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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Criky! Bob's your uncle. <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span> 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! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: AT <at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of John Maddock<br>Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:37 PM<br>To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at@lists.antique-tractor.com><br>Subject: Re: [AT] The list is really quiet</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hang in there, Cecil!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hanrahan"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hanrahan</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Note: "rooned" is the way "ruined" was pronounced in the poem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Keep your distance - and stay safe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>JV<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Here in central OK, we have been hit with the rainy season. We are <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 3.5 in above normal rainfall. Due to some pasture restrictions, I <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> now have<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 74 cows & calves on 18 acres. feeding 3 large round bales a day and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 1200 lbs of 14% cubes a week.  I was waiting on the market to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> improve as it usually does in April, but with this virus crap, it <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> looks like it won't improve. We can't move them out right now as it <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> is too wet to work them, and I still have a lot of calves still on the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> cow. Trying to put mother cows with a calf for a sale is difficult <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> since I don't have them tagged as to mother and calf. That tagging <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> just after birth is fine if you have calves that you can catch and you <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> don't have a leg brace and a bad knee.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I put out fertilizer yesterday as I could get across the ground and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> rain was forecast last night. The guy at the co-op did not know that <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 3 ton of fertilizer is 6000lbs, fertilizer is sold by the ton..... <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> He only filled the spreader to 3000lbs. My wife paid out so I did <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> not pay attention to the bill.. After I got the 20 acre south <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> pasture covered, I moved to the 2 5 acre wheat field where I am trying <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> to establish native grass and no-till wheat. I got about 1/3 done <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> and noticed that no pellets were on the ground. Sure enough it was <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> out. I rechecked the spreader settings, and thought I had put 300 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> lbs/acre........ I pulled the bill out of my back pocket and sure <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> enough, it was 3200lbs.... The GPS said I had covered 30 acres, so the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> spreader calibration was out as I wanted to apply 150 lbs/acre..  <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> It rained last night and it came fast and furious. A small flood. Hopefully it didn't wash off.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> While we have the quarantine and the wet weather, I got my taxes done <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> before the deadline for the firs t time in 20 years!!  Then they <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> extended the deadline. I have received a lot of parts for the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> tractors. I have a larger hyd pump for the 8345 Belarus so the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> loader will run faster. However, it is parked under the shade tree <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> where I was working on it in the fall. The shop has to be cleaned <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> out before I can get a tractor in to work on it.  I need the bobcat <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> to clean it out, and it decided to leak the gas out of the tank. I <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> haven't found the leak yet, but 20 gallons leaked out in a few days.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I have new lights for the shop, as the halogens we put in when we <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> built are all burned out. It is 16 ft to the lights. A ladder is <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> just too risky for me now, The platform lift needs the cylinder <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> rebuilt, and the snorkel lift has a bad leak in the telescopic <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> cylinder. That one is 12 ft long, and has to be removed outside.... <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Our local warehouse where we used to go for hyd cylinder seals, just <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> decided to quit servicing us little guys and had a $100 minimum and a <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 3 day order process time. No walk in trade is allowed.  I bought <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> an inside groove caliper last week so I can order the seals from <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Hercules, hopefully I can get the correct material etc...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>  I spent a couple of the rainy days re-plumbing the house as we have <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Polybutylene water pipes that the fittings are going bad. I just <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> have one bathroom to finish. I missed the class action suit that <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> gave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> $10,000 to each household for re-piping. I am replacing with Pex.. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I have all the tools now to plumb with Pex Pipe...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Well, gotta go do some plumbing, it is still raining, hope the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> fertilizer didn't all wash off......<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Cecil<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> On 3/22/2020 8:31 AM, Ken Knierim wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> Yeah, lots of shop projects. With my son's school shut down my son<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> (12) is getting started on his first car (beater 65 Mustang). He did <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> an engine transplant (repower with Loncin) on a mower tractor <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> (tractor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> reference) last weekend.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> Ken in AZ<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 6:04 AM John Hall <jtchall@nc.rr.com <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> <<a href="mailto:jtchall@nc.rr.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>mailto:jtchall@nc.rr.com</span></a>>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> Working in the shop. The list is long and seemingly never ending.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> John Hall<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> On 3/21/2020 10:53 PM, Bruce Fallon wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>> We can converse we are more than 6 feet away.Where did everyone go?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>> Bruce Fallon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>> Langley, WA 98260<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>> <<a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon"><span 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