[AT] Weekend

[Cecil Bearden]

We have rain forecast all week here in central OK.  It seems to miss us 
with the really heavy stuff as it goes around.  I really think the wind 
farm North of us has changed the way the storms travel.  Just my $0.02.  
I have seeds and onion and garlic sets here for a month waiting to get a 
chance to get a garden tilled. Cattle work and machinery repair has kept 
me from having time and energy to work on the garden.  We need to get a 
fence around the garden area and the hay storage area this week.  The 
garden area is where we stored hay for about 8 years and it has a lot of 
rotted hay and manure from allowing the cattle and sheep to clean up 
what fell apart.  I just need to get the rototiller attached to the 
tractor and the New Holland is the one I have to use since the MTZ  has 
the steering pin broke...
Cecil

On 5/25/2020 8:24 AM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
> Got the tomatoes (about 9 different varieties, 79 plants), peppers (about 6 different varieties, 39 plants), cabbage, and celery put in yesterday.
>
> Today it’s sunflowers, corn, rutabaga, 7 or 8 different squashes, 2 or 3 different pumpkins, beans, beets, and an assortment of some odds and ends.  My wife and daughter got involved with a seed swap group, so we’ve got some not too common seeds that my wife wants to plant.
>
> Tomorrow I have to run the the granary and get potatoes and onions. My wife will probably find something else to try while we’re there.
>
> We were expecting rain yesterday, didn’t get it, doesn’t look like it’ll happen today either. We’re supposed to have rain all this week. As long as it holds off until we get everything in, that’s OK with me. The garden didn’t rototill too well since the ground was still too wet from earlier rains, but it started to dry out and we decided to start putting things in anyway.
>
> Carl
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Sent: Sun, 24 May 2020 22:06:56 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [AT] Weekend
>
> Planted a batch of potatoes this last week between the rains every 15
> minutes.  :-)
>    Went from here (Central Indiana) to Eastern Kentucky (About Lexington)
> with son Scott (masking and distancing) so I could help him look at a
> flatbed roll-off with a wheel lift. Diana went too. It met needs and he put
> his ton dually on it and we drove it back. OK, he drove it back, I only
> drive when I can't get out of it. I used to sell wholesale on the road
> years ago and drove enough to get my fill of it.
> I didn't get those spud rows far enough apart for a full tractor to fit so
> I decided to pull out a Gravely LI walk behind to cultivate them (if it
> ever gets dry again). I had driven that little tractor under a building
> that sat about 3' off of the ground back sometime before my 2013 quad
> bypass and it had sank in about 4 inches and both tires were flat. I tried
> to pull it back out from under there (like I used to) but apparently
> somebody glued it to the ground... I finally drove my little VAC Case over
> by the building and put a chain and come-a-long on it to pull it out
> without breaking something. Did I mention that it had gotten %$#& hot this
> weekend? Got it out and looked it over and sat the portable air tank on the
> golf cart and started to fill the flat tires. The left one filled fine and
> looked good. The right one didn't do as well. It aired up but then I heard
> a sound like stitches letting go. Then all of the air left that little tire
> in a split second and pretty loudly. I could maybe patch the tube but I
> don't think I have any 12" patches.  :-) I do have maybe 8 Gravely's from
> complete to parts hulks so I'm pretty well supplied with parts, tires etc.
> I have a couple of Gravely L - 8 speed tractors but I don't have time for
> that kind of project right now. I have a couple of Garden-Aid two wheel
> tractors that I bought at a Portland auction a number of years ago. I need
> to look and see if I have cultivators for one of them. It doesn't take much
> to rig something up. I also have a McLean two wheel tractor (made in
> Indianapolis) but it is in a building in the next county and I can't
> remember how the back of it is made.
>   I also have a couple of Troy-bilt Horse models I could use. I have to
> decide quickly, the weeds are germinating very well.
>
> Went to 2 cemeteries today to check and see if everybody is still there and
> that none of their graves have been vandalized. It would have been easier
> if the cemeteries were not 50 miles apart but it was a nice ride. We have a
> few more to check.
>
> Is anybody else here getting tired of having to look stuff up for jobs you
> learned to do years ago but now have to fight to  make your mind cough
> stuff back up out of the dark back corners? Even at one of the cemeteries
> today I had to fight to recall blocks of the family tree that I used to
> just recite off of the top of my head. It will usually come back with some
> effort but sometimes it seems like a cat trying to hack up a hairball...
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