Morning
Happy Mothers Day to all the mom's out there.Friend was early out of Garrett with a q 166. Saw a couple other stack trains.Saw produce trains both ways while in town too.Need to give more hugs this week.Just the way things go at times.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
afternoon
Ns had an eastbound and the local uptown when I left work.Nice sunshine today.Chores to do.
I was out with neighboring fire departments placing sandbags last night. Despite observations of those who have been watching it closely who said the lake was down, we still did a lot of wading over normally dry ground to place those sandbags.
There have been several groups filling the sandbags. Those of us filling them manually (using cut-off traffic cones) find that three heaping spades full is about right. We've got some Air Guard troops filling them with a machine now - they tend to overfill them. Then there was a group that we figure was only putting two spades full in each.
As we passed them hand-to-hand, it was easy to figure out which was which...
We easily placed 1500 sandbags last night - and I'd estimate that over 20,000 have been filled in the past week or so. With no relief in sight.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Larry,
Being a native Michigander you know we have water to spare and are willing to send it downriver. If the "river" I live near (basically nothing more than a creek by western standards) floods, Michigan is in deep doo-doo.
Norm
Norm48327 Larry, Being a native Michigander you know we have water to spare and are willing to send it downriver. If the "river" I live near (basically nothing more than a creek by western standards) floods, Michigan is in deep doo-doo.
That'd probably be either the Huron or the Clinton. The Huron is barely a stream until one gets down below Kent Park (but at one time provided considerable water power for mills, and even electricity). I don't think I ever saw it get out of hand.
Ns was clear when I left work.Most farmers around here make round bales now.Don't have the help to stack the square ones.Need to go give hugs.Other chores after that.
JoeKohDon't have the help to stack the square ones.
Some farmers are using square bales here - the extra large economy size. No stacking them by hand, either.
The big square bales tend to be stacked in the field - sometimes 6 high - usually with a tarp over them to at least keep some rain out of them. The round bales are often wrapped, either individually (marshmallows) or in a line (big white worms).
A lot of the hay grown here heads down to PA for use in mushroom farms (old mines).
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JoeKoh Don't have the help to stack the square ones.
Those large square bales can get a bit heavy - 1500 - 2000 pounds. The large round ones 800 - 1200 pounds. The old regular square ones, 40 - 60 lbs. You can put 25 smalls in one jumbo.
Ns had a coal train to go east in the siding.Wind from the south is warming things up.Need to go to town for errands.
joe
Bob,
Not trying to be contrary but in Shiawassee County I've seen lots of round bales under white covers. Gotta keep the rain out as they can spontaneously combust under the right conditions. Drive up to Elsie and look over the large dairy farm there.
Norm,
Dairy farms can typically store out side covered up, cows are not as finicky on what they eat. For horses they need a higher nutritional value so stables will store indoors. I grew up with milk cows, pigs and sheep. Cows, if it's green they're happy - sheep are to dumb to know and pigs, they eat anything. Used to get day old bread from the old Schaefers bakery in downtown Detroit, now part of I-75, including donut rejects in 55 gal drums. Pigs have a sweet tooth!!!
When we baled, there was only the standard 16" x 18" x 36" bale, none of the jumbos or rounds. Baled about 100 acres at around 65 bales or so per acre in the 1960's. Guess who got to stack the wagons. Man, I was in great shape by the end of the summer.
Sixty-five years ago, I would occasionally sell a bale of hay where I worked. If you needed new shoes (and nails) for your horse or mule, a new point for your plow, a sack of Portland cement, a peck of cornmeal, a pack of cigarettes, a cut or plug of tobacco, canned goods, dried beans, overalls, school notebook paper, a sack (100 pounds) of flour, a sack of cow feed, yard goods for your wife, and so on, I could help you.
Johnny
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Johnny,
A General Store, I miss those. Sears came close but not the same. In the 50's into the 60's my grandmother, (farm boss), would take us to one to get jeans, T shirts, socks, leather boots and gloves and pick up cat food, dog food, baling twine, maybe a pitch fork and thermos. I think it was in Armada, Mi. Oh, by the way, it's ArmAda, long a not short like the Nisson truck thing.
BOB WITHORN When we baled, there was only the standard 16" x 18" x 36" bale, none of the jumbos or rounds. Baled about 100 acres at around 65 bales or so per acre in the 1960's. Guess who got to stack the wagons. Man, I was in great shape by the end of the summer.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Murphy SidingI got paid $10 a day,
We got a buck an hour - other farmers paid a penny a bale. I was actually on vacation - the $19 I made seemed like gold.
Sometimes we loaded directly off the baler - easy. Other times we had to load off the ground. Trying to get a bale up 4 layers high on the wagon was a chore.
Unloaded to an elevator - I never had the "opportunity" to work in the mow. Thank goodness...
Murphy Siding I got paid $10 a day,
Tree, you missed so much not going up there. We NORMALLY baled directly to the wagon and I was ok until the wagon was just about full. It took all I had to hook the last few bales off the baler and lift them up, stack them under myself, repeat until loaded. Really a challange when we turned just as a bale was ready to come off, dead lift a 50 lb bale straight up with one arm!! When we finished the field, I got the pleasure of going up in the mow to catch the bales 'thrown' up from the conveyor by the hired hands so I could stack them all over again. I was also the one that got to cut the field then rake it over twice before we ever started baling. Darn hard work but very fond memories of the farm in Romeo, Mi.
ADD on: My brother and I got $25.00/week, for 12 hours/day and 7 days/week. Do not understand how he got the same, all he did was help unload the wagons onto the conveyor. Grandma's favorite, and I'm the middle child I guess.
evening
Coal train still in the siding.Local was uptown moving cars again.Came home and mowed the swamp.Felt a few sprinkles but the rain for now is to our south.Glad tomorrow is Friday.Saturday Matt and I are going to help nephew put finishing touches on his property.First great niece graduates high school this year.Where does the time go??
Saw Hunt train - a few containers w/explosive marked on side. What might this be?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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tree68 Murphy Siding I got paid $10 a day, We got a buck an hour - other farmers paid a penny a bale. I was actually on vacation - the $19 I made seemed like gold. Sometimes we loaded directly off the baler - easy. Other times we had to load off the ground. Trying to get a bale up 4 layers high on the wagon was a chore. Unloaded to an elevator - I never had the "opportunity" to work in the mow. Thank goodness... Tree, you missed so much not going up there. We NORMALLY baled directly to the wagon and I was ok until the wagon was just about full. It took all I had to hook the last few bales off the baler and lift them up, stack them under myself, repeat until loaded. Really a challange when we turned just as a bale was ready to come off, dead lift a 50 lb bale straight up with one arm!! When we finished the field, I got the pleasure of going up in the mow to catch the bales 'thrown' up from the conveyor by the hired hands so I could stack them all over again. I was also the one that got to cut the field then rake it over twice before we ever started baling. Darn hard work but very fond memories of the farm in Romeo, Mi. ADD on: My brother and I got $25.00/week, for 12 hours/day and 7 days/week. Do not understand how he got the same, all he did was help unload the wagons onto the conveyor. Grandma's favorite, and I'm the middle child I guess.
We also had the thrill of being in western South Dakota that has rattlesnakes. We'd usually disturb a couple of rattlers every time we baled hay. The farmer was a tough guy. All you had to do was yell “snake!” He’d stop the tractor, grab his shovel and kill the rattler. Oddly, the man scared to death of mice.
Mookie Saw Hunt train - a few containers w/explosive marked on side. What might this be?
Murphy SidingBaked beans? Fireworks?
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MookieSaw Hunt train - a few containers w/explosive marked on side. What might this be?
Cruise Missles headed to the ports to replensih the Navy's supply that was launched against Syria?
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACDCruise Missles headed to the ports to replensih the Navy's supply that was launched against Syria?
Think about pheasant season in the fall or Wyoming getting ready to invade Nebrasky (get the ammo consession for both sides)
Explosives can fall into any of six classes:
1.1 Explosives with a mass explosion hazard
1.2 Explosives with a projection hazard
1.3 Explosives with predominantly a fire hazard
1.4 Explosives with no significant blast hazard
1.5 Very insensitive explosives with a mass explosion hazard
1.6 Extremely insensitive articles
All use an orange "explosives" placard. The number is what makes the difference.
....carefull, the cat is gonna make me 1.6 placcard the Frod Exploder every time I get into Nebrasky.
Mookie BaltACD I was really thinking like Norm; can't wrap my mind around missles racing thru the middle of Nebraska heading to the west coast behind canned peaches...
BaltACD
I was really thinking like Norm; can't wrap my mind around missles racing thru the middle of Nebraska heading to the west coast behind canned peaches...
No matter if you can wrap your mind around it - there are large quantities of military ordinence that move by rail on a routine basis for a variety of military reasons.
Bob do you remember those not so strenious days of cutting silagewith a tractor and blown into a side discharge gravity (v) shape buggy and hauled to the silo to theconvayer to fill the silo. The corn was still green and wet .That silage kept the livestock warm in the winter when fed to them.~~~~~ One other benefit was a gallon jug with a cob stuck in the neck to filter the juice as the silage above was squeesed into the jug. The jugs were placed at levals by the silo doors. From June toDecember the juice fermented, it wasn't till Feb . the first jug was "harvested" . Somehow, the cold did not seem so bad as we watched the train head for Circleville as we sipped the squeez. There seems to be something about a distant steamers whistle on a cold winter night. Days long gone by as well for the Y6bs doublehead coal drag to Columbus.
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
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