How'd it go today?

[Jed]

Boring and tough, but good smelling day bucking final firewood logs, and hauling the backyard Fir up to the front. Andy's motto: "Grunt and bear it."

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Is that a new jug from Bailey's Stephen? Is that also a new flywheel or did you just clean it?

Might as well be. Same brand I believe.
Fly wheel was a clean up
Muffler opened up a tad.
020 carb
Little screamer

 

[Jed]

Looks pretty cool. We'll see it in action in a vid soon eh?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Monday

 

[MasterBlaster]

Soon, it will be TGIF!

 

[flushcut]

Monday

Kill dat som beech!

 

[pantheraba]

You saved that shed/garage. Lucky folks.

 

[Jed]

Better you than me Stephen. Good luck.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

You saved that shed/garage. Lucky folks.

Her prized Pugs

 

[Raj]

Marineland today.

 

[Sgriff]

 

[woodworkingboy]

The beach!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Marineland!

So cool!!!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I really enjoy it here, you'd have to burn the sunriverditch down to get me to leave! Course I would try to put the fire out!

DMC/ Dave, it is hard to say how it will turn out. We have been lucky that we did not overspend on machinery the last couple of years. Four dollar wheat is just insane right now. Input costs and land rents are way too high for that price. I doubt that you will see bread drop in price though! I hate to sound like a whiner, but to loose money on every acre is depressing.

My dad had a 39 bushel spring wheat average. Ours is 18 bushel. I really believe that the current wheat varieties need more fertilizer than the old ones. Dad used 60 pounds of 18-46-0 or 11-52-0.

We use 120 pounds of 20-17-5-5 and dont cut the bushels that he did. Some of his ground had been in production for 80 years. I even thought about applying another 28 units of liquid. Glad I did not do that!
Some farmers are using upwards of 300 units of nitrogen to raise a crop. The banks have started terming out operating loans for 10 years. A bad sign.

We spend too much money to cut these kinds of crops. Might just be time to plant the rest of the damn thing to grass.

When a lot of farmers put land in CRP the citizens howled. They did not like the fact that they were not buying as much fuel and fertilizer. It sucks being at the bottom of the food chain!

Beef is good this year, like last year, so we have a chance. I try to keep on the sunny side! Sorry for the rant. I really do like it here. Great place to raise a family if nothing else.

Anyway, got the old combine rolling today. Aaaaaaaaand then it broke down! Not major, just the main drive belt. John Deere is open in the morning till noon so I will try to get another, if not we saved the old one we took off several years ago. Its shit, but it might make a few days. I never throw anything away, Dad calls it shopping at home.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Do you have employees?

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I like that, "shopping at home". I do that a lot with stuff I don't know if I'll use, but expect to be able to, in some way or another, and usually do.

 

[flushcut]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I really enjoy it here, you'd have to burn the sunriverditch down to get me to leave! Course I would try to put the fire out!

DMC/ Dave, it is hard to say how it will turn out. We have been lucky that we did not overspend on machinery the last couple of years. Four dollar wheat is just insane right now. Input costs and land rents are way too high for that price. I doubt that you will see bread drop in price though! I hate to sound like a whiner, but to loose money on every acre is depressing.

My dad had a 39 bushel spring wheat average. Ours is 18 bushel. I really believe that the current wheat varieties need more fertilizer than the old ones. Dad used 60 pounds of 18-46-0 or 11-52-0.

We use 120 pounds of 20-17-5-5 and dont cut the bushels that he did. Some of his ground had been in production for 80 years. I even thought about applying another 28 units of liquid. Glad I did not do that!
Some farmers are using upwards of 300 units of nitrogen to raise a crop. The banks have started terming out operating loans for 10 years. A bad sign.

We spend too much money to cut these kinds of crops. Might just be time to plant the rest of the damn thing to grass.

When a lot of farmers put land in CRP the citizens howled. They did not like the fact that they were not buying as much fuel and fertilizer. It sucks being at the bottom of the food chain!

Beef is good this year, like last year, so we have a chance. I try to keep on the sunny side! Sorry for the rant. I really do like it here. Great place to raise a family if nothing else.

Anyway, got the old combine rolling today. Aaaaaaaaand then it broke down! Not major, just the main drive belt. John Deere is open in the morning till noon so I will try to get another, if not we saved the old one we took off several years ago. Its shit, but it might make a few days. I never throw anything away, Dad calls it shopping at home.

Plant grass and raise grass fed beef that sells for $45 at Whole Foods for a single ribeye.

 

[Steve Mack]

Sorry to hear Jim, farmers are doing it though everywhere these day and the banks are getting real hard. http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/farmers-in-crisis-as-the-banks-close-in-20150423-1mrh54.html


Trying to clean out a couple of sheds, and it's not fun. I can sure hoard stuff, but I'll never use it again so it's got to go.

Sold some stuff on ebay. Just covered the solicitors bill I got on friday.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Do you have employees?

Just one Butch.

 

[SoonerFan]

I like that, "shopping at home". I do that a lot with stuff I don't know if I'll use, but expect to be able to, in some way or another, and usually do.

But then when I do need it, and I know it's around here somewhere, I get frustrated and just go buy another one.

Two weeks later - yep, stumble across whatever it was I couldn't find.


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[cory]

Plant grass and raise grass fed beef that sells for $45 at Whole Foods for a single ribeye.

+10

Or better yet, buffler.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Well Jim, if grain farmin' has got you down, you can move to the Northeast and try dairy. We've been making milk below cost of production for decades over here.

 

[Cobleskill]

Farming used to be a pretty good living. Hard work, but pretty good return. It sucks when you do a lot of work for not much return. Hard to get it out of your blood though.

 

[treebilly]

I do the same thing also Jim. Replace worn parts but keep the old ones " just in case". It seems like the longer you keep something the sooner you'll need it after throwing it out.

Had a great day. Only things even remotely called work were watering the garden and reorganizing my climbing and rigging gear from yesterday. Wife and I took the kids to Atwood Lake to go swimming. Felt good to relax for a day

 

[Raj]

A little HH time on cherrybomb, nice rope, ain't no vortex.