[AT] A message for Ralph

[Cecil R Bearden]

Ralph:
I had to cut out a plugged crimper on my Owatonna swather with the JD 
crimper.  I used the Chainsaw.  Once in a while I would hit the steel 
roller, but it was not a good chain on the saw anyhow, so it was no big 
loss..    A new chain was worth a lot less than 1/2 day of my time....

Cecil in OKla


On 11/2/2013 1:30 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> 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.
>
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