[AT] A message for Ralph

[Ralph Goff]

On 11/1/2013 9:31 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> I was sad to read that you are having trouble getting things to the
> list. I know next to nothing about computers, so I can't help you with
> that problem; but I am hoping that you or some knowledgeable person can
> help find the trouble. I have always looked forward to your posts and
> especially to your videos and have watched every one you have sent. I
> like them all,but especially the ones of doing summer crop work. I like
> to see and hear about the different ways of farming in different parts
> of the world such as you in the more north country and Grant in the
> vegetable part of the country. It is interesting to here different
> things like your harvesting spring wheat whereas we in Michigan only
> plant winter wheat; I just planted the last of mine on October 22. I
> guess I am writing this in the hopes you can find a way to get your
> messages through. Besides enjoying your posts; the list could sure use
> some more traffic.
>
Hi Greg
I will attempt a reply here. Thanks for watching the "Roosty6" videos.  
It inspires me to do more if I know people actually watch and find 
something of interest there.
I guess there are times I just have no opinion or nothing to add to the 
conversations here on the list.
I have lost my link to the "new" ATIS discussion forum where we had some 
good conversation going on . This laptop lost my personal profile with 
all my favorite links a while ago. You would think it would be easy to 
google search the ATIS forum but I have had no luck there yet. I may 
have to fire up the old desktop to see if I can get back in through it's 
saved history to see what Gene and Charlie are up to lately.
Harvest finally finished up for me on October 29th. Not the latest I 
have ever combined but later than I prefer. Due to a combination of 
breakdowns, bad weather and some bad decisions on my part I was probably 
the last guy harvesting in this area. Starting the diesel engines that 
sat in the field overnight with temps down near 10F was no fun at all 
but they did start and the big John Deere pull type put the stubborn 
flax straw through pretty well. Although there was one memorable day 
that I spent part of an afternoon and evening laying inside the combine 
on the straw walkers with various hooks, saws, and finally a "sawzall"  
cutting flax straw out of the plugged beater. Not something I ever want 
to do again.
My old reliable right hand tractor, the Massey Super 90 has had a major 
breakdown. The head gasket blew out between cylinder 3 and 4 recently so 
it sits in the shed in pieces waiting for me to get back to it. Sure do 
miss the front end loader.
Had the old AR fired up for some exercise this week as I had to move it 
to get the combine parked back in the shed for winter. Here is a photo 
from the day. Got some video but not edited yet.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/8ohj.jpg/

Ralph in Sask.