[AT] The list is really quiet

John Maddock agtronixjv at southcom.com.au
Mon Mar 23 02:33:59 PDT 2020 

Treasures - yep, I understand that.  :-)

JV

> John:
> Dad always said he would never cuss the rain...  But there is an old
> saying about that too:  A Dry year will scare you but a wet year will
> kill you...   My situation is one of poor planning.  I have buildings
> to
> work in, but so much stored t hat should be now discarded.  Only thing
> is I have so much time and money invested in them that I can't bear to
> put them outside.  I grew up with both parents who survived the
> depression.  We saved everything.  I now have 2 houses, 2 barns and
> several outbuildings with these treasures..   I also have no one to pass
> them on to nor anyone to help me work on them....
> As I said earlier..   Poor Planning....
> 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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