[AT] The list is really quiet

bradloomis at charter.net bradloomis at charter.net
Sun Mar 22 19:46:43 PDT 2020 

Criky! Bob's your uncle. 😊 Having worked for a Aussie company, we had a 'phrase' list on the whiteboard in the shop. And I get that getting off the floor isn't fun anymore. I didn't discover kneepads till my mid 50s. Would have saved me a couple decades of woes doing refrigeration service. I've seen the video of those creepers, creepy frankly! 

 

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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> 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> 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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