[AT] The list is really quiet

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Sun Mar 22 19:55:37 PDT 2020 

That is the situation every year for the last 5 here in OK..   If we get 
the right moisture, we have wildfires in the fall/winter....
Cecil

On 3/22/2020 9:37 PM, John Maddock wrote:
> 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...
>>    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:
>>>>      We can converse we are more than 6 feet away.Where did everyone go?
>>>>
>>>>      Bruce Fallon
>>>>
>>>>      Langley, WA 98260
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