idea of how long you can hold your breath...[xx(]

That's the smell of money there!! At least that's what we told everyone who called to complain about the smell. First spring after we built the manure pit (it holds six month's worth) the phones lit up like a christmas tree complaining. Wasn't the best of times either for us backing the spreaders into the pit, loading up, and then trying to pull out (my dad regrets making the ramp as steep as he made it, we have to use duals or four wheel drive to pull out, especially after the ramp has been coated in manure spilling out of the spreaders.).

Modelcar, it's a mower, just bigger, it takes about two to three hours to cut 10-15 acres, then even longer to chop or bale it all. Haven't had the chance to use the new one yet, but I could turn the older one (9-1/2 foot cut) and get a square corner, although I have to throttle back more than my uncle (I can't turn the steering wheel fast enough!!) The new one is also a center pivot, whereas the older one was drawn from the side. Heck, about 15 years ago, at the age of 11, I was doing all the baling for my dad, was pretty good at filling a wagon with the ejector.

All this talk about mowing and fertilizer is making me want to go back to my parents and help out with field work, but it's still too early to get in the fields yet, too wet!!

[JoeKoh]

good early morning
just in for a late night snack.I made some juice and here is some fresh coffee.time to go back to bed.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Lol...Chompin at the bit too huh.

We've been doing a lot of 'fertilizing' lately, although more of the semi-solid variety. It's dry enough around here, but too cold yet. Everything still sits where it was parked last fall.

Been trying to talk my dad into a zero-turn lawnmower but he hasn't taken the bait yet. Sure would be nice if he got one, then I could borrow it and cut my mowing time from about 2 hours down to 45 minutes or so.

Got one trailer sold and another dump bought. I'm going to give driving for myself a shot this year. All I have left to do is go over to the hall and trade my card in for an O/O card and away I go.

[cherokee woman]

Good Sunday morning, everyone! Looks like it's going to be a beautiful day, here:
sun is shining, although the outside temp is in the upper 20s. Think we're supposed
to get up in the low 50s today.

Sunday brunch is on the warmer bar: turkey bacon, sausage, sausage gravy,
scrambled eggs, hash browns.

Sunday Dinner will be served around 1 p.m., and will consist of beef roast with
potatoes, carrots & onions, with side dishes of green beans, cole slaw and
creamed corn w/hot dinner rolls.

Dessert will be your choice of the following cobblers: apple, blackberry, cherry,
or peach. Have plenty of vanilla ice cream to go with the cobblers.

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rvos1979

Heck, about 15 years ago, at the age of 11, I was doing all the baling for my dad, was pretty good at filling a wagon with the ejector.

About 35 years ago, I helped my uncle bale hay on several occasions, as he didn't have an ejector on his baler (or was that just loose cuttings you were talking about?)- we stood on the wagon, grabbed the bales out of the chute with a big metal hook, and stacked them neatly on the wagon. Good times...

[Anonymous]

Hmmmmm farm work huh?

Dad always had our small field limed. But I worked on a friend's dairy farm where he had his field fertilized with the pellets. It only took once getting hit in the back with them "bullets" before I learned to respect the spreading truck. [B)]
I had stopped my tractor, I was planting, because one of the cups had fallen off and I was trying to put it back on. The truck snuck up on me. Trust me, it only snuck up on me once. NEVER AGAIN. [:D]

And speaking of "spreading" lol one of my jobs on the dairy farm was blading out the barn and spreading the wonderful contents. [;)] It only took less than one trip around the field to know when to "spread" and not to spread. Yes, wind can be a wonderful thing at times, BUT NOT when you are spreading manure. [8] It was a side discharge, a PTO drove chain links that were every foot or so on the shaft and did the deed of speading. Once I had to jump into the spreader when a bull decided to charge. I couldn't get to the tractor so the speader was the only other place to get away from it. [B)] Thank God I was wearing my fireman's boots and the spreader was low on it contents. [;)]

I had another time when I was glad I was wearing my fireman's boots. The owner had a new feeding trough installed with a system of mixing grain into the silage. It was motorized with the silage moved around as the grain was mixed into it. The wiring for the lights and motors ran underground. One afternoon I came down and saw a dead cow on the ground. I asked what happened, and he told me the cow had found a short in the wiring. My fireboots were shock prof and I had walked across that spot several times.

I never made a lot of money playing farm hand, but it was something I very much enjoyed doing. I have lots of funny memories about it. [:p]


My friends from Chicago didn't make it up yesterday. They were enjoying their time in Texarkana too much and wound up staying there. [:(] They said they would try and be here sometime after 3. I will still be able to give them a quick tour of the yard. [;)]

The sun is out but the weather channel says it is only about 40. We had Spring during Winter and now Winter during Spring. [:0] [B)] Strange but true, the weather is so mixed up these days.

If you have not seen Quentin's steam engine then I encourage you to find his thread about childhood memories and read it and see his photo. That photo is absolutely priceless. <Jim is jealous. [;)] >

Everyone Take Care

[JoeKoh]

yep used to help bale and milk cows during the summer during high school.those cows could be tempermental.Deshler was busy today alot of borrowed units pounding the diamond.[8D]
stay safe
Joe

[espeefoamer]

I had my first day on the new job Friday.Driving cars through an auto auction.I got a tiny taste of what an engineer goes through.As I get close to the auction building,the auto dealers are swarming all over. They pay no attention to anything around them and will step right out in front of us as we are driving.We have to be constantly on our toes.Though there is a 10 MPH speed limit on our lot,we have to constantly be on the lookout for anyone walking near us as these people seem to be totally oblivious to our presence.I have a new respect now for what an engineer goes through.

[jeaton]

Having grown up on a dairy farm, I never aspired to own one myself. My father never had any regrets about getting out of the business.

I would have been happy to have all of you come around and have the "time of your life" doing my chores. [:D]

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel

QUOTE: Originally posted by rvos1979

Heck, about 15 years ago, at the age of 11, I was doing all the baling for my dad, was pretty good at filling a wagon with the ejector.

About 35 years ago, I helped my uncle bale hay on several occasions, as he didn't have an ejector on his baler (or was that just loose cuttings you were talking about?)- we stood on the wagon, grabbed the bales out of the chute with a big metal hook, and stacked them neatly on the wagon. Good times...

Hear, hear. Helped my cousins with baling one year - my family was on vacation, but that $19 was like gold. Got pretty good at stacking a wagon. Nowadays everyone around here uses either the big square or round bales. Not gonna catch me pitching one of them onto a wagon, though...

Despite living in dairy country, I rarely visit farms. Did so this past summer, though, during a Cornell University "Farmedic" course. Anyone who doesn't believe that a farm is a heavy-duty industrial operation needs to take a tour.

As for those liquid manure pits - had one leak, big time, into a major river in the area. It wasn't pretty.

Wait. Isn't this a food thread?

[Mookie]

<~>.......I come back to...........manure? Icky!

Makes me want to shake my feet and buy stock in kitty litter - which brings me to....lots of kitty litter cars headed east this weekend. They are so cute - all blue with a paw print on the side! Put them to good use!

I have a question for all you astute people. You are doing lawn mowing, we are still thinking snowblowers, altho the snow has pretty well drifted away.

We have a snowblower that I could ride to work. Driver sez it is powerful and I could just hang on and let it run full out! Throw out an anchor. Anyway having said that, you know it is heavy. He wants to take it in and have it tuned up for next winter. It won't fit in Millie, and will fit in the LTD, but it is now too heavy for him to lift in there. (that was how we got it home - he bulled it in and out of the trunk, but since he tore that muscle, he can't do that any more)

What's the best way to get it into the trunk - run 2x4's into the trunk and guide it up there and into the trunk? Hire some gorgeous bodybuilder to lift it in and out - while I supervise, of course? Move to an apartment and let them shovel?

The housing doesn't come apart easily and he doesn't want to break it or he would change the spark plug himself and tune it up.

So any help from any corner would be appreciated!

Oh and you haven't lived until you have been downwind from our very local Pig Farm. I thought cows were bad! Gag....

But as Donald Trump Sez - "Money, Money, Money!"

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

<~>.......I come back to...........manure? Icky!

I sincerely apologize for my role in fomenting this topic.

QUOTE: What's the best way to get it into the trunk - run 2x4's into the trunk and guide it up there and into the trunk? Hire some gorgeous bodybuilder to lift it in and out - while I supervise, of course? Move to an apartment and let them shovel?

I would suggest finding a friend or neighbor with a pickup/minivan and two nice long 2X6s, and offer them a nice meal in exchange for their assistance.

[JoeKoh]

mookie
im surprised.all that help at spring practice for football??? a couple of 2 x 4s should do the trick to ramp it into the trunk .some places offer pick-up and delivery for no charge also.
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

Good Monday morning, folks! Sorry about sleeping so late this morning, but
breakfast is on. For your enjoyment, you can have biscuits & gravy w/sausage
and scrambled eggs, hash browns, or oatmeal, and toast.

[CShaveRR]

The *ahem* manure seems to have hit a lot of fans.

SJ, I wish I could offer assistance on your Junior Cyclone, but things are keeping me very close to home.

I have yet to see one of your CATX cars here--maybe I'll get lucky if I head to Q country.

No breakfast--have to run.

[tree68]

Well, the air seems to have cleared (no thanks to moi [:I])....

I'd also suggest Joe's option C - many places will pick up and deliver for free. And if you aren't in a hurry to get it back (unlike all those people who will soon be wanting their lawn mowers tuned up) so much the better, since they'll work it in when they get a chance and have it back before the snow flies. Also means you don't have to trip over it for a while.

I'd offer to pick it up with my pickup, but that's a long trip. Maybe I could work it in with a trip to deliver some antiques further west.... Unfortunately the price of fuel rules that one out.

[Mookie]

^~^ Ah Tree! You are delivering antiques? Can you narrow that down? Primatives, art glass, assorted collectibles, or train antique items?

If it is art glass, it may have to stop in Lincoln! I might give up watching trains for a few minutes to look at some good art glass!

For a poor person, I have very expensive taste!

Moo!

[Anonymous]

Thanks . . . for the memories. [8D]

Well I do admit, I am no Dean Martin. [;)]

Between this "farm to food" thread and Q"s photo of his childhood steamer we certainly have been walking down memory lane the last few days. I certainly have enjoyed both. [:)]

Hey Mookie . . . about them pigs. I used to have to hold the "little boys" when they became about 6 weeks old. Dad did the dirty deed [:0] I just had to hold them. But it took about 3 days to finally get the smell of my hands. [B)] [8] [:(] That certainly is NOT one of my favorite childhood memories. [;)]

Well my friends didn't make it. [:(!] [:(] [:(!] I certainly am dissappointed. [:(] [V] [:(] They are die hard CNW fans and it turned out a CNW engine left Memphis and would be using the old SSW (Cotton Belt) route to Texas so they headed back to southeast Arkansas to catch it. [:(] I was all primed and ready to see them. [V] [:(] [V] What a let down. [:(] [:(] [:(]

Well today is my Friday and it is about 50 outside but cloudy. Rain is suspose to happen today and this evening. My job tonight is the ready track where I have to hook up air hoses, hook up the MUs, and be the ground person for the required FRA brake checks. So that means, I will be wearing my bright orange (with reflective stripe) clown suit [:o)] . Trust me, the way they fit, you feel like a clown for sure. [:o)] [8D] [:o)] The only thing missing would be 20 inch long shoes but my steel toed shoes weight about 20 pounds, or so it seems. [8]

Carl, I got "called in". [;)] We will wait and see how good it is tho. [;)] I am not sure how long it takes but a certain yardmast is very impressed with my work and told me last night that he called me in. [:)] It is funny how easy our job is, but how few people even really try to do the minimum. So when someone comes along and does more than the minimum it is noticed. Good ol' fashioned hard work still counts for something in this country.

EVeryone Take Care

[cherokee woman]

Jim, hate to tell you this, but it wasn't Dean Martin who sang "Thanks for the Memories:"
it was Bob Hope.[:I] And Jim, your rain today is to reach us sometime tonight, through
tomorrow. Just what I need on Produce Tuesday.[:(]

Lunch today will be openfaced roast beef sandwiches w/mashed potatoes and
gravy, with your choice of green beans, lima beans, peas, and carrots.

Looks like no one ate any of the cobblers yesterday, so they are all warmed up,
ready and waiting for someone to come eat them.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

^~^ Ah Tree! You are delivering antiques? Can you narrow that down? Primatives, art glass, assorted collectibles, or train antique items?

All family heirlooms, actually. I'll be letting the "pros" handle shipping, although I am getting them crated up. I don't think my sisters will want to pay the gas for me to drive them out myself, although the social aspects (Rochelle and Lincoln on the way to Denver, maybe via Houston on the way back east from Phoenix) would have the potential to skew the decision...

All furniture, I might add. An 1870's East Lake commode, a 2/2 Lady's Dresser with spoon carved medalions of about the same vintage, and Gramp's old rocking chair. Have no idea of how old the chair is, but it's a favorite in the family. While the three have value as antiques, the real value is the memories.

[JoeKoh]

tree
we have a picture that grandma had done for her wedding day.i dont see $$$.I see us at her dining room table as we ate dinner or she taught us how to play cards and other games.CW will take some cobbler after matt and i get back from the park.sooo nice today! still going to be something missing in the background(depot)
stay safe
Joe

[mudchicken]

Mooks:

All that hanging around the tracks and you never met the local M/W Maintainer (motorcar mechanic/ roadmaster's savior) ???

Does it run now? Can it wait 2 months? (ie - get the thing in the shop when it's not time critical and cheaper to fix/maintain?) Most lawnmower/small engine shops I know will pick-up/deliver just to get the business in the off season. Call em and ask.

[Mookie]

Yes Sir! Just have to wait to make sure it won't be needed for a few days while we send it off. It will be like parting with my fork - when we need it, it really takes care of business!

So you do your part and keep the snow at your house and we will get right on it.

Tree - furniture goes like wildfire here in my world. Use to be a gentleman (ahem) in a booth next to ours at the antique shows that would show "old" furniture with the varnish still tacky. He put a good price on it and always sold a lot. And it wasn't just small end tables, either! We would drool watching him!

Sometimes sentiment brings a big price.....

Mook

[cherokee woman]

Hello again, everyone. Just popped in to post the supper menu fo tonight.

For your taste buds tonight, you can have: Chop Suey, Chow Mein, Lo Mein
with snow peas, rice, and hot tea. And of course, to end your meal, you'll
get a fortune cookie. And you must read your fortune to everyone!!

[JoeKoh]

my fortune says"keep hands clean with soapy water" I have to do dishes again??
stay safe
Joe

[Modelcar]

Jen....Snowblower tune up....First off, if it is rather new...even last 10 years, it should have a solid state ignition to the engine and I'd suggest have driver take a good close look at it and perhaps he could remove the spark plug and replace it with a new one. Might even purchase a small container of a product..{Gunk}, to pour in the gas to enable cleaning the carburetor....If he leaves gasoline in it all summer when not in use, he should add a product to the gas {when unit is not used and stored}, to keep it from gumming up the fuel system. Probably by changing the spark plug to a new one will really help if it hasn't been changed for some time.....If plug is added, don't forget to "gap" the spark plug...Probably to about .028 to .035". All the above stuff can be found in an automotive store or big box store, automotive dept. Might have to get spark plug {for that machine}, in lawn care dept. Suggest all of above if machine is too heavy and dangerous for one person to try to lift in a veh, etc......

[switch7frg]

Locomutt ;
Support center says , dummy , we cant' find POP 3 .
Then tells me Norton says there is error #500.>>>>
Ah technology , at its' best??? I'll keep punchin' buttons. CB.

[Anonymous]

Just woke up from a brief nap it is raining a bit downhere. Thanks for the good Lunch as usual.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Switch8frg

Locomutt ;
Support center says , dummy , we cant' find POP 3 .
Then tells me Norton says there is error #500.>>>>
Ah technology , at its' best??? I'll keep punchin' buttons. CB.

OH WELL !!! I'll be lookin' for it whenever,sometimes you do have
to just keep punchin' buttons.[:D]

AMTK200;CW and I just got back from a short trip to the tracks,and that's
exactly what it turned out to be;a short trip ;it started raining !![:(]

I would have been in the Diner earlier,but certain odors sort of kept
me out;even though we live in a very urban area,one of the city's waste
treatment plants is not that far from us;and when the wind comes from a
certain direction,well,uh......................................................[xx(][xx(]

Jim;they actually sell their byproducts from the plant,to whom ever wants
to buy; and it's in pellet form !!!! [:-,][(-D][(-D]