[AT] The list is really quiet

[John Maddock]

Hang in there, Cecil!

Your remarks remind me of an old Australian poem. I won't copy it here,
best to go to the Wikipedia site where you'll find it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hanrahan

Note: "rooned" is the way "ruined" was pronounced in the poem.

Keep your distance - and stay safe

JV

> 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...
>  Â 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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>>>     Bruce Fallon
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