[AT] OT don't take any Buffalo Nickels and weather.
Cecil Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Sun Jun 23 09:11:08 PDT 2019
I got a D2 cat, I wish I had it running to smooth out the mud I moved
with the D6D!!! The old 6D is sorta heavy in the mud....
Cecil
On 6/23/2019 10:56 AM, pga2 at BasicISP.net wrote:
> We were in that situation a month or so ago. Rain nearly every day.
> There was more water running in the Brazos river than I have seen
> since I moved here at the tail end of '95. Lakes all up and down the
> Brazos are letting water out to keep from flooding. There have been
> several drownings due to stupid people doing stupid things in the high
> water with submerged hazards in the lakes.
> We finally dried out enough so I could mow the yard and I had to raise
> the deck up as high as it could go or the cut grass would clump up
> really bad. Forecast is for rain again tonight and Monday with a 40%
> chance Tuesday. The county came by and mowed the bar ditch in front of
> the house and left it a rutted mess. When it gets dry enough I'll
> grade the ruts out, but it won't be soon. Sure wishing I had a D2 Cat!
>
> Phil in damp TX
>
> --- crbearden at copper.net wrote:
>
> From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT don't take any Buffalo Nickels and weather.
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 08:38:12 -0500
>
> Farmer
> Interesting discussion on the terminology of things.. Here in
> Oklahoma, there are so many things that you have to know the slang
> term for in order to just survive.. Buffalo are Buffalo here, not
> Bison.. I did not know why they were called Buffalo. Thanks for that
> lesson. I learn so many things from talking with the old-timers and I
> found out at a continuing education session Friday that I was
> considered to be one of those...
>
> We had over 30 inches of rain in 31 days in Central OK. Record
> rainfall since 1895. The flat areas of the pasture now have water
> grass growing in them. I tried to drain a spot yesterday while I had
> the dozer running and nearly got stuck. There is a winch on that D6D
> but I have not tried it out. I would have to use the 944 Cat to
> anchor it and it was on the battery charger. The 944 has a 24volt
> generator that I guess is not charging.. It takes an hour to remove
> all the panels to get at it. The E110B trackhoe is still in need of
> another 10 gallons of hydraulic oil after I replaced a boom cylinder
> ($1350), I have not tried it out yet. The rain has delayed
> everything here. From getting cattle worked to harvest to hay
> cutting. Thursday & Friday were the 2 dry days I had available, and I
> had to spend it setting in a mandatory $400 continuing education
> session for my Engineering license. If this continual rain does not
> stop soon, we are going to be in a world of hurt. I saw some wheat
> fields cut yesterday that had large tracts left uncut due to weeds.
> They were too wet to cut for hay. Marestail was sticking up a foot
> above the wheat heads. Many fields are so wet that 4wd combines were
> making tracks over a foot deep. I saw one custom harvester with rice
> combines on tracks and his grain carts were on tracks. They were
> heading north. There may be a hay cutting if it ever stops raining
> long enough to dry out, but the quality will be crap because we don't
> dare fertilize when the rain following the fertilizer application is
> so heavy the fertilizer is in the creek. We get 2-3 inches in less
> than an hour. I get reports from a private weather station a mile
> away and many times it has shown over 4 inches an hour rainfall rate.
> A few years ago, urbanized drainage used 4 inches per hour as the 100
> yr design flood. The grass has grown so fast that there is no food
> value in it. I had to start feeding again because my mother cows did
> not have milk with enough food value in it. Too much water. The
> calves were getting scours from watery milk. I started feeding every
> day with 15% protein cubes and after a week, the scours dried up. The
> cows are also maintaining condition. Before feeding they were losing
> condition. Like my Dad, I take pride in having cows that are healthy
> and fat and stay that way. This has been the worst year for
> livestock. We have had storm after storm with baseball size hail.
> The high winds from downbursts in north central OK has left entire
> sections with wheat lodged down.
> The estimates for the wheat harvest are too optimistic. I have
> already reserved wheat seed for sowing this fall.
>
> I think it was you farmer that once said the old saying was "A dry
> year will scare you, a wet year will kill you!" That saying has never
> been more true.
> The prospects for this year don't look good, but I am sure we will
> still be here next year..
>
> Cecil in the central OK swamp.
>
> On 6/23/2019 2:52 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>
> I find this discussion a little surprising... I was taught in
> about the 6th grade (in a small rural school in the 1950's) that
> what we all call buffalo are really scientifically true bison and
> that early explorers were just guessing as to what they were. It
> was much like them thinking at first that this was the far side of
> the world and them calling everybody "Indians". The name just
> stuck and so did buffalo.
> Even back when I was in school it was understood that most people
> would probably always continue to call them buffalo in casual
> conservation and I still do. By the time I learned that they were
> really bison I had already learned the words dog, cat, cow etc.
> and bison was a strange sounding name to me.
> Languages are funny things... Always evolving but not always in a
> good way. I have a few pet peeves from more recent years about how
> people butcher things. I watch a lot of DIY stuff and keep saying
> (mostly to the TV screen) "No, that is not ship-lap. Every old 8"
> board is not ship-lap!" or "No that is not a "cinder block! It is
> either a cement block or a concrete block... It is only a cinder
> block if it was produced using cinders for the aggregate and very
> few of those are being produced these days."
> Rambling farther off track (not a cinder track). :-)
> When Diana and I got married in June 1963 we rented a small house
> at the edge of town for a year and a half that was on a full
> basement all made of actual cinder block. When that first winter
> came along I got a real shock. The cinders were quite coarse and
> the block walls were not even close to being air tight. When the
> winter winds began to howl you could not heat the basement. If you
> lit a candle (I really did) and held it next to the west wall on a
> high wind day it would blow the candle out.
> Speaking of languages, we have become friends with a Greek family
> who have a local gyro based restaurant (pronounced ˈyērō). Really
> nice family. We were eating there a day or two ago and a lady and
> I believe her daughter sat a the booth behind me and were
> chatting. I wasn't sure what language they were speaking but it
> wasn't English. When things slowed down our friends came out to
> visit with them and I realized that that they had been chatting in
> Greek. It was a happy visit for the 4 of them and I had to chuckle
> a few times as they talked listening to them as all 4 of them
> flip-flopped from Greek to English over and over again. It was
> maybe about 60% Greek and 40% English. Our friends are quite good
> at English so it was funny hearing the sudden shift from rapid
> fire Greek to a perfectly enunciated full sentence or more in
> English then instantly back to Greek. I can only assume that some
> thoughts just might be easier to express in English and some
> easier in Greek. We have some Chinese friends but they always
> speak all Chinese or all English. We also have Hispanic friends
> and family and they also speak mostly all one or the other. I have
> always wished I could learn other languages but while I have
> learned many thing in my time, other languages are just not a big
> part of my skill set. I do speak American English, British
> English, Australian English and a little New Zealand English...
> :-) I do also speak a little dog, cat and horse.
> .
> Dang! I'm getting burned out on daily raining... Crops are all
> over the place in quality and some fields are still not planted
> and still standing water. One problem with a really wet spring
> here is that if the ground stays too wet too long the corn will
> not put down many deep roots then if it suddenly turns very dry it
> doesn't have a root system deep enough to get good moisture. If
> that happens the guys that use irrigation here may benefit from
> its use.
> It's been "interesting" with these everyday rains going past the
> local Whitecastle joint in a down pour of rain and seeing their
> sprinkler system running. It must be under "corporate control".
>
>
>
> .
>
> .
>
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:59 AM James Peck
> <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com <mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I am a fan of the Lonesome Dove series, both the books and the
> miniseries, and even have been to one of the filming sites.
> One main character is Buffalo Hump. Maybe we can get author
> Larry McMurtry to rename him.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Hump
>
> The book 'War Of a Thousand Deserts" gives the Comanches
> credit for discombobulating Mexico enough for the US to win
> the 1846 war.
>
> https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300158373/war-thousand-deserts
>
> [James Peck] I was on a work related trip to a location along
> the old Erie Railroad right of way in western New York about
> 10 years ago and heard a man rant about the shortcomings of
> English speakers. He was upset that Beau Fleur had become
> Buffalo. This source says that is fake info.
>
> https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100616152325AAZECYp
>
> [Dean VP Snohomish, WA 98290] I'm sure "Buffalo Bill might
> disagree with this. \uD83D\uDE0A
>
> [szabelski at wildblue.net <mailto:szabelski at wildblue.net> The
> correct terminology is “BISON”. Bison are members of the
> bovine group “BUFFALO”. Bison are native to North and South
> America. Buffalo are native to Africa and Asia ( i.e.: Water
> Buffalo, etc).
>
> [James Peck] I was in a place where the TV was playing
> "Highway Through Hell" a few days ago. They were towing and
> removing vehicles and big loads on the Alaskan Highway. When
> they drove by a herd of what my first instinct would be to
> call "Buffalo", the Canadian accented truckers called them
> "Bison".
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison
>
> The show had some WW2 shots of tracked tractors pulling pan
> scrapers in the building of the highway.
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Thru_Hell
>
>
> [Ralph] <snip>The bison herd are being fed a hay bale or two
> fairly regularly as the grass can't keep up with them. <snip>
>
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