[AT] The list is really quiet

[Cecil Bearden]

Here in central OK,  we have been hit with the rainy season.  We are 3.5 
in above normal rainfall.  Due to some pasture restrictions, I now have 
74 cows & calves on 18 acres. feeding 3 large round bales a day and 1200 
lbs of 14% cubes a week.   I was waiting on the market to improve as it 
usually does in April, but with this virus crap, it looks like it won't 
improve.  We can't move them out right now as it is too wet to work 
them, and I still have a lot of calves still on the cow. Trying to put 
mother cows with a calf for a sale is difficult since I don't have them 
tagged as to mother and calf.  That tagging just after birth is fine if 
you have calves that you can catch and you don't have a leg brace and a 
bad knee.
I put out fertilizer yesterday as I could get across the ground and rain 
was forecast last night.  The guy at the co-op did not know that 3 ton 
of fertilizer is 6000lbs, fertilizer is sold by the ton.....  He only 
filled the spreader to 3000lbs.  My wife paid out so I did not pay 
attention to the bill..  After I got the 20 acre south pasture covered, 
I moved to the 2 5 acre wheat field where I am trying to establish 
native grass and no-till wheat.  I got about 1/3 done and noticed that 
no pellets were on the ground.  Sure enough it was out.  I rechecked the 
spreader settings, and thought I had put 300 lbs/acre........ I pulled 
the bill out of my back pocket and sure enough, it was 3200lbs.... The 
GPS said I had covered 30 acres, so the spreader calibration was out as 
I wanted to apply 150 lbs/acre..   It rained last night and it came fast 
and furious.  A small flood.  Hopefully it didn't wash off.
While we have the quarantine and the wet weather, I got my taxes done 
before the deadline for the firs t time in 20 years!!   Then they 
extended the deadline.  I have received a lot of parts for the 
tractors.  I have a larger hyd pump for the 8345 Belarus so the loader 
will run faster.  However, it is parked under the shade tree where I was 
working on it in the fall.  The shop has to be cleaned out before I can 
get a tractor in to work on it.   I need the bobcat to clean it out, and 
it decided to leak the gas out of the tank.  I haven't found the leak 
yet, but 20 gallons leaked out in a few days.
I have new lights for the shop, as the halogens we put in when we built 
are all burned out.  It is 16 ft to the lights.  A ladder is just too 
risky for me now,  The platform lift needs the cylinder rebuilt, and the 
snorkel lift has a bad leak in the telescopic cylinder.  That one is 12 
ft long, and has to be removed outside....  Our local warehouse where we 
used to go for hyd cylinder seals, just decided to quit servicing us 
little guys and had a $100 minimum and a 3 day order process time.  No 
walk in trade is allowed.   I bought an inside groove caliper last week 
so I can order the seals from Hercules, hopefully I can get the correct 
material etc...
  I spent a couple of the rainy days re-plumbing the house as we have 
Polybutylene water pipes that the fittings are going bad.  I just have 
one bathroom to finish.  I missed the class action suit that gave 
$10,000 to each household for re-piping.  I am replacing with Pex..  I 
have all the tools now to plumb with Pex Pipe...
Well, gotta go do some plumbing, it is still raining, hope the 
fertilizer didn't all wash off......
Cecil

On 3/22/2020 8:31 AM, Ken Knierim wrote:
> Yeah, lots of shop projects. With my son's school shut down my son 
> (12) is getting started on his first car (beater 65 Mustang). He did 
> an engine transplant (repower with Loncin) on a mower tractor (tractor 
> reference) last weekend.
>
> Ken in AZ
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 6:04 AM John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com 
> <mailto:jtchall at nc.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     Working in the shop. The list is long and seemingly never ending.
>
>     John Hall
>
>     On 3/21/2020 10:53 PM, Bruce Fallon wrote:
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>>     We can converse we are more than 6 feet away.Where did everyone go?
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>>     Bruce Fallon
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