so waht ya doin today?

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Messing with the horses last night went decent. The gelding is getting the idea that my hands aren't something to run from at least. The Witch is still being a witch.

Buncha stuff to do today. Move sheep/goat fence, rehang the gutter, get some rough lumber into the barn, figure how much more lumber I'll need for an overhang to cover my diesel tank, and so on.

"Furries", yup. Animals cannot attend school, but they cater to these kids cries for attention or mental illness, whichever it is. Where the heck is that giant asteroid when you need it?
 
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Mitty38

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Furries.. hmmm, never heard of using a litter box.
I was a mascot once. Willy the Wild cat. Does that count?


I looked so sexy in my kitty outfit.. Twas the only way I could get the hot chicks to pay attention to me in high school.
Roawr. Ffft ffft. I'm a cute little kitty
Na just yanking your chain. LOL
I think I need some sleep now.
 
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JonB

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I bought another tiller yesterday, 1960s or early 70s vintage 4hp front tine Sears, $40 cash...it almost runs.
It's a heavy duty unit, judging by weight of chassis and nice thick, unworn, tines.
It's belt driven off the vertical shaft motor, and shaft/gearbox to the tine axle.
It has reverse also...that's kinda neat.

OK, the story.
Last winter, my nephew asks to borrow my troybilt Horse for a food ploy by his deer stand. I reluctantly said yes...which I have been regretting saying ever since the words left my mouth...but He and his Dad always get deer and I always get deer meat from them.
I hate to see my prized Horse break new ground. I am 99% sure this foodplot will NOT be a successful garden.
So, I've been looking for a rig I can make work and borrow out to him...and whoever else asks. Yes, I get asked by others all the time, I always say no.

All these old little front tiners have the Briggsy with the carb mounted on top of the tank...worst design ever, IMHO.
I've had bad luck in the past with these motors. The seller did get it to fire and run with starting fluid. The Oil is jet black and thick. Gas tank smells varnishy. I'm hoping a simple tank cleaning and blasting the mounted carb with seafoam spray...and oil change, makes this "borrow rig" running good enough to borrow to my young nephew this weekend.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
After my tiller project,
I plan to start transplanting Tomato and pepper plants into the garden. It should stay warm enough from now on ...and the weather prognosticators are saying rain tomorrow, a one inch soaker.
 

popper

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Willy the Wild cat My school mascot!
Briggs wasn't a real carb, but they work just great. More like a early FI system or a model A/C 'pumper' carb. At least the valve train was steel.
 

JWFilips

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Well I put a pile of gorrila tape over the areas in the bead where I trimmerd the broken wires! Put in the repaired tube ....and woked it on the rim slowly & Carefully.....Sucess in half the time of the Ham Fisted guy! It sat for 1 hour filled with 12.5 lbs of air...all good. Then took I took it for a high speed jaunt around the property....I thought all well but within the next hour it was flat! Broke down an ordered a brand new 20 x 8.00 tire on the Amazon! Lowerst place I found & Free shipping! Bought a tubeless stem also! I'm sure the tube is beyond repair!

On a better front it was in the 60's and low humidity today so I got 4 chilies and two cucumbers into the big garden! Harvested what probably is the last of the spinach and possibly the last of the arugula!
Last weekends 90 deg heat put them in to seed producing mode!
 

Snakeoil

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Put 140 feet of dock in over the last 2 days. Used to be a 1 day event, maybe 3 hours worth of work. No more. Taking my time and splitting it up made it much easier. Have to push the lift out to the end of the dock as well. The bottom near the shore was mushy this year. Every try pushing something thru mud? Sucks to say the least. But now it's done. Just have to get the boat out of mothballs and put it in the water. Actually forgot to bring the boat batteries to the lake with me on Sunday. So, I've got the rest of the week to do more fun stuff.20220524_180357a.jpg
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Crappy day here. Lost a fine ewe full of lambs last night. She got over into a depression I couldn't see, bloated and died. Then I found an even better ewe that can't get up! She's alert, and upright, but she can't get up. She must weigh over 200 lbs now, I can't lift her. Vet gave me some meds and advice. Hope she makes it and I don't have to shoot her. Never had one do this in over 20 years of sheep raising. The one that died was potentially close to $2K down the tubes.

Other than that about all I got done is getting some welding done on the Deere crawler loader. The tracks are shot, like REALLY shot. I found a set, in Vermont again, price is decent. Might have to go for it.
 

L Ross

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Crappy day here. Lost a fine ewe full of lambs last night. She got over into a depression I couldn't see, bloated and died. Then I found an even better ewe that can't get up! She's alert, and upright, but she can't get up. She must weigh over 200 lbs now, I can't lift her. Vet gave me some meds and advice. Hope she makes it and I don't have to shoot her. Never had one do this in over 20 years of sheep raising. The one that died was potentially close to $2K down the tubes.

Other than that about all I got done is getting some welding done on the Deere crawler loader. The tracks are shot, like REALLY shot. I found a set, in Vermont again, price is decent. Might have to go for it.
Sorry you've lost a ewe and are having concerns with another. The life of a farmer can be filled with challenges even more so when you're farming critters. You care about them and it is so much more than just the financial value.
 

CWLONGSHOT

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Met up with a friend at a gun shop
Between us. I picked up a pound of CFE223 and he brought me
About 35# of sorted COWW, 12# of SOWW and 6/7# of Zinc WW.

Good selection of guns nothing exciting to me.

CW
 

popper

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What did you use for the dock? Daughter has to top one but only ~20'. Built from steel roof girders, bout 4' wide. Looked at fake wood but $.
 

fiver

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Dale i've heard of the epsom salt thing.
i sorta tried it once.
now i just dump some horse or cow manure about 3-4"s below the roots and let them find it.
wandered around the yard for a while, did pretty much nothing constructive.
watched a footie game [my team won] then watched Lawrence of Arabia again [the directors cut]
i somehow ended up with a couple dozen started corn plants so i stood there staring at the gardens for about an hour trying to figure out where to put them.
maybe tomorrow..
 

smokeywolf

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Got a lot of rain today. Youngest son has dealt with an off & on cough for the last several years. Had to take him to the med center for a $6,000 test (thank goodness for good health ins.) of his bronchial tube. May get results in a couple of days.

On the way home, about 5 miles north of town, there were 5 deer crowded together in the tall grass, about 30 feet from the roadway, just chillin' and watching the cars go by. Not something you see every day.
 

Rick

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Alot? Yeah, I think so. At 4 this afternoon I got one inch of rain in 10 minutes. o_O Only good thing is that it didn't last longer than 10 minutes.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
The ewe is still alive and alert this AM, maybe there's a chance.

What the heck happened to our kids America? I'm simply shocked at the violence I see. It's not the guns, we had ready access to guns growing up and nothing like Ulvade happened. IMO it's the combination of social media, the destruction of the family, the destruction of faith and the normalization of violence as an answer to everything. I won't touch on the tin hat ideas of why this seems to always happen when things are tough for certain groups of politicians, but it doesn't matter anyway if it were true because it's always spun to fit a narrative.