Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:26:26 PM
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Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:30:37 PM
How many people did you feed? Follow up question: now imagine those people were Nebraskans.
I have no idea.
Post by: star seed 7 on February 06, 2015, 12:30:51 PM
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 12:33:28 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:34:23 PM
Did your tractors have radios?
yes. a highlight of the day was being able to pull in a non-country/christian/top 40 radio station out of wichita or OKC. if you did that you basically just rocked all day.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:35:04 PM
How many chickens would I need to keep a family of four in fresh eggs daily?
we didn't have chickens. probably would take like 10 chickens or one really good chicken.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 12:35:52 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:36:00 PM
I only use credit cards so I have no idea, but does money really smell like cow crap?
no, it (the poop) actually smells gross (the poop). I've gotten some on my hands over a million times. it's gross always.
Post by: CHONGS on February 06, 2015, 12:37:11 PM
1) Who is better Case IH or John Deere?
2) Will I really get caught using red diesel for my non-farming needs?
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:37:27 PM
Did you drink a lot of lemonade back in the day? My grandpa always had a cooler full of it.
no, mainly water
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on February 06, 2015, 12:38:01 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:38:11 PM
Two part question:
1) Who is better Case IH or John Deere?
2) Will I really get caught using red diesel for my non-farming needs?
1) JD by over a million miles
2) no, this will never happen. just go nuts.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:38:41 PM
Did you get to start driving a farm truck (legally) when you were like 8 years old?
I started driving a pontiac grand am at age 14 so basically yes. but I drove a tractor at like 8 ( I don't remember actually how old but I was pretty little).
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 12:39:29 PM
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Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:40:49 PM
I only use credit cards so I have no idea, but does money really smell like cow crap?
no, it (the poop) actually smells gross (the poop). I've gotten some on my hands over a million times. it's gross always.
as a followup to this all farmers ever always have a jug of this and a bunch of these with them to get that off their hands:
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Post by: CHONGS on February 06, 2015, 12:40:59 PM
What is the go-to "farm accident" story in your family?
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on February 06, 2015, 12:41:36 PM
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Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:43:32 PM
What's the scariest animal you've came acrossed, being out in the fields?
rattle snake.
other animals I've hit with a car/truck/tractor include:
other snakes
a baby deer and an adult deer (different instances)
a turkey
over a million rabbits
a badger
coyote
other animals I've seen but not hit with the car/truck/tractor include:
porcupine
bobcat
beaver
armadillo
a huge snapping turtle
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 12:43:53 PM
Post by: bubbles4ksu on February 06, 2015, 12:44:09 PM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 12:44:34 PM
:love:What's the scariest animal you've came acrossed, being out in the fields?
rattle snake.
other animals I've hit with a car/truck/tractor include:
other snakes
a baby deer and an adult deer (different instances)
a turkey
over a million rabbits
a badger
coyote
other animals I've seen but not hit with the car/truck/tractor include:
porcupine
bobcat
beaver
armadillo
a huge snapping turtle
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:46:14 PM
How many relatives have lost body parts to an irrigation system?
What is the go-to "farm accident" story in your family?
one of the cowboys that worked for my dad was using the feed truck (it's like a big dump truck but it's full of cow food and it has this thing on the side that spits it out into the cows bowl) and the thing that spits it out the side was clogged up or something so he had his hands in the bicycle chain part and it started going and pulled his glove through the sprockets and ripped his fingers off. my dad later went out to the truck and had to work the chain back and forth to get the glove out and get the fingers out of the glove but they were like hamburger so they couldn't re-attach them. the guy drove to where my dad was and told him he was going to the hospital before going to the hospital because he didn't want to get in trouble or something. I was all, "wtf, why didn't you just go to the hospital!?" but he was like, "HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY I'M A TOUGH COWBOY!"
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:46:58 PM
Did you ride horses to wrangle up your cattle?
no, just four wheelers or like little four wheeler trucks with 4 or 6 wheels
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:47:49 PM
Do cows over eat, or are they self regulating?
they'll usually eat everything you put in their bowl every day so I bet they would if given the chance. if they are just out there like in the field they seem to do ok managing their weight though so I guess yes.
Post by: 8manpick on February 06, 2015, 12:48:29 PM
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Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:50:15 PM
Tell me about crop insurance and whether it's actually true that farmers can get paid for not planting crops, cause I am just baffled by this.
we have some land that we don't plant crops on called crp that we get a check for every year for doing nothing. sometimes when there is no rain we actually get to let the cows eat it and still get paid. there is a ton of huge fat checks our ranch, my dad, his dad, other corporations they have have cashed for basically just having shitty weather. like huge fat checks some years. it really is a racket that shouldn't be legal.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:51:14 PM
Did you ever birth a two headed cav? My grandpa did and I wanted to see if this is a common thing. He's got a picture of it at the farm and it's really creepy.
not me personally but my dad has seen them. ours have always been born dead like that though. there's a stuffed one in the meade county museum. pretty awesome to check out as a little kid.
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 12:51:51 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:52:36 PM
tell us a calving story, plz.
one time a cow couldn't push out the baby and just its front or back feet were sticking out and my dad hooked a chain to the feet and hooked it up to his truck and pulled on it trying to be kind of gentle but it ripped the legs off the baby cow and he then had to shoot the mother cow.
Post by: Spracne on February 06, 2015, 12:54:08 PM
tell us a calving story, plz.
one time a cow couldn't push out the baby and just its front or back feet were sticking out and my dad hooked a chain to the feet and hooked it up to his truck and pulled on it trying to be kind of gentle but it ripped the legs off the baby cow and he then had to shoot the mother cow.
r/lipsthatgrip
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:54:43 PM
Can you 'splain how to get free cash through farming again?
A) have cows and land
B) have bad weather
C) get fat stacks
that's legitimately all there is to it. if you have only medium bad weather you have to have crop insurance though. if the weather is super bad the gov. just declares it an emergency or something and makes it rain.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:56:19 PM
would you consider the cows to be friends? do they have personalities?
only the little ones that I had to feed with a bottle before school. most of them died though because I did a subpar job looking after them.
yes to personalities but mostly only the ones that are pieces of crap. like you know that one over there always tries to charge at me and kill me. when you are a little kid this is pretty common. as an adult most of them don't mess with you.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 12:57:01 PM
how ashamed is your dad of you, since you didn't get into farming/ranching?
he was pretty adamant that I not do farming actually. one of my bros did anyway.
Post by: Trim on February 06, 2015, 12:58:44 PM
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Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 01:00:01 PM
do fans of certain farm implement brands hate on fans of other farm implement brands? would i see john deere combine with a sticker of calvin pissing on a case IH combine?
no, I don't think this is a real thing.
Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on February 06, 2015, 01:00:10 PM
Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on February 06, 2015, 01:01:00 PM
do fans of certain farm implement brands hate on fans of other farm implement brands? would i see john deere combine with a sticker of calvin pissing on a case IH combine?
no, I don't think this is a real thing.
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Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 01:01:30 PM
did you help any sheep over the fence?
we didn't have sheep. I actually didn't know of any farmers that did.
Post by: sys on February 06, 2015, 01:04:07 PM
How many chickens would I need to keep a family of four in fresh eggs daily?
a good hen will lay about 300 eggs a year. there's some seasonality though, so most days all the hens will lay, but at times (winter mostly), none of them will. some of the more decorative breeds lay less, figure maybe 200 per year (or some hardly lay at all, like the game breeds).
anyways, you can calculate from there how many to feed your family. knowing how big you are, i wouldn't want to guess how many eggs you eat per day.
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 01:04:59 PM
how ashamed is your dad of you, since you didn't get into farming/ranching?
he was pretty adamant that I not do farming actually. one of my bros did anyway.
he didn't want to share the mad stacks with you :horrorsurprise:
Post by: AppleJack on February 06, 2015, 01:05:48 PM
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Post by: bubbles4ksu on February 06, 2015, 01:07:18 PM
jesus christ, spracne. find him.tell us a calving story, plz.
one time a cow couldn't push out the baby and just its front or back feet were sticking out and my dad hooked a chain to the feet and hooked it up to his truck and pulled on it trying to be kind of gentle but it ripped the legs off the baby cow and he then had to shoot the mother cow.
r/lipsthatgrip
thank you, sd.
Post by: sys on February 06, 2015, 01:07:43 PM
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Post by: bubbles4ksu on February 06, 2015, 01:17:18 PM
did they used to raise something different, but switch over to angus when the angus mafia convinced the consumer than angus cow meat tastes better than other cow meats?i miss herefords as well. :frown:
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 01:17:28 PM
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Post by: Brock Landers on February 06, 2015, 01:19:36 PM
My roommates in college (from newton) said they were the 2nd richest farmers in the state of KS. How would they know that? Do farmers measure eachother out?
When someone tells you how rich they are it means they are lying and a douchebag, probably both.
Post by: mocat on February 06, 2015, 01:21:29 PM
how frequently do you look back on your could have been yours cow farm life and reflect on the foolish choices you've made in your life?
steve dave is an Exxx, you are an Ixxx. very hard to be an Exxx isolated on a farm 247365
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 01:22:01 PM
Well yeah... That's why I wanted to get down to the bottom of this.My roommates in college (from newton) said they were the 2nd richest farmers in the state of KS. How would they know that? Do farmers measure eachother out?
When someone tells you how rich they are it means they are lying and a douchebag, probably both.
Post by: Skipper44 on February 06, 2015, 01:25:36 PM
very interesting theory, I wonder if SD's pops is also an Exxx and that contributed to his preference for his kids to not farm.how frequently do you look back on your could have been yours cow farm life and reflect on the foolish choices you've made in your life?
steve dave is an Exxx, you are an Ixxx. very hard to be an Exxx isolated on a farm 247365
SD, how many generations have the SDs been farming?
Post by: mocat on February 06, 2015, 01:28:21 PM
Post by: sys on February 06, 2015, 01:31:52 PM
Post by: sys on February 06, 2015, 01:32:47 PM
i miss herefords as well. :frown:
remember shorthorns? :love:
Post by: Skipper44 on February 06, 2015, 01:33:54 PM
i don't believe in exxx, just ixxx and liars.that is maybe the most ixxx statement ever :lol:
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on February 06, 2015, 01:34:16 PM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 01:35:22 PM
good thread, steve dave. sorry it sucks now :(No crap. Thanks a lot, sys.
Post by: Bloodfart on February 06, 2015, 01:43:41 PM
Can you 'splain how to get free cash through farming again?
A) have cows and land
B) have bad weather
C) get fat stacks
that's legitimately all there is to it. if you have only medium bad weather you have to have crop insurance though. if the weather is super bad the gov. just declares it an emergency or something and makes it rain.
You forgot about the windmills and oil wells scattered all over the place.
Post by: kso_FAN on February 06, 2015, 01:44:36 PM
How many do you go through now?
Post by: Jabeez on February 06, 2015, 01:46:19 PM
How many relatives have lost body parts to an irrigation system?
What is the go-to "farm accident" story in your family?
one of the cowboys that worked for my dad was using the feed truck (it's like a big dump truck but it's full of cow food and it has this thing on the side that spits it out into the cows bowl) and the thing that spits it out the side was clogged up or something so he had his hands in the bicycle chain part and it started going and pulled his glove through the sprockets and ripped his fingers off. my dad later went out to the truck and had to work the chain back and forth to get the glove out and get the fingers out of the glove but they were like hamburger so they couldn't re-attach them. the guy drove to where my dad was and told him he was going to the hospital before going to the hospital because he didn't want to get in trouble or something. I was all, "wtf, why didn't you just go to the hospital!?" but he was like, "HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY I'M A TOUGH COWBOY!"
I laughed out loud and someone came to my cube. Hard to explain laughing at mutilation.
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 01:47:30 PM
Post by: kso_FAN on February 06, 2015, 01:48:31 PM
did you call lunch "dinner" and dinner "super"?
supper. Sheesh.
Do you need to put on your KC Chiefs outfit?
Post by: Skipper44 on February 06, 2015, 01:49:01 PM
I absolutely read in the shark's voiceHow many relatives have lost body parts to an irrigation system?
What is the go-to "farm accident" story in your family?
one of the cowboys that worked for my dad was using the feed truck (it's like a big dump truck but it's full of cow food and it has this thing on the side that spits it out into the cows bowl) and the thing that spits it out the side was clogged up or something so he had his hands in the bicycle chain part and it started going and pulled his glove through the sprockets and ripped his fingers off. my dad later went out to the truck and had to work the chain back and forth to get the glove out and get the fingers out of the glove but they were like hamburger so they couldn't re-attach them. the guy drove to where my dad was and told him he was going to the hospital before going to the hospital because he didn't want to get in trouble or something. I was all, "wtf, why didn't you just go to the hospital!?" but he was like, "HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY I'M A TOUGH COWBOY!"
I laughed out loud and someone came to my cube. Hard to explain laughing at mutilation.
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Post by: Bloodfart on February 06, 2015, 01:56:25 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 01:57:15 PM
what is your favorite breed of cattle?
Beefmaster. or Limousine.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 01:57:52 PM
what is your father's favorite?
Charolais probably. or Angus.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 01:58:30 PM
what is your cow-farming brother's favorite?
probably angus.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 01:59:28 PM
how many acres to the cow calf pair around meade?
a lot. I'm not good with knowing how many acres are in a place but sddad tells people a lot that are from other parts of the country that it takes a ton.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 01:59:56 PM
How many chicks digged you growing up, for being a tough farm boy?
literally everyone was a farm boy. so tons.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:00:52 PM
what is the logic behind paying cowboys to do the work that you and a couple of dogs could do for free?
I'd love to see some dog drive himself to the hosptial after chopping off his paw still in his glove in a feed truck side deal. I'd really love to see that.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:03:05 PM
Did you ever learn to use a lasso?
I had a cow head that you stuck to the end of a hay bale and you could practice roping it. I did that, like, 4 times and realized how stupid roping was.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:03:36 PM
other than cows, what animals have the considered owning, but don't actually own?
I've never even considered owning cows. so none animals.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:04:13 PM
Which is better, Skoal or Copenhagen?
I think copenhagen is considered tougher but that's because it's obviously grosser
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:05:24 PM
do they raise replacement heifers or buy them?
raise. even raised some bulls. I asked sddad when we were back over christmas about how he decided which ones he decided to raise for bulls. he said you could just tell by looking at them that they would be good bulls. kind of blew me off.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:06:24 PM
Have you heard of this thing where people pay to come out and work on your farm for a few hours? Do they do that on your family farm?
a couple local HS kids do that all the time. some of them are real pieces of trash but some of them do a good job. mostly stupid stuff around the ranch like cleaning up stuff or moving stuff or just standing there like idiots.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:07:33 PM
did they used to raise something different, but switch over to angus when the angus mafia convinced the consumer than angus cow meat tastes better than other cow meats?
yes. were primarily charolais prior to that. and some limo. but then went almost fully angus. but now back to a lot of charolais and some beefmaster and some angus.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:07:52 PM
did you enjoy fixing fence? how about throwing hay?
no to both
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:08:37 PM
My roommates in college (from newton) said they were the 2nd richest farmers in the state of KS. How would they know that? Do farmers measure eachother out?
I assure you they were not.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on February 06, 2015, 02:08:54 PM
Well yeah... That's why I wanted to get down to the bottom of this.My roommates in college (from newton) said they were the 2nd richest farmers in the state of KS. How would they know that? Do farmers measure eachother out?
When someone tells you how rich they are it means they are lying and a douchebag, probably both.
Newton is known liar country
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:09:03 PM
Does your dad get super mad at ppl who use steak sauce? Mine does. Man, I use to have to warn gf's to never ask for it.
no, he doesn't give a crap
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:09:38 PM
how frequently do you look back on your could have been yours cow farm life and reflect on the foolish choices you've made in your life?
no, never
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:10:06 PM
very interesting theory, I wonder if SD's pops is also an Exxx and that contributed to his preference for his kids to not farm.how frequently do you look back on your could have been yours cow farm life and reflect on the foolish choices you've made in your life?
steve dave is an Exxx, you are an Ixxx. very hard to be an Exxx isolated on a farm 247365
SD, how many generations have the SDs been farming?
4
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 02:10:20 PM
I figured.Well yeah... That's why I wanted to get down to the bottom of this.My roommates in college (from newton) said they were the 2nd richest farmers in the state of KS. How would they know that? Do farmers measure eachother out?
When someone tells you how rich they are it means they are lying and a douchebag, probably both.
Newton is known liar country
Post by: Cire on February 06, 2015, 02:10:23 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:11:29 PM
How many cowboy boots and wranglers did you go through a year (on average) growing up?
How many do you go through now?
I think I owned one pair of cowboy boots ever and don't recall any wranglers. sddad doesn't even wear them anymore (boots). actually almost no cow farmers do that I can think of. mostly just people who like to act like cow farmers do I think.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:12:17 PM
did you call lunch "dinner" and dinner "super"?
no, just the regular words
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:13:23 PM
Has your dad ever been duped by a hay bale ponzi scheme like DeezNuts was?
no. he has recently had a security company come put up a bunch of video camera things on a lot of the equipment and fuel tanks and junk though because there have been thefts in the area. I'm 100% positive he got ripped off on the pricing of this stuff.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:14:11 PM
What was your cattle call?
blast the horn on the truck for like 10 seconds
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 02:16:24 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:20:18 PM
Did you have any creeks/ponds that you fished in on your off time?
there are two creeks that go through our ranch and they kind of join up at this one spot and make this huge creek and a beaver made an enormous damn a little ways down from that and it made like this huge area of water for a couple miles. we put a canoe in it once and paddled up and down it and would catch bullhead catfish sometimes. it was pretty stupid.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on February 06, 2015, 02:22:48 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 02:24:07 PM
Did the stoner farm kids try and grow weed on their farms where their dads wouldnt see?
actual true story: I didn't know a single stoner kid growing up. I didn't even know what marijuana smelled like until I got to college.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 02:24:20 PM
Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on February 06, 2015, 02:24:31 PM
what is your favorite breed of cattle?
Beefmaster. or Limousine.
! I now doubt your credentials.
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 02:26:49 PM
Did the stoner farm kids try and grow weed on their farms where their dads wouldnt see?
actual true story: I didn't know a single stoner kid growing up. I didn't even know what marijuana smelled like until I got to college.
me too.
#family values
Post by: michigancat on February 06, 2015, 02:34:34 PM
Farmer grandpas!
SD, any great farmer grandpa stories?!?
Post by: mocat on February 06, 2015, 02:36:40 PM
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Post by: bubbles4ksu on February 06, 2015, 02:41:11 PM
i do not. everyone in my area is strictly angus. my great grandpa was the last of hereford cattle farmers around.i miss herefords as well. :frown:remember shorthorns? :love:
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 02:41:59 PM
another not so fun story with grandpa meow meow was we were working cattle (running them through the cattle chute given them shots, tagging ears, branding, etc), and i'm not sure how but grandpa meow meow accidently spiked a young meow meow's head with the cattle tag device thingy. my head bled like crazy. fun times with grandpa meow meow.
Post by: deputy dawg on February 06, 2015, 02:42:55 PM
SD, did you like running a hitch boom on your Type I hitch?
Post by: michigancat on February 06, 2015, 02:45:36 PM
"Hey Grandpa, what's with the giant rock in the front yard?"
"All the rich folks have big rocks in their front yard"
:love:
Post by: mocat on February 06, 2015, 02:46:31 PM
Second farmer grandpa story. One time he went down to the creek with the dozer tractor and a chain. He was gone like all morning and came back with a giant rock (like five feet high by 8 feet square) chained behind the tractor and he just dragged it on the road and stopped in his front yard and unhooked it.
"Hey Grandpa, what's with the giant rock in the front yard?"
"All the rich folks have big rocks in their front yard"
:love:
was it a white rock? :horrorsurprise:
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 02:47:49 PM
Second farmer grandpa story. One time he went down to the creek with the dozer tractor and a chain. He was gone like all morning and came back with a giant rock (like five feet high by 8 feet square) chained behind the tractor and he just dragged it on the road and stopped in his front yard and unhooked it.
"Hey Grandpa, what's with the giant rock in the front yard?"
"All the rich folks have big rocks in their front yard"
:love:
haha, we had a real big rock in front of our yard too. we lived off a paved highway, and there was a big groove down about 200 yards of it, where meow meow dad pulled that rock down the road behind his tractor (red).
Post by: michigancat on February 06, 2015, 02:48:32 PM
Second farmer grandpa story. One time he went down to the creek with the dozer tractor and a chain. He was gone like all morning and came back with a giant rock (like five feet high by 8 feet square) chained behind the tractor and he just dragged it on the road and stopped in his front yard and unhooked it.
"Hey Grandpa, what's with the giant rock in the front yard?"
"All the rich folks have big rocks in their front yard"
:love:
was it a white rock? :horrorsurprise:
:nono:
I mean it was, but don't you get any ideas, you.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 02:56:28 PM
I stayed with him for a week every summer and he'd always take a day off to take me fishing at one of his ponds. On this day I had caught a monster. I mean, it was really fighting me. Afer 15 minutes of struggling, I finally got it to the bank. What was it you're wondering? A HUGE rough ridin' SNAPPING TURTLE. I was pretty pumped about it. I couldn't wait to play with it. But you know what? I didn't get to play with it. You know why? My grandpa grabbed his machete and chopped his rough ridin' head off. I was like 8 and obviously in shock.
"Grandpa, why? Why did you do that?" said a young Wacky.
"They eat up all the fish. He's better off dead." said grandpa.
/scene
Post by: pissclams on February 06, 2015, 03:11:04 PM
Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on February 06, 2015, 03:11:53 PM
how big is an acre of land
43,560sf
Post by: Spracne on February 06, 2015, 03:16:38 PM
how big is an acre of land
43,560sf
0.404686 hectare
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 03:18:22 PM
I've got a grandpa story too, michigancat.Think about it.
I stayed with him for a week every summer and he'd always take a day off to take me fishing at one of his ponds. On this day I had caught a monster. I mean, it was really fighting me. Afer 15 minutes of struggling, I finally got it to the bank. What was it you're wondering? A HUGE rough ridin' SNAPPING TURTLE. I was pretty pumped about it. I couldn't wait to play with it. But you know what? I didn't get to play with it. You know why? My grandpa grabbed his machete and chopped his rough ridin' head off. I was like 8 and obviously in shock.
"Grandpa, why? Why did you do that?" said a young Wacky.
"They eat up all the fish. He's better off dead." said grandpa.
/scene
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Post by: Fedor on February 06, 2015, 03:19:14 PM
1/640 of a sq. milehow big is an acre of land
43,560sf
0.404686 hectare
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on February 06, 2015, 03:21:05 PM
I've got a grandpa story too, michigancat.
I stayed with him for a week every summer and he'd always take a day off to take me fishing at one of his ponds. On this day I had caught a monster. I mean, it was really fighting me. Afer 15 minutes of struggling, I finally got it to the bank. What was it you're wondering? A HUGE rough ridin' SNAPPING TURTLE. I was pretty pumped about it. I couldn't wait to play with it. But you know what? I didn't get to play with it. You know why? My grandpa grabbed his machete and chopped his rough ridin' head off. I was like 8 and obviously in shock.
"Grandpa, why? Why did you do that?" said a young Wacky.
"They eat up all the fish. He's better off dead." said grandpa.
/scene
If your grandpa weren't there, you probably wouldn't still have 10 fingers.
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 03:21:54 PM
1/640 of a sq. milehow big is an acre of land
43,560sf
0.404686 hectare
14,520 sq yards
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 03:22:33 PM
Yup. He's the real hero.I've got a grandpa story too, michigancat.
I stayed with him for a week every summer and he'd always take a day off to take me fishing at one of his ponds. On this day I had caught a monster. I mean, it was really fighting me. Afer 15 minutes of struggling, I finally got it to the bank. What was it you're wondering? A HUGE rough ridin' SNAPPING TURTLE. I was pretty pumped about it. I couldn't wait to play with it. But you know what? I didn't get to play with it. You know why? My grandpa grabbed his machete and chopped his rough ridin' head off. I was like 8 and obviously in shock.
"Grandpa, why? Why did you do that?" said a young Wacky.
"They eat up all the fish. He's better off dead." said grandpa.
/scene
If your grandpa weren't there, you probably wouldn't still have 10 fingers.
Post by: ltrain on February 06, 2015, 03:25:29 PM
ltrain g-pa lets city slicker ltrain disc his first field. G-pa makes the first pass then turns it over to ltrain. ltrain asks g-pa what he wants him to do when he gets done. ltrain g-pa laughs it off and says "you won't get done before i get back". so ltrain off ltrain goes, it starts getting dark, ltrain keeps going, its getting darker, ltrain finds the lights and keeps going. Meanwhile ltrain g-pa is climbing into bed when ltrain g-ma says "where's ltrain?" ltrain g-pa says 'oh crap, i left him out there'.
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 03:40:59 PM
1/640 of a sq. milehow big is an acre of land
43,560sf
0.404686 hectare
14,520 sq yards
to put that in perspective pissclams, that is roughly the size of a little over 2 football fields, 2.26875 football fields to be exact.
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 03:43:25 PM
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 03:46:02 PM
Post by: sys on February 06, 2015, 03:55:25 PM
my dad grew up on a farm in south dakota, and one time the kids were playing in the dirt road and their border collie (Quincy) ran into the road and barked at trucks that were coming so they didn't run over the kids
i bet that poor dog was trying to kill off the kids and none of the stupid drivers could figure out what he wanted.
Post by: sys on February 06, 2015, 03:56:09 PM
everyone in my area is strictly angus. my great grandpa was the last of hereford cattle farmers around.
:frown:
Post by: sys on February 06, 2015, 03:56:48 PM
Post by: mocat on February 06, 2015, 03:58:23 PM
my dad grew up on a farm in south dakota, and one time the kids were playing in the dirt road and their border collie (Quincy) ran into the road and barked at trucks that were coming so they didn't run over the kids
i bet that poor dog was trying to kill off the kids and none of the stupid drivers could figure out what he wanted.
:sdeek:
Post by: Fedor on February 06, 2015, 04:14:15 PM
lol, no1/640 of a sq. milehow big is an acre of land
43,560sf
0.404686 hectare
14,520 sq yards
Post by: XocolateThundarr on February 06, 2015, 04:26:28 PM
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 04:49:14 PM
did you call lunch "dinner" and dinner "super"?
supper. Sheesh.
Do you need to put on your KC Chiefs outfit?
oh go coach some 8 man football Cletus
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 05:08:32 PM
how do you decide which of my questions to answer and which ones to ignore?
I answer all of them. Will continue tonight.
Post by: michigancat on February 06, 2015, 05:23:09 PM
everyone in my area is strictly angus. my great grandpa was the last of hereford cattle farmers around.
:frown:
my dad and brother in law like angus because they're much more tame and easier to handle than other cows. If they have a crazy heifer they will sell it.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 05:52:37 PM
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Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 06:27:07 PM
So was your house far away from other houses? Like more than walking distance?
yes
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 06:27:55 PM
Were your farm family cold blooded killers of any vermin on earth? My grandpa turned into the iceman if an opossum dared get trapped or too many barn cats were born
ehh, not really. sddad didn't like coyotes but I don't know why. they aren't killing a baby cow if the mom cow isn't a garbage parent anyway.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 06, 2015, 06:29:12 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 08:15:22 PM
+1 on the Deere over Case IH. Running an operation with John Deere is infinitely more prestigious than running the same operation with Case IH. Personally, I'm partial to older Ford tractors.
SD, did you like running a hitch boom on your Type I hitch?
I have no idea what that means
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 08:16:47 PM
your father pretty much sounds like an accountant that counts cows.
lol, close
Post by: star seed 7 on February 06, 2015, 08:35:26 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 08:43:38 PM
tell me more about the trucks
well, there are tons. some are huge. some are those semi trucks that we used to haul cows around in this huge double decker cow hauler trailer. they poop right out the side. there is cow poop all sprayed down the side from the first and second level. DO NOT stand next to it when there are tons of cows in it. sometimes I would have to clean it out with a big powerwasher. like a million tons of dried cow poop blasted out all over everything all over. there is a ramp inside that the cows can go up to the second story. it's a pretty ridiculous thing, you would have to see it. I can't explain it good. holds like a thousand cows.
Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 08:48:01 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on February 06, 2015, 09:06:07 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:09:20 PM
What is the most farmy thing you've ever done
farm for like an entire day (24 hours+) with no sleep
Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 09:09:36 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:16:11 PM
what kind of cow is curtis kitchen?
I only know of like 5 kinds of cows and only because we had those kinds. I would say he is a very low intelligence hereford that thinks he's a smart hereford and doesn't know that everyone else knows.
Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 09:20:46 PM
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Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 09:27:29 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on February 06, 2015, 09:28:10 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:31:48 PM
Was it lonely living far away from civilization
no
Post by: star seed 7 on February 06, 2015, 09:32:00 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:32:38 PM
do cows make any sounds other than mooing? like weird grunts or anything?
not really. really loud moos. like scream moos when bulls fight.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:33:22 PM
Do bulls really have a nose ring?
no.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:33:45 PM
what kind of music does a charolais like?
probably country but I'm just guessing
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:35:18 PM
What was the special "going out to eat" place?
toss up between:
Pizza Hut
Bobs Drive Inn
Chuckwagon
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:35:48 PM
Has a cow ever sneezed on you?
no
Post by: Skipper44 on February 06, 2015, 09:37:38 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 09:40:41 PM
Did you have one of your own cows butchered or did SD mom just buy beef at the iga or whatever?
yeah, always. I actually have half of my freezer right now full of our beef. when I was there over christmas sddad showed me the fat piece of crap that was up next. he's off by himself getting delivered bowls full of the most delicious grains, grasses, and distillers leavings. he's like the king of all the cows for awhile. worth it imo.
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 09:50:58 PM
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 09:57:08 PM
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 10:00:27 PM
What was the special "going out to eat" place?
toss up between:
Pizza Hut
Bobs Drive Inn
Chuckwagon
It was always a big deal going to Pizza Hut, it will always have a special place in my heart
Post by: Skipper44 on February 06, 2015, 10:02:14 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:02:30 PM
What's 1 thing you miss about Farmin' or Truckin' or Tractorin'? What is something you do NOT miss?
man, this is tough. I miss a lot about it. like working and seeing what I've done at the end of the day. stepping out of a tractor at 2 AM in the middle of the field and seeing a huge starfield above me and not hearing a single sound other than the cooling engine of the tractor I was operating. the smell of a lot of things at night. it was just a different smell. like alfalfa smells different at night. being so cold I want to die and then getting into a truck and it's so hot that I want to die from hot an hour later but that middle time where I'm thawing out is so great. I miss some of the camaraderie from some of the cowboys when we got done doing something really long and it made me feel like I was older and one of them when I was like 10-14 or whatever. I miss the days when it rains so you don't do anything and everyone just is happy because it's raining which seems like a stupid thing to be happy about.
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 10:04:51 PM
What's 1 thing you miss about Farmin' or Truckin' or Tractorin'? What is something you do NOT miss?
man, this is tough. I miss a lot about it. like working and seeing what I've done at the end of the day. stepping out of a tractor at 2 AM in the middle of the field and seeing a huge starfield above me and not hearing a single sound other than the cooling engine of the tractor I was operating. the smell of a lot of things at night. it was just a different smell. like alfalfa smells different at night. being so cold I want to die and then getting into a truck and it's so hot that I want to die from hot an hour later but that middle time where I'm thawing out is so great. I miss some of the camaraderie from some of the cowboys when we got done doing something really long and it made me feel like I was older and one of them when I was like 10-14 or whatever. I miss the days when it rains so you don't do anything and everyone just is happy because it's raining which seems like a stupid thing to be happy about.
On a scale of 1-7, where are you at right now?
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 10:06:03 PM
*stud halloween costume
Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 10:06:17 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:06:26 PM
Post by: AppleJack on February 06, 2015, 10:08:42 PM
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2015, 10:10:45 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:42:14 PM
steve - how are you?
very good, how are you friend?
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:44:11 PM
What a great Friday thread, I recalled a lot of memories today, thank you for that Steve dave
yeah friend!
Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 10:46:42 PM
Post by: AppleJack on February 06, 2015, 10:47:11 PM
steve - how are you?
very good, how are you friend?
All things considered, I'm doing well.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:47:25 PM
Also, did you listen to the Royals on radio while you worked the cows? Did you have a field where the grass was mowed short for a while and then long, and the long grass was a home run when you were hitting a baseball or a wiffle ball or a hedgeapple or whatever?
yes to royals
yes to that other stuff but just because we mowed it like that on purpose
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:49:05 PM
steve - how are you?
very good, how are you friend?
All things considered, I'm doing well.
how about if we could still turntable right now :frown:
Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 10:49:31 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:50:57 PM
two cowboys come in to the chuck wagon groveling for a job. one likes miller lite, the other likes ommegang (hypothetical AF). who do you hire?
when we needed cowboys sddad legitimately did an ad in the high plains journal for a cowboy or whatever. it's ridiculous to think about. I will ask him next time we talk if that's how he still does it.
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:52:38 PM
were the people in the next county over Rockies fans?
no. our radios never got denver sports teams broadcasts. dodge city, garden city, liberal...all huge royals affiliates.
Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 10:54:00 PM
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 10:54:19 PM
were the people in the next county over Rockies fans?
no. our radios never got denver sports teams broadcasts. dodge city, garden city, liberal...all huge royals affiliates.
Hell Yeah!
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:55:15 PM
http://www.hpj.com/
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 10:56:14 PM
Post by: AppleJack on February 06, 2015, 10:56:55 PM
steve - how are you?
very good, how are you friend?
All things considered, I'm doing well.
how about if we could still turntable right now :frown:
like the good old days of Miller Lite and prego wives :frown:
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 10:57:31 PM
How many non-cow Animals were there?
like, ever?
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 10:59:39 PM
How many non-cow Animals were there?
like, ever?
lol no silly. At a given time how many dogs, horses, goats, pigs, whatever were there on SDDad Ranch? Vermon and birds and deer and stuff obvioulsy don't count.
Post by: Tobias on February 06, 2015, 11:00:13 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 11:04:55 PM
How many non-cow Animals were there?
like, ever?
lol no silly. At a given time how many dogs, horses, goats, pigs, whatever were there on SDDad Ranch? Vermon and birds and deer and stuff obvioulsy don't count.
~1 dog
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 11:07:47 PM
would you try to sneak in parties at remote areas of the farm?
yes, always. I think the hard part of being a hick ks cow farmer is that you have shitloads of places for your offspring to throw raggers for their bruhs/bruhdettes and you really have no way to find them because it's a large area to cover.
Post by: Frankenklein on February 06, 2015, 11:15:40 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 06, 2015, 11:24:53 PM
Did any of your cows ever get hardware diseaseno
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 06, 2015, 11:29:10 PM
Post by: slobber on February 07, 2015, 07:15:06 AM
this is the high plains journal:why do you think the print edition was such a weird size?
http://www.hpj.com/
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: slobber on February 07, 2015, 07:15:40 AM
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: mocat on February 07, 2015, 08:35:24 AM
Exxx!would you try to sneak in parties at remote areas of the farm?
yes, always. I think the hard part of being a hick ks cow farmer is that you have shitloads of places for your offspring to throw raggers for their bruhs/bruhdettes and you really have no way to find them because it's a large area to cover.
Post by: ben ji on February 07, 2015, 09:23:55 AM
When I eventually inherit like 1/3 of my grandparents farmland (NW KS) how should I "Rent" it out to the local yokels? Flat fee every year? Take 1/3 of the cut? Pro's and con's of each?
Non irrigated dryland farming, assuming my uncles don't screw my dad out of his share and assuming I can screw my sibling out of their share I could eventually end up with UP TO 3 quarter sections. So like almost a square mile from what I understand.
Keep in mind that the land will be held in a LLC that will never turn a profit, everything will be spent on "Expenses" like a HUGE F-250 Ford.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 09:26:24 AM
SD-
When I eventually inherit like 1/3 of my grandparents farmland (NW KS) how should I "Rent" it out to the local yokels? Flat fee every year? Take 1/3 of the cut? Pro's and con's of each?
Non irrigated dryland farming, assuming my uncles don't screw my dad out of his share and assuming I can screw my sibling out of their share I could eventually end up with UP TO 3 quarter sections. So like almost a square mile from what I understand.
Keep in mind that the land will be held in a LLC that will never turn a profit, everything will be spent on "Expenses" like a HUGE F-250 Ford.
I think most people take a cut of the revenue on farms but just lease it for a fee for like cows to eat.
Post by: ben ji on February 07, 2015, 09:29:33 AM
I spent a couple weeks each summer on my grandparents farm when is was in the 8-12 range and absolutely loved it.
Typical day below
-Wake up and watch like 2 hours of cartoon network because grandparents had a huge satellite that picked up like every channel.
-Ride 30 minutes into town with gramps and sit around the coop watching them drink coffee and smoke cigarettes
- Do some random chores like throw food scraps to pigs and collect tumble weeds to burn (Only if it had rained recently)
- Grab a .22 and a 4 wheeler and chase rabbits around all day
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 09:31:53 AM
Also you should definitely send SD jr down there for summers when he gets older.
I spent a couple weeks each summer on my grandparents farm when is was in the 8-12 range and absolutely loved it.
Typical day below
-Wake up and watch like 2 hours of cartoon network because grandparents had a huge satellite that picked up like every channel.
-Ride 30 minutes into town with gramps and sit around the coop watching them drink coffee and smoke cigarettes
- Do some random chores like throw food scraps to pigs and collect tumble weeds to burn (Only if it had rained recently)
- Grab a .22 and a 4 wheeler and chase rabbits around all day
literally none of those things happen on sddads farm. that's like some farm disneyworld.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 09:32:55 AM
Post by: DQ12 on February 07, 2015, 09:49:31 AM
Post by: michigancat on February 07, 2015, 09:51:38 AM
Post by: Kat Kid on February 07, 2015, 09:56:14 AM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 10:01:16 AM
The life you described sounded like a pretty romantic upbringing to me. Did you want to be a cow farmer when you grew up when you were a little boy? If so, can you remember when you decided that that life wasn't for you?
no. very very early. it's romantic but it's not a job, it's a life. like my dad and all of us had work on christmas morning and every other day. he has plenty of people working for him but obviously they want time with their family too. he would always say "cattle have to eat on christmas/saturday/thanksgiving/whatever too". he wouldn't take vacations for more than a few days because he couldn't handle being away. I'm sure there are a lot of more casual farmers that wouldn't have a problem leaving someone else in charge for a bit but that's not how my dad did stuff (still doesn't). he works sun up to sun down most days. he would tell me all the time that it's not a life he wanted for me or my siblings. I didn't want it either. mostly when people ask me why I didn't want to become a rancher I just tell them "because I grew up on a ranch"
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 10:01:50 AM
Steve Dave, would you ever go back? Like after your kid is all grown up?
no
Post by: DQ12 on February 07, 2015, 10:03:00 AM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 10:03:38 AM
I have a friend with a horse farm and he also works a 9-5 (wife does lessons and keeps other people's horses out there) and it sounds miserable. Nostalgia is a very skilled and beautiful lying liar. Which is great, but just don't dive in to the shimmering water.
oh absolutely. for every piece of nostalgia there are a hundred pieces of hot/freezing, coverd in cow poop, bleeding hands, exhaustion, awful memories.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 10:06:32 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on February 07, 2015, 10:07:11 AM
Post by: Kat Kid on February 07, 2015, 10:08:20 AM
The life you described sounded like a pretty romantic upbringing to me. Did you want to be a cow farmer when you grew up when you were a little boy? If so, can you remember when you decided that that life wasn't for you?
no. very very early. it's romantic but it's not a job, it's a life. like my dad and all of us had work on christmas morning and every other day. he has plenty of people working for him but obviously they want time with their family too. he would always say "cattle have to eat on christmas/saturday/thanksgiving/whatever too". he wouldn't take vacations for more than a few days because he couldn't handle being away. I'm sure there are a lot of more casual farmers that wouldn't have a problem leaving someone else in charge for a bit but that's not how my dad did stuff (still doesn't). he works sun up to sun down most days. he would tell me all the time that it's not a life he wanted for me or my siblings. I didn't want it either. mostly when people ask me why I didn't want to become a rancher I just tell them "because I grew up on a ranch"
This. When I worked for beef research and the dairy farm on campus that was the favorite refrain of everyone there. I ended up working a ton of holidays because I lived in town and it definitely taught me a lot about how life is off the academic calendar. I ran right back to the academic calendar.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 10:08:29 AM
Did you drain the hell out of that aquifer that people get freaked out about?
Yes, still draining it actually. My dad had to testify in the KS Supreme Court about the topic like five years ago.
Post by: slobber on February 07, 2015, 10:38:40 AM
This was a question that I wanted answered. Also, it was to show my HHPJIQ.this is the high plains journal:why do you think the print edition was such a weird size?
http://www.hpj.com/
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: wetwillie on February 07, 2015, 10:44:27 AM
Post by: michigancat on February 07, 2015, 10:47:48 AM
Post by: slobber on February 07, 2015, 10:53:46 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on February 07, 2015, 10:54:41 AM
Did you ever have to pitch silage?
Did you ever have to steeple fence where the posts were made of hedge?
What was your preferred brand of barbed wire?
Dad ever make you spray brush with 2-4-5-t and diesel fuel?
Did you prefer a hot shot or a sorting stick? Whip?
Do you have a brand registered with the state?
Tom
Tom
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 11:27:40 AM
This was a question that I wanted answered. Also, it was to show my HHPJIQ.this is the high plains journal:why do you think the print edition was such a weird size?
http://www.hpj.com/
Gonna win 'em all!
I have no idea
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 11:28:22 AM
How many cows are we talking here like 1000?
More but not like ten thousand. Medium cow farm size I think.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 11:28:56 AM
sd, did you have any favorite farmer magazines to read? I used to hate BEEF because there weren't as many cool tractor picture. I think Farm Industry News was my fave.
We had those but I ignored them. I liked the auto trader for tractors one though.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 11:29:17 AM
Did you get "Farm and Ranch Living" magazine? I submitted a picture of my dad one time and the picture and my little explanation got published. That is probably, not gEing, one of the greatest things I have ever done.
I don't think so
Post by: The Big Train on February 07, 2015, 11:31:32 AM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 11:32:04 AM
Did the transition from small square bales to big round bales give you more free time?
Did you ever have to pitch silage?
Did you ever have to steeple fence where the posts were made of hedge?
What was your preferred brand of barbed wire?
Dad ever make you spray brush with 2-4-5-t and diesel fuel?
Did you prefer a hot shot or a sorting stick? Whip?
Do you have a brand registered with the state?
We have a huge square bailer. Makes enormous ones the size of like three round bales. Huge.
No to silege
Yes, we had some of those shitty fences. What a PITA
No idea on brand of wire
No on spraying thing
Hot shot. I would zap flys with it against the metal shoot
Yes on brand. Actually multiples.
Post by: chum1 on February 07, 2015, 11:37:20 AM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 12:05:12 PM
did you ever go cow tipping?
No
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 12:06:18 PM
Did you ever try to set the cows free so that they could live in the wild like they were meant to?
No, they set themselves free a lot though. The sheriff would call us at like 2am and we'd go see if they were our cows running all over or not
Post by: star seed 7 on February 07, 2015, 01:38:33 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on February 07, 2015, 01:41:54 PM
Did you ever try to set the cows free so that they could live in the wild like they were meant to?
No, they set themselves free a lot though. The sheriff would call us at like 2am and we'd go see if they were our vows running all over or not
Wow, yeah! My dad has a hobby farm in the middle of some cow farms and those cows are just chillin on the road all the time. My dog will just stand like 20ft away and bark at them
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 07, 2015, 01:43:49 PM
When you "went to the city" growing up. Where was it? GC?:impatient:
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 02:56:08 PM
Did you ever get paid for your work?
yes, I think I started at like $4 an hour when I was in 5th'ish grade up to like $10'ish an hour in HS.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 02:57:06 PM
When you "went to the city" growing up. Where was it? GC?:impatient:
sorry, missed this one. Dodge City usually. Sometimes Liberal. Rarely GC (it was like 20 minutes further away). A couple visits a year to like Wichita or KC for big shopping trips.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 07, 2015, 02:58:20 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 02:59:35 PM
Did you ever try to set the cows free so that they could live in the wild like they were meant to?
No, they set themselves free a lot though. The sheriff would call us at like 2am and we'd go see if they were our vows running all over or not
Wow, yeah! My dad has a hobby farm in the middle of some cow farms and those cows are just chillin on the road all the time. My dog will just stand like 20ft away and bark at them
also, sddad is kind of bitter at the local sherrif's office because he thinks they just call him anytime cows are out because they know he'll go out and see who they belong to even if they aren't ours and other cow farmers will be like "meh, will check in the morning" or something. I don't know if it's true but he thinks it is. claims that like 3/4 time he goes out the cows belong to someone else.
Post by: star seed 7 on February 07, 2015, 03:07:24 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 03:09:50 PM
what does a big shopping trip consist of?
like school clothes, going to stores that aren't in Dodge City, visit to worlds of fun and a royals game or some wichita thing.
Post by: WillieWatanabe on February 07, 2015, 05:44:23 PM
Post by: WillieWatanabe on February 07, 2015, 05:45:27 PM
Post by: WillieWatanabe on February 07, 2015, 05:47:40 PM
the real hero growing up on the ranch is my mom. YOU DA REAL MVP MOM! how people marry and stay with farmer/ranchers like my dad is a mystery. he's a really fantastic person but that's not a life anyone should voluntarily sign up for.
was sdmom a daughter of a farmer? WWmom was raised on a farm and was one of like 8 girls, so she had to do chores all the time. I think that's why she didn't mind living that life.
Post by: Trim on February 07, 2015, 05:53:26 PM
Post by: ben ji on February 07, 2015, 06:16:04 PM
You have mentioned how you have to feed the cows everyday. Couldn't the cows just eat the grass for like a week in the summer without being checked on? Couldn't you just throw out like 5x the normal amount of hay bales in the winter and spend the week in Cabo?
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:01:59 PM
Did you dad refer to himself as a farmer or rancher? what about you?
Both I guess depending on who he was talking to
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:02:54 PM
Did you have fun/interesting names for certain pierces of land? like "time to go swath up at Willow's bend farm"
Yes, definitely. I never really paid attention to what was called what and sddad would get really aggravated.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:04:39 PM
the real hero growing up on the ranch is my mom. YOU DA REAL MVP MOM! how people marry and stay with farmer/ranchers like my dad is a mystery. he's a really fantastic person but that's not a life anyone should voluntarily sign up for.
was sdmom a daughter of a farmer? WWmom was raised on a farm and was one of like 8 girls, so she had to do chores all the time. I think that's why she didn't mind living that life.
No. Grandfather worked in an office for Northern Natural Gas (bought by rough ridin' Enron)
Post by: Phil Titola on February 07, 2015, 07:13:01 PM
Post by: michigancat on February 07, 2015, 07:30:14 PM
Post by: The Big Train on February 07, 2015, 07:32:09 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:38:26 PM
Did you answer mine?
I missed it I think
Post by: michigancat on February 07, 2015, 07:39:59 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:40:55 PM
Serious cow farm question.
You have mentioned how you have to feed the cows everyday. Couldn't the cows just eat the grass for like a week in the summer without being checked on? Couldn't you just throw out like 5x the normal amount of hay bales in the winter and spend the week in Cabo?
Yes, but usually we are feed lot'ing a bunch of them which means they have to be in a small area where they get fed delicious food constantly to fatten up. The cows and bulls just hang out in pastures and only get fed when the weather is super bad. Also there is a ton of other stuff to do, like doctor sick ones, do plant stuff, tractor stuff, etc.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:42:05 PM
did you have a tractor that was loosely assigned to you?
I was the main hay swather one summer so I just left my stuff in it all summer.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:42:35 PM
can you give us some good farmer talk, like farmer equivalent submarine talk?
Not really. I ignored the high level stuff.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:44:31 PM
did you have CB's/two-way radios?
Yeah, 2 ways. Had our own tower thing and every cowboy had their own call number. (Unit 2, unit 3, etc). Could also make/receive phone calls from my dads way before cell phones were a big thing. His truck horn would honk after so many rings. It was quite the deal.
Post by: The Big Train on February 07, 2015, 07:45:20 PM
can you give us some good farmer talk, like farmer equivalent submarine talk?
Not really. I ignored the high level stuff.
well next time you see sddad take notes and report back
Post by: michigancat on February 07, 2015, 07:45:49 PM
did you have CB's/two-way radios?
Yeah, 2 ways. Had our own tower thing and every cowboy had their own call number. (Unit 2, unit 3, etc). Could also make/receive phone calls from my dads way before cell phones were a big thing. His truck horn would honk after so many rings. It was quite the deal.
wow! Did you ever say, "Got a copy?" or "10-4"?
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 07:54:58 PM
Post by: The Big Train on February 07, 2015, 07:56:12 PM
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 07, 2015, 07:56:50 PM
this sounds like farmer talk to me! MOAR :drool:
LFTIQ here but that sounds like trucker talk to me
Post by: The Big Train on February 07, 2015, 07:57:46 PM
this sounds like farmer talk to me! MOAR :drool:
LFTIQ here but that sounds like trucker talk to me
well go make a trucker talk thread then
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 07, 2015, 08:00:04 PM
Post by: wetwillie on February 07, 2015, 08:04:21 PM
"Combine to base" "we are going to be finishing up on tom's quarter" "meet us with lunch on the old 40"
Post by: michigancat on February 07, 2015, 08:06:09 PM
When I was little we had CB's, and Grandpa was "Kingpin" and Grandma was "Star Dust" and my dad was "Big Red" (he had red hair).
That all stopped when we got radios instead of CB's. :frown:
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 07, 2015, 08:07:42 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 08:30:57 PM
did you have call signs, like "rubber duck" on convoy?
When I was little we had CB's, and Grandpa was "Kingpin" and Grandma was "Star Dust" and my dad was "Big Red" (he had red hair).
That all stopped when we got radios instead of CB's. :frown:
No, only unit #s
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2015, 08:31:25 PM
SD you like to rise early, is this due to your background on the Cow Ranch or is it more just life circumstance?
Hmmm, maybe. Never thought about it.
Post by: Trim on February 07, 2015, 08:35:48 PM
Did you answer mine?
I missed it I think
Is Tully Corcoran (sp?) reviewing these questions as well?
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 09:13:14 AM
Did you answer mine?
I missed it I thinkIs Tully Corcoran (sp?) reviewing these questions as well?
No, burning trash doesn't qualify you
Post by: Dugout DickStone on February 08, 2015, 09:32:18 AM
Post by: star seed 7 on February 08, 2015, 09:37:40 AM
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 12:30:29 PM
Ever had cows rustled?
Yeah, but it's usually pretty small time. Every couple years a trashy HS kid or local trash will try to steal like one cow and sell it at a cow sale not far away. Always get caught. Branding pretty much makes it impossible to get away with.
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 12:30:38 PM
How long does 1 cow worth of cow meat last your family
Like a year
Post by: Trim on February 08, 2015, 02:26:58 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 03:02:38 PM
Does the ranch take credit cards?
no, check or cash only.
Post by: ChiComCat on February 08, 2015, 03:27:03 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on February 08, 2015, 03:29:11 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 04:19:20 PM
Any other farm scams that you know of? I like a good farm scam
Not really
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 04:20:18 PM
Do you waste coyotes on sight?
Most farmers do I think. Sddad does usually. I don't think they actually do any harm to anything no so I would just look at them.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on February 08, 2015, 05:11:50 PM
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Post by: chum1 on February 08, 2015, 05:59:36 PM
Post by: sonofdaxjones on February 08, 2015, 06:18:31 PM
My parents moved out of Manhattan not to farm, but just so they wouldn't have to live too close to other people. Their neighbors have a bunch of sheep. The sheep belong to the woman who lives there and is some hippie horticulture professor or something. Her husband shoots coyotes, which definitely kill the sheep. He is an academic reseacher of some plant related stuff, too. And he's Iraqui. So, my dad's take on the whole sheep situation is, "Yeah, see, in the part of the world where he's from they've been doing this stuff a LONG, LONG time."
Well Chum, you have to admit that's a pretty good real world take.
Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2015, 07:30:53 PM
have any cow mutilations happened on your farm? like the ones they talk about on 'unexplained files' and the news and stuff?
Had one at my grandparents farm! :runaway: Well at least that's what they told me. Had pictures and everything, young calf, dead, no blood in it, no exterior wounds.
Or something like that.
Post by: Phil Titola on February 08, 2015, 07:33:38 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 07:48:43 PM
do you ever see any deer on the farm and do you shoot them?
Yes, tons.
No
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 07:48:54 PM
have any cow mutilations happened on your farm? like the ones they talk about on 'unexplained files' and the news and stuff?
No
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 07:49:12 PM
do you also have some fields of corn and have you ever had crop circles?
Yes.
No.
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2015, 07:53:07 PM
Did you have a rural route (RR) number? How many rotted out cars/trucks/tractors/etc were located throughout the property? How many cats did you own? Did you have a Schwann delivery truck, if so, what was your favorite item?
Yes.
Probably over 100. A lot of them just came with land we acquired. Sometimes my dad will have this guy come haul them off in exchange for the guy getting to sell them for scrap or keep them or whatever.
The cats just kind of show up from time to time. They are allowed to stay but never come inside. Also they have to eat whatever the co-op brand dogfood is. When I was growing up the cat population would vary from like 2 to 20. Owls and Hawks eat a lot of the cats.
Yes. Raspberry pushup.
Post by: Benja on March 02, 2015, 01:51:35 PM
tell us a calving story, plz.
one time a cow couldn't push out the baby and just its front or back feet were sticking out and my dad hooked a chain to the feet and hooked it up to his truck and pulled on it trying to be kind of gentle but it ripped the legs off the baby cow and he then had to shoot the mother cow.
How the hell did I miss this story? It may be the worst thing I've ever heard.
Post by: steve dave on March 02, 2015, 02:23:06 PM
Post by: Skipper44 on March 02, 2015, 03:58:13 PM
it's probably the worst thing I've seen IRLwhat did SD Dad do with the mother cow?
Post by: meow meow on March 02, 2015, 04:13:05 PM
if I had to guess, strap a log chain around her back leg and drag her out to some wooded area or a ditch or something with the tractor.
Post by: Skipper44 on March 02, 2015, 04:21:08 PM
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Post by: mocat on March 02, 2015, 06:21:56 PM
does it have a mcdonalds logo on it?
What would McDonalds want with dead cows?
Post by: pissclams on March 02, 2015, 07:19:43 PM
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Post by: meow meow on March 02, 2015, 08:06:47 PM
A kid told me a story once about this gal that used to sell the best homemade tamales ever. Like, she sold out of them immediately because they were so good. I guess her husband worked at a cattle feedlot. One day a cowboy drove out along the back way and noticed someone over by the dead cow pile (place where they pile up dead cows waiting for the truck). This gal was carving the crap out of a "fresh" cow. She never sold another tamale again. True story.
this story is hilarious but mostly disgusting
Post by: Kat Kid on March 02, 2015, 08:07:40 PM
I guess back in the good ole days the dead cow truck drivers would pull up up the dead cow pile, drop the tailgate, hook a log chain up to their feet, and then run the winch to pull them in. Worst part was the fact that they had to crawl up in there to unhook the chain. Also, in the middle of summer after a day or two the cows would bloat up like twice the size to where as soon as you touch them they explode. Now they have these grapple forks that they use instead of a chain. #pussificationof'Murica
A funny joke that the ranchers I used to work for at K-State did once was to tell me and another girl that a cow fell asleep outside and we had to wake it up. We both had never worked on a farm so believed it.
We went over to the cow and the vet girl and I approach it and start making noises and talking to it/clapping softly trying to wake it up without freaking it out. She went and looked at its face and said it was dead.
Post by: Institutional Control on March 02, 2015, 08:10:35 PM
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Post by: Katpappy on March 02, 2015, 09:16:12 PM
You guys were ranchers. Know how I know. Well, I grew up on a 2600 acre farm in western Kansas, and one thing my dad taught me was the difference between a farmer and a rancher. Told me that a farmer makes his money from raising cash corps. Where as a rancher may have crops, but only for cattle feed. Ranchers make their living from raising cattle. So this is the difference. By the way, he looked down on farmers for some reason.Did you dad refer to himself as a farmer or rancher? what about you?
Both I guess depending on who he was talking to
Post by: Katpappy on March 02, 2015, 09:27:13 PM
Same here, only because we always ate what we shot. I not eating deer when beef and pork are available. ;)do you ever see any deer on the farm and do you shoot them?
Yes, tons.
No
Post by: Katpappy on March 02, 2015, 09:36:47 PM
Do you waste coyotes on sight?
Most farmers do I think. Sddad does usually. I don't think they actually do any harm to anything no so I would just look at them.
We had a "Big Hat" neighbor who would get with his friends and fly a helicopter around and shoot coyotes from it. One time they had about a mile of coyote hides hanging on a barb-wire fence. One per post. It stunk to high heaven, as my mom would say.
Post by: Katpappy on March 02, 2015, 09:54:28 PM
There is a real life dead cow truck that comes around and picks up all the dead cows and does something with them. You just tell them where they are. We would sometimes have, like, some huge pile of them. Very gross.Rendering plant makes dog food out of them.
Post by: hemmy on March 02, 2015, 10:04:27 PM
There is a real life dead cow truck that comes around and picks up all the dead cows and does something with them. You just tell them where they are. We would sometimes have, like, some huge pile of them. Very gross.
I think that was an episode of Dirty Jobs
Post by: KSUBrian on March 02, 2015, 10:05:22 PM
SD - what gear would you recommend I put my John Deere 4020 in while cultivating a soybean field?
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5th
Post by: Tobias on March 02, 2015, 10:06:47 PM
Post by: 3maw on March 02, 2015, 11:19:10 PM
SD - what gear would you recommend I put my John Deere 4020 in while cultivating a soybean field?
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1st and park it in the barn and go get your self a jd8370R and cultivate any soil in the world.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 02, 2015, 11:23:45 PM
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Post by: steve dave on March 03, 2015, 06:17:03 AM
SD - what gear would you recommend I put my John Deere 4020 in while cultivating a soybean field?
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I have no idea, like 7?
Post by: steve dave on March 03, 2015, 06:17:36 AM
I saw this thing the other day where like this cow had a big hole in its side and a farmer or somebody was reaching into its stomach and doing stuff. They said lots of cows have the holes in their sides for reaching into. I'm wondering if SD knows just what the hell was going on there.
That's state fair stuff
Post by: steve dave on March 03, 2015, 06:19:42 AM
Is this possible, SD? https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152307380847595
No, that guy would be super dead
Post by: steve dave on March 03, 2015, 06:20:46 AM
did you ever have a cow that you nicknamed Colonel Angus? if no, why not?
No, didn't really name any unless they looked weird and then their name was that weird thing, like "no tail".
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 03, 2015, 12:55:03 PM
A funny joke that the ranchers I used to work for at K-State did once was to tell me and another girl that a cow fell asleep outside and we had to wake it up. We both had never worked on a farm so believed it.
We went over to the cow and the vet girl and I approach it and start making noises and talking to it/clapping softly trying to wake it up without freaking it out. She went and looked at its face and said it was dead.
Kat Kid is a girl? I didn't know this.
Post by: Cartierfor3 on March 03, 2015, 01:05:04 PM
Post by: steve dave on March 03, 2015, 01:23:41 PM
Vegetarians are dumb. Agree or disagree SD?
I'm fine with them. I say eat whatever you want (unless it's like human meat or panda bear meat or something)
Post by: Cartierfor3 on March 03, 2015, 01:35:57 PM
Vegetarians are dumb. Agree or disagree SD?
I'm fine with them. I say eat whatever you want (unless it's like human meat or panda bear meat or something)
:thumbs:
Post by: Institutional Control on March 03, 2015, 02:00:26 PM
SD - what gear would you recommend I put my John Deere 4020 in while cultivating a soybean field?
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I have no idea, like 7?
That seems pretty fast. I'd probably take out half the field at that speed.
Post by: pissclams on March 03, 2015, 02:04:05 PM
Post by: XocolateThundarr on March 03, 2015, 02:31:31 PM
why is john deere crap all green?
Color of money yo!
Post by: Skipper44 on March 03, 2015, 02:37:12 PM
why is john deere crap all green?it looked good to Charlene
Post by: steve dave on March 03, 2015, 02:57:42 PM
why is john deere crap all green?
good question, no idea
Post by: XocolateThundarr on March 03, 2015, 03:34:00 PM
why is john deere crap all green?
What if I told you some is yellow?
(https://www.deere.com/common/media/images/product/motor_graders/872gp_ft4/r4a045095_rrd_872gp_486x332.jpg)
Post by: Spracne on March 03, 2015, 03:36:23 PM
why is john deere crap all green?
What if I told you some is yellow?
(https://www.deere.com/common/media/images/product/motor_graders/872gp_ft4/r4a045095_rrd_872gp_486x332.jpg)
I don't see what this black tractor has to do with anything...
Post by: XocolateThundarr on March 03, 2015, 03:40:06 PM
why is john deere crap all green?
What if I told you some is yellow?
(https://www.deere.com/common/media/images/product/motor_graders/872gp_ft4/r4a045095_rrd_872gp_486x332.jpg)
I don't see what this black tractor has to do with anything...
You mean blue right?
Post by: Institutional Control on March 03, 2015, 03:48:31 PM
why is john deere crap all green?
Iron supplements.
Post by: 3maw on March 03, 2015, 11:57:22 PM
why is john deere crap all green?
What if I told you some is yellow?
(https://www.deere.com/common/media/images/product/motor_graders/872gp_ft4/r4a045095_rrd_872gp_486x332.jpg)
fotoshop bullshit
Post by: Katpappy on March 04, 2015, 03:02:12 PM
Post by: nicname on March 04, 2015, 03:36:49 PM
Second question - What was your favorite time of year, hunting/ farming wise?
Post by: BringBackEcoKat on March 04, 2015, 09:20:57 PM
Post by: XocolateThundarr on March 04, 2015, 10:23:12 PM
Do you have to lube cows up before you do that weird impregnation thing and stick your arm up there? Or do you just do it?
The poop is pretty good lube if you are talking about preg checking.
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 10, 2015, 09:28:09 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 10, 2015, 09:29:29 AM
Hey SD, did you see The Bachelor After the Rose show last night? Well [SPOILER] Jimmy Kimmel presented the happy couple with a cow which he just walked on a leash onto the stage in front of the live audience. Would any cow do that and be comfortable around all those people or was that a trained cow?
That was a CGI cow
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on March 10, 2015, 09:33:12 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 10, 2015, 09:37:38 AM
val kilmer in a cow suit
Matt Damon
Post by: _33 on March 10, 2015, 09:42:25 AM
Post by: pissclams on March 10, 2015, 09:53:34 AM
Hey SD, did you see The Bachelor After the Rose show last night? Well [SPOILER] Jimmy Kimmel presented the happy couple with a cow which he just walked on a leash onto the stage in front of the live audience. Would any cow do that and be comfortable around all those people or was that a trained cow?
follow up- why did that cow have horns?
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 10:53:02 AM
SD, not really a farm related question, but typical of small-town sporters. Did you love playing sports growing up, and how long did it take you to realize you weren't going to be a pro athlete?
Second question - What was your favorite time of year, hunting/ farming wise?
I liked them a lot. I knew from, like, age 8'ish or so I would guess? I'm guessing your point is that small town kids can be really good at sports relative to the small amount of competition but not be great in relation to the larger amount of competition a city kid would see. which is true, but I think everyone is aware of it. I was pretty good at football and basketball for my area but knew clearly that I wasn't going to play in the NFL or even KState.
Probably, like, fall I guess. I don't hunt and only did for a short time as a kid but the weather isn't unbearable hot or freezing cold.
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 10:53:30 AM
Do you have to lube cows up before you do that weird impregnation thing and stick your arm up there? Or do you just do it?
we never do that
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 10:54:43 AM
Hey SD, did you see The Bachelor After the Rose show last night? Well [SPOILER] Jimmy Kimmel presented the happy couple with a cow which he just walked on a leash onto the stage in front of the live audience. Would any cow do that and be comfortable around all those people or was that a trained cow?
yeah, some of the 4H kids (PROTIP: real farm/ranch kids are never under any circumstances in 4H) had cows that were basically pets.
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 10:55:08 AM
sd, when I lived in P-Burg they all claimed that Phillips County was the "Cow Capital of Kansas". Which I think meant that they had the most cows. Could this be true?
absolutely not
Post by: Skipper44 on March 10, 2015, 11:05:15 AM
then who the eff is in 4H? same for Future Farmers of America?Hey SD, did you see The Bachelor After the Rose show last night? Well [SPOILER] Jimmy Kimmel presented the happy couple with a cow which he just walked on a leash onto the stage in front of the live audience. Would any cow do that and be comfortable around all those people or was that a trained cow?
yeah, some of the 4H kids (PROTIP: real farm/ranch kids are never under any circumstances in 4H) had cows that were basically pets.
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 11:10:32 AM
then who the eff is in 4H? same for Future Farmers of America?Hey SD, did you see The Bachelor After the Rose show last night? Well [SPOILER] Jimmy Kimmel presented the happy couple with a cow which he just walked on a leash onto the stage in front of the live audience. Would any cow do that and be comfortable around all those people or was that a trained cow?
yeah, some of the 4H kids (PROTIP: real farm/ranch kids are never under any circumstances in 4H) had cows that were basically pets.
kids whose parents are not farmers/ranchers who live in small towns. some of these parents may have a "farm" that is a side gig to their full time job with the city/county/etc. but at no point are they considered farmers or ranchers by ITK types.
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 11:11:59 AM
lil kid sd: crap son, my LIFE is 4H.
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 11:14:18 AM
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 11:15:35 AM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 10, 2015, 11:19:53 AM
Post by: meow meow on March 10, 2015, 11:20:04 AM
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 11:20:22 AM
Post by: Skipper44 on March 10, 2015, 11:20:58 AM
like, in 4H you brush off your cow with like a wire brush to make its hair pretty. you learn how to lead some stupid sheep around on a rope so it follows you around and stops where you want it. these animals are fed from like a bucket with actual food purchased from somewhere. this is so far removed from actual farming/ranching I can't even.what about the FFA? I can remember seeing those kids around KC in my youth sporting these swagged out jean jackets, is it for OGs or what?
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Post by: meow meow on March 10, 2015, 11:21:32 AM
Post by: Institutional Control on March 10, 2015, 11:22:32 AM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 10, 2015, 11:22:43 AM
yeah, I mean what kind of skill is showing a hog? follow a hog around a pen with a stick and try not to get your new shirt dirty I guess, wtf tho.
I had a friend whose hog died on him during the show. Had a heart attack. So I'm sure there is some skill involved, and that kid just didn't have what it takes.
Post by: deputy dawg on March 10, 2015, 11:23:26 AM
Post by: meow meow on March 10, 2015, 11:24:11 AM
yeah, I mean what kind of skill is showing a hog? follow a hog around a pen with a stick and try not to get your new shirt dirty I guess, wtf tho.
I had a friend whose hog died on him during the show. Had a heart attack. So I'm sure there is some skill involved, and that kid just didn't have what it takes.
sorry, try not to get your new shirt dirty AND don't kill your animal in the process.
Post by: chum1 on March 10, 2015, 11:25:05 AM
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 11:25:17 AM
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 11:25:50 AM
There's really nothing 4-H and FFA can do to authentically demonstrate what it's like to rip the legs off of a baby cow and then shoot the mommy cow.
word
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 10, 2015, 11:26:45 AM
Post by: pissclams on March 10, 2015, 11:28:31 AM
Post by: SdK on March 10, 2015, 11:29:12 AM
#TheWesIsTheFuture
Post by: meow meow on March 10, 2015, 11:32:05 AM
ya you don't learn to chain up a half-out cow fetus to your f150 in 4H
f150, pffft. get out of here with that city truck pretty boy
Post by: SdK on March 10, 2015, 11:44:55 AM
4H also has a dog show. Nobody farms dogs.Trained a service dog for my senior exit project. Had to show him at Riley and it wasn't even part of the fair.
#TheWesIsTheFuture
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on March 10, 2015, 12:06:56 PM
Post by: _33 on March 10, 2015, 12:22:17 PM
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Post by: SdK on March 10, 2015, 12:44:49 PM
#TheWesIsTheFuture
Post by: raquetcat on March 10, 2015, 01:05:27 PM
Post by: meow meow on March 10, 2015, 01:20:24 PM
Very low 4Hiq on display by SD itt kinda makes me sad.
oppo day?
Post by: slobber on March 10, 2015, 01:21:25 PM
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 10, 2015, 01:22:00 PM
Post by: Trim on March 10, 2015, 01:28:56 PM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 10, 2015, 01:31:16 PM
Why was #TheBachelor so convinced he couldn't move from his (dad's) farm in iowa, when he's now twice in the last year or so bailed to go on reality tv dating shows? Isn't that farm on autopilot or at least sufficiently handled by Pa and the other 30 family members they showed last night?
Maybe he just doesn't have the skills to earn a decent living doing something else.
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 10, 2015, 01:35:05 PM
Why was #TheBachelor so convinced he couldn't move from his (dad's) farm in iowa, when he's now twice in the last year or so bailed to go on reality tv dating shows? Isn't that farm on autopilot or at least sufficiently handled by Pa and the other 30 family members they showed last night?
Ma & Pa thought that him being gone for a while was a good investment to get him a wife to start producing all the kids they'll need to keep the farm going...as evidenced by Ma's need to immediately bring it up as soon as she met the girl in the barn.
Post by: Trim on March 10, 2015, 01:38:00 PM
Why was #TheBachelor so convinced he couldn't move from his (dad's) farm in iowa, when he's now twice in the last year or so bailed to go on reality tv dating shows? Isn't that farm on autopilot or at least sufficiently handled by Pa and the other 30 family members they showed last night?
Ma & Pa thought that him being gone for a while was a good investment to get him a wife to start producing all the kids they'll need to keep the farm going...as evidenced by Ma's need to immediately bring it up as soon as she met the girl in the barn.
That makes sense, but I don't think Whitney was the best choice for strong child-bearing. Unless she's going to genetically engineer them. :sdeek:
Post by: sys on March 10, 2015, 01:41:56 PM
Why was #TheBachelor so convinced he couldn't move from his (dad's) farm in iowa, when he's now twice in the last year or so bailed to go on reality tv dating shows? Isn't that farm on autopilot or at least sufficiently handled by Pa and the other 30 family members they showed last night?
his father would disinherit him.
Post by: sys on March 10, 2015, 01:45:45 PM
or maybe sd doesn't like animals. :surprised: :surprised: :surprised:
Post by: pissclams on March 10, 2015, 02:58:54 PM
Why was #TheBachelor so convinced he couldn't move from his (dad's) farm in iowa, when he's now twice in the last year or so bailed to go on reality tv dating shows? Isn't that farm on autopilot or at least sufficiently handled by Pa and the other 30 family members they showed last night?
Ma & Pa thought that him being gone for a while was a good investment to get him a wife to start producing all the kids they'll need to keep the farm going...as evidenced by Ma's need to immediately bring it up as soon as she met the girl in the barn.
ya that was weird. "i can't wait until my son starts boning you all the time, for practice!"
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on March 10, 2015, 03:33:50 PM
Post by: steve dave on March 10, 2015, 03:48:55 PM
i'm pretty sure my cousins were in 4h or ffa or something like that. and my uncle was definitely a real farmer. maybe it's different in different parts of the country or different between cow farmers and plant farmers.
or maybe sd doesn't like animals. :surprised: :surprised: :surprised:
I like them just fine
Post by: Benja on March 10, 2015, 04:01:32 PM
Post by: sys on March 10, 2015, 04:44:28 PM
I like them just fine
you sounded pretty scornful about having a pet cow.
Post by: steve dave on March 12, 2015, 08:16:42 AM
I like them just fine
you sounded pretty scornful about having a pet cow.
that was mocking of the kid/kids family, not the cow. good for that cow imo.
Post by: Katpappy on March 12, 2015, 08:35:44 AM
Funny you say that meow meow, my dad only had International pickups, trucks, tractors and anything else made by them. He said Chevy, Dodge and Ford were for the City Boys. :lol:ya you don't learn to chain up a half-out cow fetus to your f150 in 4H
f150, pffft. get out of here with that city truck pretty boy
Post by: Katpappy on March 12, 2015, 08:40:20 AM
i'm pretty sure my cousins were in 4h or ffa or something like that. and my uncle was definitely a real farmer. maybe it's different in different parts of the country or different betweenFYP. YW.cow farmersranchers andplantfarmers.
or maybe sd doesn't like animals. :surprised: :surprised: :surprised:
Post by: ben ji on March 12, 2015, 10:18:27 AM
I was out in western ks last weekend visiting my cow farming relatives. My cousin took us city boys out to the farm and let us pet the bulls they have....There are like 4 of them and they were super tame, like I hear BULL and imagine was rodeo monstrosity....but nope.
They were in a pen by the barn and he dumped some "Cake" in a trough and they come rumbling up. There is even one bull that WILL EAT COOKIES FROM YOUR HAND! I snapped a picture of him! Good ole number 403.
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Did you ever get the chance to hand feed knock off oreo's to a bull?
Post by: ben ji on March 12, 2015, 10:29:37 AM
For example My uncle bought 2 mini horses about 15 years ago and now has like 15, kind of breeds them on the side I guess. (Side note, the male mini horse was in the same pen as the bulls and it was super adorable trying to nuzzle in at the trough).
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I asked my cousin what this was all about and in his best :Carl: y voice he said
"Well, I guess they are worth some money"
"Really people buy them? For what?"
"Well not around here, but you take them down around wichita and people buy them as pets"
"Hmm, when was they last time he sold one?"
"I don't know, maybe 5 years ago but its crazy. They smaller they are the more they are worth"
Post by: puniraptor on March 12, 2015, 11:05:58 AM
Post by: Katpappy on March 12, 2015, 11:10:24 AM
Another question for SD. Do all farmers just hold on to random Junk/things/side projects that have because they have so much room?Do they also sell by weight? Cause those are some plump ponies. :ROFL:
For example My uncle bought 2 mini horses about 15 years ago and now has like 15, kind of breeds them on the side I guess. (Side note, the male mini horse was in the same pen as the bulls and it was super adorable trying to nuzzle in at the trough).
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I asked my cousin what this was all about and in his best :Carl: y voice he said
"Well, I guess they are worth some money"
"Really people buy them? For what?"
"Well not around here, but you take them down around wichita and people buy them as pets"
"Hmm, when was they last time he sold one?"
"I don't know, maybe 5 years ago but its crazy. They smaller they are the more they are worth"
Post by: steve dave on March 12, 2015, 11:11:34 AM
SD, your pops has to be absolutely raking in some cash with these high beef prices now right? Just killing it as a full time cow farmer huh?
I was out in western ks last weekend visiting my cow farming relatives. My cousin took us city boys out to the farm and let us pet the bulls they have....There are like 4 of them and they were super tame, like I hear BULL and imagine was rodeo monstrosity....but nope.
They were in a pen by the barn and he dumped some "Cake" in a trough and they come rumbling up. There is even one bull that WILL EAT COOKIES FROM YOUR HAND! I snapped a picture of him! Good ole number 403.
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Did you ever get the chance to hand feed knock off oreo's to a bull?
yes re. cash raking. it's like boom town usa on the [NAME REDACTED] Ranch. no re. the cookies to a cow but lil 6'ish year old sd did once feed an entire box of rice crispies to a horse and got in bigtime troubs.
Post by: steve dave on March 12, 2015, 11:13:16 AM
Another question for SD. Do all farmers just hold on to random Junk/things/side projects that have because they have so much room?
For example My uncle bought 2 mini horses about 15 years ago and now has like 15, kind of breeds them on the side I guess. (Side note, the male mini horse was in the same pen as the bulls and it was super adorable trying to nuzzle in at the trough).
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I asked my cousin what this was all about and in his best :Carl: y voice he said
"Well, I guess they are worth some money"
"Really people buy them? For what?"
"Well not around here, but you take them down around wichita and people buy them as pets"
"Hmm, when was they last time he sold one?"
"I don't know, maybe 5 years ago but its crazy. They smaller they are the more they are worth"
we have tons of old junk but a lot of it just came with property we purchased. we don't have any weird non-beef animals other than cats/dogs. we don't even own a single horse anymore.
Post by: Cartierfor3 on March 12, 2015, 11:41:38 AM
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 12, 2015, 11:44:01 AM
One of my friends from High School won the 4H napkin folding championship. I don't know if it was regional or state or nationwide or what. I also don't know what 4H is
Home, Heifers, Horse crap, Hay
Post by: Cartierfor3 on March 12, 2015, 11:46:11 AM
One of my friends from High School won the 4H napkin folding championship. I don't know if it was regional or state or nationwide or what. I also don't know what 4H is
Home, Heifers, Horse crap, Hay
Napkin folding must be in the Home category
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on March 12, 2015, 12:17:19 PM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 12, 2015, 03:46:05 PM
going into pottorf hall during the riley county state fair and looking at 4h stuff is one of my favorite times of the year. different categories include- best legos that have been put together and best outfits. like kids will go into their closet and pull out under armour shorts and shirt and then enter it. it's great.
I think most of those kids are wearing brand new under armour shorts and shirts that their parents bought just for that competition and wouldn't let them wear until the fashion show.
Post by: Katpappy on March 15, 2015, 06:26:15 AM
Post by: slobber on March 15, 2015, 08:37:04 AM
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: steve dave on March 15, 2015, 08:54:49 AM
SD, if you had to choose a life as a Farmer or a Rancher, which would you be? :dunno:
Rancher
Post by: steve dave on March 15, 2015, 08:55:14 AM
What is the most sddad has ever paid for a bull?Most he has ever sold one for?
Gonna win 'em all!
No idea on either.
Post by: slobber on March 15, 2015, 12:45:47 PM
you should ask. Easy transition..."I read something that bull prices were up like 30% or something like that this year. Does that sound right to you dad? What do you pay for a top bull?"What is the most sddad has ever paid for a bull?Most he has ever sold one for?
Gonna win 'em all!
No idea on either.
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: sys on March 15, 2015, 03:19:39 PM
Post by: michigancat on March 15, 2015, 05:14:01 PM
Post by: michigancat on March 15, 2015, 05:17:36 PM
Post by: sys on March 15, 2015, 05:38:30 PM
Post by: steve dave on March 15, 2015, 05:54:52 PM
if you told your father to buy an ohlde bull and a ropinfeet bull, would he do it (for kstate)?
He has bought a lot of ropinfeet bulls actually
Post by: steve dave on March 15, 2015, 05:56:31 PM
Post by: sys on March 15, 2015, 05:58:19 PM
Post by: steve dave on March 15, 2015, 06:01:27 PM
Post by: slobber on March 15, 2015, 08:38:27 PM
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: sys on March 15, 2015, 08:40:11 PM
Post by: chum1 on March 15, 2015, 10:12:03 PM
Post by: slobber on March 16, 2015, 04:27:51 AM
Selling cows sounds like selling used cars. If you have one on the lot too long you take it to the auction and another rancher buys it.it is 100% exactly that.
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: steve dave on March 16, 2015, 06:27:23 AM
when you chatted up ropinfeet, where was he on the scale of - "that's an interesting personal connection we share" and "i sell a lot of bulls, kid"?
He was like, "yeah, I know sddad." and then went on to talk to JMart about some boring stuff that didn't have anything to do with Holy crap that's Jim Colbert and Mitch Richmond! Take my picture trim!
Post by: Trim on March 19, 2015, 04:24:36 PM
when you chatted up ropinfeet, where was he on the scale of - "that's an interesting personal connection we share" and "i sell a lot of bulls, kid"?
We was like, "yeah, I know sddad." and then went on to talk to JMart about some boring stuff that didn't have anything to do with Holy crap that's Jim Colbert and Mitch Richmond! Take my picture trim!
:combofan:
Post by: Trim on March 19, 2015, 04:26:05 PM
Post by: nicname on March 19, 2015, 04:28:06 PM
So notwithstanding that it was critical for #TheBachelor to find a girl who could move to the farm in Iowa because it was imperative he stay there and make it succeed, he didn't even wait a week before starting a potential 3 months of Dancing with the Stars.
For some reason I don't think that #TheBachelor does much work on the farm.
Post by: pissclams on April 09, 2015, 01:08:15 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 09, 2015, 01:42:42 PM
what is a co-op?
it's like a place with huge towers for keeping grain and sometimes a gas station and sometimes a place that sells that ammonia that you pump in the ground to kill weeds and meth heads use to make meth and sometimes has like a store for farmers and sometimes has a truck repair place and possibly a ton of other stuff. sddad is on the co-op board and I have no idea what that entails. he goes to meetings with like two of his buds and they decide what other grain towers to buy and junk I guess. I actually have no rough ridin' clue what a co-op is to be honest.
Post by: Katpappy on April 09, 2015, 01:47:04 PM
what is a co-op?It's short for Co-Operative. It's a bunch of business ppl, mainly farmers, that
buy and sell farm stuff. They are in about every small town in Western Kansas.
Post by: star seed 7 on April 09, 2015, 06:19:15 PM
Post by: bubbles4ksu on April 09, 2015, 06:44:48 PM
Post by: Katpappy on April 09, 2015, 08:59:54 PM
what's with katdaddy trying to one-up sd?just trying to educate the city kids in this thread.
Post by: KSUBrian on April 09, 2015, 09:15:23 PM
what is a co-op?
it's like a place with huge towers for keeping grain and sometimes a gas station and sometimes a place that sells that ammonia that you pump in the ground to kill weeds and meth heads use to make meth and sometimes has like a store for farmers and sometimes has a truck repair place and possibly a ton of other stuff. sddad is on the co-op board and I have no idea what that entails. he goes to meetings with like two of his buds and they decide what other grain towers to buy and junk I guess. I actually have no rough ridin' clue what a co-op is to be honest.
Pretty accurate SD except you only got one of the 2 uses for ammonia right. It is anhydrous ammonia and it is a fertilizer.
Post by: wetwillie on April 09, 2015, 09:28:51 PM
Post by: GregKSU1027 on April 09, 2015, 09:33:21 PM
Post by: Katpappy on April 09, 2015, 09:39:09 PM
Steve dave is cow tipping a real thing?Are you talking 15% vs 20%? :dunno:
Post by: GregKSU1027 on April 09, 2015, 09:46:54 PM
How does one cow tip?Steve dave is cow tipping a real thing?Are you talking 15% vs 20%? :dunno:
Post by: Katpappy on April 09, 2015, 09:51:51 PM
To be safe, I'll go for the 20%. There could be a bull near by. :ohno:How does one cow tip?Steve dave is cow tipping a real thing?Are you talking 15% vs 20%? :dunno:
Post by: pissclams on April 09, 2015, 10:00:16 PM
Its like costco for farmin. The internet has kind of defeated the purpose, at least for farmers who know what the internet is.why do they call it a co-op
Post by: wetwillie on April 09, 2015, 10:06:23 PM
Its like costco for farmin. The internet has kind of defeated the purpose, at least for farmers who know what the internet is.why do they call it a co-op
Most rural people dont read so good, so cooperative was out of the question.
Post by: Katpappy on April 09, 2015, 10:07:27 PM
:ROFL:Its like costco for farmin. The internet has kind of defeated the purpose, at least for farmers who know what the internet is.why do they call it a co-op
Most rural people dont read so good, so cooperative was out of the question.
Post by: slobber on April 10, 2015, 04:54:53 AM
This is probably the best answer in this entire thread.what is a co-op?
it's like a place with huge towers for keeping grain and sometimes a gas station and sometimes a place that sells that ammonia that you pump in the ground to kill weeds and meth heads use to make meth and sometimes has like a store for farmers and sometimes has a truck repair place and possibly a ton of other stuff. sddad is on the co-op board and I have no idea what that entails. he goes to meetings with like two of his buds and they decide what other grain towers to buy and junk I guess. I actually have no rough ridin' clue what a co-op is to be honest.
Post by: steve dave on April 10, 2015, 05:40:58 AM
Steve dave is cow tipping a real thing?
No
Post by: GregKSU1027 on April 10, 2015, 12:20:34 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 10, 2015, 02:14:07 PM
Steve dave Farmall or john deere?
I've never heard of Farmall so John Deere
Post by: KSUBrian on April 10, 2015, 02:29:05 PM
Steve dave Farmall or john deere?
I've never heard of Farmall so John Deere
Farmall: Forefather of what is now CaseIH. Correct answer: John Deere.
Post by: star seed 7 on April 10, 2015, 06:48:25 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 10, 2015, 06:49:27 PM
did you ever drive a tractor to school?
No
Post by: star seed 7 on April 10, 2015, 06:51:33 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 10, 2015, 06:55:57 PM
did you know anyone that ever did that?
No
Post by: steve dave on April 10, 2015, 06:56:19 PM
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Post by: steve dave on April 10, 2015, 07:33:03 PM
Post by: Cartierfor3 on April 10, 2015, 08:19:05 PM
I had cows up to my ass neck and wore like air force 180s or whatever. Real cow farm kids v. posers.
you ever have Reebok pumps or were you always a Nike guy?
Post by: Katpappy on April 11, 2015, 04:43:29 AM
Post by: steve dave on April 11, 2015, 08:36:10 AM
SD, did you ride horses. And, if so, did you have a favorite?
I rode horses before but not often and hated it.
Post by: steve dave on April 11, 2015, 08:36:30 AM
I had cows up to my ass neck and wore like air force 180s or whatever. Real cow farm kids v. posers.
you ever have Reebok pumps or were you always a Nike guy?
Usually Nike I think
Post by: Trim on May 09, 2015, 01:06:09 PM
So notwithstanding that it was critical for #TheBachelor to find a girl who could move to the farm in Iowa because it was imperative he stay there and make it succeed, he didn't even wait a week before starting a potential 3 months of Dancing with the Stars.
For some reason I don't think that #TheBachelor does much work on the farm.
#TheBachelor got eliminated from DWTS Tuesday. Maybe he can go check in on the farm before he has to hustle back to LA to rehearse for the finale in 2 Mondays that even the eliminated dancers participate in.
Post by: star seed 7 on May 21, 2015, 08:54:09 PM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 21, 2015, 09:52:55 PM
So notwithstanding that it was critical for #TheBachelor to find a girl who could move to the farm in Iowa because it was imperative he stay there and make it succeed, he didn't even wait a week before starting a potential 3 months of Dancing with the Stars.
For some reason I don't think that #TheBachelor does much work on the farm.
#TheBachelor got eliminated from DWTS Tuesday. Maybe he can go check in on the farm before he has to hustle back to LA to rehearse for the finale in 2 Mondays that even the eliminated dancers participate in.
It's flood/mold season back home
Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2015, 07:41:53 AM
did you ever do this?
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no, absolutely not
Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2015, 07:42:30 AM
Post by: Asteriskhead on May 22, 2015, 09:28:41 AM
like, in 4H you brush off your cow with like a wire brush to make its hair pretty. you learn how to lead some stupid sheep around on a rope so it follows you around and stops where you want it. these animals are fed from like a bucket with actual food purchased from somewhere. this is so far removed from actual farming/ranching I can't even.what about the FFA? I can remember seeing those kids around KC in my youth sporting these swagged out jean jackets, is it for OGs or what?
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kshs.org%2Fcool%2Fgraphics%2Fffajacketlg.jpg&hash=9acccfcc4409212f8ead6b3f11878b3a83bdaf08)
"Seaman High, our fair school,
Seaman High, we sing to you,
Marching on, proud and strong,
Coach and team to victory!
Red and blue, colors true,
May we fight to keep them bright,
Waving o'er, forever more,
For our dear ol' Seaman High!"
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2015, 10:31:18 AM
I'll be travelling to the cow farm with lil sd this afternoon and spending the weekend there. I'll report back when I get home.
SD, you should totally let him watch cartoons all day and maybe ride around in a little tonka truck thingy since he is too small for a 4 wheeler. Definitely need to have your dad take him in to the local CO-OP and show lil sd off to all his buds while they drink coffee.
Maybe let him fire off a couple BB's at the sparrows in the barn?
If you do this right he will want to visit the farm more than disney world. Then when he gets older you can send him down to the farm for a couple weeks in the summer and he will love it.
Post by: mocat on May 22, 2015, 10:33:07 AM
Post by: star seed 7 on May 22, 2015, 10:36:24 AM
what does FFA stand for and also what is it?
Future farmers of america
Post by: sys on May 22, 2015, 12:44:24 PM
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i knew it!
Post by: Asteriskhead on May 22, 2015, 12:45:44 PM
Post by: Poster formerly known as jthutch on May 22, 2015, 01:35:45 PM
Post by: slobber on May 23, 2015, 07:54:25 AM
and it's for a majority of kids who will never farm.what does FFA stand for and also what is it?
Future farmers of america
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2015, 08:45:04 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 23, 2015, 09:04:09 AM
It's apparently monsoon season
You're in Iowa?
Post by: Spracne on June 03, 2015, 02:42:39 PM
Post by: steve dave on June 03, 2015, 03:16:08 PM
If a cow farmer has just a ton of cows on his farm, so many that you can't keep track in your head and there's tons being born and dying all the time, how does he figure out exactly how many he has?
rough estimate. we usually have a cowboy driving around through the cows that are going to have baby cows soon and if they see a baby cow that can't really run away yet they will put a tag on its ear with the same number on it as its mom and then record it in a book. sometimes they don't get them in time and they are too big to catch so you just put in the book that #1756 has a black baby cow with a white face or something similar. sometimes you will find them and you can't tell who the baby belongs to because its in like a big group of cows. sometimes you just don't ever see them anyway because they are in like a huge area with streams and trees and hills and stuff so you just don't see them. at some point during the year you hire a shitload of cowboys to come and get all of the cows and baby cows into one area and then you separate the babies from the moms and give them vaccinations and stuff. they count them all then again and get the ones they missed. then you let the moms back out and move the babys to another place where they live by themselves. then you put the bull cows back in with the mom cows and (finger through hole made by fingers of other hand< LOL) and start the whole cycle again. some of the girl baby cows are eventually put back with the moms and every once in a while one of the boys is put in with the bulls because someone who knows about cows thinks he will be a good bull. the rest of the babies are fattened up and sold.
Post by: steve dave on June 03, 2015, 03:17:10 PM
Post by: Spracne on June 03, 2015, 03:18:49 PM
If a cow farmer has just a ton of cows on his farm, so many that you can't keep track in your head and there's tons being born and dying all the time, how does he figure out exactly how many he has?
rough estimate. we usually have a cowboy driving around through the cows that are going to have baby cows soon and if they see a baby cow that can't really run away yet they will put a tag on its ear with the same number on it as its mom and then record it in a book. sometimes they don't get them in time and they are too big to catch so you just put in the book that #1756 has a black baby cow with a white face or something similar. sometimes you will find them and you can't tell who the baby belongs to because its in like a big group of cows. sometimes you just don't ever see them anyway because they are in like a huge area with streams and trees and hills and stuff so you just don't see them. at some point during the year you hire a shitload of cowboys to come and get all of the cows and baby cows into one area and then you separate the babies from the moms and give them vaccinations and stuff. they count them all then again and get the ones they missed. then you let the moms back out and move the babys to another place where they live by themselves. then you put the bull cows back in with the mom cows and (finger through hole made by fingers of other hand< LOL) and start the whole cycle again. some of the girl baby cows are eventually put back with the moms and every once in a while one of the boys is put in with the bulls because someone who knows about cows thinks he will be a good bull. the rest of the babies are fattened up and sold.
Wow, that sounds awfully complicated. Why not just use a cowculator? :Keke:
Post by: Mr Bread on June 03, 2015, 03:20:43 PM
Post by: mocat on June 03, 2015, 03:32:50 PM
Post by: sys on June 03, 2015, 04:16:38 PM
sys, sddad just bought some more ropinfeet bulls. an interesting thing I learned over memorial day is that if a ropinfeet bull dies from anything the first year they will give you another bull. that's like a special warranty that's exclusive to ropinfeet bulls apparently.
that's a pretty good deal. if i were you, i'd try to get your father to call up ohlde's people and see if they'll offer the same guarantee on ohlde bulls.
Post by: sys on June 03, 2015, 04:18:13 PM
Post by: The Big Train on June 03, 2015, 05:27:50 PM
Post by: slobber on June 03, 2015, 05:41:59 PM
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Post by: steve dave on June 03, 2015, 05:53:52 PM
sd, has your father ever thought about creating his own breed of cow? make his mark on the world, so to speak.
Not that I know of.
Post by: wabash909 on June 04, 2015, 01:23:31 PM
Post by: chum1 on June 08, 2015, 07:09:37 PM
Post by: Frankenklein on June 08, 2015, 08:15:10 PM
Anybody else having trouble getting their soybeans planted with all this rain?Not with this bad boy
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Post by: star seed 7 on June 17, 2015, 07:27:45 PM
does your dad have any of these?
Post by: nicname on June 18, 2015, 12:55:18 AM
Farmer Tans
Rough Hands
Dirty Boots
Country Roots
Would you wear one?
What about if the sleeves were cut off?
Post by: sys on June 18, 2015, 09:05:19 AM
Post by: Asteriskhead on June 18, 2015, 11:39:40 AM
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on June 18, 2015, 12:49:08 PM
People seem to think this video is hilarious but it isn't really that exciting.
http://mashable.com/2015/03/25/happy-cow-cleaning-machine/
Post by: wabash909 on July 14, 2015, 06:23:50 PM
are you spending the 28/acre to get a fungicide applied by air? i was told it would cost 28/acre for fungicide and airplane application. my corn has been tasseling about a week. is now the time? it would take over 7 bushels per acre to break even. the airplanes are thick around here flying it on.
bottom line, would i be breaking even, or is it possible the fungicide will add 20-30 bushels? throwing another 28 at 3-4 corn is a tough one for me to call
Post by: ben ji on July 14, 2015, 06:37:46 PM
Just leave it alone and if the harvest sucks then claim some act of god and have obama cut you a check.
Post by: slobber on July 14, 2015, 06:55:17 PM
Gonna win 'em all!
Post by: Spracne on July 14, 2015, 07:26:08 PM
Do it. It's time.
Gonna win 'em all!
:D
Post by: pissclams on October 07, 2015, 02:44:29 PM
here's a really good explanation which backs up SD's irrigation theory- http://gizmodo.com/forty-years-ago-americas-farms-completely-changed-thei-1735165511
Post by: chum1 on October 07, 2015, 02:51:44 PM
Post by: michigancat on October 07, 2015, 03:00:01 PM
Post by: wetwillie on October 07, 2015, 03:07:37 PM
Forty Years Ago, America's Farms Completely Changed Their Shape—And No One Except Anyone Who Has Ever Been On A Plane Noticed
And maybe users of google maps or earth
Post by: Dugout DickStone on October 07, 2015, 04:58:38 PM
Forty Years Ago, America's Farms Completely Changed Their Shape—And No One Except Anyone Who Has Ever Been On A Plane Noticed
And maybe users of google maps or earth
birds
Post by: wabash909 on April 14, 2016, 04:18:19 PM
how is your corn planting coming along? i finished up yesterday in the brown/nemaha county area. for as dry as the top is, actually went in beautifully. threw a furrow with the trash whippers and stuck the corn in moisture around 2 inches deep. hopefully get this rain they are talking about early next week
Post by: steve dave on April 14, 2016, 04:28:14 PM
Post by: pissclams on April 14, 2016, 05:20:10 PM
Hey guys -
how is your corn planting coming along? i finished up yesterday in the brown/nemaha county area. for as dry as the top is, actually went in beautifully. threw a furrow with the trash whippers and stuck the corn in moisture around 2 inches deep. hopefully get this rain they are talking about early next week
my god the snow wheat needs this weekend's rain so bad, fingers crossed, son
lezak was talking about it during his weathercast last night, so pumped
Post by: slobber on April 14, 2016, 05:20:25 PM
Hey guys -How many acres did you get in? I miss planting time and harvest time.
how is your corn planting coming along? i finished up yesterday in the brown/nemaha county area. for as dry as the top is, actually went in beautifully. threw a furrow with the trash whippers and stuck the corn in moisture around 2 inches deep. hopefully get this rain they are talking about early next week
Post by: pissclams on April 14, 2016, 05:27:52 PM
Post by: wabash909 on April 14, 2016, 10:09:05 PM
Hey guys -How many acres did you get in? I miss planting time and harvest time.
how is your corn planting coming along? i finished up yesterday in the brown/nemaha county area. for as dry as the top is, actually went in beautifully. threw a furrow with the trash whippers and stuck the corn in moisture around 2 inches deep. hopefully get this rain they are talking about early next week
we plant 112 to 115. i can remember my dad planting 16000 to 18000 population back in the 60's. seems like the seed companies have bred the corn not to have ear flex.
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 07:25:43 AM
Ear can still flex, but each plant usually produced only one ear. Easier to manage one ear per plant than 1-5 ears. You may see 2 ears from year to year, depending on growing conditions through V5.Hey guys -How many acres did you get in? I miss planting time and harvest time.
how is your corn planting coming along? i finished up yesterday in the brown/nemaha county area. for as dry as the top is, actually went in beautifully. threw a furrow with the trash whippers and stuck the corn in moisture around 2 inches deep. hopefully get this rain they are talking about early next week
we plant 112 to 115. i can remember my dad planting 16000 to 18000 population back in the 60's. seems like the seed companies have bred the corn not to have ear flex.
Post by: _33 on April 15, 2016, 07:57:11 AM
Follow-up question: Are grown-up goats hard to take care of?
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 08:30:17 AM
Question: Are baby goats hard to take care of?
Follow-up question: Are grown-up goats hard to take care of?
no
no
DISCLAIMER: I have no experience with goats but my understanding is they will eat tin cans so you can just dump garbage on them and they should be ok
Post by: DQ12 on April 15, 2016, 08:33:44 AM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 15, 2016, 08:37:37 AM
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 08:38:58 AM
Are boy cows hamburgers and steaks too? Or just girls?
both
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 08:39:22 AM
Did you ever scream "Hey boss!" at the cows SD? My dad was a cattle buyer and did this all the time growing up. He said they understood it. Was he lying to me?
no, he was lying
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 15, 2016, 08:39:39 AM
Post by: RickRampus on April 15, 2016, 09:11:22 AM
Question: Are baby goats hard to take care of?
Follow-up question: Are grown-up goats hard to take care of?
95% of any issues can be taken care of with good fencing.
Post by: The Big Train on April 15, 2016, 09:14:36 AM
Post by: star seed 7 on April 15, 2016, 09:19:07 AM
Question: Are baby goats hard to take care of?
Follow-up question: Are grown-up goats hard to take care of?
95% of any issues can be taken care of with good fencing.
If they can eat a tin can, they can eat a fence. WASTE OF TIME
Post by: RickRampus on April 15, 2016, 09:34:11 AM
Question: Are baby goats hard to take care of?
Follow-up question: Are grown-up goats hard to take care of?
95% of any issues can be taken care of with good fencing.
If they can eat a tin can, they can eat a fence. WASTE OF TIME
that's why I could never keep them in a pen. :bang: :bang: :bang:
Post by: pissclams on April 15, 2016, 10:10:13 AM
Are boy cows hamburgers and steaks too? Or just girls?I've got this one-
boy cows are called bulls and they produce both beef and steaks and other miscellaneous meat (hamburger)
girls cows are called dairy cows and make the delicious milk that compliments our pizza so well
Post by: pissclams on April 15, 2016, 10:12:51 AM
Post by: DQ12 on April 15, 2016, 10:41:24 AM
post script- i am not sure what steers are, possibly a bull whose beef is deemed sub prime and therefore we just leave them alone, similar to those horse that can't be ride and just graze all daysteer clear!
btw I had a milk-complimented pie from The Papa last night, courtesy of Sox5.
Post by: star seed 7 on April 15, 2016, 10:45:35 AM
post script- i am not sure what steers are, possibly a bull whose beef is deemed sub prime and therefore we just leave them alone, similar to those horse that can't be ride and just graze all daysteer clear!
btw I had a milk-complimented pie from The Papa last night, courtesy of Sox5.
TsPs for your intestines and butthole today
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 12:55:46 PM
It is "come bessy", but said said more like "ca'boss". It means "Come old bessy" and cows clearly understand it. Silly Wacky putting an exclamation point behind it. You wouldn't yell at a how and say "Hey Boss!" smdhDid you ever scream "Hey boss!" at the cows SD? My dad was a cattle buyer and did this all the time growing up. He said they understood it. Was he lying to me?
no, he was lying
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 12:57:53 PM
Can we be done burning 'stures yet?Burning pastures is good for the environment you nit wit!!!! It allows healthy growth and prevents raging prairie fires like KS and OK have been experiencing.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 15, 2016, 12:58:35 PM
Post by: The Big Train on April 15, 2016, 12:59:36 PM
Can we be done burning 'stures yet?Burning pastures is good for the environment you nit wit!!!! It allows healthy growth and prevents raging prairie fires like KS and OK have been experiencing.
I know but my eyes haven't stopped watering in 3 weeks :cry:
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 01:00:05 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on April 15, 2016, 01:03:00 PM
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 01:31:46 PM
Post by: _33 on April 15, 2016, 01:50:29 PM
Follow-up Question: Are there specific types of goats for milking or is it just like cows where the boys are for meat and the girls are for milk?
Post by: DQ12 on April 15, 2016, 02:00:12 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 02:00:52 PM
man could you imagine how cool it must feel for the bull who gets to be the stud? like, so long losers. have fun being slaughtered. I'm off to go sex all your sisters and moms and daughters for the rest of my life.
not daughters idiot
Post by: DQ12 on April 15, 2016, 02:02:16 PM
disirregardlessly.man could you imagine how cool it must feel for the bull who gets to be the stud? like, so long losers. have fun being slaughtered. I'm off to go sex all your sisters and moms and daughters for the rest of my life.
not daughters idiot
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 02:06:49 PM
Question: Is it true that goat milk has lower levels of lactose in it so it's easier to digest for intolerant persons?
Follow-up Question: Are there specific types of goats for milking or is it just like cows where the boys are for meat and the girls are for milk?
yes, slightly less lactose. but it's probably more that it's just a little different.
yes, there different breeds optimized for milk and meat production. cows come in different breeds too.
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 02:13:59 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 02:16:05 PM
Post by: DQ12 on April 15, 2016, 02:16:47 PM
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 02:17:21 PM
there are 4 breeds of cows. hereford, angus, white, white with black spots.What about black with white belts?
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discushatchery.com%2Fcow2.jpg&hash=f685b354d090657cec859144dc648c655c12f098)
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 02:18:02 PM
what's your favorite kind of cow?
i already asked him that question. it was disappointing. steve dave doesn't really like cows, i'm afraid.
Post by: _33 on April 15, 2016, 02:18:39 PM
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 02:18:49 PM
Oh crap....there are 4 breeds of cows. hereford, angus, white, white with black spots.What about black with white belts?
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discushatchery.com%2Fcow2.jpg&hash=f685b354d090657cec859144dc648c655c12f098)
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtcamelotranch.com%2FOreo7.jpeg&hash=c75608b2e631476f81b2db714dd408f477b1c903)
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 02:19:28 PM
said they are fatter at a younger age or something.
of course they are.
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 02:19:45 PM
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpulse.sullivansupply.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2FCharBull_ch_IMG_3711.jpg&hash=798bdb2946399d202598b282eef5459f46f6f32d)
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 02:19:59 PM
He is about to fall in love with the belted gallowaywhat's your favorite kind of cow?
i already asked him that question. it was disappointing. steve dave doesn't really like cows, i'm afraid.
Post by: The Big Train on April 15, 2016, 02:20:34 PM
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 02:20:45 PM
Which breed of goat is the most cuddly?
nigerian dwarf.
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 02:21:27 PM
He is about to fall in love with the belted galloway
he'll deny it even exists.
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 02:26:52 PM
what's your favorite kind of cow?
currently angus crossed with white ones
Post by: The Big Train on April 15, 2016, 02:27:18 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 02:28:17 PM
Does SDdad raise alpaqua's?
only cows and plants and some outside cats
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 02:37:06 PM
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rarebreeds.co.nz%2Fbeltie2.jpg&hash=a644b2c288cdbfb3fef480a2c9ea3b6611f74567)what's your favorite kind of cow?
currently angus crossed with white ones
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 02:37:46 PM
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rarebreeds.co.nz%2Fbeltie2.jpg&hash=a644b2c288cdbfb3fef480a2c9ea3b6611f74567)what's your favorite kind of cow?
currently angus crossed with white ones
i told you he'd deny them.
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 02:37:56 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on April 15, 2016, 02:40:15 PM
He is about to fall in love with the belted gallowaywhat's your favorite kind of cow?
i already asked him that question. it was disappointing. steve dave doesn't really like cows, i'm afraid.
My uncle has like 20 of these on his retirement farm
Post by: The Big Train on April 15, 2016, 02:40:46 PM
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N6RCPieAssI/hqdefault.jpg)
What is wrong with that one :sdeek:
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 02:42:09 PM
The Omaha PD told sd it was best to just ignore me until a legitimate threat was made.(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rarebreeds.co.nz%2Fbeltie2.jpg&hash=a644b2c288cdbfb3fef480a2c9ea3b6611f74567)what's your favorite kind of cow?
currently angus crossed with white ones
i told you he'd deny them.
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 02:42:57 PM
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rarebreeds.co.nz%2Fbeltie2.jpg&hash=a644b2c288cdbfb3fef480a2c9ea3b6611f74567)what's your favorite kind of cow?
currently angus crossed with white ones
yep, that's one. the outside parts are the angus, tough and sturdy against the elements. the middle part is the white, tender and juicy but vulnerable to predators.
Post by: XocolateThundarr on April 15, 2016, 03:10:25 PM
what's your favorite kind of cow?
currently angus crossed with white ones
#teamangus here
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 15, 2016, 03:24:13 PM
Post by: The Big Train on April 15, 2016, 03:24:59 PM
My favorite kind of cow is my grandpas two headed calf he had. Wow!
Did he have the worlds largest prairie dog too?
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 15, 2016, 03:25:30 PM
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 03:28:53 PM
My favorite kind of cow is my grandpas two headed calf he had. Wow!Imagine this....
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffast.mediamatic.nl%2Ff%2Fsjnh%2Fimage%2F160%2F47057-950-713.jpg&hash=4e32ebbe7bcde303ed104e5c7a2a79d269072d2d)
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kimballstock.com%2Fpix%2FCOW%2F02%2FCOW_02_LS0027_01_P.JPG&hash=3356a8f2489e86a1cfde9e7ec9b0b9bcdf213197)
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache2.asset-cache.net%2Fgc%2F487950325-rare-breed-belted-galloway-beef-cattle-herd-gettyimages.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26amp%3Bc%3DIWSAsset%26amp%3Bk%3D2%26amp%3Bd%3DX7WJLa88Cweo9HktRLaNXmHgR8keDnTk%252FMWCmtsQDswKf%252F2nwNONfi5Ss%252FnWPCONCennbGbEpozIz3zT46aWbA%253D%253D&hash=f855c6fc1c6979f75c3896421eb7d954eae512fc)
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 03:30:16 PM
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rayfamilyfarms.com%2Fcms%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F12%2Fbeef-ranch-steak-2300.jpg&hash=7ac4f957ad0083652823b9a400a45c9c3c64cda0)
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 15, 2016, 03:30:28 PM
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 03:31:27 PM
Adorable and tasty at the same time.So it is safe to say that this is your new favorite cow, too, right?
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 15, 2016, 03:33:44 PM
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 03:40:50 PM
i'm a sucker for this color of cow (the white ones w. black points).
Post by: DQ12 on April 15, 2016, 03:41:57 PM
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 03:42:10 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/a5/9c/bb/a59cbb5a32bb2f374dd71b8f367ab898.jpg)
still a galloway, just lost it's belt
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 03:42:57 PM
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suncreststud.co.nz%2Fimages%2FColour%2520patterns%2520in%2520White%2520Galloway.jpg&hash=0a7989c8edd039c711917e814764944334541ea3)It's so confusing.
i'm a sucker for this color of cow (the white ones w. black points).
Post by: sys on April 15, 2016, 03:43:13 PM
:love:
Post by: steve dave on April 15, 2016, 03:43:50 PM
do cows like to be pet? are they at all affectionate?
yeah, kind of. more like scratched. not affectionate. pretty playful though. will bounce around all over and junk when they're happy.
Post by: slobber on April 15, 2016, 03:44:34 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3c/78/ab/3c78abda746d4d335dacbaecdace4648.jpg)
I didn't even know these things existed.
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 15, 2016, 03:44:58 PM
Are boy cows hamburgers and steaks too? Or just girls?I've got this one-
boy cows are called bulls and they produce both beef and steaks and other miscellaneous meat (hamburger)
girls cows are called dairy cows and make the delicious milk that compliments our pizza so well
Well technically a "cow" is only female, right?
Post by: DQ12 on April 15, 2016, 03:46:42 PM
that sounds like a lot of fun. I'd be a lousy cow farmer. think i'd become attached.do cows like to be pet? are they at all affectionate?
yeah, kind of. more like scratched. not affectionate. pretty playful though. will bounce around all over and junk when they're happy.
Post by: wabash909 on May 23, 2016, 05:24:56 PM
My seed dealer always gives me a bag of sweet corn to plant. the last two years, he's given me rr sweet corn. It's so handy to plant in a corn field and then when you spray the field corn, you're not killing the sweet corn patch. I have no problem eating it but was wondering if anyone here would be against genetically altered sweet corn? Would you eat roundup ready sweet corn?
Post by: pissclams on May 23, 2016, 05:27:55 PM
Post by: slobber on May 23, 2016, 08:38:01 PM
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Post by: Poster formerly known as jthutch on May 24, 2016, 07:53:44 AM
Did you ever scream "Hey boss!" at the cows SD? My dad was a cattle buyer and did this all the time growing up. He said they understood it. Was he lying to me?That is how we called our cows in. Just Yell BOSSS BOSSSS they would come running.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 24, 2016, 09:26:58 AM
:love:Did you ever scream "Hey boss!" at the cows SD? My dad was a cattle buyer and did this all the time growing up. He said they understood it. Was he lying to me?That is how we called our cows in. Just Yell BOSSS BOSSSS they would come running.
Post by: Emo EMAW on May 24, 2016, 09:53:51 AM
Post by: 'taterblast on May 24, 2016, 12:09:56 PM
that sounds like a lot of fun. I'd be a lousy cow farmer. think i'd become attached.do cows like to be pet? are they at all affectionate?
yeah, kind of. more like scratched. not affectionate. pretty playful though. will bounce around all over and junk when they're happy.
grandpa 'blast was a farmer and one time there was a calf that got separated from its mother for some reason (don't remember details). so the calf was in the barn all by itself and lil tyke 'blast got to bottle feed it for a week and became best buds with it. the calf liked lil tyke 'blast and liked to be pet and stuff. then one day, the calf was reunited with its mother cow (or maybe it was an adoptive mom cow) and became attached to the new mom cow, so once morning when lil tyke 'blast went down to hang out with his best bud calf friend the calf was no longer interested in hanging out with lil 'blast because it had formed a bond with its new mom. and lil 'blast's heart was broken.
Post by: Gooch on May 24, 2016, 02:50:39 PM
I hope you ate both new mom and baby cowthat sounds like a lot of fun. I'd be a lousy cow farmer. think i'd become attached.do cows like to be pet? are they at all affectionate?
yeah, kind of. more like scratched. not affectionate. pretty playful though. will bounce around all over and junk when they're happy.
grandpa 'blast was a farmer and one time there was a calf that got separated from its mother for some reason (don't remember details). so the calf was in the barn all by itself and lil tyke 'blast got to bottle feed it for a week and became best buds with it. the calf liked lil tyke 'blast and liked to be pet and stuff. then one day, the calf was reunited with its mother cow (or maybe it was an adoptive mom cow) and became attached to the new mom cow, so once morning when lil tyke 'blast went down to hang out with his best bud calf friend the calf was no longer interested in hanging out with lil 'blast because it had formed a bond with its new mom. and lil 'blast's heart was broken.
Post by: waks on May 24, 2016, 11:54:36 PM
When waksdad was growing up on his family farm he would play his trombone to call the cows in.Did you ever scream "Hey boss!" at the cows SD? My dad was a cattle buyer and did this all the time growing up. He said they understood it. Was he lying to me?That is how we called our cows in. Just Yell BOSSS BOSSSS they would come running.
Post by: HerrSonntag on May 25, 2016, 12:49:31 AM
post script- i am not sure what steers are, possibly a bull whose beef is deemed sub prime and therefore we just leave them alone, similar to those horse that can't be ride and just graze all dayA steer is a bull missing the parts needed to be a bull.
Post by: steve dave on May 25, 2016, 08:09:41 AM
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Post by: slobber on May 25, 2016, 08:16:03 AM
Our dairy cows came to the call of 'caboss' which is short for 'come old bossy/bessy'. Your parents were not yelling 'boss'. You idiots that think that they were only saying boss need to go ask your parents what they were really saying.
Millennials....smdh.
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Post by: steve dave on May 25, 2016, 08:19:38 AM
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Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 25, 2016, 08:34:07 AM
Post by: Emo EMAW on May 25, 2016, 08:41:00 AM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 25, 2016, 08:47:17 AM
We would always call our horses to come eat by shaking the bucket of feed and yelling "Hup, hup, hup, hup".SD doesn't know what you're talking about. :D
Post by: star seed 7 on May 25, 2016, 09:00:38 AM
Post by: TCUHornedFrog on May 25, 2016, 09:07:54 AM
Can I have/borrow a tractor?
Post by: pissclams on May 25, 2016, 09:08:12 AM
i'm talking about the ones that the local stations put up with the radar and the banner warning thing that scrolls across the screen for hours at a time?
they drive me nuts when it's all over my tv screen during a show and the storm is way up 100 miles north in a county where like 1 seed lives.
my guess is that they don't pay any attention to them since more than likely, the seed's family has lived on his farm for 100 years and knows more about incoming storm than gary lezak does.
i would guess that the seed and his family is out battening down the hatches around the farm, not huddled around the tv getting weather updates but maybe.
Post by: pissclams on May 25, 2016, 09:10:43 AM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 25, 2016, 09:11:28 AM
do farmers pay attention to the tv storm warnings?My grandpa had a weather radio. #VeryOldSchool #FuckTV's
i'm talking about the ones that the local stations put up with the radar and the banner warning thing that scrolls across the screen for hours at a time?
they drive me nuts when it's all over my tv screen during a show and the storm is way up 100 miles north in a county where like 1 seed lives.
my guess is that they don't pay any attention to them since more than likely, the seed's family has lived on his farm for 100 years and knows more about incoming storm than gary lezak does.
i would guess that the seed and his family is out battening down the hatches around the farm, not huddled around the tv getting weather updates but maybe.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 25, 2016, 09:12:25 AM
I'm with sd here, animals just come when you feed them, you don't need to call themI'm not surprised how many animals SD and Lib^7 have let die under their watch. :frown:
Post by: pissclams on May 25, 2016, 09:16:18 AM
the weather radio should eliminate the need for the channels to clog up my screen with worthless crap. omg we're having a thunderstorm during the spring in the midwest, oh no! alert the world!
Post by: star seed 7 on May 25, 2016, 09:17:54 AM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 25, 2016, 09:20:06 AM
i would guess these guys don't have cable tv way out in BFE seed land but i don't have any data on how far these local KC station's signal travels, maybe they are watching tvCan confirm to all of this. You haven't #YOLO'd until you've been to Fanning's or Rowland's far out in the flint hills. They watch local Topeka news stations for fun. :Yuck:
the weather radio should eliminate the need for the channels to clog up my screen with worthless crap. omg we're having a thunderstorm during the spring in the midwest, oh no! alert the world!
Post by: Emo EMAW on May 25, 2016, 09:27:03 AM
do farmers pay attention to the tv storm warnings?
i'm talking about the ones that the local stations put up with the radar and the banner warning thing that scrolls across the screen for hours at a time?
they drive me nuts when it's all over my tv screen during a show and the storm is way up 100 miles north in a county where like 1 seed lives.
my guess is that they don't pay any attention to them since more than likely, the seed's family has lived on his farm for 100 years and knows more about incoming storm than gary lezak does.
i would guess that the seed and his family is out battening down the hatches around the farm, not huddled around the tv getting weather updates but maybe.
My FIL watches it because 1) he might have ground way over there too, or 2) he needs to bitch about them getting the moisture and not him.
Post by: star seed 7 on May 25, 2016, 09:28:51 AM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 25, 2016, 09:30:40 AM
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 25, 2016, 09:55:23 AM
I'm with sd here, animals just come when you feed them, you don't need to call them
If they are way out in the pasture, how do they know unless you shake the feed bucket or yell or something?
Post by: star seed 7 on May 25, 2016, 10:11:21 AM
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Post by: chum1 on November 15, 2016, 01:57:35 PM
My dad's explanation was also on point: "Because, see, he's rich, you know?"
Post by: steve dave on November 15, 2016, 02:03:32 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on November 15, 2016, 02:26:09 PM
farmers (cow and plant) get super angry when they lease land and then someone else either leases it for more or buys it and tells them they can't lease it anymore. like they have some weird farmer belief that the land belongs to them or some crap. and like chum says people with a lot of money that buy land are bad.
Isn't this what kicked off the dildo clan saga?
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 15, 2016, 02:28:53 PM
farmers (cow and plant) get super angry when they lease land and then someone else either leases it for more or buys it and tells them they can't lease it anymore. like they have some weird farmer belief that the land belongs to them or some crap. and like chum says people with a lot of money that buy land are bad.
Isn't this what kicked off the dildo clan saga?
Kinda. Also sd is right. Also ranchers that lease even like state land or BLM land think it's "theirs." "Oh, that's our BLM over there, no you can't hunt it."
Post by: mocat on November 15, 2016, 02:29:53 PM
Post by: Asteriskhead on November 15, 2016, 02:40:49 PM
wtf is black lives matter land?
bureau of land management
Post by: mocat on November 15, 2016, 02:41:36 PM
Post by: pissclams on November 15, 2016, 02:50:25 PM
other options include only eating chinese farmed sorghum and/or soy beans
Post by: Bloodfart on November 15, 2016, 08:12:59 PM
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Post by: slackcat on November 16, 2016, 04:01:58 AM
My dad shared a funny tidbit with me over the weekend. He has a few tiny pieces of land in areas surrounding Manhattan, so he goes to auctions and stuff. He said that farmers in the area get pissed when Jordy Nelson comes in and outbids them for land.
My dad's explanation was also on point: "Because, see, he's rich, you know?"
LOL at poor farmers. :lol:
Post by: HerrSonntag on November 16, 2016, 08:42:06 AM
I've figured out that I can buy most of my fertilizer and herbicide needs at my local co-op for way way way cheaper than the brand name stuff at the big box stores. Thanks farmers!Grass seed, too
Post by: nicname on November 16, 2016, 09:42:48 AM
Post by: nicname on November 16, 2016, 09:45:40 AM
Then when I own it and Wal-Mart wants to build a store I can get rich, then move to a tropical island.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 16, 2016, 09:50:18 AM
farmers (cow and plant) get super angry when they lease land and then someone else either leases it for more or buys it and tells them they can't lease it anymore. like they have some weird farmer belief that the land belongs to them or some crap. and like chum says people with a lot of money that buy land are bad.
Isn't this what kicked off the dildo clan saga?
Kinda. Also sd is right. Also ranchers that lease even like state land or BLM land think it's "theirs." "Oh, that's our BLM over there, no you can't hunt it."
bro from college is now ex-bro because his family now leases all of their sweet ass hunting land to other non-emaw bros for lots of money instead of letting us hunt it for free. I DGAF but he is all embarrassed and now doesn't call when he comes to town
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 10:33:15 AM
Post by: steve dave on November 16, 2016, 10:37:12 AM
SD I just bought a 82 chevy custom deluxe to haul crap around in but it has a very slow/small leak. How do I find where the leak is coming from?!
park it on the ground and see where the leak hits the ground and then crawl under it and look up. don't let the leak hit you in the eyeball.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 16, 2016, 10:42:42 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 10:47:38 AM
Post by: star seed 7 on November 16, 2016, 10:50:09 AM
Go to a car store and buy a liquid of similar color and refill as needed
Post by: steve dave on November 16, 2016, 11:01:03 AM
What color is the leak?
Go to a car store and buy a liquid of similar color and refill as needed
where? just crawl under there and splash it upwards towards where it's coming out? idiot.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 11:07:10 AM
Post by: star seed 7 on November 16, 2016, 11:10:07 AM
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 16, 2016, 11:16:30 AM
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 16, 2016, 11:20:28 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 16, 2016, 11:55:49 AM
SD I just bought a 82 chevy custom deluxe to haul crap around in but it has a very slow/small leak. How do I find where the leak is coming from?!
how do you know it has a small leak if you don't know where it is coming from?
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 11:58:45 AM
Post by: Tobias on November 16, 2016, 12:00:38 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 16, 2016, 12:05:31 PM
because I hadn't driven it for about a week and a half and mrs yla noticed it in the driveway, wasn't a very big stain(is that what I should call it?)
What part of the truck was above the stain?
Post by: mocat on November 16, 2016, 12:33:20 PM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 02:10:57 PM
i bet that thing sounds increds when you start itI love the sound of older vehicles!
What does it taste like?too far under to give it a go, no real smell either
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 16, 2016, 02:11:34 PM
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Post by: pissclams on November 16, 2016, 02:22:09 PM
hmmm and it looks like itsclose to where the cab and bed meet not under the hood like I initially thought :sdeek:
i've seen that before in my 72 chevy k10. I just call it truck juice. nothing to worry about, truck juice is normal.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 02:27:02 PM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 16, 2016, 02:30:26 PM
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 16, 2016, 02:30:39 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 02:33:19 PM
I've got a car for sale, yla!I have a car! I wanted something I could drive into a ditch and not worry about.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 16, 2016, 02:36:22 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 16, 2016, 02:41:13 PM
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 16, 2016, 03:10:56 PM
Post by: kso_FAN on November 16, 2016, 03:19:09 PM
Light a small fire (small) on your driveway.
Park the vehicle with the drip (as close as possible) right over the fire.
Wait.
This will tell you with decent certainty whether the liquid is gas.
Thanx.
Post by: steve dave on November 16, 2016, 03:27:44 PM
I've got a car for sale, yla!I have a car! I wanted something I could drive into a ditch and not worry about.
well, until now I didn't even know you had a car. yet we've been worrying about your POS truck all day. YOU PLAYED YOURSELF!
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 03:52:05 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 16, 2016, 03:53:08 PM
that doesn't sound super safe FAN but if you say so! lol at me driving an 82 for a daily driver sd. truck was actually an early bday gift from the wife #blessed
wife gave you 30 year old truck with failing brakes....she hates you
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 03:55:24 PM
I asked for it :Dthat doesn't sound super safe FAN but if you say so! lol at me driving an 82 for a daily driver sd. truck was actually an early bday gift from the wife #blessed
wife gave you 30 year old truck with failing brakes....she hates you
I better up the life policy before I drive it again
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 16, 2016, 04:00:38 PM
I asked for it :Dthat doesn't sound super safe FAN but if you say so! lol at me driving an 82 for a daily driver sd. truck was actually an early bday gift from the wife #blessed
wife gave you 30 year old truck with failing brakes....she hates you
I better up the life policy before I drive it again
you'd better cancel the life policy
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 16, 2016, 04:05:08 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 16, 2016, 04:10:52 PM
even better idea
take away the motive and you have no crime
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Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2016, 04:02:55 PM
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Kansas/Publications/County_Estimates/KS%20csv%20links/KS_cashrents16.pdf
What is the downside of converting around 300 acres of pastureland to non irrigated cropland?
Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 18, 2016, 04:20:29 PM
How accurate is the the following info?
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Kansas/Publications/County_Estimates/KS%20csv%20links/KS_cashrents16.pdf
What is the downside of converting around 300 acres of pastureland to non irrigated cropland?
It depends on how good the dirt is. If you will only be able to raise wheat on it....probably not worth it right now. If it is good enough to support corn or beans, you might be on to something.
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 18, 2016, 04:21:59 PM
How accurate is the the following info?
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Kansas/Publications/County_Estimates/KS%20csv%20links/KS_cashrents16.pdf
What is the downside of converting around 300 acres of pastureland to non irrigated cropland?
I have no idea how accurate it is.
Really no downside, maybe erosion risks. Might have to rip out fences or make the ground otherwise suitable for farming, earth work and such.
Is someone paying rent to put cattle on it? And you now want someone to pay rent to farm it?
Property tax miiiight be different dependent on use, not sure. Is there a livable dwelling on the property?
Crop circles could be a risk.
Post by: steve dave on November 18, 2016, 04:24:56 PM
Post by: steve dave on November 18, 2016, 04:28:08 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2016, 04:49:17 PM
I have no idea how accurate it is.
Really no downside, maybe erosion risks. Might have to rip out fences or make the ground otherwise suitable for farming, earth work and such.
Is someone paying rent to put cattle on it? And you now want someone to pay rent to farm it?
Property tax miiiight be different dependent on use, not sure. Is there a livable dwelling on the property?
Crop circles could be a risk.
It depends on how good the dirt is. If you will only be able to raise wheat on it....probably not worth it right now. If it is good enough to support corn or beans, you might be on to something.
Its my grandparents old farm that my dad inherited, its the only pastureland in all the sections around it so I'm assuming the dirt is fine. My uncle currently runs cattle on it and has the lease for another 4 years. After that lease is up my dad's plan is to turn about 300 of the 400 acres into dry cropland (a "Creek" runs through the back portion of the pasture so about 100 acres would either stay pasture or be CRP) for wheat.
My dad also injects himself with snake venom so thats why I'm getting opinions from my buds on the internet who may know something about farming.
Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 18, 2016, 04:56:16 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2016, 04:58:15 PM
Just because it grows good grass doesn't mean it will grow anything other than wheat. If it is bottom ground, you have a pretty good shot that it is decent dirt and would be suitable for row crops.
Its northwest kansas so I think the only thing that grows there is wheat.
Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 18, 2016, 05:01:34 PM
Just because it grows good grass doesn't mean it will grow anything other than wheat. If it is bottom ground, you have a pretty good shot that it is decent dirt and would be suitable for row crops.
Its northwest kansas so I think the only thing that grows there is wheat.
That is tough. Unless wheat prices come up, it is tough to make the numbers work. We only planted about 1/4 of what we normally would to wheat this year and left the rest of the ground open. By the time you take into account the current price of wheat and what the inputs are to grow the crop, it is about at a break even point......as of right now.
Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 18, 2016, 05:03:43 PM
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 18, 2016, 05:09:17 PM
Post by: steve dave on November 18, 2016, 06:25:52 PM
I think even within the same county the rent price could vary by 50% depending on the piece.
For sure, even more than that.
Post by: slackcat on November 19, 2016, 05:04:46 AM
hmmm and it looks like itsclose to where the cab and bed meet not under the hood like I initially thought :sdeek:
Tranny leak. Could be output shaft seal or pan leak, both easy fixes for any handy EMAW.
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 21, 2016, 02:16:33 PM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 22, 2016, 09:44:43 AM
Post by: steve dave on November 22, 2016, 10:20:00 AM
I stuck my head under there finally.. think it might be the U joint
don't let any u joint fluid hit you in the eyeball
Post by: slackcat on November 23, 2016, 05:50:07 AM
I stuck my head under there finally.. think it might be the U joint
:facepalm:
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 23, 2016, 09:17:16 AM
wut?I stuck my head under there finally.. think it might be the U joint
:facepalm:
Post by: mhkpasa on November 23, 2016, 11:13:46 AM
Seal damaged coming out of the back of the tranny?
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Post by: Spracne on November 24, 2016, 05:07:25 PM
Not u-joint, rear seal around slip yoke. Probably have tranny fluid running down slip yoke and dripping off u-joint.:thumbs:
Post by: yoga-like_abana on February 17, 2017, 11:44:56 AM
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Post by: steve dave on February 17, 2017, 01:41:49 PM
Any idea on how long that would take? That poor cow probably flailed away like a doomed turtle for a while.
like not very long (like a day or something?). they will choke on their own mucus in their lungs or some crap. I don't really know the mechanics of it.
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on February 17, 2017, 02:23:07 PM
Post by: steve dave on February 17, 2017, 02:27:02 PM
What if they just get tipped over (onto their side)?
then they just get back up. also if they get tipped over on their back. it's only in the weird situations like the one I said that they die from upside down cow disease.
Post by: mocat on February 17, 2017, 02:36:20 PM
Post by: mocat on February 17, 2017, 02:38:03 PM
pig: no change whatsoever
farm dog: probably eat some grass and throw up
Post by: steve dave on February 17, 2017, 02:44:43 PM
have you or anyone you know or anyone you ever heard of ever given booze to a farm animal?
no
Post by: yoga-like_abana on February 17, 2017, 02:53:32 PM
Slackcat sure looks like a big dumb idiot nowI know what an idiot.. more like eggonmyfacecat
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Post by: RickRampus on February 18, 2017, 12:27:07 AM
have you or anyone you know or anyone you ever heard of ever given booze to a farm animal?
yes
Post by: ben ji on April 13, 2017, 10:06:24 AM
Does anyone have any experience with wind turbines in western KS? My dad inherited a section of land in western KS, 3/4 of it is Pasture that my uncle currently runs cattle on which is where the turbines would be. My uncle put him in contact with someone from Infinity Renewables who wants to possibly put windmills on the property. My dad met with him about a week ago and from what I gathered he would get around $1000 per year for the right to build the windmills and more if they actually build the turbines. Possibility of between 6-12 turbines on the property. They are also planning to put turbines up on some of the surrounding land.
My questions -
1. What are the "standard leases/royalties" for this type of thing? Can you negotiate? How can we get the best price?
2. What are the downsides? It sounds like they would build their own gate to access the windmills.
3. What other questions should we ask?
I've started doing some research on the interwebz but I know someone on gE can probably fill in the gaps.
Post by: Cartierfor3 on April 13, 2017, 10:07:54 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 13, 2017, 10:12:03 AM
$1000 a year sounds like not enough
Its not but if that is just for the rights to build the turbines. If they build the turbines it would be around $10,000 (Cant remember if that is per turbine but i'm guessing that is total?)
Thats why I'm asking what others may have gotten.
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 13, 2017, 10:13:22 AM
1. I've heard they are noisy. Write something in your contract that if they exceed a certain decibel level, you get more money.
2. Who is liable if they open the gate and your cows get out? Get that in the contract.
3. Who is liable if a turbine blade flys off and hits someone/cow/property? Or if it catches fire?
4. Who will clean up the dead birds that fly into the turbine?
5. Is anyone living in this area? Consider Wind Turbine Syndrome. http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbines-health.htm
Post by: pissclams on April 13, 2017, 10:15:33 AM
sorry bub, no habla wind turbine denaro
Post by: yoga-like_abana on April 13, 2017, 10:16:26 AM
Post by: kim carnes on April 13, 2017, 10:22:26 AM
Can we make this the gE farm thread? K thanks.
Does anyone have any experience with wind turbines in western KS? My dad inherited a section of land in western KS, 3/4 of it is Pasture that my uncle currently runs cattle on which is where the turbines would be. My uncle put him in contact with someone from Infinity Renewables who wants to possibly put windmills on the property. My dad met with him about a week ago and from what I gathered he would get around $1000 per year for the right to build the windmills and more if they actually build the turbines. Possibility of between 6-12 turbines on the property. They are also planning to put turbines up on some of the surrounding land.
My questions -
1. What are the "standard leases/royalties" for this type of thing? Can you negotiate? How can we get the best price?
2. What are the downsides? It sounds like they would build their own gate to access the windmills.
3. What other questions should we ask?
I've started doing some research on the interwebz but I know someone on gE can probably fill in the gaps.
They're just trying to buy your rights with hopes of selling them to someone else
Post by: mhkpasa on April 13, 2017, 11:00:36 AM
http://www.pitch.com/news/feature-story/article/20848644/wind-farms-legal-fights-fake-news-trumps-america-comes-to-northwest-missouri
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I eventually managed to obtain a NextEra lease agreement. The company in that instance offered the property owner what amounted to about $8,000 per turbine per year. This particular offer also included a $3,000 signing bonus, provided the landowner inked the deal within 15 days of receiving the offer.
Eight thousand dollars a year in exchange for an acre of land is a very attractive offer for a farmer in an era of low crop prices; raising corn or soybeans on that piece of land would net a fraction of that revenue. It’s an even better deal for an absentee landowner — somebody sitting on a couple hundred acres in Dekalb County who lives in Kansas City or St. Joseph or Omaha and won’t spend time in proximity to the turbine.
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Post by: ben ji on April 13, 2017, 12:02:53 PM
Somewhat related as many rural NW MO residents had concerns with out of state wind energy companies. Author is a lefty so don't let the Trump slander trigger you. Thought it was interesting.
http://www.pitch.com/news/feature-story/article/20848644/wind-farms-legal-fights-fake-news-trumps-america-comes-to-northwest-missouriQuoteI eventually managed to obtain a NextEra lease agreement. The company in that instance offered the property owner what amounted to about $8,000 per turbine per year. This particular offer also included a $3,000 signing bonus, provided the landowner inked the deal within 15 days of receiving the offer.
Eight thousand dollars a year in exchange for an acre of land is a very attractive offer for a farmer in an era of low crop prices; raising corn or soybeans on that piece of land would net a fraction of that revenue. It’s an even better deal for an absentee landowner — somebody sitting on a couple hundred acres in Dekalb County who lives in Kansas City or St. Joseph or Omaha and won’t spend time in proximity to the turbine.
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on April 13, 2017, 01:49:38 PM
Can we make this the gE farm thread? K thanks.
Does anyone have any experience with wind turbines in western KS? My dad inherited a section of land in western KS, 3/4 of it is Pasture that my uncle currently runs cattle on which is where the turbines would be. My uncle put him in contact with someone from Infinity Renewables who wants to possibly put windmills on the property. My dad met with him about a week ago and from what I gathered he would get around $1000 per year for the right to build the windmills and more if they actually build the turbines. Possibility of between 6-12 turbines on the property. They are also planning to put turbines up on some of the surrounding land.
My questions -
1. What are the "standard leases/royalties" for this type of thing? Can you negotiate? How can we get the best price?
2. What are the downsides? It sounds like they would build their own gate to access the windmills.
3. What other questions should we ask?
I've started doing some research on the interwebz but I know someone on gE can probably fill in the gaps.
They will build a very nice road across the property to access the turbines. As part of this process, they generally build new fence and gates along with cattle guards. I've been directly underneath them and don't really notice any noise especially when the wind is blowing (duh....that's when they turn). I would make sure that there won't be any limitations that affect what your potential use of the land will be.
We worked on a project near Howard and I know one of the guys who owned a big portion of the land where the turbines were built. To my knowledge, he has no regrets and enjoys cashing their checks. If they do elect to build the windfarm, I would also look at the agreement to see what happens if it is ever decommissioned and who would be responsible for removing the turbines and towers should that happen.
Post by: Emo EMAW on April 13, 2017, 08:58:08 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 08, 2017, 10:13:52 AM
one of the wires ended up being bad.. so I life hacked it and now just put the key in the ignition turned over and start it with a screwdriver on the starter.. I really wanna leave the keys in it with the windows down and watch some chumps try to start it :lol:
Post by: Shooter Jones on May 08, 2017, 04:43:31 PM
Can we make this the gE farm thread? K thanks.
Does anyone have any experience with wind turbines in western KS? My dad inherited a section of land in western KS, 3/4 of it is Pasture that my uncle currently runs cattle on which is where the turbines would be. My uncle put him in contact with someone from Infinity Renewables who wants to possibly put windmills on the property. My dad met with him about a week ago and from what I gathered he would get around $1000 per year for the right to build the windmills and more if they actually build the turbines. Possibility of between 6-12 turbines on the property. They are also planning to put turbines up on some of the surrounding land.
My questions -
1. What are the "standard leases/royalties" for this type of thing? Can you negotiate? How can we get the best price?
2. What are the downsides? It sounds like they would build their own gate to access the windmills.
3. What other questions should we ask?
I've started doing some research on the interwebz but I know someone on gE can probably fill in the gaps.
They're just trying to buy your rights with hopes of selling them to someone else
Yup.
Post by: ben ji on May 08, 2017, 04:45:20 PM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 08, 2017, 09:39:29 PM
Post by: pissclams on May 08, 2017, 10:17:26 PM
i wouldn't be surprised if a cow tried to lick the fire or eat it lol. a cow has a very low iq
Post by: chum1 on May 08, 2017, 10:23:30 PM
Post by: Skipper44 on May 09, 2017, 07:21:37 AM
Nice, have cows eat the plants and dead birds around them for extra cashcows will eat a dead bird?
Post by: steve dave on May 09, 2017, 12:40:39 PM
Nice, have cows eat the plants and dead birds around them for extra cashcows will eat a dead bird?
They'll eat anything, they are the goats of the animal kingdom.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 09, 2017, 02:12:47 PM
Post by: pissclams on May 09, 2017, 03:16:49 PM
what about the fire
check. mate. body bag delivered to sd courtesy of lsoc.
Post by: Shooter Jones on May 09, 2017, 03:27:15 PM
If a fire roars through, a jankity ass barbed wire fence will hold the cattle there while they roast.
And if the wind is blowing too fast, and the fact that cattle run like luis colon, they cannot outrun fire.
Post by: Emo EMAW on May 09, 2017, 05:53:00 PM
Post by: pissclams on May 09, 2017, 10:11:57 PM
Post by: slackcat on May 10, 2017, 05:12:12 AM
Slackcat sure looks like a big dumb idiot nowI know what an idiot.. more like eggonmyfacecat
:cry:
Post by: slackcat on May 10, 2017, 05:13:46 AM
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 10, 2017, 07:18:33 AM
do any of you sons of bitches have any scottish highland calfs? great looking cow, they are
I think the place I'm going to this weekend has these, will report back
Post by: pissclams on May 10, 2017, 08:34:58 AM
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the bull one looks a little mean but i bet he loves to be petted and nurtured with assorted treats and pleasantries
Post by: Gooch on May 10, 2017, 08:50:30 AM
Post by: pissclams on May 10, 2017, 08:51:51 AM
He needs a hair cut.
yeah because every cow wants to look like the mongloid cows that live in wisconsin
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Post by: Tobias on May 10, 2017, 08:56:42 AM
Post by: pissclams on May 10, 2017, 09:03:47 AM
steak?
hay?
milk?
bull rides?
what do they provide for the farmer/agriculture?
Post by: star seed 7 on May 10, 2017, 09:14:33 AM
Post by: Gooch on May 10, 2017, 09:15:52 AM
Post by: Cartierfor3 on May 10, 2017, 09:18:01 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 10, 2017, 09:21:35 AM
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Post by: slackcat on May 10, 2017, 11:41:53 AM
well that makes you one lucky son of a bitch, these things are probably the best looking cow i've seen yet
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the bull one looks a little mean but i bet he loves to be petted and nurtured with assorted treats and pleasantries
Think of the cockle burrs.
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Post by: pissclams on May 10, 2017, 12:01:25 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 10, 2017, 12:09:44 PM
Post by: kso_FAN on May 10, 2017, 12:18:18 PM
I bet that cow is always down for a quick game of hacky sack between classes in the quad.
Oh man, randos playing hacky sack on campus. I had forgotten all about that.
Post by: slackcat on May 10, 2017, 01:36:13 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 10, 2017, 09:34:42 PM
Hide would make a pretty boss coat.How do they grade and yield?
Tom
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Post by: slackcat on May 11, 2017, 06:27:30 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 25, 2017, 02:07:46 PM
Just got the 4020 restored. Need some parade ideas to give this tractor some run time on weekends.
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Post by: mocat on May 25, 2017, 02:21:22 PM
Post by: steve dave on May 25, 2017, 02:28:51 PM
Post by: IPA4Me on May 25, 2017, 02:35:06 PM
that's a lawn mower fwiw. you got scammed.Not everybody that farms is big ag elitist.
Post by: pissclams on May 25, 2017, 06:03:57 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 25, 2017, 06:22:21 PM
is that the kind that pops wheelies?
Not on purpose. Took the ROPS off so planning on keeping all four wheels on the ground.
Tom
Post by: star seed 7 on May 25, 2017, 06:59:59 PM
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Post by: Tobias on May 25, 2017, 08:01:59 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 25, 2017, 08:23:12 PM
How many bales can that toy pull?
In its day square bales were still a thing. 150 (6 rows x 25 bales) on a trailer. Big round bales came long, and I used to feed two at a time 1 on the front end loader 1 on the back three point spike. Used to haul 8 big round bales from field to feedlot.
Tom
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Post by: The Big Train on May 25, 2017, 09:30:50 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 25, 2017, 09:49:03 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 25, 2017, 09:54:52 PM
M
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Post by: Emo EMAW on May 26, 2017, 07:56:38 AM
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Post by: michigancat on May 26, 2017, 09:11:33 AM
Post by: mocat on May 26, 2017, 09:33:17 AM
Post by: michigancat on May 26, 2017, 09:35:41 AM
i bet thing smells incredible when it's all powered up
@tom is it a gas or a diesel?
OH I GUESS IT SAYS DIESEL ON THE SIDE
Post by: bubbles4ksu on May 26, 2017, 09:39:30 AM
That thing cost $10,345 back in 1972, which the inflation adjuster calculator says is $61k in current bucks.
Post by: WillieWatanabe on May 26, 2017, 09:55:19 AM
Post by: ben ji on May 26, 2017, 10:10:23 AM
A couple weeks ago me and a buddy were heading out to Colorado for a bachelor party. We left KC thursday night and were planning on staying at my grandparents old farm in Western KS that night before before leaving in the morning to complete the trip. My cousin currently lives on the farmhouse and warned us the road was muddy. My dad warned us that the road to the farmhouse was muddy but I told him my buddy's truck had 4wd.
What I failed to input into the equation was we were stupid city boys who didn't know how to drive in the mud. Got stuck at about 1130, 4 miles from town and 6 miles from the farmhouse. My cousin works nights so he couldn't pull us out until the morning. We tried to dig out for about 1 hr before we realized it was pointless and started drinking beer until we fell asleep.
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My cousin shows up the next morning, says "You city boys need some help?" and within 3 minutes we were unstuck.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 26, 2017, 01:56:12 PM
1972 Diesel with PowerShift transmission with side console.i bet thing smells incredible when it's all powered up
@tom is it a gas or a diesel?
OH I GUESS IT SAYS DIESEL ON THE SIDE
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Post by: Tobias on May 26, 2017, 02:55:33 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 26, 2017, 07:23:06 PM
i bet thing smells incredible when it's all powered up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRp7tYWnJJs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRp7tYWnJJs)
Tom
Post by: KSUBrian on May 26, 2017, 11:07:47 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 27, 2017, 12:11:27 AM
I would think restoring a tractor would be expensive.
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About half the cost of the wife's kitchen and family room renovation five years ago.
:Woohoo:
Tom
Post by: KST8FAN on May 27, 2017, 12:32:32 AM
What did you have to do for restoration
A lot time tracking down original parts (used a few aftermarket, but original where we could). My son and I did the light mechanical stuff. Credit to my oldest son for making connections with some great people who make a living doing this kind of stuff...
Heritage Tractor in Lawrence, KS. (parts)- it was Deems Farm Equipment- where dad bought the tractor originally.
Collin Sheeley in Nortonville, KS. (mechanical)- new wiring harness, PTO repair, fuel pump rebuild, compression test, gaskets
Don's Tractor Salvage in Beattie, KS. (parts)
Moonlight Restoration in Axtell, KS. (paint)
Tractor did not require a complete overhaul so that helped the budget a bunch. We spent a couple of years tracking down parts and getting it back into good working condition. Then we let the paint guys work their magic.
Tom
Post by: slackcat on May 27, 2017, 01:38:05 PM
Spent many hours on a 4020 and 3020, do NOT want to relive the times. :buh-bye:
Post by: Emo EMAW on May 28, 2017, 10:15:24 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 28, 2017, 10:40:33 PM
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Post by: WonderMeal on May 29, 2017, 11:42:05 PM
My grandpa used to pull the grandkids in his JD to go get ice cream. MamaWonderMeal would freak out about it.
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Post by: meow meow on May 30, 2017, 10:04:43 AM
steve dave = city slicker
Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 30, 2017, 10:06:13 AM
Post by: The Big Train on May 30, 2017, 12:36:38 PM
Should probably change this thread title to "Ask Tom". Tom has forgotten more about farming than steve dave will ever know.
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The "Ask Tom" forum that I frequent is v good but I think the gE version would surpass it in every way
Post by: KSUBrian on June 04, 2017, 12:46:57 PM
is that the kind that pops wheelies?
The 2 cylinder johnny-poppers with a hand clutch were best for popping wheelies.
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on September 29, 2017, 11:22:52 PM
I am cornfused as to what the problem is. If you can provide more info, perhaps I can provide some insight.
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Post by: star seed 7 on October 08, 2017, 05:15:14 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on October 08, 2017, 05:59:09 PM
How'd the youngin's get that all the way up to the top? :eek:Pulled it up the side with a rope. Tube was already up there. Angle iron frame weighed 75 lbs.
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Post by: bubbles4ksu on October 08, 2017, 06:05:10 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on October 08, 2017, 08:56:33 PM
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Post by: slackcat on October 09, 2017, 07:30:53 AM
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Post by: kslim on October 09, 2017, 12:33:14 PM
Post by: The Big Train on October 09, 2017, 09:04:25 PM
I’m glad everything worked out. I am a bit perplexed though on how this went so wrong. You had drawings, which I must admit, were not CAD drawings and maybe that’s where this went wrong. You modeled this thing out and it looks nothing like the model. My concern is that it might be unstable having two different fulcrums when it was modeled with one. Also the model just overlays the silo, and does not go into it. Hopefully everything is ok.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 10, 2017, 06:03:51 AM
Tom,Agreed final execution not in line with plans and model but outcome is solid af. More detailed drawings in chalk on farm shop floor not submitted for review. Minor measurement errors covered up with number 9 wire.
I’m glad everything worked out. I am a bit perplexed though on how this went so wrong. You had drawings, which I must admit, were not CAD drawings and maybe that’s where this went wrong. You modeled this thing out and it looks nothing like the model. My concern is that it might be unstable having two different fulcrums when it was modeled with one. Also the model just overlays the silo, and does not go into it. Hopefully everything is ok.
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Post by: IPA4Me on October 10, 2017, 06:07:44 AM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 10, 2017, 09:22:21 AM
Solid afyeah tom is quickly creeping into my top 5 fave posters
Post by: chum1 on October 10, 2017, 11:00:48 AM
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 10, 2017, 11:35:21 AM
Post by: The Big Train on October 10, 2017, 11:36:15 AM
Those aren't even fulcrums
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fulcrum
2. Any prop or support.
I think this is pretty CASE CLOSED those are fulcrums, mocatPE*
Post by: meow meow on October 10, 2017, 12:06:42 PM
Post by: chum1 on October 10, 2017, 12:09:50 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on October 10, 2017, 12:10:35 PM
I'm a bit concerned that the wires holding the pipe to the tripods looks a little thin. Can it handle the airloads imposed on a windy day?
Trust me, the wire will not be the failure point in a wind event. Most likely result is a tip over
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 10, 2017, 12:14:19 PM
I'm sure airloads were tested when Tom put the model in a wind tunnel.
Well the attachment design has changed since the model so the loading scenario in the wind tunnel was nothing like the real life case.
Trust me, the wire will not be the failure point in a wind event. Most likely result is a tip over
I can't tell for sure, but it appears that a bucket and two plastic bottles are the only thing holding this thing down....? :sdeek:
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Post by: puniraptor on October 10, 2017, 09:08:08 PM
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Post by: renocat on December 27, 2017, 02:35:31 PM
Why do farmers pull out in front of you when no one is behind you, then go 30 mph, and turn off in a 1/2 mile?
Post by: steve dave on December 28, 2017, 08:35:05 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on December 28, 2017, 04:54:03 PM
probably wanting to collect some insurance money when you ram him from behind
Why do farmers pull out in front of you when no one is behind you, then go 30 mph, and turn off in a 1/2 mile?
Post by: steve dave on December 28, 2017, 04:58:37 PM
probably wanting to collect some insurance money when you ram him from behind
Why do farmers pull out in front of you when no one is behind you, then go 30 mph, and turn off in a 1/2 mile?
No, I don’t think this is it. I’ve know farmers who have had 3rd degree burns over their entire Trunk, lost fingers, etc and all of them have been like “apology accepted” or “it was just bad luck”.
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Post by: pissclams on December 28, 2017, 04:59:41 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 28, 2017, 05:57:37 PM
what is a bell cow
like the boss one that all of the cows follow around for where to eat and crap. nobody uses that term anymore though. usually it's just "boss cow" in my experience. I may have actually coined the phrase though.
Post by: pissclams on December 28, 2017, 06:01:34 PM
color guy on the osu game just used the term
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Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 07:36:32 AM
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Kids,
What are your thoughts.
I need to make a decision by this weekend, an opportunity to buy some good land at below market price.
Here are the details.
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$2,675 / acre ($856,000 for 320 acres) Sept 23, 2015.
Current is $1,350 / acre.
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I've been chatting with banker. 35% down needed on farm loans, however can use existing land as collateral.
Interest rate is 5.18%. 80 x 1350 = $108,000
Crop est $2,400 / yr avg (2 crops in 3 yrs // 35 bu acre, wheat, 26 acres share, $4/bu).
COSTS / YR:
I am calculating about $5,600 / yr interest expense.
There is also property taxes, est $1,000.
Plus principle repayment about $5,400 / yr.
I am estimating cash flow needs for purchasing the property at about $12,000 / yr.
12,000 - 2,400 = $9,600 / yr additional monies needed to buy the property. (Assuming using farm as collateral).
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What do each of you think ?
Dad
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 07:42:53 AM
"You know what, I should really put up the farm I inherited free and clear to buy 80 more acres of dry crop land in the middle of a commodity downturn."
Post by: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 08:28:31 AM
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 09:11:35 AM
farmers love buying land. it's their favorite thing in the world. it's the truck nuts of the farming world, if you aren't buying land you are nothing.Yes. He has been talking about buying more land non stop since he inherited the farm. He is not even a real farmer (has not driven a tractor since the 70's and leases the land to my uncle).
I typed out a long response breaking down all the reasons it was a terrible investment but I doubt that sways him.
I'm going to call him tonight and tell him that if he puts the current farm up for collateral and loses it we will have no where to hide when the FBI takes down Trump, appoints Obama/Hillary as Interim president for life and the economy goes into a tailspin with riots all over the country. May also throw in the prospect of UN Peace Keepers on American soil, would definitely need a place out of the way to wait it all out.
Gotta speak his language!
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Post by: chum1 on January 25, 2018, 09:16:14 AM
His life is a bit of a mystery to me. Apparently, he goes to auctions at least sometimes, maybe lots for all I know. I mentioned it here before, but he told me Jordy Nelson has been buying a whole bunch of land around Manhattan and the local farm land owner people get pissed about it. Like, they know who his rep is and scowl when he bids or something.
Post by: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 09:21:37 AM
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Post by: wetwillie on January 25, 2018, 09:36:59 AM
the fact that your dad isn't 100% invested in crypto currency right now is very surprising to me tbh
Yea it's the snake venom of the currency world
Post by: yoga-like_abana on January 25, 2018, 09:39:35 AM
and every region of the state has their own evil land baron guy like in old west movies but irl. the guy will buy up all the land that goes on sale in the area and the other small time farmers lose their crap about it.you guys see the freaking andersons bought up the thompsons old land??
Post by: sys on January 25, 2018, 09:43:42 AM
Post by: Institutional Control on January 25, 2018, 09:45:44 AM
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 09:49:30 AM
ben ji, what county?Thomas
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Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 09:52:47 AM
the fact that your dad isn't 100% invested in crypto currency right now is very surprising to me tbhHe did buy some Bitcoin a month or two ago, have not heard him talk about it recently.
Also he was day trading some penny stock and made 30k in a day. For about 24 hrs that is what he was going to use as his down payment on the land, spent a whole dinner talking about it ....but then he didn't sell it and my mom texted me the next day to tell me the stock had crashed and he was back to even.
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Post by: sys on January 25, 2018, 09:55:24 AM
gives you a cap rate of about 4%, which is below your cost of capital. that's a pretty poor investment, you'd just be betting on land price inflation.
i'd still consider it, if i lived there and the land was contiguous with my other property. you gotta spend your money on something.
Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2018, 10:44:40 AM
Post by: star seed 7 on January 25, 2018, 10:46:10 AM
Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2018, 10:51:08 AM
Is that cheap, expensive, or normal?Seems expensive. I also don't understand how income calculation at all.
Post by: mhkpasa on January 25, 2018, 10:51:37 AM
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For 2016, Kansas' state-wide average price is $3,000 per acre, a 10.4% decline from 2015.
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Post by: star seed 7 on January 25, 2018, 11:04:35 AM
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 11:33:16 AM
1350 and 80 acresCorrect. He thinks it's a great deal since the price of the land was double that a couple years ago.
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Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 11:38:45 AM
80 acres yielding 34 bushels per acre at $4 a bushel. He leases it to someone else and gets 1/3 of the profit so around 3,590 to him per year it is farmed. It lays fallow 1/3 years so his yearly avg is around $2400.Is that cheap, expensive, or normal?Seems expensive. I also don't understand how income calculation at all.
Now that I just did the math again I'm wondering if he even accounted for input costs (seed/fertilizer/harvest/ etc). This is looking even worse than I thought.
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Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2018, 11:43:42 AM
80 acres yielding 34 bushels per acre at $4 a bushel. He leases it to someone else and gets 1/3 of the profit so around 3,590 to him per year it is farmed. It lays fallow 1/3 years so his yearly avg is around $2400.Is that cheap, expensive, or normal?Seems expensive. I also don't understand how income calculation at all.
Now that I just did the math again I'm wondering if he even accounted for input costs (seed/fertilizer/harvest/ etc). This is looking even worse than I thought.
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got it....yeah probably a bad idea. another thing to consider is how close was the land that went for 2600? Has he seen it or is he basing his yield estimates off of historical data? I know where I grew up you can have great land like across the road from absolute dogshit land.
Post by: _33 on January 25, 2018, 11:55:44 AM
Post by: _33 on January 25, 2018, 12:02:51 PM
80 acres yielding 34 bushels per acre at $4 a bushel. He leases it to someone else and gets 1/3 of the profit so around 3,590 to him per year it is farmed. It lays fallow 1/3 years so his yearly avg is around $2400.Is that cheap, expensive, or normal?Seems expensive. I also don't understand how income calculation at all.
Now that I just did the math again I'm wondering if he even accounted for input costs (seed/fertilizer/harvest/ etc). This is looking even worse than I thought.
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got it....yeah probably a bad idea. another thing to consider is how close was the land that went for 2600? Has he seen it or is he basing his yield estimates off of historical data? I know where I grew up you can have great land like across the road from absolute dogshit land.
Isn't it the same land as the $2600 but the price has dropped in the last couple years?
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 12:03:57 PM
Yes, it was the same land that was valued at $2600 per acre in 2015.80 acres yielding 34 bushels per acre at $4 a bushel. He leases it to someone else and gets 1/3 of the profit so around 3,590 to him per year it is farmed. It lays fallow 1/3 years so his yearly avg is around $2400.Is that cheap, expensive, or normal?Seems expensive. I also don't understand how income calculation at all.
Now that I just did the math again I'm wondering if he even accounted for input costs (seed/fertilizer/harvest/ etc). This is looking even worse than I thought.
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got it....yeah probably a bad idea. another thing to consider is how close was the land that went for 2600? Has he seen it or is he basing his yield estimates off of historical data? I know where I grew up you can have great land like across the road from absolute dogshit land.
Isn't it the same land as the $2600 but the price has dropped in the last couple years?
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Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2018, 12:12:25 PM
Yes, it was the same land that was valued at $2600 per acre in 2015.80 acres yielding 34 bushels per acre at $4 a bushel. He leases it to someone else and gets 1/3 of the profit so around 3,590 to him per year it is farmed. It lays fallow 1/3 years so his yearly avg is around $2400.Is that cheap, expensive, or normal?Seems expensive. I also don't understand how income calculation at all.
Now that I just did the math again I'm wondering if he even accounted for input costs (seed/fertilizer/harvest/ etc). This is looking even worse than I thought.
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got it....yeah probably a bad idea. another thing to consider is how close was the land that went for 2600? Has he seen it or is he basing his yield estimates off of historical data? I know where I grew up you can have great land like across the road from absolute dogshit land.
Isn't it the same land as the $2600 but the price has dropped in the last couple years?
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but it was sold as 320 acres in 2015? so like, what if he gets the shitty 80 acres?
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 12:15:40 PM
It's a 160 acre section my grandfather used to own. My aunt and uncle split it while dividing the estate. My uncle now wants to sell his 80 acres and my dad wants to buy it.Yes, it was the same land that was valued at $2600 per acre in 2015.80 acres yielding 34 bushels per acre at $4 a bushel. He leases it to someone else and gets 1/3 of the profit so around 3,590 to him per year it is farmed. It lays fallow 1/3 years so his yearly avg is around $2400.Is that cheap, expensive, or normal?Seems expensive. I also don't understand how income calculation at all.
Now that I just did the math again I'm wondering if he even accounted for input costs (seed/fertilizer/harvest/ etc). This is looking even worse than I thought.
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got it....yeah probably a bad idea. another thing to consider is how close was the land that went for 2600? Has he seen it or is he basing his yield estimates off of historical data? I know where I grew up you can have great land like across the road from absolute dogshit land.
Isn't it the same land as the $2600 but the price has dropped in the last couple years?
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but it was sold as 320 acres in 2015? so like, what if he gets the shitty 80 acres?
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Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 12:29:41 PM
Has dad said anything about buying more farmland? Phil has offered to sell his to Rita and/or dad and dad thinks it is to good of a deal to pass up.
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Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2018, 12:55:37 PM
Post by: pissclams on January 25, 2018, 12:59:38 PM
a big warehouse, think costco size. inside said warehouse- layers and layers of crops being nourished by hydro.
this is a new future of farmers who were bred in the laboratory, not western kansas (sry tod). no worries about hail storms
Post by: DQ12 on January 25, 2018, 01:07:11 PM
mind’s eye this crap you guys-plants need sun, dinkus
a big warehouse, think costco size. inside said warehouse- layers and layers of crops being nourished by hydro.
this is a new future of farmers who were bred in the laboratory, not western kansas (sry tod). no worries about hail storms
Post by: meow meow on January 25, 2018, 01:08:55 PM
Post by: pissclams on January 25, 2018, 01:10:51 PM
costco is what, maybe 1 acre :lol:that’s why the layers are stacked
Post by: meow meow on January 25, 2018, 01:11:33 PM
Post by: pissclams on January 25, 2018, 01:13:57 PM
did you go to k state? because sometimes i’m not suremind’s eye this crap you guys-plants need sun, dinkus
a big warehouse, think costco size. inside said warehouse- layers and layers of crops being nourished by hydro.
this is a new future of farmers who were bred in the laboratory, not western kansas (sry tod). no worries about hail storms
we design seeds everyday, dipshit
new seed- no sun needed, or water. seriously some people just want to live in a cage, others like elon musk and I dream bigger
Post by: pissclams on January 25, 2018, 01:14:44 PM
so like 5 acres of corn then?see above
Post by: pissclams on January 25, 2018, 01:21:45 PM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on January 25, 2018, 01:24:02 PM
Post by: sys on January 25, 2018, 01:32:59 PM
It's a 160 acre section my grandfather used to own. My aunt and uncle split it while dividing the estate. My uncle now wants to sell his 80 acres and my dad wants to buy it.
you should have mentioned that it was your family's land from the start. of course your father should buy it.
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 01:43:34 PM
He already has 640 acres that has the family home on it (mainly pasture). This is a couple of miles down the road and my grandfather did not own it until the 80's when my dad had moved to the big city with his computer job. He has no emotional connection to the land.It's a 160 acre section my grandfather used to own. My aunt and uncle split it while dividing the estate. My uncle now wants to sell his 80 acres and my dad wants to buy it.
you should have mentioned that it was your family's land from the start. of course your father should buy it.
I am worried that he will put the main farm that does have emotional value to our family and lose that.
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Post by: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 02:00:20 PM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 25, 2018, 02:08:46 PM
That's an amazing deal, Ben Ji. My grandparents farm went for the initial cost per acre your dad first stated. http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=39805.msg1771877#msg1771877 He should jump on that if he likes the responsibility for that type of stuff.QuoteKids,
What are your thoughts.
I need to make a decision by this weekend, an opportunity to buy some good land at below market price.
Here are the details.
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$2,675 / acre ($856,000 for 320 acres) Sept 23, 2015.
Current is $1,350 / acre.
=====================
I've been chatting with banker. 35% down needed on farm loans, however can use existing land as collateral.
Interest rate is 5.18%. 80 x 1350 = $108,000
Crop est $2,400 / yr avg (2 crops in 3 yrs // 35 bu acre, wheat, 26 acres share, $4/bu).
COSTS / YR:
I am calculating about $5,600 / yr interest expense.
There is also property taxes, est $1,000.
Plus principle repayment about $5,400 / yr.
I am estimating cash flow needs for purchasing the property at about $12,000 / yr.
12,000 - 2,400 = $9,600 / yr additional monies needed to buy the property. (Assuming using farm as collateral).
===============================
What do each of you think ?
Dad
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 25, 2018, 02:14:11 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on January 25, 2018, 02:22:30 PM
when I inherit a shitload of western ks land the first thing I'm going to do is sell it to the areas rich land baron. it'll include all of the cows, tractors, houses, the works. and it's a take it all or nothing deal. also he has to box up and ship to me all my baseball cards that are in the basement of one of the houses (these are not part of the deal obv). and I know all the good ones in there so he better not try to swipe any. I've got this thing planned out.sd you should start posting more again. I forgot that you are pretty funny
Post by: Kat Kid on January 25, 2018, 02:23:16 PM
when I inherit a shitload of western ks land the first thing I'm going to do is sell it to the areas rich land baron. it'll include all of the cows, tractors, houses, the works. and it's a take it all or nothing deal. also he has to box up and ship to me all my baseball cards that are in the basement of one of the houses (these are not part of the deal obv). and I know all the good ones in there so he better not try to swipe any. I've got this thing planned out.
isn't farmer sd bro going to try and buy city slicker bros out?
Post by: Cartierfor3 on January 25, 2018, 02:30:40 PM
when I inherit a shitload of western ks land the first thing I'm going to do is sell it to the areas rich land baron. it'll include all of the cows, tractors, houses, the works. and it's a take it all or nothing deal. also he has to box up and ship to me all my baseball cards that are in the basement of one of the houses (these are not part of the deal obv). and I know all the good ones in there so he better not try to swipe any. I've got this thing planned out.
what are the good ones? like a frank thomas rookie or a couple of sweet jose cansecos or what are we talking here
Post by: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 02:44:40 PM
Post by: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 02:45:36 PM
when I inherit a shitload of western ks land the first thing I'm going to do is sell it to the areas rich land baron. it'll include all of the cows, tractors, houses, the works. and it's a take it all or nothing deal. also he has to box up and ship to me all my baseball cards that are in the basement of one of the houses (these are not part of the deal obv). and I know all the good ones in there so he better not try to swipe any. I've got this thing planned out.
isn't farmer sd bro going to try and buy city slicker bros out?
I'll muscle him into selling. I'm the brains of this operation.
Post by: Cartierfor3 on January 25, 2018, 02:49:29 PM
jeter upperdeck rookie, bash brothers rookies, shaq rookies (hoops and upper deck), griffey rookies (fleer and upper deck), thousands of trash topps cards (he can keep these for all I care), bo jackson signed card, a bunch of remade old babe ruth cards that I roughed up and put in cases to make my friends think they were legit (sentimental value here), it goes on. essentially if you were a kid in the 90s I've got what you crave.
those are v good
Post by: sys on January 25, 2018, 02:50:27 PM
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Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 04:18:31 PM
My dad was just talking about how some baron bought 1200 acres a few hobby farms away from him. That seems like an excessive amount of acresDid you see the numbers my dad ran? Basically the only way to make any money farming is to own a crap ton of land. (Also milk the government teat for all it's worth)
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 25, 2018, 04:20:34 PM
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Post by: mocat on January 25, 2018, 04:45:32 PM
Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2018, 05:00:22 PM
You could keep about 40-60 adult male cougars in there.
this estimate seems high for some reason
Post by: wetwillie on January 25, 2018, 05:07:23 PM
Post by: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 06:10:25 PM
You could keep about 40-60 adult male cougars in there.
Like, 2 irl maybe
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Post by: CHONGS on January 25, 2018, 06:12:03 PM
Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2018, 06:31:15 PM
Post by: sys on January 25, 2018, 08:55:54 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 09:00:28 PM
TL:DR - I think I talked him out of buying this 80 Acres by convincing him to purchase the 320 Acres directly next to the current farm when my Aunt wants to sell or passes away.
Talked to my dad tonight about it and while I still think its a terrible idea its not as bad as I originally thought. He currently makes around 7k per year leasing the land he already owns (although it was lower this year due to some insurance deductibles) that he would use to pay off the TWENTY :sdeek: year loan. This brings the yearly payments down to a more managable 2-3 thousand per year ($12,000 yearly payment - $2400 estimated income - $7000 current income from land already owned)
He claimed to have 3 Aces up his sleeve
1. Wind Turbines - Last year he signed a lease with an energy company for the right to put up wind turbines. Currently gets maybe $1,000 a year but if they actually build some turbines it could be closer to 8-10k.
2. Breakout 200 Acres of Pasture into Cropland to bring in additional income. The current farm has around 400 acres of pastureland and around 200 acres of that could be turned into dry cropland. My uncle is currently in year 3 of a 5 year lease on the land and runs cattle on the pasture so its nothing that would happen soon. This has been his #1 plan ever since he inherited the farm. I always counter with "If its such a good idea why hasn't it been done in the past 100 years" but looking at the farm on google maps its literally the only large chunk of pasture land within 5 miles so maybe it can work.
3. Flip the land and sell it for $2000 an acre. He claims that he could currently sell it to someone right now for $2000 per acre but that my uncle wont sell it to this guy because he hates him for some reason. "This 80 Acres is part of the best quarter in that section, when grandpa passed away someone offered to buy it the next week". He would never actually do this though because as Steve Dave pointed out earlier farmers only like buying land.
My advice was to not count on any additional money from the Wind Turbines until they actually start construction. If they do build the Turbines save the money and if he still wants to buy more land when my Aunt sells or passes away (She is 6 years older and does not inject snake venom) then he will have a down payment and more farm revenue coming in to purchase her 320 acres that are contiguous with the current farm.
Long story short I have no idea how anyone makes any money farming.
Post by: sys on January 25, 2018, 09:05:20 PM
Post by: wetwillie on January 25, 2018, 09:18:05 PM
ben ji, what county?Thomas
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Hunting lease might get him some extra scratch too
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 09:21:51 PM
ben ji, what county?Thomas
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Hunting lease might get him some extra scratch too
How much for 400 acres of pasture? I assume Pheasant/quail?
Post by: wetwillie on January 25, 2018, 09:27:06 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2018, 09:36:55 PM
Any decent timbered areas on or adjacent to it? What about ponds?
Its western ks. There is a "Creek" that "runs" through the back portion of the pasture but does not normally have water in it. There are maybe 5 "trees" along it. There are a bunch of wind break tree's by the actual house.
Post by: wetwillie on January 25, 2018, 09:39:34 PM
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Post by: sys on January 25, 2018, 11:03:15 PM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on January 26, 2018, 08:30:16 AM
Long story short I have no idea how anyone makes any money farming.
It probably works a little bit better when you farm the land yourself and keep 100% of the revenue instead of 2/3.
Post by: ben ji on January 26, 2018, 08:45:44 AM
super pro tip on whether someone is going to ask you if they can pay you to put a wind turbine on your western ks land. look up, if there's a high-voltage transmission line there, the answer is yes. otherwise no.Thanks, I will pass this along.
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Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:13:25 PM
Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:24:07 PM
(https://www.macsautoparts.com/assets/macs/images/size/265x265/sku/64-24379.jpg)
so there are over a million of them on all kinds of plows, tractors, swather things that eat the hay, you name it. if you use it to farm cows or plants it's got grease zerks. you use a grease gun with giant tubes of lube to squirt it into them like every 4 hours you use the thing that has them. this is the gun.
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1853/1277/products/Pistol_grip_grease_gun_1200x.jpg?v=1507566753)
it's an enormous pain in the ass and it's always hot as crap and there are bugs everywhere when you do it. here's what I figured out on my own though. it's fake news. you don't have to do it. I've gone literally a month without grease gunning a grease zerk and nothing mostly broke. I'm pretty sure it's a scam from big grease.
Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:25:12 PM
me: yep (nope)
Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:31:14 PM
Post by: The Big Train on January 26, 2018, 10:34:44 PM
you know what else they care about? grease zerks (technical farmer thing I'll explain). these are them:
(https://www.macsautoparts.com/assets/macs/images/size/265x265/sku/64-24379.jpg)
so there are over a million of them on all kinds of plows, tractors, swather things that eat the hay, you name it. if you use it to farm cows or plants it's got grease zerks. you use a grease gun with giant tubes of lube to squirt it into them like every 4 hours you use the thing that has them. this is the gun.
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1853/1277/products/Pistol_grip_grease_gun_1200x.jpg?v=1507566753)
it's an enormous pain in the ass and it's always hot as crap and there are bugs everywhere when you do it. here's what I figured out on my own though. it's fake news. you don't have to do it. I've gone literally a month without grease gunning a grease zerk and nothing mostly broke. I'm pretty sure it's a scam from big grease.
How do you farm cows :confused:
Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:35:45 PM
WHICH REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER THING! don't call the tractor gas, gas. it's "fuel". :jerk:
Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:36:06 PM
you know what else they care about? grease zerks (technical farmer thing I'll explain). these are them:
(https://www.macsautoparts.com/assets/macs/images/size/265x265/sku/64-24379.jpg)
so there are over a million of them on all kinds of plows, tractors, swather things that eat the hay, you name it. if you use it to farm cows or plants it's got grease zerks. you use a grease gun with giant tubes of lube to squirt it into them like every 4 hours you use the thing that has them. this is the gun.
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it's an enormous pain in the ass and it's always hot as crap and there are bugs everywhere when you do it. here's what I figured out on my own though. it's fake news. you don't have to do it. I've gone literally a month without grease gunning a grease zerk and nothing mostly broke. I'm pretty sure it's a scam from big grease.
How do you farm cows :confused:
with bulls (boy cows)
Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:37:36 PM
sdgrandpa (Unit 1 on farmer cell): I HOPE YOU DIDN'T FILL IT WITH GAS!
me (Unit 8 still): JFC grandpa :jerk:
Post by: The Big Train on January 26, 2018, 10:37:55 PM
you know what else they care about? grease zerks (technical farmer thing I'll explain). these are them:
(https://www.macsautoparts.com/assets/macs/images/size/265x265/sku/64-24379.jpg)
so there are over a million of them on all kinds of plows, tractors, swather things that eat the hay, you name it. if you use it to farm cows or plants it's got grease zerks. you use a grease gun with giant tubes of lube to squirt it into them like every 4 hours you use the thing that has them. this is the gun.
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1853/1277/products/Pistol_grip_grease_gun_1200x.jpg?v=1507566753)
it's an enormous pain in the ass and it's always hot as crap and there are bugs everywhere when you do it. here's what I figured out on my own though. it's fake news. you don't have to do it. I've gone literally a month without grease gunning a grease zerk and nothing mostly broke. I'm pretty sure it's a scam from big grease.
How do you farm cows :confused:
with bulls (boy cows)
Bulls have grease zerks? :confused:
Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:43:22 PM
me (Unit 8 on two way radio, basically farmer cell phone): I filled the tractor with gas
sdgrandpa (Unit 1 on farmer cell): I HOPE YOU DIDN'T FILL IT WITH GAS!
me (Unit 8 still): JFC grandpa :jerk:
which also reminds me of two way radios. like we had our own tower deal and we had unit numbers. nobody else could hear us talk on them except us. sdgrandpa was "Unit 1", sddad was "Unit 2", etc. I was down the line after the designated cowboys and whatnot at "Unit 8". You had code words on it. Like 10-7, 10-8, they all meant something, I don't remember. like you were going to go away from the radio, or were back by it, whatever. you had to say the 10-7 or whatever the call sign was. I never did the thing to leave or come back. they got steamed all the time because they were looking for me or didn't know I was back available to talk or something. idiots.
Post by: steve dave on January 26, 2018, 10:47:29 PM
me (Unit 8 on two way radio, basically farmer cell phone): I filled the tractor with gas
sdgrandpa (Unit 1 on farmer cell): I HOPE YOU DIDN'T FILL IT WITH GAS!
me (Unit 8 still): JFC grandpa :jerk:
which also reminds me of two way radios. like we had our own tower deal and we had unit numbers. nobody else could hear us talk on them except us. sdgrandpa was "Unit 1", sddad was "Unit 2", etc. I was down the line after the designated cowboys and whatnot at "Unit 8". You had code words on it. Like 10-7, 10-8, they all meant something, I don't remember. like you were going to go away from the radio, or were back by it, whatever. you had to say the 10-7 or whatever the call sign was. I never did the thing to leave or come back. they got steamed all the time because they were looking for me or didn't know I was back available to talk or something. idiots.
and sddad had a phone number (this was pre-cell phones, at least pre-cell phones in western KS) that would call the house and if he didn't answer it went to his two way radio. and if he didn't answer that his pickup started honking the horn to let him know someone was calling him. it was irl cutting edge crap for the day. but if he answered on his radio he still had to push the button on the radio to talk like a walkie talkie.
Post by: Catchacold on January 26, 2018, 10:54:48 PM
Old lady screaming into the thing: (redacted) PICK ME UP SOME PEPTO BISMOL AT THE STORE!!
(redacted) : 10-4 hun
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Post by: steve dave on January 27, 2018, 01:14:11 AM
They have battery powered grease guns now sd and it makes grease zerking major pud
if I had to get outside I still wouldn't do it. it's 2018, this shouldn't be a thing.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on January 28, 2018, 10:44:08 AM
Are you an evil land baron?
BE HONEST
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Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2018, 01:08:50 PM
Steve Dave, did your family upgrade to the Nextel push to talk cell phone/walkie talkies in the early 2000s like all the farmers I know?
no, went to combo of two way radios and just regular cell phones. I was the first kid in HS to have a cell phone. it was not as giant as zac morris's but was plenty giant. would fit in my pocket but the antenna stuck out. sddad had that one and one of the vehicle ones on a stand. still honked his pickup horn if he didn't answer though. don't know the exact date of letting the two way radio die out. I was in college by then.
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on January 30, 2018, 10:23:23 PM
the forwarding missed calls to the truck horn thing is irl mind blowing to me
It's a thing. I had a buddy who took his dad's truck hunting once and it was doing it all the time.
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not as wild as the truck honking but tons of my farm friends had a super loud bell that rang on the outside of their house when the landline inside rang.Our fat center had a big mudding truck and a dixie horn for it and would blow it every time he showed up to school. #EudoraStuff
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tom, that thing probably hasn't had it's zerks greased in 20 years.LOL. Cousin wondered why I was laughing as he greased that skid steer on Saturday... then he sent me to the shop to get a zerk to replace one he broke off loading hay. I had to help him get the grease gun working.
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Post by: ben ji on February 06, 2018, 05:52:26 AM
what kind of job, and what has he done in the past?IT, he maintained servers or something that is the exact opposite of farming.
Post by: meow meow on February 06, 2018, 08:19:16 AM
what kind of job, and what has he done in the past?IT, he maintained servers or something that is the exact opposite of farming.
sounds like a complete stud who should post here
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Post by: ben ji on February 10, 2018, 11:42:09 AM
super pro tip on whether someone is going to ask you if they can pay you to put a wind turbine on your western ks land. look up, if there's a high-voltage transmission line there, the answer is yes. otherwise no.
So I asked my Dad about this and his reply was "Yes, there are some by Mingo". Welp, looks like he is right. I did some googling and found this neat little website from the department of Energy that shows pretty much anything you could imagine. https://www.eia.gov/state/maps.php
There is a substation in Mingo and a high voltage power line (115kv) 1 mile away from the farm. I found the closest wind farm on the map and it was right next to a 115kv power line as well.
Now if we can just get OBAMA or someone who supports renewable energy back in office we can start rolling in that sweet sweet windfarm money. :kstategrad:
Post by: KST8FAN on February 10, 2018, 07:49:43 PM
Ben ji
Are there turbines in Thomas County now? Didn't realize there were so many projects in the works.
Tom
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Post by: GregKSU1027 on February 23, 2018, 01:13:00 AM
That's just a cow that's not good at martial artsthere are 4 breeds of cows. hereford, angus, white, white with black spots.What about black with white belts?
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Post by: GregKSU1027 on February 23, 2018, 01:37:17 AM
jeter upperdeck rookie, bash brothers rookies, shaq rookies (hoops and upper deck), griffey rookies (fleer and upper deck), thousands of trash topps cards (he can keep these for all I care), bo jackson signed card, a bunch of remade old babe ruth cards that I roughed up and put in cases to make my friends think they were legit (sentimental value here), it goes on. essentially if you were a kid in the 90s I've got what you crave.Take it to the collection thread
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Post by: mocat on February 23, 2018, 08:56:17 AM
That's just a cow that's not good at martial artsthere are 4 breeds of cows. hereford, angus, white, white with black spots.What about black with white belts?
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discushatchery.com%2Fcow2.jpg&hash=f685b354d090657cec859144dc648c655c12f098)
:lol:
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Post by: mhkpasa on March 21, 2018, 04:42:26 PM
is john deere really the best or are they just the harley davidson of tractors
they definitely have quality machines - but definitely push the merch way harder than any other brand.
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Post by: Skipper44 on March 26, 2018, 10:05:19 PM
is john deere really the best or are they just the harley davidson of tractorsthe large dealer network and parts availability are a big part of their dominance and they are much more of a innovator than HD
Post by: meow meow on March 27, 2018, 08:17:50 AM
@ me
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Post by: michigancat on March 27, 2018, 10:59:25 AM
wow, that's crazy. i can't believe milo is more profitable than wheat.It isn't for my dad's farm. But wheat has been pretty awful the last couple of years. He's growing more canola now.
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 15, 2018, 12:56:12 PM
Hmm, I wonder how close to large transmission lines they are talking. My parents have a few hundred acres on the eastern edge of the flint hills which is just pastureland right now within 5-10 miles of large transmission lines.
too far, sounds like crap
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 15, 2018, 10:04:36 PM
Tom- how effective do you think this would be?Seems legit. I must admit I had to read up on this. Replace herbicide and insecticide with fire. Get the crop up and a canopy established. Supplement with another burn or traditional cultivation. I may have to buy a 6 row cultivator for the old 4020 and advertise my services to organic farms.
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Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on May 15, 2018, 10:12:07 PM
150 acres x 1250 per acre per year is roughly 190k a year. I say you do it Tom.
They use like 5 acres, but still better than you can do farming it.
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on May 15, 2018, 10:13:41 PM
it costs like 200-1000k to build a mile of new transmission line. plus they have to get (buy) permission from every landowner the new line would cross. so proximity is worth a lot.
They don't run transmission line to the farm r-tard they just prefer 3 phase, which is like 50k a mile to run.
Post by: sys on May 16, 2018, 07:49:06 AM
it costs like 200-1000k to build a mile of new transmission line. plus they have to get (buy) permission from every landowner the new line would cross. so proximity is worth a lot.
They don't run transmission line to the farm r-tard they just prefer 3 phase, which is like 50k a mile to run.
this is another one of those things where i know what i'm talking about and you don't.
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Post by: ben ji on May 18, 2018, 09:30:31 AM
Hi ben ji,
Success in life is all about overcoming challenges.
Those who overcome the biggest, have the best success.
Sometimes "success" can be measured in income, sometimes in health.
When you have your health, you have everything.
One day you will understand the value of venom therapy.
I'll show you the Eastern KS bee yards and you can do your first venom therapy trial.
Did you know that the reason goat meat is not found at grocery stores is that there is not enough supply ?
Young goats (50 lb) are selling for $150 each. A 200 lb buck goes for about $175 - 200. You can get twins on the goats with flock management over a few years.
When mom gets ready to milk goats we can get a couple dairy goats.
The meat goats are the market. I am still learning about the various breeds and their characteristics, but am leaning toward a Boer goat operation. I also am investigating a pellet machine (mixes alfalfa, feed, grain into smaller sized feed pellets for goats, sheep). This minimizes waste. I could sell pellets to other sheep/goat breeders. May put a half circle into non GMO alfalfa. The other half would be grain (wheat, milo, corn).
Running 1,000 head of goats would yield a revenue of $300,000 of which 50% would be profit. In such a case I'd leave the pasture "as is" for the most part.
Dad
Put some thought into my "health" comments and make some positive changes.
Post by: pissclams on May 18, 2018, 09:59:44 AM
Post by: ben ji on May 18, 2018, 10:34:25 AM
It is definitely a market to look into. I'm pretty sure K-State does research on Meat Goats and you could probably contact the extension agent or Kstate directly and they will tell you all about meat goats.
My only concern is if they could survive a bad winter.
To make more money you might look into selling goats directly to the Hispanic populations of Southwest KS by the meat packing plants. They can slaughter it themselves.
Post by: ben ji on May 18, 2018, 10:35:34 AM
Hi ben ji,
KSU just opened its new "Goat and Sheep" center.
Yes, I will communicate with the new KSU center.
Goat breeder in Lexington NE has 400 head and never takes them to the sale barn. Demand is big enough they come to him. That would be about 600 head / yr.
I will tour some KS goat operations. Nephew Eric has offered me a tour of one or two operations near Holyrood.
May turn Logan into a goat herder in 10 yrs when his knees give out. His espanol is good enough he can supervise Juan.
Mom is sure going to love fresh goat cheese. Her friends will all want some.
Post by: ben ji on May 18, 2018, 10:36:10 AM
Post by: ChiComCat on May 18, 2018, 10:45:52 AM
I'm not sure how difficult it is to do anything Halal or if your dad would entertain such an idea, but I would think there is a Muslim population that would be interested in your goats.
Post by: ben ji on May 18, 2018, 11:03:43 AM
I want to understand their operation - size, wintering, having little ones, feeding, containing, shots, plus the accounting side - expenses, revenues, labor.
I want to understand why they are raising the breed(s) they are raising. Seems most at the sale barn have mix breeds.
One guy up at Oberlin uses Kiki bucks and has mixed doe's. Electric fence and woven fence are used for containment.
Phase one at the farm is to fence off the farm itself to use the goat for weed control (including the lawn). A female lama (cost about $150-200) is best protection. A sheep dog is also good. Donkey works also.
Dad
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I know a meade, ks sheep (basically a goat that's fuzzy) farmer who has a donkey with the sheep. apparently to chase away coyotes or whatever. coyotes are super small and pud and I'm pretty sure a full grown sheep would kick ones ass but better safe than sorry I guess.He setup game cameras around the farm mainly to keep an eye on who is coming and going but sends out pictures of the different animals.
Coyote! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180518/7d98d4aedbba34462d5c78ec9a5b5ff3.jpg)
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ben ji did he buy that land he was looking at?
Negative, talked him out of it......and now he realizes the real money is in Meat Goats :pray:
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Post by: schreds21 on May 20, 2018, 09:38:28 PM
45 x 48 concrete pad for barn. How thick should I make it and how many yards will that be?Are you parking equipment on it?
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 20, 2018, 09:42:25 PM
Yes.45 x 48 concrete pad for barn. How thick should I make it and how many yards will that be?Are you parking equipment on it?
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on July 07, 2018, 05:44:30 PM
Started the day off feeding the barn cats!
Lady got some too! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180707/d09b846b27dd29841543332f0fd8e838.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180707/475dec3f6161a21ff9959e84e2e4ab89.jpg)
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Post by: ben ji on July 07, 2018, 05:52:55 PM
Whatevs
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what a great update
Post by: ben ji on July 08, 2018, 04:48:09 PM
When we were driving around the pasture my dad kept stopping and using hand clippers to cut what he called "Musk Thistle". He called it Pasture management and told me how Musk Thistle is an invasive species and you need to keep it out of the pasture etc etc. We filled up about 2 tubs worth in the back of his truck. We got back to the farm to burn them and my uncle (Who leases the land and is a real farmer) was there with my cousin. My dad told him about all the "Musk Thistle" he found in the pasture and he should probably check for it. My Uncles told him he sprayed a couple 2 weeks ago and looked in the back of the truck.....he started chuckling and said "That's prairie thistle, you can let it be" :ROFL: Later when we went back out to the pasture to pew pew my dad cut some more prairie thistle just to spite my uncle :ROFL: :ROFL:
Lady is a total city dog. Hated riding in the back of the truck and every time we stopped she would jump in the front seat. I would have to pick her up and carry her to the bed of the truck.
The wind farm thing might actually happen. My dad is staying at the farm for a couple more days because there is a "Celebration" dinner on Tuesday since they are moving from the pre construction phase to the construction phase. Supposed to have 1v1's with the land owners to schedule the start of construction etc.
After dinner on saturday my dad told me to keep the skillet on, I asked why and he said he was going to cook some hot dogs for the cats. He sliced up a pack (.79 cents at aldi or something "Cheaper than actual catfood!") and cooked the hot dogs then brought them out to the barn cats. He feeds them twice a day when he's out there, Usually whatever his leftovers are mixed with hot dogs then milk poured over it......They do seem to enjoy it though. Currently around 5-7 adults and 10 kittens.
Wildlife Sightings - One coyote running across the pasture over the hill. Like 4 burrowing owls and 2 owl holes. A metric ton of Rabbits near the house, lady chased and chased but to no avail. Cows! Burros and Miniature horses(My Uncles)! All kinds of Birds! And holy hell I was not expecting that many mosquitoes in western KS, just an absurd number of them in the windbreaks by the house.
Post by: sys on July 08, 2018, 04:53:58 PM
Post by: wetwillie on July 08, 2018, 05:17:51 PM
i can't wait until i have enough money to pretend farm.
Its the American dream, I share it as well.
Post by: ben ji on July 08, 2018, 10:08:23 PM
i can't wait until i have enough money to pretend farm.
Its the American dream, I share it as well.
It helps if you are retired and inherit some of your parents land. He is having a great time out there though so I'm happy for him.
Post by: steve dave on July 09, 2018, 08:33:21 AM
i can't wait until i have enough money to pretend farm.
Its the American dream, I share it as well.
It helps if you are retired and inherit some of your parents land. He is having a great time out there though so I'm happy for him.
I'm going to inherit shitloads of land and I'm immediately selling (or leasing) the living crap out of it.
Post by: ben ji on July 09, 2018, 08:42:26 AM
My dad had no intention of ever "farming" again when he was your age but as the Darcy from varsity blues once said "Things Change Mox".i can't wait until i have enough money to pretend farm.
Its the American dream, I share it as well.
It helps if you are retired and inherit some of your parents land. He is having a great time out there though so I'm happy for him.
I'm going to inherit shitloads of land and I'm immediately selling (or leasing) the living crap out of it.
Can't wait until SD spends the summer of 2048 in SW KS reading books about how President Sasha Obama is Ruining America more than her father and second guessing his leasee's farming decisions.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on July 09, 2018, 09:57:31 AM
I'm planning on leasing the hobby farm that I inherit.
hell yes. Don't sell that stuff
Post by: ben ji on July 10, 2018, 04:42:32 PM
WTF does "You need to ride out a blizzard there" mean? I'm assuming it's a farm joke or something(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180710/636eed64297676e338e6810b2bde30a9.jpg)
Post by: mhkpasa on July 10, 2018, 04:49:28 PM
Post by: sys on July 10, 2018, 07:23:38 PM
Haven't heard that one - but I take it as it can get windy as eff out here, adequate tamping is very necessary
yeah, he's just saying that after you experience a blizzard out there you'll understand the value of tamping.
Post by: ben ji on July 10, 2018, 08:18:16 PM
Post by: pissclams on July 11, 2018, 11:10:40 AM
Post by: ben ji on July 11, 2018, 09:24:55 PM
But its okay because "Food was great and cousins/neighbors were there". He thinks he still might get some "Good Neighbor" money since it will be built on the land around him but no fat wind money checks for now.
Post by: meow meow on July 12, 2018, 12:22:38 PM
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Post by: Rage Against the McKee on July 12, 2018, 01:40:00 PM
Post by: steve dave on July 12, 2018, 01:43:18 PM
All they do is kill birds and collect government subsidies, anyway.
they blink all night long too.
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on July 12, 2018, 01:44:33 PM
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Post by: steve dave on July 12, 2018, 02:24:33 PM
BLINK....BLINK....BLINK....BLINK....BLINK... (from like 1,000 windmills). Would legit drive me insane.
also meade kicks the living crap out of them in sports
Post by: star seed 7 on July 12, 2018, 02:47:44 PM
Post by: steve dave on July 12, 2018, 02:56:36 PM
No, I don't believe I have sd
well don't
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Post by: sys on July 12, 2018, 03:11:37 PM
i'm not sure "good neighbor" money exists, but if he can get some, that's pretty boss
i dunno about in kansas, and i wouldn't call these people good neighbors, but i know some landowners in california near solar projects got paid off pretty nicely for making a huge deal about the destruction of their views.
Post by: KST8FAN on July 15, 2018, 07:52:13 AM
Musk thistles aplenty here too. 3 gal sprayer and a spade are required tools in the gator.
Neighbor rented track hoe for a month to remove brush and build a pond.
He got done early so I got a days work out of it for fuel and paid the hauling back to the dealer. Cleaned up a fence row of cedars along one of the fields.
Replenished the hedge post inventory off his place too.
Fence building on hold until it's not so hot, but I got the materials and a plan.
Got back to work after the 4th to find my company now has a "deforestation policy."
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Post by: steve dave on July 15, 2018, 08:22:16 AM
I'm a 3 t-posts then a creosote post fence man personally 1:3:1:3
Post by: KST8FAN on July 15, 2018, 10:20:59 AM
enjoyed the update tom.Always admire ranchers that make that effort. I probably won't make the effort since its rocky ground. We sat the corner posts with a backhoe. Used the last of my dad's hedge posts that min 10 feet long and huge.
I'm a 3 t-posts then a creosote post fence man personally 1:3:1:3
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Post by: pissclams on July 15, 2018, 11:18:17 AM
Post by: steve dave on July 15, 2018, 11:20:21 AM
what’s the deal with barbed wire, does it actually work on an anyone?
you have a lot of cows walking around the plaza all day 24/7? hell yes it works.
Post by: KST8FAN on July 15, 2018, 02:13:03 PM
Speaking of which anyone want to shoot me an offer on dad's barbed wire collection? There were like 30 of these boards with 15-25 wires on each. All boxed up and ready to ship to the high bidder.what’s the deal with barbed wire, does it actually work on an anyone?
you have a lot of cows walking around the plaza all day 24/7? hell yes it works.
Any chance the Flint Hills Discovery Center might be interested in this?
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Post by: pissclams on July 15, 2018, 02:17:12 PM
Post by: sys on July 15, 2018, 02:39:37 PM
wouldn’t regular wire work? why barbed?
the pokey bits hurt.
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Post by: halfEmpty on July 15, 2018, 07:50:00 PM
I’m also talking about dairy cows that had human interaction every day and tend to live a few years longer than a steer.
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Post by: ben ji on July 22, 2018, 10:50:43 PM
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HI Kids,
ben ji and ben ji's sister both visited the farm in July. A first !
I continue to 'enhance security', occasionally getting a good wildlife photo.
Attached is one from July 12th at 5:15 am.
Bindweed is going to be a major work task next year.
Also we have a couple places with "musk thistle" - an invasive species. I have collected and burned about a dozen tubbs of thistle from the pasture. It burns real good after just a day of drying.
I have a "corner post" project and a chicken house project and there is always lots of burning to do. (ben ji thanks for cleaning out the incinerator, it is working much better now).
I have gotten lil lil's(the farm cat he took home last year) momma cat to come up to the house for some food and milk. She is wild but I am hoping she has some more babies.
In July I have sprayed a lot of Roundup and vinegar plant killer (for use in pasture areas). My focus initially was bindweed but the sandbur stickers were bad so I've been hitting them hard as well. (Plus the pasture thistle - mostly prairie thistle).
I do not think we are getting wind turbines as I never received a call about access to do core samples (done before construction starts on turbines). Same with Aunt Rita.
Feel free to come and visit the farm - activity here is good for security.
I do have some security actions (disable / enable) when you visit. If I am here, I can cook. Fridge is stocked. I have the guest bedroom upstairs and clean sheets after every guest departure. (Don't tell mom, it is practice for a B&B. My B&B will be expensive and booked all the time - lots of included beer and wine! I even pick up at the Colby airport "Shultz Field".)
Later,
Dad
Don't forget the attached pic.
So who wants to be the first person to stay at ben ji's dad farm B&B? Also LOL at him still worrying about musk thistle when my uncle clearly told him it was prairie thistle.
Post by: ben ji on July 22, 2018, 10:56:05 PM
My dad sets trail cams everywhere to see who is on the farm at anytime....never know when OBAMA might show up and take your guns. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180723/0ff3e6e7e8e527217d41623a63edfd31.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180723/034204f5c8b23208c72e69fda13b7169.jpg)
Post by: star seed 7 on July 22, 2018, 11:02:13 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 22, 2018, 11:06:05 PM
Need rates
$75 for a night next time you decide to drive out to denver? Includes feeding the barn cats, watching whatever DVD he had(Just bought him 5 seasons of the Beverly hillbillies) and he will make you bacon and eggs in the morning.....
Side note, if it rains you may not be able to leave until the roads dry out.
Post by: sys on July 22, 2018, 11:20:34 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 22, 2018, 11:51:18 PM
i've never heard of anyone hoping their barn cat would produce more barn cats.
SYS, what do you know about red wolves? My dad says they reintroduced them to the OK Panhandle a couple of years ago and he is convinced they have spread to the Colby area. Real News? Fake News?
He says they are bigger than normal coyotes.
Post by: sys on July 23, 2018, 02:25:41 AM
canid evolution is really complex and they're still trying to tease it apart. every time i look, thinking seems to have changed a little bit. so i can't give you a good answer as to what a red wolf is (was, they're basically extinct), but they are bigger than coyotes.
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Post by: halfEmpty on August 12, 2018, 01:17:49 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 12, 2018, 07:37:54 AM
Case of WD-40 for the axles?Axle bearings are probably siezed. The thing is heavy. Wheels are sunk in the ground a ways.
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Post by: pissclams on August 13, 2018, 10:54:37 AM
Post by: schreds21 on August 13, 2018, 11:46:22 AM
hydraulic jack and a board for support. Lift it out of the ground a wheel (or two if you have multiple jacks) at a time. Place skids under the wheels and fasten them somehow. Then slide it out.Or just get a tractor with a loader bucket on it and a couple of chains/straps and pick the SOB up and put it on a trailer.
Post by: schreds21 on August 13, 2018, 11:47:06 AM
Post by: halfEmpty on August 13, 2018, 07:56:33 PM
I was assuming there was no tractor with a loader because that would’ve been the first thing I brought out.hydraulic jack and a board for support. Lift it out of the ground a wheel (or two if you have multiple jacks) at a time. Place skids under the wheels and fasten them somehow. Then slide it out.Or just get a tractor with a loader bucket on it and a couple of chains/straps and pick the SOB up and put it on a trailer.
Post by: XocolateThundarr on August 14, 2018, 12:01:13 AM
Post by: michigancat on August 14, 2018, 12:19:05 AM
i've never heard of anyone hoping their barn cat would produce more barn cats.
I've never heard of anyone with barn cats spaying or neutering one
and sweet christ tom that thing is buried up to its axles why did you think your little pickup could move it :lol:
I also don't understand why you killed all those trees
Post by: sys on August 14, 2018, 10:09:12 AM
I've never heard of anyone with barn cats spaying or neutering one
of course not. you toss them a little kibble and hope the coyotes get most of them, but not all of them and not the one that you like.
Post by: ben ji on August 14, 2018, 06:10:04 PM
I've never heard of anyone with barn cats spaying or neutering one
of course not. you toss them a little kibble and hope the coyotes get most of them, but not all of them and not the one that you like.
Kids,
Mom wants a surprise.
I have a little eye matted black kitten (maybe 2) that need health restored.
Future is bleak as of now. I've located them, fed them very well last night, this am, and this afternoon. Fat little guys have been sleeping a lot huddled together, 4 of them. Ringworm is pretty bad on these two. Eyes matted x2 shut on one, x1 on the other. So either I need to bring them back (surprise mom) or I need to come back to the farm in a couple days to finish feeding them out regaining strength & health. What do you think mom would want me to do ?
Here is a picture of the 2 blk ones and their grey sibling. The other blk one runs off yet.
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Post by: Tobias on August 14, 2018, 07:23:04 PM
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they just need some eye ointment and sulfur dips
warm dishcloth to the eyes to wipe away discharge and prevent them from resealing
we've had kittens lose all eyesight at the shelter when their eyes got infected
it's all a virus so it'll have to clear up on its own but antibiotics are good to stave off secondary bacterial infections
keep them eating
once they stop eating at that age, it's pretty much over unless someone force feeds
that guy is really kind for looking after them though
oh and don't touch them without gloves. i had a ringworm scare a few years back and it sucks ballz
Post by: michigancat on August 14, 2018, 09:35:04 PM
How often does your dad email you?I've never heard of anyone with barn cats spaying or neutering one
of course not. you toss them a little kibble and hope the coyotes get most of them, but not all of them and not the one that you like.
Kids,
Mom wants a surprise.
I have a little eye matted black kitten (maybe 2) that need health restored.
Future is bleak as of now. I've located them, fed them very well last night, this am, and this afternoon. Fat little guys have been sleeping a lot huddled together, 4 of them. Ringworm is pretty bad on these two. Eyes matted x2 shut on one, x1 on the other. So either I need to bring them back (surprise mom) or I need to come back to the farm in a couple days to finish feeding them out regaining strength & health. What do you think mom would want me to do ?
Here is a picture of the 2 blk ones and their grey sibling. The other blk one runs off yet.
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 14, 2018, 10:11:43 PM
My son believes we have a vhs of this thing running.
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Post by: michigancat on August 14, 2018, 10:34:01 PM
So my dad apparently thought this might get stolen so he welded the year he bought it and his name on it.LOL
My son believes we have a vhs of this thing running.
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 15, 2018, 08:08:51 AM
also lol at the idea of someone sneaking in there and stealing that beastThat probably was not his real motivation, but he was big on marking his stuff. Every wrench, tool got a swath of yellow john deere paint on it. He bought an engraver and carved initials in everything.
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Post by: mhkpasa on August 15, 2018, 08:13:51 AM
also lol at the idea of someone sneaking in there and stealing that beastThat probably was not his real motivation, but he was big on marking his stuff. Every wrench, tool got a swath of yellow john deere paint on it. He bought an engraver and carved initials in everything.
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Every single tool left of my grandpa's (1926-1999) is engraved with initials or full name. They were also robbed once, that didn't help.
Post by: ben ji on August 15, 2018, 09:30:27 AM
A couple of times a week when he is on the farm, couple times a month if not.How often does your dad email you?I've never heard of anyone with barn cats spaying or neutering one
of course not. you toss them a little kibble and hope the coyotes get most of them, but not all of them and not the one that you like.
Kids,
Mom wants a surprise.
I have a little eye matted black kitten (maybe 2) that need health restored.
Future is bleak as of now. I've located them, fed them very well last night, this am, and this afternoon. Fat little guys have been sleeping a lot huddled together, 4 of them. Ringworm is pretty bad on these two. Eyes matted x2 shut on one, x1 on the other. So either I need to bring them back (surprise mom) or I need to come back to the farm in a couple days to finish feeding them out regaining strength & health. What do you think mom would want me to do ?
Here is a picture of the 2 blk ones and their grey sibling. The other blk one runs off yet.
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I told him the cat population on the farm was already too high now (estimated at 15-20) and he is setting them up for a mass die off this winter when he isn't out there to feed them.
Got a great email back about what it means to be a "Christian Farmer"
Post by: ben ji on August 15, 2018, 09:31:07 AM
Thanks for your input. You are correct, logically.
Here is information for you to contemplate.
Christian. What it means to be a Christian.
Farmer. What it means to be a farmer.
Christian Farmer = you intercede to make your farm animal's life better.
I need to get you attending church on a regular basis and reading the bible. It will help you grow.
Then I need to train you in the ways of farm operations / animal management. You will better understand.
I think you will do well - maybe even look forward to retirement here, enjoying the farm life.
It is the simplest things in life that can bring you the most joy.
There is a lot of wisdom embedded in these words I have shared with you. With age you will understand the words and the wisdom.
:) Dad
Post by: ben ji on August 15, 2018, 09:33:46 AM
In fact my parents only recently started attending church after they retired in order to qualify for some knockoff faith based health insurance that was cheaper than OBAMAcare.
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Post by: EMAWican on August 15, 2018, 10:57:31 AM
So my dad apparently thought this might get stolen so he welded the year he bought it and his name on it.
My son believes we have a vhs of this thing running.
That crusher is neat as hell. Looks like you're going to have to fab up a feed hopper tho.
Don't know if you've already got 'er moved , but I've had good luck rigging up a metal shoe/skid on each wheel and strapping or chaining to the spokes, and then pulling/sliding onto a trailer to get it back to the shop.
Heat and penetrating oil are going to be good buds of yours.
Any idea which old tractor with a belt pulley or stationary engine you're going to use to power it?
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Any idea which old tractor with a belt pulley or stationary engine you're going to use to power it?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/JOHN-DEERE-TRACTOR-PTO-BELT-PULLEY-FOR-320-330-40-420-430-435-440-M1785T-/372118488089
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 15, 2018, 08:00:16 PM
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Got a great email back about what it means to be a "Christian Farmer"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/paul-harveys-1978-so-god-made-a-farmer-speech/272816/
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Post by: ben ji on August 16, 2018, 11:57:09 AM
1) Two of the four kittens with matted eyes, etc. After 3 days of focused nutrition they are all doing very well, even running around the farm yard this am playing. They can stay, but I need to give them another dose of food love to get them successfully on their way in a few days for a week.
2) I found an abandoned black baby crying, cold, hungry, matted eyes (a sign of malnutrition or a weakened immune system) out in the Morton barn. No mama appeared to claim the baby. I brought it in over the night, was only able to get a little 1/2 n 1/2 down. Baby liked being held, slept better. Checked and fed again at midnight, not really taking any food (very small, maybe 5 or 6 weeks). This am baby was cold, so warmed baby up and had minimal success feeding. Took baby out when I fed the barn cats - it was crying for mama. No success.
Later baby (mini lil) and I went looking for my lost phone, no success. Stopped in the house for one more attempt at feeding, then went to the Morton barn to see if mama could be found. (Home directive is no new fury friends - and I did not want to shave the kitten.)
Coming in the barn, a black mama cat came from hiding in the bails. She knew what the baby was, but was looking to me for food. Pretty soon she was licking mini lil. Finally she carefully grabbed mini lil by the neck and hopped up onto the bail stack disappearing. Good sign, baby was hers and she claimed it.
Attached is a picture of "mini lil".
Note: One of the four bigger kittens I was feeding back to health is grey and has a very gentle loving personality. I'll get a pic of him/her and figure out the sex and share later.
Dad
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Post by: slackcat on August 17, 2018, 07:58:41 AM
Dug dad's antique rock crusher out of the brush today. No idea how we can move it. F350 couldn't budge it.
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I have some drives needing attn. :impatient:
Post by: KST8FAN on August 17, 2018, 08:06:23 AM
I guess we can bring the rock to the crusher and you can bring your truck Slackcat.Dug dad's antique rock crusher out of the brush today. No idea how we can move it. F350 couldn't budge it.
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Post by: slackcat on August 17, 2018, 08:25:17 AM
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on August 17, 2018, 09:18:18 AM
Get her runnin' and I'll bring the rock. :driving:
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It's going to take a lot more than a little bit of rock to fix that driveway.
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The pond to northeast is not on our farm, but owner has shared pix of some unreal fish he has pulled out of there.
Tom
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Post by: schreds21 on August 19, 2018, 09:43:33 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 19, 2018, 10:03:25 AM
That's awesome. Make sure you have some bait fish in there for them to eat. You must be getting some rain in your area. The pic makes it look like your grass is still fairly green and the ponds look full and clear.
https://www.wallacefishfarmks.com/
This is the guy who has stocked all of our ponds with good results. He did a spring stocking with crawdads, fingerlings, blue gill I think. Came back in the fall with bass and cat.
Tom
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 19, 2018, 11:07:50 AM
Btw, you're correct on clearness of the ponds and their water level. The 2 ponds in the pix are actually quarry ponds after reclamation. Dad got into rock farming 30 years ago, and this is the by product.
I am always impressed at what you all pick up on in my pix.
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Post by: schreds21 on August 19, 2018, 11:32:31 AM
Post by: sys on August 19, 2018, 11:57:35 PM
We're actually quite behind on rain.
50+ inches, wow. i didn't know there was anywhere in kansas that got that much.
Post by: steve dave on August 20, 2018, 12:18:48 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 20, 2018, 01:11:10 PM
That's last 10 year average which includes some wet years. I think a longer view would be 36 in / year.We're actually quite behind on rain.
50+ inches, wow. i didn't know there was anywhere in kansas that got that much.
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Post by: pissclams on August 20, 2018, 02:05:58 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 20, 2018, 02:08:47 PM
i lived in manhattan, ks the one year we got tons of rain and the place was flooded everywhere but if i'm being honest with you, i had a great time that summer
That was a super fun summer in MHK except if you lived in some place that got flooded
Post by: DaBigTrain on August 20, 2018, 03:38:32 PM
Post by: pissclams on August 20, 2018, 03:54:57 PM
pretty amazing and a very special moment in mhk history so i commissioned my grandmother to quilt a mhk "summer of rain" memorial quilt and matching vest. the quilt's motto is "you can wash away our ground soil but nothing can wash away our pride of mhk." she didn't know how to quilt and never made them for me so i guess you can say what you want but i consider them both to be in the design phase. hopefully i can get them pulled together (pun) soon. one surprising fact about the quilt design is that the overarching color scheme does not incorporate purple. people act like everything in mhk needs to be purple. don't tell a mhk indian that though because their colors don't bleed.
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Post by: slackcat on August 23, 2018, 06:07:05 AM
That’s actual a canal, not a driveway.
It is now
Post by: slackcat on August 23, 2018, 06:14:10 AM
We're actually quite behind on rain. A couple more good rains might make a bean crop. Corn is made and not great. At least we have some ears. Cousin put his up for silage.
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Better than a lot of corn around SEK, 15 mi. between feast and famine when it came to rainfall this year.
Good luck with harvest and post a video when you get the crusher running.
Post by: steve dave on August 23, 2018, 10:38:34 AM
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on August 23, 2018, 12:11:54 PM
what's the first non-rock item you're going to run through the crusher? lots of good options out there imo.
We used to feed our asphalt plant a beer once we got it set up for a new project. We viewed is as a sacrifice to the asphalt gods to ensure a smooth job
Post by: star seed 7 on August 23, 2018, 12:14:15 PM
Post by: pissclams on August 23, 2018, 12:14:29 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoIEMXGT124
Post by: Kat Kid on August 23, 2018, 12:53:04 PM
i always call it "the summer of rain" when i tell stories from that summer and immediately everyone knows exactly when i am referring to
pretty amazing and a very special moment in mhk history so i commissioned my grandmother to quilt a mhk "summer of rain" memorial quilt and matching vest. the quilt's motto is "you can wash away our ground soil but nothing can wash away our pride of mhk." she didn't know how to quilt and never made them for me so i guess you can say what you want but i consider them both to be in the design phase. hopefully i can get them pulled together (pun) soon. one surprising fact about the quilt design is that the overarching color scheme does not incorporate purple. people act like everything in mhk needs to be purple. don't tell a mhk indian that though because their colors don't bleed.
folks, sometimes a legend comes back to play the hits. nice job billy joel. the piano man. pissclams.
Post by: KST8FAN on August 23, 2018, 07:54:48 PM
what's the first non-rock item you're going to run through the crusher? lots of good options out there imo.Chunk of hedge
Gallon of milk
Old TV
Tom
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 24, 2018, 07:31:03 PM
This is my mellow, friendly little girl. She was last trip's project w/3 blk siblings all doing much better now.https://youtu.be/PZ0ur5GKC0w
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Sorry Ben ji, but every time you post about your dads cats I think of this.
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Post by: halfEmpty on August 24, 2018, 08:35:35 PM
Wenching a calf out of its mother sucks pretty bad too.
Post by: star seed 7 on August 24, 2018, 09:17:38 PM
T's&p's cow farm kids
Post by: steve dave on August 24, 2018, 09:26:45 PM
Putting on rubber glove all the way to your shoulder, then sticking said arm all the way into cows anus is the worst job. Or being a small farm and having all the jobs at the same time. Castration comes last as they have usually passed all their crap out after everything else that was done to them. Usually...
Wenching a calf out of its mother sucks pretty bad too.
what if I told you I've used fence stretchers to pull one and, in one of the most traumatic events of my little kid life, we hooked a truck to front feet and pulled the legs straight off of the little stuck cow.
:sdeek: :frown:
Post by: mocat on August 24, 2018, 09:30:40 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 24, 2018, 09:31:17 PM
Wtf
cow farm life isn't all fun and games unfortunately. actually it's none fun and games.
Post by: IPA4Me on August 24, 2018, 09:31:29 PM
Speaking of little SD. Does he get to visit the farm and learn farm crap?
Post by: steve dave on August 24, 2018, 09:35:25 PM
LoL. Poor little SD. Traumatized.
Speaking of little SD. Does he get to visit the farm and learn farm crap?
oh hell yes. he just spent five days there by himself. he came back with a giant gallon zip lock bag of about 200 keys and locked padlocks that the keys had been lost for. he said, "grandpa said I could have them". I was like, but why would you want them? to a 5 year old 200 old ass keys is a pretty cool thing apparently. he mostly rides four wheelers and UTVs and rides around in the front seat of the truck with no car seat on dirt roads and other dangerous AF stuff. so it's essentially hillbilly disney world for him.
Post by: DaBigTrain on August 24, 2018, 09:43:59 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 24, 2018, 09:49:47 PM
I feel like the delegging incident should be reported but that statute of limitations is surely passed by now
in all seriousness they were both going to die if it didn't come out so pretty much it was a hail mary. I'm about to drop some high cow farmer IQ knowledge: beef has always been bred to be bigger and bigger. which is great, until they are too big at birth to be born. it's kind of a redneck science to cross breeds to actually be born small, but gain weight rapidly. but you get stuff like this all the time. we probably lose 2% a year from this. or if they do get them out they are hip locked which means the mom cow can't even walk anymore. sometimes we'd hoist them up with a vice thing on their hips from the front loader of a tractor to get their legs under them and leave them like that for a day or two to see if they'd come around and walk again but that rarely works. usually you have to put them down.
Post by: DaBigTrain on August 24, 2018, 09:54:05 PM
Post by: halfEmpty on August 24, 2018, 10:12:18 PM
Putting on rubber glove all the way to your shoulder, then sticking said arm all the way into cows anus is the worst job. Or being a small farm and having all the jobs at the same time. Castration comes last as they have usually passed all their crap out after everything else that was done to them. Usually...
Wenching a calf out of its mother sucks pretty bad too.
what if I told you I've used fence stretchers to pull one and, in one of the most traumatic events of my little kid life, we hooked a truck to front feet and pulled the legs straight off of the little stuck cow.
:sdeek: :frown:
:sdeek: I've seen a lot on the farm. That tops anything I've seen in a birthing moment. I feel emotional scarring just visualizing it.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 25, 2018, 09:25:58 AM
i always call it "the summer of rain" when i tell stories from that summer and immediately everyone knows exactly when i am referring to
pretty amazing and a very special moment in mhk history so i commissioned my grandmother to quilt a mhk "summer of rain" memorial quilt and matching vest. the quilt's motto is "you can wash away our ground soil but nothing can wash away our pride of mhk." she didn't know how to quilt and never made them for me so i guess you can say what you want but i consider them both to be in the design phase. hopefully i can get them pulled together (pun) soon. one surprising fact about the quilt design is that the overarching color scheme does not incorporate purple. people act like everything in mhk needs to be purple. don't tell a mhk indian that though because their colors don't bleed.
I call that the summer stone got super jacked and killed it with ladies
Post by: KST8FAN on August 25, 2018, 11:20:29 AM
Helping implant was my sex ed.
Dad was a feeder/backgrounder. I loaded the chute then did growth implants, ear tags, brand. Dad did the shots, pour on, and castrate. Ten head at a time then repeat.
Learned early on you either crowd calves by getting right up against them or keep arms length plus hot shot. That 2-3 foot range your just setting yourself up for a hoof to the nuts.
Tom
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Post by: sys on August 25, 2018, 02:22:18 PM
Post by: bucket on August 25, 2018, 02:23:14 PM
how many cows does it take to increase one's satisfaction and happiness?
11
Post by: steve dave on August 25, 2018, 02:42:18 PM
how many cows does it take to increase one's satisfaction and happiness?
Zero is the optimal amount for me
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Post by: ben ji on August 25, 2018, 02:43:12 PM
LoL. Poor little SD. Traumatized.
Speaking of little SD. Does he get to visit the farm and learn farm crap?
oh hell yes. he just spent five days there by himself. he came back with a giant gallon zip lock bag of about 200 keys and locked padlocks that the keys had been lost for. he said, "grandpa said I could have them". I was like, but why would you want them? to a 5 year old 200 old ass keys is a pretty cool thing apparently. he mostly rides four wheelers and UTVs and rides around in the front seat of the truck with no car seat on dirt roads and other dangerous AF stuff. so it's essentially hillbilly disney world for him.
Make sure you do this every summer. Some of my best childhood memories are when I would spend a week on the grandparents farm doing everything you just described. My only rule was I couldn't go faster than 40mph on the 4 wheeler...as a 9 year old.
Also when you are there in the winter you should definitely tie a sled to the back of a pickup and tow lil SD around in the pasture.
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Post by: sys on August 25, 2018, 03:44:00 PM
25 isn’t enough to make money but too many to have any free time to travel and crap. The only reasonable numbers are 0 / 500+
i'm talking about hobby farming here, sd.
Post by: steve dave on August 25, 2018, 03:48:57 PM
25 isn’t enough to make money but too many to have any free time to travel and crap. The only reasonable numbers are 0 / 500+
i'm talking about hobby farming here, sd.
alexa, what's the shittiest hobby anyone has ever thought of?
Post by: sys on August 25, 2018, 03:52:34 PM
alexa, what's the shittiest hobby anyone has ever thought of?
golf.
Post by: halfEmpty on August 25, 2018, 04:07:13 PM
Post by: sys on August 25, 2018, 04:29:29 PM
0 or 2. Zero, because, why would you if you don't need to? 2 if you want to have a continuous supply of beef and don't know anyone else with cattle. 1 to butcher now, 1 to butcher in a year, after 1 is butchered get another. Repeat cycle. Depending on your family size, a quarter could last a whole year, so you could sell the extra 3 quarters to friends and get a lot of your money back.
the whole point of hobby animal keeping is to watch the animals produce baby animals. so you need enough for baby cow production.
Post by: Katpappy on August 25, 2018, 05:16:00 PM
eff that. Spring grass calves are where it's at. Depending where you live and acreage is what determines amount of cattle to raise. Case closed. Also nice to butcher one and presell what you're not able to eat within a year. Farmer and Pub. reasoning.0 or 2. Zero, because, why would you if you don't need to? 2 if you want to have a continuous supply of beef and don't know anyone else with cattle. 1 to butcher now, 1 to butcher in a year, after 1 is butchered get another. Repeat cycle. Depending on your family size, a quarter could last a whole year, so you could sell the extra 3 quarters to friends and get a lot of your money back.
the whole point of hobby animal keeping is to watch the animals produce baby animals. so you need enough for baby cow production.
Post by: halfEmpty on August 25, 2018, 05:28:44 PM
Then I agree with SD. Sounds like a horrible hobby. But, it all depends on how much land you have really. 1 bull for every 10-40 heifers depending on breed. So 11? I can't see it ever increasing ones satisfaction and happiness though.0 or 2. Zero, because, why would you if you don't need to? 2 if you want to have a continuous supply of beef and don't know anyone else with cattle. 1 to butcher now, 1 to butcher in a year, after 1 is butchered get another. Repeat cycle. Depending on your family size, a quarter could last a whole year, so you could sell the extra 3 quarters to friends and get a lot of your money back.
the whole point of hobby animal keeping is to watch the animals produce baby animals. so you need enough for baby cow production.
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Post by: steve dave on August 27, 2018, 08:14:37 AM
build a new chute in the area next to the existing chute that can now never be used again because there is absolutely no way you're getting that thing flipped back over right side and it's just going to die and rot there.
Post by: sys on August 27, 2018, 11:32:33 AM
My stepdad runs about 100 head. Claims it supplements his retirement income. I think he's just avoiding my Mom like the rest of the family.
100 would be a dream come true. the perfect number.
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on August 27, 2018, 11:35:15 AM
if you get a cow that flips its stupid ass upside down in the chute here is what you do:
build a new chute in the area next to the existing chute that can now never be used again because there is absolutely no way you're getting that thing flipped back over right side and it's just going to die and rot there.
Why not just butcher the cow in the chute and take it out in pieces?
Post by: star seed 7 on August 27, 2018, 12:13:14 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 27, 2018, 08:25:48 PM
Tractor with loader and 2 log chains.if you get a cow that flips its stupid ass upside down in the chute here is what you do:
build a new chute in the area next to the existing chute that can now never be used again because there is absolutely no way you're getting that thing flipped back over right side and it's just going to die and rot there.
Why not just butcher the cow in the chute and take it out in pieces?
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Post by: ben ji on September 07, 2018, 10:55:14 AM
Needed this one so pile could be rebuilt.
Conditions: damp, cool, minimal wind away from structures, no dry weeds around
Dad.
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Post by: steve dave on September 14, 2018, 10:57:48 PM
New road compliments of the wind turbine company. Value - $50,000. Awesome unexpected benefit.
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that road is not going to be a good time shortly. source: dirt road and dirt road ditch expert.
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Post by: steve dave on September 18, 2018, 08:01:53 AM
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Tom, farms are the absolute best (1% of the time)
:ROFL:
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Then I compare that to the 1880-1900 builders of the rock wall that runs for a half mile (E-W) over worse terrain than I dealt with I don't feel like my efforts are all that impressive. They had dynamite, hand tools, and probably a horse drawn wagon. Most of that wall still very functional today.
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Post by: Spracne on September 24, 2018, 10:19:44 AM
Building fence is an incredibly satisfying thing to do. Like swathing a huge circle of alfalfa and then looking back at what you just accomplished. I mean, both rough ridin' suck complete crap but when you are done doing them you are satisfied.My thoughts exactly, except replace alfalfa swathing/fence building with assembling Ikea furniture.
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 24, 2018, 10:43:09 PM
That stone fence looks great Tom. In the Alma metroplex they actually have workshops where a stonemason shows people how to build stone fences. You pay $100 for the privilege of doing 2 days worth of backbreaking labor but you get a sandwich too.I've heard of this. Ranches also have people from JoCo pay them for the privilege of helping burn pasture.
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Post by: ben ji on November 27, 2018, 04:59:10 PM
Best Bday present he got!
Also he hasn't been going out to the farm much lately because it's too cold but he did set up some automatic feeders in the barn to make sure the cats are well fed.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181127/2cc2b11cec7a845f9399423d88e84ce8.jpg)
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Post by: Spracne on November 28, 2018, 08:19:17 PM
https://globalnews.ca/news/4703769/cow-knickers-slaughterhouse/
So I guess Knickers gets to live happily ever after?
Or is he stuck in his own personal old-Tom-Hanks-in-Green-Mile hell, in which he has to watch everyone he loves die, only to witness others born, grow up, and die before his eyes, cruelly mocking the supposed "gift" of unusual longevity?
Cow turds for thot . . .
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Post by: Katpappy on December 01, 2018, 08:03:18 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 01, 2018, 08:19:57 PM
ben ji, why does your dad have hay bales? Does he not know cats don't eat hay.
Katdaddy! Yes, good point
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Post by: ben ji on December 02, 2018, 05:46:06 PM
ben ji, why does your dad have hay bales? Does he not know cats don't eat hay.
The hay bales are a giant cat condominium. Their are tons of cracks/tunnels that the cats crawl into and have their kittens etc.
Post by: Katpappy on December 02, 2018, 11:41:50 PM
ben ji, why does your dad have hay bales? Does he not know cats don't eat hay.
The hay bales are a giant cat condominium. Their are tons of cracks/tunnels that the cats crawl into and have their kittens etc.
So basically a cat Bed and Breakfast. :cheers:
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Post by: steve dave on December 04, 2018, 07:50:02 PM
that looks like a mountain lion more than a bobcat
Well, I’ve got some prime elk and moose hunting ground in SW KS I’d love to sell you if you are in the market Mr. Animal Complete Dumbfuckman
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Post by: ben ji on December 06, 2018, 04:15:20 PM
So mountain lion? :dunno:
Of course my dad thinks its a mountain lion too. I told him it was too small and he countered with "Juvenile Mountain Lion". He also thinks some of the Coyotes on the farm are "Red Wolves, reintroduced to Oklahoma a few years ago and moving north". (The Red Wolf was never reintroduced to Oklahoma).
So your choice Meow Meow. You can either believe noted farm experts like ben ji and steve dave or you can believe a man who injects himself with snake venom in his quest to test the longevity of the human body.
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Post by: ben ji on December 06, 2018, 05:01:09 PM
buncha non-cat farmers over here trying to tell a cat farmer what kind of cats he has on his farm. good grief.
sys, we need you to settle this since you know more about animals than anyone else.
Bobcat or Juvenile Mountain Lion?
Post by: steve dave on December 06, 2018, 06:05:07 PM
So mountain lion? :dunno:
Of course my dad thinks its a mountain lion too. I told him it was too small and he countered with "Juvenile Mountain Lion". He also thinks some of the Coyotes on the farm are "Red Wolves, reintroduced to Oklahoma a few years ago and moving north". (The Red Wolf was never reintroduced to Oklahoma).
So your choice Meow Meow. You can either believe noted farm experts like ben ji and steve dave or you can believe a man who injects himself with snake venom in his quest to test the longevity of the human body.
lmao
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Post by: Katpappy on December 06, 2018, 06:13:38 PM
:lol:that looks like a mountain lion more than a bobcat
Well, I’ve got some prime elk and moose hunting ground in SW KS I’d love to sell you if you are in the market Mr. Animal Complete Dumbfuckman
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So mountain lion? :dunno:
:ROFL:
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Post by: 8manpick on December 06, 2018, 07:00:30 PM
London Zoo?Front "yard" in Kensington
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Post by: sys on December 06, 2018, 08:42:20 PM
Not a farm, but on the topic of wild animals, I saw a fox in London last week.
that's awesome.
Post by: sys on December 06, 2018, 08:47:43 PM
sys, we need you to settle this since you know more about animals than anyone else.
Bobcat or Juvenile Mountain Lion?
i don't expect ben ji, sr. to try and tell me about snakes, and i'm not going to tell him about cats.
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Post by: pissclams on December 06, 2018, 09:11:52 PM
Foxes are natures dogs
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seals
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Post by: Katpappy on December 07, 2018, 02:40:02 AM
Seals have been getting eels stuck in their nostrils lately, and no one seems to know why :sdeek:
Play toy? I know my dog gets the bully sticks stuck in her mouth, and sometimes she gags.
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This little rascal hangs out at mom's church in Topeka.
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Very foxy pic., Tom. I live in the country and have both red and grey foxes.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 21, 2018, 01:45:13 PM
just kidding. Move to a new farm.
Post by: passranch on December 21, 2018, 01:59:57 PM
got access to a bucket truck?
just kidding. Move to a new farm.
Seriously. Probably in a different state. Just to be safe.
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Post by: schreds21 on December 21, 2018, 10:24:56 PM
got access to a bucket truck?Everyone knows farmers dont have bucket trucks. Just stand in the bucket of the loader tractor and have someone raise you up there like every other farmer in the world.
just kidding. Move to a new farm.
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 31, 2018, 09:03:31 PM
Who is joining me to take a course in 2019?
https://fox4kc.com/2018/12/28/kansas-businessman-starts-new-academy-in-desoto-to-promote-now-legal-industrial-hemp/
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Post by: ben ji on March 17, 2019, 12:16:45 AM
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Family,
Sitting out this am in chair by front door enjoying the sun. Bird was on power line singing its song. Looked bigger like a meadowlark, but could not tell. I noticed the seasonal red winged black birds have arrived. They actually have a red patch followed by a smaller yellow colored patch on each wing front. We had about 35 robins spend the winter - not sure what they were eating, likely some dried berries. They I saw a big bird of prey sitting on top the grain bin. Had to get my expensive pair of really good Harbor Freight binoculars out - open up the box and unpack them. Wow, beautiful sight ! I was a large hawk, redish specled in color watching all below. Farm kitty was near by so I was on alert. I looked back at the singing bird, it was indeed a yellow breasted meadowlark singing. After a while the hawk took flight and glided North. Think he's the same hawk that has hung around the farm all winter.
I've started fertilizing the grass. Bucket at a time out of the red barn. Got a "Chrysler Imperial" fragrant rose from Orshelans, planted it outside the bay window (with lots of red barn fertilizer). Have a lot of bulb flowers planted in the garden in OP to move out to the farm later this summer.
Attended a funeral yesterday - husband of a cousin
Today - installation of a new farm cam system.
Colby has their "Home Improvement" show going on at the community building, where I use to play basketball. Place seemed smaller. I went in and check things out before it officially opened. Mostly a yawner.
Need to sharpen mower blades here. Last time I was not able to break loose the nuts. Need an extended handle to get more leverage.
May burn some coral weeds since it is wet yet, and little wind.
Dad
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Watched her ascend to the high rafters. Up side of barn to low rafters, then very athletic leaf 5' up and over to high rafters. She was very growly - wanted to be there and not messed with. So she will be here for the day. Well fed this am.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190317/49ded75c89d262fc95d6faa1f06d91f8.jpg)
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Had to get my expensive pair of really good Harbor Freight binoculars out - open up the box and unpack them.
I enjoyed this sentence
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Post by: ben ji on March 31, 2019, 05:23:50 PM
Great update. I’m setting the odds that your pops proclaimed pic 3 to be a mountain lion at 2:1.He didnt confirm it in the email but just confirmed it now in person. Was talking about how he got a holster so he could have a pistol when he walked around the windbreak due to mountain lions.
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He also said my cousin killed a bobcat out there a couple weeks ago but the cat in the trail cam was definitely a mountian lion "you can tell by how long the tail is"
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Post by: pissclams on March 31, 2019, 07:17:44 PM
He also said my cousin killed a bobcat out there a couple weeks ago but the cat in the trail cam was definitely a mountian lion "you can tell by how long the tail is"
western kansas hayseeds will literally shoot any animal they come across. on one pheasant hunting trip in gove county, the hayseed hosts i was with shot both an owl and a porcupine.
Post by: steve dave on March 31, 2019, 07:37:27 PM
Great update. I’m setting the odds that your pops proclaimed pic 3 to be a mountain lion at 2:1.He didnt confirm it in the email but just confirmed it now in person. Was talking about how he got a holster so he could have a pistol when he walked around the windbreak due to mountain lions.
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He also said my cousin killed a bobcat out there a couple weeks ago but the cat in the trail cam was definitely a mountian lion "you can tell by how long the tail is"
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lmao
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Post by: bucket on March 31, 2019, 07:43:42 PM
He also said my cousin killed a bobcat out there a couple weeks ago but the cat in the trail cam was definitely a mountian lion "you can tell by how long the tail is"
western kansas hayseeds will literally shoot any animal they come across. on one pheasant hunting trip in gove county, the hayseed hosts i was with shot both an owl and a porcupine.
I didn't know there were porcupine in Kansas. Learn something new on gE everyday.
Post by: ben ji on March 31, 2019, 08:04:34 PM
He also said my cousin killed a bobcat out there a couple weeks ago but the cat in the trail cam was definitely a mountian lion "you can tell by how long the tail is"
western kansas hayseeds will literally shoot any animal they come across. on one pheasant hunting trip in gove county, the hayseed hosts i was with shot both an owl and a porcupine.
Coyote/Bobcat fur is so hot right now.
https://www.apnews.com/b45b658887bd4651925a0bdc7cc2bb9a
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Coyote
Date: 01/01/2018 - 01/01/2019
Location: Statewide
Season Dates (statewide): All year
Season Limit: No limit
There is no closed season for trapping or hunting coyotes. Motor vehicles and radios in vehicles may be used to hunt coyotes only. Furharvester license is required to trap and sell; hunting license is required to hunt and sell.
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Great update. I’m setting the odds that your pops proclaimed pic 3 to be a mountain lion at 2:1.He didnt confirm it in the email but just confirmed it now in person. Was talking about how he got a holster so he could have a pistol when he walked around the windbreak due to mountain lions.
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He also said my cousin killed a bobcat out there a couple weeks ago but the cat in the trail cam was definitely a mountian lion "you can tell by how long the tail is"
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lmao
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Also you should tell him that he’s 100% accurate that the tail is too long to be a bobcat.
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You have to have a license to hunt coyotes? Is that new?I think the license referenced is just your generic hunting license you get every year.
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My cousin made what i would describe as a mobile duck blind, some enclosure on a trailer with seating inside. He parks it in different pastures and waits, will also chase them in vehicles and blast any he comes across on site.
Skins all of them for the fur so us city folk can wear our $1000 canadian goose jackets.
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Post by: ben ji on April 13, 2019, 10:46:52 AM
Built an alley and set gate 30' off the blacktop so you can get off the highway with truck, trailer.Tom out here doing real farm work....My dad keeps saying he is going to replace a very small section of fence but i dont think he has done it yet (and he probably doesnt know how)....busy tending his herd of cats.
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Post by: ben ji on April 13, 2019, 10:49:07 AM
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Meet Bobbi. Pregnant, round, bad eye but very docile, loves to be petted. Lost half of tail a yr ago. Very gentile. Strong pur motor. Good cat, about 3 yr old. Lives in Morton barn. Likes all visitors and especially pets. Give lots of extra pets when you see her.
Bobbi is a god damn champion farm cat IMO. No excuses, shows up to work every day with her lunch pale and does everything you could want without complaining, a true farm cats farm cat.
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Bobby On truck hood after milk n bread feeding.
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Burn day at the hobby farm. First time I've participated.People will actually pay for this experience which I find amazing.
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https://www.kcur.org/post/participatory-prairie-burning-flint-hills
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Post by: ben ji on May 09, 2019, 12:40:52 AM
"Tom Tom" hangs out by the house sometimes and tried to sneak in when my dad was walking in.....his tail got caught in the door and "Lil Lil" tried to be a kingslayer at the same time and attack him.
"Lil Lil" lost and had to be taken to the local vet to get her wounds patched up (one day later because the vet is closed on mondays)
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Fireplace nice to dry wet shoes off. Foggy, cool all day. Lawn sprinkler system repaired. 5 sprinklers adjusted for better coverage. Got me soaked. Bobbi keeping her 2 kittens hidden. Lil lil paw looks broken. Vet opens tomorrow. Very swollen paw. Hours spent on pony waterer. Still drips, wasting water. Shut it off for now as ponies in another pasture. Weed eater trimmed around house tonight - lookin good.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190509/4dbac45be7d552772bcfc94ab0b96778.jpg)
Post by: ben ji on May 09, 2019, 12:48:45 AM
Bobbi popped some kittens out a couple of weeks ago.QuoteMeet Bobbi. Pregnant, round, bad eye but very docile, loves to be petted. Lost half of tail a yr ago. Very gentile. Strong pur motor. Good cat, about 3 yr old. Lives in Morton barn. Likes all visitors and especially pets. Give lots of extra pets when you see her.
Bobbi is a god damn champion farm cat IMO. No excuses, shows up to work every day with her lunch pale and does everything you could want without complaining, a true farm cats farm cat.
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(Email was titled "Bobbi had babies")(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190509/a750e8e22fa4d146dbc09f1f3d1bda99.jpg)
Post by: ben ji on May 09, 2019, 12:52:53 AM
NOPE! Bobbi also produced a pure white kitten that my dad will surely keep tabs on.
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Post by: ben ji on May 09, 2019, 08:47:04 AM
congrats everyone, t's and p's to lil lil, praying for a speedy recovery and no broken bones (once vet opens)That email was from Sunday. Lil lil got taken to the vet on Tuesday and patched up. No broken bones just some cuts on the paw.
Appreciate the t's and p's.
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Post by: pissclams on May 09, 2019, 09:09:19 AM
it hurt so bad i was like wtf i can't hold up my hand.
i know that the vet said no broken bones just some paw cuts on lil lil but i can't help but wonder if the vet who examined lil lil was paid off by tom tom to help settle the score against lil lil. i'd get a 2nd opinion on that paw and also check lil lil for any malpractice done to him/her by the corrupt vet vis-a-vis tom tom. thoughts? also happy mother's day to bobbi
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Post by: Katpappy on May 13, 2019, 01:43:05 PM
What is the best way to post a minute long video on this blog?
PM someone who knows how and ask them to do it. :th_twocents:
Post by: sys on May 13, 2019, 01:51:25 PM
What is the best way to post a minute long video on this blog?
tweet it and then post the tweet.
Post by: steve dave on May 13, 2019, 01:54:53 PM
What is the best way to post a minute long video on this blog?
tweet it and then post the tweet.
this is the answer
Post by: ben ji on May 13, 2019, 02:00:51 PM
Lil lil injury storyWhat is the best way to post a minute long video on this blog?
tweet it and then post the tweet.
this is the answer
https://twitter.com/ben0ji/status/1128011873574690819?s=19
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The vet got him the snake venom the first time and was like "Yeah whatever keep it cold" but when they found out what he used the snake venom for and wont order him anymore. :-(
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Post by: ben ji on May 30, 2019, 10:47:45 PM
The homestead circa 1965.
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Tom,
I have very a very low farmer IQ so please tell me what that large elevated cylindrical tank in the middle of the picture holds.
My best guesses are
1. Gasoline/Diesel fuel
2. Propane
3. Water
Also tell me more about the structure to elevate it. Wood? Stone? Was it built so gravity could propel the liquid inside out?
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Tom
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Post by: steve dave on May 31, 2019, 08:07:11 AM
brome grass is the most farm thing I’ve read today. good farm word.
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Also cheat grass.
sd: wheat looks good
sd dad: that’s cheat you idiot
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 31, 2019, 08:18:57 AM
brome grass is the most farm thing I’ve read today. good farm word.
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Also cheat grass.
sd: wheat looks good
sd dad: that’s cheat you idiot
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:lol:
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Post by: sys on June 02, 2019, 12:10:04 AM
Tom, that grass is hot cow rancher sex.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 02, 2019, 11:04:55 AM
What kind off fish do you have in that pond? I bet there are some lunkers in there
That pond has been historically disappointing from a fishing perspective. A few bass and a catfish or two. The best fishing pond in the pasture has damage to the overflow tube so its lower than expected given all the rain this spring. Add that to the ToDo list sometime this summer.
Tom
Post by: schreds21 on June 03, 2019, 01:04:20 PM
The homestead circa 1965.Tom,
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Neat pic, thanks for posting that. I like seeing old pics like that. Who is the man standing next to the tractor. Is that TomDad or Grandpa?
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Post by: schreds21 on June 03, 2019, 04:33:12 PM
If you guys love to get horny to old farm pics I’ve got like the mother load I can part with for a very fair price.Whoa Whoa Whoa. I just like seeing them, no need to get pervy. This is a family blog after all SD.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 03, 2019, 05:57:33 PM
That is TomDad... Mom is downsizing she gave me boxes of old 35 mm slides that he took. Talk about a time machine...The homestead circa 1965.Tom,
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Neat pic, thanks for posting that. I like seeing old pics like that. Who is the man standing next to the tractor. Is that TomDad or Grandpa?
Tom
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That's pretty cool, Tom.That is TomDad... Mom is downsizing she gave me boxes of old 35 mm slides that he took. Talk about a time machine...The homestead circa 1965.Tom,
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Neat pic, thanks for posting that. I like seeing old pics like that. Who is the man standing next to the tractor. Is that TomDad or Grandpa?
Tom
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Post by: kslim on June 04, 2019, 03:41:46 PM
Don't know if SD will concur, but I put K02's on our trucks. Our roads are absolute dogshit and they seem to do fairly well.this is the last set of shoes ill put on this truck so i like the suggestion
Post by: KST8FAN on June 04, 2019, 04:42:15 PM
Concrete bunks installed at same time when TomDad got serious about feeding cattle.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 04, 2019, 04:51:03 PM
The homestead circa 1965.This belongs in the shame yourself thread but here it goes...
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Note the car parked by the house I was probably five or six and we got home from town and I wanted to pretend to drive so dad left me in the car with my sister in the back seat.
He was just about to the house, and I managed to get the manual shift out of park on the steering wheel... the car proceeded to roll down the hill and slam into the boxcar (behind the loading chute over TomDad shoulder in the picture, see 2nd pix in prior post) totally crushing the back end.
Man was he pissed. One of the worst spankings I ever got. I remember running up to the yard and him getting in the car and pulling it back up to the house with gravel flying everywhere.
Tom
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Post by: Skipper44 on June 05, 2019, 08:34:00 PM
Michelin LTX2Don't know if SD will concur, but I put K02's on our trucks. Our roads are absolute dogshit and they seem to do fairly well.this is the last set of shoes ill put on this truck so i like the suggestion
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He also completed a cat census and we are up to 20! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190610/92b4d49d5a6ef3b9b9bf82b088c04b5e.jpg)
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My brother went out to the farm this weekend and helped transplant some rose bushes from KC.
He also did a completed a cat census and we are up to 20! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190610/92b4d49d5a6ef3b9b9bf82b088c04b5e.jpg)
ben ji, does anyone live out there. Looks to be in decent shape.
Post by: ben ji on June 10, 2019, 10:13:45 AM
My brother went out to the farm this weekend and helped transplant some rose bushes from KC.
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ben ji, does anyone live out there. Looks to be in decent shape.
Not full time. Grandparents moved to town when they retired and no one lived there for about 15 years but my Uncle would still use the bathroom etc when he was around farming.
My dad is out there alot now and has done some minor repairs but the actual house has held up pretty well.
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Logan helped me plant 6 new apple trees. 3 Pink Lady, Gale, Matsu, Winesap. Automated drip tree watering system ordered, will water all the fruit trees when installed. 10 yrs and we should be producing well on these nice looking 5' trees. (Half price at Wal-mart). Farm yard grass looking good, treated with weed n feed. Garden fine - potato crop looking good, blooming now. Tomatoes slow growing - cool. Needed a jacket this am. Had 2 new angus bulls in coral, but Alvin Depe 4 miles East came by and took them home. I'll get lucky some day.
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Post by: ben ji on June 10, 2019, 03:59:14 PM
lucky, as in he hopes alvin leaves them at his place next time?
Lucky as in maybe some random cows wander onto his land and he can keep them for himself.
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haha, that's what i meant
That's cattle russelling, fool.
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Classic Green Reunion 2019
Heading to this event tomorrow.
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Also LOL at the "Danger Keep out" sign on the collapsing out building my dad put up sometime in the last year.
You can also see the incinerator (aka 2 steel drums welded together with hatches at top and bottom) that i cleaned out last year when i was trying to do something productive. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190612/0bb964ff1094f66f4d51e3628543d40c.jpg)
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Its also where the fireworks were kept when i was a kid.
Post by: steve dave on June 12, 2019, 08:46:05 AM
sd cow farm has a giant quonset building that was built in like the 40s or 50s or some way long time ago time. some guy came through Meade like the monorail guy from the simpsons trying to talk all the cow farmers into having his crew construct these massive buildings for them. sd great grandfather was one of them that bit (there were like 4 total in the county). it's still standing and storing tons of tractors and atvs, and giant oil tanks, and tools, and trailers, and crap. the other 3 are also still there from what I hear. Like, this guy was just some snake oil salesman but actually sold quality snake oil that worked. thing has withstood shitloads of massive storms and giant hail and has never required any meaningful maintenance or repairs. Ours has those giant gymnasium lights in it that take awhile to warm up but when they do it's like daylight in there. when I was a kid I tried to convince sd dad to let me set up a full court basketball court in it with a moveable goal on one end and a permanent one on the far end. he declined.
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Arrived in Grand Island, NE and got set up. Lost a trailer tire at St Joe otherwise a good drive.
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How does your tractor compare to the other ones there? Better paint job? Unique? Better running?
-Ben Ji
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*NSFW*I bet you could sell that bench for a couple of grand.
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Tom, how do all the farmer types handle walking around with chubbs all day and also is it weird walking around a bunch of farmer types with day long chubbs?Just grab a golf cart...
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Post by: steve dave on June 13, 2019, 08:51:46 PM
How do we get the cats to add deere day?
talk about rough ridin' intimidation factor. your trash program just has to rough ridin' hang out after warm ups while our farming ass JD's cruise around the field at 4 MPH to nonstop bonkers applause and backfires. followed immediately by sandstorm.
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Post by: ben ji on June 14, 2019, 01:47:17 PM
Wandered over to the livestock pavilion and they're having a Boer goat showing contest. Any goemaws Boer goat farmers?
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Tom,
I jokingly suggested my dad raise meat goats on the farm once my uncles lease is up and he is seriously considering it. I'm too busy to look it up but I've posted before about his interest in raising them. He's even following the prices for goats at the sale barn but so far they have all been too high.
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Who is the jerk with the Kubota shirt in the background??!! :shakesfist:
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Who is the jerk with the Kubota shirt in the background??!! :shakesfist:
they have some local ties now
Post by: KST8FAN on June 15, 2019, 12:36:54 PM
JD built a 100 of em for an oil field company in their colors.
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https://youtu.be/0x2U2CEOvuc
There used to be a guy who did this at Mill Creek off I-70. Saw it in action on a Boy Scout trip back in the day.
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Wandered over to the livestock pavilion and they're having a Boer goat showing contest. Any goemaws Boer goat farmers?
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Tom,
I jokingly suggested my dad raise meat goats on the farm once my uncles lease is up and he is seriously considering it. I'm too busy to look it up but I've posted before about his interest in raising them. He's even following the prices for goats at the sale barn but so far they have all been too high.
My inlaws should be having a boer goat dispersal sale in the not so distant future. :Carl:
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those are some crazy fat goats.Anyone ate one of these goats? On the "taste like chicken" scale what is it like?
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Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on June 16, 2019, 09:28:52 PM
those are some crazy fat goats.Anyone ate one of these goats? On the "taste like chicken" scale what is it like?
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Post by: waks on June 17, 2019, 01:56:04 AM
Goat? Predictably has tasted closer to lamb than anything when I've had it.those are some crazy fat goats.Anyone ate one of these goats? On the "taste like chicken" scale what is it like?
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on June 19, 2019, 09:05:08 AM
How accurate are my dads estimates for the repair costs and also for how much he could rent them out for?
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Elevator charges 4 cents per bushel per month to store grain.
bins are 10,000 bushel with dryers (needed for corn). Costs more if running dryers.
Would bring in $800/month full price.
Could likely get 2.5 cents, maybe 3 cents. ($500/600 per month rent) Would go far to recover annual farm costs of taxes and insurance.
First need to have firm prep check bins. Repair work needed to replace rusted out collers from blowers to bins. Electrical and augers need tested. Also, West bin needs sealed on base as it leaks water in now.
Guessing will cost $2000 to get bins fixed up.
I tried to do some googling but could not find any info about grain storage rates. I even called the K-State extension office but the only guy who would know is OOO all this week.
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Pretty disrespectful to not let SD take a crack at that question in his own thread
SD is a cow farmer not a grain farmer.
Post by: halfEmpty on June 19, 2019, 10:10:42 PM
Low Grain Storage IQ here but how long does someone typically store their grain? Like until the following year or is it a short term kind of thing?
Just depends on its purpose. But generally the same reason people on wall street hold onto commodities and stock. Waiting for the right price.
Post by: ben ji on June 19, 2019, 10:43:14 PM
:drool:Low Grain Storage IQ here but how long does someone typically store their grain? Like until the following year or is it a short term kind of thing?
Just depends on its purpose. But generally the same reason people on wall street hold onto commodities and stock. Waiting for the right price.
halfEmpty, you seen to know alot about grain storage. What is the going rate these days to rent out grain bins?
Post by: halfEmpty on June 20, 2019, 03:22:30 AM
:drool:Low Grain Storage IQ here but how long does someone typically store their grain? Like until the following year or is it a short term kind of thing?
Just depends on its purpose. But generally the same reason people on wall street hold onto commodities and stock. Waiting for the right price.
halfEmpty, you seen to know alot about grain storage. What is the going rate these days to rent out grain bins?
I couldn't really give you a good answer. I guess it mostly depends on the rates in the area. Whatever the elevators are charging, it has to be more profitable for the farmer than that. Probably looking at around .02 cents per stored bushel/month. Or you could just rent out the total capacity of the bin for the year. That could be anywhere from .10-.20/per bushel of total storage for the year. (Depends on if there are high crop yields and farmers are desperate for storage). Electricity for the bins is also a cost that needs to be negotiated.
To answer the original question better (since i misread it and thought it said why instead of how long). A small farmer isn't likely to store longer than 6 months/year. They need that money to buy seed, pay loans, etc.. for the next season. Large farms have enough capital to hold longer if need be.
Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on June 20, 2019, 07:25:25 AM
Corn nation wide was only planted to about 48% I believe, so that will also effect supply. Beans and Milo will replace so there is some optimism there. Generally it sucks to be in the Ag crop biz right now but it will cycle out soon enough.
One question I have is, I get the aesthetic value the bins have for the place but would it be possible to sell them off? Maybe a better option as augers and watersealing are not cheap and if dryers need work that would be very cost prohibitive.
Post by: star seed 7 on June 20, 2019, 07:39:09 AM
Post by: ben ji on June 20, 2019, 09:52:46 AM
Can 'jidad get some of that sweet socialism money trump is giving away to farmers?My uncle has the lease and does the actual farming so he gets all the sweet sweet government money. I dont think he got any extra #TrumpMoney on the land he farms for my dad since he grew alphalfa/wheat in the one circle my dad owns, most of our land is pasture. The #TrumpMoney was for corn/soybeans growers.
The wheat got hailed on last year so we got our portion of the gov subsidized crop insurance money but nothing extra.
When we first got the farm a couple of years ago i was going over the numbers with him and asked how anyone makes money farming...he replied "The Government"
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https://farm.ewg.org/search.php?fips=20000®ionname=Kansas
Post by: steve dave on June 20, 2019, 11:40:42 AM
I've posted this link before but you can look up how much of that sweet sweet government money any farmer gets (Be sure to search by business name if they farm under a LLC)
https://farm.ewg.org/search.php?fips=20000®ionname=Kansas
we appear twice on the first page for Meade, KS. lmao
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:kstategrad:I've posted this link before but you can look up how much of that sweet sweet government money any farmer gets (Be sure to search by business name if they farm under a LLC)
https://farm.ewg.org/search.php?fips=20000®ionname=Kansas
we appear twice on the first page for Meade, KS. lmao
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look at that shitty socialist Tim Huelskamp (Huelskamp Farms) in Fowler, KS.
this govt check cashing machine also shows up in Fowler's equally shitty sister town of Minneola, KS.
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I could play with this thing all day. what an incredible resource for nosy rough ridin' farmers.some real rough ridin' assholes on that list
Post by: KST8FAN on June 20, 2019, 01:39:57 PM
Slow to reply but looks like plenty of good advice. Someone suggested renting for the crop year... I would agree with that. Would be rare for someone to store a full year. Figuring Sept harvest and sold by following July that's 10 mos max so charge for 5-6 flat rate 5 x 20k x .04 = $4,000 for the crop year. Unless you want to do the math. Storage due when grain is loaded out. If the renter needs deduct for tax they could prepay you flat rate in 19, but not sell the grain until 20.
If you get solid bid on repairs let your renter pay for it direct as part of first year and net against agreed upon rent.
Guys store for logistics not just price. They just need the grain in a bin and don't want to wait 3 hours in a dump line at the local elevator. That should factor in the valuation.
Look at local bids to determine the "carry" in the market... harvest price vs delivery next July. That will give you indication of what the market is paying for storage too. Just futures right now on corn it's about 8 cents December to July. That will change as we move through the crop year.
Hand shake or paper agreement? Needs to be clear Ben ji farms is not liable for grain condition. Renter inspects the bin then they are responsible for managing grain condition ie- monitoring temps, running fans.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 20, 2019, 09:46:31 PM
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on June 21, 2019, 02:48:11 PM
:frown:Bobbi popped some kittens out a couple of weeks ago.QuoteMeet Bobbi. Pregnant, round, bad eye but very docile, loves to be petted. Lost half of tail a yr ago. Very gentile. Strong pur motor. Good cat, about 3 yr old. Lives in Morton barn. Likes all visitors and especially pets. Give lots of extra pets when you see her.
Bobbi is a god damn champion farm cat IMO. No excuses, shows up to work every day with her lunch pale and does everything you could want without complaining, a true farm cats farm cat.
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RIP Bobbiei mean the name is on this page like ten times.
the disrespect...
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SD being a crop guy and not much on the live stock side of things. What’s the go to remedy for the Calf scours on the ole Ponderosa El SD? From what I gather it’s rather bad on the young uns?
The vet gives you stuff to give them, idiot!
Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on June 21, 2019, 09:42:05 PM
That’s why I asked eff stick!SD being a crop guy and not much on the live stock side of things. What’s the go to remedy for the Calf scours on the ole Ponderosa El SD? From what I gather it’s rather bad on the young uns?
The vet gives you stuff to give them, idiot!
Post by: steve dave on June 21, 2019, 09:59:12 PM
SD being a crop guy and not much on the live stock side of things. What’s the go to remedy for the Calf scours on the ole Ponderosa El SD? From what I gather it’s rather bad on the young uns?
They just get better on their own or die. We don’t really have a problem with it.
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Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on June 21, 2019, 10:13:46 PM
SD being a crop guy and not much on the live stock side of things. What’s the go to remedy for the Calf scours on the ole Ponderosa El SD? From what I gather it’s rather bad on the young uns?
They just get better on their own or die. We don’t really have a problem with it.
Thank you sounds like it’s a random phenomenon of sorts then?
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Post by: Katpappy on June 21, 2019, 11:22:56 PM
That’s why I asked eff stick!SD being a crop guy and not much on the live stock side of things. What’s the go to remedy for the Calf scours on the ole Ponderosa El SD? From what I gather it’s rather bad on the young uns?
The vet gives you stuff to give them, idiot!
Usually, a few days of mixed powered mike in a bucket with the rubber nipple on it. Let the little sucker drink it dry twice a day. Also, I know what some of you are thinking; substituting your pecker for the rubber nipple is temping but get that perversion out of your mind. The little sucker is sick and a sick mind won't save it! :nono:
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Post by: kslim on June 28, 2019, 12:58:23 PM
(sorry didnt know what thread to ask this in)
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in the market for a good weed eater, any suggestions?https://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=32005.msg1856845#msg1856845 (https://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=32005.msg1856845#msg1856845)
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Post by: kslim on June 28, 2019, 01:32:55 PM
thanks, didnt even know about that threadin the market for a good weed eater, any suggestions?https://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=32005.msg1856845#msg1856845 (https://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=32005.msg1856845#msg1856845)
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Post by: ben ji on June 28, 2019, 05:19:05 PM
Still worried about "Musk" Thistle that is actually prairie thistle.QuoteHI Kids,
ben ji and ben ji's sister both visited the farm in July. A first !
I continue to 'enhance security', occasionally getting a good wildlife photo.
Attached is one from July 12th at 5:15 am.
Bindweed is going to be a major work task next year.
Also we have a couple places with "musk thistle" - an invasive species. I have collected and burned about a dozen tubbs of thistle from the pasture. It burns real good after just a day of drying.
I have a "corner post" project and a chicken house project and there is always lots of burning to do. (ben ji thanks for cleaning out the incinerator, it is working much better now).
I have gotten lil lil's(the farm cat he took home last year) momma cat to come up to the house for some food and milk. She is wild but I am hoping she has some more babies.
In July I have sprayed a lot of Roundup and vinegar plant killer (for use in pasture areas). My focus initially was bindweed but the sandbur stickers were bad so I've been hitting them hard as well. (Plus the pasture thistle - mostly prairie thistle).
I do not think we are getting wind turbines as I never received a call about access to do core samples (done before construction starts on turbines). Same with Aunt Rita.
Feel free to come and visit the farm - activity here is good for security.
I do have some security actions (disable / enable) when you visit. If I am here, I can cook. Fridge is stocked. I have the guest bedroom upstairs and clean sheets after every guest departure. (Don't tell mom, it is practice for a B&B. My B&B will be expensive and booked all the time - lots of included beer and wine! I even pick up at the Colby airport "Shultz Field".)
Later,
Dad
Don't forget the attached pic.
So who wants to be the first person to stay at ben ji's dad farm B&B? Also LOL at him still worrying about musk thistle when my uncle clearly told him it was prairie thistle.
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Gathered these today in our pasture. Main effort was to locate and spray musk thistle patch on West end of pasture. Much new musk thistle was starting up where older sprayed thistle had died. Used Grazon HL, a herbicide for pasture.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190628/cbe8c7b500627c4fb8449041d613eb8f.jpg)
Had to turn ac on a couple hours yesterday and again today - not all the time though....
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I did find out that we have an underground power cable running through part of our pasture and get 4x our normal lease amount this year to compensate for the contstruction.
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Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 06:26:45 PM
My dad sent an email out today with the title "Improvements" and only this picture attached.While I was at the local wallys buying tweezers i bought some stencils/ paint and then tried to make the sign look halfway decent. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190713/b6c4c65e3f7a66762cd64707a0723ed0.jpg)
(I blurred out the 3 last names listed before "homestead")
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Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 06:29:42 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 06:33:39 PM
My shoulder is still sore.
Coming back i was driving along the "Creek" (a series of small lagoons with maybe a foot of water) and saw some birds running in the grass along the bank. Thought they were pheasant but it turns out they were some weird western KS duck family. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190713/fb3a0577e06d577f99719d9e0db3c0e8.jpg)
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 06:37:17 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 06:41:18 PM
Ended up chilling with the cows for a bit and admiring the testicles on the young bulls.
As soon as they saw a truck they made a bee line right for us thinking they were going to get some special feed or sonething.
NOPE! Just practicing good pasture management and spraying musk thistle. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190713/faf0ac864fe60224424be414e084604d.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190713/000234187ea835445dd917b15b05aea7.jpg)
Post by: DaBigTrain on July 13, 2019, 06:45:25 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 06:48:23 PM
1. Badger. Was just waddling down the road as we were coming back from the Pasture.
2. Burrowing Owl. These guys are teeny but look cool.
3. Jackrabbit. First time I have seen one in person, much larger than i expected.
4. Pheasant. Was crossing the road while I was driving into town.
5. Those weird western KS ducks that run in the grass to get away and are alot smaller than normal ducks.
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 06:49:26 PM
What song did you play on your saxophone to get the cows to come over?The soft purr of a chevy S10 engine
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 07:57:47 PM
This picture of a "Juvenile Mountain Lion" is now framed at the farm.Great update. I’m setting the odds that your pops proclaimed pic 3 to be a mountain lion at 2:1.He didnt confirm it in the email but just confirmed it now in person. Was talking about how he got a holster so he could have a pistol when he walked around the windbreak due to mountain lions.
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He also said my cousin killed a bobcat out there a couple weeks ago but the cat in the trail cam was definitely a mountian lion "you can tell by how long the tail is"
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lmao
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Also you should tell him that he’s 100% accurate that the tail is too long to be a bobcat.
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Post by: sys on July 13, 2019, 09:56:31 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 10:29:58 PM
lmao, american coot aka mudhen, i don't understand how any possible family history can result in a person whose family owns a farm in western ks but hasn't seen a jackrabbit, good-looking cows over there.Thank you for identifying the duck.
My history on the farm is basically spending a week out there in the summer between 4-7th grade + random holidays.
My gpa always told me to i could kill any rabbits i saw but if i saw a jackrabbit i had to kill it immediately. He grew up in the dustbowl/great depression and would shoot any Jackrabbit on site but i never saw any when i was out visiting.
Never was allowed to meander almost a mile away from the house as a pre-teen city boy to check out the "Creek" so seeing ducks out there is a new thing to me.
Thats why I post in this thread. To learn the difference between mountain lions/bobcats and ask people with real WKS what these tiny ducks are out in the pasture.
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 10:38:50 PM
A quick google search leads me to believe they might of been "Gadwalls"?
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2019, 10:46:21 PM
Post by: sys on July 13, 2019, 10:52:06 PM
Just read the Wikipedia page on mudhens/american coot and that is not the duck I saw. They were all brown with white specks.
A quick google search leads me to believe they might of been "Gadwalls"?
idk, then. can't think of any ducks/waterfowl that are brown w white spots.
Post by: KST8FAN on July 14, 2019, 08:07:44 AM
Here is a picture of lady looking at cows. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190714/4af7c13a64b92df116c3b98fff36db6b.jpg)Do those windmills all blink in unison at night?
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Post by: ben ji on July 14, 2019, 08:27:52 AM
Yes, when i got in friday night my dad was really excited to drive to to the top of a hill by the pasture where you can see all of them blinking in unison.Here is a picture of lady looking at cows. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190714/4af7c13a64b92df116c3b98fff36db6b.jpg)Do those windmills all blink in unison at night?
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 14, 2019, 08:47:33 AM
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Post by: steve dave on July 14, 2019, 09:45:45 AM
This picture of a "Juvenile Mountain Lion" is now framed at the farm.Great update. I’m setting the odds that your pops proclaimed pic 3 to be a mountain lion at 2:1.He didnt confirm it in the email but just confirmed it now in person. Was talking about how he got a holster so he could have a pistol when he walked around the windbreak due to mountain lions.
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He also said my cousin killed a bobcat out there a couple weeks ago but the cat in the trail cam was definitely a mountian lion "you can tell by how long the tail is"
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lmao
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Also you should tell him that he’s 100% accurate that the tail is too long to be a bobcat.
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lmao
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Post by: slackcat on July 15, 2019, 07:16:31 AM
Then back to the pasture again because my dad saw some actual musk thistle that needed to be sprayed. Im really happy he has learned the difference between prairie/musk thistle in the last year.
Ended up chilling with the cows for a bit and admiring the testicles on the young bulls.
As soon as they saw a truck they made a bee line right for us thinking they were going to get some special feed or sonething.
NOPE! Just practicing good pasture management and spraying musk thistle. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190713/faf0ac864fe60224424be414e084604d.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190713/000234187ea835445dd917b15b05aea7.jpg)
Nice cattle, what breed if I may ask?
Post by: pissclams on July 15, 2019, 08:14:18 AM
Post by: Institutional Control on July 15, 2019, 08:26:22 AM
Nice cattle, what breed if I may ask?
Look like Beefmaster to me.
Post by: star seed 7 on July 15, 2019, 08:28:47 AM
i believe those are brown cows
Chocolate milk :drool:
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Post by: Tobias on July 15, 2019, 02:23:34 PM
My dad sent an email out today with the title "Improvements" and only this picture attached.
(I blurred out the 3 last names listed before "homestead")
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your dad used a stencil too, it was just the beavis & butthead one
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Post by: Spracne on July 20, 2019, 04:44:22 PM
My father in law was a state champion corn shucker back in the day. That is to say he was kicking butt in his 70s and 80s. These had went missing during the house clean up until today..(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190720/5899b1dcae6e34d20fd2a64731d5d3d7.jpg)
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Post by: Church Creeper on July 20, 2019, 06:32:23 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2019, 02:54:39 PM
Nice cattle, what breed if I may ask?
Look like Beefmaster to me.
Red Angus, purchased at the Oakley sale barn this spring according to my dad.
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Post by: IPA4Me on July 21, 2019, 03:40:22 PM
I drove across Kansas a couple of times last week. First time in a long time. When did Kansas farmers start growing so much corn? Not nearly as much wheat stubble as I remember.
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Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2019, 04:43:10 PM
KS still leads the country in wheat production so its not like people stopped growing it.
Post by: KST8FAN on July 21, 2019, 04:59:46 PM
Good article from a year ago...
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Post by: Church Creeper on July 21, 2019, 06:09:51 PM
Thank you. I was especially surprised to see the corn growing along i35 headed to Wellington. I could not recall having seen anything but wheat or milo in that area.
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I live outside Wichita and have noticed the same thing. I see very few wheat fields anymore. Hell cotton seems more abundant nowadays.
Post by: pissclams on July 21, 2019, 07:33:48 PM
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Post by: sys on July 23, 2019, 06:22:51 PM
When did Kansas farmers start growing so much corn? Not nearly as much wheat stubble as I remember.
man, how sad.
Post by: steve dave on July 23, 2019, 06:49:53 PM
Corn is subsidized more than wheat.
Oh crap waddup
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Post by: slackcat on July 23, 2019, 11:15:57 PM
Nice cattle, what breed if I may ask?
Look like Beefmaster to me.
Red Angus, purchased at the Oakley sale barn this spring according to my dad.
That's what I guessed. Look happy. :D
Post by: IPA4Me on July 24, 2019, 07:19:52 AM
No doubt the SD Family LLC is well aware of the bottom line help. Darn Socialists! :horrorsurprise:Corn is subsidized more than wheat.
Oh crap waddup
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Post by: ben ji on July 24, 2019, 09:10:50 AM
Was the middle of harvest in NW KS when I was out there July 12/13th but according to notable farm expert ben ji's dad that was just farmers who owned their own combine/equipment. The "Cutting crews" were still in SW KS and hadn't made it up yet. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190724/ebf0b73c66ea50ce857a0fa45aba9ae8.jpg)
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Post by: ben ji on July 27, 2019, 04:28:03 PM
This week we have cream separators. Benji every cat rancher should have one these marvels of technology.My dad sent me this a couple months ago, the cream can is pretty cool.
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My understanding is after WWII dad and another guy, maybe Bird City area, used VA money to buy a couple milk cows and sell cream. Heard this from an old guy last name Hoyt who has boys younger than me. Said he thought he had a cream can with dad's name on it and told me the story.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190727/011584339d25211a3519747c4c28739d.jpg)
Post by: sys on July 27, 2019, 05:27:22 PM
a rule for digital farmers in the age of social media is when you kill a rattle snake you post a picture of the rattle on facebook and also include a note indicating how many rattles it had in case your followers can't count.
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Post by: Katpappy on July 27, 2019, 09:40:12 PM
The key to reducing unnecessary Rattle snake deaths is a strong local barn cat population. More cats = less mice = less rattlesnakes in proximity to humans.
They'll just eat the cats.
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Post by: sys on July 28, 2019, 09:22:38 AM
herpetologist - oh my god, 6 buttons. so it had 6 tails, then, you ignorant psychopath?
Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on July 28, 2019, 09:28:08 AM
Post by: steve dave on July 28, 2019, 10:06:21 AM
cow farmer - i just killed a rattlesnake, it had 6 buttons.
herpetologist - oh my god, 6 buttons. so it had 6 tails, then, you ignorant psychopath?
lmao
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Post by: steve dave on July 28, 2019, 10:07:16 AM
I gather SD that the family ranch is in the western area of the state how many head have been sacrificed at the alter of the mythical large cats that the kdwP insist do not exist in Kansas? Hint I have seen and tracked two in Central Ks over the last 12 years.
Zero. You run across cow farmers who claim we have them and I always just assume they are idiots or drunk 24/7/365.
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Post by: ben ji on July 28, 2019, 10:19:56 AM
I gather SD that the family ranch is in the western area of the state how many head have been sacrificed at the alter of the mythical large cats that the kdwP insist do not exist in Kansas? Hint I have seen and tracked two in Central Ks over the last 12 years.
Please identify these two cats for me (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190728/8ecabb0c9ac0b92e9dca78bad239dda2.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190728/142b787d425ed1c1aa987ba86a46637b.jpg)
Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on July 28, 2019, 10:58:01 AM
That is a Bobcat with a long tail. Genetic anomaly you can tell by the markings behind the front legs with white and black patterns also the cheek tufts that are visible. Very rare but it does happen. Never caught one like that but have seen others that have been caught before.
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Post by: mocat on July 29, 2019, 01:10:49 AM
cow farmer - i just killed a rattlesnake, it had 6 buttons.Enjoyed this post tremendously
herpetologist - oh my god, 6 buttons. so it had 6 tails, then, you ignorant psychopath?
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Post by: ben ji on July 30, 2019, 10:40:28 PM
Here is a long distance pic of my cousins coyote hunting lodge. Its currently in the "Junkyard" area of our farm on the top of a hill.
He will "call" them into range then blast them and sell their pelt.
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Post by: ben ji on July 30, 2019, 11:10:28 PM
Ben ji updates are great.Tom,
Musk thistles aplenty here too. 3 gal sprayer and a spade are required tools in the gator.
Neighbor rented track hoe for a month to remove brush and build a pond.
He got done early so I got a days work out of it for fuel and paid the hauling back to the dealer. Cleaned up a fence row of cedars along one of the fields.
Replenished the hedge post inventory off his place too.
Fence building on hold until it's not so hot, but I got the materials and a plan.
Got back to work after the 4th to find my company now has a "deforestation policy."
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I am just remembering a great story my dad told me about how my GPA tried to connect a wallow in the pasture to the "Creek" with a rented back hoe.
He got about halfway there and decided it was not going to work.
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Post by: ben ji on July 30, 2019, 11:16:35 PM
One of them is in the pasture by the "Creek" where i am guessing they were trying to make a pond but the water doesnt actually run into it.
That is typically where we pew pew guns.
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Post by: ben ji on July 30, 2019, 11:24:14 PM
Where did the dirt go? I'll have to do some "Digging" to find out!
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 31, 2019, 10:06:33 PM
First photo is 1954 the year Dad started farming. The second photo is 2000 after 45 years of pond building, terraces, and brush removal. The rock road intersection is now a paved, curved highway.
Tom (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190801/bfb2dc4b5bfbd3bef4a8225f398a5b63.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190801/2f26203047b9b7e3ac5dddd9e7cb0a9a.jpg)
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Tom
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Post by: ben ji on August 01, 2019, 12:45:06 PM
https://glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#
Pretty cool
Post by: KST8FAN on August 02, 2019, 08:37:07 PM
Anyone close enough to check this tractor out for a relative?
Tom
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Post by: steve dave on August 02, 2019, 08:59:00 PM
scene: like 2006. I am a recent KSU grad and live in Omaha working in my elite non-cow-farm job. sd dad calls me because some guy in Omaha is selling skid steer tractors (like those bobcat tiny little baby ones) that were like floor models or some crap. He lives right outside of omaha and has like a shitload of them. sd dad asks me (fully knowing I give eff all about farming and was always a complete downgrade about doing the farming and whatever) to go out to his place and look over all these skid steers and like see if they are good. so I go out there and he pulls some out of this giant building and I kick the eff out of their tires and like wiggle the handle deals you steer them with. The guy finally asks if I am going to fire them up so I do and like do 360s around his driveway for awhile (I can drive any tractor made because I was forced to from like the age of 8) and once the amount of time is up that I think a normal tractor evaluator would take to determine if this was a quality machine or lemon I drive it back over and get out and tell him they seem to be nice units and we'll probably take like 4 of them or some crap. then sddad has the guy ship them down to sd family farm and ranch and now they are mostly borrowed by other farmers because really no farmer owns a skid steer. sd dad gets irate because he never knows where any of them are and always has to go looking for them whenever he actually needs one to like clean out a cow place or something.
THE END.
Post by: star seed 7 on August 02, 2019, 09:11:05 PM
Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on August 02, 2019, 09:19:30 PM
Tom, that reminds me of a great sd is not a cow farmer story:
scene: like 2006. I am a recent KSU grad and live in Omaha working in my elite non-cow-farm job. sd dad calls me because some guy in Omaha is selling skid steer tractors (like those bobcat tiny little baby ones) that were like floor models or some crap. He lives right outside of omaha and has like a shitload of them. sd dad asks me (fully knowing I give eff all about farming and was always a complete downgrade about doing the farming and whatever) to go out to his place and look over all these skid steers and like see if they are good. so I go out there and he pulls some out of this giant building and I kick the eff out of their tires and like wiggle the handle deals you steer them with. The guy finally asks if I am going to fire them up so I do and like do 360s around his driveway for awhile (I can drive any tractor made because I was forced to from like the age of 8) and once the amount of time is up that I think a normal tractor evaluator would take to determine if this was a quality machine or lemon I drive it back over and get out and tell him they seem to be nice units and we'll probably take like 4 of them or some crap. then sddad has the guy ship them down to sd family farm and ranch and now they are mostly borrowed by other farmers because really no farmer owns a skid steer. sd dad gets irate because he never knows where any of them are and always has to go looking for them whenever he actually needs one to like clean out a cow place or something.
THE END.
Lmao
Post by: steve dave on August 02, 2019, 09:47:35 PM
Post by: ben ji on August 05, 2019, 11:53:20 AM
https://c0ect114.caspio.com/dp/7b5f0000d379e132324947f6a8d6
Seeing my dad's name on the list makes me feel like we are finally real farmers....then i looked at my uncle's LLC and he got 40x what my dad did.
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Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on August 05, 2019, 12:12:21 PM
also trump needs to do more for our wheat, alfalfa, and beef producers. this sorghum and bean crap is for the commie red farmers.
SD noooooooooo! There is lots of preventative plant out there don’t bring any govt attention this way.
Post by: star seed 7 on August 05, 2019, 12:14:13 PM
Post by: ben ji on August 05, 2019, 12:16:12 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 05, 2019, 12:30:24 PM
Guys, i dont want to sound like a badass and wont give a specific number but lets just say ben jis dad is getting between $1000 and $2000 dollars.
that'll buy a lot of cat (and juvenile mtn lion) food
Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on August 05, 2019, 12:31:34 PM
Guys, i dont want to sound like a badass and wont give a specific number but lets just say ben jis dad is getting between $1000 and $2000 dollars.
that'll buy a lot of cat (and juvenile mtn lion) food
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Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2019, 10:19:05 AM
My brother and I both expressed concern that Lil Red wouldn’t be able to haul that large of a trailer but what do we know. I asked if he has done any research into how much Lil Red can tow or how much a trailer costs and his response was “I see old ones just sitting there when I’m driving around, they cant be too much”.
Back out there today just soaking up nature
Watched a wood pecker hanging on light pole this am. Red head. Was getting bugs off roof of garage. Pretty soon a full sized non red head showed up. He started feeding it. Little later a 2nd non red head showed up wanting fed. Saw one of them catch a bug mid air.
Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2019, 10:21:17 AM
https://www.drovers.com/article/cattle-markets-hammered-monday-tyson-fire-news
I found this blurb interesting, didn't realize 21% of all feed lot cattle were in KS.
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According to CattleFax, Tyson's Holcomb plant accounts for 6% of total U.S. fed cattle packing capacity, and 23.5% of Kansas fed cattle packing capacity. CattleFax also noted the growing supply of finished cattle stood at 11.5 million head July 1, which was record large. About 21% of U.S. total cattle on feed are in Kansas.
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Post by: DaBigTrain on August 13, 2019, 02:38:02 PM
Juvenile mtn lion
Looks more like a young cougar
Post by: Brock Landers on August 13, 2019, 02:47:49 PM
Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on August 13, 2019, 05:44:00 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 13, 2019, 10:05:00 PM
Apparently there was a fire at the Tyson plant in Holcomb.Cattle futures down big the last two days.
https://www.drovers.com/article/cattle-markets-hammered-monday-tyson-fire-news
I found this blurb interesting, didn't realize 21% of all feed lot cattle were in KS.QuoteAccording to CattleFax, Tyson's Holcomb plant accounts for 6% of total U.S. fed cattle packing capacity, and 23.5% of Kansas fed cattle packing capacity. CattleFax also noted the growing supply of finished cattle stood at 11.5 million head July 1, which was record large. About 21% of U.S. total cattle on feed are in Kansas.
Originally built by IBP that plant was largest cattle kill in the world. Eight thousand head per day. Interviewed for job there my last year at KState.
Pretty amazing in the time (2-3 hours) I was there to interview they slaughtered what dad raised in a year.
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Post by: pissclams on August 14, 2019, 08:38:56 AM
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Post by: deputy dawg on August 14, 2019, 01:31:39 PM
What’s this? Muskrat? Saw this at the golf course in Desoto this last month.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190813/2ffc69ff2e32cc074467610dd54a8139.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190813/7166ea4bd6a82de3cf929035b036c33b.jpg)
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Saw one of those muskrats in Turkey Creek in Mission.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 14, 2019, 01:35:31 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 14, 2019, 08:15:08 PM
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-average-u-s-farm-is-1300000-in-debt-and-now-the-worst-farming-crisis-in-modern-history-is-upon-us
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Post by: steve dave on August 15, 2019, 08:38:36 PM
The Average U.S. Farm Is $1,300,000 In Debt, And Now The Worst Farming Crisis In Modern History Is Upon Us. I read this yesterday; SD are your folks this broke? :surprised:
That’s a stupid number because a lot of farm and ranch operators do have some massive operating LOCs and various notes on land if they’re buying but are generally very asset heavy.
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 15, 2019, 10:36:54 PM
I know how you 'seeds love fake patties days.It didn’t become real real until KU peeps started abandoning under age girls at the hawk for MHK. I honestly feel that’s when it officially got on the map. They came in droves.
Post by: DaBigTrain on August 15, 2019, 11:12:02 PM
I know how you 'seeds love fake patties days.It didn’t become real real until KU peeps started abandoning under age girls at the hawk for MHK. I honestly feel that’s when it officially got on the map. They came in droves.
It's not just hawks(potentially HawkHorns fans), Nubs, Clones, Cowboys/girls, Sooners, etc, etc, etc. Basically it's become a Big 12 party, hosted by the best party situation in the Big 12. It's a destination spot at this point.
Post by: Spracne on August 16, 2019, 12:32:14 AM
Post by: mocat on August 16, 2019, 07:24:10 AM
You Melvins are being way too insecure. Mine was a simple comment riffing off clams'. To wit, fake meat = fake patties (of meat, you see . . . )
don't
Post by: star seed 7 on August 16, 2019, 07:30:41 AM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 16, 2019, 08:09:31 AM
You Melvins are being way too insecure. Mine was a simple comment riffing off clams'. To wit, fake meat = fake patties (of meat, you see . . . ):)
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Post by: pissclams on August 16, 2019, 08:50:01 AM
R word
r stands for respect at goEMAW
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Post by: ben ji on August 16, 2019, 11:37:08 AM
https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/city-slickers-get-trump-tariff-payments
Post by: IPA4Me on August 21, 2019, 11:47:34 AM
https://twitter.com/tmhoward/status/1164128875187712001?s=19
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 22, 2019, 07:14:10 PM
Speakers, tours, food, displays. Got to show off the 4020.
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Post by: slackcat on August 23, 2019, 07:08:31 AM
Farmers and Boomers bleeding us workers dry.
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 23, 2019, 05:32:49 PM
how do the front tires on tractors get any grip at all? those things are a complete jokeFor turning there are individual brakes on back tires you can pivot like The Flush at the end of the field and never slow down.
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Post by: ben ji on September 12, 2019, 01:56:55 PM
Living the dream. AM Farm Kitty found a tall elm tree North West of the house. Up she went very high. She did NOT fall, did NOT need a vet visit. In and out of the house 2 more times. Spends afternoon napping then wants out around sunset - request always denied. Tonight DWARFS vs MIDGETS ! ! ! I made the little guys some oatmeal cookies made with honey.
Farm mowed, 6 loads of limbs hauled, mower blades sharpened, fruit trees watered, solar lights placed, laptop factory reset (fixed), trail cams downloaded & batteries charged. Cat count down to 9 total. Littlest kitten sole litter survival cute - grey with long stripes (front to back).
Stile need to haul pooh for fruit trees, reclaim garden & fertilize w/pooh, haul 30 loads of tree limbs, prune & treat fruit trees, fence off fruit trees from deer, put out 2 more trail cams for security monitoring.
Grey momma cat comes 2x a day to house to escort me to Morton to feed the barn cats.
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Post by: IPA4Me on September 12, 2019, 05:59:26 PM
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fence off fruit trees from deer
How tall are these fences?
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Quotefence off fruit trees from deer
How tall are these fences?
Dunno yet but my guess is too short to actually keep deer out, probably 3 ft high chicken wire attached to steel posts.
Post by: ben ji on September 13, 2019, 09:40:12 AM
Oatmeal cookies went to the Dwarfs and Midgets. Before the event I asked Dallas if he'd gotten one of the oatmeal cookies. He said, "YES ! I ate three. They were really good !". The farm cats usually get frshmade pancakes cut up w/scrambled eggs and milk. An extra is to mix in some canned cat food with it. Always some plain milk for small kittens as well.
Post by: ben ji on September 13, 2019, 09:42:41 AM
These god damn barn cats eat better than 99% of housecats.
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Post by: DaBigTrain on September 20, 2019, 09:57:30 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on September 21, 2019, 09:24:43 AM
Is that THEE famous grain tower or whatever in the first pick you engineered a fix a few years ago?That silo is at the other farm. This was the home place where dad started, but the silo is the only thing that remains. Hasn't been used in 30 years.
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Post by: ben ji on September 23, 2019, 10:10:22 AM
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ks/programs/?cid=nrcseprd1410561
There is a CRP program called "Riparian Buffer" that I'm sure the "Creek" in our pasture would qualify for.
We also have some wallows/playa lakes in the pasture that might qualify for the "Non-Floodplain Wetland Restoration" or "Marginal Pastureland Wetland Buffer".
He said he would talk to the local FSA rep this week so hopefully we get some more details on the feasibility.
I'm really just looking for ways to prevent him from attempting to raise goats or some other hair brained scheme out there when my uncles lease is up in a couple years.
Post by: EMAWican on September 23, 2019, 10:48:01 AM
Anyone have any experience converting pastureland into CRP? Most land that is put into CRP is old cropland so my dad just assumed he couldn't put the pasture into CRP but I started doing some research and that may not be the case.
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ks/programs/?cid=nrcseprd1410561
There is a CRP program called "Riparian Buffer" that I'm sure the "Creek" in our pasture would qualify for.
We also have some wallows/playa lakes in the pasture that might qualify for the "Non-Floodplain Wetland Restoration" or "Marginal Pastureland Wetland Buffer".
He said he would talk to the local FSA rep this week so hopefully we get some more details on the feasibility.
I'm really just looking for ways to prevent him from attempting to raise goats or some other hair brained scheme out there when my uncles lease is up in a couple years.
The FSA rep is the one who will submit all the paperwork and perform the evaluation, and depending on how good they are at their job be able to find a program that the land might be eligible for. Since it's established pasture, your land will only be eligible for certain programs and only if your pasture meets the definition of "marginal" (usually has to deal with the soil type but also historic crop yield records if available).
Keep in mind that all those programs have sign-up periods based on available funding and supposedly the next CRP is opening up at the end of this year/early next.
Post by: ben ji on September 25, 2019, 12:42:46 PM
Anyone have any experience converting pastureland into CRP? Most land that is put into CRP is old cropland so my dad just assumed he couldn't put the pasture into CRP but I started doing some research and that may not be the case.
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ks/programs/?cid=nrcseprd1410561
There is a CRP program called "Riparian Buffer" that I'm sure the "Creek" in our pasture would qualify for.
We also have some wallows/playa lakes in the pasture that might qualify for the "Non-Floodplain Wetland Restoration" or "Marginal Pastureland Wetland Buffer".
He said he would talk to the local FSA rep this week so hopefully we get some more details on the feasibility.
I'm really just looking for ways to prevent him from attempting to raise goats or some other hair brained scheme out there when my uncles lease is up in a couple years.
The FSA rep is the one who will submit all the paperwork and perform the evaluation, and depending on how good they are at their job be able to find a program that the land might be eligible for. Since it's established pasture, your land will only be eligible for certain programs and only if your pasture meets the definition of "marginal" (usually has to deal with the soil type but also historic crop yield records if available).
Keep in mind that all those programs have sign-up periods based on available funding and supposedly the next CRP is opening up at the end of this year/early next.
My dad met with the local FSA rep today and they said no go on the "creek" in the pasture but the playa's were a possibility.
My uncle still has the lease until 2021 so we have another year to figure out if the playa's qualify etc.
Post by: ben ji on September 25, 2019, 12:45:07 PM
Long striped kitten has been my summer project - keeping alive. Lil grey has blk n striped grey siblings - grey underneath.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190925/6cbe0640ef7b79c4c53de597c0ecbf41.jpg)
Post by: ben ji on September 27, 2019, 11:20:36 AM
I notice a dozen beautiful monarch butterflies flying above the East lawn protected by the trees. Watching lil I saw where about 30 were parked on leaves within a 2 ft area. You would barely notice them except when a new one came in - then all around would open their wings displaying the festive orange and black colors. All together there wer around 150.
I am starting to see the black caterpillars on the roads now.
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Post by: ben ji on September 27, 2019, 11:21:42 AM
Purrs real good. Loves pers and attention. Likes to climb up my pants leg. Fiesty little guy.
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 30, 2019, 05:45:08 PM
https://breaking911.com/happening-now-cougar-escapes-from-kansas-zoo-residents-told-to-take-extreme-caution/
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Post by: ben ji on October 02, 2019, 08:45:27 AM
My dad will always claim that we are cousins with everybody and normally we just say, yeah sure whatever.....Our most prominent "cousins" own a ton of land out by our farm, big time land barons. We are related through our great grandmothers who were sisters but I have never met any of them.
Anyways our big time land baron "Cousin" was in Topeka for a meeting that my sister was also attending. She was joking around and asked me if she should introduce herself as his cousin at the meeting. I told her to go with WKS neighbor since I doubt he knows that we are "Cousins"
Ben Ji's Sister - "Hello, my name is ben ji's sister and I wanted to introduce myself. We have some land out by yours in WKS and you might know ben ji's dad or ben ji's uncle"
Big Time Land Baron Cousins "Oh I know who your uncle is....did you know we are cousins? Not like cousins cousins but 3x removed I think. I think my great grandma was born on your farm?" (She was)
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 06, 2019, 05:49:21 PM
Cousin didn't think we could do it in a day. Pffft.
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Post by: halfEmpty on October 07, 2019, 07:50:27 AM
Anyone else from WKS cousins with like half the county?
My dad will always claim that we are cousins with everybody and normally we just say, yeah sure whatever.....Our most prominent "cousins" own a ton of land out by our farm, big time land barons. We are related through our great grandmothers who were sisters but I have never met any of them.
Anyways our big time land baron "Cousin" was in Topeka for a meeting that my sister was also attending. She was joking around and asked me if she should introduce herself as his cousin at the meeting. I told her to go with WKS neighbor since I doubt he knows that we are "Cousins"
Ben Ji's Sister - "Hello, my name is ben ji's sister and I wanted to introduce myself. We have some land out by yours in WKS and you might know ben ji's dad or ben ji's uncle"
Big Time Land Baron Cousins "Oh I know who your uncle is....did you know we are cousins? Not like cousins cousins but 3x removed I think. I think my great grandma was born on your farm?" (She was)
:ROFL:
Not from WKS, but from EKS between Topeka and Wichita. While my last name is one of 4 or 5 prominent names in my small hometown, I wasn't ever closely related to anyone (besides my grandmother). My dad had 2 first cousins in town and their kids were my 2nd cousins. That was about it. My aunt's and uncles all moved away. Now, my grandfather had something around 60-70 first cousins in town(2 of his uncles had like 20 kids apiece). The majority of them stayed and intermarried with all the other prominent names in town. I jokingly said to my dad once that we were, in some way, related to 80% of the town. He said, "at least."
To the point, after a DNA test, the dad of a good friend and roommate of mine in KC showed up as a relative. His grandma was from my hometown and a cousin to my grandpa. We jokingly call each other cousin now.
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Post by: ben ji on October 07, 2019, 12:48:29 PM
Feedlot for wintering calves needed some attention. So #1 son and I knocked out rebuilding base for feedbunks today.
Cousin didn't think we could do it in a day. Pffft.
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Do you always power rank your sons? If the other one gets you a good birthday present do you update the rankings and put him at #1?
Post by: KST8FAN on October 07, 2019, 02:20:50 PM
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Post by: ben ji on October 16, 2019, 09:43:35 AM
Lil lil is worn out, All day outside yesterday. After an hour of calling and extensive searching she appeared from North of the house at sunset.
All hosed drained and stored. Garden mowed. Marigold seeds collected. Bee hives protected with bales. Bees given surgar water for extra food. Working on trespass and no hunting signs. Purple paint on poles, posts - no hunting markers. Rita's milo cut. Ours cutting yesterday and today. Limbs collected, piled. Cleaning up house clutter. Worked on hot water heater - limited success. First hot shower in a long time on farm. :) Cat count 5 (maybe 6).
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Post by: ben ji on October 18, 2019, 08:39:28 PM
Spot check the corn crop this evening.Tom,
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Check out the leftovers from the Milo Harvest my dad collected to "Feed the pheasants" I will be killing in 1 month. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191019/b5d4132a9be0aa4313b1023f42947955.jpg)
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Post by: ben ji on October 18, 2019, 08:47:44 PM
Ive always heard it called Milo, as in "We are growing Milo in that field this year" but it seems like Sorghum is the name the grain is sold as.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 19, 2019, 07:21:53 AM
"Some of you need to study more and apply yourselves otherwise you can look forward to a career as the tire changer back at your local Farmers Coop."
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 27, 2019, 04:08:05 PM
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Post by: ben ji on October 28, 2019, 12:48:12 PM
Benji I got some hay in the barn now. The barn is cat ready if your dad wants to cull his herd.
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That pile of hay can support MAYBE 2 barn cats at most, fill up that whole back area with hay up to the rafters and then we are talking.
Post by: Institutional Control on October 28, 2019, 01:34:38 PM
Post by: Katpappy on October 29, 2019, 09:07:22 AM
ben ji, you're being nice. that is not nearly enough hay for even 1 cat.
FTR, I have horses and that's not even enough for one horse more or less for a hay loving cat. ;)
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 02, 2019, 08:45:04 PM
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Post by: Institutional Control on November 04, 2019, 02:48:56 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 05, 2019, 11:56:53 AM
What's it going to take to get a windmill on that cat ranch ?Tom,
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I love that you call it a cat ranch and am 100% on board with that name.
Post by: ben ji on November 05, 2019, 12:01:29 PM
"Yeah, name is ben ji from western kansas, harvest is over so im blowing off some steam and cashing in my trump money"
Thanks to this thread I know just enough about farming to be dangerous.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 05, 2019, 08:11:31 PM
https://youtu.be/IHxnm8ozqhUWhat's it going to take to get a windmill on that cat ranch ?Tom,
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I love that you call it a cat ranch and am 100% on board with that name.
Your dad needs one of these.
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Post by: ben ji on November 07, 2019, 06:50:13 PM
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Subj: Corn Harvest
Helping a friend. Add grain cart driver to the resume. No accidents
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Post by: ben ji on November 07, 2019, 06:50:49 PM
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Essentials in a farm operation. Wht roll.
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Post by: star seed 7 on November 07, 2019, 06:54:13 PM
Post by: IPA4Me on November 07, 2019, 07:18:30 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on November 07, 2019, 08:52:13 PM
Tell him corn cobs are more sustainable.QuoteEssentials in a farm operation. Wht roll.
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Post by: slackcat on November 08, 2019, 07:30:24 AM
QuoteEssentials in a farm operation. Wht roll.
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Are drinks on the combine?
Off topic, turbine site on slack farm:
Post by: ben ji on November 08, 2019, 11:12:15 AM
QuoteEssentials in a farm operation. Wht roll.
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Are drinks on the combine?
Off topic, turbine site on slack farm:
Wind Turbine? On your farm? Freaking lotto ticket right there ole slack cat.
Post by: slackcat on November 09, 2019, 06:43:54 AM
I didn't realize how far off the deep end some people go when it comes to wind farms. They tend to bring underlying mental issues to the surface, so as a bonus my crazy/jealous neighbors now hate me. :)
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Post by: slackcat on November 10, 2019, 01:17:31 PM
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 08:56:42 AM
And rural poverty does have it's own appeal.What part of KS is your farm? What if slackcat and ben ji are farm neighbors?!?
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 08:59:15 AM
)Anyways looks like the cats have been eating more than usual with this cold weather.
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Post by: star seed 7 on November 11, 2019, 09:17:29 AM
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Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 10:59:13 AM
I think I asked this before so apologies if you answered but did he get those cats de-wormer? Because if he didn’t they will be incredibly parasite filled.
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Probably not, he treated a kitten for a bad case of ringworm at some point but I'm guessing that was topical. His birthday is on Friday so I'll bring some with me as his present.
Any recommendations on good bulk cat de-wormer for farm cats?
Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 11:00:06 AM
Like, what would he say if you told him you just got it all at hyvee?
I'm definitely getting it all at Hy-Vee.
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Post by: sys on November 11, 2019, 01:27:42 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 02:18:14 PM
is that true about the $1.69 milk?
Are you accusing my father of being a liar? I'm going to take his word for it because I'm not stopping by 3 different grocery stores before I go out there.
Post by: slackcat on November 11, 2019, 02:19:45 PM
And rural poverty does have it's own appeal.What part of KS is your farm? What if slackcat and ben ji are farm neighbors?!?
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Sadly, SEK. :facepalm: This is a 450 million dollar project (private company) going into a poor county and some loose their minds over it. Explains why SEK is SEK.
No progress today, just sleet and snow.
Really enjoy the cat ranch updates. :D My cat has yet to leave the garage, she'll hold it 'till tomorrow.
Post by: IPA4Me on November 11, 2019, 02:37:00 PM
Have some high school friends in south central kansas losing their minds over windmills. FB feed got to be too much and muted them.And rural poverty does have it's own appeal.What part of KS is your farm? What if slackcat and ben ji are farm neighbors?!?
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Sadly, SEK. :facepalm: This is a 450 million dollar project (private company) going into a poor county and some loose their minds over it. Explains why SEK is SEK.
No progress today, just sleet and snow.
Really enjoy the cat ranch updates. :D My cat has yet to leave the garage, she'll hold it 'till tomorrow.
Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 02:43:09 PM
Just seems like a weird thing to get bent out of shape about. Our farm is sandwiched between two rows of windmills and in the 48 hours I've spent out there since they put them up they have already blended into the scenery.
Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 11, 2019, 02:44:31 PM
Have some high school friends in south central kansas losing their minds over windmills. FB feed got to be too much and muted them.And rural poverty does have it's own appeal.What part of KS is your farm? What if slackcat and ben ji are farm neighbors?!?
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Sadly, SEK. :facepalm: This is a 450 million dollar project (private company) going into a poor county and some loose their minds over it. Explains why SEK is SEK.
No progress today, just sleet and snow.
Really enjoy the cat ranch updates. :D My cat has yet to leave the garage, she'll hold it 'till tomorrow.
I'm guessing Sumner County?
Post by: Institutional Control on November 11, 2019, 02:46:00 PM
And rural poverty does have it's own appeal.What part of KS is your farm? What if slackcat and ben ji are farm neighbors?!?
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Sadly, SEK. :facepalm: This is a 450 million dollar project (private company) going into a poor county and some loose their minds over it. Explains why SEK is SEK.
No progress today, just sleet and snow.
Really enjoy the cat ranch updates. :D My cat has yet to leave the garage, she'll hold it 'till tomorrow.
I saw a ton of anti-wind farm signs in Neosho county a few months ago. My parents live in Allen and if there's any anti-wind people there, they seem less vocal.
Post by: steve dave on November 11, 2019, 02:49:08 PM
BLINK, BLINK, BLINK, BLINK, BLINK
Post by: star seed 7 on November 11, 2019, 02:55:03 PM
Post by: slackcat on November 11, 2019, 02:55:57 PM
I don't really get the windmill hate. Is it because they think it ruins the scenery? Jealous they are not getting phat wind turbine checks and others are? Afraid of new things?
Just seems like a weird thing to get bent out of shape about. Our farm is sandwiched between two rows of windmills and in the 48 hours I've spent out there since they put them up they have already blended into the scenery.
I think those are the two main underlying feelings. They then google reasons why they feel this way....hence the brain cancer, aborted calves, decreased land value and noise excuses. Heard two of the more radical neighbors went in for psychological treatment.
Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 03:27:23 PM
I don't understand the noise point unless maybe you are living right underneath one. There are like 5 windmills within 2 miles of the house and you cant hear any noise from them.
Post by: Institutional Control on November 11, 2019, 03:28:34 PM
I can see the point about the blinking lights being annoying but as a counter point to that my dad loves going to the "hill" on our farm and looking at all the lights blinking in unison.
I don't understand the noise point unless maybe you are living right underneath one. There are like 5 windmills within 2 miles of the house and you cant hear any noise from them.
You probably already contracted the brain cancer and can't hear them anymore. Ts & Ps
Post by: steve dave on November 11, 2019, 03:31:24 PM
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Post by: sys on November 11, 2019, 03:32:30 PM
off topic, but on some of the solar projects i've worked on, big solar cuts a check to neighbors to compensate for the eye blight and whatnot. kansans would learn to rough ridin' love the blinking night lights pretty quick if they had laws they encouraged that sort of crap.
Post by: slackcat on November 11, 2019, 03:34:59 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 05:49:07 PM
Subject:White Paws
More native American than democrat E. Warren. Lil's smaller size but only half the weight. Rather get pets than eat. Her pure motor is like a big diesel tractor. Bet if I brought her back, just for a visit (after thorough bathing) mom would love her so much she'd come to the farm to visit her. She is about a year old.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191111/0f4d1723021dc3fddf8a9c6dbd48c607.jpg)
Post by: sys on November 11, 2019, 06:08:27 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 11, 2019, 06:59:14 PM
ben ji have you considered having a kegger at the farm?
Trying to build up my dads trust so he lets me go out there alone first. We should be golden by summer break, 4th of July kegger? Hopefully Isabell's hot cousin from Des Moines is in town again next 4th of july!
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Post by: IPA4Me on November 12, 2019, 03:42:25 AM
CorrectHave some high school friends in south central kansas losing their minds over windmills. FB feed got to be too much and muted them.And rural poverty does have it's own appeal.What part of KS is your farm? What if slackcat and ben ji are farm neighbors?!?
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Sadly, SEK. :facepalm: This is a 450 million dollar project (private company) going into a poor county and some loose their minds over it. Explains why SEK is SEK.
No progress today, just sleet and snow.
Really enjoy the cat ranch updates. :D My cat has yet to leave the garage, she'll hold it 'till tomorrow.
I'm guessing Sumner County?
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Post by: meow meow on November 12, 2019, 09:04:42 AM
Post by: ben ji on November 12, 2019, 10:03:30 AM
are those scrambled eggs those purr motors are getting after?
Scrambled eggs with whole milk poured over the top is the standard cat ranch base feed. Usually there will be whatever leftovers are laying around mixed in with the eggs/milk and sometimes, if the cats are really purr'n they will get some Aldi hot dogs.
In the winter when my dad spends most his time in the city they just eat dry catfood although I have heard rumors that when its super cold sometimes my uncle will pop a couple rabbits with a .22 and throw them to the cats to keep them purr'n strong. I have not seen this in person tho so its just a rumor for now.
Post by: meow meow on November 12, 2019, 10:13:49 AM
pretty incred testament to the love a cat rancher has for his herd, cooking up scrambled eggs for them.
Post by: steve dave on November 12, 2019, 10:14:22 AM
Scrambled eggs with whole milk poured over the top is the standard cat ranch base feed.
:lol:
Post by: ben ji on November 12, 2019, 10:36:36 AM
what city does your dad spend most of his time in, KC?
pretty incred testament to the love a cat rancher has for his herd, cooking up scrambled eggs for them.
Probably every other week out there in the summer and about once a month in the winter. My mom is a city girl and refuses to go out to the farm with him so I think he just likes getting away and living the hobby farm/cat ranching dream. No Cable/TV (Just old DVD's/VHS), barely functional internet, 15 miles from town, etc etc.
Just a man, his land and his herd of cats. What more could you want?
Post by: meow meow on November 12, 2019, 10:41:45 AM
there's no way i could make that drive twice a month to tend to the cats tho, but i'm probably not cut out for life on the working cat ranch
Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 12, 2019, 11:29:25 AM
CorrectHave some high school friends in south central kansas losing their minds over windmills. FB feed got to be too much and muted them.And rural poverty does have it's own appeal.What part of KS is your farm? What if slackcat and ben ji are farm neighbors?!?
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Sadly, SEK. :facepalm: This is a 450 million dollar project (private company) going into a poor county and some loose their minds over it. Explains why SEK is SEK.
No progress today, just sleet and snow.
Really enjoy the cat ranch updates. :D My cat has yet to leave the garage, she'll hold it 'till tomorrow.
I'm guessing Sumner County?
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I'll bet they aren't too excited about the biogas plant that is getting ready to go in east of Wellington either.
Post by: sys on November 12, 2019, 03:31:37 PM
Scrambled eggs with whole milk poured over the top is the standard cat ranch base feed.
this is most amazing thing i've ever heard.
Post by: sys on November 12, 2019, 03:33:40 PM
Scrambled eggs with whole milk poured over the top is the standard cat ranch base feed.
this is most amazing thing i've ever heard.
also your father's plan to use the white-footed cat to entice your mother out to the ranch is probably the most romantic thing i've ever heard.
Post by: IPA4Me on November 12, 2019, 03:56:08 PM
Looks like we're still fighting against windmills and for animal rescue.CorrectHave some high school friends in south central kansas losing their minds over windmills. FB feed got to be too much and muted them.And rural poverty does have it's own appeal.What part of KS is your farm? What if slackcat and ben ji are farm neighbors?!?
Update showing some of the mount to be encased in concrete:
Sadly, SEK. :facepalm: This is a 450 million dollar project (private company) going into a poor county and some loose their minds over it. Explains why SEK is SEK.
No progress today, just sleet and snow.
Really enjoy the cat ranch updates. :D My cat has yet to leave the garage, she'll hold it 'till tomorrow.
I'm guessing Sumner County?
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I'll bet they aren't too excited about the biogas plant that is getting ready to go in east of Wellington either.
Post by: ben ji on November 13, 2019, 08:34:32 AM
Scrambled eggs with whole milk poured over the top is the standard cat ranch base feed.
this is most amazing thing i've ever heard.
also your father's plan to use the white-footed cat to entice your mother out to the ranch is probably the most romantic thing i've ever heard.
Did you notice how he promised to bathe the white footed cat before he brought it back?
When he first brought lil lil back from the farm as a kitten he didn't bathe her and My mom ended up with a large circular rash on her neck/chest and she couldn't figure out what it was.
I wrestled in high school and as soon as I saw it I was like "That ringworm yo"...Sure enough lil lil had given my mom ringworm.
Post by: sys on November 13, 2019, 12:33:50 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 13, 2019, 02:35:28 PM
Lil captures gopher by cherry tree, plays with it, then proudly brings to house to show me her trophy.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191113/0c4b1e8297f2677068ecaf663521f809.jpg)
Post by: meow meow on November 13, 2019, 03:08:01 PM
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Post by: meow meow on November 14, 2019, 10:42:21 AM
Post by: ben ji on November 14, 2019, 11:07:05 AM
city boy 'clams doesn't know a thing about cat ranching if he thinks ben ji's old man is gonna give away his prized herd. :lol:
Actually he constantly tries to pawn off kittens to people so if anyone needs a cat just let me know and I'll hook you up.
I doubt he would part with white paws or any any white cats but any generic looking farm cat is up for grabs.
Post by: meow meow on November 14, 2019, 11:14:13 AM
i would take one, but i don't have the time to make eggs every morning.
Post by: star seed 7 on November 14, 2019, 11:44:47 AM
Post by: ben ji on November 14, 2019, 04:22:50 PM
I should tell my dad to get a hobby farm cat. Do you have to feed these things daily or will just the weekends do? I assume farm cats can hunt, but maybe not?
Most farm cats just get some kibble thrown to them a couple of times a week but scrambled eggs with milk over the top will provide better kitten yields and increase their chances of survival.
Post by: sys on November 14, 2019, 06:00:49 PM
I assume farm cats can hunt, but maybe not?
did you not just see the photo of lil lil hunting gophers?
Post by: sys on November 14, 2019, 06:02:21 PM
Post by: Katpappy on November 14, 2019, 06:10:34 PM
that might be a vole in the pic, tho.Sys, did you mean to say mole.
Post by: sys on November 14, 2019, 06:14:46 PM
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Post by: Church Creeper on November 14, 2019, 10:20:11 PM
Post by: steve dave on November 15, 2019, 07:38:28 AM
Post by: ben ji on November 15, 2019, 07:52:36 AM
people love collecting things
You still got that Jeter rookie card?
Post by: steve dave on November 15, 2019, 07:55:47 AM
people love collecting things
You still got that Jeter rookie card?
of course. I also drug out my giant tub of cards last weekend and showed them to lil sd. some day, son, these valueless pictures will be yours to haul around with you from home to home. then, if you are lucky, your own son will get to drag them around pointlessly and so on, and so on.
Post by: Church Creeper on November 15, 2019, 09:58:02 AM
people love collecting things
But do you just collect 50 of the same card SD? Not really sure I understand a collection of all identical tractors. Eh, just me though.
Post by: steve dave on November 15, 2019, 10:21:54 AM
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Post by: ben ji on November 15, 2019, 10:37:24 AM
The photo is actually hilarious, 1980's Frank White in his Royals uniform holding a bat on his shoulder(glove hanging from bat) standing in front of a fireplace mantle with all of his gold glove awards spread along the mantle.
Post by: pissclams on November 15, 2019, 12:43:13 PM
One of my friends dad is buddy's with frank white. He has a gigantic stack of signed frank white photo's that he gives away, he was so excited to give it to me that I felt obligated to keep it.how much do you want for it?
The photo is actually hilarious, 1980's Frank White in his Royals uniform holding a bat on his shoulder(glove hanging from bat) standing in front of a fireplace mantle with all of his gold glove awards spread along the mantle.
Post by: passranch on November 15, 2019, 03:00:33 PM
Post by: Institutional Control on November 15, 2019, 03:19:04 PM
Discussion not very farm-y IMO...
LCRIQ
Post by: meow meow on November 15, 2019, 03:36:35 PM
Discussion not very farm-y IMO...
look at this boomer response. you can farm cats now, it's 2019
Post by: Katpappy on November 15, 2019, 04:15:42 PM
Discussion not very farm-y IMO...
look at this boomer response. you can farm cats now, it's 2019
Your gE name indicates your love of cat farms. :Woot:
Post by: passranch on November 15, 2019, 05:40:36 PM
Discussion not very farm-y IMO...
you can farm cats now, it's 2019
Touché. Cat Ranching is definitely germane to this discussion, I wanted to make sure we stayed on topic though. It just seemed like we were veering dangerously into the sports memorabilia collecting discussion realm that's all. Carry on.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 15, 2019, 06:57:09 PM
The Farmall M and H he has one from each production year. Given different options, subtle model changes from year to year... technically not all the same. ie- there were like 4 grill configurations for the Farmalls. Unicorns like first serial or last serial number for a model or low volume production of special options are also desirable.people love collecting things
But do you just collect 50 of the same card SD? Not really sure I understand a collection of all identical tractors. Eh, just me though.
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Post by: Church Creeper on November 15, 2019, 08:19:57 PM
The Farmall M and H he has one from each production year. Given different options, subtle model changes from year to year... technically not all the same. ie- there were like 4 grill configurations for the Farmalls. Unicorns like first serial or last serial number for a model or low volume production of special options are also desirable.people love collecting things
But do you just collect 50 of the same card SD? Not really sure I understand a collection of all identical tractors. Eh, just me though.
Tom
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Ah gotcha. Thanks Tom.
Post by: steve dave on November 15, 2019, 09:13:09 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 16, 2019, 08:21:27 AM
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Post by: slackcat on November 17, 2019, 07:30:38 AM
They will back-fill and seed it back to grass.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 17, 2019, 08:16:09 AM
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 17, 2019, 08:39:53 AM
You engineer types will have to help the old Ag Mech grad on this one. I assume the weight and width of the base keep these things upright? Rather then sinking it deep into the ground?
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Think of it like the oscillating fan you have in your house....just on a MUCH larger scale.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 17, 2019, 10:40:34 AM
Xcellent Xplanation.You engineer types will have to help the old Ag Mech grad on this one. I assume the weight and width of the base keep these things upright? Rather then sinking it deep into the ground?
Tom
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Think of it like the oscillating fan you have in your house....just on a MUCH larger scale.
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Post by: ben ji on November 17, 2019, 11:21:14 AM
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Post by: ben ji on November 17, 2019, 11:26:00 AM
I named this one Oliver
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Post by: ben ji on November 17, 2019, 11:30:22 AM
They get their own feed brought to them in the garage.
This time it was a chicken quarter that had been in a crock pot for 8 hours mixed with bread.
Side of whole milk obviously.
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Post by: sys on November 17, 2019, 12:10:31 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 17, 2019, 12:10:43 PM
She had just completed her morning patrol around the windbreak and wanted back in.
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Post by: ben ji on November 17, 2019, 12:16:39 PM
how did lady do with the shooting?First shot was fine, a couple together and she said nope. She stayed by the road and followed behind us for a bit then she peaced out for good.
Found her chilling in the pasture after we finished pushing the CRP.
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Are lady and lil lil friends?Not friends but they tolerate each other. Lady knows if she gets too close she will get swatted.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 17, 2019, 01:44:07 PM
The new orange cats were aparently not welcomed into the existing cat community in the barn so they set up shop in the garage.How much of that corrugated, galvanized metal does your dad have? Only place I found that carries it is Sutherlands in Topeka. Craigslist thinks highly rusted tin isantique or rustic.
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Post by: ben ji on November 17, 2019, 05:50:40 PM
The new orange cats were aparently not welcomed into the existing cat community in the barn so they set up shop in the garage.How much of that corrugated, galvanized metal does your dad have? Only place I found that carries it is Sutherlands in Topeka. Craigslist thinks highly rusted tin isantique or rustic.
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Dunno, everything in that garage is my uncle's unless its like 20 years old and was my grandparents then it technically belongs to my dad but who knows because its mostly a bunch of junk.
Should we expect kittens this spring? :pray:
Its kitten season 24/7 365 on the cat ranch.
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Post by: ben ji on November 17, 2019, 08:38:15 PM
You would think all the giant fans in the background would keep them cool but what do I know.
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 17, 2019, 09:21:52 PM
I was driving around in the casture and found where the cats wallow in the summer to cool down.Lady laying in front of the fans all the time reduces air flow.
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Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2019, 11:11:20 AM
winter kittening is one of the key advantages kansas has over the big northern cat ranches.Great post...and guess what? My dad just discovered a new litter of kittens from lil's mom and one of them is white!
Bad news about Lil's mom tho :(
Mama limping - hurt front paw. Extra rations to heal her. Concerned for kittens.......
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Post by: meow meow on November 18, 2019, 11:15:58 AM
nice looking stock there ben ji
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Now with concrete poured:
Doesn't look like their blankets are doing much good.
Post by: ben ji on November 21, 2019, 09:32:27 AM
If so please post pictures of any barn cats you have or any old tractors that are laying around. If your farm cat breeding stock is strong I'll consult with my dad and we may be interested in engaging in a cat trade to bring in some new genes to our cat ranch.
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Post by: ben ji on November 24, 2019, 03:00:58 PM
Just another successful Rabbit Hunt
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 24, 2019, 06:26:58 PM
3 wheeler rides were the bestAny ben ji wipe outs on that ATV? Three wheeler with bouncy balloon tires... never had one but seemed like the lawn dart of farm vehicles. This one is incredibly clean. Neighbor hog farmer had one totally covered in mud, hog crap,
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Post by: Church Creeper on November 24, 2019, 08:15:57 PM
3 wheeler rides were the bestAny ben ji wipe outs on that ATV? Three wheeler with bouncy balloon tires... never had one but seemed like the lawn dart of farm vehicles. This one is incredibly clean. Neighbor hog farmer had one totally covered in mud, hog crap,
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Yep rolled one of those bouncy sob's and broke a collerbone as a youngin
Post by: ben ji on November 24, 2019, 08:17:56 PM
Post by: slackcat on November 28, 2019, 03:49:19 AM
Slackcat, do you live on the farm where they are putting in the windmills?
:gocho:
Wish I could help on the cat lineage but we're fresh out of barn cats and Kitty Paint is spayed. Does your dad have a round-up to sort the kittens? Would be cool to see.
Post by: Katpappy on November 28, 2019, 06:48:45 PM
No accidents on my end but my gf actually grew up on a farm and has some stories.... Her older brother was riding one and thought the single strand gate was down, ended up hitting a line of barbwire across his chest at 20 mph.
Did that cut him in haft or at the very least, break some ribs?
Post by: ben ji on November 29, 2019, 12:28:05 PM
No accidents on my end but my gf actually grew up on a farm and has some stories.... Her older brother was riding one and thought the single strand gate was down, ended up hitting a line of barbwire across his chest at 20 mph.
Did that cut him in haft or at the very least, break some ribs?
I dont think he broke anything but the barb wire tore up his chest pretty good and he had to get alot of stitches.
Post by: ben ji on November 29, 2019, 01:56:08 PM
My dad has been in town the last couple of weeks and won't be out there again for a couple of weeks so he is getting antzy about how the cats are doing. Big time responsibility for me, really hoping I don't screw it up and buy 2% milk or something stupid like that.
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if heard the term cattle guard before tonight I would have thought of the thing on the front of locomotives
Those are called cow catchers. Similar, but not the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_(locomotive)
Post by: ben ji on December 07, 2019, 12:16:34 AM
My dad has been back in the city for 3 weeks so the cats are getting antzy and I had some special instructions for lils mom.
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Post by: ben ji on December 07, 2019, 12:22:53 AM
Just a rainbow of cats out here (Some of them ran off before I could grab a picture)
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Beautiful sunrise but those dam windmills ruined the view and now I'm angry at Obama all over again!
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Post by: Katpappy on December 08, 2019, 10:58:15 AM
Ben ji here with a live report from the cat ranch.
My dad has been back in the city for 3 weeks so the cats are getting antzy and I had some special instructions for lils mom. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191207/d6c4c05839d4afa5fd7033dcd78e9961.jpg)
Have you ever stopped in Grinnell? There is a butcher shop that makes the best beef jerky I have ever ate. Last time I was there was in the early '80's, so may not be around anymore. It would be worth checking out if your going by on I-70.
Post by: XocolateThundarr on December 09, 2019, 08:10:17 AM
Grab some of their ring bologna and smoked sausage. You won't be disappointed.
Post by: sys on December 10, 2019, 11:05:56 PM
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Post by: Cire on December 11, 2019, 01:20:15 PM
My uncle and cousin were doing actual farm work while I was chasing birds. Here they are laying out a roll of hay for the cows to eat.
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Man my grandpa hated the big rolls of hay.
He always thought that Hay got wasted because the cows trampled it. He did small bales for years, until he was 75 or so and finally sold off the cows.
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Post by: Katpappy on December 11, 2019, 05:11:47 PM
My uncle and cousin were doing actual farm work while I was chasing birds. Here they are laying out a roll of hay for the cows to eat.
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:curse:
Man my grandpa hated the big rolls of hay.
He always thought that Hay got wasted because the cows trampled it. He did small bales for years, until he was 75 or so and finally sold off the cows.
My old man was the same way. Only problem was he would make 100-120lb bales with wire ties. rough ridin' back breaker bales to haul from the field and stack. :curse:
Post by: Cire on December 11, 2019, 10:22:22 PM
He had this cool stacker thing that would scoop up and make a big block of bales that could be backed into the hay barn.
They just had to be lined up the right way to be picked up in the field
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Post by: Cire on December 11, 2019, 10:23:16 PM
https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjrutrJoa_mAhUR8MAKHRoLCCkYABADGgJpbQ&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESQeD2LTVXJlnoT-xR4fy6Ou0oFN_zK5aGQGZ1i-yMd73cvl1JSYG0W-Y5cJePi5mg7tsVvhI5GORqs_Fz4GgN0CFw&sig=AOD64_3FFIxXuNL8SueU76aA_hwt07iPuw&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwiU59DJoa_mAhULV80KHbPtDmYQwg96BAgKEA8&adurl=
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Post by: Katpappy on December 12, 2019, 12:53:57 PM
This could be the exact same one
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We had a home made trailer that my dad made. It had an hydraulic arm that would slide on the ground to pick up the bale and then my dad would push the lever on the tractor as he was traveling around 6 mph and the arm would flip up and throw the bale on the trailer. Then a person(me) would stack it, since he couldn't get anyone to do it on the rough ridin' death machine. We usually stacked 6 layers high and then would take them to an area where we would unload. To unload it took a pto driven transmission that engaged a pully system that pushed the stack off the trailer. We could get around 100 to 120 bales per stack and usually haul around one thousand bales per day. It was a lot of hard work.
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 12, 2019, 05:49:04 PM
Graduated to the john deere bale thrower so eliminated loading, but bales haphazardly packed in wagon were frustrating at the barn.
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Post by: Katpappy on December 12, 2019, 08:48:44 PM
https://youtu.be/_BVtirYc6Pc
Graduated to the john deere bale thrower so eliminated loading, but bales haphazardly packed in wagon were frustrating at the barn.
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Tom, if you could image trying to stack those bales as they flew in the trailer; that was in a way what we had to do. Image an arm on the side of the trailer with an hydraulic cylinder that flipped the bale on the trailer. Just don't get in the way of it as it could bust your skull open. That's why we couldn't get anybody to stack on the death trap, but me.
Post by: Katpappy on December 12, 2019, 08:50:24 PM
We went to only the giant squares for about 10 years. Now back to round bails. Haven’t done small squares for a long time.
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Don't know how to handle big squares, but love big rd. bales for my horses.
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 12, 2019, 09:53:14 PM
I'm trying to figure out how that contraption works Tom...https://youtu.be/Z65yUj-OFn0
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 12, 2019, 09:56:02 PM
My dad hopped in the wagon once... one row left and wagon was full. He kind of made a landing shot and stacked bales as they flew off that thing.https://youtu.be/_BVtirYc6Pc
Graduated to the john deere bale thrower so eliminated loading, but bales haphazardly packed in wagon were frustrating at the barn.
Tom
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Tom, if you could image trying to stack those bales as they flew in the trailer; that was in a way what we had to do. Image an arm on the side of the trailer with an hydraulic cylinder that flipped the bale on the trailer. Just don't get in the way of it as it could bust your skull open. That's why we couldn't get anybody to stack on the death trap, but me.
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 12, 2019, 10:04:12 PM
We have ground a semi load+ of alfalfa every day for about the last 25 years. We didn’t handle them (and don’t handle the rounds) for single use. Have a bi directional tractor thing with a loader grabber deal that picks them up and dumps them in the grinder which chews them up and dumps them into the semi trailer. It’s a giant pain in the ass and ground alfalfa gets everywhere and I hate the crap out of the entire process.https://spencersales.hibid.com/lot/72122-63744-13416/gehl-bh1500-bale-handler--3pt-mount/
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Once we went large round got one of these bad boys.
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Post by: DaBigTrain on December 12, 2019, 10:37:39 PM
These are what we use. Have a couple of them last I knew.
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What is that mini usb topknot looking guy in the background?
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Post by: DaBigTrain on December 12, 2019, 11:23:41 PM
I don’t know what any of that means
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The folded up tractor thing in the middle top leftist
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Post by: Ksuminnesotacat on December 13, 2019, 07:05:28 AM
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Post by: steve dave on December 13, 2019, 08:18:10 AM
Oh, that’s a disc. They plow fields. Or possibly a sweep. They also plow fields. Can’t really tell from the photo. They fold up like that so you can drive around with them and fit on the road or whatever. I took a giant chunk of asphalt out of the main road in Meade with one on a few different occasions.
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The thing to the right of that is possibly a drill. It plants seeds. Could be something else though.
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Post by: ben ji on December 13, 2019, 08:35:59 AM
My uncle has like a bajillion of them hanging out on our farm.
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Post by: steve dave on December 13, 2019, 12:02:03 PM
Got a farm question for you guys. How much are one of those large round Alfalfa bales worth? I saw some being moved on a flatbed via I-70 the other day and didn't think they would be worth the transportation costs.
My uncle has like a bajillion of them hanging out on our farm.
Depends on a lot of factors. Time of year, draught status, etc. They were valuable AF when nobody could grow grass in Western KS a few years back. Also if you have dry land alfalfa they can get pretty valuable because then you can sell them to horse race people for some reason (drugs?).
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Post by: star seed 7 on December 13, 2019, 01:15:13 PM
Didn’t we have a guy on here get defrauded out of a bunch of hay bales?
Post by: ben ji on December 13, 2019, 01:56:33 PM
Google says .5 to .6 tons each.
Didn’t we have a guy on here get defrauded out of a bunch of hay bales?
Good memory, i think his name started with a D or something but somehow he got scammed out of like 10k in hay bales. :Carl: :ROFL:
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Post by: schreds21 on December 13, 2019, 10:47:58 PM
Is there a better smell than fresh cut alfalfa?No
Post by: DaBigTrain on December 14, 2019, 09:21:58 AM
Is there a better smell than fresh cut alfalfa?No
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Post by: schreds21 on December 16, 2019, 01:46:33 PM
Ugh, alfalfa is a lot of work.Said nobody in the last 20 years
Post by: ben ji on December 17, 2019, 11:24:34 AM
The only thing I can think of is the Tall CRP catches dirt that is blowing and it piles up?
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Post by: slackcat on December 17, 2019, 11:34:18 AM
dig into one and report back. :)
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Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 17, 2019, 01:19:06 PM
they bite you with those giant flesh tearing jaws and hold on. then they jab you with their stinger or some crap (maybe I'm making this part up and it's all mouth poison?). you swat them off and their bodies break off but their satan head with snapping turtle jaws is still sucked onto your sensitive leg flesh. also there's like a million of them all over your pants and shoes and heading up towards your balls and ball sack and scrote. you've got to remove all pantaloons and shoes and socks and make sure you're clear. a good thing to do is dump several dozen gallons of diesel on their hole and light it on fire. another option is to put them in a jar with a preying mantis and watch it eat their heads off. I was a disturbed child from all that farming I was forced to do obviously.
Those are fire ants and yes, fighting their fire with your fire is solid strategy.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 17, 2019, 01:57:02 PM
they bite you with those giant flesh tearing jaws and hold on. then they jab you with their stinger or some crap (maybe I'm making this part up and it's all mouth poison?). you swat them off and their bodies break off but their satan head with snapping turtle jaws is still sucked onto your sensitive leg flesh. also there's like a million of them all over your pants and shoes and heading up towards your balls and ball sack and scrote. you've got to remove all pantaloons and shoes and socks and make sure you're clear. a good thing to do is dump several dozen gallons of diesel on their hole and light it on fire. another option is to put them in a jar with a preying mantis and watch it eat their heads off. I was a disturbed child from all that farming I was forced to do obviously.
didn't grow up on a farm but can co my bros would give the anthills a solid dose of vitamin D.
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Post by: ben ji on December 17, 2019, 11:27:35 PM
I'm getting my dad a gas powered chainsaw for Christmas because he currently has a cheap ass electric chainsaw from harbor freight. He throws whole limbs in the back of his lil truck and hauls them close enough to the house so he can run an extension cord to cut them up.
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Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2019, 11:30:00 AM
By poke around I mean kick the dirt piles and maybe try and remember to grab a shovel or something from the quonset building.
If it's fire ants, good luck winning that fight with a shovel.
Post by: sys on December 18, 2019, 11:43:17 AM
Post by: steve dave on December 18, 2019, 12:22:25 PM
fire ants aren't in kansas. at least not yet.
You thinking these monsters that regularly attacked me as a youth are Harvesters? They were giant and red and mean AF.
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 18, 2019, 09:23:36 PM
Also since no one lived at the house for like 20 years there is an infinite amount of dead trees/limbs in the windbreak for firewood.https://lifttrucksupplyinc.com/turbo-saw-rotating-tree-saw/amp/
I'm getting my dad a gas powered chainsaw for Christmas because he currently has a cheap ass electric chainsaw from harbor freight. He throws whole limbs in the back of his lil truck and hauls them close enough to the house so he can run an extension cord to cut them up.
Quit messing around benji... get dad a skid steer and one of these.
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Post by: Katpappy on December 19, 2019, 12:30:08 AM
fire ants aren't in kansas. at least not yet.
Are you sure? I grow up in western Kansas 1 mile from Cedar Bluff and red ants were all over the place. Only thing anyone called them was red ants. When bitten or stung, it felt like a hot match on your skin. They would swarm on you if you were on their ant hill or in their path.
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Those are harvesters. And yes they are giant assholes.:ROFL: :ROFL:
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Post by: ben ji on December 19, 2019, 08:31:10 AM
Also since no one lived at the house for like 20 years there is an infinite amount of dead trees/limbs in the windbreak for firewood.https://lifttrucksupplyinc.com/turbo-saw-rotating-tree-saw/amp/
I'm getting my dad a gas powered chainsaw for Christmas because he currently has a cheap ass electric chainsaw from harbor freight. He throws whole limbs in the back of his lil truck and hauls them close enough to the house so he can run an extension cord to cut them up.
Quit messing around benji... get dad a skid steer and one of these.
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Tom,
This ain't no fancy pants flint hills farm where you can snap your fingers and grow a tree then saw it down for fun. This is a NW KS farm where it takes like 20 years to grow a 10ft tall tree, no need to get crazy with a skid steer saw, just need to remove some old dead limbs and cut them into firewood.
I was looking at some old aerial photo's from the 80's and it looks like my grandpa just loved planting windbreak trees and kept on planting them. The main windbreak is an L shape and .25 miles long, 3 to 4 rows deep. There are also four or 5 other single row windbreaks scattered throughout the house/barn/buildings area.
Post by: Katpappy on December 19, 2019, 10:03:05 AM
I'm sure SD knows what they planted around the Dighton area.
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Post by: ben ji on December 24, 2019, 11:02:04 AM
:whistle: nothing to see here
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Post by: ben ji on December 24, 2019, 11:25:05 AM
lil lil........
lil lil goes back to the city with my dad but her momma cat might of been one of the victims :cry:
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Post by: slackcat on December 24, 2019, 08:51:41 PM
I have a short fuse when it comes to dogs roaming our pastures.
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Post by: Katpappy on December 24, 2019, 10:07:31 PM
Was talking to my gf's dad who used to be a farmer and he said something similar would happen every 2 or 3 years on their farm. Apprently "City people" just drive out into the country and let their trouble dogs loose.
A lot of these dogs die by the road they were dropped off at. They will just run around looking for their sorry ass human "family" to no avail. They end up starving to death or getting ran over by some sadistic SOB who is just enjoying the crap out of it. rough ridin' CITY SLICKERS! :curse:
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Post by: ben ji on December 29, 2019, 10:05:46 PM
The only reason I know its cow poop is because I saw my dad shoveling some of it into the back of his truck to put on his "garden".
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Post by: halfEmpty on January 09, 2020, 03:18:13 AM
Seems like JD 4020's were always popular. At farm/machinery auctions, they always brought a premium. I think they are still very popular.
So you can have a gas barrel along with your diesel barrel. I kid, but my dad still has a 4020 gas engine that is used daily. Because of that he can have a gasoline barrel on the farm. Crazy to think he's had that tractor much longer than I've been alive.
Post by: Katpappy on January 09, 2020, 03:30:04 AM
Seems like JD 4020's were always popular. At farm/machinery auctions, they always brought a premium. I think they are still very popular.
So you can have a gas barrel along with your diesel barrel. I kid, but my dad still has a 4020 gas engine that is used daily. Because of that he can have a gasoline barrel on the farm. Crazy to think he's had that tractor much longer than I've been alive.
So he gets his diesel and gas tax free. When I was in high school, my dad would bitch(cuss) about me using his expensive gas(I believe around 13 cents gal) at the time. We had gas and diesel equipment/ tractors on the ranch.
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We have gas and diesel tanks. HS sd used to fill the eff up on farm gas whenever sd dad wasn’t looking. Our cowboys get free gas. Also a pickup. Also a house. Also utilities paid. Also beef. Pretty elite gig outside of having to cow farm 24/7/365 open on Sunday’s.Do your cowboys all stay in the same bunkhouse like in the old westerns and that show Yellowstone or do they have their own houses?
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is the weird guy’s gun in no country for old men what they kill cows with at the plants?https://vetmed.iastate.edu/vdpam/about/production-animal-medicine/dairy/dairy-extension/humane-euthanasia/humane-euthanasia/gunshot-or-penetrating-captive-bolt
Captive Live Bolt
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We have gas and diesel tanks. HS sd used to fill the eff up on farm gas whenever sd dad wasn’t looking. Our cowboys get free gas. Also a pickup. Also a house. Also utilities paid. Also beef. Pretty elite gig outside of having to cow farm 24/7/365 open on Sunday’s.Do your cowboys all stay in the same bunkhouse like in the old westerns and that show Yellowstone or do they have their own houses?
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Post by: ben ji on January 18, 2020, 08:43:35 AM
The last time that U.S. farmers planted so few acres with winter wheat, William Howard Taft was president and the opening salvos of World War I were still five years away.
About 30.8 million acres were planted with winter wheat this season, down 1% from the year before and not much more than the roughly 29.2 million acres that were seeded in 1909, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Farmers coax far more wheat from each acre than they did 111 years ago, but much of the decline in planted acres has come in recent years, concurrent with Russia’s ascent as the world’s dominant supplier and Midwestern farmers’ turn to more profitable crops, like corn and soybeans.
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Post by: ben ji on January 18, 2020, 08:43:49 PM
https://youtu.be/fxnaXKR4UeoIts kind of crazy looking through "Top Producing Countries" for crops and seeing China at the top or top 5 of almost every ag commodity list.
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I guess they have a billion more people than us tho so it makes sense.
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Post by: Rage Against the McKee on January 23, 2020, 09:30:03 AM
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-hasnt-planted-this-little-wheat-in-more-than-a-century-11579277354?shareToken=st6b469c471bfc47a387967d0e9f9d22ae&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
The last time that U.S. farmers planted so few acres with winter wheat, William Howard Taft was president and the opening salvos of World War I were still five years away.
About 30.8 million acres were planted with winter wheat this season, down 1% from the year before and not much more than the roughly 29.2 million acres that were seeded in 1909, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Farmers coax far more wheat from each acre than they did 111 years ago, but much of the decline in planted acres has come in recent years, concurrent with Russia’s ascent as the world’s dominant supplier and Midwestern farmers’ turn to more profitable crops, like corn and soybeans.
Too many pansies that won't eat gluten.
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We must rise up and slay the anti-glutites
Lib, you know what this means. Some MAGA types will need to put a hit on "O", due to her cauliflower flour that's she's promoting with her various products only to please "anti-glutites" with the "anti glutton flour".
BIG TROUBLE IN "WW" LAND!!! :horrorsurprise:
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That will still leave around 200 acres of Pasture and I'm trying to convince my dad to lease that to someone since he doesnt live out there and cant run cattle/meat goats himself.
I plan on utilizing the collective farm knowledge of gE on this adventure, should be fun!
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Also starting March of 2021 my Uncle will no longer have the lease to the cat ranch....Yup, ole ben ji's dad is going to be running it himself. Current plan is to break out about 100 acres of pasture into cropland (I found a soil map of the farm and showed my dad where the good soil in the pasture was) and hopefully get another 80 acres that have playa lakes on them into CRP.Changing renters on a couple pastures this spring too. goEMAW survey what's the going rate for cow-calf pairs in your area?
That will still leave around 200 acres of Pasture and I'm trying to convince my dad to lease that to someone since he doesnt live out there and cant run cattle/meat goats himself.
I plan on utilizing the collective farm knowledge of gE on this adventure, should be fun!
Tomhttp://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5e35fa8d026c9/Bluestem_2019_Report_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf (http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5e35fa8d026c9/Bluestem_2019_Report_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf)
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Also starting March of 2021 my Uncle will no longer have the lease to the cat ranch....Yup, ole ben ji's dad is going to be running it himself. Current plan is to break out about 100 acres of pasture into cropland (I found a soil map of the farm and showed my dad where the good soil in the pasture was) and hopefully get another 80 acres that have playa lakes on them into CRP.Changing renters on a couple pastures this spring too. goEMAW survey what's the going rate for cow-calf pairs in your area?
That will still leave around 200 acres of Pasture and I'm trying to convince my dad to lease that to someone since he doesnt live out there and cant run cattle/meat goats himself.
I plan on utilizing the collective farm knowledge of gE on this adventure, should be fun!
Tomhttp://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5e35fa8d026c9/Bluestem_2019_Report_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf (http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5e35fa8d026c9/Bluestem_2019_Report_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf)
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How do you find people to rent your pasture? Is there a craigslist for farming? Do you put up a sign on the bulletin board at the local church/community center?
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Grass and grainAlso starting March of 2021 my Uncle will no longer have the lease to the cat ranch....Yup, ole ben ji's dad is going to be running it himself. Current plan is to break out about 100 acres of pasture into cropland (I found a soil map of the farm and showed my dad where the good soil in the pasture was) and hopefully get another 80 acres that have playa lakes on them into CRP.Changing renters on a couple pastures this spring too. goEMAW survey what's the going rate for cow-calf pairs in your area?
That will still leave around 200 acres of Pasture and I'm trying to convince my dad to lease that to someone since he doesnt live out there and cant run cattle/meat goats himself.
I plan on utilizing the collective farm knowledge of gE on this adventure, should be fun!
Tomhttp://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5e35fa8d026c9/Bluestem_2019_Report_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf (http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5e35fa8d026c9/Bluestem_2019_Report_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf)
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How do you find people to rent your pasture? Is there a craigslist for farming? Do you put up a sign on the bulletin board at the local church/community center?
https://www.grassandgrain.com/kansas-newspaper-subscriptions.html
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This board is on the fridge at farm -
Farm now has open kitcheb sink drain, new plumbing below kitchen sink, AND the septic tank has been pumped !
Little yellow cat recovering from near death - Biomox (lil's old med) helped her recover from very hard time. Most cats in Morton. Caught 3 possums in Morton (1 by hand) moved 3.5 miles West.
2 auto feeders in garage, 2 now in Morton. Will likely shut half off over summer.
Collected 20 more ears of corn feeding pheasants in wind breaks and around.
I can't wait to hear the story about #10 on the departure list....
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Subject: Farm Departure ListQuote
This board is on the fridge at farm -
Farm now has open kitcheb sink drain, new plumbing below kitchen sink, AND the septic tank has been pumped !
Little yellow cat recovering from near death - Biomox (lil's old med) helped her recover from very hard time. Most cats in Morton. Caught 3 possums in Morton (1 by hand) moved 3.5 miles West.
2 auto feeders in garage, 2 now in Morton. Will likely shut half off over summer.
Collected 20 more ears of corn feeding pheasants in wind breaks and around.
I can't wait to hear the story about #10 on the departure list....
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I asked my dad about #10 on the checklist.....
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Couple yrs ago cat had head stuck in can. Had to force head from can. Lucky it did not break its neck. So cans get taken to city for disposal. They do not burn anyway.
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Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2020, 06:55:29 PM
Better idea than my dad trying to run cattle/meat goats so I'm all for it.
Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2020, 06:59:34 PM
Direct quote "I was holding it by the tail and they are pretty roly poly so I thought of just holding it out the window while I drove it 3.5 miles away but my hand might of got tired. Luckily the trap was a couple of feet away so I put the possum in there for the ride"
Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2020, 07:06:46 PM
My kids will be posting about my hobby farming one day. I'm about to buy 20 acres with a pond, tobacco barn, and animal barn.
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Bored and going back through this thread. Did you buy the hobby farm? If so how if the hobby farm doing?
Post by: sys on February 08, 2020, 07:55:56 PM
My dad met with the government check writing people this week and we cant get any CRP money for our playa lakes unless they have been farmed for 4 years.
jfc (the gubment, not y'all).
Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2020, 08:31:41 PM
My dad met with the government check writing people this week and we cant get any CRP money for our playa lakes unless they have been farmed for 4 years.
jfc (the gubment, not y'all).
I agree sys, very WTF
Post by: bucket on February 08, 2020, 08:56:58 PM
My kids will be posting about my hobby farming one day. I'm about to buy 20 acres with a pond, tobacco barn, and animal barn.
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Hobby trash cat ranch
Post by: EMAWican on February 10, 2020, 11:36:55 AM
My dad met with the government check writing people this week and we cant get any CRP money for our playa lakes unless they have been farmed for 4 years.
jfc (the gubment, not y'all).
I agree sys, very WTF
No, no , no that's a misinterpretation. The whole parcel has to have been "farmed" and defined as ag land for at least 4 years. For God's sake don't till through the low spots/playa lakes since you won't grow anything anyway and it'll make it easier for them to meet the definition of a playa lake wetland down the road. Just change the classification of the entire parcel to "cropland" via farming for it to be eligible for CRP signup - keep in mind your property taxes will go up with this too. Then after 4 years the parcel (as long as the it meets the other requirements at sign-up time) would be eligible for standard CRP, with the playa lakes being a separate CRP contract.
Post by: ben ji on February 10, 2020, 04:52:28 PM
My dad met with the government check writing people this week and we cant get any CRP money for our playa lakes unless they have been farmed for 4 years.
jfc (the gubment, not y'all).
I agree sys, very WTF
No, no , no that's a misinterpretation. The whole parcel has to have been "farmed" and defined as ag land for at least 4 years. For God's sake don't till through the low spots/playa lakes since you won't grow anything anyway and it'll make it easier for them to meet the definition of a playa lake wetland down the road. Just change the classification of the entire parcel to "cropland" via farming for it to be eligible for CRP signup - keep in mind your property taxes will go up with this too. Then after 4 years the parcel (as long as the it meets the other requirements at sign-up time) would be eligible for standard CRP, with the playa lakes being a separate CRP contract.
Appreciate the info and will pass it along to my dad so he want get clarification from the government check writing people.
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Post by: ben ji on February 16, 2020, 10:21:43 AM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/16/wind-energy-can-help-american-farmers-earn-money-avoid-bankruptcy/4695670002/
Some interesting stats for those who want to TLDR version (but you should read it as all the wind farms mentioned are based in KS)
- In 2018 KS was the 4th largest wind power producing state and the largest percentage wise at 36% of all power generated (seems high but what do i know)
- 20 Million a year in lease payments across the state of KS
Post by: KST8FAN on February 17, 2020, 11:03:08 AM
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2016/06/23/douglas-county-commission-approves-regulations-for-wind-energy-towers/
No cattle sun dials for those of us in Wabaunsee and Douglas Co.
I guess Brownback made the Flint Hills all off limits while governor.
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when are you headed out to the cat ranch next, ben ji?
Probably not until it gets warmer, even my dad doesn't spend much time out there this time of the year. I'm going on another vision quest to WY in July so I'll definitely spend a couple days at the cat ranch on the way to/from.
Milo is going away to bird dog boot camp in April for a month so I may go out there in May or June to let her run around and test out her new found skills.
Post by: ben ji on February 25, 2020, 09:18:53 AM
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/02/24/808764422/data-privacy-concerns-are-raised-after-startup-tries-to-rent-farmland
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Is that bad boy boy only for decoration? No doubt you could use your farm engineering skills to hook up an automatic cat feeder about 6'5" high on that windmill.
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Sd dad has a giant leather bound book where he tracks cow number and calf info and some other stuff. Tried to get him switched over to either a laptop or tablet but it never takes. He also writes all over the leather in his truck if he has to take a quick note and the notebook isn’t within reach.this is amazing
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Also on styrofoam cups in his cup holder. It’s important to remember to transfer this data to the book before its forgotten or disposed of.Dads go to was feed sacks. Usually double lined he could peel the outer paper off and write on the inside
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A few of the late arrivals at the corral last weekend. No twins.
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Hey Tom, how many cows do you farm? Is that all of them?
Post by: KST8FAN on February 28, 2020, 07:59:40 PM
Limo or Angus bull?Angus.
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 28, 2020, 08:00:59 PM
Out of the cow biz just rent the corral and pasture to a cousin and neighbor. Together 250-300 cows.A few of the late arrivals at the corral last weekend. No twins.
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Hey Tom, how many cows do you farm? Is that all of them?
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Post by: ben ji on March 03, 2020, 09:44:49 AM
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_2_County_Level/Kansas/
Some Fun Facts so far
- In 2017 Farmers in KS received $509,205,000 in government payouts. $103,414,000 was in CRP/Conservation payments and the rest was "Other Farm Programs"
- 21,837,465 Acres of Cropland, 2,464,656 acres of irrigated land.
- 5 million acres growing corn with 1.3 million irrigated.
- 7 million acres growing wheat with 336,362 acres irrigated
- 5 Million acres growing Soybeans with 500,000 acres irrigated
- 2.3 Million acres growing Sorghum with 93,000 acres irrigated
- 2.5 Million acres for Hay/Silage with 204,474 irrigated
- More acres growing cotton than sunflower seeds. 96k vs 58k
Post by: ben ji on March 03, 2020, 09:49:12 AM
I'm probably reading this all wrong but it looks like Kansas Farmers barely make more money selling actual farm products than they get in government payments.
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Post by: ben ji on March 03, 2020, 10:29:23 AM
1,551 Alpacas in KS
5,727 Bison
1,087 "Deer in Captivity"?
514 Llamas
11,318 Live Rabbits
Post by: ben ji on March 03, 2020, 10:33:57 AM
2,100,764 Pigs
73,526 Sheep & Lamb
48,942 Goats, of those 42,506 are Meat Goats
Post by: meow meow on March 03, 2020, 11:31:43 AM
Post by: ben ji on March 03, 2020, 11:36:34 AM
nice to confirm my suspicion that kansas meat goats are endangered
Nope, there were 6,000 more Meat Goats in our great state in 2017 than there were in 2012.
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Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 03, 2020, 12:57:18 PM
having more acres in corn and soybeans than wheat is shameful.
America just has too many pussies that can't handle gluten these days.
Post by: sys on March 03, 2020, 01:00:38 PM
Post by: 8manpick on March 03, 2020, 03:54:24 PM
doesn't seem sustainable, do kansans have the appetite for that much meat goat?They should, meat goat is delicious as hell
Post by: KST8FAN on March 03, 2020, 06:28:04 PM
1,250 people
34,600 cattle
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Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 04, 2020, 04:48:16 PM
i carry a packet of wheat gluten with me at all times and sprinkle it on my food as a spice.
I put some in my coffee to thicken it up.
Post by: ben ji on March 05, 2020, 06:17:36 PM
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"Cats having slow re-cooked rotisserie chicken with seafood ravioli and dated jiffy corn bread with lots of chicken broth. Lil was bad today - all dirty - tom following her around. 7 cats in Morton 2 in garage. One grey mama about to pop."
Post by: KST8FAN on March 05, 2020, 09:30:21 PM
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Post by: ben ji on March 05, 2020, 11:23:49 PM
Are the cats aggressive at meal time? Our two house cats know what spoons clinking in bowls means they are getting ice cream residue or milk and cereal crumbs. To the point of in your lap meowing hurry tf up so we can lick those out.Tom,
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These are purebred farm cats, anytime they get rotisserie chicken and seafood ravioli they are as happy as KU Karl buying a big12 bball champs T-Shirt.
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Post by: ben ji on March 07, 2020, 08:27:48 PM
Got my dad and we tried to tow it but the wheels wouldn't stay straight. We ended up jacking the front of the cart up then backed lil red up to it and chained the front axle to the truck. This was an impressive engineering feat for 2 city boys.
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Post by: ben ji on March 07, 2020, 08:33:28 PM
I did some actual disgusting work at the cat ranch today. The large grain bin had not been used since 2011 and had a bunch of old rotted/wheat in the bottom by the Auger that I shoveled out along with like 10 mummified starlings that got down the Auger. (Sidenote- I'd never seen the bottom of a grain bin and had no idea they went below ground)Also please tell me that most people use some sort of vaccum thing to do this job. I had a shovel and a 5 gallon bucket and it suuuuuuccccckkked.
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Filled up 4 feed sacks with wheat/dirt/gunk that my dad is using as compost.
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Post by: KST8FAN on March 07, 2020, 09:02:03 PM
We turned the Auger on after and it works, should be able to start storing grain in there again. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200308/09f0e333e23290a1d0b26fbf513b793d.jpg)Need a grate over that auger benji. I know a guy who lost a foot in one of those meat grinders.
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Post by: Spracne on March 07, 2020, 09:08:40 PM
I would not trade places with you benji but hauled a winters worth of cow crap today out of the corral. 10+ dump truck loads.And just like that, the term "dump truck" makes sense.
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Post by: ben ji on March 07, 2020, 09:28:39 PM
I was not in there when we tested it. If no one is going to be in there when its running is a grate necessary?We turned the Auger on after and it works, should be able to start storing grain in there again. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200308/09f0e333e23290a1d0b26fbf513b793d.jpg)Need a grate over that auger benji. I know a guy who lost a foot in one of those meat grinders.
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You are the grain bin savant so I will trust whatever you say.
Post by: ben ji on March 07, 2020, 10:47:14 PM
I would not trade places with you benji but hauled a winters worth of cow crap today out of the corral. 10+ dump truck loads.On a similar vein my I saw my dad shoveling cow poop from the massive pile by the corral into lil red. He emptied 1 load into some low spots on the lawn and gave me a tub to take home to use in my garden.
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Do you dump the poop on fields for fertilizer?
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Also LOL at the visual of a 12 point buck chomping on some corn then getting blasted with cow Diarrhea.
Post by: KST8FAN on March 08, 2020, 10:12:39 AM
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-fight-john-deere-over-who-gets-to-fix-an-800-000-tractor
I would like to hear thoughts from you software geniuses on this forum.
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Post by: KST8FAN on March 08, 2020, 10:25:46 AM
Clean manure went on terraces. We'll let it dry out then disc it in. The hay manure goes to ravines to slow erosion.I would not trade places with you benji but hauled a winters worth of cow crap today out of the corral. 10+ dump truck loads.On a similar vein my I saw my dad shoveling cow poop from the massive pile by the corral into lil red. He emptied 1 load into some low spots on the lawn and gave me a tub to take home to use in my garden.
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Do you dump the poop on fields for fertilizer?
Not enough volume to justify the SD crap shower, but we probably need a spreader if the head count gets any bigger.
Fanningbrag... it takes talent to get ma nure out of a 50s era IH dump truck. You dont want one huge pile. Get the dump bed at the right angle then pop the clutch in low to get it sliding then floor it to "spread" it.
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Post by: DaBigTrain on March 08, 2020, 10:51:07 AM
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Post by: chum1 on March 08, 2020, 03:27:14 PM
Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-fight-john-deere-over-who-gets-to-fix-an-800-000-tractor
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Sounds like an opportunity for someone to create after market software, just as people do with other parts.
Post by: sys on March 08, 2020, 03:36:04 PM
Post by: Katpappy on March 08, 2020, 05:05:09 PM
Are the cats aggressive at meal time? Our two house cats know what spoons clinking in bowls means they are getting ice cream residue or milk and cereal crumbs. To the point of in your lap meowing hurry tf up so we can lick those out.
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When I lived in town, my cats and dogs refused to drink cereal milk or straight out of the carton. When I lived on the farm, the cats would drink it as I squirted it at them from the cow's teats. I think the difference was the hormones and antibiotics in store bought milk.
Post by: Katpappy on March 08, 2020, 05:10:08 PM
No, that’s how you do it. I had to do that tons. It sucks crap.
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Canco that! :thumbs:
Post by: steve dave on March 08, 2020, 08:06:38 PM
i am also interested in the directionality and magnitude of cash changing hands in the crap slurry story.I’m not 100% certain but I think it’s a no money changes hands thing. Also irl we could shut their entire operation down if we wanted based on the direction of diarrhea flow towards our land. I think the holding pond may actually be on our ground. We sell them an entire semi truck load of ground alfalfa every single day so we are pretty much on good terms one way or the other. Also I believe all of their other business type financial arrangements are handled by the sd family so there’s a lot of handshake farm mafia type crap going on.
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Post by: ben ji on March 08, 2020, 08:53:50 PM
you know what else they care about? grease zerks (technical farmer thing I'll explain). these are them:
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so there are over a million of them on all kinds of plows, tractors, swather things that eat the hay, you name it. if you use it to farm cows or plants it's got grease zerks. you use a grease gun with giant tubes of lube to squirt it into them like every 4 hours you use the thing that has them. this is the gun.
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it's an enormous pain in the ass and it's always hot as crap and there are bugs everywhere when you do it. here's what I figured out on my own though. it's fake news. you don't have to do it. I've gone literally a month without grease gunning a grease zerk and nothing mostly broke. I'm pretty sure it's a scam from big grease.
Had my first zerk/grease gun conversation this weekend on the farm. After we towed my brothers jacked up golf cart we were looking at the broken steering strut(?) and my dad pointed out the zerks and mentioned that we need to clean those and grease them with a grease gun then kept explaining it to me and I really wanted to tell him that I already knew what zerks and grease guns were from the internet but I let him keep going so he could get the satisfaction of teaching me something new.
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Source: sd from the internet who always said he greased them but never did
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Post by: ben ji on March 08, 2020, 09:12:44 PM
I searched in the "garage" for an empty gas can for the fuel mix but couldnt find one. Just a crap ton of junk that probably has not been used in decades.
I did find 2 of his Automatic Cat feeders tho!
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Guaran F'n tee at least half of those tools have not been used in 20 years. I assume we just leave them there because one day we might need them?
Post by: ben ji on March 08, 2020, 09:24:01 PM
Tell him you don’t have to grease crapWhat about a zerk like this? Probably never been hit with a real grease gun.
Source: sd from the internet who always said he greased them but never did
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Also someone tell me the name of the part we need to replace (where the steering connects to the wheel)
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Post by: KST8FAN on March 08, 2020, 10:25:59 PM
Tell him you don’t have to grease crapTom Dad would inspect equipment after Tom greased. He better see grease oozing from every orafice and crack on that green iron.
Source: sd from the internet who always said he greased them but never did
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Post by: michigancat on March 09, 2020, 12:11:07 AM
He needs to check the manual because you should only give some a couple squirts.Tell him you don’t have to grease crapTom Dad would inspect equipment after Tom greased. He better see grease oozing from every orafice and crack on that green iron.
Source: sd from the internet who always said he greased them but never did
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Also I read your article and have heard my dad talk about the issue. He likes gps and stuff but also likes to fix his own stuff so quite the pickle. I think people will ultimately need to hack them with new firmware like people used to do with iPods or something
Post by: KST8FAN on March 09, 2020, 02:32:44 PM
I remember it didnt sell at the farm sale. I ended up listing it on the "internet " and some guy from Minnesota bought it.
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Post by: steve dave on March 09, 2020, 02:36:14 PM
They were pretty badass but never really caught on. It was a ride going up over a steep terrace or any kind of bump. Shoot to the moon and crash to the ground....and then the tongue rips off your fully loaded grain cart and heads for Australia via the shortest route.
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Post by: michigancat on March 09, 2020, 02:38:13 PM
Dad had the first Cat Challenger in our farm community. This is a pix of his grandsons probably 95-98 or about 25 years ago.
I remember it didnt sell at the farm sale. I ended up listing it on the "internet " and some guy from Minnesota bought it.
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that is some high quality emaw fashion for real
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Tell him you don’t have to grease crapTom Dad would inspect equipment after Tom greased. He better see grease oozing from every orafice and crack on that green iron.
Source: sd from the internet who always said he greased them but never did
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Yes Tom, my dad did the same thing. Only not on rubber sealed joints because lots of grease blows out seal.
OT: got to admit it's fun to read about how KC city kids think about how to farm. :lol:
Post by: Katpappy on March 09, 2020, 02:45:13 PM
Hell yeah, that was about the time I was tearing the crap out of a Cat Challenger, and whatever it happened to be pulling, and whatever I was running it into.
They were pretty badass but never really caught on. It was a ride going up over a steep terrace or any kind of bump. Shoot to the moon and crash to the ground....and then the tongue rips off your fully loaded grain cart and heads for Australia via the shortest route.
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:lol: I bet your Dad thought you were terror on wheels. You were cheap labor but expensive to keep around. :lol:
Post by: michigancat on March 09, 2020, 02:45:40 PM
Are cowboy hats big in the Kansas farm community? I always associate them more with texas people and kansas farmers more with a free trucker hat.
my dad and grandpas (all Kansas dirt farmers) never wear or wore cowboy hats or cowboy boots. your association is pretty accurate.
I was actually looking at Tom's thinking that if that had been me I would have had some dirty Nikes and a "summer hat" from the local Co-op
Post by: Katpappy on March 09, 2020, 02:52:30 PM
Are cowboy hats big in the Kansas farm community? I always associate them more with texas people and kansas farmers more with a free trucker hat.
Correct for farmers, but cattle and horse ranchers wore cowboy hats most of the time. Exception was when going to events like rodeos, fairs, farm and 3I farm equipment shows; then most farm/rancher wore cowboy hats.
Post by: KST8FAN on March 09, 2020, 02:52:50 PM
Are cowboy hats big in the Kansas farm community? I always associate them more with texas people and kansas farmers more with a free trucker hat.
My dad qualified more as a rancher, not a farmer, but never saw him in a cowboy hat. DeKalb seed ball cap, overalls, on a horse rounding up yearlings. I suspect like me we both had huge heads and cowboy hats are not a good look.
The oldest son, aka #1, was a cowboy from day one. Lil bro went along for a while, but eventually became the Buzz to his Woody. See below.
New Years day 96... just returned from our Holiday Bowl beat down of CSU, #1 wanted to play cowboys. He would ride his springy horse and I would shoot him. He would proceed to fall off. The falls became more dramatic until he landed in his elbow and spiral fractured his arm. He would not let the EMT cut off his cowboy shirt. They took it off after much protesting from him. He lived the cowboy up motto.
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Post by: steve dave on March 09, 2020, 03:05:24 PM
Also my dad never wore a hat or boots except for formal events. We also started sunsetting horses when I was pretty young. I got thrown off a couple and had about enough of that crap anyway. Then I almost killed myself multiple times doing complete front flips on ATVs. Now we are almost exclusively Polaris ranger/razor 4/6 wheel UTVs. We just hire horse cowboys to work for us but it seems like it’s mostly for tradition.
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This weekend when we were leaving the cat ranch we saw a skunk of the side of the road/windbreak. It was right by the house and where I work Milo on birds so I mentioned to my dad we should stop and shoot it.
He got kind of Angry and told me to leave it be.....now I know why
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anyone ever done a cattle drive on horseback? pretty fun, throw some beers in your saddlebags and go. butt gets pretty sore.Might be Luking myself. Dont remember which of the old pix from my parents I shared.
Pasture round ups. I always got stuck with taking the horses back to the trailer.
Tom dad in the middle sorting. Young Tom to the right running the gate awaiting the inevitable ass chewing for failing to step between two 900 lb steers to ensure they went in the right pen.
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he was eating brown tall grass which may have been hay, alfalfa, or soy beans, I climbed through the barbed wire and then walked over to the horse and made buds and then basically just figured out a way to get on it and it went crazy like a bucking bronco. it was a good 6 second ride but I got bucked off and hit my head on a rock but it didn’t hurt too bad
Post by: KST8FAN on March 09, 2020, 06:36:02 PM
Like, hedge with holes drilled through and steel cable?Hedge posts with sucker rod. Dad used to get sucker Rod by the truck load... 25 ft long. We still have huge inventory of 16 to 18 inch long galvanized bolts. He would make panels with sucker rod and bolt it to the hedge posts.
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Post by: schreds21 on March 09, 2020, 07:05:26 PM
Schreds dad: Grease all 15000 zerks on the combine and make sure you dont miss any or it will throw sparks when the bearing goes out and burn the field and half of Kansas....but dont grease that one.He needs to check the manual because you should only give some a couple squirts.Tell him you don’t have to grease crapTom Dad would inspect equipment after Tom greased. He better see grease oozing from every orafice and crack on that green iron.
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Schreds: Why not?
Schreds dad: Cause that's the slip clutch and if you grease it the combine won't work.
Schreds: Then why do they put a zerk on it?
Schreds dad: Because sometimes you have to grease it.
Schreds: WTF?
Schreds dad: just shut the eff up and grease the god damn combine. And dont miss any rough ridin' zerks.
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I enjoy this thread as I think we all appreciate growing up on the farm even though we chose non farm career paths. That up bringing shaped us.
It pains me to know some struggle keeping the family farm alive, but succumb to the stress.
I make lite of farm dad, but thinking back mine protected me so much from the ups and downs of farming. It was years later when I started to appreciate him more as a father than a task master... and after 30 years working in town I realize not only was he the GOAT dad, but he was the best boss I've ever had too.
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Construction 7dad stole 80% of my weekends from like 10-20. Luckily there was no poop related work (other than plumbing), but God damn did I hate it. Probably why I'm a lazy pos who doesn't leave the couch on weekends now.
That must be why my son hates the crap out of doing work on weekends. I took him with me to do all kinds of hobby farm stuff, when he could of been rough ridin' around with his buds.
Post by: KST8FAN on March 16, 2020, 11:01:08 PM
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Post by: michigancat on March 17, 2020, 12:04:44 AM
Feeling sorry for myself while looking at 401k then checked cattle futures.That seems crazy given the grocery store runs
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Post by: sys on March 17, 2020, 12:10:27 AM
Post by: michigancat on March 17, 2020, 12:12:50 AM
i guess beef is basically a luxury food?Flying off the shelves in the Bay
Post by: sys on March 17, 2020, 12:16:47 AM
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/03/the-price-of-beef-is-about-to-plummet-thanks-to-coronavirus/
Post by: Spracne on March 17, 2020, 12:22:44 AM
either people aren't feeling poor yet or bay areians never feel poor. but this seems to validate; consumers switch to less expensive foods in a recession.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/03/the-price-of-beef-is-about-to-plummet-thanks-to-coronavirus/
Not sure it's the expense as much as shelf stability. I'm not going to eat a frozen longbone.
Post by: sys on March 17, 2020, 12:26:42 AM
Post by: michigancat on March 17, 2020, 01:06:19 AM
either people aren't feeling poor yet or bay areians never feel poor. but this seems to validate; consumers switch to less expensive foods in a recession.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/03/the-price-of-beef-is-about-to-plummet-thanks-to-coronavirus/
Not sure it's the expense as much as shelf stability. I'm not going to eat a frozen longbone.
Yeah. Although I also grew up on frozen beef and would love a frozen longbone
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Post by: Katpappy on March 17, 2020, 06:22:21 PM
sd dad is losing his mind about cattle prices. I’m like, yeah dude, everyone is losing money. I’m sure the gov will bail your ass out for the zillionth time.
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Post by: steve dave on March 17, 2020, 08:16:09 PM
Thank you Katdaddy. I’m sorry.sd dad is losing his mind about cattle prices. I’m like, yeah dude, everyone is losing money. I’m sure the gov will bail your ass out for the zillionth time.
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Post by: Katpappy on March 17, 2020, 09:44:48 PM
Thank you Katdaddy. I’m sorry.sd dad is losing his mind about cattle prices. I’m like, yeah dude, everyone is losing money. I’m sure the gov will bail your ass out for the zillionth time.
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Don't need to be sorry to anyone but your folks. :cheers:
Post by: sys on March 17, 2020, 10:07:05 PM
Post by: Katpappy on March 17, 2020, 10:17:44 PM
that's a thumbs up for the landed gentry, thumbs down for the corrupt financiers and greedy industrialists from ol' katdaddy.
You do realize corp. farms produce over 90% of the products that we consume. Ya, eff small farms and ranches; they're just in the way of big time money with fixed pricing.
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Post by: michigancat on March 18, 2020, 10:29:39 AM
Post by: ben ji on March 18, 2020, 10:54:27 AM
who painted the danger keep out sign?
My dad of course "Its for insurance, in case someone comes on the farm and is snooping around and the barn collapses"
He really thinks people are just crawling all over the place when he isn't here.
Post by: michigancat on March 18, 2020, 10:59:11 AM
who painted the danger keep out sign?
My dad of course "Its for insurance, in case someone comes on the farm and is snooping around and the barn collapses"
He really thinks people are just crawling all over the place when he isn't here.
Makes perfect sense
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 18, 2020, 01:02:46 PM
Feeling sorry for myself while looking at 401k then checked cattle futures.That seems crazy given the grocery store runs
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I think it might be speculation packing plants will shift to smaller crews and not be able to process as much. That wouldn't lower prices at the store (would increase them if people don't change consumption habits), but it would lower prices that ranchers get, since they would have more beef than can be processed.
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Post by: ben ji on March 18, 2020, 08:58:07 PM
My dad let Lil Lil roam around this afternoon "to meet up with the Tom" but she still has not shown back up at the house. This is the latest she has been out after dark and my dad walked the entire windbreak/farm building area twice but has not found her.
Please keep Lil Lil in your prayers tonight.
Post by: steve dave on March 18, 2020, 09:04:47 PM
ie:
juvenile mtn lion
badger
etc.
Post by: ben ji on March 18, 2020, 09:13:38 PM
if she doesn't return please list your pops reasons she didn't come back.Definitely, although at this time we are still TP'ing.
ie:
juvenile mtn lion
badger
etc.
Post by: Kat Kid on March 18, 2020, 09:25:05 PM
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Post by: ben ji on March 18, 2020, 09:28:18 PM
ben ji, I am now a day trader and was wondering if I buy some barrels of crude oil can I store them at the cat ranch?Pretty sure the 500 gallon fuel tank by the garage is no longer in use. $50 a month and its yours (cat ranch llc is not liable for any leaks).
Post by: wetwillie on March 18, 2020, 09:41:51 PM
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Post by: ben ji on March 18, 2020, 10:15:54 PM
Are you in a WFH situation or just on hiatus and dog training/ cat farming full time?I'm practicing extreme social distancing and working from home at the cat ranch.
My dad joined last night and my brother (worked music festivals so currently unemployed) just got here tonight and brought his xbox. Good times
Post by: steve dave on March 18, 2020, 10:49:02 PM
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Post by: ben ji on March 19, 2020, 08:16:13 AM
CRISIS ON THE CAT RANCH!
My dad let Lil Lil roam around this afternoon "to meet up with the Tom" but she still has not shown back up at the house. This is the latest she has been out after dark and my dad walked the entire windbreak/farm building area twice but has not found her.
Please keep Lil Lil in your prayers tonight.
Crisis Averted, My dad got up at 0230 to check if she was back yet and lil was hanging out front waiting to be let in.
Thanks to everyone for their T'P's
Post by: pissclams on March 19, 2020, 08:32:34 AM
Post by: star seed 7 on March 19, 2020, 08:40:37 AM
Lil lil is a survivor
Post by: ben ji on March 19, 2020, 09:22:03 AM
Lil lil is a survivor
Thank you for believing in her, your positive thoughts were the ray of hope we needed in a trying time.
Post by: ben ji on March 19, 2020, 07:34:17 PM
We loaded up the generator into the back of lil red, drove to the limbs and just plugged his electric chainsaw into the generator.
Worked fine for a bit but then the electric one stopped working. "I think I have another one in the garage" the cat rancher said.
Sure enough he had THREE unopened electic chainsaws in the garage he forgot about. I asked him why he bought so many and apparently Harbor Freight had a good sale going on so he stocked up then forgot about them.
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Post by: ben ji on March 19, 2020, 07:38:48 PM
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Post by: Spracne on March 19, 2020, 07:45:58 PM
Post by: steve dave on March 19, 2020, 07:55:14 PM
@steve dave was walking the windbreak this morning and found these 2 calves cuddled up while their moms were no where in sight, probably out partying at the hay bale my uncle dropped.They do that, it’s fine.
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on March 20, 2020, 09:43:44 AM
So I bought my dad a gas chainsaw for Christmas and we just started cutting up some dead limbs in the windbreak for firewood when the clutch went out. "Dont worry, I've got an idea" the cat rancher said.cat rancher dad, buy one stihl saw and you're good to go. next time you need to tell him to go ahead and get in that pond since he wants to act like a silly goose
We loaded up the generator into the back of lil red, drove to the limbs and just plugged his electric chainsaw into the generator.
Worked fine for a bit but then the electric one stopped working. "I think I have another one in the garage" the cat rancher said.
Sure enough he had THREE unopened electic chainsaws in the garage he forgot about. I asked him why he bought so many and apparently Harbor Freight had a good sale going on so he stocked up then forgot about them.
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Post by: Katpappy on March 20, 2020, 12:03:24 PM
So I bought my dad a gas chainsaw for Christmas and we just started cutting up some dead limbs in the windbreak for firewood when the clutch went out. "Dont worry, I've got an idea" the cat rancher said.
We loaded up the generator into the back of lil red, drove to the limbs and just plugged his electric chainsaw into the generator.
Worked fine for a bit but then the electric one stopped working. "I think I have another one in the garage" the cat rancher said.
Sure enough he had THREE unopened electic chainsaws in the garage he forgot about. I asked him why he bought so many and apparently Harbor Freight had a good sale going on so he stocked up then forgot about them.
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If that's all the wood they cut before petering out, they weren't worth a healthy crap. :lol:
Post by: ben ji on March 20, 2020, 12:37:03 PM
So I bought my dad a gas chainsaw for Christmas and we just started cutting up some dead limbs in the windbreak for firewood when the clutch went out. "Dont worry, I've got an idea" the cat rancher said.
We loaded up the generator into the back of lil red, drove to the limbs and just plugged his electric chainsaw into the generator.
Worked fine for a bit but then the electric one stopped working. "I think I have another one in the garage" the cat rancher said.
Sure enough he had THREE unopened electic chainsaws in the garage he forgot about. I asked him why he bought so many and apparently Harbor Freight had a good sale going on so he stocked up then forgot about them.
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If that's all the wood they cut before petering out, they weren't worth a healthy crap. :lol:
Definitely POS's but thats about 1 load out of a total of 3. Second electric chainsaw has cut 2 loads and still running strong!
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Post by: steve dave on March 20, 2020, 09:07:40 PM
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Post by: sys on March 20, 2020, 09:38:23 PM
I mean, if you've got bulls in there it's for one reason (hardcore cow on cow sex). you separate them the rest of the year.
my grandfather did not do that, fwiw.
Post by: steve dave on March 20, 2020, 09:53:48 PM
I mean, if you've got bulls in there it's for one reason (hardcore cow on cow sex). you separate them the rest of the year.
my grandfather did not do that, fwiw.
we separate them and have designated no longer fertile cows (cull cow I think they are called?) in there with them to keep them company. we'd only put them together during the times we wanted them working. it closed the window to a pretty tight timeframe for calves and we'd want them early in the season. we usually had 30 girls to every boy.
Post by: steve dave on March 20, 2020, 09:58:14 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on March 21, 2020, 11:32:45 AM
Tom, come in here and tell everyone how rough ridin' incredible it is that my slack ass who hated cow farming my entire life retained all this critical cow farm knowledge, WOW!I am just sitting back and enjoying SD. Not so fond memories of the "buller pen" for the steers that had been gang rode in the main pen. Extra work getting them their own hay and silage.
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Post by: michigancat on March 21, 2020, 11:34:30 AM
Tom, come in here and tell everyone how rough ridin' incredible it is that my slack ass who hated cow farming my entire life retained all this critical cow farm knowledge, WOW!I am just sitting back and enjoying SD. Not so fond memories of the "buller pen" for the steers that had been gang rode in the main pen. Extra work getting them their own hay and silage.
Tom
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wait what???
Post by: chum1 on March 21, 2020, 11:42:14 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on March 21, 2020, 11:48:35 AM
To think my entire sex ed consisted of helping dad manage the sexual conduct of cattle.
Fifth grade health film I was rather famous for asking why my dad cut the nuts off our cattle.
Luckily the principal was a cow farmer on the side and knew dad so it was just noted I should not bring that up again.
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Post by: steve dave on March 21, 2020, 12:10:31 PM
Tom, come in here and tell everyone how rough ridin' incredible it is that my slack ass who hated cow farming my entire life retained all this critical cow farm knowledge, WOW!I am just sitting back and enjoying SD. Not so fond memories of the "buller pen" for the steers that had been gang rode in the main pen. Extra work getting them their own hay and silage.
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wait what???
you have to separate those ones or they will literally die. I don't know the biology around why they are the ones.
Post by: KST8FAN on March 21, 2020, 12:55:29 PM
Feedlot cattle feeding is analogous to man prison. Same sex animals in confined space. Eventually some of the steers become everyone else's bitch. You have to isolate them to avoid getting rode to death.Tom, come in here and tell everyone how rough ridin' incredible it is that my slack ass who hated cow farming my entire life retained all this critical cow farm knowledge, WOW!I am just sitting back and enjoying SD. Not so fond memories of the "buller pen" for the steers that had been gang rode in the main pen. Extra work getting them their own hay and silage.
Tom
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wait what???
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on March 21, 2020, 01:06:13 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on March 21, 2020, 01:18:18 PM
Post by: ben ji on March 21, 2020, 03:36:34 PM
Current plan is to plant them in the field (in cages) while I'm working with Milo.
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Post by: ben ji on March 21, 2020, 03:39:25 PM
On the plus side assuming nothing breaks in and kills them in the next couple of weeks I'll let them go when I leave and they will have the time of their lives for like 2 days before something eats their dumbasses.
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Post by: Spracne on March 21, 2020, 03:42:46 PM
Post by: ben ji on March 21, 2020, 03:50:59 PM
I'll bet there are hella nooks and crannies filled with sprawling wasp condos on the cat ranch. Is this true?
Not really, I've seen a couple small nests but I've never noticed very many out at the cat/pheasant ranch.
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Post by: michigancat on March 22, 2020, 02:08:08 PM
Post by: ben ji on March 22, 2020, 08:50:38 PM
wow so close to that wind moneyThey dug a trench in our pasture and buried a power cable/line so we got a lil wind money but we could easily support 100-300 cats if we had an actual windmill on our property.
Post by: ben ji on March 22, 2020, 08:57:04 PM
Was a beautiful day, cut up a bunch of dead wood in the windbreak for firewood then my bro and I went out to the pasture and pew pew'd for a bit.
A storm rolled in around 5 and I figured it would rain all night but NOPE, rained for like 30 minutes and then was sunny again. My KC self just figured it would rain all night but that's why I'm a city boy.
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Post by: Spracne on March 22, 2020, 08:59:15 PM
wow so close to that wind moneyThey dug a trench in our pasture and buried a power cable/line so we got a lil wind money but we could easily support 100-300 cats if we had an actual windmill on our property.
So is that an easement or some sort of lease? What's the market rate for that?
Post by: ben ji on March 22, 2020, 09:29:26 PM
I just asked the cat rancher this question and his answer was "I'm not sure how much money was from the lease/power line/ construction but I got more than I thought I would this year. The original company that bought our lease was bought by another company so I dont want to ask to many questions and have then dig into the paperwork and realize they overpayed me"wow so close to that wind moneyThey dug a trench in our pasture and buried a power cable/line so we got a lil wind money but we could easily support 100-300 cats if we had an actual windmill on our property.
So is that an easement or some sort of lease? What's the market rate for that?
I'm planning to look ar the paperwork tomorrow to see if I can make sense of any of it.
TLDR: The cats have plenty of food
Post by: ben ji on March 22, 2020, 09:32:41 PM
Post by: ben ji on March 24, 2020, 01:29:16 PM
So I bought my dad a gas chainsaw for Christmas and we just started cutting up some dead limbs in the windbreak for firewood when the clutch went out. "Dont worry, I've got an idea" the cat rancher said.We have gone through all 3 unopened Harbor Freight chainsaws and are now mixing and matching parts off them to keep 1 running.
We loaded up the generator into the back of lil red, drove to the limbs and just plugged his electric chainsaw into the generator.
Worked fine for a bit but then the electric one stopped working. "I think I have another one in the garage" the cat rancher said.
Sure enough he had THREE unopened electic chainsaws in the garage he forgot about. I asked him why he bought so many and apparently Harbor Freight had a good sale going on so he stocked up then forgot about them.
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Put up a decent amount of firewood from dead trees/limbs in the windbreak.
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Post by: ben ji on March 24, 2020, 01:33:10 PM
Just watched Lady snatch up a mouse, bite it in half (blood everywhere) then swallow it....
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Post by: Katpappy on March 24, 2020, 01:52:11 PM
Post by: Spracne on March 24, 2020, 01:53:41 PM
So I bought my dad a gas chainsaw for Christmas and we just started cutting up some dead limbs in the windbreak for firewood when the clutch went out. "Dont worry, I've got an idea" the cat rancher said.We have gone through all 3 unopened Harbor Freight chainsaws and are now mixing and matching parts off them to keep 1 running.
We loaded up the generator into the back of lil red, drove to the limbs and just plugged his electric chainsaw into the generator.
Worked fine for a bit but then the electric one stopped working. "I think I have another one in the garage" the cat rancher said.
Sure enough he had THREE unopened electic chainsaws in the garage he forgot about. I asked him why he bought so many and apparently Harbor Freight had a good sale going on so he stocked up then forgot about them.
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Put up a decent amount of firewood from dead trees/limbs in the windbreak.
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Are the ones towards the left going to be faggots?
Post by: Katpappy on March 24, 2020, 01:58:20 PM
Those dead limbs were Mice condos so Lady and Milo are helping with rodent control since the cats are too fat and happy to leave the barn. We move a limb and they start digging until the mice pop out.
Just watched Lady snatch up a mouse, bite it in half (blood everywhere) then swallow it....
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I had a Brittany that would follow me when I was mowing grass in the field to catch rats and mice that was stirred up. She would eat them, but only after she played with them like a cat.
Post by: ben ji on March 24, 2020, 02:07:15 PM
Yes, there is a whole other side of smaller logs and kindling.So I bought my dad a gas chainsaw for Christmas and we just started cutting up some dead limbs in the windbreak for firewood when the clutch went out. "Dont worry, I've got an idea" the cat rancher said.We have gone through all 3 unopened Harbor Freight chainsaws and are now mixing and matching parts off them to keep 1 running.
We loaded up the generator into the back of lil red, drove to the limbs and just plugged his electric chainsaw into the generator.
Worked fine for a bit but then the electric one stopped working. "I think I have another one in the garage" the cat rancher said.
Sure enough he had THREE unopened electic chainsaws in the garage he forgot about. I asked him why he bought so many and apparently Harbor Freight had a good sale going on so he stocked up then forgot about them.
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Put up a decent amount of firewood from dead trees/limbs in the windbreak.
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Are the ones towards the left going to be faggots?
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Post by: ben ji on March 24, 2020, 02:09:01 PM
ben ji, how many cords would you say that is?
Like 80 or something.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on March 24, 2020, 02:43:34 PM
Those dead limbs were Mice condos so Lady and Milo are helping with rodent control since the cats are too fat and happy to leave the barn. We move a limb and they start digging until the mice pop out.:cheers:
Just watched Lady snatch up a mouse, bite it in half (blood everywhere) then swallow it....
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Post by: ben ji on March 24, 2020, 06:38:27 PM
@steve dave was walking the windbreak this morning and found these 2 calves cuddled up while their moms were no where in sight, probably out partying at the hay bale my uncle dropped.Drove by the same area tonight and found this :(
Bad parents? (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200320/727c0a4d2718fc377b52a331f545e0d8.jpg)
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Post by: sys on March 24, 2020, 07:21:35 PM
Post by: ben ji on March 24, 2020, 08:27:19 PM
1-1 Coyote?
2-1 Badger?
5-1 bobcat?
20-1 juvenile Mt Lion?
Close up of the goner
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Post by: ben ji on March 25, 2020, 09:29:23 PM
In other news I started a hoopty ass par 3 golf course out here. So far we have 4 holes that all share the same "green"
1. A 115 yard par 3, pretty basic.
2. Longest hole of the course and a straight shot at the "green", a 155 yard par 3.
3. Toughest hole on the course. A 140 yard par 3 where the "green" is not visible from the tee box.
4. A 120 yard par 3, dont overshoot and end up in the overgrown corral tho!
Played 16 holes with my brother tonight and beat him by 1 stroke.
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Post by: ben ji on March 25, 2020, 09:31:26 PM
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Post by: pissclams on March 25, 2020, 09:32:10 PM
Post by: HELLHAMMER on March 25, 2020, 09:49:23 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on March 25, 2020, 10:26:46 PM
Tom
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Pasture golf... love it. This is actually a thing for a small section of rhe golf world. I cant find the link.
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Tom,
Assuming we get at least 9 Tee Boxes up and running you are officially invited to participate in the 2021 NW Kansas Invitational held at Cat Ranch Homestead Course.
Post by: schreds21 on March 26, 2020, 03:05:09 PM
that place is too clean to represent actual irl farming. stinks of rich guy hobby farming. needs like 30 full/empty/partially empty 55 gallon drums, tools just rough ridin' everywhere, stuff piled up so you can't g fryet to other stuff, some bats, gigantic sliding doors that you can barely push open instead of a garage door, tons of broken stuff that nobody knows what it goes to (is it actually broken? no idea), 7 non working refrigerators used to store stuff for some reason, 6 ATV/UTVs with 33% of their tires completely flat.Don't forget an entire winter's worth of wadded up baling twine/netwrap/wire and empty feed sacks.
Post by: KST8FAN on March 26, 2020, 04:18:24 PM
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Post by: Katpappy on March 26, 2020, 04:39:46 PM
that place is too clean to represent actual irl farming. stinks of rich guy hobby farming. needs like 30 full/empty/partially empty 55 gallon drums, tools just rough ridin' everywhere, stuff piled up so you can't get to other stuff, some bats, gigantic sliding doors that you can barely push open instead of a garage door, tons of broken stuff that nobody knows what it goes to (is it actually broken? no idea), 7 non working refrigerators used to store stuff for some reason, 6 ATV/UTVs with 33% of their tires completely flat.
SD, I seen a lot of these barns over the years at farm auctions and neighbors. We never had a big barn for junk and stuff. Instead, we had a hay barn, livestock/hay barn, dairy barn, grain barn w/2 truck shed, and machine shop w/ dug out pit for working on vehicles and 2 car garage attached. There was lots of crap in this shop, but mainly power shop tools.
Post by: Katpappy on March 26, 2020, 05:01:42 PM
I have like 20 wood pallets accumulated over the years... apparently cous just leaves them after he has used the seed bags off them during planting season.
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They make a great backboard for shooting pistols and rifles. Just stack them vertical two wide by two high with a second set behind them only turned 90deg. You can use baling wire to tie all 8 pallets . Almost forgot, you'll need a couple of 10' 4x6 posts set 3' in ground and about 4' apart to tie to the pallets. It lasts a long time and very cheap to replace.
Post by: ben ji on March 26, 2020, 07:48:19 PM
What is the standard mortality rate for calfs in their first couple months?
I spend most the day inside the house working so I usually take Milo for a run in the CRP then cruise the pasture in the evening to get out of the house.
Found another dead calf by the "Creek" tonight. Momma cow was still hanging around it :(
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Post by: schreds21 on March 27, 2020, 09:38:18 AM
Like, not very high. And it’s usually right when they are born. If they are dying off right now you may irl have a cowrona virus going around or some crap.:sdeek:
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We mowed it down and its in play, landed a ball in there about 5 ft from thick metal corral fence. I tried to chip out, hit the fence and it ricocheted back and plonked me on the top of the head.
Great times, 10 out of 10.
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Guess the crop growing in the circle behind Milo.
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Post by: ben ji on March 31, 2020, 09:14:10 PM
CornWrong! (But thank you for playing!)
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Post by: ben ji on March 31, 2020, 10:33:55 PM
CornYou were already eliminated but WRONG
Post by: ben ji on March 31, 2020, 10:34:56 PM
speltHad to google spelt but NOPE
Post by: ben ji on March 31, 2020, 10:36:05 PM
Sunflowers.Tom,
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I appreciate your flint hills farming knowledge but the answer is not sunflowers.
Post by: ben ji on March 31, 2020, 10:36:44 PM
If you would have taken it with an Android we probably would all knowI will take a closer picture tomorrow if no one guesses it by then.
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Post by: DaBigTrain on March 31, 2020, 10:39:15 PM
buckwheatSupreme leader says one answer and you’re out!
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You heard the man.buckwheatSupreme leader says one answer and you’re out!
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Post by: ben ji on April 01, 2020, 10:14:36 AM
No one has guessed it yet so here is a close up.
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Post by: ben ji on April 01, 2020, 11:02:40 AM
juvenile alfalfa
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!
Post by: ben ji on April 01, 2020, 11:17:46 AM
My brother reports there is a new litter of kittens burrowed deep into the hay bale condo in the barn so things are looking up.
Lil lil's mama is still going strong as well, hoping for a new litter this spring!
Snapped a picture of her this morning as she was making her rounds.
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Post by: michigancat on April 01, 2020, 11:38:29 AM
That is irl the shittiest alfalfa I’ve ever seen, lmao
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yes, and it's IRRIGATED! benji your uncle may be a shitty hay farmer and may want to stick to cow farming (and buy hay bales from a neighbor or something)
Post by: ben ji on April 01, 2020, 11:48:41 AM
That is irl the shittiest alfalfa I’ve ever seen, lmao
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yes, and it's IRRIGATED! benji your uncle may be a shitty hay farmer and may want to stick to cow farming (and buy hay bales from a neighbor or something)
Doesn't matter how shitty of a farmer you are when you have a bunch of paid off land.
Post by: meow meow on April 01, 2020, 11:49:37 AM
Post by: sys on April 01, 2020, 12:17:31 PM
Doesn't matter how shitty of a farmer you are when your second wife has a bunch land when you marry her.
he could put all that crop circle land in pasture and then buy the alfalfa (but really buy ensilage, alfalfa is for suckers). more cows, more cows, more cows.
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Post by: chum1 on April 01, 2020, 01:24:49 PM
crop shaming, wow
This was an interesting turn of events.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 03, 2020, 10:39:08 AM
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Post by: ben ji on April 03, 2020, 10:47:17 AM
Name that farm implement. Hint: more feaking zerks than anything else.
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Hay cutter thing that pops square bales out the back.
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Post by: Katpappy on April 03, 2020, 01:12:34 PM
it shoots the chopped up silage into a giant wagon like a chopped up hay fire house on steroids and is rough ridin' ridiculous and silly
When I was a kid helping the old man, my job was haul the loads of this crap and dump in ensilage dugout. Also had the drive a tractor over the crap to pack it down. It stunk like a sewer with acholic fumes burning my nonsterols.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 03, 2020, 01:13:51 PM
That was too easy, but it gives me an excuse to post my fav silage chopping video.
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Post by: Katpappy on April 03, 2020, 01:22:59 PM
https://youtu.be/tOVicpNaNYg
That was too easy, but it gives me an excuse to post my fav silage chopping video.
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Tom, maybe you can make sense out of this scene. Why do they use horses to pull the power machinery?
Post by: meow meow on April 03, 2020, 01:28:11 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 03, 2020, 01:30:08 PM
https://youtu.be/tOVicpNaNYg
That was too easy, but it gives me an excuse to post my fav silage chopping video.
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that's not even in the top five of my fav silage chopping videos.
Post by: steve dave on April 03, 2020, 01:34:11 PM
We used to have some german mennonites from Montezuma KS come and chop sileage and alfalfa for us (WTF? Alfalfa? Yes, apparently that is a thing we did) and they'd run like 5 rigs all day doing it and we'd get a giant assload of it to feed cows. Anyway, the family that ran that operation got busted for moving hardcore illicit drugs from Mexico. they'd apparently go down there in the guise of doing farm stuff or something and come back with like drugs or drug money or something. not 100% sure how it all worked. but they were german, all of the people that worked for them were mexican. real weird set up. chopped the living crap out of silage and alfalfa though. also some german mennonites in Meade got in similar trouble for something to do with money laundering or some crap from Mexico. Quite the deal.
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tl;dr German Mennonites are basically farm mafia kings
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George Enns, 70, and his wife, Agatha Enns, 68, both of Meade, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy.
In their plea, the defendants admitted:
At least $1.6 million in cash and $5.2 million in third-party checks was deposited into a joint account the defendants held at Plains State Bank in Plains, Kan.
The defendants knew the funds in the account were the proceeds of unlawful activity although they did not know -- or do business with -- the individuals whose names were on the third-party checks
The defendants did not use the account at Plains State Bank for their own business and personal transactions. They had accounts at other banks.
The account at Plains State Bank was used for the deposit of cash and checks that George Enns received during his trips to Mexico. He carried the money into the United States without reporting the funds at the border.
Funds in the account at Plains State Bank were transferred out of state to purchase genetically modified corn seed. The seed was shipped to the border where the corn was transported into Mexico at the direction of George Enns.
This process is called trade based money laundering.
Sentencing is set for Feb. 27. The government is recommending three years on probation and a money judgment in an amount to be set by the judge.
Beall commended the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Internal Revenue Service and Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Barnett for their work on the case.
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Post by: steve dave on April 03, 2020, 02:00:35 PM
That seems like an absurdly long distance from the chopper to the truck. Have you ever been silage blasted by the chopper?
usually the truck was pretty close. but yeah, it really whizzes it out of there. no, never took it in the face. would probably suck pretty bad.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 03, 2020, 02:06:50 PM
No cab tractor side by side dad would blast me at the end of the row. Corn cob chunks at 100 mph hurt like hell.That seems like an absurdly long distance from the chopper to the truck. Have you ever been silage blasted by the chopper?
usually the truck was pretty close. but yeah, it really whizzes it out of there. no, never took it in the face. would probably suck pretty bad.
Just duck the farm cap to keep it out of your face.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 03, 2020, 02:08:08 PM
low amish iqApparently tractors are viewed as a gateway drug to wanting a car?
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Post by: michigancat on April 03, 2020, 05:50:50 PM
https://youtu.be/tOVicpNaNYg
That was too easy, but it gives me an excuse to post my fav silage chopping video.
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that's not even in the top five of my fav silage chopping videos.
Tom, it was my favorite silage chopping video as well
Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 06:03:02 PM
i like how enthusiastic cows get about eating ensilage. also like the smell.
Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 06:06:14 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 03, 2020, 06:07:54 PM
Feedlot cattle feeding is analogous to man prison. Same sex animals in confined space. Eventually some of the steers become everyone else's bitch. You have to isolate them to avoid getting rode to death.Tom, come in here and tell everyone how rough ridin' incredible it is that my slack ass who hated cow farming my entire life retained all this critical cow farm knowledge, WOW!I am just sitting back and enjoying SD. Not so fond memories of the "buller pen" for the steers that had been gang rode in the main pen. Extra work getting them their own hay and silage.
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wait what???
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So this afternoon I noticed a cow by the water tank that was barely standing, then later it was down and couldn't stand up. I texted my uncle to let him know and he said "Yup I walker her in, we'll put her in the corral tomorrow. Bulls were a little hard on her!"
:surprised:
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Post by: ben ji on April 03, 2020, 06:10:37 PM
Post by: michigancat on April 03, 2020, 06:11:54 PM
what a stupid poll
Post by: ben ji on April 03, 2020, 06:14:22 PM
I guess the 10% or whatever the percentage of male calfs that turn into bulls have it pretty good for a while.
Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 06:15:12 PM
nothing for generic silage or "feed"? I had never heard ensilage until someone posted it in the farming thread.
what a stupid poll
to clarify, the raging linguistics debate being polled is silage v ensilage. the bonus embedded question, which is unrelated to the linguistics, is whether the respondent prefers to see cows eating corn or sorghum based silage/ensilage.
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Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 06:20:28 PM
https://www.theland.com.au/story/5210003/automated-feedlots-the-next-big-thing-in-sheep/
Post by: steve dave on April 03, 2020, 06:37:59 PM
Feedlot cattle feeding is analogous to man prison. Same sex animals in confined space. Eventually some of the steers become everyone else's bitch. You have to isolate them to avoid getting rode to death.Tom, come in here and tell everyone how rough ridin' incredible it is that my slack ass who hated cow farming my entire life retained all this critical cow farm knowledge, WOW!I am just sitting back and enjoying SD. Not so fond memories of the "buller pen" for the steers that had been gang rode in the main pen. Extra work getting them their own hay and silage.
Tom
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wait what???
Tom
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So this afternoon I noticed a cow by the water tank that was barely standing, then later it was down and couldn't stand up. I texted my uncle to let him know and he said "Yup I walker her in, we'll put her in the corral tomorrow. Bulls were a little hard on her!"
:surprised:
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I’m not sure I’d accept the word of someone with warm weather calves just dying left and right
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Post by: pissclams on April 03, 2020, 06:51:04 PM
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Post by: michigancat on April 03, 2020, 07:12:57 PM
something like this:
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Post by: michigancat on April 03, 2020, 07:21:04 PM
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Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 07:39:09 PM
sys, no one ever says ensilage.
my family is an ensilage family, you sonofabitch. btw, silage/ensilage is the chopped up, fermented product that cows love, it's not the name of the type of plant that gets chopped up to make ensilage.
Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 07:43:08 PM
maybe it was sorghum? but it was always taller than the milo that was harvested for grain.
yeah, a strain of sorghum that grows big and has lots of leaf matter and crap instead of staying small and putting all its energy into producing grain like milo.
in california all the central valley dairy farms make their ensilage out of corn, not sorghum. it's also a corn variety that grows ridiculously tall, dunno how much grain it churns out. they all call it silage here, like idiots.
Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 07:47:25 PM
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ensile
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Post by: ben ji on April 03, 2020, 08:20:43 PM
#GoatRanch2021?
Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 03, 2020, 09:06:48 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on April 03, 2020, 09:18:54 PM
this was from "sorghumcheckoff.com"Forage sorghum vs grain sorghum aka milo...
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Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 09:20:47 PM
Post by: michigancat on April 03, 2020, 09:41:16 PM
Ohhhh that's why it's milothis was from "sorghumcheckoff.com"Forage sorghum vs grain sorghum aka milo...
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Post by: tdaver on April 03, 2020, 09:42:04 PM
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Post by: sys on April 03, 2020, 10:03:17 PM
How about an option for us city slickers who don't know what either are
you should choose ensilage.
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Post by: chum1 on April 03, 2020, 10:14:39 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on April 03, 2020, 10:28:49 PM
this was from "sorghumcheckoff.com"On further review thats a windrower not a silage cutter... possibly sorghum round bales?
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Post by: Spracne on April 03, 2020, 10:58:21 PM
if a doctor intubates a covid 19 patient is that patient a tubated patient or an intubated patient? use your heads here, people.
Well, as a gentuhlman farmah mahself, I must declare that I do only pronounce it in the proper fashion--ensilage--as opposed to the vulgar diminutive form so lately adopted by the low people.
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Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 10:41:15 AM
Windrower.Swather
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Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 10:43:21 AM
Jokes on them though, because it rulesYeah no crap. Never be ashamed of your hickness, folks. Embrace it.*
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Post by: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 11:57:11 AM
sys, no one ever says ensilage. I don't know why you think that is debateable. I have heard lots of folks call something like sileage "feed" however. I don't know what it is, it just looks like grassy corn and it's really tall but it doesn't have any corn. maybe it is corn just cut way early but I don't think that's what it is
Usually corn is cut for when corn ears are small and will not produce a good corn crop. Also, some of the corn is a type planted for the purpose of cutting into silage/ensilage. This is the type that grows tall with large stalks and small ears. And yes it is cut when the crop is still green but ears are mature. BTY, ensilage is ground/chopped sorghum, milo or corn. Sorghum is sugar cane. Milo with poor heads are usually chopped/ground into ensilage. Ensilage is the product of the fermented crop that is feed to cattle. Cattle love it and it fattens them for butcher.
Post by: Spracne on April 04, 2020, 12:03:22 PM
sys, no one ever says ensilage. I don't know why you think that is debateable. I have heard lots of folks call something like sileage "feed" however. I don't know what it is, it just looks like grassy corn and it's really tall but it doesn't have any corn. maybe it is corn just cut way early but I don't think that's what it is
Usually corn is cut for when corn ears are small and will not produce a good corn crop. Also, some of the corn is a type planted for the purpose of cutting into silage/ensilage. This is the type that grows tall with large stalks and small ears. And yes it is cut when the crop is still green but ears are mature. BTY, ensilage is ground/chopped sorghum, milo or corn. Sorghum is sugar cane. Milo with poor heads are usually chopped/ground into ensilage. Ensilage is the product of the fermented crop that is feed to cattle. Cattle love it and it fattens them for butcher.
Wtf dos bty mean, anyway? I thought it was a typo the first couple times.
Post by: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 12:10:39 PM
YW(You'reWelcome)
Post by: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 12:13:48 PM
If you read the description, you'll notice why cattle love it and it fattens them for butcher.
Post by: Spracne on April 04, 2020, 12:15:01 PM
BTY(ByTheWay)
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Post by: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:28:41 PM
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Post by: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 12:32:01 PM
Glad to see SD agrees with my dad that ben ji's dad would be a better farmer than my uncle.
#GoatRanch2021?
Goats are a good idea. They will eat all the weeds on your place and stay around as long as they got something to eat. Don't bother to fence them as barb wire won't work. Will need a tall chain link, which is quite expensive.
If you're into Bbq, goat meat is very lean. Only problem is they look like a large dog when cooked whole as in a pit. You'll have ppl question what it is at parties. :ROFL:
Post by: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 12:34:16 PM
lmao katdaddy:thumbs: :ROFL:
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 04, 2020, 12:44:28 PM
This is just me... wiki confirms Mich terminology.Windrower.Swather
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Swather- lays grain on the ground to dry before combining.
Windrower- cuts hay and runs it thru rollers to break the stems and allow it to dry quicker to be baled. You can open the rollers up and it becomes a swather.
Mower/Conditioner- some marketing guys idea who probably also uses the word ensilage.
Mich are you from around Wichita? I never heard the term swather until I hung with guys from Hesston at Kstate.
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Post by: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:54:13 PM
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Post by: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:56:34 PM
We had PTO powered rakes that spun like mothers. Also the giant wheel ones that just used some sort of physics to spin and rake that windrow. Wild stuff.
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Post by: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:59:24 PM
Then sometimes I’d pull a rake over the windrows to merge them into one massive windrow. Or, I’d rake the windrow over to help it dry faster. You can rake at 20 mph. It’s like F1 tractor racing.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200404/8556a0cc61958096f74635acf4bc729b.jpg)
We had PTO powered rakes that spun like mothers. Also the giant wheel ones that just used some sort of physics to spin and rake that windrow. Wild stuff.
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Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 12:59:44 PM
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Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 01:01:43 PM
Then sometimes I’d pull a rake over the windrows to merge them into one massive windrow. Or, I’d rake the windrow over to help it dry faster. You can rake at 20 mph. It’s like F1 tractor racing.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200404/8556a0cc61958096f74635acf4bc729b.jpg)
We had PTO powered rakes that spun like mothers. Also the giant wheel ones that just used some sort of physics to spin and rake that windrow. Wild stuff.
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yes if you had one on the 3 point hitch it would bounce like crazy because you were racing. Once I had a pretty miserable day doing the boring roll over style raking when I was hungover AF. Like it was bad bad
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Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 01:07:08 PM
Then sometimes I’d pull a rake over the windrows to merge them into one massive windrow. Or, I’d rake the windrow over to help it dry faster. You can rake at 20 mph. It’s like F1 tractor racing.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200404/8556a0cc61958096f74635acf4bc729b.jpg)
We had PTO powered rakes that spun like mothers. Also the giant wheel ones that just used some sort of physics to spin and rake that windrow. Wild stuff.
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yes if you had one on the 3 point hitch it would bounce like crazy because you were racing. Once I had a pretty miserable day doing the boring roll over style raking when I was hungover AF. Like it was bad bad
so this was significant because hay farming got the b-team tractors while the plow farming got the a-team tractors. like I had to do this raking in a little ass Case tractor with no cab (like the yellow case style) and a metal seat and it was smaller than the 4020. it sucked so hard.
but man oh man when I got the 8760 with the good radio and super cool blast AC? :Woohoo:
Post by: Spracne on April 04, 2020, 01:07:53 PM
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Post by: DaBigTrain on April 04, 2020, 01:12:21 PM
Literally lol’d at thisBTY(ByTheWay)
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 04, 2020, 01:27:13 PM
SD- 3 pt mounted, pto driven Ford hay rake on the back of the 4020. That was the crap... one of the few mundane field tasks that was mindless fun.
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 04, 2020, 04:01:00 PM
Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 04:03:00 PM
What is a wind row?It's when you chop up all the hay and grass like twenty feet wide and put it in a little row like four feet wide so it's easy to pick up and bale. The little row is a windrow
Post by: Spracne on April 04, 2020, 04:04:56 PM
What is a wind row?It's when you chop up all the hay and grass like twenty feet wide and put it in a little row like four feet wide so it's easy to pick up and bale. The little row is a windrow
Does it block the wind?
Post by: star seed 7 on April 04, 2020, 04:07:23 PM
Post by: Spracne on April 04, 2020, 04:09:09 PM
Yeah that part is confusing me, why isn't it just a hay row
Maybe back in the day the un-rowed hay would get blown by the wind into a natural row. Kinda like a snowdrift?
Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 04:12:45 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on April 04, 2020, 04:14:30 PM
Post by: sys on April 04, 2020, 04:16:38 PM
Quote
a long line of raked hay or sheaves of grain laid out to dry in the wind.
North American
a long line of material heaped up by the wind or by a machine.
"the surface of the water was streaked with windrows of scud"
look at rusty being north american.
Post by: Spracne on April 04, 2020, 04:22:05 PM
Quotea long line of raked hay or sheaves of grain laid out to dry in the wind.
North American
a long line of material heaped up by the wind or by a machine.
"the surface of the water was streaked with windrows of scud"
look at rusty being north american.
Huh. I guess I'm more continental.
Post by: sys on April 04, 2020, 04:22:49 PM
I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor.
holy crap. i'm two generations removed from farming and i spent a crap load of time (not really, but still a lot for a mhk townie) on open cab tractors.
never seen the inside of a farm machine cab, actually.
Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 04:39:36 PM
I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor.
holy crap. i'm two generations removed from farming and i spent a crap load of time (not really, but still a lot for a mhk townie) on open cab tractors.
never seen the inside of a farm machine cab, actually.
Not even at a county fair? My favorite thing at country fairs was going up into the new tractors and pretending to drive them
Post by: star seed 7 on April 04, 2020, 04:40:45 PM
Post by: sys on April 04, 2020, 04:49:02 PM
My favorite thing at country fairs was going up into the new tractors and pretending to drive them
i'm an animal person, not a machine person.
Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 04:49:18 PM
I've never been to a county fairsys clearly had farmers in the family, I'd be surprised if no one took him to one
Post by: star seed 7 on April 04, 2020, 04:54:44 PM
Post by: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 06:37:45 PM
I don't even know if Shawnee County even has a fair? Tom?
Farm Show in January and 4-H in July.
Post by: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 07:24:02 PM
Literally lol’d at thisBTY(ByTheWay)
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eff, I didn't even notice. BTW it is, but I was typing the last letter of way for some reason. :facepalm:
Welp, I just pulled a Biden.
Post by: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 07:44:27 PM
Apparently, silage is the cut feed before it's processed. Also, both words are derived from the French language.
Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 04, 2020, 08:18:59 PM
I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor. The idea of doing that hungover breathing in alfalfa dust in what I assume was 100 degree temps is terrifying.
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not even like a D17 mowing ditches or some crap? wow
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Post by: slackcat on April 04, 2020, 08:57:05 PM
Silage chopper
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Used to milk 150 cows and put up a shitload of corn silage every year, custom cutters from Moundridge would come in and knock it out in a few days. I shuttled silage wagons as a kid when my dad and uncle milked/farmed in partnership. Had a three row Gehl chopper and took two weeks with good weather. Pulled with an IH 504 gas tractor up the hills and wagons pushed going down hill.
Post by: slackcat on April 04, 2020, 08:59:08 PM
I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor. The idea of doing that hungover breathing in alfalfa dust in what I assume was 100 degree temps is terrifying.
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Pussy! :lol:
Post by: KST8FAN on April 04, 2020, 09:25:11 PM
I don't even know if Shawnee County even has a fair? Tom?Always went to Douglas Co Fair in Lawrence, KS. The only thing I ever did at Shawnee Expo Center was Boy Scout stuff.
Tom
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Post by: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 09:29:14 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 04, 2020, 09:44:03 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 04, 2020, 09:57:30 PM
Silage chopper
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Used to milk 150 cows and put up a shitload of corn silage every year, custom cutters from Moundridge would come in and knock it out in a few days. I shuttled silage wagons as a kid when my dad and uncle milked/farmed in partnership. Had a three row Gehl chopper and took two weeks with good weather. Pulled with an IH 504 gas tractor up the hills and wagons pushed going down hill.
Your family still in the milk game? Heard its not good for milk farmers out there.
Post by: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 10:53:16 PM
Post by: Katpappy on April 05, 2020, 12:56:46 AM
Silage chopper
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Used to milk 150 cows and put up a shitload of corn silage every year, custom cutters from Moundridge would come in and knock it out in a few days. I shuttled silage wagons as a kid when my dad and uncle milked/farmed in partnership. Had a three row Gehl chopper and took two weeks with good weather. Pulled with an IH 504 gas tractor up the hills and wagons pushed going down hill.
I own an IH 504. :cheers:
Post by: steve dave on April 05, 2020, 06:45:29 AM
Milk farming is widely regarded as the worst farming unless you hate days offall farming should be regarded as the worst farming for this reason. Maybe straight up non-animal having seasonal crop hobby farming would be good I guess.
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Post by: michigancat on April 05, 2020, 10:56:58 AM
Yeah dirt farming? What in earth are you supposed to do when it's growing all winter? Go sort the iron pile?Milk farming is widely regarded as the worst farming unless you hate days offall farming should be regarded as the worst farming for this reason. Maybe straight up non-animal having seasonal crop hobby farming would be good I guess.
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Post by: michigancat on April 05, 2020, 11:04:58 AM
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Post by: Katpappy on April 05, 2020, 11:42:30 AM
and sometimes the hardest part of regular cow farming is counting them from the pickup. oh are there 78 in that pasture? OK good let's go.
Rusty, that was one of my many jobs; cattle count and check stock tanks for water. It's amazing how Kansas farm boys did familiar work and various things on the farm. :Carl:
Post by: wetwillie on April 05, 2020, 12:25:42 PM
Post by: Katpappy on April 05, 2020, 01:42:20 PM
https://youtu.be/q4tK1nic0eA
Post by: Katpappy on April 05, 2020, 02:29:53 PM
https://youtu.be/YWzNzHErGMg
Post by: Spracne on April 05, 2020, 03:20:21 PM
Post by: Spracne on April 05, 2020, 03:23:35 PM
[youtube]https://youtu.be/48H7zOQrX3U[/youtube]
Post by: ben ji on April 05, 2020, 07:15:02 PM
We sat there about 20 seconds and my brother said " how about we go to the other pasture to pew pew"
As much as I want to claim I'm country I'm just a city boy cosplaying as a country boy.
Post by: sys on April 05, 2020, 07:39:08 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 05, 2020, 08:45:11 PM
i think not walking next to some bulls taking a break from rough ridin' your uncle's cows to death is probably the correct country boy response.
glad to hear that, makes me feel like less of a city boy coward
Post by: Katpappy on April 05, 2020, 08:56:49 PM
That kid seems like a spoiled rich kid farmer.
Actually he's not much of a farmer anymore since he's part of a Diesel Bro's type company partners called Whistlin Diesel featured You Tube. They sell big lift kits.
Post by: Katpappy on April 05, 2020, 08:59:53 PM
Anyway, this is what REAL farming looks like-->extremely dorky
[youtube]https://youtu.be/48H7zOQrX3U[/youtube]
Brought to you by these Farmers favorite school, KSU. :ROFL:
Post by: ben ji on April 05, 2020, 09:01:12 PM
My uncle/cousin have been "hauling cattle" for the past couple weeks but all I know is that every couple of days a big pickup hauling a cattle trailer pulls up and then leaves.
My guess is they are taking the grown calfs away?
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Post by: Katpappy on April 05, 2020, 09:18:31 PM
i think not walking next to some bulls taking a break from rough ridin' your uncle's cows to death is probably the correct country boy response.
Reminds me of when I was high age we would have friends over during late fall/winter and one of my chores was to feed our cattle. I would load our pickup with square bales and take them to the pasture. I wound have one of the guys hop in the back and toss off the bales. These were wire tied so before a bale was tossed the wires would need to be pulled off. Anyway, if the guy in the back of the truck forgot to pull off the wires, he would need to jump off the truck and remove them as the hungry cattle were chowing on them. Never less, not one was brave enough to do the task. :ROFL:
Post by: KST8FAN on April 05, 2020, 09:24:09 PM
Those guys actually got a pregame shout at a football game when this vid went viral.Anyway, this is what REAL farming looks like-->extremely dorky
[youtube]https://youtu.be/48H7zOQrX3U[/youtube]
Brought to you by these Farmers favorite school, KSU. :ROFL:
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Post by: Katpappy on April 05, 2020, 09:26:59 PM
Those guys actually got a pregame shout at a football game when this vid went viral.Anyway, this is what REAL farming looks like-->extremely dorky
[youtube]https://youtu.be/48H7zOQrX3U[/youtube]
Brought to you by these Farmers favorite school, KSU. :ROFL:
Tom
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I was there but can't remember who we played. Was this the same time the Mask was making vids.?
Post by: ben ji on April 05, 2020, 10:31:26 PM
(No ducks in the picture but they were there before we rolled up to pew pew)
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Post by: ben ji on April 05, 2020, 10:32:53 PM
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Post by: wetwillie on April 06, 2020, 06:31:21 AM
Post by: steve dave on April 06, 2020, 06:52:45 AM
I thought artificially insemination was the preferred method of impregnating cattle these days. Apparently it's not?lmao, no
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Post by: Kat Kid on April 06, 2020, 07:58:19 AM
I thought artificially insemination was the preferred method of impregnating cattle these days. Apparently it's not?lmao, no
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 06, 2020, 09:19:51 AM
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Post by: michigancat on April 06, 2020, 09:24:32 AM
Ensilage chopping seen on reddit today :surprised:
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that's pretty cool. I'm guessing they have gps on the sileage machine because thinking about getting that to fill the truck even is stressing me out. Also crazy to be actually driving a semi in a field. you'd get stuck so fast in the fields I worked in and I am also getting stressed thinking about that and tipping over when they have to drive over the hundreds of terraces we have in every field.
Post by: steve dave on April 06, 2020, 09:28:24 AM
Post by: michigancat on April 06, 2020, 09:43:10 AM
could have gps but I've seen that done tons of times manually by elite german mennonite drug money laundering silage choppers.
that's crazy. I did the combine unloading onto a moving grain cart w/o gps but we never had to worry about filling it evenly. Just dump it in.
Post by: star seed 7 on April 06, 2020, 09:56:54 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 06, 2020, 09:59:08 AM
Those looks like coots, were they all black?
I dont know anything about ducks but they were standard duck colors. Around 6 ducks total hang out between the two places that have standing water.
Post by: ben ji on April 06, 2020, 10:03:05 AM
and sometimes the hardest part of regular cow farming is counting them from the pickup. oh are there 78 in that pasture? OK good let's go.
Rusty, that was one of my many jobs; cattle count and check stock tanks for water. It's amazing how Kansas farm boys did familiar work and various things on the farm. :Carl:
Why does it have to be farm boys? My cousin's daughter (my second cousin?) lives in KC but is back in Colby due to the pandemic. She was going to come out and play golf after helping do farm stuff but one of the stock tanks was clogged so they had to spend all afternoon messing around with that and didn't get to play any farm golf.
Post by: Katpappy on April 06, 2020, 06:13:23 PM
and sometimes the hardest part of regular cow farming is counting them from the pickup. oh are there 78 in that pasture? OK good let's go.
Rusty, that was one of my many jobs; cattle count and check stock tanks for water. It's amazing how Kansas farm boys did familiar work and various things on the farm. :Carl:
Why does it have to be farm boys? My cousin's daughter (my second cousin?) lives in KC but is back in Colby due to the pandemic. She was going to come out and play golf after helping do farm stuff but one of the stock tanks was clogged so they had to spend all afternoon messing around with that and didn't get to play any farm golf.
Back then we had windmills pumping water in the tanks and, if filled, I would need to pull a handle that was connected to the tail so the wind wouldn't drive the prop that turned the pump. That was how to shut off the water.
Did she tell you what was clogged? The only thing that pours into the tank is water. Is this electric or float controlled? Also, I was referring to Rusty, Tom and SD since they were farm boys at one time. We did have a neighbour who was a dairy farmer with 12 daughters that hand milked their cows before hopping on the school bus at 7:00am in the morning. That meant they started milking at 4:00am every morning. But that is a very different life experience then our gE posters ITT.
Post by: ben ji on April 06, 2020, 09:39:31 PM
and sometimes the hardest part of regular cow farming is counting them from the pickup. oh are there 78 in that pasture? OK good let's go.
Rusty, that was one of my many jobs; cattle count and check stock tanks for water. It's amazing how Kansas farm boys did familiar work and various things on the farm. :Carl:
Why does it have to be farm boys? My cousin's daughter (my second cousin?) lives in KC but is back in Colby due to the pandemic. She was going to come out and play golf after helping do farm stuff but one of the stock tanks was clogged so they had to spend all afternoon messing around with that and didn't get to play any farm golf.
Back then we had windmills pumping water in the tanks and, if filled, I would need to pull a handle that was connected to the tail so the wind wouldn't drive the prop that turned the pump. That was how to shut off the water.
Did she tell you what was clogged? The only thing that pours into the tank is water. Is this electric or float controlled? Also, I was referring to Rusty, Tom and SD since they were farm boys at one time. We did have a neighbour who was a dairy farmer with 12 daughters that hand milked their cows before hopping on the school bus at 7:00am in the morning. That meant they started milking at 4:00am every morning. But that is a very different life experience then our gE posters ITT.
No idea on how it was clogged/broken etc. The windmill that feeds the stock tank in our pasture works the same way you described, sometimes my gpa or uncle would put goldfish in the stock tanks. :D
Post by: sys on April 06, 2020, 10:30:04 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 06, 2020, 11:57:24 PM
Post by: sys on April 07, 2020, 12:05:53 AM
Post by: nicname on April 07, 2020, 01:47:58 AM
Anyway, this is what REAL farming looks like-->extremely dorky
[youtube]https://youtu.be/48H7zOQrX3U[/youtube]
Those are some classic kansas cut sleeveless tees those dudes are wearing. SD what was your ratio of sleeveless/sleeved tees you rocked as a young SWKS cattle baron?
Also, I've now completed my quest to read all 100+ pages of this thread in the last two days.
Post by: steve dave on April 07, 2020, 06:27:18 AM
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 07, 2020, 08:30:47 AM
Let’s talk aerial farm photos. Anyone who knows anything about farming knows farm types love (loved?) aerial photos of the family homestead. Farm guys, is this still the case? This is your chance to share your best aerial photo.
I was pretty pumped when i pulled the homestead up on Terraserver back in the day. A print out was kept for a LONG time.
Post by: meow meow on April 07, 2020, 08:48:59 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 07, 2020, 08:57:49 AM
my folks had an aerial photo done a couple years ago. in their shed, they have aerial photos of the house my mom grew up in, house my dad grew up in, their farm when they bought it back in the 70's, another one after they built an implement shed and bins, cattle pens, and crap, and maybe one or two more throughout the years. they are neat, and city type people that see them find them interesting also, they are always like..."YOU GUYS OWN HOW MUCH LAND?!?!?". blows their minds, can't fathom someone owning more than 1 acre of land.
Related topic - Nor Cal grape/wine farmers.
My buddy lived in Napa for a couple of years and loved to make fun of the grape "farmers". They would drive around in their pickup trucks and loved to talk about their 10 acre farm/vineyard and pretend they were farmers.
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Post by: steve dave on April 07, 2020, 09:01:24 AM
Yes, big timeWe owned a Beechcraft Bonanza during most of my childhood and both parents had their pilots license (and grandfather, and brother) so we did TF out of aerial shots of farm things. I bought my dad a DJI Mavic drone for aerial shots and checking cattle and sprinklers and crap too this last Christmas.
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Post by: nicname on April 07, 2020, 09:02:47 AM
Also emergency landed on about a billion gravel or paved rural roads. We have a big flat stretch on our cow ranch that was his HIGHLY ILLEGAL runway.
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i appreciate sddad disregard for laws. in my experience farm dudes pick and choose which laws they feel need to be followed pretty liberally
Post by: nicname on April 07, 2020, 09:06:15 AM
ranch dad was a complete badass who wore cutoff dress/farm shirts, had a sick moustasche and smoke unfiltered pall malls.
Post by: ben ji on April 07, 2020, 09:08:10 AM
I did take this aerial picture on the way to vegas last fall. Windbreak/buildings are in top right corner of our section which goes back just past the "creek". My aunt owns the 1/2 section that is adjacent with the green circle.
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Post by: ben ji on April 07, 2020, 09:14:38 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 07, 2020, 09:17:07 AM
He never finished the flight training so that dream has been on hold for about 25 years.
Post by: ben ji on April 07, 2020, 09:22:07 AM
I was out on the farm for some reason and My grandpa was getting his field sprayed by a plane and it spooked the Emu's. The neighbor called up my grandpa all pissed off yelling about how 2 of his Emu's broke their leg and to stop the spraying. My GPA laughed at him and told him if he was a real farmer he wouldn't have Emu's to worry about.
Post by: nicname on April 07, 2020, 09:24:56 AM
We have an aerial photo of the farm from the 90's that is framed in a clock piece where the clock hands are part of a windmill. (Its at the house in KC so no picture)
I did take this aerial picture on the way to vegas last fall. Windbreak/buildings are in top right corner of our section which goes back just past the "creek". My aunt owns the 1/2 section that is adjacent with the green circle.
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Many of the photos itt prompted my aerial photo inquiry
Post by: nicname on April 07, 2020, 09:28:11 AM
Another farm/plane story. One of the neighbors used to have a herd of Emu's when I was a kid.
I was out on the farm for some reason and My grandpa was getting his field sprayed by a plane and it spooked the Emu's. The neighbor called up my grandpa all pissed off yelling about how 2 of his Emu's broke their leg and to stop the spraying. My GPA laughed at him and told him if he was a real farmer he wouldn't have Emu's to worry about.
:lol:
Totally justified imo. I bet ben ji gpa and all the other old farmers talked mad crap on emu farmer at the donut shop, co-op, etc.
Post by: michigancat on April 07, 2020, 09:47:52 AM
We owned a Beechcraft Bonanza during most of my childhood and both parents had their pilots license (and grandfather, and brother) so we did TF out of aerial shots of farm things. I bought my dad a DJI Mavic drone for aerial shots and checking cattle and sprinklers and crap too this last Christmas.
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it used to be easy as crap to get rich af farming. I always remember my dad talking about how his dad could take one of those little ass old dump truck wheat trucks to the elevator and sell the wheat on it and buy a brand new pickup truck
Post by: ben ji on April 07, 2020, 11:29:39 AM
We originally thought they were only improving the road for the construction phase but looks like its going to be permanent.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 07, 2020, 05:29:25 PM
If coronavirus don't get me then my system can tolerate RoundUp Read sweet corn this year.
Drop it in the bottom of the planter boxes before cous tops with field corn, start along the fence, and July 4th we'll have sweet corn for the first 100 ft.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 07, 2020, 05:30:48 PM
Was your GPAs neighbors name Doug?Another farm/plane story. One of the neighbors used to have a herd of Emu's when I was a kid.
I was out on the farm for some reason and My grandpa was getting his field sprayed by a plane and it spooked the Emu's. The neighbor called up my grandpa all pissed off yelling about how 2 of his Emu's broke their leg and to stop the spraying. My GPA laughed at him and told him if he was a real farmer he wouldn't have Emu's to worry about.
Totally justified imo. I bet ben ji gpa and all the other old farmers talked mad crap on emu farmer at the donut shop, co-op, etc.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 07, 2020, 05:33:27 PM
fwiw non-farm kid from rural town nicname was fascinated by the aerial farm photos and basically farm family had aerial photos of their farms that i thought were awesome. prob not as cool anymore cuz everyone has drones and whateverAt least in my community second to the aerial photo was putting your name or brand on your upright silo.
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Post by: steve dave on April 07, 2020, 05:57:49 PM
Brand on pickup truck front license plate holder spotfwiw non-farm kid from rural town nicname was fascinated by the aerial farm photos and basically farm family had aerial photos of their farms that i thought were awesome. prob not as cool anymore cuz everyone has drones and whateverAt least in my community second to the aerial photo was putting your name or brand on your upright silo.
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Post by: ben ji on April 07, 2020, 09:18:35 PM
Also I just noticed today that the chimney of our farmhouse has the first letter of our last name up at the top of it.
Post by: michigancat on April 07, 2020, 09:23:14 PM
Also I just noticed today that the chimney of our farmhouse has the first letter of our last name up at the top of it.
Oh! How many farmhouses with aerial photos of the place also had a screen door with the last initial formed out of metal?
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Post by: ben ji on April 07, 2020, 09:32:47 PM
Also I just noticed today that the chimney of our farmhouse has the first letter of our last name up at the top of it.
Oh! How many farmhouses with aerial photos of the place also had a screen door with the last initial formed out of metal?
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Did you take the metal design from the farm house and put it on your current house? Because the reflection in the glass does not look very farmy.
(Cool design tho)
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 08, 2020, 07:17:54 AM
If you are interested Kansas has a record of all brands registered with the state and you can look up old timey brands from your ancestors. I randomly found a link to the "brand book" from the 80's a couple of months ago but don't have it on hand.I ordered ours from the state a few years ago. They sent the original. On the back was each renewal date.
Also I just noticed today that the chimney of our farmhouse has the first letter of our last name up at the top of it.
Somewhere along the way the iron got lost. I wish I still had that.
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Post by: steve dave on April 08, 2020, 07:58:07 AM
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 08, 2020, 08:44:35 AM
That's some good info with the lazy thing, ty sdI think ours is "N quarter circle"
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Post by: chum1 on April 08, 2020, 08:54:47 AM
Post by: pissclams on April 08, 2020, 10:32:25 AM
Anyone ever hear any dust bowl stories?
tell us the really dirty ones :Jeffy:
Post by: ben ji on April 08, 2020, 10:33:04 AM
Anyone ever hear any dust bowl stories?
No fun old timey dust bowl stories, just grapes of wrath type stuff. My grandma's mom died when she was a small child, her dad took her older brother and moved out to CA/NV for work and she was raised by her Aunt and Uncle.
My grandpa participated in a couple of jack rabbit roundups and carried a shoot on sight grudge against them for the rest of his life.
Post by: Katpappy on April 08, 2020, 10:35:46 AM
Anyone ever hear any dust bowl stories?
My folks got married in 1933, so yea, mom had a lot of stories. Mainly amounted to dust on everything and it was hard to breathe at night, so she covered my older brothers with bread sacks over their heads like a large dust mask. also covered windows with the same thing during dust storms.
Post by: Katpappy on April 08, 2020, 10:45:49 AM
Anyone ever hear any dust bowl stories?
No fun old timey dust bowl stories, just grapes of wrath type stuff. My grandma's mom died when she was a small child, her dad took her older brother and moved out to CA/NV for work and she was raised by her Aunt and Uncle.
My grandpa participated in a couple of jack rabbit roundups and carried a shoot on sight grudge against them for the rest of his life.
Yes, I was told by quite a few old timers about the jack rabbit roundups. Seems they got as many locals as possible to cover a mile dia. circle and all would walk in together while pounding the ground with large sticks to scare the rabbits to run into a small circle and then would club them to death. Also, they would have a rabbit fry afterwards. Usually no shooting involved, just clubbing as bullets would be to dangerous.
Post by: chum1 on April 08, 2020, 11:38:20 AM
Post by: Katpappy on April 08, 2020, 12:10:13 PM
Wow! I've read about the jack rabbit massacres!
I was told they were like swarm of locus. They ate every in sight!
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Post by: ben ji on April 08, 2020, 09:11:15 PM
I don’t know if everyone is aware ITT but jackrabbits are rough ridin' giant.
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Yes they are much larger than typical rabbits. Also did you know jack rabbits are not rabbits but "hares"? I recently learned that on wikipedia.
Also Milo found a cottontail rabbit den today and turned them all into squeaky toys. She brought a couple baby's back up to the house and I threw them into the barn for the cats.
Post by: Katpappy on April 09, 2020, 10:49:50 AM
I don’t know if everyone is aware ITT but jackrabbits are rough ridin' giant.
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Back in my younger years, we used to hunt rabbits. When we got a Jack we would give it to the dogs, cause they taste like crap. Cottontails are much better tasting, but can only hunt during cold weather. This is due to some disease they can carry in warm weather, but kills them in cold weather.
Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2020, 12:04:35 PM
I don’t know if everyone is aware ITT but jackrabbits are rough ridin' giant.
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Back in my younger years, we used to hunt rabbits. When we got a Jack we would give it to the dogs, cause they taste like crap. Cottontails are much better tasting, but can only hunt during cold weather. This is due to some disease they can carry in warm weather, but kills them in cold weather.
The disease is Tularemia/Rabbit Fever.
Post by: nicname on April 09, 2020, 12:19:20 PM
I don’t know if everyone is aware ITT but jackrabbits are rough ridin' giant.
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Back in my younger years, we used to hunt rabbits. When we got a Jack we would give it to the dogs, cause they taste like crap. Cottontails are much better tasting, but can only hunt during cold weather. This is due to some disease they can carry in warm weather, but kills them in cold weather.
The disease is Tularemia/Rabbit Fever.
Wild searching for carnivorous rodents after reading about jackrabbits, I ran across these lil killers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9mO5QzOIQ
Grasshopper mouse range is said to include western Kansas! Any cow, goat or plant farmers here ever came across these things?
Post by: michigancat on April 09, 2020, 02:08:30 PM
Post by: sys on April 09, 2020, 02:33:39 PM
cute things, but nasty. their crap is soft and smears all over, instead of the hard dry crap most rodents pop out.
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Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2020, 04:35:40 PM
So if you love capturing mice and rats and voles (?) and other ones I can help out there
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I'm bored AF out here so I've been reading the wikipedia pages for all the animals I see and it turn out all the "mice" that were living in the dead logs we cut up were actually voles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_vole
My brother hadn't moved his car in 5 days and when he did one jumped out of his wheel well area and just sat there staring at us. Would try and hide in the buffalo grass but this was in the mowed portion of the yard so it did not work very well. They are not smart creatures.
Dam cats need to start earning their keep.
Post by: WonderMeal on April 09, 2020, 08:12:46 PM
If you are interested Kansas has a record of all brands registered with the state and you can look up old timey brands from your ancestors. I randomly found a link to the "brand book" from the 80's a couple of months ago but don't have it on hand.I ordered ours from the state a few years ago. They sent the original. On the back was each renewal date.
Also I just noticed today that the chimney of our farmhouse has the first letter of our last name up at the top of it.
Somewhere along the way the iron got lost. I wish I still had that.
Tom
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Well this was a neat little thing to find. Used the 1941 brand book to find both of my great granddads' brands. Ol' Great Granddad WonderMeal had the coolest brand in Meade Co.
Tom and other beef magnates--is there any benefit to branding a cow in one part of the body vs. another? I'm guessing you always put the brand in the same place so that the N-quarter-circle in Spearville isn't confused with the N-quarter-circle in Medicine Lodge, but like...is it better or easier to brand a cow on the shoulder vs. the ribs?
Post by: KST8FAN on April 09, 2020, 08:27:42 PM
Once they're in the chute branding location not an issue. We had a packer buyer tell us once our brand on the ribs pretty much ruined that half of the hide. Being a cow for a minute I would prefer a shoulder or butt brand over getting slapped on the ribs with a hot iron.If you are interested Kansas has a record of all brands registered with the state and you can look up old timey brands from your ancestors. I randomly found a link to the "brand book" from the 80's a couple of months ago but don't have it on hand.I ordered ours from the state a few years ago. They sent the original. On the back was each renewal date.
Also I just noticed today that the chimney of our farmhouse has the first letter of our last name up at the top of it.
Somewhere along the way the iron got lost. I wish I still had that.
Tom
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Well this was a neat little thing to find. Used the 1941 brand book to find both of my great granddads' brands. Ol' Great Granddad WonderMeal had the coolest brand in Meade Co.
Tom and other beef magnates--is there any benefit to branding a cow in one part of the body vs. another? I'm guessing you always put the brand in the same place so that the N-quarter-circle in Spearville isn't confused with the N-quarter-circle in Medicine Lodge, but like...is it better or easier to brand a cow on the shoulder vs. the ribs?
Tom
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Post by: Katpappy on April 09, 2020, 09:59:59 PM
So if you love capturing mice and rats and voles (?) and other ones I can help out there
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I'm bored AF out here so I've been reading the wikipedia pages for all the animals I see and it turn out all the "mice" that were living in the dead logs we cut up were actually voles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_vole
My brother hadn't moved his car in 5 days and when he did one jumped out of his wheel well area and just sat there staring at us. Would try and hide in the buffalo grass but this was in the mowed portion of the yard so it did not work very well. They are not smart creatures.
Dam cats need to start earning their keep.
Not as long as you feed them. Cats don't hunt unless they're hungry.
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Post by: ben ji on April 10, 2020, 02:43:59 PM
The Welder in the garage is old as crap but still works, just gotta watch out for the frayed cables!
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Post by: steve dave on April 10, 2020, 02:59:15 PM
Making progress!lmao, post pics of the bead for some poster intimidation bead shaming
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Post by: ben ji on April 10, 2020, 03:15:58 PM
The weld worked tho and the cart is now operational again.
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Post by: ben ji on April 10, 2020, 03:21:28 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 10, 2020, 03:23:09 PM
Ugly welding is pud af. Pretty welding is a work of art
We are just hoping for operational welding
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 10, 2020, 03:23:59 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 10, 2020, 03:25:52 PM
Are those welder connections as rusty as they look? :sdeek:
Are you talking about the connections from the cables coming out of the welder? Because yeah, that is exposed wire.
Post by: Katpappy on April 10, 2020, 03:47:55 PM
Watching her stalk one was like National Geographic lion hunt footage. Just tiny little movements of one paw and stop motionless. She’d work her way up there for like 10 minutes and then go jump on it by the neck and roll it over. Was pretty cool irl.
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Reminds me of when I first moved to Topeka, We had a large black cat that loved to catch birds. He would very slowly walk in a crouched position toward a bird. As he got about two ft. from the bird he would stop and check the position of the bird for take off. He would jump quite high in the same direction the bird took off and catch it in his out stretched paws and claws. It was pure alethic skill and talent. I loved to watch that cat. He had the respect of all the cats and most of the dogs in the neighborhood. He didn't eat much cat food though.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 10, 2020, 09:17:04 PM
Meanwhile i damn near lit myself on fire with the cutting torch today. Rotten gas hose had pin holes where it cracked. I am blowing nuts off rusted bolts only to feel my butt getting warm. Hose behind me was on fire which in turn lit the grass on fire. Luckily I got it shut down.
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Post by: ben ji on April 13, 2020, 04:27:54 PM
You guys are really ruffing it. I'm surprised you guys been staying out there with no juice. Do you have natural gas or propane for heat? Wood stove?
We have a generator to run when power goes out, power came back on like 2 hours later so no big deal. Propane for heat with a fireplace that has 2 vents built into the mantle area that pulls in cold air from the ground and spits out warm air by the mantle.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on April 13, 2020, 04:45:00 PM
Watching her stalk one was like National Geographic lion hunt footage. Just tiny little movements of one paw and stop motionless. She’d work her way up there for like 10 minutes and then go jump on it by the neck and roll it over. Was pretty cool irl.
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Reminds me of when I first moved to Topeka, We had a large black cat that loved to catch birds. He would very slowly walk in a crouched position toward a bird. As he got about two ft. from the bird he would stop and check the position of the bird for take off. He would jump quite high in the same direction the bird took off and catch it in his out stretched paws and claws. It was pure alethic skill and talent. I loved to watch that cat. He had the respect of all the cats and most of the dogs in the neighborhood. He didn't eat much cat food though.
There is no way there wasn't at least 1 cat who didn't respect that bitch
Post by: Katpappy on April 13, 2020, 10:00:06 PM
Watching her stalk one was like National Geographic lion hunt footage. Just tiny little movements of one paw and stop motionless. She’d work her way up there for like 10 minutes and then go jump on it by the neck and roll it over. Was pretty cool irl.
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Reminds me of when I first moved to Topeka, We had a large black cat that loved to catch birds. He would very slowly walk in a crouched position toward a bird. As he got about two ft. from the bird he would stop and check the position of the bird for take off. He would jump quite high in the same direction the bird took off and catch it in his out stretched paws and claws. It was pure alethic skill and talent. I loved to watch that cat. He had the respect of all the cats and most of the dogs in the neighborhood. He didn't eat much cat food though.
There is no way there wasn't at least 1 cat who didn't respect that bitch
He killed two stud cats that didn't give him the respect he deserved. Also would fight as in attack any dog that would be in the yard. He loved ppl thou.
Post by: ben ji on April 14, 2020, 09:38:33 AM
Live action shot, this might actually work!
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We got a new Welding rod over the weekend and got this sucker welded correctly. We decided to take it on a test run out in the pasture and it was doing fine until we got as far away from the house as possible then slowly started losing power. Eventually we could only go like 1mph and it took like 45 minutes to get it back up to the garage.
On the positive side its better we figured this out now while we have nothing better to do than fix.
Post by: ben ji on April 14, 2020, 10:07:48 AM
When she is done with them I throw the bodies in the barn for the cats. Her kill count is approaching double digits.
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 14, 2020, 10:19:26 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 14, 2020, 10:17:46 PM
Here is what I know about it besides it saying INTERNATIONAL 300 on the side.
1. It still runs but only my cousin knows the correct formula of knob pulling and tractor stuff to get it running.
2. It is used for small plantings of sweet corn and mowing.
3. My dad thinks he will be able to start it and keeps talking about projects he can use it for.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 15, 2020, 03:52:20 PM
High tractor IQ people (tom), tell me about this tractor.https://www.auctiontime.com/listings/farm-equipment/auction-results/list/category/1110/tractors-40-hp-to-99-hp/manufacturer/international/model/300
Here is what I know about it besides it saying INTERNATIONAL 300 on the side.
1. It still runs but only my cousin knows the correct formula of knob pulling and tractor stuff to get it running.
2. It is used for small plantings of sweet corn and mowing.
3. My dad thinks he will be able to start it and keeps talking about projects he can use it for.
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Whats your dads to do list? I would like it better with a bucket on it. 40 hp good for mowing if that's the plan. Put a brush hog behind and use it for golf course maintenance.
Utility or orchard configuration with the muffler down underneath so you can work under trees. The JD version the foot pan got hot AF because the muffler was right under it.
If you're going to be getting on and off just know stepping over the shifter and transmission between your legs gets old over the course of the day. If you're going to sit on it and mow or pull the lil express hay ride trailer then good to go.
Make sure the middle link is atrached to the 3 pt on the back, hydraulics work, and the pto works... on and off.
Ask your cousin how much tread is left on the tires, and how many hours are on it. If says anything over 50 pct and under 1,000 might be worth $1,000. If he looks at you like he has no clue what you're talking about offer him $500 and he has to get it to your place.
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on April 16, 2020, 10:52:09 AM
High tractor IQ people (tom), tell me about this tractor.https://www.auctiontime.com/listings/farm-equipment/auction-results/list/category/1110/tractors-40-hp-to-99-hp/manufacturer/international/model/300
Here is what I know about it besides it saying INTERNATIONAL 300 on the side.
1. It still runs but only my cousin knows the correct formula of knob pulling and tractor stuff to get it running.
2. It is used for small plantings of sweet corn and mowing.
3. My dad thinks he will be able to start it and keeps talking about projects he can use it for.
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Whats your dads to do list? I would like it better with a bucket on it. 40 hp good for mowing if that's the plan. Put a brush hog behind and use it for golf course maintenance.
Utility or orchard configuration with the muffler down underneath so you can work under trees. The JD version the foot pan got hot AF because the muffler was right under it.
If you're going to be getting on and off just know stepping over the shifter and transmission between your legs gets old over the course of the day. If you're going to sit on it and mow or pull the lil express hay ride trailer then good to go.
Make sure the middle link is atrached to the 3 pt on the back, hydraulics work, and the pto works... on and off.
Ask your cousin how much tread is left on the tires, and how many hours are on it. If says anything over 50 pct and under 1,000 might be worth $1,000. If he looks at you like he has no clue what you're talking about offer him $500 and he has to get it to your place.
Tom
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Tom,
Your tractor knowledge never ceases to amaze me. There is a shifter right between the legs that looks like it could ring a couple of bells if you aren't careful.
I believe that we technically own the tractor as it was my GPA's and on the part of the farm we inherited so no need to purchase it, my dad just needs to figure out how to start it. I think he wants to use it to mow/disc up some old pens that are overgrown with weeds then plant actual grass back in there so nothing too crazy.
Picture of the bell ringing shifter below.
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Post by: ben ji on April 16, 2020, 10:55:52 AM
how many mice do you estimate are living in it at any one time? over a billion?
Dunno about mice but that area with old equipment/hay bales is Jack Rabbit City USA with a population of like 6.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 16, 2020, 11:30:08 AM
https://www.tractorpartsasap.com/parts-categories/tractor-parts/international-tractor-parts/300.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwhOD0BRAQEiwAK7JHmGZ7GREKDN6uK2O8h6GduaZqqM_wlo7yxAmw0zSzzL8d0muLGHYgGhoCCyUQAvD_BwE
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Post by: ben ji on April 17, 2020, 09:44:20 AM
KS now gets more energy from Wind than Coal.
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Post by: slackcat on April 17, 2020, 10:36:09 PM
Coal is the most expensive energy source now. It’s nuts that we’re propping it up for some reason.
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This is true to my knowledge.
Post by: slackcat on April 17, 2020, 10:41:56 PM
Silage chopper
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Used to milk 150 cows and put up a shitload of corn silage every year, custom cutters from Moundridge would come in and knock it out in a few days. I shuttled silage wagons as a kid when my dad and uncle milked/farmed in partnership. Had a three row Gehl chopper and took two weeks with good weather. Pulled with an IH 504 gas tractor up the hills and wagons pushed going down hill.
Your family still in the milk game? Heard its not good for milk farmers out there.
Like I said, "used to milk" 150 cows. I admire dairymen because it is such a thankless job and the general population doesn't know what it takes to produce that milk product. It is hard and never ending work but at the same time can be rewarding.
Post by: michigancat on April 17, 2020, 10:55:33 PM
I think I highlighted how much it sucks crap. Gotta be the worst kind of farmingSilage chopper
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Used to milk 150 cows and put up a shitload of corn silage every year, custom cutters from Moundridge would come in and knock it out in a few days. I shuttled silage wagons as a kid when my dad and uncle milked/farmed in partnership. Had a three row Gehl chopper and took two weeks with good weather. Pulled with an IH 504 gas tractor up the hills and wagons pushed going down hill.
Your family still in the milk game? Heard its not good for milk farmers out there.
Like I said, "used to milk" 150 cows. I admire dairymen because it is such a thankless job and the general population doesn't know what it takes to produce that milk product. It is hard and never ending work but at the same time can be rewarding.
Post by: steve dave on April 18, 2020, 06:35:57 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 18, 2020, 12:16:16 PM
I mean there are feed lots but thats just finishing school.
Is it because cows are to large to keep penned up in close quarters? Cheaper to let them roam around and eat grass?
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Post by: Spracne on April 18, 2020, 01:25:48 PM
Yeah, they suck crap at taking care of themselves and not dying 24/7/365 but less so than other domesticated animals so you can leave them alone for like a few days and maybe they won’t die if there’s grass and water.
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What do you do with all the cow corpses?
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Post by: Katpappy on April 18, 2020, 05:00:51 PM
Dead cow truck picks them up. We generally have at least one laying at the dead cow spot and sometimes like a pile of them. The real morbid stuff is when one is almost mostly dead but not all the way dead and you pick it up with a loader and dump it on the pile anyway. The dead cow truck uses the corpses for something.
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They make pet food out of it. We had a rendering plant just outside the town that I attended high school.
Post by: ben ji on April 18, 2020, 08:15:59 PM
Feedlot cattle feeding is analogous to man prison. Same sex animals in confined space. Eventually some of the steers become everyone else's bitch. You have to isolate them to avoid getting rode to death.Tom, come in here and tell everyone how rough ridin' incredible it is that my slack ass who hated cow farming my entire life retained all this critical cow farm knowledge, WOW!I am just sitting back and enjoying SD. Not so fond memories of the "buller pen" for the steers that had been gang rode in the main pen. Extra work getting them their own hay and silage.
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wait what???
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So this afternoon I noticed a cow by the water tank that was barely standing, then later it was down and couldn't stand up. I texted my uncle to let him know and he said "Yup I walker her in, we'll put her in the corral tomorrow. Bulls were a little hard on her!"
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Good news guyz, I saw ole 8341 out in the pasture the other day so she survived and did not end up in SD's dead cow pile.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 19, 2020, 08:18:20 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 19, 2020, 08:33:57 PM
TomDad, being resourceful, did not see the need for some cute little red hay hook with a wood handle from the local coop. Not when you have reebar and pipe in the scrap pile.
Sharpen that reebar to a fine point that could pierce skin and chip bone then fashion a spot welded T handle to the other end and I was in business.
It was the envy of the hay crew.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 19, 2020, 08:55:36 PM
I just grabbed them by the wire and threw them around like a savageNever had the opp to throw wire bales. All of ours were twine. Weren't wire bales dense AF? Like 75 lbs?
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 19, 2020, 08:57:46 PM
It would take me several years to replace that door Tim. Nice job.Kudos to Mrs 8 with the assist.
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Post by: michigancat on April 19, 2020, 09:32:53 PM
We didn't have this exact one but I think it gives you the idea.
https://youtu.be/9ykGIgwH8_0
https://www.texasfarmequipment.com/Hay_Straw_Bale_Accumulator_p/tractorbaleaccumulator.htm
Post by: steve dave on April 20, 2020, 07:06:41 AM
Yes, heavy as crap. Worst part was the wire digging into your hands.I just grabbed them by the wire and threw them around like a savageNever had the opp to throw wire bales. All of ours were twine. Weren't wire bales dense AF? Like 75 lbs?
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on April 20, 2020, 08:00:54 AM
Yes, heavy as crap. Worst part was the wire digging into your hands.I just grabbed them by the wire and threw them around like a savageNever had the opp to throw wire bales. All of ours were twine. Weren't wire bales dense AF? Like 75 lbs?
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Not to mention the occasional rattle snake that ended up as part of the bale.
Post by: star seed 7 on April 20, 2020, 08:29:14 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 20, 2020, 09:12:24 AM
I'm basically a black belt in using one of these things now
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Post by: ben ji on April 20, 2020, 09:20:44 AM
Here is the Orchard area after I cleaned it up a bit (previously the old barn was not visible under dead limbs etc)
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 20, 2020, 12:18:28 PM
I want to see this in the daylight. Might be a hit and miss motor.
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Post by: ben ji on April 20, 2020, 01:03:15 PM
Benji once you get that IH 300 on the homestead pull those grain drills out of the barn.
I want to see this in the daylight. Might be a hit and miss motor.
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Tom just Knocked this one out of the park, an old Fairbanks Morse Hit N Miss motor was back there. We have to cut up 2 dead tree's to move anything out of there so it will be a while.
Are these collector items worth money or just junk?
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Post by: Katpappy on April 20, 2020, 02:16:32 PM
Do they live through the baling process?
Seven, some do and some don't. The baler squeezes the eff out of them. Reminds me of one summer back in HS when a couple of buddies and I would load bales from the field for farmers. One would be on the bale wagon, while the other two would pick up and throw them on the wagon. Every once in a while there would be a snake tied in the bale. If we were nice we would just yell "SNAKE" before the bale was tossed. Most of the snakes were harmless, but the occasional live Bull snake would hiss and bite anything that got near it. We had a guy who was scared shitless of snakes. For laughs and kicks, we would toss a bale on the wagon and wait to yell "snake" as he picked up the bale. It made the day go by in a fun way, cause most of the time he would scream and jump off the wagon and call us every name under the sun. :ROFL:
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Post by: Katpappy on April 20, 2020, 02:46:30 PM
That sounds traumatic kp :frown:
If there was a ratter on a bale we didn't eff around. Usually would chop the snake's head off, that way it couldn't bite anyone. I almost forgot to mention, since there weren't very many snakes we would take fireweed stick and put it under the string of a bale. They are crooked and about the same size of typical snake, so worked great as a snake substitute. It works great at scaring the crap out of anyone grabbing a bale as we yelled "SNAKE". :lol:
Post by: KST8FAN on April 20, 2020, 04:43:42 PM
https://www.ebay.com/itm/264372841196Benji once you get that IH 300 on the homestead pull those grain drills out of the barn.
I want to see this in the daylight. Might be a hit and miss motor.
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Tom just Knocked this one out of the park, an old Fairbanks Morse Hit N Miss motor was back there. We have to cut up 2 dead tree's to move anything out of there so it will be a while.
Are these collector items worth money or just junk?
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Does it have a name plate with model no?
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Post by: ben ji on April 20, 2020, 05:44:02 PM
Do people actual use these things for work or are they just collector's pieces?
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 20, 2020, 07:44:24 PM
No model# but I googled the HP/RPM combo and someone is selling a running one for $1500.https://youtu.be/19tL7w4c8GQ
Do people actual use these things for work or are they just collector's pieces?
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They make a heck of a ice cream freezer.
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Post by: slackcat on April 21, 2020, 08:05:33 AM
I have a 3hp Witte hit-n-miss.
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DO NOT throw it away!
Post by: star seed 7 on April 21, 2020, 08:30:24 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 21, 2020, 08:33:28 AM
What is special about these?
Dunno but I'm going to go into a 100+ year old barn that is falling down to dig this sucker out.
The cats are going to be eating filet mignon if we can find a buyer.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 21, 2020, 07:28:31 PM
Hit n Miss collector
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Post by: slackcat on April 21, 2020, 09:57:06 PM
Found this one in a different barn under some saddles.
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you have the one pictured?
Post by: ben ji on April 21, 2020, 10:29:22 PM
Found this one in a different barn under some saddles.
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you have the one pictured?
Correct, just found it today under some saddles and other junk.
Post by: slackcat on April 22, 2020, 06:43:13 AM
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Post by: Spracne on April 22, 2020, 11:38:50 AM
Found this one in a different barn under some saddles.
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you have the one pictured?
Correct, just found it today under some saddles and other junk.
Can a high farming IQ person explain to me the purpose for the hit-n-miss motor functioning the way it does, all wonky and such? What's up with that?
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2020, 12:26:09 PM
Found this one in a different barn under some saddles.
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you have the one pictured?
Correct, just found it today under some saddles and other junk.
Can a high farming IQ person explain to me the purpose for the hit-n-miss motor functioning the way it does, all wonky and such? What's up with that?
I have low farming IQ but have been reading up on them since I started finding them on the farm. Its an old timey engine and the wonky wheels would power a pulley or rod that you can connect to various implements. Water pumps/feed grinders/washing machines etc.
They were basically the generators of the 1920's.
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2020, 12:31:07 PM
Its in another barn that is collapsing so unless its worth money it will stay there until the thing falls over.
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Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2020, 05:42:44 PM
Found this engine looking thing today, is it worth saving or junk?Moved some junk around to get a closer view and its a briggs & stratton model ZZ from the 1940's
Its in another barn that is collapsing so unless its worth money it will stay there until the thing falls over.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 22, 2020, 05:53:31 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2020, 05:58:59 PM
Is that a grocery cart handle in the pic? I want to see you being pulled by that IH300 at top speed benji in that cart. Where a helmet.Lol, the grocery cart was an item of junk I had to move to get a closer look.
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Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2020, 06:00:53 PM
Did you find a nameplate on the JD hit n miss? Then the bidding can start.I just started 18 but will look later, gonna have to scrape off decades of mouse poop.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 22, 2020, 06:01:45 PM
Hit-n-miss engines have a strong following. P'burg KS has an active club and a large show/swap meet in the fall. Neat as hell to watch and hear them run.Slack did you repaint? Nice engine.
I have a 3hp Witte hit-n-miss.
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DO NOT throw it away!
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Post by: slackcat on April 22, 2020, 07:11:29 PM
ben ji, get that deere running!
Post by: slackcat on April 22, 2020, 07:12:08 PM
Found this engine looking thing today, is it worth saving or junk?Moved some junk around to get a closer view and its a briggs & stratton model ZZ from the 1940's
Its in another barn that is collapsing so unless its worth money it will stay there until the thing falls over.
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cool
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Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2020, 09:30:44 PM
I appreciate how benji sneaks up on the motors and gets fuzzy picks from a distance to post on here only to plan out getting a better look later like we’re on the rough ridin' kalahari stalking silverback mountain elephants.
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I "sneak up" because I'm not about to move a bunch of junk (shopping cart, wtf?) in a collapsing 100+ year old wooden barn unless its worth it.
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2020, 09:32:26 PM
Here is all the mouse poop/dirt i had to scrape offDid you find a nameplate on the JD hit n miss? Then the bidding can start.I just started 18 but will look later, gonna have to scrape off decades of mouse poop.
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Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2020, 09:33:53 PM
Best I could do with a bottle of water/screwdriver/paper towel in 5 minutes.Here is all the mouse poop/dirt i had to scrape offDid you find a nameplate on the JD hit n miss? Then the bidding can start.I just started 18 but will look later, gonna have to scrape off decades of mouse poop.
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Looks like serial #325658
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 24, 2020, 09:54:29 AM
Holy crap the motherload of farm aerial photos. My weekend just got booked.
The homestead circa 1976. So much going on in that photo... tractors, wagons, trucks. The old farmhouse came down in 79. I could bore the hell put of you with stories from this one photo.
Looking forward to you all posting your finds on this site.
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 24, 2020, 10:41:22 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 24, 2020, 11:47:43 AM
https://vintageaerial.com/
Holy crap the motherload of farm aerial photos. My weekend just got booked.
The homestead circa 1976. So much going on in that photo... tractors, wagons, trucks. The old farmhouse came down in 79. I could bore the hell put of you with stories from this one photo.
Looking forward to you all posting your finds on this site.
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Nothing for Western KS on that site :(
Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 24, 2020, 03:17:39 PM
Post by: bucket on April 24, 2020, 03:53:29 PM
https://vintageaerial.com/
Holy crap the motherload of farm aerial photos. My weekend just got booked.
The homestead circa 1976. So much going on in that photo... tractors, wagons, trucks. The old farmhouse came down in 79. I could bore the hell put of you with stories from this one photo.
Looking forward to you all posting your finds on this site.
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Beautiful farm house. Shame it had to come down.
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Post by: bucket on April 24, 2020, 04:13:42 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 25, 2020, 08:16:24 PM
We got beef and pork out the ass. Just need man power without covid to process it.
You IT gurus tell me why we cant build a robot to break down a carcass? Boning a specific cut maybe more of a challenge, but i got to beleive we can build one to break the ham from the loin and picnic.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 25, 2020, 08:22:28 PM
Juggalo cow breeds? WTF is this?https://www.philipsanimalgarden.com/our-friends/animals/holstein-angus-cross/
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You near a dairy? Might be a Holstein- Angus cross... i have a friend in SD who is big dairy. They are trying this to make the calves more palatable for feeding and slaughter.
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Post by: steve dave on April 25, 2020, 08:40:24 PM
(https://www.steerplanet.com/bb/the-big-show/2011-blue-roan-heifer-calf/?action=dlattach;attach=89009)
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Post by: ben ji on April 25, 2020, 10:27:41 PM
I have learned a bunch from this thread.
Post by: ben ji on April 25, 2020, 10:32:20 PM
We chatted for a bit and my uncle told me I looked pretty "uptown" with my golf club in hand which I just assumed was city boy insult.
Post by: ben ji on April 25, 2020, 10:33:53 PM
Juggalo cow breeds? WTF is this?https://www.philipsanimalgarden.com/our-friends/animals/holstein-angus-cross/
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You near a dairy? Might be a Holstein- Angus cross... i have a friend in SD who is big dairy. They are trying this to make the calves more palatable for feeding and slaughter.
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No dairy in at least 30 miles or more. 99% of the cows are red angus but then I just noticed this monstrosity today.
Post by: sys on April 25, 2020, 10:41:09 PM
I'd guess it's a Charolais and Agnus or Limo cross. we get tons of muts that look like that. sd dad goes back and forth with his breed preferences. usually some hybrid though for the most part. we get some blue roans which are a cool looking cow.
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goddamn, that's a nice piece of cowflesh.
i pretty much assumed sdfather was one of these by the numbers freaks who wouldn't look at a cow if it wasn't black.
Post by: sys on April 25, 2020, 10:47:13 PM
Juggalo cow breeds? WTF is this?
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probably a black baldy crossed back on some solid colored cow - red angus if all the boy cows around are red angus.
Post by: star seed 7 on April 25, 2020, 10:50:50 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 25, 2020, 11:19:59 PM
Uptown is a great city boy insult
Agreed, perfect amount of old people/country saying.
Post by: BBF$$Kat on April 25, 2020, 11:23:07 PM
I am with Sys on this. Get some brockel faced calves when you take an angus bull back on black baldy cows. Can also get some on the first F1 cross of the angus on Hereford.Juggalo cow breeds? WTF is this?
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probably a black baldy crossed back on some solid colored cow - red angus if all the boy cows around are red angus.
Post by: HELLHAMMER on April 26, 2020, 08:10:36 AM
[youtube] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTZ5tqas1k [/youtube]Uptown is a great city boy insult
Agreed, perfect amount of old people/country saying.
Post by: Katpappy on April 26, 2020, 11:34:50 PM
Uptown is a great city boy insult
Agreed, perfect amount of old people/country saying.
Most likely this was not an insult. We used that vocabulary quite often when I was a kid. It can be an insult if you're doing ranch/farm work; same as someone came to your work place dressed as western farm/ranch worker. Your uncle was just saying you looked out of place for someone on a Colby farm, but he knows your not a farmer.
Post by: Katpappy on April 26, 2020, 11:40:55 PM
I am with Sys on this. Get some brockel faced calves when you take an angus bull back on black baldy cows. Can also get some on the first F1 cross of the angus on Hereford.Juggalo cow breeds? WTF is this?
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probably a black baldy crossed back on some solid colored cow - red angus if all the boy cows around are red angus.
That's was my dad's favorite mix. Black angus bulls on white faced Herefords. The big debate in the 70's was what mix resulted in the best tasting beef. My dad felt this was the ideal mix.
Post by: Katpappy on April 26, 2020, 11:43:30 PM
[youtube] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTZ5tqas1k [/youtube]Uptown is a great city boy insult
Agreed, perfect amount of old people/country saying.
Now that's a city boy insult!
Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 09:06:04 AM
Here she is coming to help water the greens yesterday.
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 09:31:44 AM
We do have tons of little ground squirrels that are adorable. A close second behind burrowing owls on the cuteness scale.
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 11:15:53 AM
Good news for KS wheat farmers?
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 11:59:43 AM
ben ji do you take terrible photos on purpose
Its the tapatalk upload that makes the quality look like crap. If there is a better way I'm all ears.
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 12:20:45 PM
Little Orange Mangy cat is probably my favorite out here. Its probably 1-2 years old but still tiny, loves to get pets and will actively seek them out.Testing to see if this uploads in better quality
Here she is coming to help water the greens yesterday.
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EDIT- They all came out looking like crap, maybe I can only upload 1 picture at a time for good quality?
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 01:05:09 PM
Lets try 2 at a time!
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I bought premium way back when it was like a one time $5 charge and am grandfathered in :gocho:
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 01:43:26 PM
Is that a different lil orange?
Yes, I believe they came as a pair from some city person who didn't want them so my cousin dropped them off at the cat ranch.
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I sent them an email and told them to put it back and they didI bought premium way back when it was like a one time $5 charge and am grandfathered in :gocho:
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 01:50:09 PM
Current plan we are working on is to knock down all the weeds into a giant pile, remove dead limbs/trees, mow up all the dead weeds then throw down some grass and wildflower seeds on the bare dirt.
Maybe it will work? Either way my arms are getting swole AF.
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Post by: sys on April 27, 2020, 04:31:04 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 04:35:15 PM
it looks really dry out cat ranch way.
Waiting on the spring rains. It rained enough in Mid March that there was standing water in ruts when I got here but nothing of significance since, just a couple of quick 5-10 min of light rain.
Luckily I can pump out some 1,000 year old Ogallala water to water a wildflower patch I planted in the windbreak.
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 04:42:23 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 05:00:47 PM
i hope the cats are getting enough milk to make it through the dehydrating weather.A quick check of the garage fridge leads me to believe they are good.
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 05:09:13 PM
Cats eat eggs? How do they like them prepared?
Typically scrambled with milk poured over the top in a big aluminum party tray.
Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 07:38:48 PM
We waved to each other so its all good.
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Post by: steve dave on April 27, 2020, 07:47:12 PM
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@steve dave Miller Lite screw tops are ideal for pounding while playing golf out here. No need to worry about excessive foaming during bumpy golf cart rides to the next tee box.Hell yeah
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 09:11:54 PM
is the house in decent shape? 20+ years of vacancy seems like a long timePeople lived there on/off over the last 20 years. Some of my uncles hired hands/my cousin/my dad for the last 4 years.
But yes, the house is in the same shape as when I was 10 years old chasing rabits with a .22 on a 3 wheeler.
Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 10:22:51 PM
When they were originally splitting up my grandparents estate my family was going to get 2 quarter sections of cropland a couple miles down the road.
My dad really wanted the parcel with the house on it that was mostly pasture even though it was worth less than the cropland. He wanted this parcel so we could stay connected to the land etc and my uncle was like "um okay".
Long story short he switched the 2 quarter sections of cropland for the homestead even though it was a bad financial decision and I'm glad as hell he did.
Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 10:28:53 PM
Here he is sprinkling his urine to keep the yotes away.
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 10:36:51 PM
He's raised three semi successful children and if he thinks that sprinkling his 64 year old urine around the homestead will keep the coyotes from eating his cats who the hell am I to stop him?
Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2020, 10:40:25 PM
Put down some gravel! Sheesh.Lol, i have a story about my brother and I's naive ideas about how to fill these ruts. Gonna have to wait until sunlight tomorrow to show our futility.
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Post by: michigancat on April 28, 2020, 09:01:39 AM
also why doesn't he live out there full time in normal times. Isn't he retired?
Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2020, 09:04:03 AM
ben ji, remind me again what you do for a living? are you working remotely out there at all or just heavy cat ranching/golfing/urine scattering 24/7?
I'm WFH out here, talking on phones and sending emails from 9-5 then cat ranching/golf/urine scattering after.
Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2020, 09:05:17 AM
benji I don't know if I'd call peeing in a jar and spreading it around is an important part of living ones best life.
also why doesn't he live out there full time in normal times. Isn't he retired?
My mother is not a farm person and wont let him live out there 24/7.
Post by: michigancat on April 28, 2020, 09:06:11 AM
https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Pee-100-Coyote-Urine/dp/B01AL5YYSM
So one of the questions is does this attract coyotes? And Maine Outdoor Solutions had an answer:
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Yes, IF coyotes are in the immediate area. In other words, the scent does not travel for miles and miles. Depending on the application, Wolf Pee often is a good substitute and has the added effect of keeping the coyotes away too!
you betcha, Wolf Pee is also for sale on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Pee-100-Wolf-Urine/dp/B01600EAPY?th=1
Now you could inform your dad of this and he'd probably do something like pretend he didn't hear you because I imagine he kind of likes the idea of spreading his urine around the cat ranch but maybe you want to know.
Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2020, 09:08:48 AM
also ben ji I remember when I was a little kid my grandpa did coyote trapping because they were bothering his baby cows and they used coyote urine to lure them into the traps. I was like "I wonder if there's something like that out there on the internet" and sure enough you can buy coyote urine on amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Pee-100-Coyote-Urine/dp/B01AL5YYSM
So one of the questions is does this attract coyotes? And Maine Outdoor Solutions had an answer:QuoteYes, IF coyotes are in the immediate area. In other words, the scent does not travel for miles and miles. Depending on the application, Wolf Pee often is a good substitute and has the added effect of keeping the coyotes away too!
you betcha, Wolf Pee is also for sale on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Pee-100-Wolf-Urine/dp/B01600EAPY?th=1
Now you could inform your dad of this and he'd probably do something like pretend he didn't hear you because I imagine he kind of likes the idea of spreading his urine around the cat ranch but maybe you want to know.
Nice! Maybe I'll get him some wolf pee as a surprise bday gift and he can mix it with his own pee to be super potent.
Post by: Katpappy on April 28, 2020, 03:09:30 PM
And yes, that is an extension cord running from a building to power one of the 18 harbor freight electric chainsaws my dad bought. (It was unplugged during the watering session)
Welp, this explains why these HF chain saws didn't last. Electric weed eaters, electric lawn mowers, electric chain saws all will burn up with long small amp rated extension cords. Very common for mistake for non electrical types.
Post by: sys on April 28, 2020, 06:59:07 PM
Wolf Pee is also for sale on Amazon:
Now you could inform your dad of this and he'd probably do something like pretend he didn't hear you.
you underestimate benji's father. he will buy a wolf.
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on April 28, 2020, 07:03:29 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2020, 09:26:24 PM
Following up on this. Im guessing the last time the roads inside the cat ranch had rock dumped on them was around 1990.Put down some gravel! Sheesh.Lol, i have a story about my brother and I's naive ideas about how to fill these ruts. Gonna have to wait until sunlight tomorrow to show our futility.
There was a "road" by the corral that was used to dump feed to the cows but is no longer in use. Still a ton of stone/rocks out there and part of our golf course.
My brother and I decided to be productive and collect a bunch of those rocks by hand, fill up a large cattle feed container and dump them on the road to fix the ruts, good idea huh?!?
Spent about 45 minutes picking up rocks by hand to fill the container and dumped it in a large rut.
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Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2020, 09:57:48 PM
Post by: XocolateThundarr on April 29, 2020, 08:00:51 AM
Current plant is to just dump all the ash from the fireplace into the ruts until they are filled...gonna be a while.
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Post by: steve dave on April 29, 2020, 08:11:28 AM
Current plant is to just dump all the ash from the fireplace into the ruts until they are filled...gonna be a while.Benji, no
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Post by: steve dave on April 29, 2020, 08:13:25 AM
Actually like 3,000 times.
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Post by: ben ji on April 29, 2020, 08:55:59 AM
When the ruts get all muddy we just drive around em. What is a rough estimate of how much it would cost to have someone dump a bunch of gravel inside the cat ranch?
Thanks buds
Post by: steve dave on April 29, 2020, 09:08:22 AM
How will dumping ash from the fireplace into the rut make it worse? Wont the ash just get all mixed up with the mud the next time it rains and then start to fill it back up?
When the ruts get all muddy we just drive around em. What is a rough estimate of how much it would cost to have someone dump a bunch of gravel inside the cat ranch?
Thanks buds
I'm not here to question the logic behind the ash plan. did I lmao when I read it? yes. will it work? no. will it make the road all weird looking and make ash blow all the eff over the place? yes. but I'd also appreciate pictures of the results.
that said you probably need a dump truck load of gravel with a blade to spread it all around to do it right. no idea what that costs but that's what it will take for a long term solution. you then just push the gravel around with a tractor occasionally (if you don't have a blade) to fill in the low spots. it'll last a long time.
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Post by: ben ji on April 29, 2020, 10:11:58 AM
Will have to check and see if the Wally's out here is still selling goldfish.
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Post by: ben ji on April 29, 2020, 10:18:54 AM
Please send some T's P's this way to help me battle the cancer I will surely get.
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on April 29, 2020, 10:22:33 AM
The aggregate source info is from my experience many years ago travelling around the state making and laying asphalt for highway projects. There may be a new source or two that have popped up since then that I'm not aware of. If you can find a material source and you have access to a skidloader, you could probably heal up the ruts and then have someone tailgate the rock on the drive. This isn't ideal, but it will be cheaper than hiring someone to haul a blade to the ranch and grading the road.
My guess is that you are going to pay at least $10 per ton at the source and then freight to the ranch on top of that. If you have 500 feet of driveway that is 12 feet wide and you want to place 3" of rock on it, you would be looking at about 100 to 125 tons of rock.
Post by: ben ji on April 29, 2020, 10:26:48 AM
If I remember, the cat ranch is in far NW KS. If so, your closest source for decent crushed gravel is probably going to be Eastern Colorado (Holly). Good news is that this is crushed river gravel and very durable. Bad news is freight costs are going to suck. I think there are some sand sources around the area, but it won't be crushed material and won't stabilize the road for crap. If someone has some crushed concrete around the area, that could be an option as well. However, just know that there will still be some pieces of steel in the material and you will need to cover it with an inch or two of some other material to help eliminate flat tires. I have it on my driveway and I covered it with crushed asphalt. We still find a few small pieces of wire from time to time that we pick up and throw away.
The aggregate source info is from my experience many years ago travelling around the state making and laying asphalt for highway projects. There may be a new source or two that have popped up since then that I'm not aware of. If you can find a material source and you have access to a skidloader, you could probably heal up the ruts and then have someone tailgate the rock on the drive. This isn't ideal, but it will be cheaper than hiring someone to haul a blade to the ranch and grading the road.
My guess is that you are going to pay at least $10 per ton at the source and then freight to the ranch on top of that. If you have 500 feet of driveway that is 12 feet wide and you want to place 3" of rock on it, you would be looking at about 100 to 125 tons of rock.
Woah, lots of detailed info here. Thanks bud!
Post by: KST8FAN on April 29, 2020, 01:02:28 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 29, 2020, 04:05:54 PM
Did we get before after pics on the golf cart weld job?Which time? Just finished our 4th weld on it, will probably last another week.
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Post by: ben ji on May 01, 2020, 10:10:31 PM
Old homestead #1
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Post by: DaBigTrain on May 01, 2020, 10:31:52 PM
lmao, old west abandoned buildings circa 1962.Those are from the 1880’s at least, SD.
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Post by: DaBigTrain on May 01, 2020, 10:46:50 PM
No one lived in NW KS in the 1880's, thats when the first settlers arrived. I found a map showing who owned what land around our farm from 1907 and at that time like alot of the land was still owned by the Railroad.Actually, yeah people did live there ben ji. They had lived there for hundreds or probably thousands of years.
Post by: ben ji on May 01, 2020, 10:51:40 PM
No one that was building structures like those pictured was living in NW KS in the 1880's.No one lived in NW KS in the 1880's, thats when the first settlers arrived. I found a map showing who owned what land around our farm from 1907 and at that time like alot of the land was still owned by the Railroad.Actually, yeah people did live there ben ji. They had lived there for hundreds or probably thousands of years.
Post by: ben ji on May 01, 2020, 10:55:30 PM
When are you being summoned back to the big city? This has become my favorite thread saga by far.Tentative plan is to go back in the next 2 weeks, the earliest my office is projected to open is mid june so I may come back to the cat ranch this summer.
Post by: steve dave on May 02, 2020, 03:12:37 AM
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Post by: ben ji on May 02, 2020, 09:17:59 AM
I like that you call them homestead and not house or barn
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I am working under the assumption that the area with all the houses/barns/buildings is referred to as the "homestead" area and then you have fields/pasture etc. Is this incorrect? Honestly have no idea what the correct terminology would be.
Post by: KST8FAN on May 02, 2020, 09:23:36 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_ActsI like that you call them homestead and not house or barn
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I am working under the assumption that the area with all the houses/barns/buildings is referred to as the "homestead" area and then you have fields/pasture etc. Is this incorrect? Honestly have no idea what the correct terminology would be.
Typically a homestead is 160 acres. Free land to encourage settlers to move west. I refer to our farm as the homestead. Whether it actually is i would have to research.
Dad always referred to the Baker place, Rake place, and Hildenbrand place which were the other 3 quarters that made up our farm with TomDad 160 acres. Over time the others moved away and sold to TomGPA.
Each of those quarters had barns silos, houses at one time. A couple still had barns and silos when I was a kid. All gone now.
Tom
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Post by: BW on May 02, 2020, 10:41:18 AM
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meat-supply-threats-grow-first-181155792.htmlThey do utililize this technology for breaking pigs, especially in newer plants. It uses x-ray and high pressure water jets. Works for pigs cause they are all the same size. Beef carcasses range from 550-1200 pounds, too much variability. All the labor is in skilled boning, trimming, sorting and packing.
We got beef and pork out the ass. Just need man power without covid to process it.
You IT gurus tell me why we cant build a robot to break down a carcass? Boning a specific cut maybe more of a challenge, but i got to beleive we can build one to break the ham from the loin and picnic.
Tom
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Post by: Katpappy on May 02, 2020, 06:38:09 PM
I like that you call them homestead and not house or barn
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I am working under the assumption that the area with all the houses/barns/buildings is referred to as the "homestead" area and then you have fields/pasture etc. Is this incorrect? Honestly have no idea what the correct terminology would be.
As I grew up in Western Kansas, we always called the part of the farm with the house on it the homestead. But that would only apply if land was sold as separate parcels; as if someone bought a crop field or grass pasture but not the original homestead. If a buyer purchased the land with the house and typically the other building, that was referred as the "homestead". I bought a "homestead" when I moved back out to the country years ago. It's usually referred by the original homesteader name in front of homestead, as in: "So you bought the old Rusty Homestead?".
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Post by: ben ji on May 02, 2020, 10:42:29 PM
I like that you call them homestead and not house or barn
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I am working under the assumption that the area with all the houses/barns/buildings is referred to as the "homestead" area and then you have fields/pasture etc. Is this incorrect? Honestly have no idea what the correct terminology would be.
As I grew up in Western Kansas, we always called the part of the farm with the house on it the homestead. But that would only apply if land was sold as separate parcels; as if someone bought a crop field or grass pasture but not the original homestead. If a buyer purchased the land with the house and typically the other building, that was referred as the "homestead". I bought a "homestead" when I moved back out to the country years ago. It's usually referred by the original homesteader name in front of homestead, as in: "So you bought the old Rusty Homestead?".
Thank you for verifying my correct usage of WKS terminology.
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Post by: ben ji on May 02, 2020, 11:06:04 PM
Sometimes my uncle puts his herd of mini ponies in here but not recently.
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Post by: steve dave on May 02, 2020, 11:10:06 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 02, 2020, 11:23:23 PM
Just looked up Levant, KS. Does anyone live there? Are there businesses?There are like 20 houses and a pathway AG by the railroad but no gas stations/food. Its only 15 miles to Colby so everyone just goes there.
Lots of other grain bins and large barns that I imagine farmers who live in Colby use as storage for tractors and such.
Post by: Spracne on May 02, 2020, 11:24:23 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 02, 2020, 11:26:10 PM
we have shitloads of old train cars on our ranch. most used as sheds or crap apparently.Barn, silo, boxcar. Every farm had those. Railroads must have given away a free boxcar with every homestead.
Our welder was a Topeka Santa Fe shop hand me down. So was the ginormous vice.
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Post by: ben ji on May 02, 2020, 11:36:28 PM
I'm going to assume each of these trailers/tanks is worth like 1k each but they just seem to be sitting there and anyone with a trailer hitch could take one.
Do they have some sort of locking device or is it just the honor system?
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Post by: ben ji on May 03, 2020, 09:27:14 AM
Here is the Levant Nursing Home. My dad lived in Levant for a couple years as a kid.I asked my dad about this place and apparently my Grandma worked there part time in the 60's handing out meds (she was a nurse) and his Grandpa lived there.
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Post by: steve dave on May 03, 2020, 09:34:12 AM
Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.Do you know what a tractor is worth? Those things are sitting around for the taking as well. Usually unlocked with the keys in them. The problem is there’s nothing you can profitably do with them once you steal them.
I'm going to assume each of these trailers/tanks is worth like 1k each but they just seem to be sitting there and anyone with a trailer hitch could take one.
Do they have some sort of locking device or is it just the honor system?
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Post by: michigancat on May 03, 2020, 09:43:00 AM
I remember when I was a kid hearing about people stealing tractors and trying to take them to South Dakota or something but pretty hard to resell and LMAO at stealing one for your own use. One time somebody was plowing overnight (LMAO, so unnecessary) next to one of our unattended tractors in a relatively isolated field and he said he saw a semi pull in next to our tractor so plowed his way over and the semi left when he got closer so yes we definitely almost had a tractor stolenTell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.Do you know what a tractor is worth? Those things are sitting around for the taking as well. Usually unlocked with the keys in them. The problem is there’s nothing you can profitably do with them once you steal them.
I'm going to assume each of these trailers/tanks is worth like 1k each but they just seem to be sitting there and anyone with a trailer hitch could take one.
Do they have some sort of locking device or is it just the honor system?
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Post by: BW on May 03, 2020, 09:48:53 AM
Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.Every once in a while, you'll hear of meth heads trying to steal from the tanks. Usually doesn't end well.
I'm going to assume each of these trailers/tanks is worth like 1k each but they just seem to be sitting there and anyone with a trailer hitch could take one.
Do they have some sort of locking device or is it just the honor system?
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Post by: ben ji on May 03, 2020, 09:51:49 AM
I remember when I was a kid hearing about people stealing tractors and trying to take them to South Dakota or something but pretty hard to resell and LMAO at stealing one for your own use. One time somebody was plowing overnight (LMAO, so unnecessary) next to one of our unattended tractors in a relatively isolated field and he said he saw a semi pull in next to our tractor so plowed his way over and the semi left when he got closer so yes we definitely almost had a tractor stolenTell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.Do you know what a tractor is worth? Those things are sitting around for the taking as well. Usually unlocked with the keys in them. The problem is there’s nothing you can profitably do with them once you steal them.
I'm going to assume each of these trailers/tanks is worth like 1k each but they just seem to be sitting there and anyone with a trailer hitch could take one.
Do they have some sort of locking device or is it just the honor system?
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What about cattle russlin, is that still a thing? Like do bad guys in with missing teeth and dirty 2010 Big 12 BBall championship t-shirts just roll up in the middle of the night and try and take people's cattle?
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Post by: Cire on May 03, 2020, 11:00:54 PM
My grandpa owned and ran a fertilizer distributor through Phillips in the 70s-80s.Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.Every once in a while, you'll hear of meth heads trying to steal from the tanks. Usually doesn't end well.
I'm going to assume each of these trailers/tanks is worth like 1k each but they just seem to be sitting there and anyone with a trailer hitch could take one.
Do they have some sort of locking device or is it just the honor system?
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Total honor system. Farmers left a note for what was needed and when. Grandpa would fill the order and get it ready. Then they wild drop off a check in the box.
He got out of it when they started having people try to steal.
When I was down in the summers we’d both tire on our hankies when he was filling tanks Anna if you weren’t standing in the right spot it was like getting tear gassed
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Post by: Katpappy on May 04, 2020, 12:24:16 AM
Saw another line of Ammonia tanks today and did some googling about how its used. I figured it was sprayed on the field but apparently its injected/disc'd into the soil or someting? Rad.
This was a job I hated. The gas was disced in the ground but if the wind was blowing the same direction you were traveling, you got lots of the stink to inhale. It was so bad that I would only travel upwind and I didn't care if the old man had a cow.
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Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2020, 01:31:55 PM
Here is all the dead limbs/debris we removed.
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Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2020, 01:34:00 PM
Will it bloom? Will it last? Hopefully!
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Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2020, 01:57:58 PM
Closest we have is the tailwater pit by the corrals that holds runoff from the barn roof and decades of cow poop juice. I've recently seen ducks in here waiting for the rains to fill up the creek.
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Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2020, 02:08:59 PM
Ben Ji, do you guys have a stocked pond on the property out there? Man, my grandparents had a ton and i'd do that all summer when I was younger. Catching 10 LB catfish and snapping turtles like a champ!
IIRC my uncle made a pond and stocked it with catfish on one of his properties and it lasted about 5 years before there was a drought and the pond dried up.
Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2020, 02:11:51 PM
man, Lilacs and pine trees. That's a homestead if I've ever seen one.
And currants, a metric F ton of currants. They are blooming now so I'm excited to try their berries in a month or so, apparently they have a pretty unique taste and were used for Jams in old timey days.
Post by: steve dave on May 04, 2020, 02:18:02 PM
Post by: michigancat on May 04, 2020, 02:22:02 PM
mullberrys and sand hill plums are also ks farm wild disgusting fruits.My grandma made delicious sand plum jam - AFAIK the addition of pounds of sugar is the only way to make them edible.
Also I had amazing success catching catfish from a creek using mulberries as bait with a bamboo pole when the deer liver didn't work
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Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2020, 03:25:12 PM
as a kid, we used to find gooseberries in our pastures, pick them and eat them on the spot. can't remember what they tasted like, a little tart i'm sure, but we loved them. not sure there are any around anymore. anyone heard of gooseberries? NE Kansas btw.
I believe that gooseberries are a variety of the currant plant so I'm guessing they are still around. We have golden currants out here.
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Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2020, 10:59:18 PM
An ADA accessible churchFYI this church had an outhouse that was not ADA accessible.
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Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2020, 11:35:32 PM
Break time after that, BLT'S for lunch then attempted to weed my dad's "Garden". In reality he didn't even till it, just planted tomatoes and other stuff and ran soaker hoses.The garden has come along way in the 2 months my brother and I have been out here.
The grass was taller than the garden plants but I did the best I could. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180707/e3964121c21f20c02b89f4a4f5cd65c7.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180707/57d70f60b764d579175fefd89dac3cb0.jpg)
We made my dad actually rototill rows(with manure mixed in) and fence it off so the rabbits cant eat it all.
My brother works at music festivals so is basically unemployed for the next year and will probably be out here all summer to actually tend the garden. He also worked at a commercial nursey for a couple of years so he is our landscape/garden guru. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200505/aacdcc03e876931b7b18cb67ab56fa58.jpg)
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A picture of 4 of the apple trees (planted with cow manure). The larger trees behind the apple seedlings are pear trees my uncle planted a couple of years ago. There is a water faucet thing by the quisonet building so Im guessing that is where the automatic watering device will connect to.My brother finally ran a soaker hose to the apple and pear tree's that were recently planted, even put some chicken wire around them to keep the dam rabbits out.
Also LOL at the "Danger Keep out" sign on the collapsing out building my dad put up sometime in the last year.
You can also see the incinerator (aka 2 steel drums welded together with hatches at top and bottom) that i cleaned out last year when i was trying to do something productive. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190612/0bb964ff1094f66f4d51e3628543d40c.jpg)
We are going to have so much fruit in like 10 years assuming we continue to water them 24/7 365. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200505/bd15e621352051d0e09e0c71bfec941e.jpg)
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Post by: ben ji on May 05, 2020, 09:28:05 PM
(would still trade our land in NWKS for half the amount in the flint hills AKA gods country)
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Post by: Spracne on May 06, 2020, 12:42:22 PM
So, a couple of country homes near my hometown blew up in the past few months. Both were determined by authorities to be caused by natural gas leaks. Locals have determined they were wind turbine related.
What part of Kansas, if you don't mind?
Post by: Institutional Control on May 06, 2020, 03:29:02 PM
So, a couple of country homes near my hometown blew up in the past few months. Both were determined by authorities to be caused by natural gas leaks. Locals have determined they were wind turbine related.
What part of Kansas, if you don't mind?
Allen County
Post by: michigancat on May 06, 2020, 03:41:02 PM
Post by: Institutional Control on May 06, 2020, 03:47:04 PM
I mean that's gotta be meth related
I don't think so. Both of the houses that blew up had old people living in them.
Here's the story from when the second house exploded.
https://www.koamnewsnow.com/a-second-home-in-5-months-explodes-near-moran-kansas/
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Post by: Spracne on May 06, 2020, 04:05:58 PM
So, a couple of country homes near my hometown blew up in the past few months. Both were determined by authorities to be caused by natural gas leaks. Locals have determined they were wind turbine related.
What part of Kansas, if you don't mind?
Allen County
Any idea if they store natural gas underground? Years ago there was a series of explosions in Reno County that were determined to be caused by gas stored in underground caverns escaping through "wildcat" wells that were drilled in the early 20th century but never recorded.
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Post by: Institutional Control on May 06, 2020, 05:01:35 PM
If they have natural gas, then they have a well on the property. Otherwise, they’d have propane. My dad told me they were natural gas related.So, a couple of country homes near my hometown blew up in the past few months. Both were determined by authorities to be caused by natural gas leaks. Locals have determined they were wind turbine related.
What part of Kansas, if you don't mind?
Allen County
Any idea if they store natural gas underground? Years ago there was a series of explosions in Reno County that were determined to be caused by gas stored in underground caverns escaping through "wildcat" wells that were drilled in the early 20th century but never recorded.
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Post by: steve dave on May 06, 2020, 05:12:56 PM
Love how sd's dad always leverages every angle humanly possible.
the only way to make money in the farm game today is to farm mafia your ass off. I joke about it, but it's definitely irl.
Post by: Spracne on May 06, 2020, 05:17:53 PM
If they have natural gas, then they have a well on the property. Otherwise, they’d have propane. My dad told me they were natural gas related.So, a couple of country homes near my hometown blew up in the past few months. Both were determined by authorities to be caused by natural gas leaks. Locals have determined they were wind turbine related.
What part of Kansas, if you don't mind?
Allen County
Any idea if they store natural gas underground? Years ago there was a series of explosions in Reno County that were determined to be caused by gas stored in underground caverns escaping through "wildcat" wells that were drilled in the early 20th century but never recorded.
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I'm talking about something else. Stevedave seemed to understand.
Post by: Institutional Control on May 06, 2020, 06:46:46 PM
I’m pretty sure stevedave made that up.If they have natural gas, then they have a well on the property. Otherwise, they’d have propane. My dad told me they were natural gas related.So, a couple of country homes near my hometown blew up in the past few months. Both were determined by authorities to be caused by natural gas leaks. Locals have determined they were wind turbine related.
What part of Kansas, if you don't mind?
Allen County
Any idea if they store natural gas underground? Years ago there was a series of explosions in Reno County that were determined to be caused by gas stored in underground caverns escaping through "wildcat" wells that were drilled in the early 20th century but never recorded.
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I'm talking about something else. Stevedave seemed to understand.
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the only way to make money in the farm game today is to farm mafia your ass off. I joke about it, but it's definitely irl.
I'd be a capo
Post by: Cire on May 07, 2020, 08:12:22 AM
My grandpa never any money farming until he bought the aforementioned fertilizer distributor. Some salesman comes to him and says “how much you pay for _______ fertilizer?”
“I can get it to you for _______”
Deal. Boom. Grandpa pays everything off in a couple years buys a bunch more land.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 07, 2020, 06:45:57 PM
Tom
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Post by: meow meow on May 07, 2020, 08:19:09 PM
I irl was guessing but I’m also irl farm AF so not surprised I nailed it. I’ve seen baby calf’s attempted to be pulled with modern stretchers....and a chain and a pickup. Mixed results.
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Post by: ben ji on May 07, 2020, 10:17:22 PM
Here are some random thoughts/notes that have not warranted a whole post.
1. Hot/Electric fences, most are pud but I recently brushed against the one by the butler building that has power sockets that power the whole fence and OMG it was alot stronger.
2. I bought a 2016 rav4 with AWD last year but it is definitely not a full time farm vehicle.
2A- I drove it through the windbreaks and the dam cedar tree's kind of scratched the paint on one side (barely noticeable)
2B- I typically take a cruise through the pasture in the evening after WFH and I ran over a tree limb buried in grass that knocked loose a plastic cover that protects the exhaust. (It started dragging but I managed to put it back in place)
2C- We moved alot of dead limbs next to the road to throw in the burn pit and one time when I was pulling out of the driveway and looking at my phone I hit a limb and did some minor cosmetic damage to my front right bumper.
2D- Yesterday I had the low tire pressure light come on and my back right tire may have a metal spike embedded in it. Fun times.
3. When I realized how much my vehicle was getting F'd up driving around the farm I started looking at used polaris etc on craigslist and holy crap these things are about as expensive as a toyota corolla. I think we will just stick with our 1993 EZ GO golf cart my brother got for free.
Post by: ben ji on May 07, 2020, 10:23:53 PM
Today's random mystery farm tool...
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Tom,
What if I told you I had multiple buildings (half falling down) full of old timey farm tools. Would you like it if I took pictures of these old timey tools and we could have a contest on who could identify the tools/implements?
Post by: ben ji on May 07, 2020, 11:20:03 PM
SD is right on the gas storage.Quotethe only way to make money in the farm game today is to farm mafia your ass off. I joke about it, but it's definitely irl.
I'd be a capo
Reminds me of the time we first inherited my grandparents farm and I was running through the numbers with my dad and asked him "How does anyone make any money farming"? And his MAGA ass answered "The government".
Now we have some wind farm mafia money to go with our government money but you know who just happened to get a bagillion wind mills placed directly on his land? This guy whose relative was a former senator from KS. (also we are like 3rd cousins)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-family-farm-bulks-up-1508781895
Post by: ben ji on May 07, 2020, 11:48:51 PM
SD is right on the gas storage.Quotethe only way to make money in the farm game today is to farm mafia your ass off. I joke about it, but it's definitely irl.
I'd be a capo
Reminds me of the time we first inherited my grandparents farm and I was running through the numbers with my dad and asked him "How does anyone make any money farming"? And his MAGA ass answered "The government".
Now we have some wind farm mafia money to go with our government money but you know who just happened to a bagillion wind mills placed directly on his land? This guy whose relative was a former senator from KS. (also we are like 3rd cousins)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-family-farm-bulks-up-1508781895
Rereading the article he owns like 10% of thomas county so obviously he is going to get a crap ton of windmills on his land and I'm going to recommend my dad lease his land to him instead of trying to farm it himself.
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COLBY, Kan.—Lon Frahm may represent the future of farming. Inside a two-story office building overshadowed by 80-foot steel grain bins, he points to a map showing the patchwork of square and circular fields that make up his operation. It covers nearly 10% of the county’s cropland, and when he climbs into his Cessna Skylane to check crops from the air, he can fly 30 miles before reaching the end of his land. At 30,600 acres, his farm is among the country’s vastest, and it yields enough corn and wheat each year to fill 4,500 semitrailer trucks.
Big operations like Mr. Frahm’s, which he has spent decades building, are prospering despite the deepest farm slump since the 1980s. Years of low prices for corn, wheat and other commodities brought on by a glut of grain world-wide are driving smaller American farmers out of business.
Farms with $1 million or more in annual sales—only 4% of the total—now produce two-thirds of the country’s agricultural output, the largest portion since the U.S. Agriculture Department’s census began tracking the statistic in the ’80s.
The shift means food production is being increasingly handled by larger farms, which can be more financially secure. It also fuels a cycle in which size begets size, further transforming the rural economy. Smaller-scale farmers struggle to expand their operations to become profitable. Work becomes more scarce. Farm-supply retailers and grain companies are pressured, since larger farms use their size to wrangle better deals.
Owners say the big operations—which are still almost entirely run by private farmers and not companies—use machinery and technology more efficiently, get better prices on bulk supplies and manage to keep more of the profits by cutting out middlemen.
Inside an Immense Farm Operation in Kansas
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Inside an Immense Farm Operation in Kansas
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Lon Frahm’s 30,600-acre farm in Colby, Kan., offers a look at the future of farming in the U.S.: in ?huge quantities, using the latest technology and ?fewer people. Photo: Nick Cote for The Wall Street Journal. Video: Madeline Marshall/WSJ
Mr. Frahm, 59 years old, said decisions on his farm are driven by the constant analysis of efficiency and scale—cents per pound or units per acre. “I’m always interested in, how big is too big, how far can this thing go?” he said, clad in bluejeans and a Pioneer seeds ball cap. In more than three decades of running his farm, through droughts and commodity-market swings, he said he had only one losing year.
Mr. Frahm estimated that farms of his size can produce $10 million to $15 million worth of grain in a good year. With that amount of production, well-managed farms can reap $1 million to $3 million in profit, even in times of low crop prices, he said.
A typical smaller farm selling just $500,000 worth of grain annually has over the past three years generated a 5% profit margin, or about $25,000, said Mark Wood, a Colby-based agricultural economist for the Kansas Farm Management Association.
Green Acres
More U.S. farms are becoming giant operations.
Number of farms, by agricultural sales
$100,000-$499,999
$500,000 or more
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250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
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Mr. Frahm said his farm provides steady, well-paying jobs and helps fund Colby’s hospital and community college. But he has stepped in at the last moment to place the winning bid at land auctions, and he knows that rankles other farmers. Some landowners see him as more of a corporate manager than a grower and have avoided renting their fields to him, looking instead for smaller farmers, he said. “I run into that resentment—‘haven’t you got enough by now?’ ” he said.
Mr. Frahm’s family settled and began farming near Colby, which now has a population of 5,419, in the 1880s. In 1986, after a heart attack killed his father, Mr. Frahm took over the family’s 5,600 acres. The farm was large but not unheard-of in Kansas at that time.
He said he looked for opportunities to expand, persuading relatives to lease him fields and plowing profits from good years into buying land. In 2013 he negotiated his biggest-ever expansion, adding 7,000 acres when an uncle retired, boosting his total land by nearly one-third. This spring, Mr. Frahm rented another 480 acres, and he said he is negotiating this fall to buy more.
The corn harvest at Mr. Frahm's farm in Colby this month. Workers take a dinner break, and Robert Turkington jumps down from the cab of a combine.
Rural demographics are moving in Mr. Frahm’s favor. The average age of a U.S. farmer is 58. Younger people are moving away, and over time more fields wind up owned by heirs in towns or cities hundreds of miles away.
In Kansas’ Thomas County, where agricultural economists estimate that more than half the land now is absentee-owned, Mr. Frahm can make an attractive tenant. Some landlords have approached him to rent their fields, knowing he has a good reputation for making lease payments and maintaining the land.
That makes it tough for farmers like Michael Juenemann. He grew up on a family farm near Colby, but his parents’ 160 acres don’t produce enough crops to support the two of them, let alone Mr. Juenemann and his own family. For the past five years Mr. Juenemann, 29, has been renting small parcels of land to farm himself, borrowing machinery and rolling out of bed to bale his own hay in the dark.
To make ends meet he works for other farmers, and said the hours mean he missed much of his son’s first years. Still, he said, “for as long as I can remember, it’s been what I wanted to do.”
Mr. Juenemann needs more land if he is to farm full time for himself. But buying enough acres requires a down payment he can’t afford.
Michael Juenemann is a small farmer in Colby. He puts in long hours on his own land, but his acreage isn't enough to support his family, so he also works for other farmers.
This spring, a few good fields became available for rent just up the road from his in-laws’ farm—but Mr. Juenemann only found out after Mr. Frahm began farming them.
“That’s aggravating—opportunities like that where I could get some more land, but [landowners] will go directly to the big guys,” said Mr. Juenemann, adding he doesn’t blame Mr. Frahm.
Many large farmers pay cash on leases, versus the crop-sharing deals that smaller farmers have often used and which add risk for the landowner. Some large farmers provide more comprehensive data on how the property is cared for and used. Mr. Frahm offers a mobile app that shows his landowners how much moisture their fields are getting.
Three-quarters of America’s farmed cropland is controlled by 12% of farms, USDA data show. The number of million-dollar-plus revenue farms more than doubled between 1992 and 2015, while the ranks of smaller farms, with revenue between $350,000 and $999,999, fell by 5%, as farmers get older and have a hard time making consistent profits. USDA researchers, in a December report, said consolidation is likely to continue.
An average farm household in the Colby area needs income of at least $50,000 annually to get by, said Mr. Wood, the agricultural economist, which has become harder to generate from a smaller farm. “The big guys can cover their costs and have money left over to grow,” Mr. Wood said. Smaller farms, he said, “are going to struggle.”
Mr. Frahm flies a Cessna to check his fields from the air. He can fly 30 miles before reaching the end of his land.
Bill Miller, 65, who farms about 10,000 acres around Colby, has absorbed other farms from neighbors who retired or moved on. He said the younger generation will have a hard time growing big enough to compete with large, entrenched farms. “If you don’t have family in it, you’re probably not going to get into it, because of the expense” of acquiring land, he said.
The local school district has lost more than one-fourth of its students over the past 20 years, he said. “The young people are moving away, because the farmers need less help,” Mr. Miller said. The big machinery and technology used on large farms—such as remote sensors for irrigation systems—mean fewer workers are needed.
About 20 miles away, Bill Dible has raised crops near Rexford, Kan.—which has a population of about 230—for more than half a century. For many years, he bought groceries at the town’s supermarkets, sipped coffee at its cafes and shot pool at its billiards halls. As farms and related companies consolidated, nearly all those businesses have closed.
“This mega farmer deal, it’s killing all the communities,” said Mr. Dible, 84. “They make it tough on other people.”
Many businesses have closed in Rexford, Kan., a town of 230 not far from Colby.
At Colby’s Farm Credit of Western Kansas, chief credit officer Mark Winger said the bank over the past decade has reduced the number of loan officers that deal with farmers. As large farms absorb smaller ones, he said, that leaves fewer farmers to finance, and more concentration of risk in larger loans.
Some area farm-supply retailers, which sell seed and chemicals, have trimmed head count. Local grain companies, such as Winona Feed and Grain and Rexford Grain, which buy grain from farmers and sell it on to exporters, livestock operations and ethanol plants, have been absorbed by larger regional players, including Frontier Ag Inc. Large farmers often seek to buy chemicals and materials from suppliers with direct links to manufacturers, and increasingly handle grain storage and sales themselves.
Farmer-owned cooperatives, which handle grain and supplies and share profits among member-owners, are working to adjust.
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Jeff Kahle, who grew up near Colby and now manages eight regional facilities under farm cooperative company CHS Inc., has watched area farms consolidate.
Two decades ago, around the time Mr. Kahle started working at the co-op, it wasn’t uncommon for 120 farmers to turn up at a planting seminar hosted by Kansas State researchers. These days, he figures 20 farmers might show up, even though they still represent the same number of acres. As a result, he said his operation has shed about one-fifth of its staff over the past 10 years.
“The larger [the big farms] get, the more difficult they are to do business with on a retail level,” Mr. Kahle said. Over time he said he aims to provide more advisory and technology services to farmers.
Mr. Frahm said he largely stopped dealing with local co-ops around 15 years ago, when he started finding better prices by scouring the internet for deals on seed and chemicals. Now he orders seed and pesticides by the truckload.
Mr. Frahm holds an ear of corn recently picked for inspection.
When it comes to selling crops, he prefers dealing with brokers that match up his crops with area feedlots and ethanol plants, which can fetch him higher prices. He stores nearly all his grain in his own bins and runs his own loading station, saving on transport costs and giving him more flexibility on when to sell based on grain prices.
Cooperatives are becoming “just a place to drink coffee,” Mr. Frahm said. “They can’t change quickly enough to keep up with competition that can turn on a dime.”
Shift to Greater Size
The largest U.S. farms are growing in number and size, and commanding more of the country's food production, while smaller farms shrink.
Number of farms, by size of farm
Percentage of acres harvested, by size of farm
1,000–1,999 acres
1,000–1,999 acres
500–999 acres
500–999 acres
2,000 or more acres
2,000 or more acres
%
50
250,000
40
200,000
30
150,000
20
100,000
10
50,000
0
0
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’97
’78
’87
1974
’12
’07
’82
2002
’87
’92
’97
2002
’07
’12
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Percentage of market of agricultural
products sold by farms with revenue
of $1 million or more
Midpoint farm size*
80
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acres
1,200
60
900
40
600
20
300
0
0
2002
’97
’07
’92
1987
’12
’07
’87
’92
2002
’97
’12
1982
*Harvested cropland
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Mr. Frahm, who holds three degrees in business and agricultural economics, said his operation thrives by pushing efficiency at every turn.
His nine-person team totes tablet computers that control sprinkler systems miles away, switching them off when sensors report adequate moisture. When his tractors are rolling, automated systems monitor the number and type of seeds being sown in each row, to maximize planting on fertile ground and avoid wasting seed on poor soil.
The equipment beams the data to remote servers, where Mr. Frahm and his team analyze it to determine how machinery can be run more efficiently, or where they can spray fewer chemicals. This year Mr. Frahm has been testing automated insect traps that deliver updates on the number and type of bugs killed to help time pesticide spraying.
Mr. Frahm, in plaid shirt, with his workers at the farm office as they prepare for the day. They use tablet computers and other technology to monitor processes such as irrigation, seed distribution and pesticide use.
Mr. Frahm acknowledges big farms have brought changes to the community. But he sees his operation as an economic engine for Colby. His employees hold year-round, salaried positions with health care and four weeks of vacation. His longest-tenured employee started working for Mr. Frahm’s father on the farm 43 years ago.
He brings them on ocean cruises as bonuses and outfits them with matching white Ford pickups for work. He said he gives each one $1,000 each year to donate to charity. “These jobs offer a higher quality of life than if you were out trying to [farm] on your own,” he said.
The farmer’s Colby office is outfitted with flat-screen TVs and a grand piano where he sometimes plinks out jazz standards. Before Mr. Frahm bought the building, it housed the bank that lent him money. He owns a sprawling house on the town’s edge, and vacation houses in Denver and Arizona and a cabin on a nearby lake.
Wheeling his own white Ford truck around Colby, where rows of corn march up to the edge of the town’s main thoroughfare, Mr. Frahm notes the farm’s sponsorship of the annual county fair, and support for the historical society and public radio station.
Mr. Frahm said he has no heirs, and after he dies he plans to have a foundation own his property, with the goal of maintaining jobs for his employees and funding his community charities.
“There’s a reason behind continuing to accumulate,” Mr. Frahm said. “My main concern is that everything carries on.”
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Post by: steve dave on May 08, 2020, 09:14:51 AM
I'm headed back to the big city on sunday for at least one week (maybe more). My brother is currently unemployed and will probably stay out here all summer and I will probably go back and forth until I can no longer work from home.
Here are some random thoughts/notes that have not warranted a whole post.
1. Hot/Electric fences, most are pud but I recently brushed against the one by the butler building that has power sockets that power the whole fence and OMG it was alot stronger.
2. I bought a 2016 rav4 with AWD last year but it is definitely not a full time farm vehicle.
2A- I drove it through the windbreaks and the dam cedar tree's kind of scratched the paint on one side (barely noticeable)
2B- I typically take a cruise through the pasture in the evening after WFH and I ran over a tree limb buried in grass that knocked loose a plastic cover that protects the exhaust. (It started dragging but I managed to put it back in place)
2C- We moved alot of dead limbs next to the road to throw in the burn pit and one time when I was pulling out of the driveway and looking at my phone I hit a limb and did some minor cosmetic damage to my front right bumper.
2D- Yesterday I had the low tire pressure light come on and my back right tire may have a metal spike embedded in it. Fun times.
3. When I realized how much my vehicle was getting F'd up driving around the farm I started looking at used polaris etc on craigslist and holy crap these things are about as expensive as a toyota corolla. I think we will just stick with our 1993 EZ GO golf cart my brother got for free.
1. I have gotten shocked by an electric fence like 50 times and 0 times was it "pud". feels like someone wailing on your lower back with a baseball bat.
2. be careful about brush/weeds/etc. getting caught up under it. they'll get hot and start it and you and the field on fire.
3. good call on the golf cart imo.
Post by: ben ji on May 08, 2020, 09:19:55 AM
I bet a Rav 4 would be pretty good for just driving around a farm. I knew a farmer who used a Suzuki Sidekick to check cattle because it was super light and had 4WD. obviously you can't pull a trailer or hay or anything but pretty good for just cruisin
Just googled this and now I really really want one to keep on the farm.
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Post by: michigancat on May 08, 2020, 12:28:40 PM
Suzuki Samari is another option. #1 had one for a while. Pretty much a road legal ATV.
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it may have been a samurai and not a sidekick. And yes I think the geo tracker is basically the same thing and yes pretty much an ATV. Either way you could get one for probably pretty cheap and bonus you could probably spend lots of time working on it when you visit
Post by: star seed 7 on May 08, 2020, 12:32:24 PM
I'm going to suggest a samari, that looks awesome.
Post by: ben ji on May 08, 2020, 12:52:42 PM
My dad has a huge diesel dodge farm truck, two 4-wheelers, a deere gator, and a golf cart all to cruise his 80 or whatever hobby acres. Seems like overkill.
I'm going to suggest a samari, that looks awesome.
Definitely overkill but I'm jealous.
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Suzuki Samari is another option. #1 had one for a while. Pretty much a road legal ATV.
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I've spent way to much time today looking at suzuki's for sale, had no idea these things existed until today. They appear to be popular "beach" vehicles as most of the ones for sale are in California.
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Suzuki Samari is another option. #1 had one for a while. Pretty much a road legal ATV.
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I've spent way to much time today looking at suzuki's for sale, had no idea these things existed until today. They appear to be popular "beach" vehicles as most of the ones for sale are in California.
I'm glad I inspired this
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Piece of a hay rake
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You are pretty good at this.
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You are pretty good at this.
I irl know a lot about cow farms and cow farm related things
Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 08, 2020, 03:13:56 PM
Suzuki Samari is another option. #1 had one for a while. Pretty much a road legal ATV.
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I've spent way to much time today looking at suzuki's for sale, had no idea these things existed until today. They appear to be popular "beach" vehicles as most of the ones for sale are in California.
I'm glad I inspired this
what cracks me up about those is that they have a 3 cylinder engine
Post by: steve dave on May 08, 2020, 03:19:22 PM
Today's random mystery farm tool...
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Tom,
What if I told you I had multiple buildings (half falling down) full of old timey farm tools. Would you like it if I took pictures of these old timey tools and we could have a contest on who could identify the tools/implements?
next time it's safe to travel I'm going to gather terabytes of farm porn for this thread and we'll farm our entire asses and balls off.
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I can't take credit for these strong AF beads, but couisn welded hooks on the skid steer a couple of weeks ago. I tend to push the limit of where I think I can go. These held up nicely when he pulled me out of a ravine, and a mud hole.
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Benji
I can't take credit for these strong AF beads, but couisn welded hooks on the skid steer a couple of weeks ago. I tend to push the limit of where I think I can go. These held up nicely when he pulled me out of a ravine, and a mud hole.
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Tom, I'm not going to dig these hit n miss motors out before I head back to KC tomorrow but I'll probably be out at the cat ranch again in a couple weeks. I have no mechanical inclination and just send emails/talk on the phone to make money so send me a PM if you want to buy them on on cheap and fix them up and I can drop them off at your farm in like a month or two.
(part of this deal is I get to fish your flint hills farm ponds when I drop off the motors)
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Here is the dead rattler. (Also @steve dave @sys he cut the rattling part off and showed me it saying "Look at these buttons" and I rough ridin' schooled him about how rattlers only have 1 button or whatever sys said earlier in this thread, rough ridin' joco kid dropping knowledge on a farm boy out of left field)
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ben ji: So what is your dad planting in the field.
cousin: some cattle feed
ben ji: Like alfalfa or something?
cousin: Not alfalfa, some sort of silage to cut up and feed to the cows.
Post by: ben ji on May 10, 2020, 12:16:52 AM
I actually saw the badger out here last summer so my question is are they that much of a pest that I should blast it next time I see it or should I just let it be?
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Post by: slackcat on May 10, 2020, 05:03:40 AM
Your cousin doesn't sound very farmy to me. The badger will keep your rodent/prairie dog pop. in check and they're neat to watch.
Post by: sys on May 10, 2020, 07:24:40 AM
poor snake.
Post by: HELLHAMMER on May 10, 2020, 08:05:33 AM
What chemicals are in these yellow/black tanks I have been seeing lately, no markers on them so I'm guessing they are not hazardous?Those are fertilizer tanks. Is that a Zubaz grain bin?
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Post by: slackcat on May 10, 2020, 08:58:23 AM
If Tom declines your offer of the engines, send me a message. I'd be interested in one or both. I like working on engines.
Post by: KST8FAN on May 10, 2020, 10:05:33 AM
Pro tip: Don't try to pet the badgerI defer to slackcat here, but really appreciate the offer Benji. I got more stuff then I can get done. As long as slackcat posts vid of them running he is probably the better option.
If Tom declines your offer of the engines, send me a message. I'd be interested in one or both. I like working on engines.
We can still go fishing!
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on May 10, 2020, 06:44:01 PM
We actually have 2 sets of this clock photo thing so I get my own.We have an aerial photo of the farm from the 90's that is framed in a clock piece where the clock hands are part of a windmill. (Its at the house in KC so no picture)
I did take this aerial picture on the way to vegas last fall. Windbreak/buildings are in top right corner of our section which goes back just past the "creek". My aunt owns the 1/2 section that is adjacent with the green circle.
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Many of the photos itt prompted my aerial photo inquiry
Cat ranch circa 1991.
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Post by: slackcat on May 10, 2020, 08:45:07 PM
Pro tip: Don't try to pet the badgerI defer to slackcat here, but really appreciate the offer Benji. I got more stuff then I can get done. As long as slackcat posts vid of them running he is probably the better option.
If Tom declines your offer of the engines, send me a message. I'd be interested in one or both. I like working on engines.
We can still go fishing!
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Thanks Tom. If it's OK with the ben ji clan.
Post by: ben ji on May 11, 2020, 10:15:27 AM
Nice cat ranchPro tip: Don't try to pet the badgerI defer to slackcat here, but really appreciate the offer Benji. I got more stuff then I can get done. As long as slackcat posts vid of them running he is probably the better option.
If Tom declines your offer of the engines, send me a message. I'd be interested in one or both. I like working on engines.
We can still go fishing!
Tom
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Thanks Tom. If it's OK with the ben ji clan.
:thumbsup: I'm pretty sure I can only fit 1 in the back of my vehicle at a time so I'll bring the deere back first. I'll let you know next time I'm out at the cat ranch and we can coordinate where to meet etc.
Post by: slackcat on May 11, 2020, 02:26:48 PM
You're also welcome to fish any of the ponds on the wind ranch, even have a quarry.
Post by: schreds21 on May 11, 2020, 07:44:48 PM
Another thing as dad does when he buys a new ford truck is torch off the spare tire holder thing and throw the spare in the back.I'll bet SD Dad used to cut the catalytic converters off of new vehicles too before it started messing up the computers.
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Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2020, 03:58:59 PM
Sheridan was a town for like 1 year where the railroad had to stop for a bit while they got more money so all the workers just made dugouts and got wasted while they gambled and shot people.
Turns out my Uncle owns the land it was on and I actually visited it with my dad when I was a kid after he read about it in a book of ghost towns and realized my uncle owned the land. We went out there with a metal detector(whatever the mid 90's version of a harbor freight metal detector is) but only found nails/junk. The only thing left to resemble a town was a couple of collapsed dugouts on the hillsides.
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Post by: Spracne on May 14, 2020, 07:38:48 PM
iirc the Calvary was from Ft. Dodge which is near Dodge City and they came in and wiped every Cheyenne out. Not advertised on the sign. I’m probably not being historically accurate here but from my memory as a kid being told about it anyway.
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goddammit sd, quit saying "calvary".
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I had like third cousins that drove a covered wagon in the Peace Treaty back in the day. I think I went once or twice and didn't quite get it. I'd IRL like to watch it again now that I know a little about historyMy grandparents took me a couple times. It sucked crap for sure but that’s not my jam obviously.
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I remember a giant dirt hill everyone sat on to watchYep. It seemed like a shitload of covered wagons because we always had to guess which wagon the cousins were on
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Post by: Spracne on May 14, 2020, 07:56:11 PM
crap, googled it and I wasn’t even rough ridin' close. Lmao. Cavalry. Wacky, get in here and help me please!
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I'm sensing that you were raised in the faith.
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Mo Syn Lutheran, just suck crap at spelling
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More like Mo' Sin Lutheran, amirite?
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check this badass basically homemade UTV thing my dad purchased on a whim a couple years ago. lmao.
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Post by: michigancat on May 21, 2020, 11:09:00 PM
Folks, hold onto your asses for cow farm photography.Looks like a farm show special. Probably built by some guy in Iowa
check this badass basically homemade UTV thing my dad purchased on a whim a couple years ago. lmao.
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Post by: michigancat on May 21, 2020, 11:10:52 PM
Arizona but 118 followers on InstagramFolks, hold onto your asses for cow farm photography.Looks like a farm show special. Probably built by some guy in Iowa
check this badass basically homemade UTV thing my dad purchased on a whim a couple years ago. lmao.
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Post by: steve dave on May 21, 2020, 11:12:27 PM
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Post by: michigancat on May 21, 2020, 11:20:21 PM
I drove this hog around a bit today :gocho:Lol is that a cattle checking motorcycle?
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Your cow farm is an island of misfit farm toys
Post by: DaBigTrain on May 22, 2020, 12:05:42 AM
Post by: slackcat on May 22, 2020, 05:12:48 AM
I drove this hog around a bit today :gocho:
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I like that fireplace/wood stove in the background. Did it come from one of your ranches line shacks?
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Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 06:45:18 AM
I have no idea what it’s purpose is but my dad is a hardcore addict of buying stupid crap like this.I drove this hog around a bit today :gocho:Lol is that a cattle checking motorcycle?
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 22, 2020, 07:22:22 AM
Post by: Institutional Control on May 22, 2020, 07:49:38 AM
Old timey “tack” room. We haven’t owned a horse for like a decade. There was a brown recluse the size of my hand by the door and I freaked out.
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I was back at my dad's farm last month and decided to check out the barn. A screech owl made me almost crap my pants.
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Post by: BW on May 22, 2020, 08:24:26 AM
I can smell those pictures of the tack room.Old horse sweat and molasses.
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Post by: slackcat on May 22, 2020, 08:31:05 AM
Also from the tack room check out the names of our last horses. Nute and Toad are about the perfect horse names.
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Thanks for clearing that up, I thought they were cowboy nicknames. :)
Post by: mocat on May 22, 2020, 09:09:03 AM
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2020, 09:23:59 AM
Folks, hold onto your asses for cow farm photography.
check this badass basically homemade UTV thing my dad purchased on a whim a couple years ago. lmao.
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Is that KC on the headlights for the Royals or some sort of brand name?
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2020, 09:29:36 AM
I think the lifespan of a Polaris ranger is like 4 months at our ranch. Here is a pic of a current one driven by a 7 and 3 year old. Note the gravel benji.
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Does this mean the dave family is hanging out at the farm all weekend? (excellent looking gravel too!)
Picture Request#1 - The giant firehose sprinkler that shoots cow poop slurry over your field.
Post by: wetwillie on May 22, 2020, 09:30:22 AM
Post by: Institutional Control on May 22, 2020, 09:32:49 AM
I'll just stick with my golf cart.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 22, 2020, 09:35:02 AM
you're sh1tting us, right?Folks, hold onto your asses for cow farm photography.
check this badass basically homemade UTV thing my dad purchased on a whim a couple years ago. lmao.
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Is that KC on the headlights for the Royals or some sort of brand name?
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2020, 09:41:21 AM
I think the lifespan of a Polaris ranger is like 4 months at our ranch. Here is a pic of a current one driven by a 7 and 3 year old. Note the gravel benji.
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Does this mean the dave family is hanging out at the farm all weekend? (excellent looking gravel too!)
Picture Request#1 - The giant firehose sprinkler that shoots cow poop slurry over your field.
Also, why is your entire windbreak made up of deciduous tree's (instead of cedars)and how are those tree's still alive?
It looks like a freaking forest.
Post by: pissclams on May 22, 2020, 09:42:46 AM
you're sh1tting us, right?Folks, hold onto your asses for cow farm photography.
check this badass basically homemade UTV thing my dad purchased on a whim a couple years ago. lmao.
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Is that KC on the headlights for the Royals or some sort of brand name?
exactly my reaction
Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 09:43:31 AM
Look at the back of my dads truck, lmao(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200522/bd0186b0e42bc285811f5206df5d4630.jpg)Back seat of truck above, lmao
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on May 22, 2020, 09:43:56 AM
I think the lifespan of a Polaris ranger is like 4 months at our ranch. Here is a pic of a current one driven by a 7 and 3 year old. Note the gravel benji.
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Does this mean the dave family is hanging out at the farm all weekend? (excellent looking gravel too!)
Picture Request#1 - The giant firehose sprinkler that shoots cow poop slurry over your field.
Also, why is your entire windbreak made up of deciduous tree's (instead of cedars)and how are those tree's still alive?
It looks like a freaking forest.
piss elms will grow anywhere
Post by: pissclams on May 22, 2020, 09:47:22 AM
Look at the back of my dads truck, lmao(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200522/bd0186b0e42bc285811f5206df5d4630.jpg)Back seat of truck above, lmao
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at least he has his armorall wipes to clean it right up
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2020, 09:49:50 AM
Look at the back of my dads truck, lmao(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200522/bd0186b0e42bc285811f5206df5d4630.jpg)Back seat of truck above, lmao
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I bet your dad saves every single coffee can/container and uses them to store nuts/bolts and probably has like 50+ old cans waiting to be used but he still continues to save the cans.
And you should get him a case for his vermin blasting guns in the back, they look dirty as hell.
Post by: star seed 7 on May 22, 2020, 10:02:13 AM
Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 10:03:34 AM
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Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 10:04:34 AM
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Post by: Institutional Control on May 22, 2020, 10:06:48 AM
at least he has his armorall wipes to clean it right up
:lol:
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Post by: Institutional Control on May 22, 2020, 10:08:19 AM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 22, 2020, 10:33:54 AM
Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 12:43:51 PM
Love the electric fence to keep the cats off the car. What is your current cat count on the SD Ranch?Like 3 cats and 8 raccoons (non domesticated raccoons)
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Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 12:55:13 PM
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Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 04:05:07 PM
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Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 04:06:41 PM
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Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 04:08:09 PM
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I have received an invitation to the hobby farm this weekend :Carl:
Make sure to take pictures of all the random junk to share in this thread.
Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 06:07:23 PM
Was that broadsword ever used for anything or does it have some old timey significance?It’s just a pile of all blades old and new that we’ve gathered from buildings and crap.
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Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 06:48:02 PM
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Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2020, 07:01:34 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2020, 11:32:57 PM
Here is what an irl farm shop looks like
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This is what your farm shop will look like irl in 20 years.
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Post by: michigancat on May 23, 2020, 12:12:23 AM
are you guys taking pics of like your secondary shops or what because my god burn some trash and get a broom
lol I love this broom just sitting in a pile of the stuff you pour on oil to sop it up and then sweep up. also get a real broom sd's dad!.
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Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2020, 12:13:56 AM
I had to find a new nut/bolt combo for the weed whip one time but that stuff was all combine size.
Ended up finding a harbor freight set that was unopened that worked just fine.
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Post by: michigancat on May 23, 2020, 12:16:00 AM
*back when I was a kid my grandpa smoked a pipe so we had empty Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco cans to put nuts and bolts in and pour out the oil sopping up stuff. seriously we had like a million of these cans and then my grandpa had heart surgery when he was like 75 or 80 and just quit cold turkey and now he's kickin' in his 90's
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Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2020, 12:18:32 AM
are you guys taking pics of like your secondary shops or what because my god burn some trash and get a broom
These were taken when I first got out there and I probably filled up the incinerator 3/4 times with empty boxes or egg cartons/junk but it's still disgusting.
I wanted to completely reorganize everything while I was out there but my dad wouldn't let me because he is waiting until next year when my uncle's lease is up and he moves all of "his" tools out.
Whatever dad, i'll just go haul some more tree limbs out of the windbreak and you can keep your junkyard garage/workshop.
Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2020, 12:20:28 AM
Name the snake species. About 7 ft long. Aggressive AF.
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Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2020, 12:21:51 AM
seriously there are few things more satisfying then having a little oil spill and taking an empty can* of the white stuff and shaking it over the oil and then sweeping it up and having it mostly clean with maybe a tiny bit of stain.
*back when I was a kid my grandpa smoked a pipe so we had empty Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco cans to put nuts and bolts in and pour out the oil sopping up stuff. seriously we had like a million of these cans and then my grandpa had heart surgery when he was like 75 or 80 and just quit cold turkey and now he's kickin' in his 90's
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When my brother changed the oil on the riding lawnmower and golf cart he asked my dad what to do with the oil and my dad was just like "Drain it on the gravel or whatever" :Wha:
He ended up catching it in a cat food pan and throwing it on top of trash in the incinerator so I guess we were being environmentally responsible?
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Name the snake species. About 7 ft long. Aggressive AF.
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Bull snake or whip? snake
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2020, 12:24:09 AM
Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2020, 12:25:02 AM
This is a Keep Cats Off The Nice Vehicles electric fence (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200522/a2b2758bfbd9033eb477e1d59f28a9b7.jpg)Asked my dad where he got this thing and he said he just built it. So maybe a billion dollar product?
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Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2020, 12:26:13 AM
Whip, which are rare here(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200523/96e0bcd40a393e3cf6a0d905fe9cca0b.jpg)
Name the snake species. About 7 ft long. Aggressive AF.
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Bull snake or whip? snake
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Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2020, 12:27:36 AM
:billdance:
Post by: michigancat on May 23, 2020, 12:32:21 AM
I mean we definitely collected all the used oil into a barrel that I'm assuming for taken somewhere responsibly but also we dumped the pure trash that wouldn't burn next to a creek that eventually found its way to the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexicoseriously there are few things more satisfying then having a little oil spill and taking an empty can* of the white stuff and shaking it over the oil and then sweeping it up and having it mostly clean with maybe a tiny bit of stain.
*back when I was a kid my grandpa smoked a pipe so we had empty Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco cans to put nuts and bolts in and pour out the oil sopping up stuff. seriously we had like a million of these cans and then my grandpa had heart surgery when he was like 75 or 80 and just quit cold turkey and now he's kickin' in his 90's
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When my brother changed the oil on the riding lawnmower and golf cart he asked my dad what to do with the oil and my dad was just like "Drain it on the gravel or whatever" :Wha:
He ended up catching it in a cat food pan and throwing it on top of trash in the incinerator so I guess we were being environmentally responsible?
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2020, 12:38:43 AM
I mean we definitely collected all the used oil into a barrel that I'm assuming for taken somewhere responsibly but also we dumped the pure trash that wouldn't burn next to a creek that eventually found its way to the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexicoseriously there are few things more satisfying then having a little oil spill and taking an empty can* of the white stuff and shaking it over the oil and then sweeping it up and having it mostly clean with maybe a tiny bit of stain.
*back when I was a kid my grandpa smoked a pipe so we had empty Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco cans to put nuts and bolts in and pour out the oil sopping up stuff. seriously we had like a million of these cans and then my grandpa had heart surgery when he was like 75 or 80 and just quit cold turkey and now he's kickin' in his 90's
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When my brother changed the oil on the riding lawnmower and golf cart he asked my dad what to do with the oil and my dad was just like "Drain it on the gravel or whatever" :Wha:
He ended up catching it in a cat food pan and throwing it on top of trash in the incinerator so I guess we were being environmentally responsible?
We actually recycle like a mofo out on the cat ranch only because glass/aluminum/tin cans dont burn all the way. Colby has a free recycling center in town where you just drive up and dump your stuff in the correct dumpster.
It was surprisingly busy the couple of times I dropped stuff off there.
Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2020, 12:14:03 PM
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Old timey underground house. Not all underground but like built into a berm.
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Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2020, 12:53:30 PM
I asked my dad what he was going to do with the old barns that are falling down at the cat ranch and his reply was "Wait for it to fall down then set it on fire"
Post by: michigancat on May 23, 2020, 01:26:17 PM
Are all of these old abandoned buildings on the SD Ranch? It's an impressive collection if so.Wouldn't it be more fun to burn them while they're still standing?
I asked my dad what he was going to do with the old barns that are falling down at the cat ranch and his reply was "Wait for it to fall down then set it on fire"
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 23, 2020, 02:22:17 PM
Cow food delivery unit. The food dumps out of that side thing right into their bowl.Antenna and roller to keep the front corner of the truck out of the concrete bunk aka food bowl. This is a professional operation.
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Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2020, 03:19:04 PM
Are all of these old abandoned buildings on the SD Ranch? It's an impressive collection if so.
I asked my dad what he was going to do with the old barns that are falling down at the cat ranch and his reply was "Wait for it to fall down then set it on fire"
Yes, that’s like 1/10 of them. We’ve got old houses and crap everywhere.
That one with no side parts had the wood taken off to build an old timey cowboy house. If the old wood is good or something it can be sold for that stuff apparently.
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Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2020, 03:59:06 PM
Pictures of the cow poop sprinkler system next please.Update on this. It now feeds directly into the center pivot system. Asked my dad last night specifically to answer to this.
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Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2020, 03:59:27 PM
pics of cows, please.I’ll get some more if I head out again.
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Post by: chum1 on May 23, 2020, 04:24:19 PM
Are all of these old abandoned buildings on the SD Ranch? It's an impressive collection if so.
Yes, that’s like 1/10 of them. We’ve got old houses and crap everywhere.
Right or wrong, this makes me think of The Homestead Act. A house per 160 acres. Or "quarter section" as my dad LOVES to say when talking about land.
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2020, 04:59:12 PM
This sounds amazing, center pivot sprinkling cow poop slurry?!? I assume you cant water within X amount of days before harvest to let the cow poop dissipate?Pictures of the cow poop sprinkler system next please.Update on this. It now feeds directly into the center pivot system. Asked my dad last night specifically to answer to this.
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You don’t water near harvest but I doubt anyone would say anythingThis sounds amazing, center pivot sprinkling cow poop slurry?!? I assume you cant water within X amount of days before harvest to let the cow poop dissipate?Pictures of the cow poop sprinkler system next please.Update on this. It now feeds directly into the center pivot system. Asked my dad last night specifically to answer to this.
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Post by: steve dave on May 23, 2020, 09:03:56 PM
How many handyman jacks do you need? Well, at least nine.I asked my dad about them and he said they suck crap and are good for parts for other ones because they bend and break all the time so these are just “parts” handyman jacks. lmao.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5roWA6yRwU
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Post by: sys on May 24, 2020, 05:20:50 PM
*back when I was a kid my grandpa smoked a pipe so we had empty Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco cans to put nuts and bolts in and pour out the oil sopping up stuff. seriously we had like a million of these cans and then my grandpa had heart surgery when he was like 75 or 80 and just quit cold turkey and now he's kickin' in his 90's
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my grandfather had at least nine million of them and it's (the innards) the best smell in the world. if i knew where to buy these things, i'd buy a few cans to set around the house like potpourri.
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Name the snake species. About 7 ft long. Aggressive AF.
western coachwhip. very southwesterny.
Post by: Institutional Control on May 24, 2020, 05:29:20 PM
the only reason I found that song was because my second favorite turnpike troubadours song was on the same playlistWhat’s your favorite Turnpike song? 7 & 7 or Unrung?
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Post by: michigancat on May 24, 2020, 05:40:56 PM
What a great idea. My grandpa had a Lincoln Continental and holy crap did that leather smell good. The place I got the image from sells it!*back when I was a kid my grandpa smoked a pipe so we had empty Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco cans to put nuts and bolts in and pour out the oil sopping up stuff. seriously we had like a million of these cans and then my grandpa had heart surgery when he was like 75 or 80 and just quit cold turkey and now he's kickin' in his 90's
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my grandfather had at least nine million of them and it's (the innards) the best smell in the world. if i knew where to buy these things, i'd buy a few cans to set around the house like potpourri.
https://www.pipesandcigars.com/mobile/p/sir-walter-raleigh-regular-pipe-tobacco/1440096/
Post by: ben ji on May 24, 2020, 09:44:05 PM
the only reason I found that song was because my second favorite turnpike troubadours song was on the same playlistWhat’s your favorite Turnpike song? 7 & 7 or Unrung?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5roWA6yRwU
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Both good songs but my favorite is Bird hunters. 100% of the reason I got a pointer instead of a lab for bird hunting. It was dumb and now I have a little terrorist.
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Pro tip: Labs are the best dogs.the only reason I found that song was because my second favorite turnpike troubadours song was on the same playlistWhat’s your favorite Turnpike song? 7 & 7 or Unrung?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5roWA6yRwU
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Both good songs but my favorite is Bird hunters. 100% of the reason I got a pointer instead of a lab for bird hunting. It was dumb and now I have a little terrorist.
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Post by: HELLHAMMER on June 05, 2020, 11:17:19 AM
i have v low tractor iq but that thing looks soviet afLate 80s-early 90s Gleaner. They were pieces of crap.
Post by: Institutional Control on June 05, 2020, 11:57:26 AM
:jerk:i have v low tractor iq but that thing looks soviet afLate 80s-early 90s Gleaner. They were pieces of crap.
My grandpa would fight you right now if he were alive.
Post by: star seed 7 on June 05, 2020, 12:32:27 PM
:jerk:i have v low tractor iq but that thing looks soviet afLate 80s-early 90s Gleaner. They were pieces of crap.
My grandpa would fight you right now if he were alive.
Gleaner accident?
Post by: Institutional Control on June 05, 2020, 12:36:07 PM
:jerk:i have v low tractor iq but that thing looks soviet afLate 80s-early 90s Gleaner. They were pieces of crap.
My grandpa would fight you right now if he were alive.
Gleaner accident?
No, old age. He would be 101 if he were still alive. But he was a Gleaner combine man and a John Deere tractor guy.
Post by: michigancat on June 05, 2020, 12:38:52 PM
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I remember debates among farmer kids on the value of a cylinder combine (John Deere) vs. a rotary (Case IH, Gleaner). Pretty sure all the John Deeres are rotary now so those cylinder purists look pretty silly now! :lol:
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There is a small but growing movement including several large row croppers who are not only bridging the huge gap between themselves and consumers but also trying to do some extra good by donating produce that is harvested from their "Milpa acres".
Definition of Milpa Acres: A milpa is a field in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once including corn, avocados, multiple varieties of squash and bean, melon, tomatoes, chilis, sweet potato, etc. Milpa crops are nutritionally and environmentally complementary. Corn lacks the amino acids, lysine, and tryptophan which the body needs to make proteins and niacin, but the beans have both lysine and tryptophan. The Squashes, for their part, provide an array of vitamins; avocados, fats, etc. The milpa, in the estimation of H. Garrison Wilkes, a corn researcher at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, "is one of the most successful human inventions ever created."
Tom Cannon, who operates 10,000 acres of crops and cattle near Blackwell, Oklahoma, was already getting hit hard from the trade war battles, then the effects of COVID-19 on the food supply chain led him to make the move to Milpa and help out those needing a meal. I found one of his comments interesting, where he mentioned that even farmers are dependent on our fragile food system and a lot of them are only four days away from hunger, not something we often think about. As a result, Cannon decided to start growing a variety of fruits and vegetables for local consumption. It’s the perfect way for a commodity farmer to grow produce without changing farming practices. I'm told you can just load the drill with 50 plus species and don’t ever have to go back until it is time to harvest, which most times you don't even do yourself.
From what I understand, most of these Milpa plots not only put food on the grower's plates but most of the 4,000 plus pounds of produce each acre delivers get donated to local community groups like food banks, youth groups, and churches. All they have to do is agree to do the harvesting. When that's finished, the rest serves as green manure for the field. Keep in mind, so far most of the growers who are stepping up are also committed regenerative farmers who are already on board with the benefits beyond the ease of planting which include crowding out weeds, encouraging beneficial insects, and increasing soil moisture retention.
We read an article the other day in Successful Farming that told about Sedgwick, Kansas, farmer Ryan Speer and his wife, Jennifer, who have planted a Milpa Gardens for three years. The Speers have harvested tons of produce, giving it not only to the Food and Farm Council, but to the Salvation Army, women’s shelters, and employees of the Newton, Kansas, hospital where Jennifer works. They pick three times a week, two hours per night harvesting, putting the food in laundry baskets, filling five to six laundry baskets full of vegetables every few days. The Speers grow a few rows of sweet corn separately in a cornfield, and add those ears to the baskets, while Jennifer provides recipes on how to fix meals with these vegetables. Read their full story HERE.
Some growers may not like a field that doesn't have straight rows but for the locals, it adds a new experience to acquiring your food as it's more of a scavenger hunt, where you have to navigate through the cover, never exactly knowing when you're going to run across that watermelon you crave. Cannon says one of the greatest joys he receives is the sounds of delight that come from his fields, as children and adults finally happen upon what they are looking for. It seems like harvesting a Milpa unleashes the inner forager in everyone.
Over the past three years, Milpa mix has been slowly gaining popularity and according to Keith Berns, co-owner of Green Cover Seed in Bladen, Nebraska, who helped formulate the first seed mixes, the number of orders suddenly doubled this spring. Berns who currently is donating a free acre of seed to anyone who commits to donating the harvest, is also thinking much bigger. With 200 million acres planted with corn, soy, and wheat in the U.S., Berns says if every producer just dedicated a fractional percentage of their land to a Milpa garden, it could result in a massive increase in national vegetable production. Keep in mind, farming regions across the U.S. may be growing plenty of crops, but rural communities have long had limited access to nutrient-rich fresh food, and this could be a great win-win. Something to think about and consider if you are looking for ways to help your community. (Source: CivilEats, KansasRuralCenter; SuccessfulFarming)
This from a consultant I follow on LinkedIn. Maybe needs to be in garden thread, but I am going to research this for next spring.
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Farmers have always helped their neighbors when needed and now some are putting acres towards helping out their communities after seeing long lines outside local food pantries and empty shelves at the stores as a result of the pandemic.
There is a small but growing movement including several large row croppers who are not only bridging the huge gap between themselves and consumers but also trying to do some extra good by donating produce that is harvested from their "Milpa acres".
Definition of Milpa Acres: A milpa is a field in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once including corn, avocados, multiple varieties of squash and bean, melon, tomatoes, chilis, sweet potato, etc. Milpa crops are nutritionally and environmentally complementary. Corn lacks the amino acids, lysine, and tryptophan which the body needs to make proteins and niacin, but the beans have both lysine and tryptophan. The Squashes, for their part, provide an array of vitamins; avocados, fats, etc. The milpa, in the estimation of H. Garrison Wilkes, a corn researcher at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, "is one of the most successful human inventions ever created."
Tom Cannon, who operates 10,000 acres of crops and cattle near Blackwell, Oklahoma, was already getting hit hard from the trade war battles, then the effects of COVID-19 on the food supply chain led him to make the move to Milpa and help out those needing a meal. I found one of his comments interesting, where he mentioned that even farmers are dependent on our fragile food system and a lot of them are only four days away from hunger, not something we often think about. As a result, Cannon decided to start growing a variety of fruits and vegetables for local consumption. It’s the perfect way for a commodity farmer to grow produce without changing farming practices. I'm told you can just load the drill with 50 plus species and don’t ever have to go back until it is time to harvest, which most times you don't even do yourself.
From what I understand, most of these Milpa plots not only put food on the grower's plates but most of the 4,000 plus pounds of produce each acre delivers get donated to local community groups like food banks, youth groups, and churches. All they have to do is agree to do the harvesting. When that's finished, the rest serves as green manure for the field. Keep in mind, so far most of the growers who are stepping up are also committed regenerative farmers who are already on board with the benefits beyond the ease of planting which include crowding out weeds, encouraging beneficial insects, and increasing soil moisture retention.
We read an article the other day in Successful Farming that told about Sedgwick, Kansas, farmer Ryan Speer and his wife, Jennifer, who have planted a Milpa Gardens for three years. The Speers have harvested tons of produce, giving it not only to the Food and Farm Council, but to the Salvation Army, women’s shelters, and employees of the Newton, Kansas, hospital where Jennifer works. They pick three times a week, two hours per night harvesting, putting the food in laundry baskets, filling five to six laundry baskets full of vegetables every few days. The Speers grow a few rows of sweet corn separately in a cornfield, and add those ears to the baskets, while Jennifer provides recipes on how to fix meals with these vegetables. Read their full story HERE.
Some growers may not like a field that doesn't have straight rows but for the locals, it adds a new experience to acquiring your food as it's more of a scavenger hunt, where you have to navigate through the cover, never exactly knowing when you're going to run across that watermelon you crave. Cannon says one of the greatest joys he receives is the sounds of delight that come from his fields, as children and adults finally happen upon what they are looking for. It seems like harvesting a Milpa unleashes the inner forager in everyone.
Over the past three years, Milpa mix has been slowly gaining popularity and according to Keith Berns, co-owner of Green Cover Seed in Bladen, Nebraska, who helped formulate the first seed mixes, the number of orders suddenly doubled this spring. Berns who currently is donating a free acre of seed to anyone who commits to donating the harvest, is also thinking much bigger. With 200 million acres planted with corn, soy, and wheat in the U.S., Berns says if every producer just dedicated a fractional percentage of their land to a Milpa garden, it could result in a massive increase in national vegetable production. Keep in mind, farming regions across the U.S. may be growing plenty of crops, but rural communities have long had limited access to nutrient-rich fresh food, and this could be a great win-win. Something to think about and consider if you are looking for ways to help your community. (Source: CivilEats, KansasRuralCenter; SuccessfulFarming)
This from a consultant I follow on LinkedIn. Maybe needs to be in garden thread, but I am going to research this for next spring.
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reminds me of this! my dad is looking into regenerative farming
https://www.hpj.com/crops/arkansas-farmers-switch-to-cover-crops-and-keep-the-family-farming-for-another-generation/article_3d6f4920-8bc7-11ea-8b45-03d860986934.html
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My dad and uncle are in a pissing match so my uncles lease is up in march 2021 and it will all be on my dad. Our conversation started with his new brilliant idea to make money leasing the large morton building/barn out for people to store alfalfa bales in (they would have to leave room for the barn cats tho) and be a "alfalfa middle man". I mentioned that most alfalfa bales were wrapped in plastic netting and stored outside and that even my uncle didn't bother to store them inside when he could have easily done it so that idea probably wouldn't work.
He also had no idea how much he might get from leasing out the barn to store alfalfa bales :dubious:
Post by: ben ji on June 10, 2020, 07:55:26 PM
dad: I'm going to plant Milo
ben ji: Why?
dad: We made money last year when it was milo.
ben ji: who is going to plant/farm it?
dad: I'll get some custom people to till it/plant it/pre-emergent/fertilizer etc etc
ben ji: how much will that cost per acre? What kind of bushel per acre will you need to break even?
dad: I don't know
ben ji: Do you know who is going to do the custom work?
dad: no
ben ji: Maybe you should start looking into that.
Post by: ben ji on June 10, 2020, 08:00:56 PM
dad: And then I'll have someone break out the pasture for cropland.
ben ji: Who is going to do that?
dad: XYZ's kid might
ben ji: have you asked him if he wants to do it and how much he would charge/profit split?
dad: no, i brought it up one time though and he sounded interested.
ben ji: so.......you have no idea if its feasible?
dad: all the land around it is crop land so it should work.
Post by: ben ji on June 10, 2020, 08:04:21 PM
:crossfingers: :pray: :crossfingers:
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PS. barn lease for alfalfa bales is lmao
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DAMNIT! We’ve got no covered place to store our alfalfa bales! What if we were to PAY some guy who lives miles away to store them there and when we need them we drive our asses all the way over there and get some and drive back here! Holy crap.....are you sure you aren’t some farm genius? Yes, I actually am irl.
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My uncle literally stored his bales outside about 300 yards away from the barn which was empty like 90% of the time(besides old hay bales that the barn cats live in).
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Post by: ben ji on June 11, 2020, 08:34:43 AM
Does the pasture have good fence? What kind of grass?
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Fence is in good condition but I have no idea what kind of grass is out there, probably buffalo grass or whatever.
Your big farm neighbors have more equipment then barns? Rent it to store equipment. Farmers love to note their 2012 Case IH Axial Flow combine was stored in a shed when its time to sell it.
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This is probably what will happen, let whoever leases the land keep tractor etc in the big barn as part of the lease.
Post by: ben ji on June 11, 2020, 08:35:15 AM
Ben ji, you have incred farm instincts.
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I've learned everything I know about farming from this thread :thumbsup:
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Post by: ben ji on June 12, 2020, 08:54:07 AM
i hope your family decides not to tear up that pasture.
sys, we are suitcase farmers. Only planning on breaking out around 1/4 of the pasture that is flat and has good soil.
2019 Avg rental rate for pasture in Thomas County - $18 per acre
2019 Avg rental rate for non irrigated cropland in Thomas County - $57
If it makes you feel any better my dad planted a bunch of clover all around the windbreaks/old pens for his bee's. :dunno:
Post by: michigancat on June 12, 2020, 09:00:23 AM
i hope your family decides not to tear up that pasture.
sys, we are suitcase farmers. Only planning on breaking out around 1/4 of the pasture that is flat and has good soil.
2019 Avg rental rate for pasture in Thomas County - $18 per acre
2019 Avg rental rate for non irrigated cropland in Thomas County - $57
If it makes you feel any better my dad planted a bunch of clover all around the windbreaks/old pens for his bee's. :dunno:
I can't imagine you'd get the average rental rate. I don't think it's worth it.
If your dad wants to make money he should sell it all and invest in the stock market. If he really wants to farm, put some cows of his own out there. If he wants sentimental value and something that connects with his sons, keep it as a golf course/cat ranch.
Post by: sys on June 12, 2020, 04:29:14 PM
If he really wants to farm, put some cows of his own out there. If he wants sentimental value and something that connects with his sons, keep it as a golf course/cat ranch.
the family would get pretty attached to some cows, i bet.
Post by: sys on June 12, 2020, 04:37:05 PM
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https://twitter.com/ksusys/status/1271556174211473408
Post by: michigancat on June 12, 2020, 05:13:30 PM
Might be too much work thoughIf he really wants to farm, put some cows of his own out there. If he wants sentimental value and something that connects with his sons, keep it as a golf course/cat ranch.
the family would get pretty attached to some cows, i bet.
Post by: steve dave on June 12, 2020, 05:54:54 PM
i hope your family decides not to tear up that pasture.
sys, we are suitcase farmers. Only planning on breaking out around 1/4 of the pasture that is flat and has good soil.
2019 Avg rental rate for pasture in Thomas County - $18 per acre
2019 Avg rental rate for non irrigated cropland in Thomas County - $57
If it makes you feel any better my dad planted a bunch of clover all around the windbreaks/old pens for his bee's. :dunno:
this is a terrible idea. lease everything out immediately.
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Post by: ben ji on June 13, 2020, 10:21:43 AM
Somebody on here got some CRP knowledge? Enroll that grass in a program and let USDA pay dad to NOT farm it. Is it hunting worthy with the wind breaks? Probably get a little check from state as WIHA.
Tom
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We looked in to CRP but it has to be cropland before it goes into crp.
Post by: ben ji on June 14, 2020, 11:19:20 PM
Thought I saw a turkey. Checked cam. Racoon around. Mama missing. Kittens uncertain. Trap set. Another cam set. Auto watering system working good. Farm tomatoes big as OP tomatoes. Ate kale, lettuce, spinach, radishes, buttercup lettuce with chicken tonight.
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Post by: ben ji on June 14, 2020, 11:57:13 PM
:Wha:
These are white mama's most recent kittens, white mama is still missing.
I'm very happy he was able to find white mama with the trail cam. I can only imagine the stress he would be under if he had to go a couple of days without confirming lil's mama was still alive.
Email was titled "White mama and kitten"
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Post by: ben ji on June 22, 2020, 08:42:08 AM
Anyways my question is about Livestock Association/Agents etc. In the show the patriarch of the family is also the Livestock Association Commissioner in MT or something and he can basically go busting down door and pew pew'n as long he he claims it has something to do with cattle.
Does KS have a similar livestock association like that? If someone steals your cows do you call them or the local sheriff?
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 22, 2020, 11:15:55 AM
National lobby and industry group. Funded by the $1 per head beef check off producers pay when cattle are sold. Mandated by 1985 farm bill.
Famous for the "Beef, its whats for dinner" ad campaign.
Except for the time they named Cybill Shepard the national spokesperson and it came out she was trying to stay away from red meat.
https://www.kla.org/
State lobby and industry group.
Issues the cool KLA Eat Beef license plates.
https://www.r-calfusa.com/
Cattlemen group who are not fans of the check off. Butted heads with NCBA in court over it. Proponents of COOL "country of origin labeling"
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Post by: Spracne on June 22, 2020, 11:27:19 AM
https://www.r-calfusa.com/
Cattlemen group who are not fans of the check off. Butted heads with NCBA in court over it. Proponents of COOL "country of origin labeling"
I remember reading that case!
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it may be a baby.
Juvenile Mt Lion?
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Post by: michigancat on July 06, 2020, 10:29:56 AM
Ran trailer hitch thru my tailgate this weekend. I hate being reminded of what a crappy farmer I would have been. Missed the KState plate holder thankfully.
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lol cue Bob Ueker's "JUUUUUST a bit outside"
and you should know every real farm truck has shitloads of stupid dents in it so I'd say you look like a real farmer to me. :)
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 06, 2020, 10:54:31 AM
You would think that Super Duty Ford would have a backup camera.It does. This happened loading Gator on trailer... didnt have the ball locked down so it popped off and force of Gator on load ramp forced it thru the tail gate.
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thanks for giving the raccoons a laugh.Yeah they are just toying with me. Cousin said more evidence of intrusion. Oh well, gets me out of the city/office/house in the fresh air.
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what a wonderful picture Tom. ThanksThose flowers are maintained daily by a 91 year old widow still living on the "home place" with her loyal dog Tillie.
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Post by: sys on July 08, 2020, 03:03:47 PM
Yeah they are just toying with me. Cousin said more evidence of intrusion. Oh well, gets me out of the city/office/house in the fresh air.
https://twitter.com/AnimalsWorId/status/1280945977424089088
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Post by: ben ji on July 11, 2020, 10:33:10 PM
I made my dad watch it and he mentioned that his dad/my grandpa worked for Garvey (the local land Baron of the time) for a bit.
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From driving around Thomas county over the last 2 days it's maybe 25% wheat and 75% corn/Milo/silage.
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Post by: steve dave on July 12, 2020, 06:44:16 AM
Watching this do documentary again it's crazy how little wheat is grown out in Thomas county now.You can grow dry land corn now because of the incredible GMO. Even in completely arid wastelands like Meade. Growing up we’d have circles of corn but dry land was completely ridiculous to consider.
From driving around Thomas county over the last 2 days it's maybe 25% wheat and 75% corn/Milo/silage.
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Post by: sys on July 12, 2020, 03:00:39 PM
You can grow dry land corn now because of the incredible GMO.
i didn't know that. thanks, monsanto!
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Post by: Katpappy on July 13, 2020, 10:28:44 AM
Watching this do documentary again it's crazy how little wheat is grown out in Thomas county now.You can grow dry land corn now because of the incredible GMO. Even in completely arid wastelands like Meade. Growing up we’d have circles of corn but dry land was completely ridiculous to consider.
From driving around Thomas county over the last 2 days it's maybe 25% wheat and 75% corn/Milo/silage.
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We had irrigated crop land that we mainly grew corn. Dad always said irrigated corn/crop is guaranteed income. Dry land is a gamble on weather. More money to be made on dry land crop, but high risk to lose your ass on loses.
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Post by: Katpappy on July 13, 2020, 09:02:22 PM
Benji !
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If you decide to get it, throw some power cats on that SOB chick wagon.
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Family, meet Tasmo !
Born about 10 am. Momma came out late to eat, dragging Tasmo behind (just gave birth, attached yet). Brought momma food, showed her Tasmo, left for day's work. 7 pm checked, Tasmo in same place, attached yet to what came outa momma. Abandoned. Within 1.5 hrs, Tasmo sucked down 6 eyedroppers of warm milk. Had to shut house ac off for Tasmo. Nick name is "Non Stop". You'll understand when you meet him. Mom wanted to name him "NO NO NO".
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Tasmo (non stop) is a female I believe. On half n half now. Naps for 3 hrs, then "feed me now" time. Had first cute lil bm (bowel movement).
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Benji !
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If you decide to get it, throw some power cats on that SOB chick wagon.
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Post by: star seed 7 on July 20, 2020, 11:31:54 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on July 20, 2020, 11:51:38 AM
Your dad is so wonderfully caring about his cats.
This is so super opposite of the farm people I grew up around.
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Yeah, cat populations are self regulating. Tell your dad he is rough ridin' up the balance and there will be repercussions.
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Cat census is surprisingly low out there now, only 4-5 adult cats during the last census. I think the 2 orange ones are goners as they have not been seen in months. :Crybaby:
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Is the story of no 1 going out the front of the gator in this thread?It is not. I was not present as she was off fishing. Gator left with a perfectly good mirror. Returned with it broke off. Story has changed over time.
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Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2020, 08:10:37 AM
Post by: michigancat on July 21, 2020, 08:29:40 AM
Is anyone going to mock Tom's welds or do we just do that for ben ji's brothers welds?We all thought it
Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2020, 08:31:33 AM
Is anyone going to mock Tom's welds or do we just do that for ben ji's brothers welds?We all thought it
I appreciate the validation
Post by: michigancat on July 21, 2020, 08:40:50 AM
We'll be relentless if he blames his wife againIs anyone going to mock Tom's welds or do we just do that for ben ji's brothers welds?We all thought it
I appreciate the validation
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Post by: sys on July 21, 2020, 11:37:58 AM
I would have just tie-wired the bar to the cage
i would have used zip ties.
Post by: Katpappy on July 21, 2020, 01:00:59 PM
That is farm AF Tom, nice work
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My dad would make the nastiest welds, but most of the time they held. So yes I agree that is farm as eff. Also most farmers are into function, and don't care how pretty it looks.
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Back in my metal shop days I could arc a pretty solid bead :cool:
I usually need to practice on similar scrap metal to get the amp setting and correct rods. Since I am self taught.
Post by: KST8FAN on July 21, 2020, 09:26:39 PM
Knocked out this sweet 15 ft wire gate today.
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Post by: michigancat on July 21, 2020, 10:08:49 PM
Might not be pretty, but it ain't falling off either.
i'm not convinced.
sorry, Tom
Post by: ben ji on July 22, 2020, 08:43:47 AM
The herd will be here soon.
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That grass is looking hot as F Tom, those cows are going to go absolutely nuts when they get in there.
Post by: ben ji on July 22, 2020, 08:47:15 AM
The only green spots are where the dry "Creek" bed is.
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Post by: ben ji on July 22, 2020, 09:22:26 AM
That seems like a different spot imo
Pictures were taken on opposite sides of the "creek"
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Post by: Institutional Control on July 22, 2020, 12:30:32 PM
What happened to the river
Beavers damned it up about 4 miles upstream.
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Post by: michigancat on July 22, 2020, 02:42:59 PM
Same spot at the same time of the year in 2020
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is that the same land your dad thinks he should plow up and farm?
Post by: ben ji on July 22, 2020, 04:31:59 PM
Same spot at the same time of the year in 2020
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is that the same land your dad thinks he should plow up and farm?
The creek is on one side of the pasture and he wants to break out 100 acres on the other side of the pasture
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 22, 2020, 09:35:08 PM
Another pasture shot
You can see the cleared brush piles to the left. Been cleaning this up for 2 years.
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 22, 2020, 09:58:31 PM
#1 and I replaced all the wood about 15 years ago.
An example of Tom Dad welding.
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Post by: pissclams on July 22, 2020, 11:03:47 PM
makes you wonder, are all corn cob strains p much the same? soil, water, pesticides all different and can affect the flavors! I wish stores had a wider selection of cob strains tbh, let me shop a little bit and find the good stuff. no reason to limit selection. what if they only had one type of bread? people would be unhappy
Post by: ben ji on July 23, 2020, 08:44:22 AM
lukedave: tell him not to
His original plan was to break out the entire 480 acre pasture including the creek and I've talked him down to 100 acres so baby steps....Also my dad is a notorious dreamer but never actually gets anything done so I put the chances of him breaking out 100 acres by next spring at less than 50%.
He tried to walk into the FSA in Colby the other week to ask about any rules/regulations regarding breaking it out but they told him due to covid he had to schedule an apt online, who knows if he has done that yet since he is busy nursing his newest runt kitten back to health.
Post by: ben ji on July 23, 2020, 08:45:50 AM
Nothing to see here. Your standard grain bin. Second steel door, finished inside became where we stored tools, parts, supplies, etc. Even had a trap door with steps and an attic. Dad had it wired for AC he was going to sleep in this during planting/ harvest instead of driving back into town.
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That is the coolest farm workshop/building I have seen, would be a great hideout in the zombie apocalypse.
Post by: ben ji on July 23, 2020, 08:48:33 AM
Pretty dece bead tomdad
With all this smack talk about terrible welding its refreshing to finally see a good weld.
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Post by: Katpappy on July 23, 2020, 11:03:07 PM
Scavenging in the pro neighbor sweet corn patch to bring season to close.
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Tom, that's a large sweet corn patch. Does your neighbor sell to a store or farmer's market?
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Post by: Katpappy on July 24, 2020, 03:18:19 PM
Its all u pick, Katpappy, for friends and neighbors.
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When I was a kid I put up a sign on the road for fresh corn. I sold it by the gunny sacks. I would let them pick it. Only thing, I didn't tell them it was field corn after the first six outside rows of the crop. My dad would put a bag of sweet corn seed in the planter and planted it first, then would put field corn seed for the rest of the crop. Funny thing is I never had any complaints.
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Post by: Katpappy on July 24, 2020, 08:53:59 PM
Price chopper has the pallet bins of "Nebraska sweet corn" 5 for $3.
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Dillons has them @5 for $2. Walmart has them at 25 cents ea., but not as good.
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Post by: Katpappy on July 24, 2020, 09:27:01 PM
we never planted sweet corn in my entire life. I think that's a hobby farm activity like 4H and raising pigs/sheep.
My dad felt the same way. The only reason he would plant a bag of seed was due to my mom wanting to freeze corn and didn't have enough room in her garden for corn. Of course a bag of seed made for way more corn than we could put up.
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Post by: michigancat on July 25, 2020, 02:52:38 PM
Seems like a lot of workI say this as someone whose weekend project is making chicken stock
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Post by: michigancat on July 25, 2020, 03:09:58 PM
What is field corn? Is it just garbage corn that humans shouldn't be eating?Yeah it's to feed cows and make ethanol
Post by: KST8FAN on July 25, 2020, 03:24:49 PM
WIRED: A Crispr Cow Is Born. It’s Definitely a Boy.Interesting article Memphis. So its a competition between growing meat in a lab vs being able to drive all boy beef herds and all girl pigs & chickens.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-crispr-calf-is-born-its-definitely-a-boy
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Post by: star seed 7 on July 25, 2020, 10:26:08 PM
What is field corn? Is it just garbage corn that humans shouldn't be eating?
I was wondering this too, different types of corn? WTF?
Post by: pissclams on July 26, 2020, 12:02:11 AM
anyone want to try and out cob me?
i will at least eat 9
Post by: Katpappy on July 26, 2020, 09:16:13 AM
What is field corn? Is it just garbage corn that humans shouldn't be eating?
I was wondering this too, different types of corn? WTF?
It's bigger and starchier, so not as sweet. Also, what Rusty said.
Post by: IPA4Me on July 26, 2020, 09:54:16 AM
how many ears do you think you can eat?That barely two cans of corn. Meh.
anyone want to try and out cob me?
i will at least eat 9
Holler when you can get to 20.
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Post by: ben ji on July 26, 2020, 12:17:12 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on July 26, 2020, 12:29:32 PM
Post by: Katpappy on July 26, 2020, 12:40:25 PM
Are we sure that's not a bobcat?
That's a small pussy. When you're an old boomer, you take it anyway you can get it. :gocho:
Post by: ben ji on July 27, 2020, 08:18:54 PM
Apparently lil lil(aka farm kitty) has taken a liking to Tasmo.
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Opened eyes today - first time. One half open, other maybe a quarter open. Two week birthday today at 10 am. Farm Kitty has been cleaning Tasmos, being a nanny. Today she hopped in the bed box so left them in the royal suite. She mother Tasmos.
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Post by: bucket on July 27, 2020, 08:24:33 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 27, 2020, 08:25:48 PM
He recently learned this through experience.
Post by: star seed 7 on July 27, 2020, 08:29:21 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 27, 2020, 08:32:40 PM
Ty for the lil lil update
What about Tasmo? Lil Lil is old news, Tasmo is the hot new guy/gal on the block.
Post by: star seed 7 on July 27, 2020, 08:46:23 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on July 28, 2020, 02:09:51 PM
Nothing to see here. Your standard grain bin. Second steel door, finished inside became where we stored tools, parts, supplies, etc. Even had a trap door with steps and an attic. Dad had it wired for AC he was going to sleep in this during planting/ harvest instead of driving back into town.that is bad ass tom
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this is in mhk https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/32269342?source_impression_id=p3_1595963366_EhyCRAvBhyE0jgSR&guests=1&adults=1 pretty bad ass as well
Post by: Dugout DickStone on July 28, 2020, 02:29:25 PM
Are we sure that's not a bobcat?
That's a small pussy. When you're an old boomer, you take it anyway you can get it. :gocho:
No, Katpappy!
Post by: KST8FAN on July 28, 2020, 02:30:31 PM
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Post by: Institutional Control on July 28, 2020, 03:00:21 PM
Thats next level cool yoga
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Possible additional revenue stream for you, Tom.
Post by: ben ji on July 28, 2020, 04:03:39 PM
Current farm (includes aunt's land next to it)
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Post by: ben ji on July 29, 2020, 12:10:38 AM
My dad/grandparent’s farm in 1981.
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Are there 2 houses in the homestead/building's area? Clearly a house just to the right of the V but it also looks like there is another smaller house under the V as well.
Post by: Institutional Control on July 29, 2020, 08:16:17 AM
Post by: michigancat on July 29, 2020, 08:34:53 AM
There's no bathroom in the small house.Was there never one in the small house?
Post by: ben ji on July 29, 2020, 11:31:30 AM
Kind of shocked by how many sheep there were back then. The most recent report shows a total of 89 sheep in Thomas county compared to 10,000 back in 1934...Guess they were all replaced by cattle since there are 76k cattle in Thomas county now compared to 23k back in 1934.
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Post by: Institutional Control on July 29, 2020, 11:51:36 AM
There's no bathroom in the small house.Was there never one in the small house?
No. When it was built there was a single outhouse for the two houses. They put a bathroom in the main house in the 40s but never put one in the other house. My great grandmother had a commode chair for late night emergencies.
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on July 29, 2020, 12:13:19 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on July 29, 2020, 12:14:14 PM
Post by: Spracne on July 29, 2020, 12:14:41 PM
Hopefully she had some saw dust next to it
The chamber pot goes underneath.
Post by: sys on July 29, 2020, 12:22:30 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 29, 2020, 12:36:09 PM
not in 1933 and 1934, there weren't. that's gotta be some grift crap.
Maybe they just called coyotes wolfs back then?
Post by: Katpappy on July 29, 2020, 12:39:09 PM
Post by: sys on July 29, 2020, 12:46:32 PM
not in 1933 and 1934, there weren't. that's gotta be some grift crap.
Maybe they just called coyotes wolfs back then?
looking into it a bit, there seems to be some confusion as to whether the last wolf in kansas* was killed in 1905 or 1939, so i suppose there is a chance there was some wolf predation in 1933 and '34, but yeah, coyote is much more likely.
* confusion that has now been resolved - the actual last wolf in kansas was killed in 2012, a male that wandered down from minnesota.
Post by: Institutional Control on July 29, 2020, 01:02:27 PM
Welp, there must be something to what farmers would say back when I was a kid, "there's so poor they ain't got a pot to crap in". :'bye cruel world:
I can tell you that shitting in that pan was frowned upon by my grandmother.
Post by: Spracne on July 29, 2020, 02:27:42 PM
Welp, there must be something to what farmers would say back when I was a kid, "there's so poor they ain't got a pot to crap in". :'bye cruel world:
Always heard it as "pot to piss in" myself.
Post by: michigancat on July 29, 2020, 02:30:43 PM
Yeah it would be stupid not to with that obvious alliteration opportunityWelp, there must be something to what farmers would say back when I was a kid, "there's so poor they ain't got a pot to crap in". :'bye cruel world:
Always heard it as "pot to piss in" myself.
Post by: sys on July 29, 2020, 02:57:32 PM
https://twitter.com/ksusys/status/1288563903761223680
Post by: ben ji on July 29, 2020, 03:00:49 PM
waifish farm kitten that tried to invade my car during lunch.
https://twitter.com/ksusys/status/1288563903761223680
Pretty exciting colors for a farm cat
Post by: sys on July 29, 2020, 03:02:38 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 29, 2020, 03:03:31 PM
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Love the donkey cart with beer
Post by: yoga-like_abana on July 29, 2020, 03:16:21 PM
for the smell and other reasons.. https://www.nature-loo.com.au/blog/sawdust-toilets-the-ultimate-guideHopefully she had some saw dust next to it
The chamber pot goes underneath.
Post by: slackcat on July 29, 2020, 06:19:24 PM
Been looking through random old timey farm photos on the Kansas Historical Society website and thought this one had alot going on in it. From 1906
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Love the donkey cart with beer
Those women could do it all.
Post by: KST8FAN on July 29, 2020, 09:00:59 PM
Honey I will watch the donkey beer cart while you and your sister rope and brand the herd.Been looking through random old timey farm photos on the Kansas Historical Society website and thought this one had alot going on in it. From 1906
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Love the donkey cart with beer
Those women could do it all.
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 29, 2020, 09:24:02 PM
12 year old Tom's dad would whoop my 33 yr old ass 6 ways to Sunday.Dad didn't fit real well in the school desks. One of the other boys would poke him with a ruler. TomDad had enough so he dropped the kid with a blow to the head from his steel lunch pale. Three day suspension, house visit from the district principal, but that was the end of the ruler poking.
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Post by: ben ji on July 30, 2020, 11:25:22 AM
not in 1933 and 1934, there weren't. that's gotta be some grift crap.
Maybe they just called coyotes wolfs back then?
looking into it a bit, there seems to be some confusion as to whether the last wolf in kansas* was killed in 1905 or 1939, so i suppose there is a chance there was some wolf predation in 1933 and '34, but yeah, coyote is much more likely.
* confusion that has now been resolved - the actual last wolf in kansas was killed in 2012, a male that wandered down from minnesota.
Yeah, They were definitely yotes. Check out this picture of a 1927 "Wolf Hunt" in Norton county
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Post by: star seed 7 on July 30, 2020, 11:26:37 AM
Post by: ben ji on July 30, 2020, 11:32:40 AM
Man, people were just bored as crap back then
I'm probably going to go coyote hunting with my cousin sometime this winter, could of gone with him one time last year but decided to look for more pheasant instead. He used greyhounds back in the day but now he just drives around in harvested fields at dusk until he see's a coyote then gets out and shoots it and sells it to the fur guy that comes around a couple times a year...Sounds fun!
Post by: Institutional Control on July 30, 2020, 11:47:28 AM
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Post by: steve dave on July 30, 2020, 12:10:11 PM
Pro-tip: he does not get outMan, people were just bored as crap back then
I'm probably going to go coyote hunting with my cousin sometime this winter, could of gone with him one time last year but decided to look for more pheasant instead. He used greyhounds back in the day but now he just drives around in harvested fields at dusk until he see's a coyote then gets out and shoots it and sells it to the fur guy that comes around a couple times a year...Sounds fun!
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Post by: ben ji on July 30, 2020, 12:21:15 PM
Pro-tip: he does not get outMan, people were just bored as crap back then
I'm probably going to go coyote hunting with my cousin sometime this winter, could of gone with him one time last year but decided to look for more pheasant instead. He used greyhounds back in the day but now he just drives around in harvested fields at dusk until he see's a coyote then gets out and shoots it and sells it to the fur guy that comes around a couple times a year...Sounds fun!
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Lol
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Spent the majority of my high school summers behind the wheel of a bad boy identical to this one. I was a field cultivating machine.IRL never had the pleasure, but wore the carpet out with the toy version.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on July 31, 2020, 10:03:41 PM
Buds in college swore by MF combines.
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always thought they had a cult following.
My dad had one. When i asked about it once, he said something to the effect of it was the most affordable option at the time.
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 01, 2020, 09:24:17 AM
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Post by: ben ji on August 04, 2020, 11:20:26 AM
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Post by: Institutional Control on August 04, 2020, 11:23:13 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 04, 2020, 11:48:34 AM
Post by: ben ji on August 04, 2020, 12:12:29 PM
Do farmers love anything more than having someone take an aerial picture of their house/barn? Every farm kid I grew up with had one on the wall.
Planting Ponderosa Pines as a status symbol.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 04, 2020, 12:19:18 PM
Had it done in winter because he got so lathered up and its just snow. But it's on the wall.
Take that farmy neighbors!
Post by: michigancat on August 04, 2020, 12:59:52 PM
Do farmers love anything more than having someone take an aerial picture of their house/barn? Every farm kid I grew up with had one on the wall.
Planting Ponderosa Pines as a status symbol.
fun farming status symbol story
my grandpa took the 4wd dozer tractor down to the creek one day. he spent like all morning and around lunch time he had a rock that was probably 5'x5'x4' tall chained to the 3point hitch dragging down the road. I think he dug it out of the site of an old rail bridge
he parked it right in the front of the yard and left it there. my dad's like "uh, what's that for" and my grandpa says "all the rich folks have big rocks in their yards" and that was the end of the discussion. and to this day I have never seen such a big solitary rock in anyone's yard in my life.
I went back looking at photos and didn't find any of the rock but did find a pretty good "iron pile" photo
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Post by: pissclams on August 04, 2020, 01:24:19 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 04, 2020, 01:32:49 PM
He had 3-4 in inventory at the farm if I ever built a house.
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Post by: michigancat on August 04, 2020, 01:36:44 PM
Dad liked his rocks so much he took them to town with him 30 years ago. Backhoe man said never again. The huge one in the front yard was the fireworks launch pad forever.
He had 3-4 in inventory at the farm if I ever built a house.
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:lol:
that one on the right's a bit wider than my grandpa's but on the same scale
Post by: star seed 7 on August 04, 2020, 01:39:12 PM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 04, 2020, 02:12:04 PM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on August 04, 2020, 02:25:59 PM
Post by: sys on August 04, 2020, 02:34:42 PM
Post by: michigancat on August 04, 2020, 02:49:56 PM
Thoughts on the huge limestone rocks with your last name on it?
those rocks are tiny
Post by: WillieWatanabe on August 04, 2020, 02:57:58 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 04, 2020, 03:20:59 PM
tom why do rich people/famers like big rocks so muchMaybe becasue was the first basic building material... rock walls, stone barn/house? Low maintenance yard art that lasts forever?
The one in that middle picture i used lay on at night with the dog at the farm. I could fall asleep on that damn thing. Hurts me just to look at it now thinking how hard and rough it was.
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 04, 2020, 03:22:55 PM
seems like those would be annoying AF to mow aroundWeed eater and Roundup the first spring cutting you're good to circle it for the summer with no issues.
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on August 04, 2020, 04:12:02 PM
Make bigger ones.. not toms dads rock size but definitely 3-4 ft tall and a foot or two wideThoughts on the huge limestone rocks with your last name on it?
those rocks are tiny
Post by: Institutional Control on August 04, 2020, 04:14:13 PM
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Post by: Brock Landers on August 04, 2020, 06:34:51 PM
Thoughts on the huge limestone rocks with your last name on it?
I got one of these earlier this year although mine is only 2 feet across. It definitely represents a slow but steady descent into white middle-agedom. It has my last name and the corporate logo of a company whose logo is also my last name.
Post by: Katpappy on August 04, 2020, 07:39:02 PM
Giant rocks are a construction thing too. If one was dug up you'd have multiple people asking if they could have it.
Remines me of a while back when I had meet with the project construction superintendent to talk over the project. He complained about trucks running over fresh curbs and crushing them. I had seen that they had dug up some huge rocks so I suggested he have his guys put the rocks next to the inside of the curbs. This should make anybody be extra careful when driving around the curbs. He did it and to this day the rocks are still there doing just what they were put there for. If anybody is in Topeka and decide to go to the movies or eat at Red Robin you will see the rocks I'm talking about.
Post by: Katpappy on August 04, 2020, 07:53:15 PM
you don't have big rock envy when you've got the biggest rock in the county
:ROFL:
Reminds me of when I was a kid, my older brother carved a head of an Indian chief on a huge limestone rock. It sits on a hill on our then ranch to this day. It was to hard to move it when my dad sold the ranch.
Post by: passranch on August 05, 2020, 04:20:25 PM
Giant rocks are a construction thing too. If one was dug up you'd have multiple people asking if they could have it.
Remines me of a while back when I had meet with the project construction superintendent to talk over the project. He complained about trucks running over fresh curbs and crushing them. I had seen that they had dug up some huge rocks so I suggested he have his guys put the rocks next to the inside of the curbs. This should make anybody be extra careful when driving around the curbs. He did it and to this day the rocks are still there doing just what they were put there for. If anybody is in Topeka and decide to go to the movies or eat at Red Robin you will see the rocks I'm talking about.
https://goo.gl/maps/hPaFXBbGSJnhG7Vv7
These?
Post by: ben ji on August 05, 2020, 11:32:19 PM
https://twitter.com/rockormiston2/status/1291172907062788098?s=19
Post by: ben ji on August 05, 2020, 11:33:31 PM
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Post by: steve dave on August 06, 2020, 07:25:45 AM
Post by: ben ji on August 06, 2020, 08:17:10 AM
lmao, I know that guy.
Is he a complete stud?
Post by: bucket on August 06, 2020, 08:22:49 AM
Post by: IPA4Me on August 06, 2020, 08:30:27 AM
EMAW farmer with a hot wife. Of course he is a complete stud.lmao, I know that guy.
Is he a complete stud?
Post by: steve dave on August 06, 2020, 08:32:19 AM
Yeslmao, I know that guy.
Is he a complete stud?
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Post by: ben ji on August 06, 2020, 08:33:35 AM
Confirmed studEMAW farmer with a hot wife. Of course he is a complete stud.lmao, I know that guy.
Is he a complete stud?
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Post by: michigancat on August 06, 2020, 08:44:03 AM
Post by: ben ji on August 06, 2020, 08:52:36 AM
do people normally irrigate milo or did he do this just so he could plant a chief's logo?
My uncle grew milo in our irrigated circle last year but didn't irrigate it very much since it actually rained, he also grew a bunch of it without irrigation on my aunts land next door.
Post by: steve dave on August 06, 2020, 09:00:12 AM
do people normally irrigate milo or did he do this just so he could plant a chief's logo?
yes, sometimes in sw ks. but, in this instance, I'm about 100% certain he did it to assure the logo comes out crisp. he has reached the stage of the farmer hierarchy where he can do eff around farming.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 06, 2020, 11:21:23 AM
Post by: Katpappy on August 06, 2020, 12:14:59 PM
Giant rocks are a construction thing too. If one was dug up you'd have multiple people asking if they could have it.
Remines me of a while back when I had meet with the project construction superintendent to talk over the project. He complained about trucks running over fresh curbs and crushing them. I had seen that they had dug up some huge rocks so I suggested he have his guys put the rocks next to the inside of the curbs. This should make anybody be extra careful when driving around the curbs. He did it and to this day the rocks are still there doing just what they were put there for. If anybody is in Topeka and decide to go to the movies or eat at Red Robin you will see the rocks I'm talking about.
https://goo.gl/maps/hPaFXBbGSJnhG7Vv7
These?
Yes. :cheers:
Post by: Katpappy on August 06, 2020, 12:23:36 PM
I would do a huge purple dong with pubes
Fan of Dr. Frank Tracz? :cool:
Post by: michigancat on August 06, 2020, 01:08:57 PM
https://twitter.com/rockormiston2/status/1289984554900455424?s=20
Post by: michigancat on August 06, 2020, 01:11:42 PM
Post by: Katpappy on August 06, 2020, 02:59:53 PM
I will say that clicking on the tweet and seeing the twitter generated related tweets that are all farm twitter stuff is pretty delightful (aside from the farmer whose wife died)
This cracked me up.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I just found out my grandpa, a lifetime Republican is voting Democrat this fall...<br><br>This would’ve never happened if he were still alive!</p>— Tayler Hansen (@TaylerUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TaylerUSA/status/1289959643880407042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Post by: mocat on August 06, 2020, 05:35:23 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 06, 2020, 10:07:13 PM
dammit rocky
https://twitter.com/rockormiston2/status/1289984554900455424?s=20
listen, if I'm going to start cancelling farmers for being MAGA I'm going to have to start a bit closer to home and once I'm done with everyone I'm going to be left with like 7 farmers and they will have originated from PRETTY far down the farmer hierarchy and not know WTF they are doing. Not a bed I'm prepared to sleep in.
Post by: michigancat on August 06, 2020, 10:10:50 PM
I'm used to Kansas farmers being closet MAGAs and not "plant an entire quarter section of land in a MAGA ad visible from space" MAGAdammit rocky
https://twitter.com/rockormiston2/status/1289984554900455424?s=20
listen, if I'm going to start cancelling farmers for being MAGA I'm going to have to start a bit closer to home and once I'm done with everyone I'm going to be left with like 7 farmers and they will have originated from PRETTY far down the farmer hierarchy and not know WTF they are doing. Not a bed I'm prepared to sleep in.
Post by: michigancat on August 06, 2020, 10:11:20 PM
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Post by: sys on August 06, 2020, 10:14:31 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 06, 2020, 10:18:21 PM
Or wait it's that a HALF SECTION? :sdeek:Yes
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Post by: ben ji on August 07, 2020, 09:30:23 AM
(really just 80 acres but whatever)
Or wait it's that a HALF SECTION? :sdeek:Yes
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Looks like that time spent in Cali-FOR-NIA has eroded rusty's farming knowledge. I agree with SD that we better let the MAGA's keep planting/harvesting the crops for now.
Post by: mocat on August 07, 2020, 09:35:31 AM
Post by: ben ji on August 07, 2020, 09:59:49 AM
california farmers are maga af too ben
I don't think he is in Cali-FOR-NIA to farm
Post by: sys on August 07, 2020, 11:54:25 AM
they do love painting it on random trash for people driving by to see though.
Post by: star seed 7 on August 07, 2020, 12:06:48 PM
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Post by: michigancat on August 07, 2020, 01:24:37 PM
the difference is our maga farmers' land is worth like 30k/acre and no matter how much those crazy fucks love trump, i can't imagine any of them rough ridin' up their yields to paint that love for airplanes.
they do love painting it on random trash for people driving by to see though.
LOL so true
it's great when you get far enough north to the State of Jefferson signs
Post by: ben ji on August 07, 2020, 08:47:14 PM
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Lil Tazee has wheels - moves right along. Farm Kitty a mama, watches over, gives lots of tongue baths. New mower won't go. Bought it 30 days ago. Ace hdwr calling mfg sending it for repair. Monday call. May need to haul it into Colby. Attended Frahm farm location breakfast 7 am today. Got a tour. Gave me 2 coveted FFI (Frahm Farmland Inc) caps. Finished pasture post installation separating ours from Rita's pasture.
Frahm is the thomas county land baron who we are distantly related to (grandma's were cousins or something).
Post by: steve dave on August 07, 2020, 11:41:33 PM
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Post by: ben ji on August 09, 2020, 11:43:11 AM
The bigger time farmer put on a breakfast with marketing swag?
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It appears that way
Post by: KST8FAN on August 09, 2020, 02:14:44 PM
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Post by: ben ji on August 10, 2020, 01:06:47 AM
The bigger time farmer put on a breakfast with marketing swag?
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It appears that way
Update. My dad reached out to the local land baron/big time farmer about leasing our land next year and the big time farmer invited my dad to a breakfast with all his workers/farm hands that they have every friday morning.
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 10, 2020, 11:24:26 AM
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Post by: michigancat on August 10, 2020, 11:28:57 AM
Mom always fed the hired hand(s) lunch. They had to endure talking with me while TomDad did farm biz on the phone.
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yeah I think that's pretty standard. at the farm the big meal was always at noon and called "dinner" and everyone would come in from the field for it. (still do, most of the time). everyone had to be back promptly at noon so you scarf down the meal fast enough to catch Larry Steckline give the ag report on the noon news. then nap until 1. I think this has been covered.
Never heard of breakfast and that sounds very nice of that land baron to do
Post by: Kat Kid on August 10, 2020, 11:35:56 AM
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Post by: michigancat on August 10, 2020, 06:37:20 PM
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1292490838757572608
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 11, 2020, 01:29:03 PM
Post by: ben ji on August 11, 2020, 02:05:36 PM
this made me think of that guy that played trombone for his cows (I'm sure he's been discussed ITT?)
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1292490838757572608
I basically streamed my farm life in this thread when I spent 2 months out there in March/April (never made a dime tho)
Post by: steve dave on August 11, 2020, 03:52:32 PM
Post by: cfbandyman on August 11, 2020, 05:03:24 PM
I know a farmers wife "influencer". her farmer husband is low/med on the farmer hierarchy.
Wonder if the same one I kinda know, but they aren't SWK
Post by: steve dave on August 13, 2020, 05:49:35 PM
Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2020, 09:25:26 PM
fun Ronnie Green fact: He's buds with the Gardiner family of Garth Gardiner and Gardiner Angus and being wealthy fame.I kind of knew who Garth was since he interacts with Frank on the tweeter but your comment led me to use the Google machine and find out their top cows sell for like 65k
https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/news/stories/2018/10/Kansas-Profile-Gardiner-Ranch1.html
Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2020, 09:26:57 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 13, 2020, 09:51:08 PM
fun Ronnie Green fact: He's buds with the Gardiner family of Garth Gardiner and Gardiner Angus and being wealthy fame.I kind of knew who Garth was since he interacts with Frank on the tweeter but your comment led me to use the Google machine and find out their top cows sell for like 65k
https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/news/stories/2018/10/Kansas-Profile-Gardiner-Ranch1.html
I've posted this before and maybe this is a common thing but if you buy a bull from them and it just up and dies within some timeframe they just replace your dead bull with a new one no questions asked.
Source: We've got some Gardiner Angus bulls in the steve dave heard and one irl just up and died one time and damned if another new one didn't show up.
Post by: steve dave on August 13, 2020, 09:53:30 PM
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Post by: DaBigTrain on August 13, 2020, 10:01:51 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 13, 2020, 10:26:54 PM
There is a real life dead cow truck that comes around and picks up all the dead cows and does something with them. You just tell them where they are. We would sometimes have, like, some huge pile of them. Very gross.
update to this (and maybe already updated this but I just spoke to SD Dad and he mentioned the dead pile getting yuge): now we have TO PAY the dead cow truck to come get them to make them into dog food or whatever. it's a damn racket.
Post by: steve dave on August 13, 2020, 10:28:01 PM
Incredible modding SD
thanks, I'm incredibly good at computers
Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2020, 10:43:42 PM
Question, if a big momma cow just up and dies in the middle of the pasture nowhere near anything does SD dad bring it to the dead cow pile or just let it rot where it is?There is a real life dead cow truck that comes around and picks up all the dead cows and does something with them. You just tell them where they are. We would sometimes have, like, some huge pile of them. Very gross.
update to this (and maybe already updated this but I just spoke to SD Dad and he mentioned the dead pile getting yuge): now we have TO PAY the dead cow truck to come get them to make them into dog food or whatever. it's a damn racket.
Because I'm pretty sure ben ji's uncles just leaves it where it died unless it's near the corral/homestead area.
Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2020, 10:45:08 PM
Incredible modding SDYes, great modding. It takes an eagle eye to catch all the high farm IQ threads taking place all over this blog and consolidate them in one place.
Post by: steve dave on August 13, 2020, 10:48:30 PM
Question, if a big momma cow just up and dies in the middle of the pasture nowhere near anything does SD dad bring it to the dead cow pile or just let it rot where it is?There is a real life dead cow truck that comes around and picks up all the dead cows and does something with them. You just tell them where they are. We would sometimes have, like, some huge pile of them. Very gross.
update to this (and maybe already updated this but I just spoke to SD Dad and he mentioned the dead pile getting yuge): now we have TO PAY the dead cow truck to come get them to make them into dog food or whatever. it's a damn racket.
Because I'm pretty sure ben ji's uncles just leaves it where it died.
always bring it to the pile. like I've seen several hundred giant ass bloated dead cows of ours hanging off of log chains from a scoop of a giant loader tractor hauling ass down dirt roads to be dumped on the pile. I don't know if it's disease or whatever else but under no circumstances have we ever let something just decompose.
really morbid/awful one is the almost dead ones that also have been drug to the pile still alive and then been alive there for like hours later who were obviously going to die. probably the first time I was tasked with going out there and shooting one I was about 5th grade.
Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2020, 11:01:41 PM
Did find these great snaps I took of me cruising the pasture hanging out with cows.
https://twitter.com/ben0ji/status/1294121268711698432?s=19
Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2020, 11:02:44 PM
Post by: ben ji on August 13, 2020, 11:12:25 PM
Rumor has it the rain gods have awoken over the last month so maybe there will be some water in the "Creek"!!!
I really hope there is because I would love to sneak up on some ducks while pheasant hunting this fall.
Post by: sys on August 23, 2020, 09:21:44 PM
https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1297713379688222726
Post by: michigancat on August 24, 2020, 08:30:19 AM
Post by: ben ji on August 24, 2020, 03:31:32 PM
Happy 6 week birthday to "Lil Tazee" ! This past couple days Tazee has eaten fresh cooked and cut into small pieces chicken and some soft canned cat food. She ate the glass tip of an eye dropper so only a plastic syringe now. She tries arching her back in defense. She enjoys simple play like chewing on your finger. Plays mouse (your hand) under the covers. She has a cute, albeit awkward, run. Farm Kitty always watches, plays with, and bathes Lil Tazee. When hungry she will come to your feet - associates that with getting food. Not much of a cryer, pretty quite, but she let's you know she is hungry. Laying on Farm Kitty's favorite toy - Nemo.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200824/0638b5c66c81a563a38531640d4b1961.jpg)
Post by: ben ji on August 25, 2020, 11:15:26 AM
Creek/grass last yearStill no water in our "Creek" this year :(
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Post by: Institutional Control on August 25, 2020, 11:31:57 AM
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Post by: ben ji on September 02, 2020, 11:30:57 PM
Do feedlots put down straw/etc into their massive CAFO pens to keep the ground halfway decent or is just straight muck?
Post by: ben ji on September 02, 2020, 11:31:32 PM
Made a trip to the pastures today.Nice juggalo cows!
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Post by: ben ji on September 03, 2020, 12:44:47 AM
This June I asked my dad what my uncle had planted in our field(they don't talk much)....he told me milo because he found some seed bags and sent me the picture of the bag. I googled the brand and it was sorghum for silage/feed bales. Told him that and he said nope, its grain Milo..... Whatever.
A couple of weeks ago I asked him how the Milo (grain) crop was doing....(ben ji's dad) Well he's not growing the milo I thought he was, looks like he's gonna bale this and feed it to his cows.
(ben ji) :gocho:
Post by: ben ji on September 03, 2020, 12:49:20 AM
Silage/Ensilage
Plain old Sorghum
Milo
Millet
Broomcorn (elite old timey reference here)
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Post by: michigancat on September 03, 2020, 09:47:31 AM
Big shout out to this thread for teaching me about 75% of what I know about farming/cow farming.LOL
This June I asked my dad what my uncle had planted in our field(they don't talk much)....he told me milo because he found some seed bags and sent me the picture of the bag. I googled the brand and it was sorghum for silage/feed bales. Told him that and he said nope, its grain Milo..... Whatever.
A couple of weeks ago I asked him how the Milo (grain) crop was doing....(ben ji's dad) Well he's not growing the milo I thought he was, looks like he's gonna bale this and feed it to his cows.
(ben ji) :gocho:
Post by: BW on September 03, 2020, 12:28:37 PM
Random question.Some do, some don't. Depends on if they have the $ or believe it helps the cattle gain/yield.
Do feedlots put down straw/etc into their massive CAFO pens to keep the ground halfway decent or is just straight muck?
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Post by: BW on September 03, 2020, 06:51:12 PM
Another guy telling me how K-State doing research on their habits. They eat at same spot in bunk every day within 10 minutes, times three. Water same. Using tracking tags to detect interruptions in routine to detect sickness.
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 03, 2020, 09:11:21 PM
Meanwhile the girls are hanging in the pasture.
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Post by: ben ji on September 05, 2020, 09:15:07 PM
High 43 - Low 29 - 60% chance of rain with possibly 1-3 inches of snow tuesday evening :horrorsurprise:
Luckily my parents just left on a 3 week road trip and my dad blew out the lawn sprinkler lines before he left.
Post by: sys on September 05, 2020, 09:18:21 PM
Tuesday's weather forecast for the cat ranch.....
High 43 - Low 29 - 60% chance of rain with possibly 1-3 inches of snow tuesday evening :horrorsurprise:
Luckily my parents just left on a 3 week road trip and my dad blew out the lawn sprinkler lines before he left.
it's gonna be 110 here tomorrow, you sons of bitches.
Post by: Kat Kid on September 06, 2020, 09:03:43 AM
Tuesday's weather forecast for the cat ranch.....That crap won’t freeze that easily
High 43 - Low 29 - 60% chance of rain with possibly 1-3 inches of snow tuesday evening :horrorsurprise:
Luckily my parents just left on a 3 week road trip and my dad blew out the lawn sprinkler lines before he left.
Post by: ben ji on September 07, 2020, 10:25:41 AM
Skip ahead to 4 minutes to get through the intro/filler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsa46CXwfdY&ab_channel=ColeTheCornstar
I also noticed a bunch of Windmills in the background but they didn't include that in their income for the year (its possible the windmills are not on their land)
Post by: ben ji on September 12, 2020, 08:57:29 PM
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Post by: sys on September 12, 2020, 08:59:19 PM
Post by: ben ji on September 12, 2020, 09:13:56 PM
glad to see you brought both dogs.
I'm glad you noticed both dogs were there
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Post by: ben ji on September 13, 2020, 10:17:24 AM
They built this back of the pickup camper shell that has been collecting dust in a barn for the last 30 years.
It's still in excellent shape so make sure to tell the guys at Meade MFG they did a great job.
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Post by: ben ji on September 14, 2020, 08:20:04 AM
I don’t think that’s a thing still. Never heard of it.
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Did some digging this morning and old Meade MFG made everything from riding lawn mowers to campers to cabs for tractors.
http://www.oldmeadecounty.com/meade_mfg.htm
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The business continued into the early 1980's. In those days tractors started coming out with cabs already on them.... camper manufacturers abounded and the economy started to tank. It was a sad day for the town of Meade when Meade Mfg. closed... those 100 jobs were sorely missed.
Post by: ben ji on September 14, 2020, 08:21:24 AM
that logo is nails tho
Yes, its a pretty elite logo.
Post by: michigancat on September 14, 2020, 09:10:57 AM
I don’t think that’s a thing still. Never heard of it.
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Did some digging this morning and old Meade MFG made everything from riding lawn mowers to campers to cabs for tractors.
http://www.oldmeadecounty.com/meade_mfg.htm
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what an adorable goddam lawn mower
Post by: michigancat on September 14, 2020, 09:23:25 AM
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The County Historical Museum at Meade has on display a "Buddy Bike," another invention of George Isaac which was manufactured at Meade Mfg
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http://www.oldmeadecounty.com/buddy_bike.htm
http://www.oldmeadecounty.com/images/Meade_Mfg/buddy_bike_pg.pdf
great website, too!
Post by: ben ji on September 14, 2020, 12:27:57 PM
I've seen a couple of solo Antelope before and ended up seeing a group of around 10 when I was driving around.
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Post by: ben ji on September 14, 2020, 12:36:03 PM
I drove it once as a teenager but who knows what all needs to be fixed before it will run again
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Post by: ben ji on September 14, 2020, 12:48:47 PM
that shed stresses me out, man
Me too man, me too. My dad claims he will let me clean out all the buildings after my uncles lease is up this spring (something about not knowing what junk my uncle actually uses/will take).
Post by: Katpappy on September 14, 2020, 10:54:29 PM
Post by: ben ji on September 15, 2020, 08:46:33 AM
Ben Ji, what is that 2 wheeled thing in front of the open door?If this is what you are asking about it's a small carriage type thing that my uncle's mini ponies used to pull in parades or something like that. I don't think it has been used in years but there are still a couple mini ponies hanging around.
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Post by: michigancat on September 15, 2020, 10:12:31 AM
Post by: steve dave on September 15, 2020, 01:34:14 PM
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1305720363083427841
you also need access to a shitload of equipment and farmer connections but the gov will give you a ton of starter cash through various programs to buy land and other required stuff. especially if you are young because they need young farmers because nobody wants to do it because it sucks crap
Post by: Katpappy on September 15, 2020, 10:16:26 PM
Post by: ben ji on September 15, 2020, 10:17:16 PM
Sometimes our katz suck and you get angry but then you head up to hay bale hill and watch the sun set while you crush brews and blare tunes with your mutts.Back in KC and already missing watching a sunset on hay bale hill.
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I'm going to ask/offer to pay for my uncle to leave a couple bales on the hill this winter/next year so I can continue to sit on them and blast music while watching sunsets.
Here is a picture looking back at all the hay bales (which are actually like alfalfa or some sort of silage)
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Post by: ben ji on September 15, 2020, 10:21:33 PM
TY Ben Ji, I would have never have guessed. Are you thinking about hooking it up to the ponies. It could be more fun than messing with the rice burner.I am afraid of Horses and was terrified of the mini ponies (they sprint up to you!) until my 2nd cousin (25 F) came out one day and called me a panzy and started petting them.
I am no longer afraid of the mini ponies but still harbor a deep distrust of horses in general.
Post by: ben ji on September 15, 2020, 10:27:46 PM
Now I'm just LOL'n again at my dad thinking he could rent out our big barn for people to store hay bales in....like this is how close the barn (white roof) is to all the hay bales but my uncle just leaves them outside on the hill.Sometimes our katz suck and you get angry but then you head up to hay bale hill and watch the sun set while you crush brews and blare tunes with your mutts.Back in KC and already missing watching a sunset on hay bale hill.
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I'm going to ask/offer to pay for my uncle to leave a couple bales on the hill this winter/next year so I can continue to sit on them and blast music while watching sunsets.
Here is a picture looking back at all the hay bales (which are actually like alfalfa or some sort of silage)
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Post by: michigancat on September 15, 2020, 10:30:53 PM
Post by: Katpappy on September 15, 2020, 10:39:25 PM
Post by: ben ji on September 15, 2020, 10:41:29 PM
LOL but you can't leave small square bales outside like you can the big round onesI'm pretty sure those small square bales have been in that barn for X years and just slowly get used for something I have no idea about (definitely fewer small square bales now than last year)
Post by: ben ji on September 15, 2020, 10:47:07 PM
Those are round bales that most ppl. leave outside and usually on a hill for drainage. They are mostly weather proof. The barn would be great for small square bales which don't last very long in the weather. Horse ranchers like small bales and may want to rent the barn. You could charge by the bale and have several renters, since I doubt there are horse ppl. that would want to store enough bales to fill that large barn.My very limited understanding of horse people is that you have to be closeish to a major metro area to make money selling square bales used to feed horses.
Anyone that has horses in NWKS also probably has enough land to feed their own Horses.
Post by: Institutional Control on September 16, 2020, 07:45:58 AM
Those are round bales that most ppl. leave outside and usually on a hill for drainage. They are mostly weather proof. The barn would be great for small square bales which don't last very long in the weather. Horse ranchers like small bales and may want to rent the barn. You could charge by the bale and have several renters, since I doubt there are horse ppl. that would want to store enough bales to fill that large barn.My very limited understanding of horse people is that you have to be closeish to a major metro area to make money selling square bales used to feed horses.
Anyone that has horses in NWKS also probably has enough land to feed their own Horses.
People in NWKS still have to feed hay to their horses in the winter.
Post by: michigancat on September 16, 2020, 09:16:40 AM
Probably not too many folks with horses tbh and most that do probably have plenty of room for hay storageThose are round bales that most ppl. leave outside and usually on a hill for drainage. They are mostly weather proof. The barn would be great for small square bales which don't last very long in the weather. Horse ranchers like small bales and may want to rent the barn. You could charge by the bale and have several renters, since I doubt there are horse ppl. that would want to store enough bales to fill that large barn.My very limited understanding of horse people is that you have to be closeish to a major metro area to make money selling square bales used to feed horses.
Anyone that has horses in NWKS also probably has enough land to feed their own Horses.
People in NWKS still have to feed hay to their horses in the winter.
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Post by: sys on September 16, 2020, 04:29:48 PM
LOL but you can't leave small square bales outside like you can the big round ones
my grandfather always did.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2020, 04:36:24 PM
yes ridiculously awesomeI don’t think that’s a thing still. Never heard of it.
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Did some digging this morning and old Meade MFG made everything from riding lawn mowers to campers to cabs for tractors.
http://www.oldmeadecounty.com/meade_mfg.htm
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what an adorable goddam lawn mower
Post by: ben ji on September 21, 2020, 09:22:41 PM
Post by: nicname on September 21, 2020, 10:15:58 PM
https://twitter.com/JordyRNelson/status/1308226264986275840?s=19
Jordy needs to get itt.
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Post by: ben ji on September 22, 2020, 08:54:12 AM
I have never met him but if I do I'll make sure to tell him about this thread and encourage him to post here.
Post by: ben ji on September 23, 2020, 08:53:43 PM
My dad just got out there and it's now sitting outside the building which means my uncle or cousin might be taking it when they move out their stuff
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 24, 2020, 08:45:37 AM
Fun Fact: Not only is Jordy Nelson a stud football player and Farmer but he is also a distant cousin of mine from my non WKS side of the family. (Our grandma's were cousins).First thing Jordy needs to post is pix of the beads on that home made hay trailer constructed from I beams and pipe.
I have never met him but if I do I'll make sure to tell him about this thread and encourage him to post here.
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 24, 2020, 08:20:53 PM
My cousin thinks someone might try to steal it. If you can drag that thing off... congrats.
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I want to know more about this beast hauling it
Post by: ben ji on September 24, 2020, 09:33:44 PM
I think i have posted pix of this rock crusher my dad picked up somewhere in the mid 1990s. The quarry helped me move it with their big loader a couple of weekends ago. The old trailer squeaked and cracked when we set that thing down. Broke a board.
My cousin thinks someone might try to steal it. If you can drag that thing off... congrats.
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Was that the piece of equipment that was embedded in the dirt up to the middle of the wheels? If so congrats on getting it dug out.
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I want to know more about this beast hauling it
Pretty much load a truck with two bucket fulls.
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Post by: steve dave on October 02, 2020, 09:20:27 PM
Post by: CHONGS on October 02, 2020, 09:43:13 PM
Post by: steve dave on October 02, 2020, 09:49:14 PM
What kind of tunes do you blast while harvesting your 'falfa? It is a silent Zen thing?
glad you asked. options ranked in order of good:
1. T95 or 100.5 out of OKC. Actual new'ish music that wasn't top 40s. Like living in the future. Could get these in with certain old shitty john deere tractors OR if it was really cloudy. The best
2. Sports. I mean, mostly not applicable but the unicorn was you are doing something when something was happening with a KS College or KC team.
3. Classic Rock. Believe the Dodge City station was called The Eagle? Maybe 103.5? It was good
4. Classic Country. Misc. AM or FM Dodge City/Dodge City/Garden City stations playing the good stuff.
5. AM radio. I was a bigly pub at the time v. my moderate pub now and would listen to Rush/Ken Hamblin/Glenn Beck all the time. So cringey to think about now but when in rome.
6. top 40s. K-95 out of Dodge City or the one out of liberal that I think was 101.5? Same thing. Not good at all. Just listen to the tractor not getting its zerk's greased was preferable.
Post by: CHONGS on October 02, 2020, 09:54:08 PM
Post by: steve dave on October 02, 2020, 09:55:58 PM
No mix tapes? I always figured those tractors (city boy lingo) could play cassette tapes.
I had 1 or 2 that could but almost exclusively just AM/FM. And the ones that had cassette tape things would be so full of dust and crap after a few months of use it was pointless to try. and I grew up in heavy CD era. Like 90s on the farm. but never saw one on a tractor for the reason mentioned before I'd assume.
Post by: CHONGS on October 02, 2020, 09:57:34 PM
Post by: steve dave on October 02, 2020, 09:59:03 PM
Oh yeah the dust... it's funny how I've blocked that out of my mind. The endless dust and dirt everywhere in western Kansas.
It's exhausting. It's legitimately the main thing that makes me shut down my nostalgic thoughts about sometime living there again.
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Post by: ben ji on October 02, 2020, 10:45:26 PM
Oh yeah the dust... it's funny how I've blocked that out of my mind. The endless dust and dirt everywhere in western Kansas.
It's exhausting. It's legitimately the main thing that makes me shut down my nostalgic thoughts about sometime living there again.
Yeah, I still have dust in random spots in my vehicle from spending 2 months out there this spring. Think like inside the speaker holes on the door/tiny cracks you didn't know existed etc etc.
Last fall when I was chasing birds I leaned my shotgun against the back tail light area and put a small crack in the plastic cover...Didn't think much of it at the time but after living there for 2 months my tail light area has a thin layer of dust inside of it and now I'm worried that some cop will pull me over thinking my tail lights are not working. (Just in KC, lol at a cop pulling me over out there as I have never seen one besides in "town").
Post by: Katpappy on October 03, 2020, 05:13:02 AM
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Update on lil TazeeLil Tazee/Tasmos is bigger now, picture from yesterday. Only 2 of her litter mates on the cat ranch are still alive so her being the runt was the golden ticket to all you can eat eggs/milk every day. My dad suspects coyotes.
Happy 6 week birthday to "Lil Tazee" ! This past couple days Tazee has eaten fresh cooked and cut into small pieces chicken and some soft canned cat food. She ate the glass tip of an eye dropper so only a plastic syringe now. She tries arching her back in defense. She enjoys simple play like chewing on your finger. Plays mouse (your hand) under the covers. She has a cute, albeit awkward, run. Farm Kitty always watches, plays with, and bathes Lil Tazee. When hungry she will come to your feet - associates that with getting food. Not much of a cryer, pretty quite, but she let's you know she is hungry. Laying on Farm Kitty's favorite toy - Nemo.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200824/0638b5c66c81a563a38531640d4b1961.jpg)
Unfortunately Lil Lil has recently developed some hostility to Tazee most likely because my dad now gives Tazee more attention or something.
I tested this out when I was over at the parents and yup, lil lil was hissing up a fit anytime I put Tazee next to her on the ground.
T's and P's that they can work out their differences.
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Post by: BW on October 05, 2020, 01:00:12 PM
Same. That and flies.Oh yeah the dust... it's funny how I've blocked that out of my mind. The endless dust and dirt everywhere in western Kansas.
It's exhausting. It's legitimately the main thing that makes me shut down my nostalgic thoughts about sometime living there again.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 05, 2020, 06:33:42 PM
FolksThat's a lot of trucks sitting at the elevator wanting to unload.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 05, 2020, 06:40:12 PM
30 hours to pay for it.
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Post by: meow meow on October 07, 2020, 06:09:18 PM
Folks
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this beast is now for sale i see
Post by: wetwillie on October 07, 2020, 06:47:10 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 11, 2020, 07:35:22 PM
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Post by: sys on October 11, 2020, 08:09:52 PM
Mini pony... tell me more as if you were going to sell me one.
are you worried that people driving by will think you're a makes money farmer and not a hobby farmer? miniature horses can take care of that problem.
Post by: Katpappy on October 11, 2020, 09:48:17 PM
Mini pony... tell me more as if you were going to sell me one.
are you worried that people driving by will think you're a makes money farmer and not a hobby farmer? miniature horses can take care of that problem.
Agree. The only mini horse farms are hobby farms. The only exception is those that show and sell these horses.
Post by: ben ji on October 11, 2020, 09:48:41 PM
Oh yeah the dust... it's funny how I've blocked that out of my mind. The endless dust and dirt everywhere in western Kansas.
It's exhausting. It's legitimately the main thing that makes me shut down my nostalgic thoughts about sometime living there again.
https://twitter.com/ben0ji/status/1315483903910727680
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 12, 2020, 02:53:46 PM
Can a mini pony survive on one large round bale between summers in the pasture?
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Post by: sys on October 12, 2020, 05:16:27 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on October 12, 2020, 05:31:20 PM
why not try a miniature cow or a meat goat?I dont want to explain to my grand daughter where mini moo or gruff went while we're enjoying holiday dinner.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 12, 2020, 05:51:52 PM
https://rurallivingtoday.com/livestock/miniature-cattle-breeds-small-farm/
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Post by: Cire on October 12, 2020, 05:52:59 PM
My Dr did approach me about mini cows. I must admit they are intriguing.My grandfather is rolling in his grave!
https://rurallivingtoday.com/livestock/miniature-cattle-breeds-small-farm/
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“We spent years! Breeding out the dwarfs!!!”
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Post by: Cire on October 12, 2020, 05:53:41 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 12, 2020, 05:55:40 PM
Maybe those are a separate breedhttps://www.cuteminicows.com/
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Now sys has me down the mini cow rabbit hole.
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Post by: wetwillie on October 12, 2020, 07:40:42 PM
I would go with mini bison.
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Don’t eff with me, that’s really a thing?!
Post by: ben ji on October 12, 2020, 09:06:07 PM
My Dr did approach me about mini cows. I must admit they are intriguing.My grandfather is rolling in his grave!
https://rurallivingtoday.com/livestock/miniature-cattle-breeds-small-farm/
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“We spent years! Breeding out the dwarfs!!!”
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:lol: :lol:
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Post by: ben ji on October 12, 2020, 09:16:25 PM
Some giant rusting tanks that probably held fuel or something really cool!
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Post by: Institutional Control on October 12, 2020, 09:26:32 PM
I don’t think so.I would go with mini bison.
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Post by: puniraptor on October 13, 2020, 04:20:23 AM
Post by: michigancat on October 13, 2020, 10:31:56 AM
with respect to minicows, what is "dual purpose"? petting and hugging? meat and cheese? milk and fur?Sounds like "dual purpose" is quite an undersell
Post by: KST8FAN on October 13, 2020, 02:06:50 PM
with respect to minicows, what is "dual purpose"? petting and hugging? meat and cheese? milk and fur?If LHC Bill Snyder owned a dual purpose mini cow would it have a bad shoulder and BSE?
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Post by: ben ji on October 13, 2020, 02:35:37 PM
with respect to minicows, what is "dual purpose"? petting and hugging? meat and cheese? milk and fur?If LHC Bill Snyder owned a dual purpose mini cow would it have a bad shoulder and BSE?
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LOL
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Post by: michigancat on October 13, 2020, 07:16:13 PM
We own a massive number of railroad ties. Why? Well who knows. sd grandfather just knows a deal when he sees one.
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no self respecting farmer doesn't.
this is how I know about creosote.
Post by: Katpappy on October 13, 2020, 07:51:39 PM
We own a massive number of railroad ties. Why? Well who knows. sd grandfather just knows a deal when he sees one.
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Used to be you could get out by the track and pick up used ties as RR maintained the tracks. Now you need a permit and permission/contract to get them.
Post by: sys on October 13, 2020, 09:05:12 PM
Post by: ben ji on October 15, 2020, 12:42:45 PM
My dad sent some emails to local shelters inquiring about getting some new barn cat stock for the cat ranch. One of them put him in touch with some guy out in Olathe who had around 14 barn cats he was looking to get rid of.
My dad met with the guy but he wanted to "Check out the farm first and make sure the cats would be safe from coyotes". My dad LOL'd at him and that was that.
Maybe some new cats will just show up and colonize the barn again?
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Post by: ben ji on October 15, 2020, 01:14:24 PM
That's sad, praying for lil lil to show back up
Thankfully lil lil is mainly a house cat now. My dad will bring her out to the farm when he is there but she comes back everytime.
I appreciate your concern tho.
Post by: star seed 7 on October 15, 2020, 01:15:21 PM
That's sad, praying for lil lil to show back up
Thankfully lil lil is mainly a house cat now. My dad will bring her out to the farm when he is there but she comes back everytime.
I appreciate your concern tho.
God is good!
Post by: sys on October 15, 2020, 05:40:20 PM
Maybe some new cats will just show up and colonize the barn again?
seems like a pretty safe bet.
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Post by: ben ji on October 24, 2020, 06:49:36 PM
So he made some hats with the year my Grandma's Grandpa started the homestead.
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Post by: Cire on October 25, 2020, 09:39:59 AM
Grandad got it registered as a centennial farm and got a plaque or certificate and boy was he proud
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Post by: Katpappy on October 25, 2020, 08:30:07 PM
I was given the orange one for my bday
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Post by: ben ji on October 25, 2020, 08:41:58 PM
I was given the orange one for my bday
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BenJi, is that rain, oil, or wad stains on the brim of your hat?
Water from washing hands before taking the hat off :shy:
Post by: Katpappy on October 25, 2020, 09:08:17 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on October 25, 2020, 10:18:56 PM
Pad poured early August
Partition wall from framed
Tin nailed up this weekend.
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Post by: ben ji on October 26, 2020, 08:01:02 AM
Update on the barn upgrade...
Pad poured early August
Partition wall from framed
Tin nailed up this weekend.
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What kind of sexy farm machines are you going to keep in there?
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on October 26, 2020, 08:52:40 AM
Damn, that building is incred. Put in a hoop and some good lighting would be 15 yo sd’s suggestion.
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yes then ball and have filthy hands caked in dirt within 2 dribbles
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Post by: Institutional Control on October 26, 2020, 01:22:33 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on October 26, 2020, 02:13:57 PM
None of our sheds have concrete floors.This one didn't for 30 years.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 27, 2020, 09:40:34 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 28, 2020, 12:21:18 PM
Tom, you have a cow named juggalo?I think Benji dubbed brockel-faced cows "juggalos"
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Post by: ben ji on October 28, 2020, 12:58:39 PM
Juggalo cow breeds? WTF is this?
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Post by: ben ji on October 28, 2020, 01:02:43 PM
One last picture of the juggalo cow
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Post by: Cire on October 28, 2020, 08:33:08 PM
Cows love to stand in their foodMy grandpa refused! Big round bales for years because “they just pull it all out and trample it”
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My grandma drove while grandpa flaked the bales in a big semi circle three times a day in the winter so very little went to waste.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 28, 2020, 09:32:37 PM
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Post by: Katpappy on October 28, 2020, 10:37:43 PM
My HS GFs would always bring me lunch or just come ride around on the tractor. I had a cell phone and they’d call and I’d tell them where to be and pick them up. It was obviously not open cab and stupid like that. We’d spend quality time together and not greese zerks.
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I imagine you had a better use for grease. :fatty:
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Post by: Katpappy on October 29, 2020, 07:46:20 PM
Hey guys, let’s keep the carnal erotic tales out of this rated PG farm thread.
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Agree completely, since I never got to or wanted to slay ladies on the farm.
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 10, 2020, 04:04:27 PM
Hey guys, let’s keep the carnal erotic tales out of this rated PG farm thread.
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yeah I want to show one of my 6 young girls the juggalo cow and don't need you grossers being creepy.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 10, 2020, 11:04:48 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 10, 2020, 11:20:58 PM
Juggalo cover model.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201110/54ec4dddb3bc9a5f5b1c6ce6b23a1832.jpg)My new goal in life is to get all cows that look like this identified as "Juggalo cows".
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Unfortunately I doubt there is much crossover between Juggalo's and ranchers
Post by: michigancat on November 10, 2020, 11:46:05 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 11, 2020, 02:25:10 PM
Big Brutus is great.Incredible machine. Staggering the way that the landscape of southeast Kansas was raped and contaminated in the search for coal and other minerals.
Post by: michigancat on November 11, 2020, 02:44:07 PM
Big Brutus is great.Incredible machine. Staggering the way that the landscape of southeast Kansas was raped and contaminated in the search for coal and other minerals.
Yeah I really don't know much about that. They kinda gloss over that subject on site IIRC.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 11, 2020, 02:49:27 PM
Yeah. Not really covered at all when you visit the Brutus site. I think one of the mining companies paid for most of the Brutus museum so... There are mountains of contaminated mine tailings in SEK and across the border in Oklahoma. Towns had to be abandoned because of the contamination.Big Brutus is great.Incredible machine. Staggering the way that the landscape of southeast Kansas was raped and contaminated in the search for coal and other minerals.
Yeah I really don't know much about that. They kinda gloss over that subject on site IIRC.
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 11, 2020, 04:17:48 PM
Yeah. Not really covered at all when you visit the Brutus site. I think one of the mining companies paid for most of the Brutus museum so... There are mountains of contaminated mine tailings in SEK and across the border in Oklahoma. Towns had to be abandoned because of the contamination.Big Brutus is great.Incredible machine. Staggering the way that the landscape of southeast Kansas was raped and contaminated in the search for coal and other minerals.
Yeah I really don't know much about that. They kinda gloss over that subject on site IIRC.
The mine tailings are phenomenal for use in asphalt.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 11, 2020, 04:35:00 PM
Big Brutus is great.Incredible machine. Staggering the way that the landscape of southeast Kansas was raped and contaminated in the search for coal and other minerals.
tbf, that landscape is pew
Post by: KST8FAN on November 11, 2020, 10:38:35 PM
Juggalo cover model.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201110/54ec4dddb3bc9a5f5b1c6ce6b23a1832.jpg)My new goal in life is to get all cows that look like this identified as "Juggalo cows".
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Unfortunately I doubt there is much crossover between Juggalo's and ranchers
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Post by: ben ji on November 13, 2020, 09:14:09 AM
(But not until they get their winter coats)
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Post by: michigancat on November 13, 2020, 09:36:21 AM
What a delight
Post by: ben ji on November 13, 2020, 10:05:49 AM
Also when we inherited the homestead my cousin was living in the upstairs part time so he put his bed in the unfinished basement. He pee's in a gallon jug down there and sprinkles it around the homestead to "Mark his territory so the coyotes dont eat the cats"
Here he is sprinkling his urine to keep the yotes away.
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Post by: star seed 7 on November 13, 2020, 10:07:26 AM
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Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2020, 09:11:58 AM
I texted my coyote hunting cousin about the sightings and he had seen the yote as well "He showed up every time we swathed alfalfa...hopefully I will have him hanging in a couple of weeks"
Looks like we will have ourselves a good ole fashioned coyote hunt off in a couple weeks!
Post by: KST8FAN on November 22, 2020, 08:28:18 AM
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why whatsapp? do you have family overseas or something?Yes
Post by: KST8FAN on November 22, 2020, 02:23:03 PM
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/20/this-2-acre-vertical-farm-out-produces-750-acre-flat-farms/?sh=6d2ac12a7a57This technology fascinates me 'clams. I wonder if all the 80 ft empty silos across farm country could be repurposed to grow anything?
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Post by: pissclams on November 22, 2020, 03:05:04 PM
it’s very interesting and only a matter of time until it becomes more mainstreamhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/20/this-2-acre-vertical-farm-out-produces-750-acre-flat-farms/?sh=6d2ac12a7a57This technology fascinates me 'clams. I wonder if all the 80 ft empty silos across farm country could be repurposed to grow anything?
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Post by: ben ji on November 22, 2020, 08:23:20 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 23, 2020, 02:17:00 PM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1330696326867247104?s=19love the expression on that calf's face.
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Post by: ben ji on December 01, 2020, 06:31:10 PM
2nd time in 2 months 1 has been spotted in the area
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Post by: ben ji on December 01, 2020, 11:39:21 PM
Reading the comments under mountain lion facebook posts always crack me up. Everyone has a "sighting"
I'm about 68% sure I just spooked a mt lion while pheasant hunting in our CRP.....
It was too far away to be 100% sure but it was a large cat and brownish, took off running through CRP when I was about 150 yards away.
Watched it run across the pasture and over some other fields.
It was in some tall grass so it was hard to see exactly how big it was but it appeared larger than a bobcat.
(was probably just a large bobcat)
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Post by: pissclams on December 06, 2020, 11:04:19 AM
i've never seen a porcupine in the wild.i have! in western kansas!
Post by: ben ji on December 07, 2020, 10:46:14 AM
$6 wheat? China slurping up sorghum as quick as possible? Boomtimes on the farm again?
Post by: KST8FAN on December 07, 2020, 12:56:21 PM
https://in.reuters.com/article/usa-crops-wheat/us-farmers-plant-more-winter-wheat-as-grain-prices-rally-idINL1N2HZ02M?mod=djemlogistics_hIf China got their swine flu solved then they got lots of pigs to feed. We knew even if China took every last bushel from South America they would still need US grain. We have even exported to Brazil as they are in a drought now and short on beans for their own domestic needs.
$6 wheat? China slurping up sorghum as quick as possible? Boomtimes on the farm again?
The investment thread guys can explain how the dollar is impacting this too I think.
I hope these guys planting for next year are hedging some at today's prices.
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Post by: Spracne on December 21, 2020, 10:37:37 PM
https://hallhall.com/property-for-sale/kansas/spring-creek-ranch/a091Y00002GvxkX/
Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2020, 10:46:07 PM
Thinking of purchasing this large property. Obviously, would need some capital. Is the cash flow from an operation this size sufficient to service debt (and taxes) on a property like this? Plus some labor, I guess.Short answer: yes.
https://hallhall.com/property-for-sale/kansas/spring-creek-ranch/a091Y00002GvxkX/
Long answer: yes, if you are the labor and know what you are doing and have the significant other equipment with you needed to operate it with no other liabilities.
Final answer: no
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Post by: ben ji on December 21, 2020, 10:48:45 PM
Thinking of purchasing this large property. Obviously, would need some capital. Is the cash flow from an operation this size sufficient to service debt (and taxes) on a property like this? Plus some labor, I guess.If you have read this whole thread you would know that nobody actually makes any money farming/ranching.
https://hallhall.com/property-for-sale/kansas/spring-creek-ranch/a091Y00002GvxkX/
All depends on how much gov money/oil/wind/farm mafia money they can bring in.
Post by: Spracne on December 21, 2020, 10:49:35 PM
Thinking of purchasing this large property. Obviously, would need some capital. Is the cash flow from an operation this size sufficient to service debt (and taxes) on a property like this? Plus some labor, I guess.Short answer: yes.
https://hallhall.com/property-for-sale/kansas/spring-creek-ranch/a091Y00002GvxkX/
Long answer: yes, if you are the labor and know what you are doing and have the significant other equipment with you needed to operate it with no other liabilities.
Final answer: no
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How big is the Dave family cow farm, and do you have any idea what its EBITDA typically is? Would be willing to more or less break even to pay other people to do the cow farming stuff.
Post by: sys on December 21, 2020, 11:28:59 PM
obviously they've kept it understocked, but i'd be curious if anyone here knows what it could sustainably graze.
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Post by: bucket on December 22, 2020, 12:34:52 AM
1. Farm ground appreciates really well
2. Leasing farm ground is pathetic
Post by: KST8FAN on December 22, 2020, 03:47:22 AM
Fun fact: Versatile was the first company to produce articulated 4wd tractors.
Tom
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Post by: steve dave on December 22, 2020, 08:11:11 AM
fun thing I just remembered. this hand held freon can using deal. do you put a hose on the nob like you would? absolutely not. you puncture the entire side of the can with this jobber and then hose it into the tractor losing like 30% of it along the way somehow.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 22, 2020, 08:57:22 AM
Had to disk bean stubble before putting on NH3. The renter has Versatile 750 he used to do the job. Cool old tractor.There are some old Versatile still going out there. I had a model JD 8850 when I was a kid - paired it with the 16 row JD MaxEmerge row crop planter for hours of farm play.
Fun fact: Versatile was the first company to produce articulated 4wd tractors.
Tom
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Post by: star seed 7 on December 26, 2020, 05:16:42 PM
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Post by: ben ji on December 26, 2020, 07:24:14 PM
Flint hills hobby farming todayLove the flint hills
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Post by: schreds21 on December 27, 2020, 01:54:21 PM
Thinking of purchasing this large property. Obviously, would need some capital. Is the cash flow from an operation this size sufficient to service debt (and taxes) on a property like this? Plus some labor, I guess.Go ahead and buy this Spracs. I would be more than happy to keep the waterfowl in check for you.
https://hallhall.com/property-for-sale/kansas/spring-creek-ranch/a091Y00002GvxkX/
Post by: ben ji on December 27, 2020, 09:05:33 PM
These buildings were across the road from each other.
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So I did some creeping on these old abandoned buildings/homes while hunting today.
Post by: ben ji on December 27, 2020, 09:07:41 PM
The one on the far left might have been an old school house as I found some old text books and stuff in there.
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Post by: ben ji on December 27, 2020, 09:09:55 PM
There was a piano tho!
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Post by: ben ji on December 27, 2020, 09:23:20 PM
The building on the far left had a pile of books on the floor so I picked one up
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THE ABANDONED HOMESTEAD SPIRITS DO NOT WANT THESE PHOTOS TO BE SEEN!!!
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 29, 2020, 10:52:21 AM
there are tons of houses like that with the stuff in them all over rural ks. we have a ton of them on our ranch. very awesome to explore as a kid (AND ADULT!)There was a house on my uncle's farm that had TV left inside as well as canned stuff still lined up in the cellar. It was like rural KS was depopulated by nuclear forces instead of economic forces. Old houses that have curtains being blown around because windows are all broken out fascinate me, also. So many genres of decay porn to sample in rural KS
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Post by: steve dave on December 29, 2020, 11:40:17 AM
there are tons of houses like that with the stuff in them all over rural ks. we have a ton of them on our ranch. very awesome to explore as a kid (AND ADULT!)There was a house on my uncle's farm that had TV left inside as well as canned stuff still lined up in the cellar. It was like rural KS was depopulated by nuclear forces instead of economic forces. Old houses that have curtains being blown around because windows are all broken out fascinate me, also. So many genres of decay porn to sample in rural KS
I'm just speculating but I think a lot of them were great depression victims where they lost the land and had to GTFO. also probably a lot where the owner died and the property was bought by a farm/ranch operation with no intent or need for anyone to live there. obviously the consolidation of land (HOMESTEADS!) under larger operators is a big factor overall.
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 29, 2020, 04:50:18 PM
Hit and miss or overhead line shaft.
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Post by: ben ji on December 29, 2020, 06:57:55 PM
http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/11/jack-shaft-and-leather-belts-revisited.html?m=1
Hit and miss or overhead line shaft.
Tom
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As soon as I saw it I thought, "I bet tom knows what this is" :lol:
Post by: KST8FAN on December 29, 2020, 07:51:54 PM
I kind of know/remember crap... Google makes me look way smarter than I am.http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/11/jack-shaft-and-leather-belts-revisited.html?m=1
Hit and miss or overhead line shaft.
Tom
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As soon as I saw it I thought, "I bet tom knows what this is"
https://youtu.be/y7_q_TMiVr0
The only belt driven equipment i remember is one old AC silage blower we used a couple times.
Tom
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 29, 2020, 07:57:53 PM
We heard this pitter patter while down stairs from the ceiling. It was the chick running back and forth. We inched up the stairs only to be confronted by flapping wings and vulture stench.
Tom
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Post by: steve dave on December 29, 2020, 08:24:48 PM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200522/92d508373329d19bdc57a4656f26de07.jpg)Check this old building vulture action out!
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Post by: ben ji on January 06, 2021, 09:25:08 AM
https://www.flatlandkc.org/news-issues/gigabit-internet-is-coming-to-rural-missouri-and-kansas/
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Post by: ben ji on January 06, 2021, 10:00:53 AM
Just got this text from my dad.....it looks like the cat ranch could be back up and running soon!
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I have found a local (Brewster area) source for farm cats.
Post by: Institutional Control on January 06, 2021, 10:03:01 AM
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 07, 2021, 09:56:33 PM
bought some Jon Deere stock. hopefully you farmers are still wild for those things.Kat Kid this aged well.
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Post by: steve dave on January 07, 2021, 09:59:01 PM
how many hot old farm trucks are out there at your folks place SD?Like, dozens?
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Post by: steve dave on January 07, 2021, 09:59:47 PM
I’ve got some shocking news for you about our guy kk. He sold that 15 minutes later.bought some Jon Deere stock. hopefully you farmers are still wild for those things.Kat Kid this aged well.
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on January 08, 2021, 08:50:26 AM
you are really lacking on what you should be posting pics of ITThow many hot old farm trucks are out there at your folks place SD?Like, dozens?
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Post by: steve dave on January 08, 2021, 08:54:41 AM
Post by: 8manpick on January 08, 2021, 09:02:27 AM
LmaooI’ve got some shocking news for you about our guy kk. He sold that 15 minutes later.bought some Jon Deere stock. hopefully you farmers are still wild for those things.Kat Kid this aged well.
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Post by: CHONGS on January 15, 2021, 02:22:57 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on January 15, 2021, 02:34:14 PM
they are giant pieces of crap filled with tools and oil and chains and ropes and cow tags and notebooks like up to the windows. it's not like Classic Car Mag stuff.:impatient: those are the best
Post by: steve dave on January 15, 2021, 02:36:56 PM
they are giant pieces of crap filled with tools and oil and chains and ropes and cow tags and notebooks like up to the windows. it's not like Classic Car Mag stuff.:impatient: those are the best
I am not planning to visit until probably post-covid vaccination so it'll be a minute
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Post by: ben ji on January 18, 2021, 12:43:41 PM
The jugallo wanna be (7 / 55) looks like a thick gal.
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Post by: ben ji on January 18, 2021, 04:46:59 PM
This summer I went out camping in Wyoming and a buddy tagged along for one of the trips and we stayed at the cat ranch one night on the way there. He has lived in KC all of his life and has no connection to farming....In the morning before we left I was showing him the farm while driving around the pasture.
Ben Ji: "Yeah, this is the pasture where cows eat grass and stuff"
City boy: "Do you guys ride alot of dirt bikes out here"?
Ben Ji: :confused: "Not that I'm aware of"
City boy: "Then what are all these dirt bike trails for"?
Ben Ji: "WTF are you talking about"?
(City boy points at some cattle trails)
Ben Ji: :facepalm: :blindfold: :lol:
Post by: KST8FAN on January 18, 2021, 04:47:46 PM
Random question, why do some of the cows have 2 ear tags with different numbers? Is one to identify the calf before it gets chipped?Not sure on my cousins tag scheme. One probably id of the cow for record keeping. Nor sure what additional number is.
The jugallo wanna be (7 / 55) looks like a thick gal.
The tag in the bulls ear is actually my cousins phone number so when the old boy decides to go in search of a good time in other parts of the country people know who to call to come get him.
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Oh yeah, sometimes bulls just go wherever. There is not much you can do to stop them (other than make them happy where they are at).Random question, why do some of the cows have 2 ear tags with different numbers? Is one to identify the calf before it gets chipped?Not sure on my cousins tag scheme. One probably id of the cow for record keeping. Nor sure what additional number is.
The jugallo wanna be (7 / 55) looks like a thick gal.
The tag in the bulls ear is actually my cousins phone number so when the old boy decides to go in search of a good time in other parts of the country people know who to call to come get him.
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 19, 2021, 09:19:21 AM
Corn/Wheat prices are at 7 year highs, what kind of tricked out tractors/combines/F350's are all the land barons buying this year?Bro in law test drove this during harvest. Did not buy at $500k.
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 19, 2021, 10:25:07 AM
What does that do Tom?Primarily to maintain terraces.. Use it to drag dirt washed into terrace bottoms back on top and fill in ravines. This one has a tilt so you dig using one corner to pull dirt.
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Post by: ben ji on January 19, 2021, 03:31:28 PM
Ben Ji should get one for the cat ranch and fix that driveway.
There is a blade out there already that my cousin uses once a year on the dirt road between my dads land and my aunts land but I don't know how to use it or operate the old timey tractor that pulls it. Would need to get gravel/rock dumped on the driveway first.
Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2021, 11:33:44 AM
Need to put out a call for unused RalGRO implanters to really get the chipping up to speed.
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oh man, I had about a trillion of the green drums that I would keep for some reason. in hindsight I wonder how much bovine growth hormone I was exposing myself to. should have got into lifting as a child.
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also our dog would eat an unlimited amount of bull testicles. there would be giant 5 gallon buckets full of them as we were processing cattle and he would just wander up and help himself to them. usually we just gave them to whatever cowboys were helping us but sometimes my parents would have a giant party and like 50 people would come out to our house and they would fry them up. like you cut these giant potato sized cow balls into chicken nugget sized pieces and then bread them and fry them in a giant turkey fryer thing and they are gross AF but it's quite the deal for everyone around town.
They are delicious. We had them a couple times from my families little operation. The church also had a nut fry every year or so that I attended a couple times.
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Post by: ben ji on January 30, 2021, 02:35:37 PM
What more could a cow man need?
Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2021, 02:39:52 PM
Here is the chute the cows would climb before they get loaded up to die.
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we have one of those that's a double decker. can go straight to the second floor of trailers. we would always be unloading cows in the middle of the night because we'd buy them from like Alabama and the truck would drive them straight up obviously. I always remember getting woke up in the middle of the night for cows to arrive. we use a cow buyer guy that just goes around the country and buys cows for us. seems kind of ridiculous but what the hell do I know about picking cows out and how much they should cost.
Post by: Spracne on January 30, 2021, 02:42:32 PM
this is the thing my dad used every year except the stupid rubber band year. he could do it in like 10 seconds. you clamp down with this deal and it knifes right in there and then you yank it and it rips the ball sack (scrotum) open and then my dad would reach up there and yank each one down really hard because apparently you can't leave a lot of the nad string (nard string) up there or something bad happens. again, extremely brutal to watch and I can't believe I've seen that done like 10k times.
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lmbo at these stevedave posts today. But removing as much of the nad string (nard string) as possible is no joke. It makes a vas deferens.
Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2021, 02:48:22 PM
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Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2021, 02:56:41 PM
actually I'm pretty anti branding cattle despite my heritage. It is very mean. I don't know what a better solution is though.
Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2021, 03:31:44 PM
I didn't find any scrotum snippers but I did crack open an old fridge full of cow medicine.
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you see that white box with giant bars in it? that's cow vitamins. do you know how they take their vitamins? you put one of those banana sized things into the end of this rod deal and shove it all the way down their throats into their stomachs and push the end of the deal and it deposits it directly into their stomachs.
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Post by: Spracne on January 30, 2021, 03:34:00 PM
Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2021, 03:39:35 PM
And they just, like, let you do it to them? Again, because you're a famous cow farmer?
I mean, they don't really have a choice but it doesn't seem to bother them much. they are in the chute which is this giant hydraulic powered squeezer deal so they can move their head around a bit but they are basically not going anywhere. we have ours built inside of our "vet shed" so its all done indoors and the pens lead into the building and they are in single file up to this thing where the squeeze is put on. my main job was just keeping the line of cattle moving up towards the squeezer because you really can't eff that up.
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Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2021, 03:42:03 PM
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Post by: ben ji on January 30, 2021, 04:00:24 PM
I didn't find any scrotum snippers but I did crack open an old fridge full of cow medicine.
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you see that white box with giant bars in it? that's cow vitamins. do you know how they take their vitamins? you put one of those banana sized things into the end of this rod deal and shove it all the way down their throats into their stomachs and push the end of the deal and it deposits it directly into their stomachs.
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I actually saw that rod deal on a shelf next to the fridge and wondered WTF it was for. I've learned so much in this thread.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on January 30, 2021, 04:02:48 PM
Ben ji, your farm looks awesome.
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Post by: steve dave on January 30, 2021, 05:19:37 PM
this talk of ripping the balls out of baby cows is taking some of the appeal out of hobby farming.
these were mostly not baby ones. though we do that as well, but mostly onsite. in a chute where you can flip the little guys on their side and make it easy peasy. I think it's called a "calf table". it's like a built in trailer thing we pull out there to portable corrals.
Post by: sys on January 30, 2021, 05:51:56 PM
Buy them without nuts
i would want to make my own baby cows. the baby animals are the best part.
Post by: KST8FAN on January 30, 2021, 06:24:49 PM
He wore key overalls... covered in blood splatter.
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Post by: sys on January 30, 2021, 06:41:23 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 30, 2021, 06:52:51 PM
My unicorn came today... the 1/8th sale 4020.
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Post by: Spracne on January 30, 2021, 07:37:00 PM
I've heard my dad talk about doing the rubber band thing back in the 70's
I (non-farmer from non-farmer heritage) was also aware of the rubber band thing. It makes me wonder... who was the sick rough rider and/or genius who first thought of it and tried it out?
Post by: sys on January 30, 2021, 07:40:25 PM
maybe he was selling his calves to sd's cow buyer, i dunno.
Post by: Spracne on January 30, 2021, 07:45:50 PM
i was also aware of banding (and of nut cutting), but i think my grandfather figured that ball removal was the next owners problem and guess i thought that was standard.
maybe he was selling his calves to sd's cow buyer, i dunno.
I'd like to know more about how the entire vertical operates. Why aren't the big producers vertically integrated? Why does sd's dad have to buy hung bulls from sys's dad and then rip off their balls, then keep them for a while, and then sell them to someone else to slaughter and harvest the meat?
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Did you have to give the cows their centrum daily like how we take b/c good lord how tedious. I am surprised sd didn't consider giving them a nice 3000mg fish oil at the same time.I’m not certain but pretty sure it’s a one dose thing and MAYBE it’s more than vitamins but I never paid attention so not sure
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on January 31, 2021, 10:16:17 AM
That’s awesome. I think my toy 4320 is still in my folks’ basement.My unicorn came today... the 1/8th sale 4020.
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 31, 2021, 03:01:19 PM
Old branding iron- we never used this but a hand me down I think for heating up in a fire or stove
Might be luking myself, but at the farm today doing electrical work on the barn
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 01, 2021, 10:52:24 PM
i was also aware of banding (and of nut cutting), but i think my grandfather figured that ball removal was the next owners problem and guess i thought that was standard.
maybe he was selling his calves to sd's cow buyer, i dunno.
I'd like to know more about how the entire vertical operates. Why aren't the big producers vertically integrated? Why does sd's dad have to buy hung bulls from sys's dad and then rip off their balls, then keep them for a while, and then sell them to someone else to slaughter and harvest the meat?
This pretty good over view
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/sector-at-a-glance/#:~:text=Based%20on%20the%202017%20Census,of%20the%20beef%20cow%20inventory.
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Post by: steve dave on February 02, 2021, 06:48:09 AM
Cow calf only is a really chill way to do it. Once you get to feeder it becomes a massive PITA and requires a lot of capital and equipment.
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Post by: IPA4Me on February 02, 2021, 08:12:06 AM
If you're in northwest Arkansas and want someone to raise a calf for slaughter, slide in the DM. You pay him market price hoof weight at slaughter and pay the slaughter house yourself. It's some damn fine meat.
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Post by: ben ji on February 02, 2021, 08:35:03 AM
i was also aware of banding (and of nut cutting), but i think my grandfather figured that ball removal was the next owners problem and guess i thought that was standard.
maybe he was selling his calves to sd's cow buyer, i dunno.
I'd like to know more about how the entire vertical operates. Why aren't the big producers vertically integrated? Why does sd's dad have to buy hung bulls from sys's dad and then rip off their balls, then keep them for a while, and then sell them to someone else to slaughter and harvest the meat?
This pretty good over view
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/sector-at-a-glance/#:~:text=Based%20on%20the%202017%20Census,of%20the%20beef%20cow%20inventory.
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Wow, lots of good info in there. I had no idea we imported about as much beef as we export. I understand Mexico/Canada but some one help me out with the market dynamic of why 23% of our imports come from Australia? Why can't Australia just export their beef to Japan/South Korea which is where 50% of our exports go?
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 02, 2021, 08:54:09 AM
That is a good summary. Ours is both a cow calf and feeder operation. We don’t feed other peoples cows for hire, just ours. And sometimes we will buy other people’s from their cow calf operation if we have capacity to feed more than our own.Seems like if you own the cows and own the grass it is hard(er) to get hurt in bad years doing cow / calf. I don't know how people who feed cattle until they are fat do it - too much variability in the cost of the inputs and the price you can get for the fat cattle.
Cow calf only is a really chill way to do it. Once you get to feeder it becomes a massive PITA and requires a lot of capital and equipment.
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Post by: sys on February 02, 2021, 09:14:26 AM
I understand Mexico/Canada but some one help me out with the market dynamic of why 23% of our imports come from Australia? Why can't Australia just export their beef to Japan/South Korea which is where 50% of our exports go?
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The United States is the world’s largest producer of beef. The US also imports more beef than any other country. US producers specialise in raising high-value, grain-fed cattle. Imported beef from other countries is mainly lower-value, grass-fed, lean product that is processed into ground beef. Overall, imports accounted for nearly 14 per cent of US beef supplies in 2015 (Source: USDA, Economic Research Service/USDA Foreign Ag Service).
Australia was the leading supplier of US beef imports in 2014 and 2015, while Canada and New Zealand were a distant second and third. Shipments from Australia and New Zealand are composed primarily of frozen boneless beef for processing, while shipments from Canada and Mexico are typically higher-value, fresh or chilled beef sold as cuts.
https://www.austrade.gov.au/australian/export/export-markets/countries/united-states-of-america/industries/agribusiness-to-the-united-states
Post by: KST8FAN on February 02, 2021, 05:23:46 PM
Sys beat me to it. My first career was in meat processing... hot dogs, bologna. Ground a bunch of frozen Australian grass fed beef back in the day.I understand Mexico/Canada but some one help me out with the market dynamic of why 23% of our imports come from Australia? Why can't Australia just export their beef to Japan/South Korea which is where 50% of our exports go?QuoteThe United States is the world’s largest producer of beef. The US also imports more beef than any other country. US producers specialise in raising high-value, grain-fed cattle. Imported beef from other countries is mainly lower-value, grass-fed, lean product that is processed into ground beef. Overall, imports accounted for nearly 14 per cent of US beef supplies in 2015 (Source: USDA, Economic Research Service/USDA Foreign Ag Service).
Australia was the leading supplier of US beef imports in 2014 and 2015, while Canada and New Zealand were a distant second and third. Shipments from Australia and New Zealand are composed primarily of frozen boneless beef for processing, while shipments from Canada and Mexico are typically higher-value, fresh or chilled beef sold as cuts.
https://www.austrade.gov.au/australian/export/export-markets/countries/united-states-of-america/industries/agribusiness-to-the-united-states
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Post by: BW on February 02, 2021, 07:54:22 PM
Americans love hamburgers, americans also love a well marbled steak. Cattle that produce high quality steaks produce trimmings that are too fat to make hamburger.Sys beat me to it. My first career was in meat processing... hot dogs, bologna. Ground a bunch of frozen Australian grass fed beef back in the day.I understand Mexico/Canada but some one help me out with the market dynamic of why 23% of our imports come from Australia? Why can't Australia just export their beef to Japan/South Korea which is where 50% of our exports go?QuoteThe United States is the world’s largest producer of beef. The US also imports more beef than any other country. US producers specialise in raising high-value, grain-fed cattle. Imported beef from other countries is mainly lower-value, grass-fed, lean product that is processed into ground beef. Overall, imports accounted for nearly 14 per cent of US beef supplies in 2015 (Source: USDA, Economic Research Service/USDA Foreign Ag Service).
Australia was the leading supplier of US beef imports in 2014 and 2015, while Canada and New Zealand were a distant second and third. Shipments from Australia and New Zealand are composed primarily of frozen boneless beef for processing, while shipments from Canada and Mexico are typically higher-value, fresh or chilled beef sold as cuts.
https://www.austrade.gov.au/australian/export/export-markets/countries/united-states-of-america/industries/agribusiness-to-the-united-states
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Remember when pink slime was all the rage in the news?Sys beat me to it. My first career was in meat processing... hot dogs, bologna. Ground a bunch of frozen Australian grass fed beef back in the day.I understand Mexico/Canada but some one help me out with the market dynamic of why 23% of our imports come from Australia? Why can't Australia just export their beef to Japan/South Korea which is where 50% of our exports go?QuoteThe United States is the world’s largest producer of beef. The US also imports more beef than any other country. US producers specialise in raising high-value, grain-fed cattle. Imported beef from other countries is mainly lower-value, grass-fed, lean product that is processed into ground beef. Overall, imports accounted for nearly 14 per cent of US beef supplies in 2015 (Source: USDA, Economic Research Service/USDA Foreign Ag Service).
Australia was the leading supplier of US beef imports in 2014 and 2015, while Canada and New Zealand were a distant second and third. Shipments from Australia and New Zealand are composed primarily of frozen boneless beef for processing, while shipments from Canada and Mexico are typically higher-value, fresh or chilled beef sold as cuts.
https://www.austrade.gov.au/australian/export/export-markets/countries/united-states-of-america/industries/agribusiness-to-the-united-states
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 04, 2021, 10:12:35 AM
We made Sizzlean at the plant I worked at... mechanically separated turkey binding ground pork fat together.Remember when pink slime was all the rage in the news?Sys beat me to it. My first career was in meat processing... hot dogs, bologna. Ground a bunch of frozen Australian grass fed beef back in the day.I understand Mexico/Canada but some one help me out with the market dynamic of why 23% of our imports come from Australia? Why can't Australia just export their beef to Japan/South Korea which is where 50% of our exports go?QuoteThe United States is the world’s largest producer of beef. The US also imports more beef than any other country. US producers specialise in raising high-value, grain-fed cattle. Imported beef from other countries is mainly lower-value, grass-fed, lean product that is processed into ground beef. Overall, imports accounted for nearly 14 per cent of US beef supplies in 2015 (Source: USDA, Economic Research Service/USDA Foreign Ag Service).
Australia was the leading supplier of US beef imports in 2014 and 2015, while Canada and New Zealand were a distant second and third. Shipments from Australia and New Zealand are composed primarily of frozen boneless beef for processing, while shipments from Canada and Mexico are typically higher-value, fresh or chilled beef sold as cuts.
https://www.austrade.gov.au/australian/export/export-markets/countries/united-states-of-america/industries/agribusiness-to-the-united-states
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Post by: BW on February 04, 2021, 10:03:14 PM
Yep. And ABC settled that lawsuit for around $200 million. They are now building a new ground beef plant in Garden City.Remember when pink slime was all the rage in the news?Sys beat me to it. My first career was in meat processing... hot dogs, bologna. Ground a bunch of frozen Australian grass fed beef back in the day.I understand Mexico/Canada but some one help me out with the market dynamic of why 23% of our imports come from Australia? Why can't Australia just export their beef to Japan/South Korea which is where 50% of our exports go?QuoteThe United States is the world’s largest producer of beef. The US also imports more beef than any other country. US producers specialise in raising high-value, grain-fed cattle. Imported beef from other countries is mainly lower-value, grass-fed, lean product that is processed into ground beef. Overall, imports accounted for nearly 14 per cent of US beef supplies in 2015 (Source: USDA, Economic Research Service/USDA Foreign Ag Service).
Australia was the leading supplier of US beef imports in 2014 and 2015, while Canada and New Zealand were a distant second and third. Shipments from Australia and New Zealand are composed primarily of frozen boneless beef for processing, while shipments from Canada and Mexico are typically higher-value, fresh or chilled beef sold as cuts.
https://www.austrade.gov.au/australian/export/export-markets/countries/united-states-of-america/industries/agribusiness-to-the-united-states
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https://businessfacilities.com/2020/10/empirical-foods-breaks-ground-250m-facility-garden-city-kansas/ (https://businessfacilities.com/2020/10/empirical-foods-breaks-ground-250m-facility-garden-city-kansas/)
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Post by: michigancat on February 05, 2021, 12:03:18 AM
Yep. And ABC settled that lawsuit for around $200 million. They are now building a new ground beef plant in Garden City.Remember when pink slime was all the rage in the news?Sys beat me to it. My first career was in meat processing... hot dogs, bologna. Ground a bunch of frozen Australian grass fed beef back in the day.I understand Mexico/Canada but some one help me out with the market dynamic of why 23% of our imports come from Australia? Why can't Australia just export their beef to Japan/South Korea which is where 50% of our exports go?QuoteThe United States is the world’s largest producer of beef. The US also imports more beef than any other country. US producers specialise in raising high-value, grain-fed cattle. Imported beef from other countries is mainly lower-value, grass-fed, lean product that is processed into ground beef. Overall, imports accounted for nearly 14 per cent of US beef supplies in 2015 (Source: USDA, Economic Research Service/USDA Foreign Ag Service).
Australia was the leading supplier of US beef imports in 2014 and 2015, while Canada and New Zealand were a distant second and third. Shipments from Australia and New Zealand are composed primarily of frozen boneless beef for processing, while shipments from Canada and Mexico are typically higher-value, fresh or chilled beef sold as cuts.
https://www.austrade.gov.au/australian/export/export-markets/countries/united-states-of-america/industries/agribusiness-to-the-united-states
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https://businessfacilities.com/2020/10/empirical-foods-breaks-ground-250m-facility-garden-city-kansas/ (https://businessfacilities.com/2020/10/empirical-foods-breaks-ground-250m-facility-garden-city-kansas/)
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Crazy I never remembered the lawsuit
https://www.businessinsider.com/pink-slime-case-177-million-settlement-2017-8
Post by: cfbandyman on February 05, 2021, 07:23:38 AM
Also buying land is crazy. Lot of secrecy and deal making around it. Everyone knows some old man/lady who’s on their deathbed who has a bunch of land. And if the big time operators end up buying it everyone loses their minds. “Of course rough ridin' John Doeboy bought the Johnson ground!” It’s really tough to get into it fresh unless you know the right people.
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Sounds like a sinister backroom cabal of big land owners exists and should be brought down from the inside, drain the swamps of big land tyranny.
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Sad to lose calves or weak livestock but it is what it is. Lost the last holstein we had on the farm three days ago, she was 22. :frown:
That sucks, poor cold cows :frown:
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Did farmers quit using livestock barns for stuff like that?
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Post by: steve dave on February 15, 2021, 11:13:03 AM
Isn’t that what barns are for?We have barns. Some with giant propane and kerosene heaters for stuff like this. But my dad and bro still bring them into the house from time to time. Maybe while they get the outside storage ready or something. I think part of it is just to mess with my mom tbh.
Did farmers quit using livestock barns for stuff like that?
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Post by: steve dave on February 15, 2021, 11:14:39 AM
Odd question but why aren't there any good solar powered water heaters for livestock tanks? Or none that seem readily available and affordable.I think it would take more energy to keep one thawed than what some pud solar panel could produce. At least affordably. Our cowboys are out busting ice in stock tanks every day when it’s cold enough. Dad told me that the ice was 6 inches thick yesterday.
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Post by: ben ji on February 15, 2021, 12:14:21 PM
Cows are idiots. They get stressed by weather and start dropping calves like crazy. And they just freeze to the ground. We’ve bred out all the good survival genes in exchange for fat genes.
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Do you bring the pregger cows closer to the barn/house when you know there is going to be crappy weather that might make them pop out calves?
There was a surprise blizzard in the 70's or 80's around this time of the year and gramp's couldn't get to his cows for a day or two. I saw a picture of the piles of dead calves. :frown:
I assume that weather forecasting advances over the last 40 years make this less likely.
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Post by: steve dave on February 15, 2021, 12:45:27 PM
Cows are idiots. They get stressed by weather and start dropping calves like crazy. And they just freeze to the ground. We’ve bred out all the good survival genes in exchange for fat genes.
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Do you bring the pregger cows closer to the barn/house when you know there is going to be crappy weather that might make them pop out calves?
There was a surprise blizzard in the 70's or 80's around this time of the year and gramp's couldn't get to his cows for a day or two. I saw a picture of the piles of dead calves. :frown:
I assume that weather forecasting advances over the last 40 years make this less likely.
no, these aren't even within 20 miles of where that mud room is. cowboys drive them a couple times daily to see if there are any new calves. we also feed them with a feed truck this time of year. sometimes have to get a JD 9 series (big massive tractor) with a blade on the front to clear a path for the truck. and sometimes we just chain the truck to the tractor to get it out there and feed them. and sometimes we just deliver alfalfa if it gets really bad. but, there's nowhere to bring them. we would need, like, 50 barns to put them all inside somewhere.
Post by: steve dave on February 15, 2021, 12:49:21 PM
that's a nice baby cow, steve dave.
i was excited it wasn't a boring regular black one
Post by: KST8FAN on February 15, 2021, 05:46:09 PM
Good luck to you all dealing with this next week.
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 15, 2021, 05:57:24 PM
That's pretty much all she has talked about all day...
At least the barn is well lit when I end up living in it.
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Post by: steve dave on February 15, 2021, 06:01:56 PM
Great looking place!
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Can't wait to see what Tom fills that barn up with! (Probably JD tractors)Do you guys want to put an over/under on how fast i fill it up?
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Post by: steve dave on February 15, 2021, 07:56:13 PM
how will that baby cow find it’s mom after this cold weather? do they smell butts like dogs or do they just not care about the mommy cow/baby cow bond because too dumb?If it’s a 24 hour warm up it should be easy to put them back together. They do smell each other or something. Not 100% sure.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 17, 2021, 08:13:43 AM
how will that baby cow find it’s mom after this cold weather? do they smell butts like dogs or do they just not care about the mommy cow/baby cow bond because too dumb?Sometimes my dad will sprinkle a chowder from the vet on the baby calf to get the cow to claim it. I've heard of taking the hide from a calf that died and tying it on the back of the calf that you want the momma cow to claim - don't know if it works or not. Some cows just have a better maternal instinct than others.
My dad's cows are starting to hatch out their baby calves this week. One froze to death before he could get in warmed up. He has a special warming box in the the shop to get them reheated. Their fur has zero insulation value when it is wet with afterbirth. Brutal week for cowpeople and their cows.
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Post by: steve dave on February 20, 2021, 05:40:56 PM
https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/farmland-insider-kansas-auction-of-10900-acres-sells-for-38-million
yeah, land is wild. that's exactly what you get in Meade right there. and it is as garbage as not officially desert land gets.
Post by: ben ji on February 20, 2021, 08:53:01 PM
Probably a lil of both...but I'm just a city boy who stands to inherit a cat ranch.
Can't wait to go in depth on my dad's plans for our land in 2021. I still don't know the full plan because it changes every couple of months but as of now it involves him managing the irrigated circle and contracting out the work. Then leasing out some pasture to be broken out and renting some pasture as is. Maybe some CRP as well but that's confusing as F and we have got conflicting info from different government agencies.
March 1st is the drop dead day!
Post by: BW on February 20, 2021, 11:07:08 PM
https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/farmland-insider-kansas-auction-of-10900-acres-sells-for-38-millionThere was a Russian who was bidding on whole farm. The locals were bidding it up to keep him out ( or so I was told). Same guy has bought a lot of land of out that way lately.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-mice-idUSKBN2BB0VX
Post by: KST8FAN on March 27, 2021, 09:28:49 AM
That vice came from Santa Fe shops in Topeka. Dad mounted on a table with inch thick plate on top. Moved it with skid steer. No idea what it weighs, but I couldn't budge it .
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Post by: KST8FAN on March 27, 2021, 05:57:41 PM
Hell yeah. Put like 5 non functioning refrigerators in there to store stuff in.Got the scrap dumpster to start fresh. One fridge gone.
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Post by: ben ji on March 28, 2021, 10:22:27 AM
One of the farmers interviewed is from Leoti KS.
Post by: ben ji on March 28, 2021, 10:28:20 AM
:Wha:
Check out Thomas County KS just raking in the trump money
Annual and Total Farm Subsidy Payments
Year Ad Hoc ARC-PLC Total
2015 $0 $9,684,203 $9,684,203
2016 $0 $6,973,274 $6,973,274
2017 $0 $5,179,890 $5,179,890
2018 $4,165,958 $1,229,925 $5,395,883
2019 $14,577,799 $9,431,256 $24,009,055
2020 $18,621,947 Not Available $18,621,947
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Post by: sys on April 03, 2021, 08:28:23 PM
If you downgrades in the flint hills could quit burning that would be great.
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Post by: bucket on April 03, 2021, 08:30:02 PM
If you downgrades in the flint hills could quit burning that would be great.
:horrorsurprise:
Seem to have touched a nerve.
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Post by: bucket on April 03, 2021, 09:17:40 PM
ok, that's 2 votes for the downgrade tax. who else is in for this?
Calves gotta have green grass, SD.
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Post by: bucket on April 04, 2021, 08:01:38 AM
Which one of you tried to burn down the western portion of Shawnee County this week?
I heard about that in conversations with family. They told me it wasn’t related to burning! That it started at I-70.
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Post by: bucket on April 04, 2021, 08:36:52 AM
Is burning pastures pretty exhilarating? I feel like there would be a fine line between "woah this is badass!" and "oh crap, everything is on fire and we're outta water!"
Yes. It involves four wheelers and blow torches.
Post by: wetwillie on April 04, 2021, 08:48:36 AM
KS is being burned like crazy except for that part that got out of control which was completely unrelated to the intentional burning we were doing :gestures in all directions:
Someone flicked a cigarette out the window on I-70 and Shawnee County went ablaze!
Post by: steve dave on April 04, 2021, 08:53:42 AM
It’s pretty boring tbh. I’d sit on my dads tailgate with a propane tank flame thrower deal and just hang it off the back while he drove around.Is burning pastures pretty exhilarating? I feel like there would be a fine line between "woah this is badass!" and "oh crap, everything is on fire and we're outta water!"
Yes. It involves four wheelers and blow torches.
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Post by: Justwin on April 05, 2021, 09:30:17 AM
ok, that's 2 votes for the downgrade tax. who else is in for this?
Calves gotta have green grass, SD.
Pretty sure Greg Judy doesn't ever burn pasture.
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So does the state of KS and by extension us, the tax payers of KS, actually own the bridge?
nope, just contractually obligated to maintain it for the rest of your lives and your children's lives, and their children, and so on, and so forth for all of eternity.
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you want to hear some farm mafia stuff? there is a wooden bridge just in the middle of our ranch over a creek bed that you can drive over. it has a sign on it that says "5 MPH" and it's kept up by the state. so you're driving through just grass for miles and miles and all of a sudden there's a sign that says "5 mph" and a wooden bridge you can drive over for no reason. Like 70 years ago they got dirt or sand or some crap or something else off our property in exchange for them building this bridge they drove over and agreeing to keep it up after they did it? something like that. they tried to back out of this agreement 50 years ago and like our ranch sued them and won and they have to keep up this bridge to nowhere in the middle of nowhere for no reason for eternity. well, it's in bad shape and needs to be replaced. so the state called my dad and offered him $200k to get out of the agreement. literally nobody has driven over this thing for the last 50 years and not even cows walk across it because the creek is dry AF. my dad said he'd have to run it by his attorney.:ROFL: that is some true old timer farmer mafia crap
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Is this a live look at Aggieville after last call? I'm confused.YOU SON OF A BITCH!
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https://twitter.com/heil_rob/status/1384974140419936256?s=19Back in the day "Steer-a-year" was an Ahearn Fund gifting level. I have a plaque somewhere when I was at my peak exuberance for LHC Bill Snyder. I think it was like $600 a year which roughly equated to the value of a fat steer long ago. Must have carried on the tradition here in some way. Would be interesting to know the details.
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Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2021, 09:32:36 AM
me - "Why are you going to knock it down?"
dad - [some fantastical hypothetical where there is a giant washout and the bridge being old and wooden is washed down stream for like 8 miles to where the road crosses our property and the bridge somehow blocks the road and we would be responsible for then clearing the road]
me - ........
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on April 22, 2021, 09:52:58 AM
bridge update: you kansans are probably going to be off the hook for bridge maintenance for your entire lives within a week. in discussing this bridge I have discovered that some local photographer knows of it and has asked permission and had their clients senior pictures taken under it or next to it or something for years. apparently it's cool for that though I have no real recollection of it being cool looking. also, once we agree with the state the plan is to take a loader and knock it down and just make a giant pile of old bridge wood and parts for some reason OR see if some local dumbass wants to come take it down and remove it in exchange for them getting to keep all the bridge pieces and whatever.This is a great bridge story, SD.
me - "Why are you going to knock it down?"
dad - [some fantastical hypothetical where there is a giant washout and the bridge being old and wooden is washed down stream for like 8 miles to where the road crosses our property and the bridge somehow blocks the road and we would be responsible for then clearing the road]
me - ........
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2021, 10:00:28 AM
bridge update: you kansans are probably going to be off the hook for bridge maintenance for your entire lives within a week. in discussing this bridge I have discovered that some local photographer knows of it and has asked permission and had their clients senior pictures taken under it or next to it or something for years. apparently it's cool for that though I have no real recollection of it being cool looking. also, once we agree with the state the plan is to take a loader and knock it down and just make a giant pile of old bridge wood and parts for some reason OR see if some local dumbass wants to come take it down and remove it in exchange for them getting to keep all the bridge pieces and whatever.Some quick internet sleuthing reveals that there are only like 4 Bridges in SD farm county and one of them is listed as intact but closed to traffic since 1953....
me - "Why are you going to knock it down?"
dad - [some fantastical hypothetical where there is a giant washout and the bridge being old and wooden is washed down stream for like 8 miles to where the road crosses our property and the bridge somehow blocks the road and we would be responsible for then clearing the road]
me - ........
Is this the beautiful wooden bridge?
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Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2021, 10:21:28 AM
I really thought I nailed it with that old US 54 Bridge.
Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 22, 2021, 10:31:09 AM
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2021, 10:31:31 AM
Wow indeed, so obscure that its not even listed on https://bridgehunter.com/ks/meade/
I really thought I nailed it with that old US 54 Bridge.
well, if it makes you feel better I have climbed onto the old 54 bridge many times. you can't tell from the overhead shot but the ends aren't connected to the ground. like you have to climb up some stuff to get on it. also, it was a well known location for old sponge brained townies as where the druggies, devil worshipers, and hobos hang out. also it's really high off the ground. like probably 20 feet. also near there is a big bridge for the train tracks you see in your picture which was also cool. SPOILER: there were no druggies, devil worshipers, or hobos there ever but if you wanted to be one of those things and have a cool AF place to hang out it would qualify as it is cool AF.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on April 22, 2021, 10:32:59 AM
Wow indeed, so obscure that its not even listed on https://bridgehunter.com/ks/meade/What if I told you that I like to take pictures of old bridges and post them to bridgehunter.com? Has to be v obscure not to be on that site. Bridge dorks can find almost any bridge
I really thought I nailed it with that old US 54 Bridge.
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2021, 10:33:38 AM
Wow indeed, so obscure that its not even listed on https://bridgehunter.com/ks/meade/What if I told you that I like to take pictures of old bridges and post them to bridgehunter.com? Has to be v obscure not to be on that site. Bridge dorks can find almost any bridge
I really thought I nailed it with that old US 54 Bridge.
when I'm down there I will get shots and you can show me how to add it
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2021, 10:36:44 AM
bridge update: you kansans are probably going to be off the hook for bridge maintenance for your entire lives within a week. in discussing this bridge I have discovered that some local photographer knows of it and has asked permission and had their clients senior pictures taken under it or next to it or something for years. apparently it's cool for that though I have no real recollection of it being cool looking. also, once we agree with the state the plan is to take a loader and knock it down and just make a giant pile of old bridge wood and parts for some reason OR see if some local dumbass wants to come take it down and remove it in exchange for them getting to keep all the bridge pieces and whatever.Some quick internet sleuthing reveals that there are only like 4 Bridges in SD farm county and one of them is listed as intact but closed to traffic since 1953....
me - "Why are you going to knock it down?"
dad - [some fantastical hypothetical where there is a giant washout and the bridge being old and wooden is washed down stream for like 8 miles to where the road crosses our property and the bridge somehow blocks the road and we would be responsible for then clearing the road]
me - ........
Is this the beautiful wooden bridge?
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also see to the north of the old bridge between it and the tracks where you can tell people drive? I once got a 1979 chevy blazer high centered there and had to borrow a buddies dirt bike to drive to my house and get another truck which I drove back down there to get the blazer unstuck, wherein my buddies (who were stuck down there with a high centered blazer and NO dirtbike) drove my blazer back to my house and I dropped off the other truck and we loaded the dirtbike in my unstuck blazer and then went to Bobs drive in where I purchased them food in thanks for the waiting around while I used their dirtbike.
Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 22, 2021, 10:46:58 AM
Wow indeed, so obscure that its not even listed on https://bridgehunter.com/ks/meade/What if I told you that I like to take pictures of old bridges and post them to bridgehunter.com? Has to be v obscure not to be on that site. Bridge dorks can find almost any bridge
I really thought I nailed it with that old US 54 Bridge.
Appreciate all the pics you added of the bridges in my county. Guessing you were very close to my family farm for a couple.
Post by: chum1 on April 22, 2021, 10:48:01 AM
dad - [some fantastical hypothetical where there is a giant washout and the bridge being old and wooden is washed down stream for like 8 miles to where the road crosses our property and the bridge somehow blocks the road and we would be responsible for then clearing the road]
My dad always had some rationale for doing things that in his mind could be cited in court. Like, "yes, I took the $200,000, but you see this bridge came with EXPENSES."
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2021, 10:50:01 AM
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2021, 10:53:56 AM
Why not just burn the bridge down?I don’t think that’s a realistic solution in this dry ass country where the wind blows 30 mph 24/7/365
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 22, 2021, 10:57:17 AM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on April 22, 2021, 11:01:22 AM
I have this friend that lives in Florida or something. His wife's grandparents have a farm that they have had for like 100 years. Not a big farm or anything, just some farm land in Florida or wherever and pasture. They pay someone to do farm stuff for them now. His in-laws want to keep it and pass it down to his family and kids. Problem. Farming is a pain in the ass and my friend in Florida has no interest in dealing with farming stuff. What should he do?
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2021, 11:04:19 AM
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on April 22, 2021, 11:08:59 AM
Just rent it out to whoever will rent it from them? I’m obviously not a big farm brain haver so ask Tom maybe?
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Sorry, I'll look for the ask Tom farm questions thread.
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2021, 11:24:07 AM
Bro you are IN that thread!Just rent it out to whoever will rent it from them? I’m obviously not a big farm brain haver so ask Tom maybe?
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Post by: michigancat on April 22, 2021, 11:25:14 AM
SD,
I have this friend that lives in Florida or something. His wife's grandparents have a farm that they have had for like 100 years. Not a big farm or anything, just some farm land in Florida or wherever and pasture. They pay someone to do farm stuff for them now. His in-laws want to keep it and pass it down to his family and kids. Problem. Farming is a pain in the ass and my friend in Florida has no interest in dealing with farming stuff. What should he do?
are his in-laws also about to die or something? if grandparents are still alive this seems like a problem to worry about 30 years from now.
and even then it seems like someone is doing all the farm stuff already, just have them keep doing it.
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Post by: michigancat on April 22, 2021, 11:45:25 AM
I wouldn’t trust anyone from THE BAY AREA when it comes to farming. Just my two cents there.
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do you know what the mascot of bay area school Hayward High is?
I'll give you a little hint, it's Farmers
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Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2021, 12:33:33 PM
Post by: sys on April 22, 2021, 08:46:34 PM
Diesel truck / pickup experts (we only had gas trucks back on the farm) - how long does a diesel pickup truck need to idle in the morning before you get in it to drive somewhere? My redneck neighbors will let their trucks idle for about 20 minutes before getting in them to drive to work (even when it isn't 20 below). It fills the block with diesel fumes which are fine I guess.
Like 30 seconds
hmm, i think it's more likely that they don't come with off buttons and are just left running 24/7.
Post by: sys on April 22, 2021, 08:51:51 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on April 23, 2021, 09:37:22 PM
SD,Does the friends wife have any attachment to it? Let the grandparents pass it down. When they are gone then friend and wife have decisions to make.
I have this friend that lives in Florida or something. His wife's grandparents have a farm that they have had for like 100 years. Not a big farm or anything, just some farm land in Florida or wherever and pasture. They pay someone to do farm stuff for them now. His in-laws want to keep it and pass it down to his family and kids. Problem. Farming is a pain in the ass and my friend in Florida has no interest in dealing with farming stuff. What should he do?
Is it in a trust to avoid inheritance tax? So many questions. If they sell what's the cap gain? 1031 it into a DST or other like kind. Maybe the grandkids would rather manage a jiffylube instead of a farm.
If the place is low maintenance and you have a good renter why not keep it. Do they ever visit? If it's an investment with no sentimental attachment or entertainment (fishing, hunting,.camping, pony rides) then perhaps it's best to sell.
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Post by: ben ji on April 23, 2021, 11:02:20 PM
Not gonna lie, I'm slightly impressed that my dad still has the farmer go get it to just say eff it give me the tractor and I'll disc it up myself.
The remaining 150 acres of pasture is by the creek and we are getting like $15 an acre from the state of KS to let it grow wild and not grow/graze anything on it.
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Post by: ben ji on April 23, 2021, 11:13:39 PM
Then he retired, inherited a little bit of land and now he is all about that farmer life because he has nothing else to do.
Just saying SD, maybe hold on to a lil bit of the land so you have something to do in your 60's.
Post by: ben ji on April 23, 2021, 11:33:13 PM
Now he has a santa clause length beard and spends his days playing around on his hobby farm he inherited and going to the cow/goat/sheep/whatever auction. I'm happy for him and can't wait to inherit the hobby farm/pheasant reserve.
Post by: chum1 on April 24, 2021, 06:58:23 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on April 24, 2021, 01:24:41 PM
I wouldn’t trust anyone from THE BAY AREA when it comes to farming. Just my two cents there.
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do you know what the mascot of bay area school Hayward High is?
I'll give you a little hint, it's Farmers
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get me a tshirt
Post by: steve dave on April 24, 2021, 06:54:06 PM
30 years ago my dad was just like SD, I'm a big city boy now! Sell the land yada yada yada. I didnt go to college and study computers to be a cow/wheat/corn/sorghum farmer etc etc etc.Maybe I haven’t been clear enough about the amount of hardcore farming I did for 18 years. I’ve farmed more than most “farmers” you know that are at retirement age. I can assure you I have a very strong understanding and appreciation for what this stuff entails and the opportunity cost to me and my family. And bro, it is not for me.
Then he retired, inherited a little bit of land and now he is all about that farmer life because he has nothing else to do.
Just saying SD, maybe hold on to a lil bit of the land so you have something to do in your 60's.
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Post by: steve dave on April 24, 2021, 07:54:34 PM
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Post by: Spracne on April 24, 2021, 08:40:33 PM
What does the "020" sign on the bridge denote?
Did the Corp of Engineers build it?
That things not falling down anytime soon. If it does, we're talking an act of god that would probably absolve the dave family of any liability.
Post by: Spracne on April 24, 2021, 08:43:41 PM
It looks in great shape
In those days they built bridges out of toothpicks and bailing wire, and they were better off for it. Cheaper, yet more durable and reliable than today's bridges.
Post by: steve dave on April 24, 2021, 08:49:20 PM
Who used to live in the houses?
What does the "020" sign on the bridge denote?
Did the Corp of Engineers build it?
That things not falling down anytime soon. If it does, we're talking an act of god that would probably absolve the dave family of any liability.
I think they were old "homesteads" from when people got some piece of land. our ranch is probably like a dozen of them or so. I'm not good with acres. but there are a ton of those old houses and barns and stuff all over it pretty evenly spaced out.
no clue
I would guess so. or whoever the state used for engineering back then.
yeah, I think it's got another 50 years of senior photos in it.
Post by: chum1 on April 24, 2021, 09:12:06 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 24, 2021, 09:16:57 PM
I want to think the houses are remnants of The Homestead Act and Dust Bowl. If they aren't, I don't want to hear about it.
I'm positive they are. I'll take pictures of others when we are down there. also I'll ask my dad.
protip: don't walk on their roofs. you will fall through and wrack yourself on the ceiling frames and have to call your dad on the two way radio to come get you and think you have to go to the hospital and miss baseball practice because your balls and crotch are so busted from wracking. according to some junior high canadian guy I know.
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Post by: michigancat on April 25, 2021, 08:42:01 AM
Also check out those abandoned 1920s houses in pic 4. We have dozens of those stupid things that could get washed down stream and block the road at any moment.Not to mention the two giant dead wood piles next to the stream in pic 2 and actually in the stream bed in the last one.
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And I know it has already been mentioned but that bridge isn't going anywhere anytime soon
Post by: ben ji on April 25, 2021, 10:43:28 AM
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Post by: steve dave on April 25, 2021, 12:56:09 PM
Folks, why do farmers buy old school busses? Noticed a bunch on my drive through Illinois. Is that really the best investment for storage purposes?I have never experienced this. Maybe it’s an IL thing
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on April 25, 2021, 08:59:52 PM
Folks, why do farmers buy old school busses? Noticed a bunch on my drive through Illinois. Is that really the best investment for storage purposes?One of my uncle’s buddies bought one to haul pigs in one time. I can think of a lot of reasons why it was a dumb idea but that is what he did. I think sometimes they are purchased with the idea of making a mobile shop for repairs, etc also. Don’t know if any kstategrad farmers who have done this.
Post by: puniraptor on April 26, 2021, 12:06:41 AM
farmers dont need school busses but they arent going to turn one down if it's a good deal
Post by: steve dave on April 26, 2021, 07:03:45 AM
i think it's just about getting good dealsThis is for sure how farmers are
farmers dont need school busses but they arent going to turn one down if it's a good deal
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Post by: ben ji on April 26, 2021, 08:32:59 AM
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Post by: pissclams on April 26, 2021, 10:00:41 AM
Post by: michigancat on April 26, 2021, 10:07:05 AM
@KST8FAN Get in here and tell me if my dad made the correct tractor selection for breaking out the pasture.Seems way too big for 200 acres. He should have went with something smaller so he could milk this pointless endeavor for all it's worth.
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Post by: michigancat on April 26, 2021, 10:08:28 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 26, 2021, 10:38:58 AM
@KST8FAN Get in here and tell me if my dad made the correct tractor selection for breaking out the pasture.Seems way too big for 200 acres. He should have went with something smaller so he could milk this pointless endeavor for all it's worth.
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He didn't buy it, its the new tenant's tractor. My dad is just breaking out the pasture for him because he has nothing else to do.
Post by: pissclams on April 26, 2021, 10:51:41 AM
@KST8FAN Get in here and tell me if my dad made the correct tractor selection for breaking out the pasture.Seems way too big for 200 acres. He should have went with something smaller so he could milk this pointless endeavor for all it's worth.
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he's feeding america's heartland
Post by: steve dave on April 26, 2021, 12:00:52 PM
lmao@KST8FAN Get in here and tell me if my dad made the correct tractor selection for breaking out the pasture.Seems way too big for 200 acres. He should have went with something smaller so he could milk this pointless endeavor for all it's worth.
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He didn't buy it, its the new tenant's tractor. My dad is just breaking out the pasture for him because he has nothing else to do.
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Post by: michigancat on April 26, 2021, 12:18:44 PM
@KST8FAN Get in here and tell me if my dad made the correct tractor selection for breaking out the pasture.Seems way too big for 200 acres. He should have went with something smaller so he could milk this pointless endeavor for all it's worth.
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He didn't buy it, its the new tenant's tractor. My dad is just breaking out the pasture for him because he has nothing else to do.
I know, he should have asked for something smaller
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on April 26, 2021, 12:20:54 PM
Did anyone else grow up playing THE FARMING GAME? It was kind of like monopoly but with farm thing. If I could go over to my cool older cousins house and get her to play that game with me for a couple of hours, it was like the most awesome thing that could happen.
Post by: chum1 on April 26, 2021, 12:26:17 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on April 26, 2021, 04:51:05 PM
@KST8FAN Get in here and tell me if my dad made the correct tractor selection for breaking out the pasture.Is that like a 30 ft disc cultivator? The tractor horse power is justified if your breaking up sod. Green, but not JD green so possibly Great Plains brand? I am RG color blind AF so it could be the light.
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Tell dad to wind it up and drop that sucker into the ground until the wheels are off the ground.
Also note my experience was a 90 hp tractor pulling a 23 ft spring tooth.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 26, 2021, 04:52:56 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 26, 2021, 04:59:43 PM
I saw one of these on my Kinze tour a couple years ago. Blowing thru downed corn after the Derecho. That would make quick work of 200 acres of pasture.
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Post by: ben ji on April 26, 2021, 08:15:40 PM
Are there any power poles on the property. How is your dad's depth perception when running something like this?
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No power poles just a buried high powered line for the windmills along the fence line where the buffer strip is. I'm assuming that if he hit that he wouldn't be texting me pictures of the tractor he has been cosplaying in all day.
Post by: sys on April 26, 2021, 09:38:35 PM
just a buried high powered line for the windmills along the fence line where the buffer strip is.
that's at least three foot deep, probably four.
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Post by: Katpappy on April 27, 2021, 09:48:54 PM
https://youtu.be/CBvdw6PR0dc
I saw one of these on my Kinze tour a couple years ago. Blowing thru downed corn after the Derecho. That would make quick work of 200 acres of pasture.
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That's a total waste of time on pasture. You need a 4/5/or 6 bottom plow set 16" deep to turn pasture into field. But LOL on knocking down weeds with that contraption.
Post by: Katpappy on April 27, 2021, 09:55:22 PM
just a buried high powered line for the windmills along the fence line where the buffer strip is.
that's at least three foot deep, probably four.
Four foot for distribution, but transmission is deeper depending on voltage.
Post by: sys on April 28, 2021, 12:43:01 AM
Post by: Katpappy on April 28, 2021, 10:47:23 PM
i was assuming these were feeder lines from turbines to a substation. i've never worked on a project where they've buried high voltage lines.
This is the size of HV UG cable my son(lineman) was involved with:
https://www.taya.com.tw/proimages/in-product/01/161kv_xlpe_underground_transmission_cable_en.pdfe
Post by: star seed 7 on April 28, 2021, 11:48:13 PM
Post by: Katpappy on April 30, 2021, 12:44:36 AM
God damnit Katdaddy, did you just hack me?
You have to translate this link, but it's a PDF on 161KV cable sold by this company.
Post by: ben ji on May 02, 2021, 06:31:52 PM
Apparently one of them was preggers and we now have a new baby mini pony named Jack/Jackie (not sure on sex yet).
Now that the yotes got all the cats the "Cat Ranch" name may be changed to "Mini Pony Ranch"
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Post by: ben ji on May 02, 2021, 09:02:06 PM
Still trying to figure out if the new mini pony is a jack or jackie.
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Post by: ben ji on May 02, 2021, 09:51:09 PM
Gees ben ji, your dad is calling her Jackie. That should tell you something. :Carl:Eventually he settled on jackie but jack was mentioned a couple times.
Post by: bucket on May 02, 2021, 10:47:02 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 03, 2021, 08:20:27 AM
That is the mother or is it an adopted mother? I remember we put the hide of a calf that died on a newborn and the mother wouldn't take it.
Regular mother, my dad is bottle feeding it just so he has something to do.
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Jackie Died. Left Morton, walked out into big puddle, laid down, drowned.
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Post by: ben ji on May 04, 2021, 08:08:06 AM
Also was he feeding it just cow milk from the store or what?
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He bought some powdered milk from Orschlins and mixed it with some whole milk but jackie didnt like it. The mom was still alive and nursing it so I have no idea why my dad thought he had to supplement with more non horse milk :dunno:
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Post by: ben ji on May 06, 2021, 09:02:28 PM
I told him non venomous and to let it live, hope you will concur.
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Post by: bucket on May 06, 2021, 09:04:25 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 06, 2021, 09:13:47 PM
What's the big one?Garter Snake
Post by: ben ji on May 06, 2021, 09:46:45 PM
The photo was taken in NW KS, a lil out of the normal range.
Still waiting for noted snakeoligist sys to weigh in
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Post by: ben ji on May 07, 2021, 09:38:23 AM
Tell your dad not to feed them milk
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Post by: BW on May 07, 2021, 02:40:18 PM
Nice looking rig but the implement looks a bit lightweight for breaking out pasture unless the soil is really sandy.Sure did, have it in the basement. Apples and cows.
Did anyone else grow up playing THE FARMING GAME? It was kind of like monopoly but with farm thing. If I could go over to my cool older cousins house and get her to play that game with me for a couple of hours, it was like the most awesome thing that could happen.
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Post by: Katpappy on May 07, 2021, 05:22:07 PM
My brother says it's a checkered garter snake
The photo was taken in NW KS, a lil out of the normal range.
Still waiting for noted snakeoligist sys to weigh in
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Them sum dumb sun-of-bitches; I grew up on a ranch just east of Cedar Bluff State Park and we had blue racers, garter snakes. water snakes, bull snakes, prairie and timber rattler snakes. Also, had some big ass Tarantulas that the rough ridin' Nuns at the Catholic Grade school I attended didn't believe were around our part of Kansas. So I brought a jar of them the next day and they were so rough ridin' scared the locked the outside doors since I let them go during recess. Cops were called to make sure it was safe to let kids out on the playground. The moral of the story is don't call me a liar cause you read some crap from dumbs fucks that don't know what they're talking about.
Post by: star seed 7 on May 07, 2021, 07:00:32 PM
Post by: sys on May 07, 2021, 08:46:45 PM
put a branch or something in there leaned against the wall leading up to wherever they're getting in from so they can get back out when they fall in. either that or block off the entrance.
Post by: Katpappy on May 07, 2021, 09:23:30 PM
checkered garter snake is close, it's a plains garter (the big one and the little striped one). the other one is a juvenile racer.
put a branch or something in there leaned against the wall leading up to wherever they're getting in from so they can get back out when they fall in. either that or block off the entrance.
We had a couple of garter snakes and a racer in our flower garden in front of the house. They are great for eating bugs and mice. They are gone now, and I don't know what happened to them. All three had small 1" holes they went in and out of.
Post by: KST8FAN on May 08, 2021, 08:34:09 PM
Tom(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210509/d13ae98e5e2448147061c754c283e0b9.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210509/122aa0f37146d68582c698001c1c533b.jpg)
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Post by: sys on May 08, 2021, 09:24:51 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 09, 2021, 12:08:29 AM
Post by: Katpappy on May 09, 2021, 04:56:06 AM
Post by: ben ji on May 13, 2021, 09:08:37 PM
(Peters was my Grandma's GPA who originally homesteaded the land in the 1890's)
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Post by: ben ji on May 13, 2021, 09:13:53 PM
Maybe send an email pretending to be a local farmer asking if my dad has seen any mountain lions on his land?
UFOs?
Red wolf's?
Post by: steve dave on May 13, 2021, 09:37:36 PM
My dad never told me he made these, my mom found a pile at the house and snagged a couple to show me. Can't wait to some how troll the (benjisdad)[email protected] email address.lmao. But adorable and I’d like to give your venom blooded dad a hug.
Maybe send an email pretending to be a local farmer asking if my dad has seen any mountain lions on his land?
UFOs?
Red wolf's?
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Post by: ben ji on May 20, 2021, 11:27:12 PM
Got in tonight and can't wait to get to work tomorrow....
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Post by: puniraptor on May 21, 2021, 06:18:18 AM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 21, 2021, 12:20:29 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 21, 2021, 12:38:38 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 21, 2021, 01:32:45 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 21, 2021, 02:06:23 PM
So my parents are on a 2 week long road trip/vacation so I have taken this as an opportunity to clean out all the random crap in the garage while my hoarder dad can't interrupt.Finished the easy half of the garage.
Got in tonight and can't wait to get to work tomorrow....
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Post by: ben ji on May 21, 2021, 02:08:04 PM
are there actually 2 rascals in there?Yup, you in the market?
Post by: pissclams on May 21, 2021, 03:10:51 PM
Post by: bucket on May 21, 2021, 03:32:48 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 21, 2021, 03:34:33 PM
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on May 21, 2021, 08:39:47 PM
What are those wood beams against the wall?Just some random wood beams, I saved them because they are probably worth a million dollars with current lumber prices.
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I did find two old tractor manuals for you to admire.
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 08:41:29 PM
Almost done with the second partSo my parents are on a 2 week long road trip/vacation so I have taken this as an opportunity to clean out all the random crap in the garage while my hoarder dad can't interrupt.Finished the easy half of the garage.
Got in tonight and can't wait to get to work tomorrow....
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 08:48:56 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 08:54:15 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 08:57:47 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 09:03:38 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 09:07:33 PM
I spotted a couple prairie dogs out there (LOL). (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210523/f6dfb4294f2e22e8ef8156321ff65739.jpg)
Post by: sys on May 22, 2021, 09:24:16 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 10:21:49 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 10:28:39 PM
the pasture looks great. i would have sold the place before cleaning out that building.There is a whole nother butler building that needs to be tackled on another trip
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 10:42:29 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 10:44:32 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 10:55:21 PM
Found a popcorn tin that had all their tax returns from the 60's. In 1965 my grandparents had/declared 5k in income (40k in today's dollars). They didn't even buy the current cat ranch until the early 70's.
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2021, 11:13:14 PM
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Post by: bucket on May 22, 2021, 11:38:01 PM
Post by: bucket on May 23, 2021, 12:10:07 AM
I'll give you $20 for one of those flame throwers. Also, have we talked about Trevor before?
Make it $60 for all three. I'll be driving through KC next month.
Post by: sys on May 23, 2021, 12:59:48 AM
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2021, 01:02:03 AM
I'll give you $20 for one of those flame throwers. Also, have we talked about Trevor before?No I just named Trevor this weekend. He is the only mini pony that has checked me out weekend.
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2021, 01:07:52 AM
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2021, 01:13:28 AM
But yeah, those flamethrowers are yours for $60 unless tom gets on here and tells me they are worth hundreds.Actually I might save one just to pull out as a power move to light cigars with.
Oh, you need a light? Brb
Post by: bucket on May 23, 2021, 01:30:11 AM
But yeah, those flamethrowers are yours for $60 unless tom gets on here and tells me they are worth hundreds.
Deal. I want one plus they could make cool birthday presents or guys Christmas presents.
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2021, 06:49:44 PM
Finished up earlier today.Almost done with the second partSo my parents are on a 2 week long road trip/vacation so I have taken this as an opportunity to clean out all the random crap in the garage while my hoarder dad can't interrupt.Finished the easy half of the garage.
Got in tonight and can't wait to get to work tomorrow....
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 23, 2021, 07:34:29 PM
Post by: bucket on May 23, 2021, 08:14:21 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2021, 10:24:42 PM
your pops is going to be excited with all the room he'll have to add crap back into there.I am currently hinting that with all the room he should buy a 4wheeler or other ATV to reduce his income after we make bank with these ridiculous grain prices.
More than likely it will just be more junk
Post by: KST8FAN on May 25, 2021, 07:43:25 AM
Take the $60 and runBut yeah, those flamethrowers are yours for $60 unless tom gets on here and tells me they are worth hundreds.
Deal. I want one plus they could make cool birthday presents or guys Christmas presents.
Tom
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 25, 2021, 07:46:14 AM
Google says some of these are brass. Pretty when polishedTake the $60 and runBut yeah, those flamethrowers are yours for $60 unless tom gets on here and tells me they are worth hundreds.
Deal. I want one plus they could make cool birthday presents or guys Christmas presents.
Tom
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Post by: steve dave on May 25, 2021, 08:27:50 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 25, 2021, 08:48:52 AM
Found this old timey tool hanging in the garage. Some sort of scythe or weed cutter?Hay knife which I had to look up although not sure the application. I guess to cut up hay when stacked loosely in the loft...
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Post by: ben ji on May 25, 2021, 12:11:54 PM
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Post by: steve dave on May 29, 2021, 03:45:19 PM
:-(
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Post by: steve dave on May 29, 2021, 03:46:28 PM
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Post by: PandaXpanda on May 29, 2021, 08:44:02 PM
Cat count seems to be 4. Assuming the thing on top of the shed refrigerator is a cat.Those cats are rough af
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Post by: wetwillie on May 29, 2021, 09:08:29 PM
Probably rabid skunk blasted with a 20 gauge. Was approaching us and going spray crazy. Not someone to smoke a perfectly good skunk for no reason but this one had to be put down.
:-(
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Pew pew for the pew pew
Post by: ben ji on May 30, 2021, 11:55:14 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 30, 2021, 02:05:34 PM
Post by: steve dave on May 30, 2021, 05:45:03 PM
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Post by: steve dave on May 30, 2021, 05:46:39 PM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on May 30, 2021, 05:54:49 PM
Post by: steve dave on May 31, 2021, 07:36:43 AM
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Post by: ben ji on May 31, 2021, 01:18:27 PM
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:D
I saw the first raccoon ever at the cat ranch last week and it wasn't even in a tree. Milo was sniffing around in an old pen over grown with weeds when I hear a commotion and see a raccoon jump about 4 feet straight up in the air (high enough to clear the weeds) then book it out of the pen to climb a tree.
Post by: Katpappy on May 31, 2021, 07:49:22 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 31, 2021, 08:42:11 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 31, 2021, 08:44:44 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 31, 2021, 08:47:06 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 31, 2021, 10:48:33 PM
Tom, I am saving these old possibly flame throwers for at least 24 hrs until you tell me if they are worth any money or not.I am watching "happy people" some documentary on Amazon prime about some Russian trappers in Siberia and they were using one of these lil flame throwers to build a dugout canoe!
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210523/a633f53b8937a0e292b0daf9222606a1.jpg)
They would basically put a bunch of tar on the outside then use this exact same flame thrower to seal it up.
Post by: Katpappy on June 01, 2021, 02:46:13 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 04, 2021, 01:30:13 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 08, 2021, 05:49:32 PM
(And don't you dare kill it, instead try and capture it and move it .5 miles away because I've totally wrangled a poisonous snake before and know what I'm doing)
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Post by: ben ji on June 08, 2021, 05:53:09 PM
(To the left of lady)
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 08, 2021, 07:14:24 PM
Post by: sys on June 08, 2021, 07:22:44 PM
Post by: Cire on June 08, 2021, 08:03:57 PM
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Post by: ben ji on June 08, 2021, 09:21:25 PM
Why keep a rattle snake alive???Now that the yotes got all the cats something needs to keep the rodents in check. I saw a big ole rat out there last time.
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Post by: pissclams on June 08, 2021, 09:57:12 PM
these rattlesnakes, i love their body shape, how they are short and fat. i hunted snakes for years as a kid but only found one rattlesnake, brought it home to show mom, then released it by the lake.
my favorite pet snake was a california king that was 50/50 black/white and looked like this-
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Post by: Fedor on June 09, 2021, 08:11:11 AM
Also I love that my dad calls this a riverThat river is easily deep enough to drown a miniature horse.
(To the left of lady)
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 11, 2021, 09:33:46 PM
Tom
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on June 12, 2021, 09:23:42 AM
Post by: ben ji on June 13, 2021, 11:27:34 PM
Pretty crazy compared to 2020 when the cat ranch got 13 inches of rain for the year.
"If it rains" is truly the motto of the high plains.
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Post by: pissclams on June 14, 2021, 07:19:39 AM
Post by: ben ji on June 24, 2021, 01:08:08 PM
Possible Cat PLUS Skunk ranch in the future?
This weekend when we were leaving the cat ranch we saw a skunk of the side of the road/windbreak. It was right by the house and where I work Milo on birds so I mentioned to my dad we should stop and shoot it.
He got kind of Angry and told me to leave it be.....now I know why
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Ran into this skunk again when I stayed at the cat ranch on the way back from my vision quest. I was walking around the windbreak at dusk while Lady/Milo chased rabbits etc. I heard a kerfluffle by my dad's beehives that sounded different than normal and looked over to see a black & white tail sticking straight up in the air.
Aw eff, the mutts are gonna get sprayed and I'm going to have to clean them. I was able to get Lady to the other side of the windbreak but couldn't find Milo...Turns out Milo was the smart one and had immediately booked it back to the house when they encountered the skunk.
Post by: ben ji on June 24, 2021, 01:10:08 PM
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Post by: ben ji on June 24, 2021, 01:13:59 PM
Anyways these 2 guyz were watching me from the weedy part.
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Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 01:18:34 PM
Here's his big rock - "all the rich folks have big rocks in their yard". and yes the deer skull is attached with baling wire (and multiple are attached along his road to the blacktop)
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Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 01:21:36 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/SnM1stA.png)
they let me drive a new-fangled combine with gps
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 24, 2021, 01:24:33 PM
here's a kickass hat I got from a trashbag in his basementThat hat :drool: Love the script that Garvey used on their elevators.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 24, 2021, 01:27:17 PM
Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 01:27:58 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/04KjNm2.jpg)
and here is the "save" iron pile:
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the pvc pile was new to me
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Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 01:29:25 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Uh8dNES.png)
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 24, 2021, 01:31:09 PM
Nice and tidy farm.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on June 24, 2021, 01:40:49 PM
Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 01:42:33 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Y3L55dl.jpg)
Note there were zero horses on this farm in my lifetime
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Post by: pissclams on June 24, 2021, 01:49:17 PM
i think you've posted his driveway rock here before or maybe mentioned it
Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 01:56:40 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/5EypXgz.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kvNB1om.png)
(note: there was nothing in any of these filing cabinets)
this was dug out of a field when doing some dirt work this summer
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Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 01:57:10 PM
sorry about your grandpa, rusty
i think you've posted his driveway rock here before or maybe mentioned it
thanks, I've mentioned it and other people have shared their big yard rocks!
Post by: ChiComCat on June 24, 2021, 02:10:45 PM
Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 02:26:32 PM
Sorry for your loss. I'm also sorry if you're the one that has to clean some that out. I had a similar job for my grandpa and it was astounding how much stuff was packed into similar barns/sheds
There is still an active farming operation run by my dad and brother in law and I am not involved. I definitely gave my nephew crap about not sweeping the floors well
Post by: pissclams on June 24, 2021, 02:30:06 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 24, 2021, 03:53:15 PM
i think you've posted the rock's picture before iircNope, that was Toms rock.
Post by: ben ji on June 24, 2021, 03:55:45 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 24, 2021, 04:00:30 PM
not sure how long this building's gonna last. not much was stored/accessed there even when I was a kid. Like steps from here a tin pole shed was wiped out by a wind storm a couple years ago.I am curious as to what the plan is to demo/tear down that building.
(https://i.imgur.com/Uh8dNES.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/q69DrlV.jpg)
We have a shed leaning just like that and my dad's plan is to "Wait until it falls over then burn it"
Post by: steve dave on June 24, 2021, 04:44:26 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 24, 2021, 05:12:07 PM
these shots are from the "henhouse"....lots of sir walter raleigh tobacco cans in the backgroundSome of those shoes are large with big cleats. Those were draft horses no doubt.
(https://i.imgur.com/Y3L55dl.jpg)
Note there were zero horses on this farm in my lifetime
(https://i.imgur.com/9wD92rr.jpg)
There is literally a complete set of implement tires there in good condition with rims too.
Tom
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 24, 2021, 05:16:35 PM
So like the stone is in Czech or Slovnek?
(https://i.imgur.com/5EypXgz.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kvNB1om.png)
(note: there was nothing in any of these filing cabinets)
this was dug out of a field when doing some dirt work this summer
(https://i.imgur.com/2i9w3Qt.png)
Duben (April) 1823
Kveten (May) 1907
Tom
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Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 05:18:57 PM
I assume Czech because that's what everyone in the area said they were but never heard of Slovnek. There was a Czech social hall nearby where my dad did gymnastics as a kid.So like the stone is in Czech or Slovnek?
(https://i.imgur.com/5EypXgz.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kvNB1om.png)
(note: there was nothing in any of these filing cabinets)
this was dug out of a field when doing some dirt work this summer
(https://i.imgur.com/2i9w3Qt.png)
Duben (April) 1823
Kveten (May) 1907
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Post by: sys on June 24, 2021, 05:34:43 PM
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Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 05:38:46 PM
not sure how long this building's gonna last. not much was stored/accessed there even when I was a kid. Like steps from here a tin pole shed was wiped out by a wind storm a couple years ago.I am curious as to what the plan is to demo/tear down that building.
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We have a shed leaning just like that and my dad's plan is to "Wait until it falls over then burn it"
funny you mention it because I stood in almost the exact same spot and took this photo in the other direction. when I was a kid it was surrounded by fence and served as a bird dog pen. I didn't ask how long it's been like this.
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Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 05:41:35 PM
i dug up some baby skunks this spring, ben ji. if your father wants any tips lmk.
did you de-scent one? because I want you to give ben ji's dad tips on de-scenting a skunk himself
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Post by: ben ji on June 24, 2021, 07:48:47 PM
I'm pretty sure he had some sort of traumatic event with a gun/animal at some point growing up because I've literally never seen him shoot a gun let alone an animal and he gets angry when I shoot rabbits/won't let me kill a skunk.
I know he used to hunt as a kid and he taught my brother and I gun safety/how to shoot when we were growing up but I can never recall actually seeing him shoot a gun.
Post by: KST8FAN on June 24, 2021, 08:22:05 PM
so of course I went to the iron pile. Looks like there is now a pile that is for throwing away!The racks for scrap iron always seem to be some of the best built structures on the farm.
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and here is the "save" iron pile:
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the pvc pile was new to me
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Post by: sys on June 24, 2021, 09:10:25 PM
It should be easier to de-scent a baby skunk as opposed to a full grown skunk, right?
apparently the preferred age is 4-8 weeks.
Post by: steve dave on June 24, 2021, 09:14:23 PM
Post by: chum1 on June 24, 2021, 10:58:43 PM
I think our family has zero big rocks.
No money in it.
Post by: michigancat on June 25, 2021, 12:21:52 AM
I think our family has zero big rocks. I think this is a thing from big BIG ROCK.My grandpa spent an entire day digging it out of a creek bed or something with a dozer tractor, three point hitch, and a chain. He just drug it down the road and across the yard to where it sits today. I think it was at the site of an abandoned rail crossing. It was not a very profitable venture unless you count the value of everyone that drives by** thinking you're rich as eff.
(**Maybe 3-5 pickups a day, all neighbors)
Post by: pissclams on June 25, 2021, 11:24:59 AM
Post by: ben ji on June 25, 2021, 01:34:16 PM
One neighbor does have an old 1940's rusted pickup out front with flowers planted where the engine was and in the bed, that looks pretty cool.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 25, 2021, 03:07:11 PM
all of you continue to disappoint with no old farm trucks1979 F250
My son bought at our life long farm neighbors auction. Hated to see this leave the community.
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on June 25, 2021, 03:13:32 PM
73-79 are my fave Tom.. freaking hot
Post by: ben ji on June 26, 2021, 10:51:03 AM
all of you continue to disappoint with no old farm trucks1979 F250
My son bought at our life long farm neighbors auction. Hated to see this leave the community.
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How many miles does it have/good condition/is it still used daily?
Post by: yoga-like_abana on June 26, 2021, 11:12:03 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on June 26, 2021, 11:27:49 AM
I would have to check. We planned on using it for lite farm work. It was being used pretty steadily when we bought it.all of you continue to disappoint with no old farm trucks1979 F250
My son bought at our life long farm neighbors auction. Hated to see this leave the community.
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How many miles does it have/good condition/is it still used daily?
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Post by: steve dave on June 26, 2021, 05:24:44 PM
Benji pro tip.. no one usually knows actual mileage. Best way to tell usually is the brake pedal. Most of those have rolled over mileage wise once or twice or morelmao, no irl farm truck is rolling over anything other than its cab.
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Post by: Cire on June 27, 2021, 01:16:59 PM
In 2010 it had about 70k miles on it.
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on June 27, 2021, 03:30:22 PM
My gpa’ work truck was a 1980 Ford that had been converted to propane because gpa thought gas prices were too high.Easier on the engine too
In 2010 it had about 70k miles on it.
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Post by: ben ji on June 27, 2021, 05:02:01 PM
Basic premise is Jeremy Clarkson (Some famous brit from a car show) bought a farm like 10 years ago and the guy who was farming it retired so he is gonna farm it himself.
Post by: sys on June 27, 2021, 05:46:30 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on June 27, 2021, 06:22:12 PM
Playing The Farming Game with the kids:That's classic. Our version had vinyl stickers for the crops, livestock, equipment.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on June 27, 2021, 07:19:24 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 27, 2021, 08:50:09 PM
This version was probably made in the last 8 years or so. When I was a kid, getting my cool older cousin to play Farming Game with me was the best thing that could happen.Playing The Farming Game with the kids:That's classic. Our version had vinyl stickers for the crops, livestock, equipment.
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Post by: passranch on June 28, 2021, 03:43:16 PM
that sounds like a good show.
It is. It's better if you've ever watched much of BBC's Top Gear.
Post by: ben ji on June 30, 2021, 08:22:57 PM
I watched the first 2 episodes of Clarksons Farm on Amazon and may continue watching it.
Basic premise is Jeremy Clarkson (Some famous brit from a car show) bought a farm like 10 years ago and the guy who was farming it retired so he is gonna farm it himself.
Finished watching this show and its pretty good. It was filmed during fall 2019/ summer 2020 so its a time capsule of covid but I enjoyed at the end of the last episode where he met with his farm manager to see how much he made during the year. It was 144 pounds (would of been like 90,144 pounds with the previous year's prices) and then this conversations ensued.
Farm Manager: Well that plus the subsidies of the government
Jeremy Clarkson: Well who knows how long that could last
I LOL'D.
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Post by: ben ji on July 05, 2021, 10:24:16 PM
We are now a raccoon ranch. Word is that the cats have a truce with them and everything is pretty civil.Lol, looks like the coons are getting the ole tried and true kibble mixed with leftovers.
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Pretty soon the Dave crew will be filling those same aluminum containers with scrambled eggs covered in milk or crock pot chicken as they expand their coon herd.
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 06, 2021, 09:58:31 PM
Ring tailed ratsTrash Pandas
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 09, 2021, 04:14:59 PM
Cousin sent me a pic of "old blue" from today. He and I were putting up hay with that beast in the late 70s early 80sOh man. Nice looking truck. Grandpa still has one of those with the grain bed on it (73 or 74ish??)
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Post by: steve dave on July 09, 2021, 07:34:05 PM
Cousin sent me a pic of "old blue" from today. He and I were putting up hay with that beast in the late 70s early 80sHell yeah Tom.
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 09, 2021, 08:33:13 PM
You have a loader with a grabber or are they manually loading those things?I drove, 2 guys loading, 1 guy pulling bales in line
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 09, 2021, 08:34:22 PM
72Cousin sent me a pic of "old blue" from today. He and I were putting up hay with that beast in the late 70s early 80sOh man. Nice looking truck. Grandpa still has one of those with the grain bed on it (73 or 74ish??)
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Post by: sys on July 09, 2021, 08:40:10 PM
although it looks like tinycow is not very healthy and will probably die soon, which is very sad.
Post by: steve dave on July 09, 2021, 08:43:01 PM
You have a loader with a grabber or are they manually loading those things?I drove, 2 guys loading, 1 guy pulling bales in line
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Tom, as a 40 year old (man) who has farmed more than I wish I had I can say with a full heart: what in the hell is that? it lobs bales up there?
Post by: KST8FAN on July 09, 2021, 09:13:35 PM
https://youtu.be/DuWDn0RJ22oYou have a loader with a grabber or are they manually loading those things?I drove, 2 guys loading, 1 guy pulling bales in line
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Tom, as a 40 year old (man) who has farmed more than I wish I had I can say with a full heart: what in the hell is that? it lobs bales up there?
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Post by: IPA4Me on July 09, 2021, 09:23:50 PM
Round bale user outted.You have a loader with a grabber or are they manually loading those things?I drove, 2 guys loading, 1 guy pulling bales in line
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Tom, as a 40 year old (man) who has farmed more than I wish I had I can say with a full heart: what in the hell is that? it lobs bales up there?
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Post by: steve dave on July 09, 2021, 10:57:34 PM
Post by: slackcat on July 10, 2021, 06:24:18 AM
Cousin sent me a pic of "old blue" from today. He and I were putting up hay with that beast in the late 70s early 80s
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How many do they squeeze on the girl? Looks to be a 100 or 125 maybe.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on July 10, 2021, 09:15:06 AM
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 10, 2021, 11:06:57 AM
6 rows x 25 bales = 150 per load. We had a telephone line to clear in the driveway.Cousin sent me a pic of "old blue" from today. He and I were putting up hay with that beast in the late 70s early 80s
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How many do they squeeze on the girl? Looks to be a 100 or 125 maybe.
Last load of day is what you started with at 10 following morning + 1 more load before lunch.
5 more loads in the barn after noon to get your 1,050 a day plus 1 more load to start in the morning.
My cousin noted he only went 4 high this week cause he is 57 not 17 anymore.
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 10, 2021, 11:28:34 AM
holy crap. thank you.https://youtu.be/RXRBZYcCpYQ
Dad farmed with 2 cousins. The other one had this set up. To this day I find a square bale knotter and bale thrower to be amazing technology.
I guess the thrower eliminated dealing with a teenage hay crew along with making use of silage wagons to haul hay. I would shuttle wagons packed with randomly loaded bales to barn where dad and hired man unloaded and stacked.
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Post by: ben ji on July 10, 2021, 10:55:37 PM
It rained this year so of course it's doing playa lake type things.
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Post by: ben ji on July 11, 2021, 09:46:37 PM
Yeah, once it’s go time it’s go timeIt's go time for sure, other neighbors were harvesting tonight.
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Post by: Cire on July 11, 2021, 10:34:45 PM
LOTS of chiggers and ticks
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Post by: Pete on July 15, 2021, 12:47:23 PM
How much can I charge to let some farmer graze cows on my land? Land size is roughly 35 acres. There are cows grazing on it all the time now. If I buy the land, I want to charge farmers to keep grazing cows on it. The grass quality looks like maybe a solid medium. Maybe a little below medium.
Post by: ben ji on July 15, 2021, 03:45:43 PM
Farmer and Rancher Cats,Like $10 an acre or something stupid low depending on how far west you are. Google pasture rental rates for whatever county your land is and it will give you a Kstate report that tells you what the avg rate is in your county.
How much can I charge to let some farmer graze cows on my land? Land size is roughly 35 acres. There are cows grazing on it all the time now. If I buy the land, I want to charge farmers to keep grazing cows on it. The grass quality looks like maybe a solid medium. Maybe a little below medium.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on July 15, 2021, 03:56:14 PM
Farmer and Rancher Cats,Like $10 an acre or something stupid low depending on how far west you are. Google pasture rental rates for whatever county your land is and it will give you a Kstate report that tells you what the avg rate is in your county.
How much can I charge to let some farmer graze cows on my land? Land size is roughly 35 acres. There are cows grazing on it all the time now. If I buy the land, I want to charge farmers to keep grazing cows on it. The grass quality looks like maybe a solid medium. Maybe a little below medium.
yeah, the farm my inlaws have that I hate has some pasture land and they always debate renting it out. They don't get much at all for it, but its something since they already own it. It has a pond that I have to go to sometimes and I always worry about one of those stupid things stomping my dog or kid, but they mostly stay away.
Post by: Pete on July 15, 2021, 05:46:38 PM
Farmer and Rancher Cats,Like $10 an acre or something stupid low depending on how far west you are. Google pasture rental rates for whatever county your land is and it will give you a Kstate report that tells you what the avg rate is in your county.
How much can I charge to let some farmer graze cows on my land? Land size is roughly 35 acres. There are cows grazing on it all the time now. If I buy the land, I want to charge farmers to keep grazing cows on it. The grass quality looks like maybe a solid medium. Maybe a little below medium.
OK, I did this, but are those rates for a year or a month or what?
Post by: ben ji on July 15, 2021, 07:44:01 PM
A yearFarmer and Rancher Cats,Like $10 an acre or something stupid low depending on how far west you are. Google pasture rental rates for whatever county your land is and it will give you a Kstate report that tells you what the avg rate is in your county.
How much can I charge to let some farmer graze cows on my land? Land size is roughly 35 acres. There are cows grazing on it all the time now. If I buy the land, I want to charge farmers to keep grazing cows on it. The grass quality looks like maybe a solid medium. Maybe a little below medium.
OK, I did this, but are those rates for a year or a month or what?
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Post by: ben ji on July 15, 2021, 09:43:55 PM
Post by: steve dave on July 15, 2021, 09:54:22 PM
Pete, just buy it, break it out into cropland, farm it for 5 years then enroll it in CRP and start getting $35+ per acre from the government.I’ve run the number movers and this is bullet proof
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Post by: Pete on July 16, 2021, 07:03:01 AM
Post by: Pete on July 16, 2021, 07:05:57 AM
Pete, just buy it, break it out into cropland, farm it for 5 years then enroll it in CRP and start getting $35+ per acre from the government.I’ve run the number movers and this is bullet proof
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How do they make sure that you REALLY farmed it for 5 years, or that you farmed enough, or well enough, during that time? Is there an inspection process?
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You have to surrender your first born son as collateral and then set up a web cam so they can do spot checks and then if they find you cheating your son will permanently belong to the state. Good luck.
SS7, get out of Russia and come back to Mercia, where you're friends are good buddy. :cheers:
Post by: KST8FAN on July 23, 2021, 04:12:58 PM
He get a couple three eggs for his efforts.
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Post by: bucket on July 23, 2021, 04:22:21 PM
Anyone ever raised chickens? The cousin farmer's bride has this sweet mobile chicken hotel.
He get a couple three eggs for his efforts.
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The folks did, but they didn't have a mobile pen. They stopped because they got sick of butchering them after they stopped laying.
Post by: Katpappy on July 23, 2021, 04:39:55 PM
Anyone ever raised chickens? The cousin farmer's bride has this sweet mobile chicken hotel.
He get a couple three eggs for his efforts.
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The folks did, but they didn't have a mobile pen. They stopped because they got sick of butchering them after they stopped laying.
At that stage they only are good soup meat. We feed our old chickens to the pigs.
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Post by: ben ji on July 24, 2021, 09:00:10 AM
Really?
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 25, 2021, 04:56:38 PM
What were you driving Tom?Restored 4020.
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Post by: bucket on July 25, 2021, 08:51:34 PM
What were you driving Tom?Restored 4020.
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Boss
Post by: KST8FAN on July 25, 2021, 08:56:21 PM
https://www.agriculture.com/machinery/ageless-iron/the-greatest-deeres-of-all-time
There's a great 2 hour documentary on history of the tractor... history Channel I think.
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Post by: Katpappy on July 26, 2021, 03:29:49 AM
https://www.google.com/amp/s/tractorsinfo.com/top-10-tractors-all-time/amp/
https://www.agriculture.com/machinery/ageless-iron/the-greatest-deeres-of-all-time
There's a great 2 hour documentary on history of the tractor... history Channel I think.
Tom
TY Tom. I recognized most of these tractors, since most of them were very common when I was a kid. I may watch this on History Channel sometime.
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Post by: Cire on July 26, 2021, 04:20:40 AM
Escaped all the conference talk today in Axtell, KS on a tractor Cruise. Charity event for Nemaha County Historic Society. There were just short of 40 tractors mostly local guys. I thought I had the farthest traveled door prize wrapped up then some flood aggie rolled into the parking pasture. Tractor performance was solid, but I was hot, sweaty, sun burnt,, and dusty when it was done.Oh man that’s great. My grandpa restored/collected Oliver tractors and used to take them to stuff like this.
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Post by: ben ji on July 26, 2021, 08:58:21 AM
Picked this up recently too for parades perhaps.
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I love the pictures of the trailer in the generic JOCO neighborhood.
Post by: Pete on July 26, 2021, 09:04:55 AM
Quick slip off from the Allbirds. Can't be tracking chicken crap into the house.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210724/ab30fd3974bab8a55e1a2dcec2c9856f.jpg)
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I have the exact same All Birds and wear them with white ankle socks! :love:
Post by: IPA4Me on July 26, 2021, 11:33:26 AM
Every day thanks to the shoe thread!Quick slip off from the Allbirds. Can't be tracking chicken crap into the house.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210724/ab30fd3974bab8a55e1a2dcec2c9856f.jpg)
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I have the exact same All Birds and wear them with white ankle socks! :love:
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Post by: ben ji on July 31, 2021, 04:34:51 PM
You're going to be removed from the will in two weeks.It took 2 months but I have been grounded from the farm for doing to much cleaning
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Post by: IPA4Me on July 31, 2021, 04:36:30 PM
That text is hilarious. He's big mad!
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Post by: ben ji on July 31, 2021, 04:38:57 PM
Has to edit out the family names.
That text is hilarious. He's big mad!
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He literally dropped off all my belongings (some extra clothes and ammo) that I kept in the spare bedroom.
Post by: IPA4Me on July 31, 2021, 04:40:51 PM
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Post by: bucket on July 31, 2021, 04:42:25 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 31, 2021, 04:50:52 PM
What's he got against your dogs?!
According to my mom he found a tick in the house and blamed it on them
May have been them, or gotten in on his clothing or came in on his cats that he let roam around.
Post by: wetwillie on July 31, 2021, 06:28:13 PM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on July 31, 2021, 06:38:56 PM
Did all of the John Deere tractor guys flip off all of the other color tractor guys and call them losers the whole time?Picked this up recently too for parades perhaps.
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Post by: star seed 7 on August 01, 2021, 12:53:22 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on August 01, 2021, 09:40:15 AM
The competition within tractor makes is probably more intense to be honest.Did all of the John Deere tractor guys flip off all of the other color tractor guys and call them losers the whole time?Picked this up recently too for parades perhaps.
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I had a guy asking me what my 4020 serial number was to compare to his like I should know that like my ssn. He literally got down under the back end of my tractor to read the number and confirm my tractor was built after his.
Another guy pointed out I had an after market rock shaft cover, not original. He could tell because the seam between the pieces didn't match up. Tried to salvage the conversation by noting the fenders were original that I had found in a barn in Nebraska for sale.
After complements exchanged with another 4020 owner he added that he did the entire restoration himself. I was like uh yeah I did some of the mechanical(like fixed the 3 point is all I did), but mostly wrote checks.
I appreciate the encyclopedic knowledge some of these old time farmers have of their equipment, but man it's stressful because pretend city farmer Tom gets exposed pretty quickly.
My favorite guy was probably in his 70s? Long sleeves, straw hat on a 3020. Not a bead of sweat just enjoying the drive. Loaded up right beside me pulls his tractor on the trailer. Tightened the chain boomer himself with a 3 ft piece of pipe and good to go while I am fiddling with my tow straps and wench.
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 01, 2021, 09:48:23 AM
Post by: michigancat on August 01, 2021, 10:15:04 AM
WTFYou're going to be removed from the will in two weeks.It took 2 months but I have been grounded from the farm for doing to much cleaning
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I'm sorry, this makes me sad. :frown:
Post by: KST8FAN on August 01, 2021, 11:52:51 AM
I just pondered buying an antique tractor solely for parades and I am not sure what I think.Do it man. We can hit the circuit together. It really is a good time, and the people are great despite my insecurities.
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Post by: Katpappy on August 01, 2021, 01:32:32 PM
I just pondered buying an antique tractor solely for parades and I am not sure what I think.Do it man. We can hit the circuit together. It really is a good time, and the people are great despite my insecurities.
Tom
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Tom, I got a Farmall H and a IH 504. I would enjoy tractor parades, but neither one is restored.
Post by: sys on August 01, 2021, 01:39:10 PM
Post by: Spracne on August 01, 2021, 01:48:42 PM
Right, Anakin?
Post by: wetwillie on August 01, 2021, 05:12:36 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 01, 2021, 05:18:35 PM
I just pondered buying an antique tractor solely for parades and I am not sure what I think.Do it man. We can hit the circuit together. It really is a good time, and the people are great despite my insecurities.
Tom
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What is the alcohol consumption policy?
Post by: KST8FAN on August 01, 2021, 06:55:57 PM
Farmall H is like it's own club like 4020s. Very cool and popular tractor. Here are a couple on the cruise.I just pondered buying an antique tractor solely for parades and I am not sure what I think.Do it man. We can hit the circuit together. It really is a good time, and the people are great despite my insecurities.
Tom
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Tom, I got a Farmall H and a IH 504. I would enjoy tractor parades, but neither one is restored.
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 01, 2021, 06:56:28 PM
They had a cooler of water and a cooler of beer at lunch.I just pondered buying an antique tractor solely for parades and I am not sure what I think.Do it man. We can hit the circuit together. It really is a good time, and the people are great despite my insecurities.
Tom
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What is the alcohol consumption policy?
Tom
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 01, 2021, 07:07:41 PM
If they are mechanically sound original condition with that farm used patina its cool too. Our tractor was so beat up and abused it needed new tin and paint. Guys that take care of stuff or have a lightly used 40 year old tractor... those are cool.I just pondered buying an antique tractor solely for parades and I am not sure what I think.Do it man. We can hit the circuit together. It really is a good time, and the people are great despite my insecurities.
Tom
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Tom, I got a Farmall H and a IH 504. I would enjoy tractor parades, but neither one is restored.
Tom
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 01, 2021, 07:09:14 PM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 01, 2021, 07:50:30 PM
They had a cooler of water and a cooler of beer at lunch.I just pondered buying an antique tractor solely for parades and I am not sure what I think.Do it man. We can hit the circuit together. It really is a good time, and the people are great despite my insecurities.
Tom
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What is the alcohol consumption policy?
Tom
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I would clearly bring my own
Post by: Katpappy on August 01, 2021, 08:27:42 PM
Post by: slackcat on August 07, 2021, 02:22:38 PM
My neighbor protesting a pending wind farm in Labette county. Didn't work here, won't work there.
Post by: ben ji on August 08, 2021, 06:21:03 PM
My ban from the farm has been lifted after 1 week and the old locks will be put back on the door next time he is out there.You're going to be removed from the will in two weeks.It took 2 months but I have been grounded from the farm for doing to much cleaning
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He even wrote me a thank you note and gave me me $100 for cleaning the garage.
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Post by: sys on August 08, 2021, 06:32:27 PM
Post by: IPA4Me on August 08, 2021, 06:52:23 PM
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Post by: michigancat on August 08, 2021, 06:54:53 PM
what a wild rideI have a feeling our saga has not come to an end
Post by: ben ji on August 08, 2021, 07:29:56 PM
what about the dogs?He claims he is going to put up a new fence around the pasture he broke out so him and his buddy/tenant can go halfsies on feeder calf's grazing the remaining pasture. He thinks my dogs will chase the cattle so we compromised that they will not be left outside unsupervised (which only happens for like 10 minutes in the morning).
He just bought a bunch of fence posts but I doubt they are ever installed/fenced unless his tenant does it.
Post by: ben ji on August 08, 2021, 07:31:14 PM
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Post by: wetwillie on August 08, 2021, 07:48:28 PM
Post by: Katpappy on August 08, 2021, 08:53:12 PM
Post by: ben ji on August 08, 2021, 10:48:41 PM
Here is a joco Ben Ji getting acclimated to farm life story.
(Setting is April 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic and I'm crashing at the farm with my brother)
Around 10am my uncle shows up to check his cattle while my brother and lady are outside by the garage/cattle pens. I see them talking a bit while Lady is sitting next to them.
My brother comes back in and says "Yeah, uncle X said "You better make sure she don't get in my cattle or I'm gonna have to shoot her"
My brother was like "She's good but thanks for the warning"
Post by: ben ji on August 12, 2021, 09:42:44 AM
(Text from ben ji's dad)
I drove 100 miles 1 way to pick up 4 of them. They've been here a few weeks now. Big decline in Morton mouse population. Working farm cats - my mouse crew.
3rd kitty non stop grabbing my hand to lick and get pets. They were wild until last night.
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Post by: passranch on August 12, 2021, 01:07:05 PM
Post by: WillieWatanabe on August 12, 2021, 01:07:46 PM
I was crestfallen when I saw the other day that this thread was locked. So glad it's back! :Woohoo:
saw that too. grumblings :users:
Post by: pissclams on August 12, 2021, 01:10:10 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 12, 2021, 02:35:24 PM
Post by: pissclams on August 12, 2021, 02:40:27 PM
Post by: ben ji on August 12, 2021, 05:52:19 PM
Great news guyz, the cat ranch is back!
(Text from ben ji's dad)
I drove 100 miles 1 way to pick up 4 of them. They've been here a few weeks now. Big decline in Morton mouse population. Working farm cats - my mouse crew.
3rd kitty non stop grabbing my hand to lick and get pets. They were wild until last night.
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I asked my dad if he had to wrangle up the cats when he picked them up
His response....
Six were caged. Four escaped moving them to my pet carriers. I asked if they had any others and they caught two more and put them in my carriers for a total of 4.
I'm getting a hearty L O L just imagining this scene.....4 of the six cats escaping the transfer then my dad asking if he can get some more. :lol:
Post by: Spracne on August 12, 2021, 06:07:38 PM
Great news guyz, the cat ranch is back!
(Text from ben ji's dad)
I drove 100 miles 1 way to pick up 4 of them. They've been here a few weeks now. Big decline in Morton mouse population. Working farm cats - my mouse crew.
3rd kitty non stop grabbing my hand to lick and get pets. They were wild until last night.
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I asked my dad if he had to wrangle up the cats when he picked them up
His response....
Six were caged. Four escaped moving them to my pet carriers. I asked if they had any others and they caught two more and put them in my carriers for a total of 4.
I'm getting a hearty L O L just imagining this scene.....4 of the six cats escaping the transfer then my dad asking if he can get some more. :lol:
Cats, like crops, are a fungible good.
Post by: steve dave on August 12, 2021, 06:35:10 PM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on August 13, 2021, 09:04:03 AM
Also, did the crazy person I watched speak for 30 seconds above get windmills in his yard?
TIA for the updates
Post by: Katpappy on August 13, 2021, 10:37:20 AM
My ban from the farm has been lifted after 1 week and the old locks will be put back on the door next time he is out there.You're going to be removed from the will in two weeks.It took 2 months but I have been grounded from the farm for doing to much cleaning
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He even wrote me a thank you note and gave me me $100 for cleaning the garage.
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Can't belive I missed this. Looks like you are now General Ben, sir.
Post by: michigancat on August 13, 2021, 09:14:27 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 13, 2021, 09:20:32 PM
He had to drive 100 miles to find feral cats?
2 non feral so win there
Post by: ben ji on August 14, 2021, 10:45:16 AM
He had to drive 100 miles to find feral cats?I am perplexed by this as well, eating dinner with the family tonight and will get the scoop.
Post by: ben ji on August 14, 2021, 06:42:03 PM
He saw an ad in the county advocate (local free newsletter aka craigslist for boomers) for free cats so he called the guy then drove up to Norton KS to pick them up.He had to drive 100 miles to find feral cats?I am perplexed by this as well, eating dinner with the family tonight and will get the scoop.
"They had the word I was looking for right in the add, Free"
Post by: ben ji on August 14, 2021, 06:59:37 PM
(My dad has a red early 2000's 2wd chevy S10 that he keeps on the farm that my cousin/uncle make fun of because it's clearly not a "real" farm truck...they call it "Lil Red")
Me: "How did lil lil escape?"
Dad: "Lehman and I were coming back from the pasture and when he opened the door she jumped out"
Me: "what were you guys doing out in the pasture"
Dad: "well I was out by the windmill (water not power) and the tanks are leaking water so I got stuck and Lehman had to pull me out"
Here is an old picture of "lil Red" and lil lil.
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Post by: ben ji on September 03, 2021, 09:28:58 PM
(Also it appears he is feeding the cats in the garage again which I specifically asked him not to do after shoveling years of cat crap out of the corners of the garage)
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Post by: ben ji on September 03, 2021, 09:34:16 PM
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Post by: steve dave on September 03, 2021, 10:45:52 PM
Also found out that lil lil escaped from the house and went AWOL for a day which led to this conversation.There are too many lmao’s to even focus on here. Amazing and joyous.
(My dad has a red early 2000's 2wd chevy S10 that he keeps on the farm that my cousin/uncle make fun of because it's clearly not a "real" farm truck...they call it "Lil Red")
Me: "How did lil lil escape?"
Dad: "Lehman and I were coming back from the pasture and when he opened the door she jumped out"
Me: "what were you guys doing out in the pasture"
Dad: "well I was out by the windmill (water not power) and the tanks are leaking water so I got stuck and Lehman had to pull me out"
Here is an old picture of "lil Red" and lil lil.
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2021, 04:03:13 PM
Walked like a mile all the way out to the pasture with Milo before the Katz game Saturday.
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2021, 04:07:24 PM
Also it rained this year.
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2021, 04:08:44 PM
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2021, 04:10:54 PM
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2021, 04:13:43 PM
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2021, 04:16:16 PM
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2021, 04:18:32 PM
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Post by: steve dave on September 18, 2021, 04:21:57 PM
https://twitter.com/business/status/1439336950289375243
Post by: ben ji on September 18, 2021, 05:30:13 PM
Sunrise over the "Danger keep out barn", check out that old school trailer that hauled away the mini ponies. I'm guessing it belongs to the guy who does the actual farming at the cat ranch.
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Thanks for bumping SD. I recently learned that my dad owns this trailer and actually bought like 10 feeder calfs to fatten up over the summer. He wouldnt give me too many details besides saying "It didn't work out like I planned" and "I didn't make any money".
Some of the big hangups were "I didnt know I would have to give them all the shots so I had to have a vet come out and do it which costs alot, also there was no chute to confine them in so that was hard"
One of them got sick so the vet had to come out again and give it some meds or something.
He chalked it up as "A learning experience"
I'm guessing he sold off the mini ponies to make up for his losses from attempting to farm cattle
Post by: MakeItRain on September 20, 2021, 09:15:08 PM
Wild article about the state fair, 4-H, and something called the Spotted Lantern Fly. Some quotes from some great K-Staters sprinkled in.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/kansas-state-fair-spotted-lanternfly/
Post by: nicname on September 20, 2021, 10:19:26 PM
Post by: steve dave on September 21, 2021, 06:13:59 AM
Ha, that’s great. People think farming is easy. It is not, it is very complicated.Sunrise over the "Danger keep out barn", check out that old school trailer that hauled away the mini ponies. I'm guessing it belongs to the guy who does the actual farming at the cat ranch.
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Thanks for bumping SD. I recently learned that my dad owns this trailer and actually bought like 10 feeder calfs to fatten up over the summer. He wouldnt give me too many details besides saying "It didn't work out like I planned" and "I didn't make any money".
Some of the big hangups were "I didnt know I would have to give them all the shots so I had to have a vet come out and do it which costs alot, also there was no chute to confine them in so that was hard"
One of them got sick so the vet had to come out again and give it some meds or something.
He chalked it up as "A learning experience"
I'm guessing he sold off the mini ponies to make up for his losses from attempting to farm cattle
Post by: jc_jax on September 21, 2021, 07:50:18 AM
My first contribution to the farm thread!
Wild article about the state fair, 4-H, and something called the Spotted Lantern Fly. Some quotes from some great K-Staters sprinkled in.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/kansas-state-fair-spotted-lanternfly/
I think its interesting he only got a blue. He discovered something that scientists didn't think possible and didn't get the purple ribbon?
Post by: MakeItRain on September 21, 2021, 09:09:58 AM
My first contribution to the farm thread!
Wild article about the state fair, 4-H, and something called the Spotted Lantern Fly. Some quotes from some great K-Staters sprinkled in.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/kansas-state-fair-spotted-lanternfly/
I think its interesting he only got a blue. He discovered something that scientists didn't think possible and didn't get the purple ribbon?
Right! Clearly the judges didn't know.
Post by: ben ji on September 27, 2021, 05:47:23 PM
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Blackie and Grey Boy were up at the garage together exploring. They are full now. Blackie is so petite
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Post by: Institutional Control on September 28, 2021, 12:38:25 PM
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Post by: michigancat on September 28, 2021, 12:43:14 PM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on September 28, 2021, 01:04:12 PM
Will they make it through December?
RUSTY!!! I was all smiling at these Farmer people posts and you ruined it. :cry:
Post by: michigancat on September 28, 2021, 01:14:20 PM
Sorry I deal in farm reality, not farm fantasyWill they make it through December?
RUSTY!!! I was all smiling at these Farmer people posts and you ruined it. :cry:
Post by: meow meow on September 28, 2021, 01:41:21 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on September 28, 2021, 01:47:53 PM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on September 28, 2021, 01:57:37 PM
Sorry I deal in farm reality, not farm fantasyWill they make it through December?
RUSTY!!! I was all smiling at these Farmer people posts and you ruined it. :cry:
I just want the kitties to be ok. I know this is a cat farm and cat farms are tough environments, but i'm just hoping they make it out ok.
Post by: michigancat on September 28, 2021, 02:13:23 PM
I think that farm and ranch related stress is possibly going to kill my dad. Inter- and intragenerational problems with no clear boundaries, structure, roles, succession plans - just farm until you drop over dead. It feels like he is trapped. It is ruining any nostalgia I had left for growing up on a farm.Honestly I think my dad is kind of going through the same thing. It's just not as much fun for him.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on September 28, 2021, 02:58:53 PM
I think that farm and ranch related stress is possibly going to kill my dad. Inter- and intragenerational problems with no clear boundaries, structure, roles, succession plans - just farm until you drop over dead. It feels like he is trapped. It is ruining any nostalgia I had left for growing up on a farm.Honestly I think my dad is kind of going through the same thing. It's just not as much fun for him.
This is prob pretty normal (I have no idea, but it makes sense). Guys have worked their asses off every day their whole lives and don't know or really want anything different. I guess its like the guy that went to his regular job every day until they basically made him retire. Farmer guys don't get that option if they don't have family that want to take it over I guess. One thing I have learned about farms is that the land is really really rough ridin' important to some people in the families. I'm fairly certain my MIL would sell a body part to keep 1/10th of an acre of her family's land. Other people in the family would have sold it off a long time ago.
Post by: meow meow on September 28, 2021, 03:00:29 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on September 28, 2021, 03:13:22 PM
No one in my generation has really shown an interest in getting into farming - possibly because the older generations never showed any signs of wanting to give up control of any of it.I think that farm and ranch related stress is possibly going to kill my dad. Inter- and intragenerational problems with no clear boundaries, structure, roles, succession plans - just farm until you drop over dead. It feels like he is trapped. It is ruining any nostalgia I had left for growing up on a farm.Honestly I think my dad is kind of going through the same thing. It's just not as much fun for him.
This is prob pretty normal (I have no idea, but it makes sense). Guys have worked their asses off every day their whole lives and don't know or really want anything different. I guess its like the guy that went to his regular job every day until they basically made him retire. Farmer guys don't get that option if they don't have family that want to take it over I guess. One thing I have learned about farms is that the land is really really rough ridin' important to some people in the families. I'm fairly certain my MIL would sell a body part to keep 1/10th of an acre of her family's land. Other people in the family would have sold it off a long time ago.
My dad feels bad - like a deep guilt from shirking duty - anytime that he is not working. He knows it isn't healthy but it is really hard for him to enjoy things like vacations, hobbies, etc. Makes me mad and I feel bad for him at the same time. My grandpa never lost enthusiasm for farming - he just can't physically do it any more. Unfortunately, he never passed control of his farming projects onto the next generation so other people who already have already bitten off more than they can reasonably chew are trying to keep things going for him. It's a real mess and I'm not sure there is a healthy way for dad to extract himself from the situation. I used to admire the way grandpa loved his work and it is good to enjoy your work but there is a point when it all becomes unhealthy.
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on September 28, 2021, 03:35:53 PM
No one in my generation has really shown an interest in getting into farming - possibly because the older generations never showed any signs of wanting to give up control of any of it.I think that farm and ranch related stress is possibly going to kill my dad. Inter- and intragenerational problems with no clear boundaries, structure, roles, succession plans - just farm until you drop over dead. It feels like he is trapped. It is ruining any nostalgia I had left for growing up on a farm.Honestly I think my dad is kind of going through the same thing. It's just not as much fun for him.
This is prob pretty normal (I have no idea, but it makes sense). Guys have worked their asses off every day their whole lives and don't know or really want anything different. I guess its like the guy that went to his regular job every day until they basically made him retire. Farmer guys don't get that option if they don't have family that want to take it over I guess. One thing I have learned about farms is that the land is really really rough ridin' important to some people in the families. I'm fairly certain my MIL would sell a body part to keep 1/10th of an acre of her family's land. Other people in the family would have sold it off a long time ago.
My dad feels bad - like a deep guilt from shirking duty - anytime that he is not working. He knows it isn't healthy but it is really hard for him to enjoy things like vacations, hobbies, etc. Makes me mad and I feel bad for him at the same time. My grandpa never lost enthusiasm for farming - he just can't physically do it any more. Unfortunately, he never passed control of his farming projects onto the next generation so other people who already have already bitten off more than they can reasonably chew are trying to keep things going for him. It's a real mess and I'm not sure there is a healthy way for dad to extract himself from the situation. I used to admire the way grandpa loved his work and it is good to enjoy your work but there is a point when it all becomes unhealthy.
[gE, feel free to send me a bill for using the board instead of going back to therapy]
My wife's family just has someone farm it for them. I have zero interest, but have said that if they want to keep it, we at least need to know who to call if something happens. I'm sure that is going to be a mess when they are gone. I'm sure that would probably be really hard for your dad, but maybe its an option? :dunno:
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on September 28, 2021, 03:50:24 PM
This is a good idea. I think having more (or maybe all) of the crop ground custom-farmed could be part of a solution for him. I think he derives enjoyment from his cow/calf operation but as far I can tell, all the aspects of cash grain production are pure drudgery for him.No one in my generation has really shown an interest in getting into farming - possibly because the older generations never showed any signs of wanting to give up control of any of it.I think that farm and ranch related stress is possibly going to kill my dad. Inter- and intragenerational problems with no clear boundaries, structure, roles, succession plans - just farm until you drop over dead. It feels like he is trapped. It is ruining any nostalgia I had left for growing up on a farm.Honestly I think my dad is kind of going through the same thing. It's just not as much fun for him.
This is prob pretty normal (I have no idea, but it makes sense). Guys have worked their asses off every day their whole lives and don't know or really want anything different. I guess its like the guy that went to his regular job every day until they basically made him retire. Farmer guys don't get that option if they don't have family that want to take it over I guess. One thing I have learned about farms is that the land is really really rough ridin' important to some people in the families. I'm fairly certain my MIL would sell a body part to keep 1/10th of an acre of her family's land. Other people in the family would have sold it off a long time ago.
My dad feels bad - like a deep guilt from shirking duty - anytime that he is not working. He knows it isn't healthy but it is really hard for him to enjoy things like vacations, hobbies, etc. Makes me mad and I feel bad for him at the same time. My grandpa never lost enthusiasm for farming - he just can't physically do it any more. Unfortunately, he never passed control of his farming projects onto the next generation so other people who already have already bitten off more than they can reasonably chew are trying to keep things going for him. It's a real mess and I'm not sure there is a healthy way for dad to extract himself from the situation. I used to admire the way grandpa loved his work and it is good to enjoy your work but there is a point when it all becomes unhealthy.
[gE, feel free to send me a bill for using the board instead of going back to therapy]
My wife's family just has someone farm it for them. I have zero interest, but have said that if they want to keep it, we at least need to know who to call if something happens. I'm sure that is going to be a mess when they are gone. I'm sure that would probably be really hard for your dad, but maybe its an option? :dunno:
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Post by: slackcat on September 29, 2021, 08:09:32 AM
I think that farm and ranch related stress is possibly going to kill my dad. Inter- and intragenerational problems with no clear boundaries, structure, roles, succession plans - just farm until you drop over dead. It feels like he is trapped. It is ruining any nostalgia I had left for growing up on a farm.
From personal experience and talking to neighbors, this is very common. My parents estate was a screwed up mess that took several years to unwind. Infact it could be a case study of what not to do. All because dad wouldn't give up control of the one thing that defined/gave meaning to his life, his farm. I could write a book about this family, :lol:.
Your dad should look into estate planning himself just to get an idea where he will be/wants to be in 10 years. Also, cultivate some hobbies outside of work. good luck to your dad.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on September 29, 2021, 08:42:40 AM
This is good. ThanksI think that farm and ranch related stress is possibly going to kill my dad. Inter- and intragenerational problems with no clear boundaries, structure, roles, succession plans - just farm until you drop over dead. It feels like he is trapped. It is ruining any nostalgia I had left for growing up on a farm.
From personal experience and talking to neighbors, this is very common. My parents estate was a screwed up mess that took several years to unwind. Infact it could be a case study of what not to do. All because dad wouldn't give up control of the one thing that defined/gave meaning to his life, his farm. I could write a book about this family, :lol:.
Your dad should look into estate planning himself just to get an idea where he will be/wants to be in 10 years. Also, cultivate some hobbies outside of work. good luck to your dad.
Post by: ben ji on September 29, 2021, 05:34:02 PM
https://americanlandbroker.com/detail/kansas-gentleman's-farm-wallace-kansas/21268/
Seems a little high for 3500 acres even if most of it's irrigated.
Post by: steve dave on September 29, 2021, 05:44:42 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 30, 2021, 06:28:02 AM
Turn it into a goEMAW farmer retreat for the fathers and grandfathers on here that can't give up farming. I would just sit around and listen to all the great stories.
Milo and Tater could run for miles and cool off under a sprinkler head before rounding up all the cats for the evening and snacking on morsels of smoked pork belly.
Seriously, I am watching dryland property in NEKS go for 4-5k recently and none of them came with equipment or a 6k sqft house.
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Post by: steve dave on September 30, 2021, 07:27:56 AM
you want to hear some farm mafia stuff? there is a wooden bridge just in the middle of our ranch over a creek bed that you can drive over. it has a sign on it that says "5 MPH" and it's kept up by the state. so you're driving through just grass for miles and miles and all of a sudden there's a sign that says "5 mph" and a wooden bridge you can drive over for no reason. Like 70 years ago they got dirt or sand or some crap or something else off our property in exchange for them building this bridge they drove over and agreeing to keep it up after they did it? something like that. they tried to back out of this agreement 50 years ago and like our ranch sued them and won and they have to keep up this bridge to nowhere in the middle of nowhere for no reason for eternity. well, it's in bad shape and needs to be replaced. so the state called my dad and offered him $200k to get out of the agreement. literally nobody has driven over this thing for the last 50 years and not even cows walk across it because the creek is dry AF. my dad said he'd have to run it by his attorney.
Update, they have settled on $225k and this deal is done. I'm guessing my dad's attorney is going to take most of that $25k negotiated markup as his fee on the deal. but you can't take the first offer!
Post by: ben ji on September 30, 2021, 07:41:35 AM
I'm in if AST agrees to live in the guest house and be full time cook.
Turn it into a goEMAW farmer retreat for the fathers and grandfathers on here that can't give up farming. I would just sit around and listen to all the great stories.
Milo and Tater could run for miles and cool off under a sprinkler head before rounding up all the cats for the evening and snacking on morsels of smoked pork belly.
Seriously, I am watching dryland property in NEKS go for 4-5k recently and none of them came with equipment or a 6k sqft house.
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This sounds great and all but my biggest issue (besides the 25 million) would be the lack of an actual real windbreak.
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The top of this photo is North where you would want your largest/thickest windbreak! Unbelievably piss poor wind break design and execution here IMO.
Post by: bucket on September 30, 2021, 07:48:43 AM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on September 30, 2021, 08:10:44 AM
I'm in if AST agrees to live in the guest house and be full time cook.
Turn it into a goEMAW farmer retreat for the fathers and grandfathers on here that can't give up farming. I would just sit around and listen to all the great stories.
Milo and Tater could run for miles and cool off under a sprinkler head before rounding up all the cats for the evening and snacking on morsels of smoked pork belly.
Seriously, I am watching dryland property in NEKS go for 4-5k recently and none of them came with equipment or a 6k sqft house.
Tom
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This sounds great and all but my biggest issue (besides the 25 million) would be the lack of an actual real windbreak.
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The top of this photo is North where you would want your largest/thickest windbreak! Unbelievably piss poor wind break design and execution here IMO.
Build a giant wall with windmills attached to it. Problem solved. :gocho:
Post by: ben ji on September 30, 2021, 08:19:04 AM
The next morning they step outside and it's the same thing.
They spend the rest of the week in the house hoping for better weather then never return.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 30, 2021, 09:28:21 AM
I grew up listening to farmers constantly talk about what land was going for. just befuddled that anyone would pay what they were paying for land right then. and I'm guessing it has been that way since we decided land could be owned and it will always be that way. and prices have only gone one direction for the history of time. it's a great thing to have. my dad obsessively watches land come for sale and works deals 24/7/365 to acquire it and then tells me what outrageous price he paid for it per acre like I know what is good or bad. it's all just big numbers to me. and it's almost exclusively just garbage pasture or sw ks dryland. but he's wild for it."ya know the thing about land.. they aren't making more of it" - everyone who over pays for land
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Post by: steve dave on September 30, 2021, 11:11:04 AM
Post by: Brock Landers on September 30, 2021, 11:35:10 AM
you want to hear some farm mafia stuff? there is a wooden bridge just in the middle of our ranch over a creek bed that you can drive over. it has a sign on it that says "5 MPH" and it's kept up by the state. so you're driving through just grass for miles and miles and all of a sudden there's a sign that says "5 mph" and a wooden bridge you can drive over for no reason. Like 70 years ago they got dirt or sand or some crap or something else off our property in exchange for them building this bridge they drove over and agreeing to keep it up after they did it? something like that. they tried to back out of this agreement 50 years ago and like our ranch sued them and won and they have to keep up this bridge to nowhere in the middle of nowhere for no reason for eternity. well, it's in bad shape and needs to be replaced. so the state called my dad and offered him $200k to get out of the agreement. literally nobody has driven over this thing for the last 50 years and not even cows walk across it because the creek is dry AF. my dad said he'd have to run it by his attorney.
Update, they have settled on $225k and this deal is done. I'm guessing my dad's attorney is going to take most of that $25k negotiated markup as his fee on the deal. but you can't take the first offer!
sddad played hardball and totally clownsuited the state, nicely done. It will be the talk of the farm guys while they sip coffee down at the Stop 2 Shop or whatever the local gas station/gossipy hangout spot is.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 01, 2021, 08:57:17 PM
1979 was the first year Ford made a 4 wheel drive f350 and the last year for this body style.
only 1800 supercab 4x4 f350s were made
I actually owned this for a while. It was originally yellow and was a Township fire truck.
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Post by: Spracne on October 02, 2021, 01:25:37 AM
Had a 77 Ford f100 for a while in high school. Why I love the 73-79 years so much. A tree fell on ole blue though. Was hilarious the quirks that old truck had and I loved it. Tom why have you been hiding those hot ass pics sir? I know they aren’t as desired but I love the supercabs and if I could find a 73-79 crew at a decent price I’d jump on it
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It begs the question, doesn't it: where have all the cowboys gone?
Post by: ben ji on October 02, 2021, 09:16:26 PM
I drove about 8 variations of those ford trucks growing up. my dad owns about 12 ford pickups at any one time. normally all fords because meade ks has a ford dealer. there were some that wouldn't stay running cold and I'd get like long ass ice scrapers and set them between the seat and pedal and run them at like 3k RPM to get them warmed up to drive in the morning in the winter (lmao). dad would buy 3/4 ton ones just to drag some thing around (bale grinder, bull trailer, etc.) and it would just sit there doing nothing 99% of the time. I think I posted ITT but my dad bought one this year to put a round bale hauler on the back of. how TF does that make sense? use some POS to haul a round bale out to wherever.Question. Do you buy like a normal Ford pickup at the dealership then get it modified with the flatbed/round bale hauler thing?
I always assumed you just bought them with the baler carrying thing already on there.
Post by: steve dave on October 02, 2021, 09:28:34 PM
Yes, buy them then have them converted to whatever.I drove about 8 variations of those ford trucks growing up. my dad owns about 12 ford pickups at any one time. normally all fords because meade ks has a ford dealer. there were some that wouldn't stay running cold and I'd get like long ass ice scrapers and set them between the seat and pedal and run them at like 3k RPM to get them warmed up to drive in the morning in the winter (lmao). dad would buy 3/4 ton ones just to drag some thing around (bale grinder, bull trailer, etc.) and it would just sit there doing nothing 99% of the time. I think I posted ITT but my dad bought one this year to put a round bale hauler on the back of. how TF does that make sense? use some POS to haul a round bale out to wherever.Question. Do you buy like a normal Ford pickup at the dealership then get it modified with the flatbed/round bale hauler thing?
I always assumed you just bought them with the baler carrying thing already on there.
Post by: ben ji on October 02, 2021, 09:53:38 PM
This was pre windmills and the road was a little dicey in some spots after rains....my friend who was driving ended up getting sucked into the ditch.
This was around 11pm and we were about 4 miles from town and 4 miles from the farm. We tried to dig out for a bit but got nowhere and had to wait for my cousin to come pull us out the next morning.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 04, 2021, 09:00:11 AM
All this truck talk reminded me of the time when a buddy and I were driving out to Colorado for a bachelor party 5 years ago and decided we would crash at the farm on the way out there.My sister's bf (now my brother in law) did something like this once. Wanted to go down "The Bottom Road." Sister told him it probably wouldn't be a good idea but he went anyway. Dad had to bring the tractor to extract his pickup from the morass.
This was pre windmills and the road was a little dicey in some spots after rains....my friend who was driving ended up getting sucked into the ditch.
This was around 11pm and we were about 4 miles from town and 4 miles from the farm. We tried to dig out for a bit but got nowhere and had to wait for my cousin to come pull us out the next morning.
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Post by: ben ji on October 10, 2021, 04:46:53 PM
He loves it, will just ask everyone he knows if they need help because he is retired and bored then just drive the combine that drives itself or haul a grain cart.
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Post by: ben ji on October 10, 2021, 04:51:26 PM
My dad blames our tenant who picked some variety that could get sprayed with some herbicide to kill any grass that grew up. Long story short only like 20% of it headed/seeded out.
The Milo on our irrigated circle is looking juicy AF tho and will get harvested next week.
Post by: michigancat on October 10, 2021, 05:11:33 PM
Post by: wetwillie on October 10, 2021, 05:19:20 PM
Also you know that 240 acres of pasture at the cat ranch that was broke out into farmland? The Milo on it was crap and is going to end up getting baled into feed instead of harvested.
My dad blames our tenant who picked some variety that could get sprayed with some herbicide to kill any grass that grew up. Long story short only like 20% of it headed/seeded out.
The Milo on our irrigated circle is looking juicy AF tho and will get harvested next week.
This isn’t going to eff up your pheasant population will it?!
Post by: steve dave on October 10, 2021, 05:45:36 PM
He irrigated milo????lmao
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 10, 2021, 07:31:52 PM
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Post by: ben ji on October 10, 2021, 09:48:58 PM
He irrigated milo????Long story short the well is on my Aunt's land and pumps to 2 circles (ours and hers,can only hit 1 at a time). My uncle farms my aunt's land and gets first dibs so my dad only gets to drain the aquifer on his land for a couple of weeks out of the year or something to that effect.
Also he rough ridin' loves Milo because one time a couple of years ago he made a decent amount of money on it so now he is 24/7 stanning for Milo when I talk to him about what he's gonna grow.
Ben Ji: Hey, why don't you grow some corn on that irrigated circle?
Dad: If there is a drought I can still get a good crop of Milo.
Ben Ji: It's irrigated, you can make your own rain.
Dad: Good point. But I made money when we planted Milo one time like X years ago.
Post by: sys on October 10, 2021, 10:33:47 PM
Also he rough ridin' loves Milo because one time a couple of years ago he made a decent amount of money on it so now he is 24/7 stanning for Milo.
goodbye cat ranch, hello mini horse farm.
Post by: ben ji on October 10, 2021, 11:03:29 PM
Pheasant population should be good since there is about 140 acres of ungrazed pasture + my aunt's CRP for them to chill in while they eat all the waste seed from the successful farmers around us.Also you know that 240 acres of pasture at the cat ranch that was broke out into farmland? The Milo on it was crap and is going to end up getting baled into feed instead of harvested.
My dad blames our tenant who picked some variety that could get sprayed with some herbicide to kill any grass that grew up. Long story short only like 20% of it headed/seeded out.
The Milo on our irrigated circle is looking juicy AF tho and will get harvested next week.
This isn’t going to eff up your pheasant population will it?!
Post by: ben ji on October 10, 2021, 11:04:41 PM
My dad sold the mini horses to break even from his attempt at raising some feeder calf's .Also he rough ridin' loves Milo because one time a couple of years ago he made a decent amount of money on it so now he is 24/7 stanning for Milo.
goodbye cat ranch, hello mini horse farm.
Post by: sys on October 10, 2021, 11:07:25 PM
My dad sold the mini horses to break even from his attempt at raising some feeder calf's .
exactly.
Post by: michigancat on October 11, 2021, 05:24:36 AM
He irrigated milo????Long story short the well is on my Aunt's land and pumps to 2 circles (ours and hers,can only hit 1 at a time). My uncle farms my aunt's land and gets first dibs so my dad only gets to drain the aquifer on his land for a couple of weeks out of the year or something to that effect.
Also he rough ridin' loves Milo because one time a couple of years ago he made a decent amount of money on it so now he is 24/7 stanning for Milo when I talk to him about what he's gonna grow.
Ben Ji: Hey, why don't you grow some corn on that irrigated circle?
Dad: If there is a drought I can still get a good crop of Milo.
Ben Ji: It's irrigated, you can make your own rain.
Dad: Good point. But I made money when we planted Milo one time like X years ago.
Ok that makes more sense
Post by: KST8FAN on October 18, 2021, 07:42:49 AM
I thought this was a nice segment last night on 60 minutes.
This is next level ranching, but takes me back to growing up and trying to corral calves to load on the trucks in the flint hills.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 19, 2021, 10:10:27 PM
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Post by: ben ji on October 20, 2021, 09:59:56 PM
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Plans to gradually grow a cattle herd (putting a few cows in with another guy's herd - he takes care of my cows, I provide pasture, water, corals. Details sorted out in agreement.)
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Unauthorized game cam West of farmhouse in windbreak. Left them a note and set up my own game cam.
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Levant church pastor Ron Alexander has permission to hunt deer/coyotes/raccoons on the farm.
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Garage is home for farm kitties. Leave doors as they are - about 5 inches from ground - keeps predators out. Milk in garage fridge for kitties - pour into the tuna cans. Don't let dogs chase kitties or go in garage. Thx.
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Blackie and Grey Boy. There is another wild tom white with yellow tail, is around.
Post by: bucket on October 20, 2021, 10:28:23 PM
Post by: ben ji on October 21, 2021, 09:44:29 AM
Should have pointed his game cam at their game cam to find out who it was!I believe that is what he did, left a note on theirs and pointed one of his game cams at that area.
90% chance it's one of his old ones he forgot about or belongs to the small town pastor he gave hunting permission to.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on October 21, 2021, 09:58:38 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 21, 2021, 10:34:53 AM
If a fella wanted some grass fed beef, where should he get it? Also, this very same fella is not interested in any discussions about grass fed beef vs grain fed beef. He likes both and thinks people should eat a well balanced diet of whatever the eff they want.Local locker trash can should be able to help out
Post by: Justwin on October 21, 2021, 06:44:58 PM
If a fella wanted some grass fed beef, where should he get it? Also, this very same fella is not interested in any discussions about grass fed beef vs grain fed beef. He likes both and thinks people should eat a well balanced diet of whatever the eff they want.
I would start with the Shop Kansas Farms webpage and/or Facebook page. There are people that post on the Facebook page if they have beef for sale and they usually specify if it is grass finished or grain finished.
Post by: ben ji on October 27, 2021, 05:11:31 PM
https://www-ksn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.ksn.com/news/local/how-a-meatpacking-plant-changed-one-kansas-town-40-years-ago-and-left-a-colorado-community-behind/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a6&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16353713601701&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
Post by: KST8FAN on October 27, 2021, 09:36:59 PM
How a meatpacking plant changed one Kansas town 40 years ago and left a Colorado community behindBeat me too to it ben ji. I interviewed at that plant in 86 coming out of K-STATE when it was IBP. Incredible operation.
https://www-ksn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.ksn.com/news/local/how-a-meatpacking-plant-changed-one-kansas-town-40-years-ago-and-left-a-colorado-community-behind/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a6&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16353713601701&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
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Post by: michigancat on November 06, 2021, 06:58:52 AM
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Post by: ben ji on November 06, 2021, 02:35:00 PM
Found the unauthorized game cam when I was out there last weekend.Should have pointed his game cam at their game cam to find out who it was!I believe that is what he did, left a note on theirs and pointed one of his game cams at that area.
90% chance it's one of his old ones he forgot about or belongs to the small town pastor he gave hunting permission to.
My dad left a note in it saying "I think you are looking for my brothers farm which is 9 miles SW of here" then put up a no hunting sign below it.
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Post by: ben ji on November 06, 2021, 02:38:49 PM
No sign of Grey Boy which I saw a couple of months ago
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 09, 2021, 08:53:35 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 09, 2021, 10:02:25 PM
Combine fire in Osage County this evening. Guy jumped off and broke his leg to add insult to injury.That sucks. Is it just me, or are there more combine fires these days? Is soybean dust more flammable than other dusts? Saw a large red machine that had burned along K-9 near Concordia a few weeks ago. Really bad day for someone.
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Post by: steve dave on November 10, 2021, 08:21:34 AM
NOT MAKING A STATEMENT ON THIS SPECIFIC FIRE BTW
Post by: slackcat on November 10, 2021, 12:35:43 PM
farmers love insurance fraud fyi
NOT MAKING A STATEMENT ON THIS SPECIFIC FIRE BTW
better back that up big guy :comehere:
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 10, 2021, 02:07:23 PM
farmers love insurance fraud fyi
NOT MAKING A STATEMENT ON THIS SPECIFIC FIRE BTW
better back that up big guy :comehere:
If you love government handouts you also love insuance fraud. It is axiomatic
Post by: slackcat on November 11, 2021, 05:11:50 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on November 17, 2021, 08:52:14 PM
Turnips grown as a cover crop
Beaver dam on the creek
Tires we hauled off our place to create a wind break in cow lot
Tillie messing with Tater in the feed bunk
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Post by: Institutional Control on November 18, 2021, 08:15:12 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 18, 2021, 08:36:51 AM
LTIQ question: Are beets and turnips the same thing?Negative. Bears don’t eat turnips
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Post by: steve dave on November 18, 2021, 09:06:18 AM
LTIQ question: Are beets and turnips the same thing?No, but also yes basically
Post by: Stupid Fitz on November 18, 2021, 09:27:35 AM
Doing a week at the farm... Tater riding the Gator
Turnips grown as a cover crop
Beaver dam on the creek
Tires we hauled off our place to create a wind break in cow lot
Tillie messing with Tater in the feed bunk
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 18, 2021, 12:27:04 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 18, 2021, 01:19:36 PM
Amazing beaver dam. Beavers are just incredible. How are they just born with the software for building dams???
not all of them:
https://www.theonion.com/beaver-overthinking-dam-1819568416
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on November 18, 2021, 01:43:58 PM
LTIQ question: Are beets and turnips the same thing?No, but also yes basically
Beets are much better.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 18, 2021, 01:58:57 PM
:thumbs:Amazing beaver dam. Beavers are just incredible. How are they just born with the software for building dams???
not all of them:
https://www.theonion.com/beaver-overthinking-dam-1819568416
Post by: KST8FAN on November 18, 2021, 06:38:20 PM
Amazing beaver dam. Beavers are just incredible. How are they just born with the software for building dams???Looked at it closer today. Found their Lodge further upstream. Half on the bank, half on the creek. The dam is a woven thicket of limbs, corn stalks, trees. As the water rose they used growing trees on the bank as piers and packed stuff behind them to extend and support it.
Beaver have been on this creek going back to my youth...
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Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2021, 08:37:14 PM
Also the cattle pens are all overgrown with weeds since there were no cows this year and I found some pheasant in there. Selfishly I don't want him to lease out the remaining pasture so that it stays primo pheasant hunting area for me.
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Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2021, 08:42:56 PM
Milo after a hard day of huntingYou can tell there is some recently broken out land there. Used to be about a 5 acre triangle of grass at the edge of the irrigated circle that my uncle would stack hay bales on. This year it was overgrown with weeds and I was super excited to hunt it but when I got out there it had just been broken out
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. I asked my dad about it and the guy who farms our land had his equipment out there already so he figured he might as well do it now.
Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2021, 08:47:58 PM
A different time we were hunting a newish windbreak (tree's as tall as me) and I bumped a deer. Milo was on the other side of the trees and didn't hear me tell her to leave it and ended up chasing it for about 1/4 mile before giving up and trotting back with a stupid smile on her face. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211119/710e63271ddc64b3396f82108a65b123.jpg)
Post by: ben ji on November 18, 2021, 08:51:20 PM
Doing a week at the farm... Tater riding the GatorTell me more about the turnips as cover crops. Did you plant them after the wheat harvest or corn harvest? I would guess wheat but I have no idea how long it takes turnips to grow.
Turnips grown as a cover crop
Beaver dam on the creek
Tires we hauled off our place to create a wind break in cow lot
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Do you feed the turnips to the cows?
Post by: KST8FAN on November 18, 2021, 09:55:00 PM
Planted in August. One area was the cow lot, and another guy planted some on his sweet corn ground. It's really designed to maintain or enhance soil health.
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Post by: farming_cat fan on November 19, 2021, 11:35:29 AM
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 19, 2021, 01:03:10 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 19, 2021, 01:20:20 PM
Post by: steve dave on November 19, 2021, 01:21:40 PM
Post by: farming_cat fan on November 19, 2021, 01:22:12 PM
Great pix farming_. Presume the corn pile is at the local elevator?
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Correct. Most of our corn gets hauled to the local elevator. I wish we had more on farm storage.
Post by: farming_cat fan on November 19, 2021, 01:23:42 PM
Nice shots. What kind of drone are you using?
DJI Air 2S.
Post by: OB_Won on November 19, 2021, 01:28:56 PM
I have absolutely zero need for a $1000 drone, but I'll be damned if I'm not wanting one now. That thing is really cool.Nice shots. What kind of drone are you using?
DJI Air 2S.
Post by: farming_cat fan on November 19, 2021, 01:46:45 PM
Here is a video that I put together from the same day and of course with the same drone.I have absolutely zero need for a $1000 drone, but I'll be damned if I'm not wanting one now. That thing is really cool.Nice shots. What kind of drone are you using?
DJI Air 2S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LNsCF_vI7c
Post by: Spracne on November 19, 2021, 01:49:36 PM
Here is a video that I put together from the same day and of course with the same drone.I have absolutely zero need for a $1000 drone, but I'll be damned if I'm not wanting one now. That thing is really cool.Nice shots. What kind of drone are you using?
DJI Air 2S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LNsCF_vI7c
Can you re-cut this video with some Korn instead?
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 19, 2021, 01:51:07 PM
SameI have absolutely zero need for a $1000 drone, but I'll be damned if I'm not wanting one now. That thing is really cool.Nice shots. What kind of drone are you using?
DJI Air 2S.
Post by: ben ji on November 19, 2021, 02:14:54 PM
What part of KS was that you were harvesting in? I'm guessing central KS (between Salina and Hays but closer to Salina) for the following reasons
1. Non Irrigated Corn
2. Water visible in one of the drone shots
3. Some Tree's but not ton's of tree's like in eastern KS.
4. The topography and way the field is laid out seems like its the edge of the smoky hills
Post by: WillieWatanabe on November 19, 2021, 02:26:11 PM
Post by: farming_cat fan on November 19, 2021, 03:01:12 PM
Welcome to the board farming_cat fan, hell of a introduction.Northeast Kansas (Nemaha County).
What part of KS was that you were harvesting in? I'm guessing central KS (between Salina and Hays but closer to Salina) for the following reasons
1. Non Irrigated Corn
2. Water visible in one of the drone shots
3. Some Tree's but not ton's of tree's like in eastern KS.
4. The topography and way the field is laid out seems like its the edge of the smoky hills
Post by: WillieWatanabe on November 19, 2021, 03:06:22 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on November 19, 2021, 08:04:13 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 26, 2021, 03:56:18 PM
Am I good to cut up these old weathered fence posts for firewood or will I still die from the residual creosote fumes?There is also a huge pile of them in the junkyard so if I'm good to burn them in the fireplace I'm set on firewood for like 10 years.
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Post by: ben ji on November 26, 2021, 07:15:55 PM
Sunrise over the "Danger keep out barn", check out that old school trailer that hauled away the mini ponies. I'm guessing it belongs to the guy who does the actual farming at the cat ranch.
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Thanks for bumping SD. I recently learned that my dad owns this trailer and actually bought like 10 feeder calfs to fatten up over the summer. He wouldnt give me too many details besides saying "It didn't work out like I planned" and "I didn't make any money".
Some of the big hangups were "I didnt know I would have to give them all the shots so I had to have a vet come out and do it which costs alot, also there was no chute to confine them in so that was hard"
One of them got sick so the vet had to come out again and give it some meds or something.
He chalked it up as "A learning experience"
I'm guessing he sold off the mini ponies to make up for his losses from attempting to farm cattle
Oh man, just found my dad's farming "Diary/Notebook" while I was out here pheasant hunting and now I have the full scoop on what happened. I cant stop laughing.
Here is his entry from 8-21-21 transcribed as best I can understand his chicken scratch the parentheses are my comments.
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"Bot 3 feeders about 5 weeks ago. $167 x 1 $158 x 2 hereford. #1 dies 4 days later either(?) cough or ponies (Does he think the ponies stomped his calf to death?!? Is that why he sold them?!?).
#2 and #3 run off. Travel 7 miles over a week, Alvin Depee corralled them. Brought back to corral so they would not escape. Figured ponies tau(taught?) them through the fence. Was back in KC a few days when calf got sick and feeders were found.
(moving from bottom of page to here since it goes with the calfs)
"One feeder of 2 got cough. 2 vet trips $70, $50 to get RES-FLOR shots. Likely sell both thurs."
The rest is just him talking about his milo crop and how the land he broke out this year sucked crap.
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 27, 2021, 08:56:03 AM
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 27, 2021, 08:57:52 AM
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Post by: Katpappy on November 28, 2021, 12:08:13 AM
Pictures need more Tater
If you're like me and a whole lot of others on this board, you just can't get enough tater around here. :love: ;)
Post by: wetwillie on November 28, 2021, 06:55:59 AM
Pictures need more Tater
If you're like me and a whole lot of others on this board, you just can't get enough tater around here. :love: ;)
We meet on wednesdays and have unofficially called the gathering “the tator tots”
Post by: bucket on November 28, 2021, 08:24:10 AM
Pictures need more Tater
If you're like me and a whole lot of others on this board, you just can't get enough tater around here. :love: ;)
We meet on wednesdays and have unofficially called the gathering “the tator tots”
If you're keeping up, Tom has at least three dogs.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 28, 2021, 02:47:10 PM
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Post by: wetwillie on November 28, 2021, 04:29:46 PM
Pictures need more Tater
If you're like me and a whole lot of others on this board, you just can't get enough tater around here. :love: ;)
We meet on wednesdays and have unofficially called the gathering “the tator tots”
If you're keeping up, Tom has at least three dogs.
Tater is the star
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 28, 2021, 06:46:56 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on November 28, 2021, 07:09:17 PM
Where exactly does one acquire a guard rail??KDOT/KTA auctions it off in various lengths and quantities a couple times a year.
It's great for corrals, feed bunks, etc.
https://www.purplewave.com/auction/211214/item/IJ9940/Asphalt_and_Paving_Equipment-Road_Safety_Equip.-Kansas
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Post by: ben ji on November 28, 2021, 09:06:21 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 29, 2021, 07:43:26 AM
Hey tom, I found a new piece of machinery out in the big barn mounted to a wall while I was out chasing pheasants. Is this another drill bit type thingy? Looks like it used to have a power cord to plug into the outlet.Looks like an old timey drill press.
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Post by: steve dave on November 29, 2021, 07:48:11 AM
Post by: Katpappy on November 29, 2021, 11:57:46 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 29, 2021, 12:27:11 PM
Post by: steve dave on November 29, 2021, 12:53:50 PM
Also my dad bought a bunch of fence posts this summer when lumber prices were through the roof because he wants to fence off the field he broke out in the pasture. I'm betting these stay in this building for at least 2-3 years if not longer. No way he puts them all in himself.
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they triple dipped those things in creosote
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 04, 2021, 07:26:18 PM
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Post by: Spracne on December 05, 2021, 02:59:18 PM
What is that giant hybrid corn cob/fire hydrant looking thing that is in the field even with the bobcat?
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That's actually an ancient buddhist villa. People were smaller back then.
Post by: KST8FAN on December 05, 2021, 08:40:03 PM
Some of K-States finest agronomy majors and ag engineers do the math for most farmers via FSA or SCS office to build terrace and drain tile systems to preserve top soil from run off.
We replaced this system a decade ago. My dad tiled this farm in the 80s.
Even the best design terrace encounters rain events it wasn't built to handle so a little up keep filling ruts or cleaning sediment away from the risers is just good practice.
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Post by: ben ji on December 05, 2021, 09:18:21 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 06, 2021, 10:03:58 AM
Post by: ben ji on December 20, 2021, 09:57:07 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 20, 2021, 11:25:36 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifv6z07m2FE&ab_channel=JonathanPetramalaI had not heard about this. Terrible.
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Post by: Katpappy on December 21, 2021, 02:46:44 AM
Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2021, 07:33:02 AM
I've probably talked about this in this thread before actually. not sure.
Post by: Cire on December 21, 2021, 08:09:16 AM
We've had massive fires sweep through SW KS occasionally. They seem to be more common but recency bias probably. We've always been able to save our structures but our ranch has been burned multiple times. we've also been lucky enough to not lose a lot of head of cattle, mostly because it's a barren hellscape in the best of times and there is plenty of pen outside of any vegetation where we can easily move them. It's quite the scene when one sweeps through. State, County, and township road blades just tearing through fields trying to create fire breaks, farmers from all over the place with their own equipment ripping into stuff to break the line. they will shut down the highway and no farmer gives a crap and just drives through to either get to their families or go to see if they can help. to the KS HP and other law enforcements credit they don't put up much of a fight when you just drive right by their road barriers, and they leave you plenty of room to do so. rural communities are irl the bitb at banding together to help with stuff like that. Not always successfully but not for lack of trying.They are emboldened by knowing that the government will just socialist them a bajillion dollars for their losses.
I've probably talked about this in this thread before actually. not sure.
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Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2021, 08:14:45 AM
We've had massive fires sweep through SW KS occasionally. They seem to be more common but recency bias probably. We've always been able to save our structures but our ranch has been burned multiple times. we've also been lucky enough to not lose a lot of head of cattle, mostly because it's a barren hellscape in the best of times and there is plenty of pen outside of any vegetation where we can easily move them. It's quite the scene when one sweeps through. State, County, and township road blades just tearing through fields trying to create fire breaks, farmers from all over the place with their own equipment ripping into stuff to break the line. they will shut down the highway and no farmer gives a crap and just drives through to either get to their families or go to see if they can help. to the KS HP and other law enforcements credit they don't put up much of a fight when you just drive right by their road barriers, and they leave you plenty of room to do so. rural communities are irl the bitb at banding together to help with stuff like that. Not always successfully but not for lack of trying.They are emboldened by knowing that the government will just socialist them a bajillion dollars for their losses.
I've probably talked about this in this thread before actually. not sure.
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I'm not following your logic here cire.
Post by: Cire on December 21, 2021, 08:43:51 AM
Those hayseeds aren’t saving anything by “playing firefighters”We've had massive fires sweep through SW KS occasionally. They seem to be more common but recency bias probably. We've always been able to save our structures but our ranch has been burned multiple times. we've also been lucky enough to not lose a lot of head of cattle, mostly because it's a barren hellscape in the best of times and there is plenty of pen outside of any vegetation where we can easily move them. It's quite the scene when one sweeps through. State, County, and township road blades just tearing through fields trying to create fire breaks, farmers from all over the place with their own equipment ripping into stuff to break the line. they will shut down the highway and no farmer gives a crap and just drives through to either get to their families or go to see if they can help. to the KS HP and other law enforcements credit they don't put up much of a fight when you just drive right by their road barriers, and they leave you plenty of room to do so. rural communities are irl the bitb at banding together to help with stuff like that. Not always successfully but not for lack of trying.They are emboldened by knowing that the government will just socialist them a bajillion dollars for their losses.
I've probably talked about this in this thread before actually. not sure.
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I'm not following your logic here cire.
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Post by: Katpappy on December 21, 2021, 10:20:32 AM
Those hayseeds aren’t saving anything by “playing firefighters”We've had massive fires sweep through SW KS occasionally. They seem to be more common but recency bias probably. We've always been able to save our structures but our ranch has been burned multiple times. we've also been lucky enough to not lose a lot of head of cattle, mostly because it's a barren hellscape in the best of times and there is plenty of pen outside of any vegetation where we can easily move them. It's quite the scene when one sweeps through. State, County, and township road blades just tearing through fields trying to create fire breaks, farmers from all over the place with their own equipment ripping into stuff to break the line. they will shut down the highway and no farmer gives a crap and just drives through to either get to their families or go to see if they can help. to the KS HP and other law enforcements credit they don't put up much of a fight when you just drive right by their road barriers, and they leave you plenty of room to do so. rural communities are irl the bitb at banding together to help with stuff like that. Not always successfully but not for lack of trying.They are emboldened by knowing that the government will just socialist them a bajillion dollars for their losses.
I've probably talked about this in this thread before actually. not sure.
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I'm not following your logic here cire.
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What kind of a rough ridin' bad person do you have to be to ridicule someone who lost their lively hood. I suppose make jokes when one in your family loses everything. I grew up on a ranch and it was the normal to help when a fire got out of control, cause it's rough ridin' serious.
Post by: star seed 7 on December 21, 2021, 10:25:53 AM
Post by: IPA4Me on December 21, 2021, 10:36:36 AM
Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 21, 2021, 10:46:38 AM
Change his handle to elohssa or daehkcid.
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Post by: Cire on December 21, 2021, 10:54:14 AM
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Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2021, 11:49:02 AM
Those hayseeds aren’t saving anything by “playing firefighters”We've had massive fires sweep through SW KS occasionally. They seem to be more common but recency bias probably. We've always been able to save our structures but our ranch has been burned multiple times. we've also been lucky enough to not lose a lot of head of cattle, mostly because it's a barren hellscape in the best of times and there is plenty of pen outside of any vegetation where we can easily move them. It's quite the scene when one sweeps through. State, County, and township road blades just tearing through fields trying to create fire breaks, farmers from all over the place with their own equipment ripping into stuff to break the line. they will shut down the highway and no farmer gives a crap and just drives through to either get to their families or go to see if they can help. to the KS HP and other law enforcements credit they don't put up much of a fight when you just drive right by their road barriers, and they leave you plenty of room to do so. rural communities are irl the bitb at banding together to help with stuff like that. Not always successfully but not for lack of trying.They are emboldened by knowing that the government will just socialist them a bajillion dollars for their losses.
I've probably talked about this in this thread before actually. not sure.
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I'm not following your logic here cire.
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well, that's not accurate
Post by: Cire on December 21, 2021, 12:04:36 PM
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Post by: Spracne on December 21, 2021, 12:15:12 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2021, 12:43:26 PM
Stopping wildfire is an ancient secret that only Kansas farmers knowwell, that’s not accurate
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Post by: bucket on December 21, 2021, 01:20:45 PM
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Post by: 'taterblast on December 21, 2021, 01:21:35 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2021, 02:00:44 PM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on December 21, 2021, 02:06:49 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2021, 02:57:09 PM
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Post by: ben ji on December 21, 2021, 05:46:04 PM
Also, nsfl, not all cows made it out :-(
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Didn't know there were any fires down near the SD ranch, glad it was just some cows and equipment and not houses.
Question about the cow picture, was that taken in a field or a pasture? I have very low pasture IQ but figured there would be more "stubble/leftover organic matter" after a fire and not just a barren sand like martian landscape. If it was a recently harvested field that would make more sense.
Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2021, 05:56:08 PM
Post by: Katpappy on December 21, 2021, 06:53:16 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2021, 06:55:04 PM
IIRC, the second pic. is of a pasture. :dunno:IIRC?
Post by: Katpappy on December 21, 2021, 07:02:15 PM
IIRC, the second pic. is of a pasture. :dunno:IIRC?
If I Remember Correctly, referring to field vs crop fire, back when I helped along with my dad put out neighbors uncontrolled fires.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 21, 2021, 07:10:26 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifv6z07m2FE&ab_channel=JonathanPetramalaThis is incredible and awful. Not all that far from my hometown.
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Post by: Katpappy on December 21, 2021, 07:18:17 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifv6z07m2FE&ab_channel=JonathanPetramalaThis is incredible and awful. Not all that far from my hometown.
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Very sad and awful. :pray:
Post by: chum1 on December 23, 2021, 08:57:23 AM
I don't know why there are two ponds here, but I got the impression it was intentional. ???
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My dad must have took all of the useless junk that was in here and put it in his giant shed at home before it collapsed.
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This antique is probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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My dad likes that the beavers help him fight the menace of too many trees.
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You're probably asking yourself what these things are. Believe it or not, they are cow bones.
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Post by: steve dave on December 23, 2021, 08:59:15 AM
Post by: Kat Kid on December 23, 2021, 09:03:13 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 23, 2021, 10:31:38 AM
I was informed that apparently the fire affected leoti, ks and killed an old farmer who got surrounded. Pretty awful imagining that.awful
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 23, 2021, 10:34:27 AM
there is a place south of 1-70 (off of McDowell Cr Rd, I believe) called Birdrunner. Used to have these cabins that you could rent and then wander around the hills and a creek. don't think it is open to the public at this time but is was kind of in that area.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 23, 2021, 01:04:01 PM
farmers donating hay to help farmers who had their winter hay stockpiles incinerated:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifv6z07m2FE&ab_channel=JonathanPetramalaThis is incredible and awful. Not all that far from my hometown.
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Very sad and awful. :pray:
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on December 23, 2021, 01:15:53 PM
About 20 minutes south of Manhattan. I think this barely qualifies as a hobby farm. Although my parents rent it for pasture and crops, they go there somewhat regularly to maintain the fence and do other hobby farm stuff like pick up sticks and put them in a ditch.Dwight, KS?
I don't know why there are two ponds here, but I got the impression it was intentional. ???
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My dad must have took all of the useless junk that was in here and put it in his giant shed at home before it collapsed.
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This antique is probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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My dad likes that the beavers help him fight the menace of too many trees.
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You're probably asking yourself what these things are. Believe it or not, they are cow bones.
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Post by: chum1 on December 23, 2021, 02:04:28 PM
Dwight, KS?
About halfway in between Dwight and I-70.
Post by: ben ji on December 23, 2021, 03:22:46 PM
About 20 minutes south of Manhattan. I think this barely qualifies as a hobby farm. Although my parents rent it for pasture and crops, they go there somewhat regularly to maintain the fence and do other hobby farm stuff like pick up sticks and put them in a ditch.That's a hot piece of hobby farm ass.
I don't know why there are two ponds here, but I got the impression it was intentional. ???
(https://i.ibb.co/8r7Kdmt/20211221-140357.jpg)
My dad must have took all of the useless junk that was in here and put it in his giant shed at home before it collapsed.
(https://i.ibb.co/L63HDtj/20211221-134929-HDR.jpg)
This antique is probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
(https://i.ibb.co/k3mXJs2/20211221-134720.jpg)
My dad likes that the beavers help him fight the menace of too many trees.
(https://i.ibb.co/6tHcHhn/20211221-145725-HDR.jpg)
You're probably asking yourself what these things are. Believe it or not, they are cow bones.
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 23, 2021, 08:11:32 PM
Tom
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Post by: Katpappy on December 23, 2021, 08:36:22 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 23, 2021, 09:33:52 PM
Chum, is there still some beavers on the farm? That tree was chewed on quite a while ago.katdaddy no!
Post by: Katpappy on December 23, 2021, 10:43:56 PM
Chum, is there still some beavers on the farm? That tree was chewed on quite a while ago.katdaddy no!
Steve, I'm talking hairy beavers with large teeth that build dams for a hobby. I have been laying off hairy tuna fish for a while. :D
Post by: chum1 on December 23, 2021, 10:44:16 PM
Chum, is there still some beavers on the farm? That tree was chewed on quite a while ago.
Yeah, they've actually moved on. Need some more!
Post by: Katpappy on December 23, 2021, 10:53:00 PM
Chum, is there still some beavers on the farm? That tree was chewed on quite a while ago.
Yeah, they've actually moved on. Need some more!
Are the dams man-made or beaver built?
Post by: chum1 on December 23, 2021, 10:58:37 PM
Chum, is there still some beavers on the farm? That tree was chewed on quite a while ago.
Yeah, they've actually moved on. Need some more!
Are the dams man-made or beaver built?
One is beaver. I don't know how many man made. I got confused by the pond talk.
Post by: slackcat on December 24, 2021, 07:12:54 AM
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I don't know why there are two ponds here, but I got the impression it was intentional. ???
Before excavators became popular it was easier just to build a new pond than cut and clean out an old one. Also didn't have to source new water while old one dried out before cleaning.
Also, also can never have enough water.
Post by: Katpappy on December 24, 2021, 11:35:45 AM
Post by: ben ji on December 30, 2021, 09:31:55 AM
Sparks went flying and caught some grass on fire which spread fast due to the wind and it being dry. Luckily it was in the windbreak and not an open field of grass so he was able to stomp it out once the fire ran into the trees/out of grass.
Post by: wetwillie on December 30, 2021, 10:15:02 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 30, 2021, 11:16:56 AM
My brother almost burned down Thomas County earlier this week. He was out at the cat ranch cutting firewood with a chainsaw and hit a nail that was buried in a dead tree.
Sparks went flying and caught some grass on fire which spread fast due to the wind and it being dry. Luckily it was in the windbreak and not an open field of grass so he was able to stomp it out once the fire ran into the trees/out of grass.
Yeah, his chainsaw hit a nail....that's what happened
Post by: Spracne on December 30, 2021, 12:24:19 PM
My brother almost burned down Thomas County earlier this week. He was out at the cat ranch cutting firewood with a chainsaw and hit a nail that was buried in a dead tree.
Sparks went flying and caught some grass on fire which spread fast due to the wind and it being dry. Luckily it was in the windbreak and not an open field of grass so he was able to stomp it out once the fire ran into the trees/out of grass.
Yeah, his chainsaw hit a nail....that's what happened
Marihuana cigarettes, more than likely. Smdh.
Post by: KST8FAN on December 30, 2021, 07:12:21 PM
Watched a neighbor burn up a round baler, and had a few bales hit by lightning. We think someone burnt up the round bales all stacked tight in the barn yard one year, but nothing else hurt.
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Post by: ben ji on January 01, 2022, 08:20:43 PM
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Post by: ben ji on January 01, 2022, 08:23:09 PM
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on January 01, 2022, 08:24:32 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/8r7Kdmt/20211221-140357.jpg)QuoteI don't know why there are two ponds here, but I got the impression it was intentional. ???
Before excavators became popular it was easier just to build a new pond than cut and clean out an old one. Also didn't have to source new water while old one dried out before cleaning.
Also, also can never have enough water.
huh. learn something new every day
Post by: ben ji on January 01, 2022, 08:27:47 PM
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Post by: ben ji on January 01, 2022, 08:31:39 PM
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Post by: sys on January 01, 2022, 10:16:50 PM
Post by: bucket on January 01, 2022, 10:22:12 PM
Post by: steve dave on January 02, 2022, 09:54:41 AM
Post by: Pete on January 06, 2022, 07:51:19 AM
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/john-deere-breaks-new-ground-with-self-driving-tractors-you-can-control-from-a-phone/
Post by: Spracne on January 06, 2022, 11:23:16 AM
Lazy farmers. smh.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/john-deere-breaks-new-ground-with-self-driving-tractors-you-can-control-from-a-phone/
To the contrary, Rick Moranis (or his kid?) accomplished this feat no fewer than 30 years ago.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on January 06, 2022, 02:42:07 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQRXACKAKQ
Post by: Institutional Control on January 06, 2022, 04:17:30 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 06, 2022, 07:30:33 PM
Ben Ji. Do this with cat food at the ranch.Cat census is only 3ish but once we get a bumper crop of kittens this spring I will attempt this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQRXACKAKQ
Post by: Institutional Control on January 06, 2022, 07:37:16 PM
Make it a powercat instead of a heart tho.Ben Ji. Do this with cat food at the ranch.Cat census is only 3ish but once we get a bumper crop of kittens this spring I will attempt this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQRXACKAKQ
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Post by: ben ji on January 06, 2022, 07:37:27 PM
Of course I snooped around and came to the conclusion that farming is nothing more than a real estate/tax evasion scheme(as has been pointed out here many times). Just try and break even every year while the price of the land goes up.
From a strictly financial position we would probably be better off selling the land, putting it all in a SP500 index fund and the dividends would kick off way more than the farm makes in a year.
Post by: ben ji on January 06, 2022, 07:46:40 PM
When I was out there last weekend the mobile hotspot my dad usually has out there was gone so I had to use all my phone data, apparently it stopped working so I picked up the new one today along with some instructions.
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Post by: ben ji on January 06, 2022, 07:51:04 PM
lmao at still dumping ash into rutsGotta dump it somewhere!
Post by: sys on January 06, 2022, 08:25:43 PM
farming is nothing more than a real estate/tax evasion scheme(as has been pointed out here many times). Just try and break even every year while the price of the land goes up.
From a strictly financial position we would probably be better off selling the land, putting it all in a SP500 index fund and the dividends would kick off way more than the farm makes in a year.
yeah, the price of land has become divorced from the productive value of the land. it sucks.
Post by: steve dave on January 06, 2022, 08:55:48 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 06, 2022, 09:41:54 PM
It only sucks if you don’t currently own landFeels good to be part of the landed gentry
Post by: slackcat on January 07, 2022, 06:54:32 AM
It only sucks if you don’t currently own land
BINGO! :gocho:
Post by: Stupid Fitz on January 07, 2022, 08:48:33 AM
My dad usually has a mobile hotspot out there that I am allowed to use "for work only" but I blast that crap by streaming football games and Netflix etc.
When I was out there last weekend the mobile hotspot my dad usually has out there was gone so I had to use all my phone data, apparently it stopped working so I picked up the new one today along with some instructions.
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Thanks, if I'm ever near the cat ranch, I will now have wifi. Also, WTF is a suet?
Post by: wetwillie on January 07, 2022, 11:03:53 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on January 07, 2022, 04:54:33 PM
Post by: CHONGS on January 07, 2022, 07:11:35 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 10, 2022, 12:04:28 PM
cat ranch never ceases to amaze meThe cats are living good. I always put my pheasants in the garage fridge until I clean them before I leave. Yesterday I either didn't close the door all the way or the tail feathers were sticking out and a cat was able to open the door.
It dragged a pheasant out and devoured all the breast meat sometime between 1pm and 4pm.
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Post by: wetwillie on January 10, 2022, 12:17:42 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on January 10, 2022, 12:44:54 PM
Man that bird was dining good on milo it looks likeI remember cleaning pheasants as playing with a feathery milo bomb.
Post by: Katpappy on January 10, 2022, 08:49:32 PM
Man that bird was dining good on milo it looks likeI remember cleaning pheasants as playing with a feathery milo bomb.
Milo is also very tasty to deer. They will destroy a milo field. Also, deer that eat in the milo fields are tasty themselves.
Post by: KST8FAN on January 16, 2022, 04:55:55 PM
What will happen first... farmers get the ability to work on their equipment/software, or the farmer gets eliminated by autonomous equipment?
I know that's not the real question, and I don't want to risk having the best thread on goEMAW ending up in the pit.
The bro inlaw plants with GPS steering. Just sits in the seat once the field is selected. We watched a demo on the Kinze tour 2 years ago where the tractor and grain cart will follow the combine around the field.
Would love to hear what the real farmers in here are experiencing.
Does autonomous cost less than having a son? Glad that question was never posed to my dad;) I suspect the robot would remember to avoid the wet hole on south end of the back bottom field. 16 yo Tom couldn't.
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on January 16, 2022, 05:49:44 PM
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/equipment/article/2022/01/13/north-dakota-farm-sues-john-deereQuestion, do farmers have the same issue with other combine/implement manufacturers or is this just a Deere thing?
What will happen first... farmers get the ability to work on their equipment/software, or the farmer gets eliminated by autonomous equipment?
I know that's not the real question, and I don't want to risk having the best thread on goEMAW ending up in the pit.
The bro inlaw plants with GPS steering. Just sits in the seat once the field is selected. We watched a demo on the Kinze tour 2 years ago where the tractor and grain cart will follow the combine around the field.
Would love to hear what the real farmers in here are experiencing.
Does autonomous cost less than having a son? Glad that question was never posed to my dad;) I suspect the robot would remember to avoid the wet hole on south end of the back bottom field. 16 yo Tom couldn't.
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on January 16, 2022, 05:53:53 PM
Met Nate when I got in last Friday and he was checking the fence....by the time I got up and started pheasant hunting around 830/9 he had already moved 50 head of cattle to our property.
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Post by: steve dave on January 16, 2022, 06:50:12 PM
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/equipment/article/2022/01/13/north-dakota-farm-sues-john-deereCathie Woods (and by awful decision making association, I) owns an absolute truckload of DE so I can tell you her vote is on the autonomous side. But good news for farmers, she’s mostly wrong 24/7/365 lately.
What will happen first... farmers get the ability to work on their equipment/software, or the farmer gets eliminated by autonomous equipment?
I know that's not the real question, and I don't want to risk having the best thread on goEMAW ending up in the pit.
The bro inlaw plants with GPS steering. Just sits in the seat once the field is selected. We watched a demo on the Kinze tour 2 years ago where the tractor and grain cart will follow the combine around the field.
Would love to hear what the real farmers in here are experiencing.
Does autonomous cost less than having a son? Glad that question was never posed to my dad;) I suspect the robot would remember to avoid the wet hole on south end of the back bottom field. 16 yo Tom couldn't.
Tom
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Post by: Katpappy on January 16, 2022, 08:00:08 PM
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/equipment/article/2022/01/13/north-dakota-farm-sues-john-deereCathie Woods (and by awful decision making association, I) owns an absolute truckload of DE so I can tell you her vote is on the autonomous side. But good news for farmers, she’s mostly wrong 24/7/365 lately.
What will happen first... farmers get the ability to work on their equipment/software, or the farmer gets eliminated by autonomous equipment?
I know that's not the real question, and I don't want to risk having the best thread on goEMAW ending up in the pit.
The bro inlaw plants with GPS steering. Just sits in the seat once the field is selected. We watched a demo on the Kinze tour 2 years ago where the tractor and grain cart will follow the combine around the field.
Would love to hear what the real farmers in here are experiencing.
Does autonomous cost less than having a son? Glad that question was never posed to my dad;) I suspect the robot would remember to avoid the wet hole on south end of the back bottom field. 16 yo Tom couldn't.
Tom
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? :dunno:
Post by: BBF$$Kat on January 16, 2022, 09:56:59 PM
Deere stock I am assuming is what SD is referring to.https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/equipment/article/2022/01/13/north-dakota-farm-sues-john-deereCathie Woods (and by awful decision making association, I) owns an absolute truckload of DE so I can tell you her vote is on the autonomous side. But good news for farmers, she’s mostly wrong 24/7/365 lately.
What will happen first... farmers get the ability to work on their equipment/software, or the farmer gets eliminated by autonomous equipment?
I know that's not the real question, and I don't want to risk having the best thread on goEMAW ending up in the pit.
The bro inlaw plants with GPS steering. Just sits in the seat once the field is selected. We watched a demo on the Kinze tour 2 years ago where the tractor and grain cart will follow the combine around the field.
Would love to hear what the real farmers in here are experiencing.
Does autonomous cost less than having a son? Glad that question was never posed to my dad;) I suspect the robot would remember to avoid the wet hole on south end of the back bottom field. 16 yo Tom couldn't.
Tom
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? :dunno:
Post by: KST8FAN on January 16, 2022, 10:13:35 PM
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4479593-deere-and-co-update-and-doubling-down-due-to-fundamental-factorsDeere stock I am assuming is what SD is referring to.https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/equipment/article/2022/01/13/north-dakota-farm-sues-john-deereCathie Woods (and by awful decision making association, I) owns an absolute truckload of DE so I can tell you her vote is on the autonomous side. But good news for farmers, she’s mostly wrong 24/7/365 lately.
What will happen first... farmers get the ability to work on their equipment/software, or the farmer gets eliminated by autonomous equipment?
I know that's not the real question, and I don't want to risk having the best thread on goEMAW ending up in the pit.
The bro inlaw plants with GPS steering. Just sits in the seat once the field is selected. We watched a demo on the Kinze tour 2 years ago where the tractor and grain cart will follow the combine around the field.
Would love to hear what the real farmers in here are experiencing.
Does autonomous cost less than having a son? Glad that question was never posed to my dad;) I suspect the robot would remember to avoid the wet hole on south end of the back bottom field. 16 yo Tom couldn't.
Tom
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? :dunno:
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on January 16, 2022, 11:40:08 PM
https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.12/ranching-betting-the-ranch
It's a really good article but the part that caught my attention was the son saying "I pissed it all away on the merch" trading cattle futures and being really bad at it. Basically the profit from a cow that goes to a rancher has been decreasing for years due to consolidation in the meat packing business and the kid got drunk on trading cattle futures, started a whole fraud thing then got even deeper in a deep hole and couldn't get out.
In the article they mentioned you had to have X amount of cattle before you can trade on the futures market. Does the SD fam or anyone else have enough cattle to shed light on how this works?
Post by: sys on January 17, 2022, 12:03:44 AM
Post by: steve dave on January 17, 2022, 07:18:37 AM
Here is an interesting article I ran across about a ranch/farming operation in Washington.sddad trades cattle and crop futures all the time. I don’t recall a day I have been around him when he wasn’t talking on the phone with his commodities guy at least once. I am not aware of any barrier to entry to doing it but I never asked obviously.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.12/ranching-betting-the-ranch
It's a really good article but the part that caught my attention was the son saying "I pissed it all away on the merch" trading cattle futures and being really bad at it. Basically the profit from a cow that goes to a rancher has been decreasing for years due to consolidation in the meat packing business and the kid got drunk on trading cattle futures, started a whole fraud thing then got even deeper in a deep hole and couldn't get out.
In the article they mentioned you had to have X amount of cattle before you can trade on the futures market. Does the SD fam or anyone else have enough cattle to shed light on how this works?
Post by: chum1 on January 17, 2022, 07:54:33 AM
Post by: BBF$$Kat on January 17, 2022, 01:16:35 PM
Ben ji-Here is an interesting article I ran across about a ranch/farming operation in Washington.sddad trades cattle and crop futures all the time. I don’t recall a day I have been around him when he wasn’t talking on the phone with his commodities guy at least once. I am not aware of any barrier to entry to doing it but I never asked obviously.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.12/ranching-betting-the-ranch
It's a really good article but the part that caught my attention was the son saying "I pissed it all away on the merch" trading cattle futures and being really bad at it. Basically the profit from a cow that goes to a rancher has been decreasing for years due to consolidation in the meat packing business and the kid got drunk on trading cattle futures, started a whole fraud thing then got even deeper in a deep hole and couldn't get out.
In the article they mentioned you had to have X amount of cattle before you can trade on the futures market. Does the SD fam or anyone else have enough cattle to shed light on how this works?
Feeder cattle contracts trade in 50,000 lb contracts, live cattle trade in 40,000 lb contracts. If you are planning to sell 800 lb feeders steers after you have fed/grew them you would basically need 62 head that would be selling at the same time to match up with your contract that you would have in place for the month you will be selling in. If selling 1300 to 1350 lb fat/finished steers you would need approximately 30 head selling at once. You can place as many or as few of contracts you need to cover the cattle/pounds you will be selling. Assuming there is enough liquidity / volume interest in the contract month you are trading to get someone to offset your positions at the price you are trying to put a contract on at.
Post by: Katpappy on January 17, 2022, 04:09:35 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on January 17, 2022, 04:46:36 PM
I know this is overkill and not the question Benji asked, but after working in the industry for years to see things so poorly explained in articles like this just frustrate me to no end.
This article is a hot mess, IMHO. The author mentions the following:
System is rigged in favor of big meat over ranchers
Volatility of the pandemic created historically bad prices for ranchers
Ranchers don’t get their fair share of the boxed beef dollar
Formula contract pricing reduces competition and price transparency for ranchers
Only speculators contribute to futures price increases for cattle (just LOL)
If you want to write that article, then write that article. There are hundreds of them out there. Not going to debate any of those positions here, but I do question how what happened to the Easterday Ranch relates to any of the above points.
Easterday was not some struggling rancher who lost grandpa’s 160 acres the family had owned since the 1880’s. It was one of the largest, most diversified farming operations in the PNW. Given its size and longevity, I suspect Easterday was a very viable operation thru good times and bad.
Outside of Cody being the antithesis to Hillary Clinton’s cattle futures trading experience the explanation of how cattle futures work is just terrible.
LC futures- Live Cattle futures, contract size 40,000 lbs
Roughly 30-35 head of fat cattle weighing 1200-1250 lbs ready for slaughter. Basically a “pot load” of cattle in the shiny, aluminum, double decked (pot belly) cattle trailers on the highway. Actually, not shiny, but covered in runny, corn laden cattle crap.
FC futures- Feeder Cattle futures, contract size 50,000 lbs
60-65 head of feeder cattle weighing 700-750 ready for the feedlot to be fattened for the kill (see above). Again, this is about a truck load. Note if you have 65-70 head to load you can damn sure bet SD dad or Tom dad would get those boys on the truck with a note to the driver to avoid the KDOT scale house on the way to the feedlot.
The author mentions only buying a futures contract from a “stockbroker.” You buy AND SELL futures contracts, and you do it on margin. Probably like $1,500 will allow you to buy or sell a contract worth $50-60,000. If the price goes in your favor you build equity. If the price moves against you then a margin call requires you to put in more money. See the boys in the investing thread if any questions.
Basic Hedge example using their numbers:
This is highly simplified ignoring basis (differences between futures and cash price, discounts, delivery periods, etc). It even ignores the fact you can hedge the feed costs (second biggest expense next to the animal) using grain futures.
Buy feeders to put on feed with a breakeven of $1.30. You SELL futures contract for $1.34 to lock in the $.04 margin.
Cattle are fat and cash/futures are at $1.50 (prices go up)
Sell cash cattle for $1.50 - $1.30 breakeven you make $0.20 on cash
BUY back futures at $1.50 - $1.34 original sale you lose $0.16 on futures*
Net you made your $0.04 margin
*note must meet margin calls to keep your short sale to end of the trade
Cattle are fat and cash/futures are at $1.20 (prices go down)
Sell cash cattle for $1.20 - $1.30 breakeven you lose $0.10 on cash
BUY back futures at $1.20 - $1.34 original sale you make $0.14 on futures
Net you made your $0.04 margin
Cody was not hedging in any sense of the word. My guess is he was putting on a “Texas hedge.” He was long cash cattle and probably long cattle futures in the hopes of doubling up. Bottom line he was really bad at speculative trading of cattle futures. He had/has a serious gambling addiction. He could have as easily been losing millions at a casino.
Yes the cattle sector has went thru some very tough times. Ranchers and farmers are honest, hard working folk. However, they are human and prone to greed and corruption just like everyone else. I just feel like maybe that’s more of the story here.
The author also states futures and scale are the only way to survive in the cattle industry. For the subsidy crowd here USDA offers multiple programs for price protection in the livestock sector. There are other ways to manage the risk outside of futures.
https://www.rma.usda.gov/Policy-and-Procedure/Insurance-Plans/Livestock-Insurance-Plans
Tom
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Post by: steve dave on January 17, 2022, 06:14:10 PM
Tom do farmers watch that farm futures show on pbs at like 5 am?sd dad just tracks that stuff on his phone like you and I trading stonks
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Post by: schreds21 on January 17, 2022, 06:37:30 PM
Post by: Katpappy on January 18, 2022, 12:55:50 AM
? :dunno:Tom do farmers watch that farm futures show on pbs at like 5 am?sd dad just tracks that stuff on his phone like you and I trading stonks
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 18, 2022, 08:29:37 AM
Tom do farmers watch that farm futures show on pbs at like 5 am?https://www.pbs.org/show/market-market/
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Used to watch this pretty regularly, but it was a Friday evening watch as i recall.
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Post by: steve dave on January 18, 2022, 08:43:59 AM
The technically averse just listen to the markets at noon before Paul Harvey while they are eating a bologna sandwich.I don’t think anyone does this anymore. I know shitloads of farmers and they are on avg more technically savvy than the average human I know all else equal.
Post by: schreds21 on January 18, 2022, 03:32:27 PM
Wouldn't necessarily argue this, but how available is internet service/signal vs AM radio in bumfuck SW Kansas?The technically averse just listen to the markets at noon before Paul Harvey while they are eating a bologna sandwich.I don’t think anyone does this anymore. I know shitloads of farmers and they are on avg more technically savvy than the average human I know all else equal.
Post by: steve dave on January 18, 2022, 03:34:24 PM
Like, super goodWouldn't necessarily argue this, but how available is internet service/signal vs AM radio in bumfuck SW Kansas?The technically averse just listen to the markets at noon before Paul Harvey while they are eating a bologna sandwich.I don’t think anyone does this anymore. I know shitloads of farmers and they are on avg more technically savvy than the average human I know all else equal.
Post by: Katpappy on January 18, 2022, 06:37:27 PM
Like, super goodWouldn't necessarily argue this, but how available is internet service/signal vs AM radio in bumfuck SW Kansas?The technically averse just listen to the markets at noon before Paul Harvey while they are eating a bologna sandwich.I don’t think anyone does this anymore. I know shitloads of farmers and they are on avg more technically savvy than the average human I know all else equal.
Agree completely. It's satellite, so it don't give a crap where your at as long as there's nothing in the way of your device and the sky.
Post by: KST8FAN on January 18, 2022, 06:39:02 PM
Most all grain elevators have a phone app or are moving towards something similar to the link. You can get pricing, contract info, truck ticket info.
Moving towards price alerts and GPOs (grain price orders) where if SD would sell 10k bushels at $7 for his corn he can enter a GPO and if the elevator bid gets there it would book the contract.
Tom
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Post by: schreds21 on January 18, 2022, 10:44:28 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 20, 2022, 05:07:54 PM
Benji, pretty much anyone that can meet and maintain the account minimums can trade futures, cattle or otherwise. Some of the author’s assertions sound like a bad episode of Yellowstone. If you want more details, given I am off today, I thought I would expand on the article. Otherwise, stop here.
I know this is overkill and not the question Benji asked, but after working in the industry for years to see things so poorly explained in articles like this just frustrate me to no end.
This article is a hot mess, IMHO. The author mentions the following:
System is rigged in favor of big meat over ranchers
Volatility of the pandemic created historically bad prices for ranchers
Ranchers don’t get their fair share of the boxed beef dollar
Formula contract pricing reduces competition and price transparency for ranchers
Only speculators contribute to futures price increases for cattle (just LOL)
If you want to write that article, then write that article. There are hundreds of them out there. Not going to debate any of those positions here, but I do question how what happened to the Easterday Ranch relates to any of the above points.
Easterday was not some struggling rancher who lost grandpa’s 160 acres the family had owned since the 1880’s. It was one of the largest, most diversified farming operations in the PNW. Given its size and longevity, I suspect Easterday was a very viable operation thru good times and bad.
Outside of Cody being the antithesis to Hillary Clinton’s cattle futures trading experience the explanation of how cattle futures work is just terrible.
LC futures- Live Cattle futures, contract size 40,000 lbs
Roughly 30-35 head of fat cattle weighing 1200-1250 lbs ready for slaughter. Basically a “pot load” of cattle in the shiny, aluminum, double decked (pot belly) cattle trailers on the highway. Actually, not shiny, but covered in runny, corn laden cattle crap.
FC futures- Feeder Cattle futures, contract size 50,000 lbs
60-65 head of feeder cattle weighing 700-750 ready for the feedlot to be fattened for the kill (see above). Again, this is about a truck load. Note if you have 65-70 head to load you can damn sure bet SD dad or Tom dad would get those boys on the truck with a note to the driver to avoid the KDOT scale house on the way to the feedlot.
The author mentions only buying a futures contract from a “stockbroker.” You buy AND SELL futures contracts, and you do it on margin. Probably like $1,500 will allow you to buy or sell a contract worth $50-60,000. If the price goes in your favor you build equity. If the price moves against you then a margin call requires you to put in more money. See the boys in the investing thread if any questions.
Basic Hedge example using their numbers:
This is highly simplified ignoring basis (differences between futures and cash price, discounts, delivery periods, etc). It even ignores the fact you can hedge the feed costs (second biggest expense next to the animal) using grain futures.
Buy feeders to put on feed with a breakeven of $1.30. You SELL futures contract for $1.34 to lock in the $.04 margin.
Cattle are fat and cash/futures are at $1.50 (prices go up)
Sell cash cattle for $1.50 - $1.30 breakeven you make $0.20 on cash
BUY back futures at $1.50 - $1.34 original sale you lose $0.16 on futures*
Net you made your $0.04 margin
*note must meet margin calls to keep your short sale to end of the trade
Cattle are fat and cash/futures are at $1.20 (prices go down)
Sell cash cattle for $1.20 - $1.30 breakeven you lose $0.10 on cash
BUY back futures at $1.20 - $1.34 original sale you make $0.14 on futures
Net you made your $0.04 margin
Cody was not hedging in any sense of the word. My guess is he was putting on a “Texas hedge.” He was long cash cattle and probably long cattle futures in the hopes of doubling up. Bottom line he was really bad at speculative trading of cattle futures. He had/has a serious gambling addiction. He could have as easily been losing millions at a casino.
Yes the cattle sector has went thru some very tough times. Ranchers and farmers are honest, hard working folk. However, they are human and prone to greed and corruption just like everyone else. I just feel like maybe that’s more of the story here.
The author also states futures and scale are the only way to survive in the cattle industry. For the subsidy crowd here USDA offers multiple programs for price protection in the livestock sector. There are other ways to manage the risk outside of futures.
https://www.rma.usda.gov/Policy-and-Procedure/Insurance-Plans/Livestock-Insurance-Plans
Tom
Ben ji-Here is an interesting article I ran across about a ranch/farming operation in Washington.sddad trades cattle and crop futures all the time. I don’t recall a day I have been around him when he wasn’t talking on the phone with his commodities guy at least once. I am not aware of any barrier to entry to doing it but I never asked obviously.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.12/ranching-betting-the-ranch
It's a really good article but the part that caught my attention was the son saying "I pissed it all away on the merch" trading cattle futures and being really bad at it. Basically the profit from a cow that goes to a rancher has been decreasing for years due to consolidation in the meat packing business and the kid got drunk on trading cattle futures, started a whole fraud thing then got even deeper in a deep hole and couldn't get out.
In the article they mentioned you had to have X amount of cattle before you can trade on the futures market. Does the SD fam or anyone else have enough cattle to shed light on how this works?
Feeder cattle contracts trade in 50,000 lb contracts, live cattle trade in 40,000 lb contracts. If you are planning to sell 800 lb feeders steers after you have fed/grew them you would basically need 62 head that would be selling at the same time to match up with your contract that you would have in place for the month you will be selling in. If selling 1300 to 1350 lb fat/finished steers you would need approximately 30 head selling at once. You can place as many or as few of contracts you need to cover the cattle/pounds you will be selling. Assuming there is enough liquidity / volume interest in the contract month you are trading to get someone to offset your positions at the price you are trying to put a contract on at.
Thank you for the responses, once again ben ji learns something useful about farming from a kansas state wildcats sports message board.
Post by: steve dave on January 20, 2022, 09:27:39 PM
Now I'm totally sidetracking this thread but I can't think about overalls without also discussing 5-buckle boots? Who grew up wearing these things? They would invariably spring leaks and get filled with icy slime when feeding cows during the winter. Muck boots were a quantum leap forward over these.Had a pair of these from a western store. They had pointed toes for cowboy boots although I didn't own boots.
(https://media.tractorsupply.com/is/image/TractorSupplyCompany/6356158?$456$)
Tom
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we had tons of these. all just black. and they were critical because when you are working cattle (we used "working cattle" to mean doctoring them and sorting out sicks and whatnot) in large numbers you are eventually just wading through cow poop a foot deep if you had the jobs I sometimes had (guy who makes the cows move up into the shoot barrel for me to move the giant wheel thing to smoosh them into the lane to eventually get to the chute before then reloading the giant barrel with more potentially sick cows). This is all high level cow farmer stuff that should be posted in that thread tbh.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on January 21, 2022, 09:01:18 AM
To get this convo on track in the right threadThanks for getting this into the right thread, sd.Now I'm totally sidetracking this thread but I can't think about overalls without also discussing 5-buckle boots? Who grew up wearing these things? They would invariably spring leaks and get filled with icy slime when feeding cows during the winter. Muck boots were a quantum leap forward over these.Had a pair of these from a western store. They had pointed toes for cowboy boots although I didn't own boots.
(https://media.tractorsupply.com/is/image/TractorSupplyCompany/6356158?$456$)
Tom
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we had tons of these. all just black. and they were critical because when you are working cattle (we used "working cattle" to mean doctoring them and sorting out sicks and whatnot) in large numbers you are eventually just wading through cow poop a foot deep if you had the jobs I sometimes had (guy who makes the cows move up into the shoot barrel for me to move the giant wheel thing to smoosh them into the lane to eventually get to the chute before then reloading the giant barrel with more potentially sick cows). This is all high level cow farmer stuff that should be posted in that thread tbh.
Working cows. Dad and grandpa kept cows in a couple of places where they and the landlord were all too cheap to invest in decent pens and so we had a system of portable panels and pipes that would be used to advance the cows toward the headgate. Also, sometimes the cows would crowd into the corner and refuse to be "worked." They've upgraded to a less deadly system since I left home but I don't really miss that part of farm life.
Post by: KST8FAN on January 25, 2022, 08:57:01 PM
He knows when I put on the boots and Carhartt it's farm time. Turns circles and barks at the door ready to go.
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Post by: ben ji on January 25, 2022, 09:05:12 PM
Tater surveying his domain which is the farm. The shy little puppy exits the truck and announces his arrival. Drove out at noon to take care of a couple items.
He knows when I put on the boots and Carhartt it's farm time. Turns circles and barks at the door ready to go.
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Does tater ever try and dive head first into coyote or badger dens?
I randomly plan to own a wiener dog at some point in my life just because I think they are cool but I was just thinking about how if I get one and take it out to the cat ranch it will probably dive into one of the 25 badger/coyote dens and eventually come face to face with one.
Post by: BW on January 25, 2022, 09:44:50 PM
Benji, pretty much anyone that can meet and maintain the account minimums can trade futures, cattle or otherwise. Some of the author’s assertions sound like a bad episode of Yellowstone. If you want more details, given I am off today, I thought I would expand on the article. Otherwise, stop here.
I know this is overkill and not the question Benji asked, but after working in the industry for years to see things so poorly explained in articles like this just frustrate me to no end.
This article is a hot mess, IMHO. The author mentions the following:
System is rigged in favor of big meat over ranchers
Volatility of the pandemic created historically bad prices for ranchers
Ranchers don’t get their fair share of the boxed beef dollar
Formula contract pricing reduces competition and price transparency for ranchers
Only speculators contribute to futures price increases for cattle (just LOL)
If you want to write that article, then write that article. There are hundreds of them out there. Not going to debate any of those positions here, but I do question how what happened to the Easterday Ranch relates to any of the above points.
Easterday was not some struggling rancher who lost grandpa’s 160 acres the family had owned since the 1880’s. It was one of the largest, most diversified farming operations in the PNW. Given its size and longevity, I suspect Easterday was a very viable operation thru good times and bad.
Outside of Cody being the antithesis to Hillary Clinton’s cattle futures trading experience the explanation of how cattle futures work is just terrible.
LC futures- Live Cattle futures, contract size 40,000 lbs
Roughly 30-35 head of fat cattle weighing 1200-1250 lbs ready for slaughter. Basically a “pot load” of cattle in the shiny, aluminum, double decked (pot belly) cattle trailers on the highway. Actually, not shiny, but covered in runny, corn laden cattle crap.
FC futures- Feeder Cattle futures, contract size 50,000 lbs
60-65 head of feeder cattle weighing 700-750 ready for the feedlot to be fattened for the kill (see above). Again, this is about a truck load. Note if you have 65-70 head to load you can damn sure bet SD dad or Tom dad would get those boys on the truck with a note to the driver to avoid the KDOT scale house on the way to the feedlot.
The author mentions only buying a futures contract from a “stockbroker.” You buy AND SELL futures contracts, and you do it on margin. Probably like $1,500 will allow you to buy or sell a contract worth $50-60,000. If the price goes in your favor you build equity. If the price moves against you then a margin call requires you to put in more money. See the boys in the investing thread if any questions.
Basic Hedge example using their numbers:
This is highly simplified ignoring basis (differences between futures and cash price, discounts, delivery periods, etc). It even ignores the fact you can hedge the feed costs (second biggest expense next to the animal) using grain futures.
Buy feeders to put on feed with a breakeven of $1.30. You SELL futures contract for $1.34 to lock in the $.04 margin.
Cattle are fat and cash/futures are at $1.50 (prices go up)
Sell cash cattle for $1.50 - $1.30 breakeven you make $0.20 on cash
BUY back futures at $1.50 - $1.34 original sale you lose $0.16 on futures*
Net you made your $0.04 margin
*note must meet margin calls to keep your short sale to end of the trade
Cattle are fat and cash/futures are at $1.20 (prices go down)
Sell cash cattle for $1.20 - $1.30 breakeven you lose $0.10 on cash
BUY back futures at $1.20 - $1.34 original sale you make $0.14 on futures
Net you made your $0.04 margin
Cody was not hedging in any sense of the word. My guess is he was putting on a “Texas hedge.” He was long cash cattle and probably long cattle futures in the hopes of doubling up. Bottom line he was really bad at speculative trading of cattle futures. He had/has a serious gambling addiction. He could have as easily been losing millions at a casino.
Yes the cattle sector has went thru some very tough times. Ranchers and farmers are honest, hard working folk. However, they are human and prone to greed and corruption just like everyone else. I just feel like maybe that’s more of the story here.
The author also states futures and scale are the only way to survive in the cattle industry. For the subsidy crowd here USDA offers multiple programs for price protection in the livestock sector. There are other ways to manage the risk outside of futures.
https://www.rma.usda.gov/Policy-and-Procedure/Insurance-Plans/Livestock-Insurance-Plans
Tom
Nicely done.
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 25, 2022, 09:47:16 PM
Squirrels put Tater into orbit. At the farm the neighbors chickens wander over, and he chases them, but that sausage body and short legs work against him really catching anything.
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on January 26, 2022, 09:31:49 AM
He has shown a lot of heeler characteristics. I had a blue heeler growing up that had no reservations about sticking its head in any den hole. Skunks, raccoons, rabbits, coyotes she was nuts about chasing creatures.
Squirrels put Tater into orbit. At the farm the neighbors chickens wander over, and he chases them, but that sausage body and short legs work against him really catching anything.
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Took my doggie to the inlaws farm a couple months back. The neighbors have a bull that is mean as crap and has to be separated from everything else because its an bad person. We were warned to keep doggie away from the fence as everyone was afraid the bull would charge and blow through the shitty fence. Inevitably, my city doggie decided to go check out this monster across the street. No one noticed for a while and when someone finally went "oh crap", we looked over and they were just staring directly at each other and gently walking along the fence. They did that the whole afternoon and everyone was amazed the bull didn't try and stomp the crap out of doggie. I like to think they became fast friends because doggie had no reason other than size to be afraid or take any of the bulls crap (bull crap), since she had never seen such a creature before. The bull prob thought doggie was a rough ridin' lunatic for coming so close and not giving a eff and figured they should be pals. More than likely the bull will kill us all the next time we are there, but who knows?
Post by: Cire on January 26, 2022, 11:31:46 AM
weird
Post by: KST8FAN on January 27, 2022, 10:51:02 PM
https://www.wibw.com/2022/01/24/secret-acres-foreign-owned-agricultural-land-inaccurately-tracked-by-government/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wibwWeird that government records don't align from Federal,state, county levels?
weird
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 28, 2022, 06:22:01 PM
Tom
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Post by: sys on January 29, 2022, 12:04:47 AM
Post by: porky morgan on January 29, 2022, 11:42:57 AM
Post by: Katpappy on January 29, 2022, 05:26:46 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on January 29, 2022, 05:56:48 PM
After the initial charge and startling, dog and cows regroup and look at each other.
Finally that one cow says I will take care of this and approaches backing Tater off about 5 ft from gate.
From there it's a lot of smelling and head fakes.
Beaver dam breeched and draining. Finally got this metal plate freed from big angle iron work bench I am fixing up. Thing weighs a ton.
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Post by: wetwillie on January 29, 2022, 06:13:40 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 29, 2022, 07:37:59 PM
Ben Ji--I can tell you as an owner of a mini dachsund that if you get a mini (15lb<) it'll act badass but won't dive into that kind of danger. If you get a full sized one (+/_ 30lb) it very well might win the battle. Fun fact: weiners evolved over the years with the elongated body and long snout to be able to grab a badger face-to-face and keep the badger's sharp claws out of reach of the vitals. Drag him out. German farmer whacks the badger with a shovel.
I guess I shouldnt be surprised we have a wiener dog expert on this board. Do you know anyone that sells wiener dog/gsp mixes? I'm thinking something around taters size that can still help me hunt birds.
(Also I am lol'n thinking about a male wiener dog trying to hump a normal sized gsp female to create this awesome cross breed I really want)
Post by: KST8FAN on January 29, 2022, 07:56:20 PM
Did you move out to farm full time Tom?Not yet. Would be great, but probably a few years away
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Post by: steve dave on January 29, 2022, 08:20:42 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 29, 2022, 08:45:50 PM
Man, that rules. I hate farming but maybe I won’t at some point?
It's your destiny SD. ben ji's dad wanted nothing more than to get off the farm and get his big city computer job but once he got older, all the kids moved out and he inherited some farmland he went right back to living that farm life.
Post by: steve dave on January 29, 2022, 08:47:15 PM
Man, that rules. I hate farming but maybe I won’t at some point?
It's your destiny SD. ben ji's dad wanted nothing more than to get off the farm and get his big city computer job but once he got older, all the kids moved out and he inherited some farmland he went right back to living that farm life.
oh, I will never in my entire life move back to MY farm. I will buy some other better non-shitty farm.
Post by: ben ji on January 29, 2022, 09:06:14 PM
Man, that rules. I hate farming but maybe I won’t at some point?
It's your destiny SD. ben ji's dad wanted nothing more than to get off the farm and get his big city computer job but once he got older, all the kids moved out and he inherited some farmland he went right back to living that farm life.
oh, I will never in my entire life move back to MY farm. I will buy some other better non-shitty farm.
Just make lil SD his own lil field of dreams baseball field in the middle of some nub corn.
Post by: pissclams on January 30, 2022, 01:15:36 AM
Man, that rules. I hate farming but maybe I won’t at some point?I love farming. farming ho’s from the club. you feel me?
Post by: Spracne on January 30, 2022, 03:14:14 AM
Man, that rules. I hate farming but maybe I won’t at some point?I love farming. farming ho’s from the club. you feel me?
Sometimes it be like that.
Post by: porky morgan on January 30, 2022, 12:56:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1CtlRh5P7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EadYOb-JO-E
Post by: KST8FAN on January 30, 2022, 08:16:59 PM
https://www.csis.org/analysis/foreign-purchases-us-agricultural-land-facts-figures-and-assessment-real-threats?amphttps://www.wibw.com/2022/01/24/secret-acres-foreign-owned-agricultural-land-inaccurately-tracked-by-government/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wibwWeird that government records don't align from Federal,state, county levels?
weird
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Post by: ben ji on January 31, 2022, 10:43:18 PM
For Ben Ji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1CtlRh5P7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EadYOb-JO-E
Oh man, i want something the size of those dogs in the second video but half mini wiener dog and half bird dog.
Post by: ben ji on January 31, 2022, 10:45:09 PM
Post by: bucket on January 31, 2022, 10:47:40 PM
Post by: Katpappy on February 01, 2022, 12:42:56 AM
Post by: bucket on February 01, 2022, 01:55:41 PM
No idea where to post. Enjoyable article about how people were brought to the plains with free farmland in the 19th century, followed by a declining population and how people are returning to Kansas again due to the cheap real estate.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on February 01, 2022, 02:46:02 PM
Post by: ben ji on February 01, 2022, 05:44:40 PM
https://thehustle.co/would-you-take-free-land-in-rural-america/
No idea where to post. Enjoyable article about how people were brought to the plains with free farmland in the 19th century, followed by a declining population and how people are returning to Kansas again due to the cheap real estate.
What's crazy to me is how they were still giving away crap ass western ks land for free into the 20th century. The cat ranch was homesteaded by my great great grandfather in 1898. I was looking at some old timey land maps I found online from the early 1900's and on the grid around the cat ranch over half the land was still unoccupied or owned by the railroad.
The article did make some good points about how life in a small ks town is not as different as it used to be since you can still get alot of the same amenities as a big city like wifi/netflix/amazon deliveries etc. 10 years ago all you could buy was whatever the local Walmart was selling but now you can get the same thing delivered to your door whether you are in podunk KS or NYC.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 03, 2022, 08:28:23 AM
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 03, 2022, 08:41:26 AM
reminds me of this one time that small me was over at my uncle's place when the vet was preg-checking some heifers. I was sitting on a pile of rocks starting off into space when the vet pulled off his OB sleeve and lobbed it at me, looping it around my neck. It felt really warm and sticky but fortunately, he had turned it inside out before throwing it at me.
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what on earth
Post by: meow meow on February 03, 2022, 08:49:58 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on February 03, 2022, 10:30:10 AM
Man, that rules. I hate farming but maybe I won’t at some point?I love farming. farming ho’s from the club. you feel me?
Man
I
Love
Farming (ho's from the clubs)
Post by: ben ji on February 03, 2022, 12:07:54 PM
reminds me of this one time that small me was over at my uncle's place when the vet was preg-checking some heifers. I was sitting on a pile of rocks starting off into space when the vet pulled off his OB sleeve and lobbed it at me, looping it around my neck. It felt really warm and sticky but fortunately, he had turned it inside out before throwing it at me.
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Oh my
Post by: michigancat on February 03, 2022, 12:24:57 PM
https://thehustle.co/would-you-take-free-land-in-rural-america/
No idea where to post. Enjoyable article about how people were brought to the plains with free farmland in the 19th century, followed by a declining population and how people are returning to Kansas again due to the cheap real estate.
interesting stuff. I just talked to my dad and he mentioned a few folks paying cash for cheap houses in rural KS but he thought it was over. I think the brief WFH era is over for most and will really slow that down in the future.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 03, 2022, 03:37:32 PM
You could buy an abandoned atomic age high school building in rural KS and turn it into a hunting lodge or AirBNB. Seems like a lot of these things were up for sale 10 -15 years ago.https://thehustle.co/would-you-take-free-land-in-rural-america/
No idea where to post. Enjoyable article about how people were brought to the plains with free farmland in the 19th century, followed by a declining population and how people are returning to Kansas again due to the cheap real estate.
interesting stuff. I just talked to my dad and he mentioned a few folks paying cash for cheap houses in rural KS but he thought it was over. I think the brief WFH era is over for most and will really slow that down in the future.
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/33186546/photos (https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/33186546/photos)
Post by: yoga-like_abana on February 03, 2022, 03:46:29 PM
reminds me of this one time that small me was over at my uncle's place when the vet was preg-checking some heifers. I was sitting on a pile of rocks starting off into space when the vet pulled off his OB sleeve and lobbed it at me, looping it around my neck. It felt really warm and sticky but fortunately, he had turned it inside out before throwing it at me.:horrorsurprise: :facepalm:
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Post by: ben ji on February 03, 2022, 05:17:28 PM
Here is the Levant Nursing Home. My dad lived in Levant for a couple years as a kid.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 03, 2022, 05:55:00 PM
Post by: Skipper44 on February 03, 2022, 06:36:28 PM
Post by: Institutional Control on February 03, 2022, 08:51:11 PM
I'm sure the city of Levant would give the old high school/nursing home away if someone would turn it into something useful.That looks a lot like the school my grandparents went to in Carneiro, KS.Here is the Levant Nursing Home. My dad lived in Levant for a couple years as a kid.
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Post by: steve dave on February 03, 2022, 09:12:12 PM
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Post by: steve dave on February 03, 2022, 09:15:19 PM
Post by: Institutional Control on February 03, 2022, 09:42:46 PM
Not a very good photo. Building has now been torn down.
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Post by: Spracne on February 03, 2022, 09:48:19 PM
When I was a kid Moran had a movie theater. A young IC saw the movie The Car there. Hid behind trees every time headlights started down the street on my walk home.
Not a very good photo. Building has now been torn down.
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Nice try trynna pass off a 1970's photo of Times Square, pfffft.
Post by: IPA4Me on February 04, 2022, 11:53:54 AM
Post by: schreds21 on February 04, 2022, 07:55:18 PM
When I was there for 30th reunion in 2019,:sdeek:
Post by: IPA4Me on February 04, 2022, 08:37:37 PM
When I was there for 30th reunion in 2019,:sdeek:
Hello, classmate?
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 06, 2022, 10:33:55 AM
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on February 06, 2022, 11:31:05 AM
Post by: ben ji on February 06, 2022, 09:21:11 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 07, 2022, 09:22:41 AM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 07, 2022, 09:57:04 AM
Bounced over to St Louis today for the Gateway Farm Toy Show. SD, that pocket ledger from Meade, KS set you back $40.
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Oh man. This makes me sad. Mrs SF's grandpa that passed away last year had shelves full of old John Deere toys still in the original boxes. I had little interest in them, but it was sad seeing them get sold. They needed the cash and it helped out a lot, but it sucked seeing some of his favorite things get sold at auction to pay for rough ridin' dementia care.
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2022, 10:14:43 AM
Post by: ben ji on February 07, 2022, 05:29:07 PM
Meade, KS is an international brand
I mean you have Hartshorn Implement AND the old Meade Manufacturing that was turning out some top notch camper's back in the day.
Post by: KST8FAN on February 07, 2022, 07:56:53 PM
JD 8R 370 tractor
Brent 1196 grain cart
In 1/64 scale
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Post by: ben ji on February 07, 2022, 08:34:17 PM
Long Story short despite record crop prices and fully paid off land the cat ranch didn't make any money this year because my dad is not very good at managing a farm. He made some money contracting out work on the partially irrigated circle to grow milo but the 260 ish acres he sharecropped out to some guy to break out and plant milo on took all that profit away since only about 20% of the milo headed out(elite farm term I learned). Of course my dad blames the tenant for selecting the wrong type of seed. Then the tenant decided to just leave it instead of baling it for feed or whatever.
Great for me since it was loaded for pheasant but anyways...
Post by: steve dave on February 07, 2022, 08:39:20 PM
Post by: ben ji on February 07, 2022, 08:43:39 PM
Over dinner tonight my dad explained this great plan he came up with where he just leases all of the land to the local land baron and doesn't have to worry about anything! This local land baron's HQ is like 3 miles away from the cat ranch, he farms the land across the road from us and we are distant cousins. He met with the local land baron last week and realized he would of made alot of money this year if he had just leased it to him so in the near future that is the plan.
I just sat there with my insides boiling saying "Wow, yeah that is a great idea" even though I have been telling him to do that since day one. :dubious:
Also here is a great quote from ben ji's dad "I thought I knew alot about farming but apparently not enough to make any money. So whatever you think you know is probably less" :lol:
I didn't mention that I have been conversing with some intelligent farm bro's on the internet for like 5 years trying to learn as much as I can about farming and immediately realized it was best just to lease that crap out and cash your subsidy checks while the land appreciates.
Post by: ben ji on February 07, 2022, 08:50:24 PM
Our distant cousin is the local land baron of thomas county and their home base of operations is like 2 miles away from our farm so I made my dad promise to try and contact him to see if he would be interested in leasing/custom working the circle and possibly breaking out the good part of the pasture and we left it at that.
:crossfingers: :pray: :crossfingers:
:dubious: You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink
Post by: Katpappy on February 08, 2022, 03:49:24 AM
Our distant cousin is the local land baron of thomas county and their home base of operations is like 2 miles away from our farm so I made my dad promise to try and contact him to see if he would be interested in leasing/custom working the circle and possibly breaking out the good part of the pasture and we left it at that.
:crossfingers: :pray: :crossfingers:
:dubious: You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink
Ah but you can if he is thirsty enough. :fatty:
Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 08, 2022, 10:39:38 AM
Our distant cousin is the local land baron of thomas county and their home base of operations is like 2 miles away from our farm so I made my dad promise to try and contact him to see if he would be interested in leasing/custom working the circle and possibly breaking out the good part of the pasture and we left it at that.
:crossfingers: :pray: :crossfingers:
:dubious: You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink
You could also try and get him to sell the absolute crap out of it and head on over to the investing and crypto threads. :kstategrad:
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2022, 10:42:05 AM
Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2022, 02:30:07 PM
But then I would have to hunt pheasants on public land with all the peasants.Our distant cousin is the local land baron of thomas county and their home base of operations is like 2 miles away from our farm so I made my dad promise to try and contact him to see if he would be interested in leasing/custom working the circle and possibly breaking out the good part of the pasture and we left it at that.
:crossfingers: :pray: :crossfingers:
:dubious: You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink
You could also try and get him to sell the absolute crap out of it and head on over to the investing and crypto threads. :kstategrad:
Also as SD mentioned land prices only go up.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 08, 2022, 02:46:17 PM
But then I would have to hunt pheasants on public land with all the peasants.Our distant cousin is the local land baron of thomas county and their home base of operations is like 2 miles away from our farm so I made my dad promise to try and contact him to see if he would be interested in leasing/custom working the circle and possibly breaking out the good part of the pasture and we left it at that.
:crossfingers: :pray: :crossfingers:
:dubious: You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink
You could also try and get him to sell the absolute crap out of it and head on over to the investing and crypto threads. :kstategrad:
Also as SD mentioned land prices only go up.
yeah, I get this, but land can't buy you a bunch of fun crap, pay for kids college, buy your kid a house, retire early, etc. I'm dealing with the same thing, but with a lot less land. Its still worth quite a bit though, and there is zero chance of selling. It produces a decent amount of income, which is great, but if it were me, I'd sell the eff out of it. I'm able to take the emotion out of financial decisions though and I get that having land in the family for a long time is a big deal to people. Feelings don't pay bills worth a crap though.
Plus, I would miss all of the Cat Ranch updates if your dad sold it.
Post by: wetwillie on February 08, 2022, 02:46:26 PM
But then I would have to hunt pheasants on public land with all the peasants.Our distant cousin is the local land baron of thomas county and their home base of operations is like 2 miles away from our farm so I made my dad promise to try and contact him to see if he would be interested in leasing/custom working the circle and possibly breaking out the good part of the pasture and we left it at that.
:crossfingers: :pray: :crossfingers:
:dubious: You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink
You could also try and get him to sell the absolute crap out of it and head on over to the investing and crypto threads. :kstategrad:
Also as SD mentioned land prices only go up.
Yea avoid this outcome at all costs, no crypto gains are worth giving up prime pheasant hunting
Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 08, 2022, 03:08:08 PM
But then I would have to hunt pheasants on public land with all the peasants.Our distant cousin is the local land baron of thomas county and their home base of operations is like 2 miles away from our farm so I made my dad promise to try and contact him to see if he would be interested in leasing/custom working the circle and possibly breaking out the good part of the pasture and we left it at that.
:crossfingers: :pray: :crossfingers:
:dubious: You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink
You could also try and get him to sell the absolute crap out of it and head on over to the investing and crypto threads. :kstategrad:
Also as SD mentioned land prices only go up.
Yea avoid this outcome at all costs, no crypto gains are worth giving up prime pheasant hunting
Also, the crypto thread will just be full of people saying they don't care how high bitcoin goes, "I'm never selling". Bitcoin=Farmland
Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2022, 03:25:05 PM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 08, 2022, 04:07:09 PM
I can assure you I’m selling both an absolute truckload of farmland and an undetermined amount of Bitcoin in my lifetime
:thumbsup:
or you could keep both and just work a bunch of extra years and bitch about things being a real pain in the ass?
Post by: IPA4Me on February 08, 2022, 04:41:07 PM
I can assure you I’m selling both an absolute truckload of farmland and an undetermined amount of Bitcoin in my lifetimeI will hodl my Bitcoin until I have enough to pay the horse farm note in full.
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 08, 2022, 04:59:09 PM
We did a small 1031 exchange last year just to get our feet wet. We sold farmland, and bought... farmland.
However we went from 80 with 25 tillable on a rock road to 60 all tillable on a blacktop road with houses on 3 sides. The kids can sell it for houses when I am gone.
The sentimental part is the hardest. Its more fun telling the grandkids this is the 80 I learned to drive a tractor and a stick shift transmission truck on versus hey, kids, we own a warehouse leased to FedEx for 10 years with a 5 percent cap rate.
I kind of know how the farm game works. Take your rent and watch it get more expensive over time.
The boys have talked car washes, apartments and I want nothing to do with it.
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Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2022, 05:09:46 PM
Post by: schreds21 on February 08, 2022, 05:45:45 PM
ben ji, talk to your dad about apartments and car washes immediately. for the content.:ROFL:
Post by: schreds21 on February 08, 2022, 05:47:40 PM
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Post by: IPA4Me on February 08, 2022, 06:11:49 PM
Farmland is way sexier than crypto, at least to this cat fan.I have 10 acres and will eventually own the other 150 or so around me. Patiently building the land empire for the kids to squander.
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Post by: sys on February 08, 2022, 06:13:05 PM
Post by: Spracne on February 08, 2022, 06:16:47 PM
seems like a pretty significant chance ben ji's father would lose some or all of the proceeds in unfortunate investments if he were to sell the cat ranch.
I'm jealous of all these cats who can implore their dads to never sell the land. Then, in the fullness of time, you can immediately sell that bitch once it's yours.
Post by: CHONGS on February 08, 2022, 06:40:41 PM
Farmland is way sexier than crypto, at least to this cat fan.Wait until you can use NFTs to buy virtual farm land. Best of both worlds. Get that cyberbeef.
Post by: wetwillie on February 08, 2022, 06:47:37 PM
Farmland is way sexier than crypto, at least to this cat fan.I have 10 acres and will eventually own the other 150 or so around me. Patiently building the land empire for the kids to squander.
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Something about putting your bare feet on the turf you own is hard to beat. But I’m a bumpkin so I get it’s not the same for most. My family has 1000’s of acres of farmland in central KS that I think will probably at least make it another generation which is pretty remarkable.
Post by: IPA4Me on February 08, 2022, 06:52:01 PM
My family hasn't farmed since early 1900s. Great grandparents born on farms and headed to cities. Maybe my kids will takeover the breeding farm when I retire.Farmland is way sexier than crypto, at least to this cat fan.I have 10 acres and will eventually own the other 150 or so around me. Patiently building the land empire for the kids to squander.
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Something about putting your bare feet on the turf you own is hard to beat. But I’m a bumpkin so I get it’s not the same for most. My family has 1000’s of acres of farmland in central KS that I think will probably at least make it another generation which is pretty remarkable.
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Post by: steve dave on February 08, 2022, 07:17:39 PM
Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2022, 08:30:28 PM
ben ji, talk to your dad about apartments and car washes immediately. for the content.He has already mentioned running an AirBnB out there and I stumbled across these random AirBnBs in the area so maybe it's a hipster thing to stay in old ass farm buildings during road trips?
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 08, 2022, 08:44:41 PM
My family is current 4th gen KS ranchers which is about the most generations you can get without some weirdness. I comment a lot about selling but I almost certainly won’t, it’s in our blood. And obviously I’d just be selling to another bro and I’m not being that downgrade when we all grew up there.The cousin who farms our place... his dad used tell us boys it's the 3rd generation who squanders the inheritance looking directly at us. I guess it depends on when you start counting.
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Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2022, 09:18:39 PM
seems like a pretty significant chance ben ji's father would lose some or all of the proceeds in unfortunate investments if he were to sell the cat ranch.This is a very valid point but thankfully there is a zero percent chance he sells it unless he uses it as collateral to buy more land and get in over his head which doesn't seem likely now that he realized he is a shitty farm manager. (But great cat rancher, in fact he picked up a new cat from the Colby vet when he was out there...I'm guessing he has open orders to be filled for any stray cats people want to get rid of)
Post by: ben ji on February 08, 2022, 09:34:28 PM
That is the way to do it SD. The cat ranch isn't a direct 4th generation KS ranch, bounced around my grandmother's side of the family for 70 years until my grandparents bought it in the 70's when the heirless great aunt or something passed away ( was a closed bid between people related to her) then they added some acreage to it.My family is current 4th gen KS ranchers which is about the most generations you can get without some weirdness. I comment a lot about selling but I almost certainly won’t, it’s in our blood. And obviously I’d just be selling to another bro and I’m not being that downgrade when we all grew up there.The cousin who farms our place... his dad used tell us boys it's the 3rd generation who squanders the inheritance looking directly at us. I guess it depends on when you start counting.
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The only way I would consider selling the cat ranch (once I inherit it as the oldest male Ji) would be if a younger relative was still farming but all the kids and their kids have moved off to the big city to talk on the phone and send emails for a living.
But who knows, in 20 years I might liquidate that land to invest in some Obama coins.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 10, 2022, 08:28:28 AM
My family is current 4th gen KS ranchers which is about the most generations you can get without some weirdness. I comment a lot about selling but I almost certainly won’t, it’s in our blood. And obviously I’d just be selling to another bro and I’m not being that downgrade when we all grew up there.
I guess it really just depends and I get both sides. If I'm in my 60's and pretty much set and I have something I could sell that would make my kids and grandkids live's like way easier/better, I would sell the eff out of it though. I'm devoid of pretty much any emotional type attachments though. :frown:
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Post by: steve dave on February 10, 2022, 06:46:07 PM
It is wild how old farmers are. I know a fellow Gen Xer who just earned a "young farmer of the year" award. In what other career field are you considered "young" in your 40's?Ranching. But irl there is no “next generation” of farmers. It dies out fairly soon. There isn’t a need for it and the “victim” is going to be rural communities. Though there isn’t much need for most of them either for the same reason. It sucks…..but does it? Or is that just us talking who grew up there? I don’t know.
Post by: Kat Kid on February 10, 2022, 08:01:34 PM
It is wild how old farmers are. I know a fellow Gen Xer who just earned a "young farmer of the year" award. In what other career field are you considered "young" in your 40's?
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 10, 2022, 08:26:22 PM
Are these good ones, Tom? I grabbed a couple from my grandpa's basement. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220210/9dfd1aa0343926d0a65d90b51a21eec5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220210/154dae975d5b8899f56ad637c58df0dc.jpg)Those are in great condition. They have been on a shelf. I am guessing grandpa owned the real versions of both?
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 10, 2022, 08:40:13 PM
Definitely a shelf, but he was from my non-ag side of the family. Huge toy collection.Is his collection early era stuff like this?
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 10, 2022, 09:05:22 PM
At the show I see my old pedal tractor going for three figures. So I call dad, whatever happened to my old pedal tractor?
He says oh that was passed around 2-3 times to neighbors for their kids, but he says let me make a call or two.
The next time we were home he has that tractor in the garage. He had tracked it down to a chicken coupe in Goff, KS.
I restored it and the boys rode it on the cul de sac when they were little.
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Post by: RickRampus on February 10, 2022, 10:28:50 PM
Got married in 86 and followed the wife to Sioux Falls. They have a huge farm toy show President Day weekend every year. That was my first clue such a thing existed. (farm toys are collectible?)We have a airplane style one that every grandchild has taken a picture in. It was recently completely restored.
At the show I see my old pedal tractor going for three figures. So I call dad, whatever happened to my old pedal tractor?
He says oh that was passed around 2-3 times to neighbors for their kids, but he says let me make a call or two.
The next time we were home he has that tractor in the garage. He had tracked it down to a chicken coupe in Goff, KS.
I restored it and the boys rode it on the cul de sac when they were little.
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Post by: farming_cat fan on February 11, 2022, 08:02:21 AM
Got married in 86 and followed the wife to Sioux Falls. They have a huge farm toy show President Day weekend every year. That was my first clue such a thing existed. (farm toys are collectible?)Tom, you're getting close to home with references like Goff. Can't say there are many people that have heard of it. My grandpa owned a TV repair business based out of Goff for a couple of years in the mid 60s.
At the show I see my old pedal tractor going for three figures. So I call dad, whatever happened to my old pedal tractor?
He says oh that was passed around 2-3 times to neighbors for their kids, but he says let me make a call or two.
The next time we were home he has that tractor in the garage. He had tracked it down to a chicken coupe in Goff, KS.
I restored it and the boys rode it on the cul de sac when they were little.
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 11, 2022, 08:33:13 AM
It is wild how old farmers are. I know a fellow Gen Xer who just earned a "young farmer of the year" award. In what other career field are you considered "young" in your 40's?Ranching. But irl there is no “next generation” of farmers. It dies out fairly soon. There isn’t a need for it and the “victim” is going to be rural communities. Though there isn’t much need for most of them either for the same reason. It sucks…..but does it? Or is that just us talking who grew up there? I don’t know.
Maybe that kid who's parents showed that gross pic of his dad pretending to stick his arm up his mom will lead the next generation of farmers. :dunno:
Post by: Justwin on February 11, 2022, 09:14:32 AM
It is wild how old farmers are. I know a fellow Gen Xer who just earned a "young farmer of the year" award. In what other career field are you considered "young" in your 40's?
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In terms of average age, I think you could make an argument for young being into your 50s in this case.
Post by: Kat Kid on February 11, 2022, 10:58:16 AM
https://twitter.com/kmmunger/status/1491534739030700033?s=21&fbclid=IwAR3XF8wMPoAdN4cN1lWlBQ-EASg8tmROI_AlQw_SxltSyE6-e1R5CrYTepMIt is wild how old farmers are. I know a fellow Gen Xer who just earned a "young farmer of the year" award. In what other career field are you considered "young" in your 40's?
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In terms of average age, I think you could make an argument for young being into your 50s in this case.
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Post by: ben ji on February 12, 2022, 07:55:38 PM
“In a normal year, 80% of the farms I sell are to adjoining landowners and farmers, and 20% are investors or 1031 Exchange,” he says. “Now, it’s about 60% farmers and adjoining landowners, and 40% investors and 1031 Exchange.”
Post by: KST8FAN on February 13, 2022, 09:47:46 AM
What's the update from your operation? What keeps you busy during the winter before spring planting?
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Post by: farming_cat fan on February 14, 2022, 08:45:09 AM
farming_catWe plant almost 100% of our acres to cover crops or wheat, so that takes a little time after harvest. We like to put most of our P(phosphorous) and K(potassium) on in the fall before the ground freezes. Pastures and hay ground get all of their fertilizer in the fall. Wheat gets a little bit of N(nitrogen) in the fall and all of it's P and K. The old man has cattle so they keep him busy as they are calving now. I have a job in town to keep me busy. We have some equipment that gets worked on. The next few weeks we'll be getting the planter ready. I'm in the process of building a shop at my place, so that's been taking my time as I finish the little things like electrical and heat. Of course we also find time for a few drinks with friends and fellow farmers on weekends. We hit up a farm show or two. Actually it's looking like I'll head to Louisville this week for the National Farm Machinery Show.
What's the update from your operation? What keeps you busy during the winter before spring planting?
Tom
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 14, 2022, 08:55:14 AM
How is your rain / moisture situation? There has been essentially zero precip in my part of KS since about 1/11/21.farming_catWe plant almost 100% of our acres to cover crops or wheat, so that takes a little time after harvest. We like to put most of our P(phosphorous) and K(potassium) on in the fall before the ground freezes. Pastures and hay ground get all of their fertilizer in the fall. Wheat gets a little bit of N(nitrogen) in the fall and all of it's P and K. The old man has cattle so they keep him busy as they are calving now. I have a job in town to keep me busy. We have some equipment that gets worked on. The next few weeks we'll be getting the planter ready. I'm in the process of building a shop at my place, so that's been taking my time as I finish the little things like electrical and heat. Of course we also find time for a few drinks with friends and fellow farmers on weekends. We hit up a farm show or two. Actually it's looking like I'll head to Louisville this week for the National Farm Machinery Show.
What's the update from your operation? What keeps you busy during the winter before spring planting?
Tom
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Post by: farming_cat fan on February 14, 2022, 09:44:14 AM
How is your rain / moisture situation? There has been essentially zero precip in my part of KS since about 1/11/21.We can definitely use a rain. We've been dry all winter, but are probably still sitting better than the rest of the state. So I won't complain too much.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 14, 2022, 10:51:46 AM
:thumbs:How is your rain / moisture situation? There has been essentially zero precip in my part of KS since about 1/11/21.We can definitely use a rain. We've been dry all winter, but are probably still sitting better than the rest of the state. So I won't complain too much.
Post by: KST8FAN on February 14, 2022, 06:06:46 PM
That's a full fall and winter. The cover crop process fascinates me. If not wheat then what do you plant?farming_catWe plant almost 100% of our acres to cover crops or wheat, so that takes a little time after harvest. We like to put most of our P(phosphorous) and K(potassium) on in the fall before the ground freezes. Pastures and hay ground get all of their fertilizer in the fall. Wheat gets a little bit of N(nitrogen) in the fall and all of it's P and K. The old man has cattle so they keep him busy as they are calving now. I have a job in town to keep me busy. We have some equipment that gets worked on. The next few weeks we'll be getting the planter ready. I'm in the process of building a shop at my place, so that's been taking my time as I finish the little things like electrical and heat. Of course we also find time for a few drinks with friends and fellow farmers on weekends. We hit up a farm show or two. Actually it's looking like I'll head to Louisville this week for the National Farm Machinery Show.
What's the update from your operation? What keeps you busy during the winter before spring planting?
Tom
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Usually hit the farmshow here in KC. Look at stuff I will never buy.
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Post by: farming_cat fan on February 15, 2022, 07:50:20 AM
Behind the old man's wheat, he plants a little different mixture that's catered to his cattle as he rotational grazes it after he pulls the cattle off of pasture. I can never remember what all is in it as he changes it every year. He also plants rye and grazes it before planting soybeans into it. I've been planting soybeans and had to wait for his cattle to get out of my way. I only have rented ground and no cattle. Landlord is a deer hunter and doesn't want my dad to run his cattle on it. The old man even offered to pay for 100% of the cover crop seed if he could graze it. My landlord declined and therefore I got stuck with paying for half.
Post by: ben ji on February 15, 2022, 06:23:18 PM
I can't think of any places around the cat ranch that grow cover crops besides planting wheat directly after a the corn is harvested (but then they still harvest the wheat).
Usually it's just a barren wasteland of corn/Milo/wheat stubble in the field.
Post by: farming_cat fan on February 16, 2022, 08:15:41 AM
Good stuff farming cat, always enjoy learning more. I'm wondering if cover crops have the same benefits out on western KS where there isn't as much moisture. Still beneficial? Would it steal the moisture your summer crops need?I'm unsure if covers would be beneficial in western, KS. I would imagine that they could be and the hardcore cover croppers will tell you that they absolutely would be beneficial. However, I would imagine that profit margins are somewhat narrow out there, therefore they might not want to take the risk of planting covers. The barley mix I planted cost approximately $50/acre. Rye closer to $15/acre. Cover crops are supposed to increase the water holding capacity of the soil and if they do aid with that, there is a possible benefit. I would say there is definitely valid concern with covers stealing moisture. I know termination timing is somewhat critical for us and would probably be even more critical out west if they are looking dry before spring planting. One year we terminated the cover a couple of weeks before we wanted to plant. Ended up getting some rain and the cover basically turned into a mulch and kept the soil too wet for planting for quite some time. We now like to "plant green" into standing, fully alive cover and terminate after planting.
I can't think of any places around the cat ranch that grow cover crops besides planting wheat directly after a the corn is harvested (but then they still harvest the wheat).
Usually it's just a barren wasteland of corn/Milo/wheat stubble in the field.
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Post by: slackcat on February 17, 2022, 08:10:04 PM
Good stuff farming cat, always enjoy learning more. I'm wondering if cover crops have the same benefits out on western KS where there isn't as much moisture. Still beneficial? Would it steal the moisture your summer crops need?I'm unsure if covers would be beneficial in western, KS. I would imagine that they could be and the hardcore cover croppers will tell you that they absolutely would be beneficial. However, I would imagine that profit margins are somewhat narrow out there, therefore they might not want to take the risk of planting covers. The barley mix I planted cost approximately $50/acre. Rye closer to $15/acre. Cover crops are supposed to increase the water holding capacity of the soil and if they do aid with that, there is a possible benefit. I would say there is definitely valid concern with covers stealing moisture. I know termination timing is somewhat critical for us and would probably be even more critical out west if they are looking dry before spring planting. One year we terminated the cover a couple of weeks before we wanted to plant. Ended up getting some rain and the cover basically turned into a mulch and kept the soil too wet for planting for quite some time. We now like to "plant green" into standing, fully alive cover and terminate after planting.
I can't think of any places around the cat ranch that grow cover crops besides planting wheat directly after a the corn is harvested (but then they still harvest the wheat).
Usually it's just a barren wasteland of corn/Milo/wheat stubble in the field.
We've done no-till for years and cover crops for the last 6-8. Dikon radish will open up the soil and bring up nutrients, must plant in the fall well before frost. For us it is after corn in early Sept. We have also used rye in the fall but prefer wheat because it doesn't get as tall if we have a wet spring and I can't terminate on time. We've found oats to work very well and have allelopathic properties to suppress weeds. It's def. a learning experience.
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Post by: ben ji on February 18, 2022, 12:28:35 PM
Need cat ranch update or something. The actual farmers are getting a bit upity with their technical farming talk.
This is a slow time of the year for the cat ranch. No hunting season for me to be out there and my dad is busy YOLO'n on cruise ships. Hopefully we can snag a few more strays to put out there in the spring.
Post by: KST8FAN on February 21, 2022, 07:37:49 PM
A retired nuclear engineer from a farm in SD who became fascinated with wind mills.
It was a fun hour plus learning the workings of these icons of the prairie.
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Post by: ben ji on February 21, 2022, 09:29:16 PM
So once we opted out of Sundays bat cat game we looked for something else to do. We stumbled on this windmill ranch near Tolar, TX. 30 windmills on 20 acres.
A retired nuclear engineer from a farm in SD who became fascinated with wind mills.
It was a fun hour plus learning the workings of these icons of the prairie.
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Good stuff Tom, do you have any windmill's out on your land or no because you have some sweet sweet flint hills land that gets rain?
We have one of those old ass windmills out in our pasture by the "creek" that fills up a cascading line of stock tanks. I have no idea how old it is but it has run continuously for like a bagillion years (or before my lifetime). Since there are no cattle on it this year my dad actually showed me how to turn it "on/off" to save the wear and tear on the "pump" that brings up the water. You basically just flip a handle and the windmill still turns but the "pump" does not move up and down anymore.
Probably one of the few things my dad has actually taught me at the farm that may come in handy one day.
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 22, 2022, 08:17:58 AM
So once we opted out of Sundays bat cat game we looked for something else to do. We stumbled on this windmill ranch near Tolar, TX. 30 windmills on 20 acres.
A retired nuclear engineer from a farm in SD who became fascinated with wind mills.
It was a fun hour plus learning the workings of these icons of the prairie.
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Post by: steve dave on February 22, 2022, 08:53:26 AM
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Post by: steve dave on February 22, 2022, 10:44:10 AM
My uncle pumps air into his stocked pond via wind-meal. I guess it's good for the water?Yeah, fish will die if there isn’t oxygen in the water. A fountain also works.
Post by: Katpappy on February 22, 2022, 06:27:44 PM
My uncle pumps air into his stocked pond via wind-meal. I guess it's good for the water?Yeah, fish will die if there isn’t oxygen in the water. A fountain also works.
We had a pump in our pond and my dad told me it was to cut down on moss growth. Our irrigation pond was the largest in Trego county and the water in it was used to irrigate 80 acres of corp land during the summer. We were less than a mile east of the Cedar Bluff spillway on the smokey river, but the state would not let us irrigate out of the smokey in the summer due to rough ridin' Russell needing our water. That's when my dad built our pond, which we filled in the winter. Almost forgot that a few years later he leveled another 40 acres and ran more under ground 8" water pipe to it. It was a huge pond and we had a crap load of ppl wanting to fish our pond. :)
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Post by: ben ji on March 02, 2022, 08:55:53 PM
I didn't realize wheat prices have gone this bonkers since the largest exporter of wheat invaded the 4th largest(maybe?) But I guess it makes sense.
Riots coming in the middle East but farmers will be making phat stacks in Kansas.
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Post by: KST8FAN on March 13, 2022, 09:27:25 PM
Meanwhile my cousin who farms the Tom family ground shot back a pix of his old school IH set up.
Ready for spring!
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Post by: steve dave on March 14, 2022, 09:50:32 AM
Post by: ben ji on March 15, 2022, 06:40:19 PM
Cat count is Zero and the garage where the automatic cat kibble feeder is smells like skunk.
Guess the cat ranch is starting at ground zero again this year.
Post by: ben ji on March 15, 2022, 06:43:08 PM
"Sometimes you will see the mother walking around and all the little babies following it. Just need to find a way to get one of the little ones. I don't think I could find a vet to descent it though, maybe out there (cat ranch area) but definitely not here (KC)"
I think I just found the perfect father's day gift....
Post by: slackcat on March 16, 2022, 09:00:21 AM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on March 16, 2022, 09:28:07 AM
And yes, my dad did mention his desire to capture a baby skunk, have it descented and keep it inside like a cat...again
"Sometimes you will see the mother walking around and all the little babies following it. Just need to find a way to get one of the little ones. I don't think I could find a vet to descent it though, maybe out there (cat ranch area) but definitely not here (KC)"
I think I just found the perfect father's day gift....
I'm no animal expert, but I think it would be easier to just get a black and white cat. Although, your dad doesn't seem great at keeping cats alive. :dunno:
Post by: steve dave on March 16, 2022, 10:11:12 AM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 16, 2022, 10:26:37 AM
Post by: sys on March 16, 2022, 07:27:28 PM
I think I just found the perfect father's day gift....
https://www.evenkeelexotics.com/skunks
Post by: ben ji on March 16, 2022, 07:32:24 PM
I think I just found the perfect father's day gift....
https://www.evenkeelexotics.com/skunks
:horrorsurprise: :emawkid: :runaway:
Post by: Katpappy on March 16, 2022, 10:15:37 PM
Post by: Spracne on March 16, 2022, 10:17:37 PM
Years back when I was first married, we lived in three-plex flats in the city. Our neighbor had a skunk. It was like a spoiled fat cat, and guess what he feed it, if you guessed cat food you are correct. It was deglanded and didn't smell bad. It was funny when someone would come over to see him when we were visiting and didn't know about the skunk. Giff would have to pick up the little chub and let the person know it was his pet and did not squirt the smelly stuff. :lol:
What "city" we talkin', Pappy?
Post by: Katpappy on March 16, 2022, 10:18:43 PM
Post by: ChiComCat on March 17, 2022, 02:18:06 PM
Post by: Katpappy on March 17, 2022, 09:31:33 PM
lol, probably could've guessed that
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? :confused:
Post by: KST8FAN on March 19, 2022, 09:30:39 PM
Then spent 4 hours fixing fence where a car blew thru the fence. Sheriff called as the car flipped in the ravine. No one hurt, but I got a case no to file insurance claim.
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Post by: Katpappy on March 19, 2022, 10:13:08 PM
Post by: mocat on March 21, 2022, 09:22:34 AM
Post by: steve dave on March 30, 2022, 09:03:44 AM
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Post by: chum1 on March 30, 2022, 09:43:10 AM
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Post by: slackcat on March 30, 2022, 11:55:57 AM
Post by: steve dave on March 30, 2022, 01:39:58 PM
No Wagyu :angry:
ha, noob
Post by: star seed 7 on March 30, 2022, 04:34:52 PM
Post by: CHONGS on March 30, 2022, 04:37:56 PM
Post by: Katpappy on March 30, 2022, 05:14:39 PM
Post by: meow meow on March 31, 2022, 12:49:46 PM
Medicinal hay baby
*therapeutic hay
Post by: slackcat on March 31, 2022, 01:09:44 PM
No Wagyu :angry:
ha, noob
Noob?? I've moved on from "pedestrian" beef. :dubious:
Post by: CHONGS on March 31, 2022, 01:11:10 PM
crap you're rightMedicinal hay baby
*therapeutic hay
Post by: steve dave on March 31, 2022, 01:12:04 PM
No Wagyu :angry:
ha, noob
Noob?? I've moved on from "pedestrian" beef. :dubious:
ya, and that's cool for you, but wagyu isn't a breed.
Post by: slackcat on March 31, 2022, 01:28:39 PM
Post by: steve dave on March 31, 2022, 01:31:58 PM
Better tell these guys https://wagyu.org/ (https://wagyu.org/) :gocho:
nice reading skills there bud. maybe catch some old episodes of reading rainbow on youtube or some crap. :lol:
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In Japan there are four breeds that are considered Wagyu and those are the Japanese Black (the predominant Wagyu exported to the U.S), Japanese Brown (In the U.S. referred to as Red Wagyu), Japanese Polled and Japanese Shorthorn. There are no Japanese Polled or Shorthorns being bred outside Japan.
Post by: michigancat on March 31, 2022, 07:55:25 PM
Post by: slackcat on March 31, 2022, 08:26:19 PM
Post by: steve dave on March 31, 2022, 08:50:25 PM
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Post by: steve dave on March 31, 2022, 08:52:59 PM
Post by: Tobias on March 31, 2022, 09:03:59 PM
Post by: steve dave on March 31, 2022, 09:20:51 PM
is that a wagyu in the shovel
It's a striped skunk which is one of the four skunk breeds which can be sold under the name of wagpyou which literally translates to "Japanese Skunk".
Post by: schreds21 on March 31, 2022, 09:27:10 PM
also you know you are farm AF if you have a squared off shovel like that. you don't see those anywhere other than 100 year old lean-to buildings filled with absolute truckloads of bullshit.Or in the hands of the lowest guy on every concrete crew in existence.
Post by: ben ji on March 31, 2022, 11:57:48 PM
also you know you are farm AF if you have a squared off shovel like that. you don't see those anywhere other than 100 year old lean-to buildings filled with absolute truckloads of bullshit.
I feel like those types of shovels are specifically designed for shoveling coal or cow crap.
Also whats up with all the rabid skunks on the dave place? Overpopulated? Do alot of bats hang around the dave homestead that the skunks go and eff with? I bet there is some abandoned well on the dave homestead full of bats and SD fell in there one day
Post by: steve dave on April 01, 2022, 12:07:19 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 01, 2022, 07:39:01 PM
https://ksdot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a6467b7c4f714053ab63003607674413
There is a U shape in the windbreak where my uncle used to dump hay bales for his cattle and all the grass was dead since it was trampled so much. Over the summer it grew up a mix of weeds/alfalfa/grass. Each time I went out to the cat ranch I would mow some trails through it just dreaming of pheasant season.
I was out there October 31st when Nebraska's pheasant season opened and would walk my dogs through that area and flush 5+ birds without even trying.
Came back out 2 weeks later for KS opening day and my dad had tilled it up because "Nothing but a bunch of weeds"
I was devastated and it's all coming back to me now that I can see the sweet ass trails I painstakingly mowed. He promises he won't mow/till it up this year.
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Post by: ben ji on April 01, 2022, 07:44:56 PM
They harvested a small area of the field but then just left the rest. I told my dad not to bother wasting seed on the playa lakes area of the field but he didn't listen. Only 4 more years then we can get those areas into some sweet sweet CRP
(The mowed trails area is in the top right of this photo)
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Post by: ben ji on April 01, 2022, 08:03:06 PM
Here is the pasture my dad broke out and planted Milo that only headed out at around 25%. It was great for pheasant hunting but it's why he lost money in a farming period of record high crop prices.
They harvested a small area of the field but then just left the rest. I told my dad not to bother wasting seed on the playa lakes area of the field but he didn't listen. Only 4 more years then we can get those areas into some sweet sweet CRP
(The mowed trails area is in the top right of this photo)
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The huckster seed guy who sold him the Milo seed that didnt head out felt bad for him and is giving him some free seed next year. Our conversation went like this
ben ji - "So your gonna plant the same seed that didnt produce last year"
dad - "Not all of it, maybe just some of the acres and the rest will be what I planted on the circle that produced well"
ben ji - "Why dont you just plant all of the acres with what produced last year?"
dad - "Well we are getting it for free"
ben ji - :dubious:
Post by: ben ji on April 01, 2022, 08:07:49 PM
ben ji - "Why dont you just lease the land to our distant land baron cousin like you were talking about a couple of months ago. He farms 10,000 acres including most of the land around our farm"
dad - "Maybe I will when I start slowing down"
ben ji - "You dont actually do any of the farming now, what do you mean by slowing down?"
dad - "Not yet"
Whatever, at least he has something to distract him from sending me emails about how Hillary is running a pedophile ring and obama was the antichrist.
Post by: wetwillie on April 01, 2022, 09:36:33 PM
I randomly checked the KS WIHA map and they have updated the satellite imagery which I have dated to between November 1st and November 14th of 2021.
https://ksdot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a6467b7c4f714053ab63003607674413
There is a U shape in the windbreak where my uncle used to dump hay bales for his cattle and all the grass was dead since it was trampled so much. Over the summer it grew up a mix of weeds/alfalfa/grass. Each time I went out to the cat ranch I would mow some trails through it just dreaming of pheasant season.
I was out there October 31st when Nebraska's pheasant season opened and would walk my dogs through that area and flush 5+ birds without even trying.
Came back out 2 weeks later for KS opening day and my dad had tilled it up because "Nothing but a bunch of weeds"
I was devastated and it's all coming back to me now that I can see the sweet ass trails I painstakingly mowed. He promises he won't mow/till it up this year.
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I nearly teared up just reading this
Post by: steve dave on April 01, 2022, 09:36:49 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 02, 2022, 10:22:21 AM
That uncut milo is going to be wilding out next year. Did you burn it off or work the crap out of it?
I have no idea what they are going to do with it. As of January it was still out there half fallen over etc. My dad had someone put some cows on part of his pasture and on his circle to eat the leftover milo there. I asked him why not let them go HAM on that unharvested milo field but apparently his tenant didn't want cows on the field compacting the soil since he was going to no till it next year?
Dunno but both of them sound like crap farmers.
Post by: sys on April 03, 2022, 04:32:11 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2022, 10:57:48 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sDz0eSm4Wg&ab_channel=NewWestRecords
Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2022, 11:04:11 PM
I made an impromptu visit to the former cat ranch (cat count back to ZERO) because it was 80 degree's out here and I was craving some warm weather.
My dad mentioned that "Nate" might have some cattle out there (he was dropping them off in January when I was pheasant hunting). Didn't see any where they were back in January but apparently he now has them in the back pasture.
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Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2022, 11:07:05 PM
(There was no water in it)
Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2022, 11:10:05 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2022, 11:17:15 PM
I saw a bunch of deer and a couple of pheasants.
Then I put down the binoculars and noticed that 3 deer were heading right towards me oblivious that I was there. I kept Milo close and they got within about 50-100 yards before noticing I was there.
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Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2022, 11:21:34 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 09, 2022, 11:30:34 PM
Here is Milo giving her best "can I please go chase those deer" face before I made her submit like the bitch (elite dog term) she is.
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Post by: Katpappy on April 10, 2022, 04:47:55 AM
Post by: star seed 7 on April 10, 2022, 09:36:41 AM
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Post by: ben ji on April 10, 2022, 09:41:34 AM
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Post by: ben ji on April 10, 2022, 09:43:30 AM
Burnt the hobby farm yesterday.
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I imagine it was pretty satisfying?
Post by: Kat Kid on April 10, 2022, 10:03:33 AM
The Hill right across from Fort Riley on I-70 was burning on Friday when I drove out.This made my commute home 40 minutes. Which is basically a war crime.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 16, 2022, 10:10:38 AM
Antique pulleys metal and wood. I wish I knew how these end up in our possession. I suspect the metal ones might be out of the top of a barn. That wood one has 3 rollers so maybe a block and tackle contraption.
Copper lightening rods off the original barn. Those things are soft you can bend them easily.
Fly wheel with steel pipe welded to it. How do you end up with just a fly wheel? Dad had gates hung on that to block the alley between barn and box car when we were maxed out on calves. Going to use that for my mail box if we move to the farm.
Old weight bench I made myself 40 years ago. Another submission for the weld bead enthusiasts.
Tater had a full day of fun.
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Post by: ben ji on April 17, 2022, 10:14:48 PM
Here is the pasture my dad broke out and planted Milo that only headed out at around 25%. It was great for pheasant hunting but it's why he lost money in a farming period of record high crop prices.So my dad has been letting a local "Nate" run cattle on his pasture for free this winter and in exchange Nate is gonna use his fence post digger implement and farming skills to fence off the new dry cropland we broke out last year. (There are cattle out there now but with temp electric fences)
They harvested a small area of the field but then just left the rest. I told my dad not to bother wasting seed on the playa lakes area of the field but he didn't listen. Only 4 more years then we can get those areas into some sweet sweet CRP
(The mowed trails area is in the top right of this photo)
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I met Nate twice while I was out hunting last fall and like him. My dad already bought all the posts but is a city boy now and can't put them in himself.
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Post by: ben ji on April 17, 2022, 10:18:22 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 17, 2022, 10:23:50 PM
The red line is where the new fence will go up to protect my pheasant hunting preserve.
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Post by: ben ji on April 17, 2022, 10:30:33 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 17, 2022, 10:35:14 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 18, 2022, 07:16:49 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2022, 08:40:02 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2022, 08:41:50 PM
"1/4 hogs produced in US are exported. Cheaper to raise them with brewery grain. Thinking of a farm brewery, hog, Goat operation with a bed and breakfast. 4 army helicopters parked at Oakley airport."
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2022, 09:06:18 PM
if you are going to continue to plant that land I would strongly recommend continuing to utilize the electric fence during times cattle are on it (for free).The electric fence/new permanent fence is to keep the cattle OUT of the new cropland. The guy my dad leased the cropland to doesn't want cows compacting the dirt down since he wants to no till farm it this spring (or something like that).
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2022, 09:50:54 PM
if you are going to continue to plant that land I would strongly recommend continuing to utilize the electric fence during times cattle are on it (for free).The electric fence/new permanent fence is to keep the cattle OUT of the new cropland. The guy my dad leased the cropland to doesn't want cows compacting the dirt down since he wants to no till farm it this spring (or something like that).
what are you planting that you don't want cattle stomping it? I'm by no means a farming genius but I've got enough farming genius via osmosis (yelling at me for rough ridin' up) that I am curious.
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2022, 09:51:48 PM
Ben ji's dad is making it out to the farm for the first time in about 2 months...they closed I-70 due to dust storms right as he was getting in. Storm front is moving in but the dust is blowing before the rain is supposed to arrive around 10pm tonight.
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great pic
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2022, 10:33:48 PM
Pretty sure it's gonna be more Milo (of a different variety that hopefully heads out this year).if you are going to continue to plant that land I would strongly recommend continuing to utilize the electric fence during times cattle are on it (for free).The electric fence/new permanent fence is to keep the cattle OUT of the new cropland. The guy my dad leased the cropland to doesn't want cows compacting the dirt down since he wants to no till farm it this spring (or something like that).
what are you planting that you don't want cattle stomping it? I'm by no means a farming genius but I've got enough farming genius via osmosis (yelling at me for rough ridin' up) that I am curious.
The tenant wants to plant wheat on the breakout pasture but then we wouldn't get any money until a year from now so I think my dad is gonna make/request he plant 200 acres of Milo and maybe 100 acres of wheat.
Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2022, 10:38:30 PM
I love the isolation of the high plains and it's some beautiful looking country between Mid May-Late July (assuming no drought) but God dam does the wind and the dust make you realize why they were still giving the land away for free in the early 20th centuryBen ji's dad is making it out to the farm for the first time in about 2 months...they closed I-70 due to dust storms right as he was getting in. Storm front is moving in but the dust is blowing before the rain is supposed to arrive around 10pm tonight.
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great pic
Post by: ben ji on April 23, 2022, 09:50:45 PM
Post by: meow meow on April 25, 2022, 08:44:28 AM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on April 25, 2022, 08:53:04 AM
Post by: michigancat on April 25, 2022, 09:05:17 AM
Is my dad doing actual farm work or just cosplaying? (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220424/d1de99e78badfd94967c46007a361e00.jpg)
benji without looking at the image have you read your previous posts about your dad's farming adventures in this thread?
Post by: passranch on April 25, 2022, 02:56:06 PM
after reading this thread forever, I just realized I have no idea what the hell milo is? :dunno:
One of the main characters in the old Bloom County comic strip.
Post by: Spracne on April 25, 2022, 03:23:45 PM
after reading this thread forever, I just realized I have no idea what the hell milo is? :dunno:
Milo is a chocolate-flavored malted chowder product produced by Nestlé, typically mixed with milk, hot water, or both, to produce a beverage. It was originally developed in Australia by Thomas Mayne in 1934. It's got vitamins (vit-uh-minz) and stuff to make your bones and muscles strong.
Post by: Spracne on April 25, 2022, 03:34:26 PM
(https://www.realtree.com/sites/default/files/content/images/open-graph/cjenniferprinc-shutterstock-milo-sorghum.jpg)
Post by: ben ji on April 25, 2022, 03:41:28 PM
after reading this thread forever, I just realized I have no idea what the hell milo is? :dunno:It has like 10 names (sorghum, broomcorn etc) etc but in Western KS it's called Milo. It's a grain they feed to cows.
Post by: steve dave on April 25, 2022, 03:44:19 PM
Post by: wetwillie on April 25, 2022, 05:18:23 PM
Post by: steve dave on April 27, 2022, 11:04:45 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQl6BnDRQg
we had a few bull riders work for us over the years and one was big enough that you could say his name and it'd get head turns by rodeo folks. but man it's a brutal sport. lotta headers and healers worked for us and didn't get crippled but all of the bull riders did. just a brutal undertaking.
Post by: XocolateThundarr on April 28, 2022, 07:44:30 AM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on April 28, 2022, 10:02:39 AM
really good quick watch on a bull rider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQl6BnDRQg
we had a few bull riders work for us over the years and one was big enough that you could say his name and it'd get head turns by rodeo folks. but man it's a brutal sport. lotta headers and healers worked for us and didn't get crippled but all of the bull riders did. just a brutal undertaking.
Pretty cool watch, thanks SD. Freaking dude also looks like a movie star playing the role of a bull rider.
Post by: Katpappy on April 28, 2022, 05:09:45 PM
Post by: Katpappy on April 28, 2022, 05:36:43 PM
Also, I think you can smoke it???
(https://www.realtree.com/sites/default/files/content/images/open-graph/cjenniferprinc-shutterstock-milo-sorghum.jpg)
I hated shoveling and harvesting milo. It's itchy as eff and makes my eyes water and burn.
Post by: ben ji on May 01, 2022, 07:14:45 PM
(My dad claims "red wolves" were reintroduced to Oklahoma 20 years ago and are roaming our land but that is false)
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Post by: ben ji on May 01, 2022, 07:17:29 PM
Last but not least there is my brothers old 1997 CRV with 300,000k+ miles on it that stopped running while he was out there 2 years ago.... hasn't moved since we towed it to that spot.
#Farm
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 01, 2022, 11:51:40 PM
Tom
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on May 02, 2022, 07:50:00 AM
So what's the best game cam to capture trespassing activities with?
Tom
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I would use a Stealthcam that has the cellular connection. It will cost you $20 a month for the plan, but they work really well.
Post by: Spracne on May 02, 2022, 01:43:44 PM
So what's the best game cam to capture trespassing activities with?
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What kind of game? Are we talking about ... the most dangerous game???
Post by: XocolateThundarr on May 02, 2022, 01:47:59 PM
So what's the best game cam to capture trespassing activities with?
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What kind of game? Are we talking about ... the most dangerous game???
If people don't quit trespassing, it sounds like it could be.
Post by: ben ji on May 09, 2022, 01:36:46 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 12, 2022, 10:55:37 PM
Anyways my dad claims we are down to like 200gpm (gallons per minute for you non farm bros) now when it was like 800gpm back in the day.
BTW this is a great site to look up well usage etc https://maps.kgs.ku.edu/wwc5/
Post by: Cire on May 13, 2022, 05:57:23 AM
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 13, 2022, 11:02:42 AM
But the gov will make it rain so no worries
Is this a gov subsidies joke or a trump/China control the weather joke?
Post by: Tobias on May 13, 2022, 11:12:51 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 01:40:26 PM
4 8 ft 2x12 for my bench... $200.
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Post by: cfbandyman on May 14, 2022, 01:42:55 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2022, 05:24:19 PM
Here is an old pasture breakout implement maybe?
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Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2022, 05:25:54 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2022, 05:28:08 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2022, 05:30:18 PM
Love the wheels on this bad boi, you know that when this guy gets busted out work is about to get DONE.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 05:39:35 PM
Those fat, heavy wheels look darn cool.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 05:45:07 PM
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Post by: steve dave on May 14, 2022, 06:08:26 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 07:21:24 PM
Infuriating that you downgrades don’t ask me, the originator and best farm thread poster, your stupid farm questions.Come on SD. I couldn't post anywhere on GE if not for your farm thread.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 07:21:57 PM
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Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2022, 08:04:03 PM
Any of that stuff have a pan seat on it? Any make or model names?I'm guessing these are pan seats? If so they are around but not attached.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 08:13:22 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 08:15:18 PM
No idea what this thing is but maybe it blows grain or something?This has me intrigued. Here's your chance, SD. Remnants of a stationary combine?
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 08:17:02 PM
This (discer?) Has 3 hitches for all the horsesIs there a windmill laying in the background?
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 14, 2022, 09:32:22 PM
Where's our spring drone pix of you planting?
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Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2022, 09:49:57 PM
I took a closer look this afternoon and it has a conveyor belt of "scoops" that run through the tube powered by that pulley/gear portion.No idea what this thing is but maybe it blows grain or something?This has me intrigued. Here's your chance, SD. Remnants of a stationary combine?
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Post by: steve dave on May 14, 2022, 09:53:16 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2022, 10:15:07 PM
It's some sort of hoist thing but only about 12ft tall so not a true windmill.This (discer?) Has 3 hitches for all the horsesIs there a windmill laying in the background?
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Post by: ben ji on May 14, 2022, 10:18:51 PM
Of course it does you dumbassWow, looks who is still salty about getting overshadowed by Tom.
When I have a question about running a cow farming operation/general farming questions SD is still my #1 guy.
When it comes to old timey farm equipment and if they are worth any money Tom is my #1 guy.
Post by: steve dave on May 14, 2022, 10:21:27 PM
Post by: Katpappy on May 15, 2022, 02:14:07 AM
Post by: Katpappy on May 15, 2022, 02:41:35 AM
Here is an online auction site that might help you with the value of your equipment.
https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/horse-drawn-equipment/40045
Post by: KST8FAN on May 15, 2022, 08:35:33 AM
I've seen people take an entire old iron implement and make that the center piece of a flower bed or property entrance too.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 15, 2022, 08:40:30 AM
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Post by: ben ji on May 15, 2022, 11:33:30 AM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 15, 2022, 11:35:07 AM
But the gov will make it rain so no worries
Yes, dumbass. They have been working on it forever
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 15, 2022, 03:29:38 PM
"In 1919, IH bought the Parlin and Orendorff factory in Canton, Illinois, a leader in plow manufacturing,..."
I am guessing here, but will say P&O stamped on there relates to the above from wikipedia. That's some heavy equipment, Ben ji. I'd say it was used as sod busting tool to turn the prairie over.
So now find a site of IH enthusiasts and start posting pix.
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Post by: Spracne on May 15, 2022, 03:39:33 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 15, 2022, 03:40:45 PM
Go to the 2 min mark. Does that resemble what you got, Ben ji?
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Post by: farming_cat fan on May 16, 2022, 07:54:44 AM
Farming_catSo far it's been too windy to put the bird in the air the days that we've been planting. Here is a video that I shot last year.
Where's our spring drone pix of you planting?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyli7K_i1Fs
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 16, 2022, 08:26:42 AM
Nice perspective on the planting. Is your moisture situation okay? Was talking to one of Mrs SSOC's family members from the Pratt area and they are hurting for moisture - bad enough that even wheat is suffering.Farming_catSo far it's been too windy to put the bird in the air the days that we've been planting. Here is a video that I shot last year.
Where's our spring drone pix of you planting?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyli7K_i1Fs
Have you seen any of this guy's farming / drone videos? Skip ahead to 6:50 when they break out a JD 95 from the 1950s and run it along with the modern machines:
https://youtu.be/vT_VDYn1H-4
Post by: farming_cat fan on May 16, 2022, 10:08:09 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 16, 2022, 10:21:33 AM
Our moisture is pretty good here. Mostly waiting on it to dry out a little bit to finish planting. Everything that's been planted is off to an excellent start. Wheat should be set up pretty good to have good yields. Weather during grain fill will be important now.Hope that your operation has a prosperous year.
Post by: sys on May 16, 2022, 10:33:25 AM
Post by: passranch on May 16, 2022, 04:20:47 PM
Skip ahead to 6:50 when they break out a JD 95 from the 1950s and run it along with the modern machines:
https://youtu.be/vT_VDYn1H-4
The song that they play during that part of the video was also very familiar. I originally thought it was from the Hoosiers soundtrack, but I was wrong. It was from Rudy instead!
Same composer though.
Post by: pissclams on May 16, 2022, 05:29:46 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 16, 2022, 05:41:48 PM
Our moisture is pretty good here. Mostly waiting on it to dry out a little bit to finish planting. Everything that's been planted is off to an excellent start. Wheat should be set up pretty good to have good yields. Weather during grain fill will be important now.There was some decent looking wheat out in NW KS but the majority of it looked pretty shitty, wind erosion in some spots and spotty growth. They didn't get any real precipitation from Oct to April.
Best of luck on getting the wheat in without any issues.
Post by: ben ji on May 16, 2022, 05:48:55 PM
#62 was moving slow and off by itself with drool hanging out of it's mouth coughing and my dad mentioned it's probably sick. I told him he better tell Nate to hit him with the Nuflor needle and my dad was shocked to know I knew what that was.
Look at all this knowledge I am absorbing from the best farming thread on a sports themed message board in the world.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 16, 2022, 07:54:03 PM
Thanks farming_cat. I always stress when I see a planter with both markers up until I realize you're running using GPS. Probably just sitting in the cab reading goEMAW.Farming_catSo far it's been too windy to put the bird in the air the days that we've been planting. Here is a video that I shot last year.
Where's our spring drone pix of you planting?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyli7K_i1Fs
Do you like the White planter? I've known one other farmer who had one, and they liked it.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 16, 2022, 08:03:54 PM
Token pic of our cow farmer Nate's yearling cows hanging out by the windmill.Probably whatever is in that contrail is making the cows sick.
#62 was moving slow and off by itself with drool hanging out of it's mouth coughing and my dad mentioned it's probably sick. I told him he better tell Nate to hit him with the Nuflor needle and my dad was shocked to know I knew what that was.
Look at all this knowledge I am absorbing from the best farming thread on a sports themed message board in the world.
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Post by: Spracne on May 16, 2022, 08:04:55 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 16, 2022, 08:57:10 PM
Nice perspective on the planting. Is your moisture situation okay? Was talking to one of Mrs SSOC's family members from the Pratt area and they are hurting for moisture - bad enough that even wheat is suffering.Farming_catSo far it's been too windy to put the bird in the air the days that we've been planting. Here is a video that I shot last year.
Where's our spring drone pix of you planting?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyli7K_i1Fs
Have you seen any of this guy's farming / drone videos? Skip ahead to 6:50 when they break out a JD 95 from the 1950s and run it along with the modern machines:
https://youtu.be/vT_VDYn1H-4
No idea what this thing is but maybe it blows grain or something?
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Gawd I'm such a newb, after watching that 1950's JD tractor I realized this thing was to used to move the grain from the old timey combine to the grain truck.
Post by: ben ji on May 16, 2022, 09:27:04 PM
I almost forgot about the equipment seats. If you let them go for $25 ea, you are giving them away. They are almost as popular as steel wheels. Let's say I saw them go for around $100 to $150 at auctions when they are cleaned up, but not painted or power bushed since that will destroy the art value. People use them as seating next to their garage/barn/house. Usually, weld the equipment mount to a metal post as this makes the seat bouncy like when it was on the horse-drawn equipment.
Here is an online auction site that might help you with the value of your equipment.
https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/horse-drawn-equipment/40045
Getting around to checking this site out and I'm going to email some of the sellers to see if they have any interest in the old implements. When you and Tom make the trip to the antique farm circuit this summer feel free to mention you know a guy who has some old timey goods waiting to be picked up.
Post by: ben ji on May 16, 2022, 09:57:56 PM
Tom, return that overpriced box scraper and grab this tried and true scraper (I'm assuming that's what it is) from the cat ranch for free.Token pic of our cow farmer Nate's yearling cows hanging out by the windmill.Probably whatever is in that contrail is making the cows sick.
#62 was moving slow and off by itself with drool hanging out of it's mouth coughing and my dad mentioned it's probably sick. I told him he better tell Nate to hit him with the Nuflor needle and my dad was shocked to know I knew what that was.
Look at all this knowledge I am absorbing from the best farming thread on a sports themed message board in the world.
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Post by: Tobias on May 16, 2022, 10:06:44 PM
Post by: farming_cat fan on May 17, 2022, 07:30:04 AM
You're correct. We have been running Auto-Steer for a few years now. It has been a great asset that allows me to catch up on goEMAW.Thanks farming_cat. I always stress when I see a planter with both markers up until I realize you're running using GPS. Probably just sitting in the cab reading goEMAW.Farming_catSo far it's been too windy to put the bird in the air the days that we've been planting. Here is a video that I shot last year.
Where's our spring drone pix of you planting?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyli7K_i1Fs
Do you like the White planter? I've known one other farmer who had one, and they liked it.
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We have been getting along pretty good with the White planter. I worked for AGCO for a few years out of college as a design engineer for White planters. That helped with the decision to buy one as I knew my way around them pretty well.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on May 17, 2022, 08:43:46 AM
That's one of those Chinese hurricane contrails.
Someone shoot it!!!! :ohno:
Post by: ben ji on May 17, 2022, 09:44:04 PM
You're correct. We have been running Auto-Steer for a few years now. It has been a great asset that allows me to catch up on goEMAW.Thanks farming_cat. I always stress when I see a planter with both markers up until I realize you're running using GPS. Probably just sitting in the cab reading goEMAW.Farming_catSo far it's been too windy to put the bird in the air the days that we've been planting. Here is a video that I shot last year.
Where's our spring drone pix of you planting?
Tom
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyli7K_i1Fs
Do you like the White planter? I've known one other farmer who had one, and they liked it.
Tom
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We have been getting along pretty good with the White planter. I worked for AGCO for a few years out of college as a design engineer for White planters. That helped with the decision to buy one as I knew my way around them pretty well.
Do you have another job or is it farming 24/7 365 now for farming_cat?
Post by: farming_cat fan on May 18, 2022, 07:29:53 AM
Do you have another job or is it farming 24/7 365 now for farming_cat?I have another job. I would like to farm 24/7 365, but that is not in the cards yet.
Post by: pissclams on May 18, 2022, 12:20:13 PM
is wheat the whole stick or just the top part?revisiting this question since it was ignored by everyone probably because it’s too advanced?
let’s assume wheat is the whole thing that sticks up from the ground, so the stick, the leaves, and the seeds next to the leaves, it’s crazy to think that the mayans or maybe incas, iroquois? decided to smash the stick/leaves/seeds together between two cement stones (assuming this is what a combine is) and then you would have flour which has vitamins and minerals in it.
Post by: _33 on May 18, 2022, 12:30:04 PM
is wheat the whole stick or just the top part?revisiting this question since it was ignored by everyone probably because it’s too advanced?
let’s assume wheat is the whole thing that sticks up from the ground, so the stick, the leaves, and the seeds next to the leaves, it’s crazy to think that the mayans or maybe incas, iroquois? decided to smash the stick/leaves/seeds together between two cement stones (assuming this is what a combine is) and then you would have flour which has vitamins and minerals in it.
I know for sure that you have to at least separate the wheat from the chaff. As per the Bible.
"He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with unquenchable fire.” --Matthew 3:12
Post by: pissclams on May 18, 2022, 12:34:49 PM
Post by: farming_cat fan on May 18, 2022, 01:06:23 PM
The entire plant is wheat. The grain (seeds) itself is harvested with a combine. The combine separates the grain from the MOG (material other than grain) or chaff. Flour is made from only the grain at the mill. The remaining stock of the plant is considered straw. Some farmers will choose to bale the straw and either sell it or use it as bedding for livestock. Other farmers leave it on the field as there are nutrients in the straw that will be available for other crops to use once it is broken down over time.is wheat the whole stick or just the top part?revisiting this question since it was ignored by everyone probably because it’s too advanced?
let’s assume wheat is the whole thing that sticks up from the ground, so the stick, the leaves, and the seeds next to the leaves, it’s crazy to think that the mayans or maybe incas, iroquois? decided to smash the stick/leaves/seeds together between two cement stones (assuming this is what a combine is) and then you would have flour which has vitamins and minerals in it.
Post by: pissclams on May 18, 2022, 03:15:46 PM
one follow up- is straw the same thing as hay? and if there’s vitamins and minerals in the straw why not turn it into flour too?
Post by: meow meow on May 18, 2022, 03:20:56 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 18, 2022, 03:28:14 PM
Post by: farming_cat fan on May 18, 2022, 03:53:26 PM
thanks farming_cat fan. it’s hilarious how much more you know about farming than the rest of the poser downgrades ITT. a few of these guys bought a garth brooks compact disc in high school and decided they were john deere reincarnated.There is little to no protein in the straw therefore the feed quality is very low. At times I'm sure straw is used as cattle feed and it is probably mixed in from time to time with higher quality of feed. I don't know very much about cattle feed. I try to just stick with eating cattle and not raise them. The main nutrient in the straw that is beneficial to the next crop would be potassium. Potassium is one of 3 major nutrients required to raise crops. The other 2 are phosphorus and nitrogen.
one follow up- is straw the same thing as hay? and if there’s vitamins and minerals in the straw why not turn it into flour too?
Basically straw has nothing beneficial for human consumption therefore is not processed into flour.
Post by: Spracne on May 18, 2022, 03:58:07 PM
thanks farming_cat fan. it’s hilarious how much more you know about farming than the rest of the poser downgrades ITT. a few of these guys bought a garth brooks compact disc in high school and decided they were john deere reincarnated.There is little to no protein in the straw therefore the feed quality is very low. At times I'm sure straw is used as cattle feed and it is probably mixed in from time to time with higher quality of feed. I don't know very much about cattle feed. I try to just stick with eating cattle and not raise them. The main nutrient in the straw that is beneficial to the next crop would be potassium. Potassium is one of 3 major nutrients required to raise crops. The other 2 are phosphorus and nitrogen.
one follow up- is straw the same thing as hay? and if there’s vitamins and minerals in the straw why not turn it into flour too?
Basically straw has nothing beneficial for human consumption therefore is not processed into flour.
This Guy Fawkes.
Post by: KST8FAN on May 18, 2022, 06:37:13 PM
50 percent of human calories consumed globally come from wheat.
The only human application for straw is as a toothpick to get the meat and bread out of your teeth.
Putting up straw bales was the easiest hay money every summer because they were so lite.
We've double cropped wheat followed by beans some years.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 18, 2022, 06:49:58 PM
This guy is one of the most famous wheat geneticists. His accomplishments are amazing.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 18, 2022, 06:53:35 PM
This organization manages varieties developed in Kansas.
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Post by: Cire on May 18, 2022, 06:58:18 PM
How’s everyone’s wheat crop?
https://twitter.com/aarhar/status/1526590454157950976?s=21&t=W4zwgxrf7XINj2DWYcOUdQ
#wheattour22
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Post by: steve dave on May 18, 2022, 07:01:37 PM
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on May 18, 2022, 07:14:03 PM
Post by: pissclams on May 18, 2022, 09:19:21 PM
and before slim goodbody comes in here to try and say that wheat isn’t a vegetable, it’s a plant that grows from the earth just like every other vegetable
also, is anyone else fascinated by the potassium in straw?
Post by: wetwillie on May 18, 2022, 09:32:47 PM
Post by: schreds21 on May 18, 2022, 09:36:17 PM
Token pic of our cow farmer Nate's yearling cows hanging out by the windmill.Probably whatever is in that
#62 was moving slow and off by itself with drool hanging out of it's mouth coughing and my dad mentioned it's probably sick. I told him he better tell Nate to hit him with the Nuflor needle and my dad was shocked to know I knew what that was.
Look at all this knowledge I am absorbing from the best farming thread on a sports themed message board in the world.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220516/179ecfcd45da4701a3788130567da56b.jpg)contrailchemtrail is making the cows sick.
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Post by: Spracne on May 18, 2022, 10:00:53 PM
corn used to be my #1 vegetable but as of this week, wheat is making a huge push for the top spot
and before slim goodbody comes in here to try and say that wheat isn’t a vegetable, it’s a plant that grows from the earth just like every other vegetable
also, is anyone else fascinated by the potassium in straw?
As a fellow who likes to wave the wheat myself, I've always been fascinated by the potassium in straw.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 19, 2022, 08:42:10 AM
Just found out this is a thingThat wheat looks terrible. On a related note, wheat for July delivery is $12.58 at a local terminal.
How’s everyone’s wheat crop?
https://twitter.com/aarhar/status/1526590454157950976?s=21&t=W4zwgxrf7XINj2DWYcOUdQ
#wheattour22
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Post by: Katpappy on May 19, 2022, 06:08:33 PM
thanks farming_cat fan. it’s hilarious how much more you know about farming than the rest of the poser downgrades ITT. a few of these guys bought agarth brooksJoe Diffie. compact disc in high school and decided they were john deere reincarnated.
one follow up- is straw the same thing as hay? and if there’s vitamins and minerals in the straw why not turn it into flour too?
FYP, city boy. :lol:
Post by: pissclams on May 19, 2022, 09:55:06 PM
don’t go there, city slicker! my ropers are older than you!thanks farming_cat fan. it’s hilarious how much more you know about farming than the rest of the poser downgrades ITT. a few of these guys bought agarth brooksJoe Diffie. compact disc in high school and decided they were john deere reincarnated.
one follow up- is straw the same thing as hay? and if there’s vitamins and minerals in the straw why not turn it into flour too?
FYP, city boy. :lol:
Post by: ben ji on May 19, 2022, 11:08:46 PM
https://kingflour.com/all-about-wheat-2/
50 percent of human calories consumed globally come from wheat.
The only human application for straw is as a toothpick to get the meat and bread out of your teeth.
Putting up straw bales was the easiest hay money every summer because they were so lite.
We've double cropped wheat followed by beans some years.
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Tell me more about this double cropping beans after wheat. When I was out at the cat ranch last weekend I was listening to the local radio and they played something about Biden encouraging double cropping. Based on what I remember only like 600 counties in the country can get their sweet sweet subsidized crop insurance if they double crop but Biden was talking about expanding it to like 2,000 counties or something.
So you harvest the wheat in late june/early july and still have enough time to get in a soybean crop?
I know this wouldn't be a thing in western ks where the cat ranch is but I'm interested in learning more about the feasibility.
Post by: ben ji on May 19, 2022, 11:14:44 PM
"Wheat up X points, corn at X and cattle futures at X. Call Joe Blow at the Andersons for XXXX..."
We were friends of friends but I have definitely shotgunned multiple beers with this guy back in the day and had to check with some buddies to confirm it was the same guy.
Post by: farming_cat fan on May 20, 2022, 07:32:30 AM
You are correct. I know southern Kansas plans on double cropping beans every year. I would guess they typically have their wheat harvested in mid June. Their fertilizer plan includes both crops for the year. With new crop soybean prices where they are, I would imagine there will be quite a few double crop acres this year. We are considering it here in northeast Kansas.https://kingflour.com/all-about-wheat-2/
50 percent of human calories consumed globally come from wheat.
The only human application for straw is as a toothpick to get the meat and bread out of your teeth.
Putting up straw bales was the easiest hay money every summer because they were so lite.
We've double cropped wheat followed by beans some years.
Tom
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Tell me more about this double cropping beans after wheat. When I was out at the cat ranch last weekend I was listening to the local radio and they played something about Biden encouraging double cropping. Based on what I remember only like 600 counties in the country can get their sweet sweet subsidized crop insurance if they double crop but Biden was talking about expanding it to like 2,000 counties or something.
So you harvest the wheat in late june/early july and still have enough time to get in a soybean crop?
I know this wouldn't be a thing in western ks where the cat ranch is but I'm interested in learning more about the feasibility.
Post by: steve dave on May 20, 2022, 08:00:23 AM
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 20, 2022, 08:43:07 AM
Probably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.USD/ha
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Per hectare?
1 ha = 2.47 acres
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Post by: ben ji on May 20, 2022, 11:51:34 AM
Probably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.I love how you can see where they built the transcontinental railroad out west. Just a rope of private land surrounded by BLM land.
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Post by: Cire on May 20, 2022, 03:19:56 PM
My grandpa in sek beaned all his wheat fields
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Post by: Cire on May 20, 2022, 03:21:38 PM
Follow the hashtagJust found out this is a thingThat wheat looks terrible. On a related note, wheat for July delivery is $12.58 at a local terminal.
How’s everyone’s wheat crop?
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#wheattour22
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Central Ks looks solid. West looks like crap
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 22, 2022, 07:37:31 AM
Our friend, milo, appears to be in the mix too.
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Post by: michigancat on May 22, 2022, 08:27:21 AM
Probably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.What's going on with Iowa, and to a lesser extent the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles?
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2022, 08:38:21 AM
Iowa - CornProbably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.What's going on with Iowa, and to a lesser extent the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles?
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Texas - Oil
Post by: michigancat on May 22, 2022, 08:39:54 AM
You telling me corn stops growing across those imaginary lines that make Iowa's north and south borders?? Also Texas looks cheaper. Texas might be high property taxes?Iowa - CornProbably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.What's going on with Iowa, and to a lesser extent the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles?
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Texas - Oil
Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2022, 09:02:01 AM
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on May 22, 2022, 10:20:17 AM
Hay and straw…what’s the difference, REALLY?
Post by: michigancat on May 22, 2022, 10:23:42 AM
Yeah, guessing the immediate cutoff from IA to NE is the ridiculous NE property taxes. Same with TX.Does Iowa just have ridiculously low property taxes? Because they have higher values compared to all their neighbors
Post by: steve dave on May 22, 2022, 10:43:38 AM
Post by: pissclams on May 22, 2022, 10:59:02 AM
First time reading this 194 pager and I’m not going to check if this question has already been asked, but here’s my question:iirc they are the same
Hay and straw…what’s the difference, REALLY?
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 22, 2022, 04:58:11 PM
Straw in my mind originates from wheat stubble. Hay is Prarie grass, brome, or alfalfa.
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Said this exact thing on Friday during a hay v straw conversation
Post by: Cire on May 22, 2022, 05:09:25 PM
We had fescue hay and alfalfa probably 70/30 or more fescue
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2022, 08:34:02 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2022, 08:39:51 PM
My dad would like everyone to know he DID NOT HAVE TO TURN THE FURNACE BACK ON. Instead he just burned a bunch of the firewood I just got done cutting.
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2022, 08:45:56 PM
I'll probably cut some more over the summer but I have learned my lesson and have a couple of stacks of firewood hidden in the windbreak for when I go out there in January to chase birds.
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Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2022, 10:47:06 PM
Here is one of the many cacti out on the cat ranch
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Post by: wetwillie on May 23, 2022, 06:31:02 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 23, 2022, 07:53:45 AM
I put up this amount of firewood from the dead trees in the windbreak over my last 2 trips but that will be gone by the end of December assuming normal consumption.that looks awesome, ben ji. I've considered buying a place outside of town just so I could go there and cut wood and stack it in neat piles.
I'll probably cut some more over the summer but I have learned my lesson and have a couple of stacks of firewood hidden in the windbreak for when I go out there in January to chase birds.
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Post by: Katpappy on May 23, 2022, 01:53:25 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2022, 10:17:48 PM
It's very therapeutic. Makes you feel like a manly man when you use power tools to slice some dead tree's into nice small burnable pieces.I put up this amount of firewood from the dead trees in the windbreak over my last 2 trips but that will be gone by the end of December assuming normal consumption.that looks awesome, ben ji. I've considered buying a place outside of town just so I could go there and cut wood and stack it in neat piles.
I'll probably cut some more over the summer but I have learned my lesson and have a couple of stacks of firewood hidden in the windbreak for when I go out there in January to chase birds.
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Post by: ben ji on May 23, 2022, 11:02:37 PM
You seeing/hearing a lot of pheasants this spring? Hoping the Kansas population in general did a lot of sex and made a lot of pheasant babies.Not really but this time of year they seem to hanging out in the wheat and CRP which I stay out of so they can sex up in peace.
I saw 1 rooster as I was pulling in that darted into a wheat field across the road. Also saw a couple of hen's scooting around in the distance.
I could hear them calling a couple times around the house but nothing crazy.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 26, 2022, 09:11:18 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 26, 2022, 09:25:09 AM
So, this rain save everyone's ass? I hope soReal toad-strangler here. Almost 5" on 5/24 and 5/25 combined.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 26, 2022, 09:28:28 AM
So, this rain save everyone's ass? I hope soReal toad-strangler here. Almost 5" on 5/24 and 5/25 combined.
so, a gully washer?
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 26, 2022, 09:34:48 AM
I don't know if gully washer is the right term since the rain came over a 48 hr period and not in two hours.So, this rain save everyone's ass? I hope soReal toad-strangler here. Almost 5" on 5/24 and 5/25 combined.
so, a gully washer?
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 26, 2022, 09:39:45 AM
I don't know if gully washer is the right term since the rain came over a 48 hr period and not in two hours.So, this rain save everyone's ass? I hope soReal toad-strangler here. Almost 5" on 5/24 and 5/25 combined.
so, a gully washer?
seriously, this amount of slow soaking rain was good right? I think of my KS wheat bros when it's super dry
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 26, 2022, 09:50:42 AM
The farmers and ranchers I've been in contact with are very happy about the rainfall.I don't know if gully washer is the right term since the rain came over a 48 hr period and not in two hours.So, this rain save everyone's ass? I hope soReal toad-strangler here. Almost 5" on 5/24 and 5/25 combined.
so, a gully washer?
seriously, this amount of slow soaking rain was good right? I think of my KS wheat bros when it's super dry
Post by: steve dave on May 26, 2022, 10:16:56 AM
The current rain is way too late to help the wheat thoughThe farmers and ranchers I've been in contact with are very happy about the rainfall.I don't know if gully washer is the right term since the rain came over a 48 hr period and not in two hours.So, this rain save everyone's ass? I hope soReal toad-strangler here. Almost 5" on 5/24 and 5/25 combined.
so, a gully washer?
seriously, this amount of slow soaking rain was good right? I think of my KS wheat bros when it's super dry
Post by: star seed 7 on May 26, 2022, 10:22:11 AM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 26, 2022, 11:22:04 AM
The current rain is way too late to help the wheat thoughThe farmers and ranchers I've been in contact with are very happy about the rainfall.I don't know if gully washer is the right term since the rain came over a 48 hr period and not in two hours.So, this rain save everyone's ass? I hope soReal toad-strangler here. Almost 5" on 5/24 and 5/25 combined.
so, a gully washer?
seriously, this amount of slow soaking rain was good right? I think of my KS wheat bros when it's super dry
yerah, that was my thought: source is twitter wheat pictures
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 26, 2022, 12:19:11 PM
https://www.ksnt.com/news/kansas/winter-wheat-harvest-predicted-to-bring-lower-yields-kansas-wheat-commission-says/?fbclid=IwAR1-AQdvefi-0ez0JOOfoHjhK2qdSUSr2YcaLD0slkQ-2sVW4fui5aEI15g (https://www.ksnt.com/news/kansas/winter-wheat-harvest-predicted-to-bring-lower-yields-kansas-wheat-commission-says/?fbclid=IwAR1-AQdvefi-0ez0JOOfoHjhK2qdSUSr2YcaLD0slkQ-2sVW4fui5aEI15g)
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In 2021, Kansas fields produced 52 bushels of wheat per acre. This year, they are estimated to produce 39 bushels per acre according to the USDA estimate.
The Kansas Wheat Commission said that Oklahoma and Colorado crops aren’t fairing much better, and combining their harvest with Kansas’ this year, it will still be less than what Kansas, alone, harvested in 2021.
Post by: KST8FAN on May 27, 2022, 09:00:14 PM
Probably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.What's going on with Iowa, and to a lesser extent the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles?
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Just heard a farm sold today 6 miles from us 25,000 an acre. Farm credit is lending up to 5,800. Must have deep pockets and other ground paid for in this crazy environment. Farm was 96 acres. Lays nice.
From a relative near Le Mars, IA this week. This was an auction purchased by neighbor farmer.
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Post by: KST8FAN on May 30, 2022, 07:19:21 PM
I've read about it, but to see the huge piles of rock that ND farmers accumulate in their fields is quite a site.
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Post by: ben ji on May 30, 2022, 09:44:39 PM
Took a road trip last week thru SD and ND to see the Badlands, black hills, Custer State Park, national grasslamds, and Theodore Roosevelt National Park.Tom, hate to break it to you but that's an old Indian burial site.
I've read about it, but to see the huge piles of rock that ND farmers accumulate in their fields is quite a site.
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Post by: ben ji on June 07, 2022, 07:40:22 PM
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Post by: ben ji on June 07, 2022, 07:42:59 PM
We did not actually harvest a crop out of the newly broken out pasture so hopefully we can achieve that this year!
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Post by: Tobias on June 07, 2022, 07:44:34 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 07, 2022, 07:47:42 PM
Basically you drive out to our circle, open the valve push the on button. Then drive out to my aunt's land, close her valve and push the off button.
We were only getting like 250gpm out of the well when I was out there when it used to spit out 800gpm back when it was drilled.
Still enough to provide 1 inch of water per week.
Post by: ben ji on June 07, 2022, 07:53:43 PM
Also I learned that there are some "Blow Out valves?" on the end of the circle and you have to "blow them out" every once in a while because they get filled with algae and gunk and such. You basically turn a valve and some gunk and water flows out.
Post by: ben ji on June 07, 2022, 08:02:53 PM
god that red s10 is just too adorableMaybe this should go in the shame yourself thread but it's a stick shift and I can't drive it because I'm a city boi.
My dad tried to teach me a couple of years ago but I felt bad because I kept killing it and jamming the clutch and thought I might break it.
I don't feel as bad about killing it now since he has had it for 5 years so maybe I'll ask for a lesson again.
Post by: Spracne on June 07, 2022, 08:15:28 PM
god that red s10 is just too adorableMaybe this should go in the shame yourself thread but it's a stick shift and I can't drive it because I'm a city boi.
My dad tried to teach me a couple of years ago but I felt bad because I kept killing it and jamming the clutch and thought I might break it.
I don't feel as bad about killing it now since he has had it for 5 years so maybe I'll ask for a lesson again.
Just watch a YouTube video, n00b
Post by: star seed 7 on June 07, 2022, 08:19:20 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 08, 2022, 02:00:27 AM
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1534340180227805184?t=FSnPYNHjU-L9fWPw66pPBg&s=19Impressed by horses and riders on pavement. We used to move cattle on black top highway a couple times a year.
I always pushed the cattle so got to shut the gate then catch up. I thought I could trot/gallop a little to catch up.
I dont know if the horse shoes were new or worn out, but when I put on the brakes old Red started sliding like he was on a sheet of ice.
Luckily we stayed upright. Dad had told me to give a horse the reins so he could use his head and neck to recover. Pretty sure I just let go and grabbed the saddle horn.
Always thought my cowboy failings would make a good comical book of short stories.
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Post by: sys on June 08, 2022, 06:45:43 AM
feel bad for that poor cow getting dropped on pavement like that.
Post by: ben ji on June 08, 2022, 12:05:49 PM
i always wondered how the center pivot irrigation stuff worked. anyone know how the little systems on wheels that they use in the intermountain west/mormon country work?Those things are gosh darn adorable and all over out west. I've only seen them used on hayfields.
feel bad for that poor cow getting dropped on pavement like that.
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Post by: Katpappy on June 09, 2022, 02:59:18 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on June 14, 2022, 08:04:51 PM
There was a time when something named Blackshirt Feeders LP would have passed with no objections?
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Post by: ben ji on June 14, 2022, 09:09:54 PM
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/05/02/proposal-to-build-states-largest-feedlot-hits-snag-but-now-headed-for-another-chance/I have no idea about how much water a 100,000 head feedlot needs but what are they gonna do for water in 20/30 years?
There was a time when something named Blackshirt Feeders LP would have passed with no objections?
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"The project still has some hurdles. It needs to obtain some nearby irrigated farm ground and “retire” at least six center-pivot irrigation systems to obtain enough water to supply the feedlot. The Upper Republican Natural Resources District would have to approve such a water swap."
Post by: cfbandyman on June 14, 2022, 09:12:22 PM
i always wondered how the center pivot irrigation stuff worked. anyone know how the little systems on wheels that they use in the intermountain west/mormon country work?Those things are gosh darn adorable and all over out west. I've only seen them used on hayfields.
feel bad for that poor cow getting dropped on pavement like that.
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It's super crazy how you really only see those west of the rockies
Post by: ben ji on June 14, 2022, 09:36:01 PM
i always wondered how the center pivot irrigation stuff worked. anyone know how the little systems on wheels that they use in the intermountain west/mormon country work?Those things are gosh darn adorable and all over out west. I've only seen them used on hayfields.
feel bad for that poor cow getting dropped on pavement like that.
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It's super crazy how you really only see those west of the rockies
The one in the picture was actually near McCook NE that I saw when I was pheasant hunting last year. It was a small field of probably like 40-60 acres close to the republican river.
But to your point the only reason I took a picture of it was because in my mind I was thinking "WTF, I thought these only existed in the mountain west"
Post by: steve dave on June 14, 2022, 10:43:01 PM
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/05/02/proposal-to-build-states-largest-feedlot-hits-snag-but-now-headed-for-another-chance/I have no idea about how much water a 100,000 head feedlot needs but what are they gonna do for water in 20/30 years?
There was a time when something named Blackshirt Feeders LP would have passed with no objections?
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"The project still has some hurdles. It needs to obtain some nearby irrigated farm ground and “retire” at least six center-pivot irrigation systems to obtain enough water to supply the feedlot. The Upper Republican Natural Resources District would have to approve such a water swap."
bioengineered beef that require less water, like gmo crops. 20/30 years is like a million years irl.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 15, 2022, 09:54:24 AM
They don't mess around with water shenanigans in the Republican compact.https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/05/02/proposal-to-build-states-largest-feedlot-hits-snag-but-now-headed-for-another-chance/I have no idea about how much water a 100,000 head feedlot needs but what are they gonna do for water in 20/30 years?
There was a time when something named Blackshirt Feeders LP would have passed with no objections?
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"The project still has some hurdles. It needs to obtain some nearby irrigated farm ground and “retire” at least six center-pivot irrigation systems to obtain enough water to supply the feedlot. The Upper Republican Natural Resources District would have to approve such a water swap."
bioengineered beef that require less water, like gmo crops. 20/30 years is like a million years irl.
I was talking to one of my buds who is a corn producer the other day and I learned that it takes (based on his calculations) 3000 gal of water to grow one bushel of corn. (Takes about 150 corn plants to grow a bushel of corn). That is a staggering amount of water.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on June 15, 2022, 10:40:26 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 15, 2022, 10:43:35 AM
Twitter has 3000 SW kansas dead cows from mysterious causes. SD, I need the conspiracies STATCould be a new string of bovine sex mutilation cases perhaps?
https://www.hppr.org/hppr-people-communities/2016-01-15/for-50-years-police-sheriffs-and-the-fbi-have-been-tracking-cattle-mutilations-across-kansas (https://www.hppr.org/hppr-people-communities/2016-01-15/for-50-years-police-sheriffs-and-the-fbi-have-been-tracking-cattle-mutilations-across-kansas)
Post by: steve dave on June 15, 2022, 11:10:49 AM
there will sometimes be outbreaks of diseases that will roll through a herd too. sometimes one starts and you have to put the rest down to stop the spread. pretty bad stuff.
Post by: Cire on June 15, 2022, 11:12:27 AM
Twitter has 3000 SW kansas dead cows from mysterious causes. SD, I need the conspiracies STATthere is zero reputable sources reporting this.
Going to need Dax to get to the bottom of it
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 15, 2022, 12:44:30 PM
probably because it’s just hot AF. Cows are extraordinarily pud when it comes to weather. Gotta get them water and shade. There is very little of either in SW KS. Also in the last 20’ish years cow farmers got really into all black cows.Great summary of the ways that heat stresses cattle - they to to the feedlot to get covered in a layer of fat that makes it hard for them to dissipate heat. Their digestion generates more heat. They need to release heat from their cow bodies at night and they cannot do that if it stays hot and humid all night. Pretty wild.
there will sometimes be outbreaks of diseases that will roll through a herd too. sometimes one starts and you have to put the rest down to stop the spread. pretty bad stuff.
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2022/06/14/heat-stress-kills-estimated-10-000 (https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2022/06/14/heat-stress-kills-estimated-10-000)
Post by: Justwin on June 15, 2022, 12:56:19 PM
probably because it’s just hot AF. Cows are extraordinarily pud when it comes to weather. Gotta get them water and shade. There is very little of either in SW KS. Also in the last 20’ish years cow farmers got really into all black cows.Great summary of the ways that heat stresses cattle - they to to the feedlot to get covered in a layer of fat that makes it hard for them to dissipate heat. Their digestion generates more heat. They need to release heat from their cow bodies at night and they cannot do that if it stays hot and humid all night. Pretty wild.
there will sometimes be outbreaks of diseases that will roll through a herd too. sometimes one starts and you have to put the rest down to stop the spread. pretty bad stuff.
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2022/06/14/heat-stress-kills-estimated-10-000 (https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2022/06/14/heat-stress-kills-estimated-10-000)
I never hear about Greg Judy losing cattle due to heat stress.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 15, 2022, 12:57:52 PM
https://twitter.com/buperac/status/1536908506023878656?s=20&t=WVWaNZud4jJED9SpiCgYkQ
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 15, 2022, 02:32:20 PM
Did they die FROM the heat? Or WITH the heat?you are going to get the farming thread pitted
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Post by: Cire on June 15, 2022, 02:38:02 PM
Hey, I’m just asking questionsDid they die FROM the heat? Or WITH the heat?you are going to get the farming thread pitted
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Post by: ben ji on June 15, 2022, 03:02:17 PM
Oh god, just post the tweet already.LoL at all the conspiracy replies.
https://twitter.com/buperac/status/1536908506023878656?s=20&t=WVWaNZud4jJED9SpiCgYkQ
Post by: steve dave on June 15, 2022, 03:40:46 PM
omg, doesn’t take long for Bill Gates to show upOh god, just post the tweet already.LoL at all the conspiracy replies.
https://twitter.com/buperac/status/1536908506023878656?s=20&t=WVWaNZud4jJED9SpiCgYkQ
Post by: Dugout DickStone on June 15, 2022, 03:50:46 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on June 15, 2022, 04:45:37 PM
Sandstone, I learned something today. Thank you.They don't mess around with water shenanigans in the Republican compact.https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/05/02/proposal-to-build-states-largest-feedlot-hits-snag-but-now-headed-for-another-chance/I have no idea about how much water a 100,000 head feedlot needs but what are they gonna do for water in 20/30 years?
There was a time when something named Blackshirt Feeders LP would have passed with no objections?
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"The project still has some hurdles. It needs to obtain some nearby irrigated farm ground and “retire” at least six center-pivot irrigation systems to obtain enough water to supply the feedlot. The Upper Republican Natural Resources District would have to approve such a water swap."
bioengineered beef that require less water, like gmo crops. 20/30 years is like a million years irl.
I was talking to one of my buds who is a corn producer the other day and I learned that it takes (based on his calculations) 3000 gal of water to grow one bushel of corn. (Takes about 150 corn plants to grow a bushel of corn). That is a staggering amount of water.
I did the math for NEKS. Probably other factors like run off, time of year, etc. to get to the 3k gal per bu.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 15, 2022, 09:33:40 PM
:thumbs:Sandstone, I learned something today. Thank you.They don't mess around with water shenanigans in the Republican compact.https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/05/02/proposal-to-build-states-largest-feedlot-hits-snag-but-now-headed-for-another-chance/I have no idea about how much water a 100,000 head feedlot needs but what are they gonna do for water in 20/30 years?
There was a time when something named Blackshirt Feeders LP would have passed with no objections?
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"The project still has some hurdles. It needs to obtain some nearby irrigated farm ground and “retire” at least six center-pivot irrigation systems to obtain enough water to supply the feedlot. The Upper Republican Natural Resources District would have to approve such a water swap."
bioengineered beef that require less water, like gmo crops. 20/30 years is like a million years irl.
I was talking to one of my buds who is a corn producer the other day and I learned that it takes (based on his calculations) 3000 gal of water to grow one bushel of corn. (Takes about 150 corn plants to grow a bushel of corn). That is a staggering amount of water.
I did the math for NEKS. Probably other factors like run off, time of year, etc. to get to the 3k gal per bu.
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Would probably depend on how evenly the rain or irrigation is spaced out thru the growing season. Ie six inches on may 1 is going to help the corn a lot less than once inch per week starting on June 1 etc.
Edit: I think my friend used a figure of 22 inches of water (rainfall + irrigation) during the growing season and a 200 bushel / acre yield in his calculations.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 08:56:49 AM
Post by: steve dave on June 16, 2022, 09:31:25 AM
Post by: Cire on June 16, 2022, 09:39:27 AM
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 09:40:19 AM
Wacky. You are headed down a pathI'm just posting, brother. This is the material you were begging for from dax. :dunno:
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 09:44:29 AM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on June 16, 2022, 09:50:15 AM
I've been around cows my whole life. Dad was a cattle buyer. This is the weirdest crap I've ever seen. Only explanation here are the conspiracy theories we all crave.
that is a big giant huge mother rough ridin' nope from me Wacky.
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 09:57:12 AM
Post by: cfbandyman on June 16, 2022, 10:02:11 AM
Post by: steve dave on June 16, 2022, 10:21:04 AM
Post by: cfbandyman on June 16, 2022, 10:36:03 AM
It’s just heat and it happens more than you’d think but this time some chuds on social media got ahold of it
BUT, BUT WHATABOUT ALL THOSE OTHER PLANNED FOOD PLACES GETTING HIT??!?!!!?
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 10:38:31 AM
EXACTLY!It’s just heat and it happens more than you’d think but this time some chuds on social media got ahold of it
BUT, BUT WHATABOUT ALL THOSE OTHER PLANNED FOOD PLACES GETTING HIT??!?!!!?
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 10:41:26 AM
https://twitter.com/Laurens_vg/status/1536998507575447558?s=20&t=aKgJtnDtTTbFLrlr2LDnLQ
Post by: Dugout DickStone on June 16, 2022, 11:03:17 AM
It’s just heat and it happens more than you’d think but this time some chuds on social media got ahold of it
Wait until it gets....gasp....very cold.
Post by: ben ji on June 16, 2022, 11:46:15 AM
I also enjoyed the people who thought they all just died in those neat orderly rows and didn't see the end of the video where they were dragging cows into rows.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on June 16, 2022, 12:10:24 PM
My favorite reply was someone talking about some microwave weapon that blasted them all from above.
I also enjoyed the people who thought they all just died in those neat orderly rows and didn't see the end of the video where they were dragging cows into rows.
oh noes, the Jewish Space Laser People are at it again. :ohno:
Post by: steve dave on June 16, 2022, 12:42:53 PM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 12:45:03 PM
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 01:43:21 PM
https://twitter.com/Whitney_Hartman/status/1537250785318273024?s=20&t=dU8hQV419VSwlOYbTSMCgA
Post by: Institutional Control on June 16, 2022, 01:46:01 PM
Read the comments to this... Also :curse:
https://twitter.com/Whitney_Hartman/status/1537250785318273024?s=20&t=dU8hQV419VSwlOYbTSMCgA
Whitney doesn't know your hatred of the word "sus".
Post by: Spracne on June 16, 2022, 01:47:19 PM
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Post by: steve dave on June 16, 2022, 02:06:08 PM
Post by: WillieWatanabe on June 16, 2022, 03:47:35 PM
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We had a natural disaster in Southwest Kansas on June 11th, 2022 and in the days that followed that greatly affected cattle being fed for slaughter. It wasn’t a tornado or a flood or government conspiracy to dismantle our food supply. There’s no mysterious disease or theory, we know exactly what happened.
It’s called a heat index crisis. Prior to this day, our average high temperatures were very mild, the night temperatures were very cool, the wind was normal and we were receiving rain showers that we so desperately needed!
On June 11th, temperatures rose, humidity was high, and wind speed nearly ceased. This is an emergency for cattle. Cattle can not compensate for this type of weather event if they do not get a period of night cooling. For several days this continued. Our people did everything in their power to save as many animals as they could. Our people are amazing and tired and weary. We lost a lot of cattle and we are physically affected by each loss because we know first hand the resources and expertise that goes into raising safe, wholesome and delicious beef for our consumers.
This weather event geographically centered in Haskell County and Grant County Kansas. This is cattle feeding country. We are typically subject to a climate that is superior for raising cattle for slaughter.
There’s a video making rounds with misinformation and I’d like to take the time to connect with you as a feedlot veterinarian from Southwest Kansas, a consumer of the same beef you feed your families, and a person passionately working in production agriculture. If you have concerns or questions, I am happy to connect. I don’t have a video to go viral with because what happened is not entertaining to me, it’s my livelihood and it hurts to see my people dealing with so much loss.
Tera Barnhardt, DVM, MS
Post by: yoga-like_abana on June 16, 2022, 03:50:01 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 16, 2022, 04:02:10 PM
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 16, 2022, 04:29:43 PM
https://twitter.com/watchchad/status/1537301309090668545?s=21&t=zb4rbm35pDpktk2-Ypz4gA
Post by: cfbandyman on June 16, 2022, 04:37:15 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 16, 2022, 04:46:31 PM
https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs (https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs)
Post by: yoga-like_abana on June 16, 2022, 04:50:16 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 16, 2022, 06:19:35 PM
2% of the '22 KS wheat crop has been harvested. Variable yields and test weights so far in SC KS. I predict that the harvest will move north rapidly over the next weekBack in the day my summer job was collecting wheat data for the KWC.
https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs (https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs)
FGIS offices in Topeka, Dodge City, KCK collecting railcar inspection data and the elevator origins. Then all that had written data was keyed in to spit out the wheat quality report.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 16, 2022, 06:27:37 PM
I'll bet that was a treasure trove of data.2% of the '22 KS wheat crop has been harvested. Variable yields and test weights so far in SC KS. I predict that the harvest will move north rapidly over the next weekBack in the day my summer job was collecting wheat data for the KWC.
https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs (https://kswheat.com/news/day-1-kansas-wheat-harvest-report-4?fbclid=IwAR11RWfMgX9CI-IPMyWy9MMglm-_cls_Xc4d9ghM8ksrefiNlR__ydiIzGs)
FGIS offices in Topeka, Dodge City, KCK collecting railcar inspection data and the elevator origins. Then all that had written data was keyed in to spit out the wheat quality report.
Tom
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 17, 2022, 06:41:21 AM
https://twitter.com/texas_ranger724/status/1537215850696024064?s=21&t=kxbdap0FsAmGXBpQF2PQWw
Post by: farming_cat fan on June 17, 2022, 12:18:51 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 17, 2022, 12:48:51 PM
https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1537850986726817795?s=20&t=gg-2zlvYKvwWG-cFKswmUw
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 17, 2022, 12:50:26 PM
Here are a few pics from this spring. I haven't had time to get the drone in the air when it hasn't been overly windy. I hope to get some drone pics soon. Ended up spraying round-up on the cover crop mixture hoping to only kill out the barley and keep most of the vetch and peas. Didn't work as well as we'd like. There's a couple of pics of what it would have looked like had we not sprayed it at all. I apologize for having to rotate your phone/computer monitor as I'll have to remember to take horizontal pictures with my phone for the photos that I post here.great stuff, farmingcat. Can your cows graze that or will it make them bloat / upset their stomachs?
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Post by: steve dave on June 17, 2022, 12:54:25 PM
Can confirm. Wanted to drive under a spray rig so bad earlier this week but resisted the urge. (xpost midwesterners thread)
https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1537850986726817795?s=20&t=gg-2zlvYKvwWG-cFKswmUw
my dad has one of those. it's pretty sweet. and the spray arms extend like 15 miles each direction.
Post by: steve dave on June 17, 2022, 12:58:51 PM
also a special license to buy the tranquilizer poison stuff that you dart bulls with to knock them out when they are getting all rowdy and won't do what you want them to. then you give them the antidote to wake them up. it's irl secret agent movie stuff. but it'll kill the crap out of you if you jab yourself with the dart so it's good that you have to have a special license or whatever. so my dad will sometimes get called to come out and shoot a poison dart into the ass of a bull and knock it out.
Post by: farming_cat fan on June 17, 2022, 01:02:37 PM
I'm being told that there isn't a concern with bloating. It does sound like there has possibly been issues with their skin. My dad hasn't seen this issue when he grazes his vetch.Here are a few pics from this spring. I haven't had time to get the drone in the air when it hasn't been overly windy. I hope to get some drone pics soon. Ended up spraying round-up on the cover crop mixture hoping to only kill out the barley and keep most of the vetch and peas. Didn't work as well as we'd like. There's a couple of pics of what it would have looked like had we not sprayed it at all. I apologize for having to rotate your phone/computer monitor as I'll have to remember to take horizontal pictures with my phone for the photos that I post here.great stuff, farmingcat. Can your cows graze that or will it make them bloat / upset their stomachs?
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Post by: steve dave on June 17, 2022, 01:04:04 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 17, 2022, 01:06:00 PM
My dad hates huge machinery and hires the elevator to spray his crops.Can confirm. Wanted to drive under a spray rig so bad earlier this week but resisted the urge. (xpost midwesterners thread)
https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1537850986726817795?s=20&t=gg-2zlvYKvwWG-cFKswmUw
my dad has one of those. it's pretty sweet. and the spray arms extend like 15 miles each direction.
you have to have a special license to order some of the herbicide that's used in those rigs. but not many people have it. so sometimes a guy who may or may not be MY OWN FATHER will order some and leave it out on his trailer and tell his bud about it and then it disappears overnight.My wife's brother-in-law tells a story of how their vet had one of those darts loaded with a med called "Rompin" in a coffee mug in his truck and accidentally poked himself in the hand. The vet felt kind of wobbly for the next day but thankfully no major complications. Dad likes to use his dart gun but only for antibiotics (not anesthesia/sedatives) out the pasture. He successfully treated a case of "footrot" with his dart gun a few days ago.
also a special license to buy the tranquilizer poison stuff that you dart bulls with to knock them out when they are getting all rowdy and won't do what you want them to. then you give them the antidote to wake them up. it's irl secret agent movie stuff. but it'll kill the crap out of you if you jab yourself with the dart so it's good that you have to have a special license or whatever. so my dad will sometimes get called to come out and shoot a poison dart into the ass of a bull and knock it out.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 17, 2022, 01:20:21 PM
:love:Not to pit this up but what was the occasion of Chad's first viral fame? Was it a truck rant about how people don't respect the flag or something?
https://twitter.com/watchchad/status/1537301309090668545?s=21&t=zb4rbm35pDpktk2-Ypz4gA
Post by: _33 on June 17, 2022, 01:25:44 PM
Post by: steve dave on June 17, 2022, 01:34:36 PM
Farming Question: How long from the time you plant the little baby tomato plant until it grows big and makes big fat tomatoes for you to eat?
THIS IS A GARDEN QUESTION! :Ughhh:
Post by: _33 on June 17, 2022, 01:38:42 PM
Post by: Spracne on June 17, 2022, 01:47:22 PM
Post by: steve dave on June 17, 2022, 01:53:05 PM
Are you telling me all the tomatoes I buy at the store were lovingly grown by the _33's of the world in their backyards?
that's right
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Post by: _33 on June 17, 2022, 02:05:23 PM
Post by: pissclams on June 17, 2022, 02:06:57 PM
Here are a few pics from this spring. I haven't had time to get the drone in the air when it hasn't been overly windy. I hope to get some drone pics soon. Ended up spraying round-up on the cover crop mixture hoping to only kill out the barley and keep most of the vetch and peas. Didn't work as well as we'd like. There's a couple of pics of what it would have looked like had we not sprayed it at all. I apologize for having to rotate your phone/computer monitor as I'll have to remember to take horizontal pictures with my phone for the photos that I post here.that’s some grade a wheat porn
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Post by: ben ji on June 17, 2022, 04:10:26 PM
Look at those hands, no way farming_cat isn't at least 6'2, probably more like 6'5.Here are a few pics from this spring. I haven't had time to get the drone in the air when it hasn't been overly windy. I hope to get some drone pics soon. Ended up spraying round-up on the cover crop mixture hoping to only kill out the barley and keep most of the vetch and peas. Didn't work as well as we'd like. There's a couple of pics of what it would have looked like had we not sprayed it at all. I apologize for having to rotate your phone/computer monitor as I'll have to remember to take horizontal pictures with my phone for the photos that I post here.that’s some grade a wheat porn
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 17, 2022, 04:35:54 PM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on June 17, 2022, 05:14:07 PM
I was just thinking that farming_cat might have missed his calling as a professional hitchhiker.
quite a bend for sure
Post by: KST8FAN on June 17, 2022, 08:28:59 PM
I was just thinking that farming_cat might have missed his calling as a professional hitchhiker.
I bet his mob and WC signs are glorious.
Tom
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 19, 2022, 02:22:51 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 20, 2022, 10:37:14 PM
"Tahzee watching the fawn just now outside the kitchen window."
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Post by: ben ji on June 20, 2022, 10:48:22 PM
"2nd brick Crack up from the ground by the bucket. Big Ole Smooth Green snake was coming out, saw me, went back in. Harmless, but you'd mess your pants if shoveling ash out when he came out. Do not kill him - he's harmless. Need him to eat rodents."
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Post by: Church Creeper on June 21, 2022, 10:26:13 AM
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Post by: steve dave on June 21, 2022, 10:59:32 AM
Post by: _33 on June 21, 2022, 11:52:33 AM
@sys what kind of snake do you think this was based off the description.
"2nd brick Crack up from the ground by the bucket. Big Ole Smooth Green snake was coming out, saw me, went back in. Harmless, but you'd mess your pants if shoveling ash out when he came out. Do not kill him - he's harmless. Need him to eat rodents."
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Is this a photo or a watercolor painting of the scene?
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on June 21, 2022, 11:59:08 AM
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/05/02/proposal-to-build-states-largest-feedlot-hits-snag-but-now-headed-for-another-chance/I have no idea about how much water a 100,000 head feedlot needs but what are they gonna do for water in 20/30 years?
There was a time when something named Blackshirt Feeders LP would have passed with no objections?
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"The project still has some hurdles. It needs to obtain some nearby irrigated farm ground and “retire” at least six center-pivot irrigation systems to obtain enough water to supply the feedlot. The Upper Republican Natural Resources District would have to approve such a water swap."
bioengineered beef that require less water, like gmo crops. 20/30 years is like a million years irl.
Just have to bridge the gap until we can buy premium cuts of meat cloned and grown in labs.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on June 21, 2022, 01:16:45 PM
@sys what kind of snake do you think this was based off the description.
"2nd brick Crack up from the ground by the bucket. Big Ole Smooth Green snake was coming out, saw me, went back in. Harmless, but you'd mess your pants if shoveling ash out when he came out. Do not kill him - he's harmless. Need him to eat rodents."
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Is this a photo or a watercolor painting of the scene?
I keep staring at it and I still haven't seen the snake. I think its a where's waldo type drawing and Benji's dad forgot to draw the snake part.
Post by: sys on June 21, 2022, 03:05:38 PM
@sys what kind of snake do you think this was based off the description.
maybe a leaf?
Post by: steve dave on June 21, 2022, 03:10:47 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 21, 2022, 03:26:15 PM
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Post by: steve dave on June 21, 2022, 03:53:28 PM
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Post by: Spracne on June 21, 2022, 04:56:29 PM
I think it's time to upgrade from your original motorola razr ben ji
Show some respect for ben ji's dad. Sheesh.
Post by: ben ji on June 21, 2022, 07:06:23 PM
https://webapps.fhsu.edu/ksherp/account.aspx?o=33&t=66
This is why I pay for premium
Post by: ben ji on June 23, 2022, 07:11:13 PM
1/2
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Post by: cfbandyman on June 26, 2022, 11:10:58 AM
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Post by: steve dave on June 26, 2022, 04:58:54 PM
Post by: wetwillie on June 26, 2022, 05:02:06 PM
We actually ended up cutting a bit of wheat. sd dad was touch and go on if he’d get enough out of the field to fill his contracts.
What’s the wheat farmer equivalent of cutting your Coke with fentanyl?
Post by: michigancat on June 26, 2022, 05:02:55 PM
It's literally called cheat! (They catch it at the elevator though)We actually ended up cutting a bit of wheat. sd dad was touch and go on if he’d get enough out of the field to fill his contracts.
What’s the wheat farmer equivalent of cutting your Coke with fentanyl?
Post by: steve dave on June 26, 2022, 05:06:14 PM
Post by: sys on June 26, 2022, 06:13:47 PM
Post by: michigancat on June 26, 2022, 06:39:47 PM
i thought it was called cheatgrass because it cheated the wheat (of water) or the farmer (of wheat).That's probably right, I don't think anyone would actually try to present cheat as wheat
Post by: KST8FAN on June 26, 2022, 08:30:36 PM
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on June 27, 2022, 08:37:05 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 27, 2022, 10:09:34 AM
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?KSbetter than 6 weeks ago but not good.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 27, 2022, 10:11:40 AM
:love:Had a chat yesterday with one of my beef expert sources deep inside the KSU Vet school yesterday. The source confirms that this die off is not a big deal in the big scheme of cattle operations.
https://twitter.com/watchchad/status/1537301309090668545?s=21&t=zb4rbm35pDpktk2-Ypz4gA
Post by: steve dave on June 27, 2022, 10:25:39 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 27, 2022, 10:31:37 AM
bro, I cow farmed more in my first 18 years of life than anyone at KSU has farmed combined in total all of them. I already confirmed that.I hate to argue with you, sd but I climbed straight up to the top of the mountain and got my info directly from the beef cow guru. don't push me on this.
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 27, 2022, 11:07:18 AM
Post by: ben ji on June 27, 2022, 06:08:20 PM
I can't compete with a boots on the ground beef off but I did go to a prestigious academic institution where I met lots of elites. Maybe I should tell my buddy to ask his father in law (aka the CEO of a big 4 packer) for the real scoop?!?
Post by: sys on June 27, 2022, 06:11:02 PM
i'd like to know if the fetish for black cattle contributed to their horrible deaths.
Post by: KST8FAN on June 27, 2022, 07:49:26 PM
Good cattle feeders factor in 1-1.5% death loss as a part of their breakeven.
Kansas has roughly 2.3m head on feed at any given time. Slaughter about 2x that annually.
If you're losing 1 pct which would be high then that's 800-900 head a week for the whole state.
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Post by: ben ji on June 27, 2022, 07:58:20 PM
Post by: cfbandyman on June 27, 2022, 09:23:32 PM
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 27, 2022, 10:56:29 PM
Cowards!
Post by: Katpappy on June 28, 2022, 09:54:53 AM
Post by: passranch on June 28, 2022, 06:38:41 PM
Did I miss a good ol' fashioned BEEF-OFF???
:curse: :shakesfist:
Post by: ben ji on June 28, 2022, 08:06:33 PM
Guys, am I too late?
Did I miss a good ol' fashioned BEEF-OFF???
:curse: :shakesfist:
get in here passranch and give us your BEEF OFF credentials
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 28, 2022, 08:22:17 PM
https://youtu.be/PYT4EgiOwiQ
Post by: KST8FAN on June 28, 2022, 08:35:22 PM
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Post by: passranch on June 28, 2022, 09:27:29 PM
Guys, am I too late?
Did I miss a good ol' fashioned BEEF-OFF???
:curse: :shakesfist:
get in here passranch and give us your BEEF OFF credentials
Pretty much steve dave levels TBH except I have cow ranch experience :cool:, NOT cow farm :jerk:.
Post by: passranch on June 28, 2022, 09:33:04 PM
I also broke whole forests worth of pitman sticks every summer.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 29, 2022, 08:01:45 AM
Backyard bottle calf headed back to the ranch.Nice!
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Post by: ben ji on June 29, 2022, 10:40:18 AM
Like the amount of zerks that went ungreased in my day would make a grown man blush.Had to Google pitman sticks
I also broke whole forests worth of pitman sticks every summer.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on June 29, 2022, 12:31:20 PM
Backyard bottle calf headed back to the ranch.
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what kind of dog is this?
Post by: Spracne on June 29, 2022, 12:32:41 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 29, 2022, 12:57:28 PM
Can you guys take a full grown cow in a fistfight? Because I can, easily.Punching cow isn't as easy as Rocky makes it look. They have very hard bones and experience no pain from human punches.
Post by: passranch on June 29, 2022, 04:48:28 PM
Can you guys take a full grown cow in a fistfight? Because I can, easily.
When you're a kid wrestling calves at branding time and you have hind leg and you get cow diarrhea sprayed all over your face and still don't let go, that's when you know you're cowboy'n!
You learn to put your foot over the butthole every time after that.
Post by: passranch on June 29, 2022, 04:50:23 PM
Like the amount of zerks that went ungreased in my day would make a grown man blush.Had to Google pitman sticks
I also broke whole forests worth of pitman sticks every summer.
I took out the difference in the low wages I got paid in the hayfield in pitman sticks. My rig always had the freshest ones.
Post by: Spracne on June 29, 2022, 04:51:40 PM
Can you guys take a full grown cow in a fistfight? Because I can, easily.
When you're a kid wrestling calves at branding time and you have hind leg and you get cow diarrhea sprayed all over your face and still don't let go, that's when you know you're cowboy'n!
You learn to put your foot over the butthole every time after that.
That's a rookie move that exposes your groin to some cloven hoof music.
Post by: KST8FAN on June 29, 2022, 07:56:25 PM
Angusdoodle.Backyard bottle calf headed back to the ranch.
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what kind of dog is this?
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Post by: Spracne on June 29, 2022, 09:08:20 PM
Post by: steve dave on June 29, 2022, 09:31:12 PM
Cows have such round, beautiful eyes and long eyelashes. It's a shame they're so tasty.
for sure, I think that's bred in. on the downside I think just basically hoping you can die if given the opportunity because you area a helpless piece of crap and you mom is a helpless piece of crap is also something that's bred in. so nancy neg there.
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Post by: ben ji on June 29, 2022, 10:27:49 PM
Did SD dad or anyone ever try and raise any buffalo or beefalo?Cows have such round, beautiful eyes and long eyelashes. It's a shame they're so tasty.
for sure, I think that's bred in. on the downside I think just basically hoping you can die if given the opportunity because you area a helpless piece of crap and you mom is a helpless piece of crap is also something that's bred in. so nancy neg there.
My uncle gave it a go 20 years ago and had maybe 5ish buffalo for a couple of years then said eff that crap after one destroyed his pickup when he was checking on them one day. Just kept ramming the side of it IIRC.
Sold them and went back to 24/7/365 cow farming after that.
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Post by: ben ji on June 30, 2022, 12:19:10 AM
Anyone else notice how @stevedave quietly exited the BEEF OFF after Tom posted his #facts?
SD gave up his king cow farmer crown to tom a couple of months ago.
Post by: Katpappy on June 30, 2022, 01:17:12 AM
Like the amount of zerks that went ungreased in my day would make a grown man blush.Had to Google pitman
I also broke whole forests worth of pitmansticksarms every summer.sticksarms
:lol: city kids
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 30, 2022, 01:29:49 PM
Anyone else notice how @stevedave quietly exited the BEEF OFF after Tom posted his #facts?
SD gave up his king cow farmer crown to tom a couple of months ago.
BetaSteve is what several high ranking posters on this board have been calling him for some time and literally nobody got tripped up by it. Not one person was like “who is betasteve?” everyone was just like yep we know exactly who you’re talking about, fitting name change honestly
Post by: steve dave on June 30, 2022, 02:30:59 PM
Did SD dad or anyone ever try and raise any buffalo or beefalo?Cows have such round, beautiful eyes and long eyelashes. It's a shame they're so tasty.
for sure, I think that's bred in. on the downside I think just basically hoping you can die if given the opportunity because you area a helpless piece of crap and you mom is a helpless piece of crap is also something that's bred in. so nancy neg there.
My uncle gave it a go 20 years ago and had maybe 5ish buffalo for a couple of years then said eff that crap after one destroyed his pickup when he was checking on them one day. Just kept ramming the side of it IIRC.
Sold them and went back to 24/7/365 cow farming after that.
nope. BUT! I tried to convince him to when I was in like Jr. High. shitty gene having cows always freak out and deliver all their babies when a blizzard is coming and they will almost all die if you don't come rescue them. buffalo are the opposite and will stop having calves because their genes are robust and hardy.
Post by: KST8FAN on June 30, 2022, 03:54:50 PM
Tom, if that is you in the pic I have waaayyy more gray hair than you and I feel like you are way older than me.Not me. That's a cousin, once removed, that rents some of our pasture.
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Post by: ben ji on June 30, 2022, 07:19:11 PM
Anyways after this years Milo crop is harvested my dad's plan is to plant OATS in the spring, Bale them up in the summer for cow food then plant wheat in September.
Is this a decent farm plan? I asked my dad who he was going to sell the oat bales to and he told me he was working on some WKS connections he has.
Also I had no idea anyone grew oats anymore but I'm just a city boi from JOCO so please enlighten me.
Post by: steve dave on June 30, 2022, 07:21:18 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 30, 2022, 07:56:38 PM
oh noTell me more so I can tell my dad how bad of an idea this would be.
We need to grow something in this semi irrigated circle besides Milo (crop rotation and all) and my dad is convinced corn won't grow out there (even tho all the neighbors grow dryland corn).
What should he do with the circle between the Milo harvest in the fall and the wheat planting time in September of the following year?
Post by: steve dave on June 30, 2022, 08:01:10 PM
oh noTell me more so I can tell my dad how bad of an idea this would be.
We need to grow something in this semi irrigated circle besides Milo (crop rotation and all) and my dad is convinced corn won't grow out there (even tho all the neighbors grow dryland corn).
What should he do with the circle between the Milo harvest in the fall and the wheat planting time in September of the following year?
my only advice is to not get cute with it. I have no idea what crop calendars and rotations and crap work. I know we rarely rotated anything though. we'd change from time to time on some sections but it would be multi year switches, not rotating. though this is SWKS where you couldn't grow a lot of stuff non-irrigated.
Post by: sys on July 01, 2022, 06:38:48 AM
Post by: ben ji on July 01, 2022, 11:56:16 AM
when the eff is this milo supposed to be harvested? afaik, milo is a fall harvest unless he's chopping it in the supper for ensilage (elite kansas word for silage).
Milo harvested this fall, oats planted next spring, oats harvested next summer, wheat planted next fall.
Post by: sys on July 01, 2022, 03:17:58 PM
Post by: wetwillie on July 01, 2022, 05:44:58 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 02, 2022, 11:01:29 AM
So most of the Milo on your cat ranch is going to wheat in fall 2023?
Correct, and my dad is hoping to get some sort of small crop in on the semi irrigated circle between Fall of 22 when we harvest the milo and fall of 23 when we plant the wheat.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 04, 2022, 10:26:35 AM
Post by: wetwillie on July 04, 2022, 10:48:20 AM
So most of the Milo on your cat ranch is going to wheat in fall 2023?
Correct, and my dad is hoping to get some sort of small crop in on the semi irrigated circle between Fall of 22 when we harvest the milo and fall of 23 when we plant the wheat.
Seems like that’s going to cut down on your pheasant population :(
Post by: Katpappy on July 04, 2022, 02:46:56 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 05, 2022, 10:29:38 PM
Don't worry it looks like Ben Ji got this. Just check out all the hunting he did last season in other areas. :cheers:Yeah, my aunt still has a 40 acre and 20 acre CRP patch within walking distance. My long lost 3rd cousinish across the road has the same ish which I have permission to hunt because I called him up and he said "we are basically family so go for it".
In 4 years the 40 acres of playa lakes in our newly broke out dryland field will be in CRP as well (I've mentioned it before but they have to be classified as cropland for 5 years before they can get enrolled in CRP).
But my true honey hole is a WIHA about 3 miles from the cat ranch that no one hunts.
Ben ji should be fine chasing birds for the foreseeable future.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on July 06, 2022, 08:09:01 AM
oh noTell me more so I can tell my dad how bad of an idea this would be.
We need to grow something in this semi irrigated circle besides Milo (crop rotation and all) and my dad is convinced corn won't grow out there (even tho all the neighbors grow dryland corn).
What should he do with the circle between the Milo harvest in the fall and the wheat planting time in September of the following year?
I think pumpkins is the answer here, but I have very LFIQ. Pumpkins have to come from somewhere though. :dunno:
Post by: KST8FAN on July 06, 2022, 09:33:05 PM
Decided to Top Gun the crap out of pasture spraying this fall so going aerial.
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Post by: steve dave on July 07, 2022, 09:10:15 AM
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Post by: ben ji on July 07, 2022, 06:00:40 PM
The southwest is going to be almost uninhabitable in our lifetimes probably
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Pretty accurate that they have the Colorado River just stopping in the Vegas area.
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on July 07, 2022, 10:09:02 PM
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Post by: chum1 on July 09, 2022, 09:03:34 AM
A: Because Nebraska sucks and Oklahoma blows! GO CATS!!!!!
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Post by: ben ji on July 09, 2022, 10:05:31 PM
My first thought was, "We have cats again at the cat ranch!" but then I saw the white stripe on its face as it came out of the fence line and was like, aw eff.
Milo was asleep next to me when I saw it and it was walking right towards me without a care in the world. I made some noise when I first saw it, we made eye contact, the badger kind of arched its back like a cat would then slowly continued right towards me. Nothing aggressive just no fucks given, casually sauntering in our direction.
I woke up Milo who was scared as crap of the badger and we started walking back to the house. I even left my folding chair out there because I didn't want to mess with that badger.
Post by: KST8FAN on July 09, 2022, 10:07:09 PM
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Post by: ben ji on July 09, 2022, 10:07:45 PM
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Post by: pissclams on July 09, 2022, 10:10:34 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 09, 2022, 10:11:15 PM
Sunset in NW Iowa this eveningI raise you a NW KS sunset from this evening (pre badger)
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Post by: Spracne on July 09, 2022, 10:41:17 PM
So I'm hanging out with Milo on the hilltop watching the sunset and just kind of spacing out. I catch some movement from the corner of my eye and see this chuncky thing wiggling around fence line.
My first thought was, "We have cats again at the cat ranch!" but then I saw the white stripe on its face as it came out of the fence line and was like, aw eff.
Milo was asleep next to me when I saw it and it was walking right towards me without a care in the world. I made some noise when I first saw it, we made eye contact, the badger kind of arched its back like a cat would then slowly continued right towards me. Nothing aggressive just no fucks given, casually sauntering in our direction.
I woke up Milo who was scared as crap of the badger and we started walking back to the house. I even left my folding chair out there because I didn't want to mess with that badger.
How did Milo know she was getting badgered?
Post by: sys on July 09, 2022, 11:30:12 PM
Post by: DaBigTrain on July 10, 2022, 12:08:06 AM
WY sunset from 2 nights agoSunset in NW Iowa this eveningI raise you a NW KS sunset from this evening (pre badger)
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Post by: OB_Won on July 10, 2022, 02:10:19 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 10, 2022, 08:35:29 AM
Post by: steve dave on July 10, 2022, 09:48:25 AM
Post by: Spracne on July 10, 2022, 01:05:47 PM
Badgers will mess up a field bigly. I’ve slammed into a badger mound a couple times and wrecked a swather header.
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was me wrecking a swather header into a badger mound a couple times.
What were those badgers doing there? I knew not well myself.
Post by: meow meow on July 11, 2022, 08:42:05 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on July 11, 2022, 08:58:41 AM
Badgers will mess up a field bigly. I’ve slammed into a badger mound a couple times and wrecked a swather header.bet the prairie dog and coyote hunting at the SD farm if primetime
Post by: Stupid Fitz on July 11, 2022, 09:41:35 AM
So I'm hanging out with Milo on the hilltop watching the sunset and just kind of spacing out. I catch some movement from the corner of my eye and see this chuncky thing wiggling around fence line.
My first thought was, "We have cats again at the cat ranch!" but then I saw the white stripe on its face as it came out of the fence line and was like, aw eff.
Milo was asleep next to me when I saw it and it was walking right towards me without a care in the world. I made some noise when I first saw it, we made eye contact, the badger kind of arched its back like a cat would then slowly continued right towards me. Nothing aggressive just no fucks given, casually sauntering in our direction.
I woke up Milo who was scared as crap of the badger and we started walking back to the house. I even left my folding chair out there because I didn't want to mess with that badger.
seems you have discovered why the cat ranch no longer has cats :dunno:
Post by: Katpappy on July 13, 2022, 07:58:24 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 13, 2022, 09:11:48 AM
I remember when we had the The Chamber on the Cats FB team. He wasn't afraid of anything, either.:love:
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 13, 2022, 09:12:17 AM
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Post by: meow meow on July 13, 2022, 03:38:55 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2022, 04:43:56 PM
So I'm driving on this road where one side is mountains and the other side is the North Platte river and stopped at a pull off to check out the river. The bank was too steep but as I was coming back to my car I noticed a cowboy and 3 dogs trying to herd some cattle on a very steep mountain side.
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Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2022, 04:48:52 PM
At this point the cowboys horse said eff this crap I'm out so the cowboy went down the mountain a little and got off the horse. The horse took off onto the road while the cowboy and the dogs climbed up to check on the cow that had fallen.
As soon as they were next to it the stupid cow got up and the dogs started trying to herd it but it just ran to the edge of a cliff.
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Post by: steve dave on July 13, 2022, 04:49:31 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2022, 04:55:48 PM
While I'm watching this unfold I notice all of the cows the 2nd cowboy had herded are now standing in the middle of the road around a blind U turn. My hayseed instinct kicked in and I figured I better get around the turn and warn oncoming traffic.
I deftly navigate the field of cows without spooking them.
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Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2022, 04:58:01 PM
Job done I went on my way.
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2022, 05:00:21 PM
Post by: meow meow on July 13, 2022, 05:00:39 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2022, 05:01:22 PM
wtf were they doing that for? Cows suck crap at moving up or down inclines.I don't think they were trying to herd the cows up the incline but cows are dumb as crap and kept climbing higher with 3 herding dogs nipping at their heels.
Post by: ben ji on July 13, 2022, 05:03:50 PM
https://twitter.com/ben0ji/status/1547339981676593160?t=J4DjcIWnRd99o3pZiBcxyw&s=19The cow off all by itself was the dumbass who slid down the mountain and just laid there. When it got up the dogs were trying to herd it again and it got itself trapped on a cliff. I don't know how it turned out since I went to go warn oncoming traffic.
Post by: steve dave on July 13, 2022, 05:15:59 PM
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Post by: sys on July 13, 2022, 06:05:27 PM
Post by: Katpappy on July 14, 2022, 05:55:11 AM
Post by: ben ji on July 15, 2022, 09:20:32 PM
This pasture has not been grazed in 1.5 years and there is basically no green in it and all the tall grass/weeds are from last year.
I still don't understand how the crops all around can be green but the grass is like "um nope, we will chill"
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Post by: ben ji on July 15, 2022, 09:23:21 PM
Look at these hot POA just munching on some succulent grass in 75 degree weather. I would much rather be a mountain cow than a high plains cow.
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Post by: ben ji on July 15, 2022, 09:25:23 PM
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Post by: ben ji on July 15, 2022, 09:33:02 PM
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Post by: Katpappy on July 15, 2022, 11:25:26 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on July 16, 2022, 02:33:08 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 16, 2022, 02:39:55 PM
Post by: Katpappy on July 16, 2022, 08:53:56 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 16, 2022, 09:18:11 PM
The cattle you refer to as "mountain cows" are actually called range cattle. They are grass-fed calves on government open range, which is mostly in foothills or bases of mountains. We would rent about 1800 acres to cattle producers that hauled them in on tractor=trailers in mid-spring and load them up in mid-September. They were like deer since that was the first time they were ever fenced in. We installed posts every eight feet and tied five wire barbed wire with stays every 2'10". Because those wild son of bitches would go thru a fence that they could get their head in between the wire.Look at all this farming knowledge here. I have so many questions.
1. Where was the land you would lease out to the producers.
2. How often do the owners go out and check their cows over the summer?
3. Do they take horses to find/check on them or just leave them up there and count them in the fall? Like it would be easy if they are right by the road but I doubt they stay there all the time.
4. Do they have a good ole fashioned cattle drive to get them down the mountain or do they just bring the cattle haulers up the mountain and load them right there in an area like my photo?
Post by: bucket on July 16, 2022, 09:44:38 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 16, 2022, 09:47:39 PM
Where'd you find these mountain cows, benji?
Medicine Bow-Routt national forest in SE WY.
Post by: sys on July 16, 2022, 10:02:17 PM
The cattle you refer to as "mountain cows" are actually called range cattle. They are grass-fed calves on government open range, which is mostly in foothills or bases of mountains. We would rent about 1800 acres to cattle producers that hauled them in on tractor=trailers in mid-spring and load them up in mid-September. They were like deer since that was the first time they were ever fenced in. We installed posts every eight feet and tied five wire barbed wire with stays every 2'10". Because those wild son of bitches would go thru a fence that they could get their head in between the wire.Look at all this farming knowledge here. I have so many questions.
1. Where was the land you would lease out to the producers.
2. How often do the owners go out and check their cows over the summer?
3. Do they take horses to find/check on them or just leave them up there and count them in the fall? Like it would be easy if they are right by the road but I doubt they stay there all the time.
4. Do they have a good ole fashioned cattle drive to get them down the mountain or do they just bring the cattle haulers up the mountain and load them right there in an area like my photo?
if i understood kp correctly, his family was leasing ks summer pasture to yearlings produced by cow-calf public land grazing permitees.
Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 09:16:34 PM
As ardent followers of this thread know my dad has a 2004 2wd chevy S10 (lil red) as his farm truck. When I pulled in friday evening he asked me if I wanted to go check on the cows in the back pasture with him (not ours, leased out to a cow farmer). I declined to go watch sunsets.
When I came back in that night around 930/10 my dad informed me that lil red died about 100 yards from the house by the barn...just up and died, no power and wouldnt start. I told him I would help him push it up to the house in the morning.
Early the next morning I found lil red while I went to walk the mutts.
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Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 09:21:55 PM
Conversation went something like this
ben ji "So lil red is fixed"
dad "Yup figured it out last night"
ben ji "What was wrong with it?"
dad "Well the gas gauge is broken and I thought I had plenty of gas in it but I guess not"
ben ji "So it ran out of gas..."
dad "Yeah...."
Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 09:31:38 PM
Here is the junk pile outside (my dad claims he is going to get a dumpster dropped off from the city but I have a sneaking suspicion that some of this crap will make it back inside)
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So I cleaned all of this junk out of the garage/workshop may of 21 (omg, look at how green it was just a year ago) and it sat there until a couple of weeks ago when my dad realized he could get MONEY for selling scrap metal to the local junkyard. We loaded up lil red with enough coffee cans of nuts/bolts and random metal parts until the back of the truck was hanging dangerously low...total amount made?
$19.20...but my dad was hooked
Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 09:42:16 PM
When I got back to the cat ranch last friday my dad had me help him load all of these random large metal pieces from the junkyard. Think pieces of those large circular metal things you drop hay in the middle of then the cows stick their heads in to eat the hay along with some random hog paneling.
It looked like pig aggie jalopoly heading west but apparently he tied it down enough to make it into town without it flying off.
Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 09:44:16 PM
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Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 09:51:29 PM
"Starting another day on the farm. Just finished checking the pivot"
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Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 09:54:10 PM
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Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 09:55:35 PM
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Post by: ben ji on July 21, 2022, 10:02:31 PM
I said checkered garter snake but will defer to the snake king.
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Post by: Tobias on July 21, 2022, 11:43:15 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 23, 2022, 07:58:23 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 23, 2022, 08:04:24 PM
I gave up on growing sweet corn after 2 failed attempts. Until I can monitor it daily it's just money spent to feed the racoons. However, I can still pick it at the neighbors patch, and eat the crap out of it.Looks awesome.
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Pests wiped out the sweet corn that my kids planted but a friend gave us some ears that were delicious - cooked some on the Traeger and just used the old boiling water method for the rest.
Post by: Katpappy on July 23, 2022, 08:05:06 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on July 24, 2022, 08:06:16 AM
Nice gig, Tom. Are you guys "sharing neighbors"?They share their sweet corn. I share pictures of us eating it.
Tom
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Post by: Katpappy on July 24, 2022, 06:19:18 PM
Nice gig, Tom. Are you guys "sharing neighbors"?They share their sweet corn. I share pictures of us eating it.
Tom
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:lol:
Post by: ben ji on July 25, 2022, 01:37:01 PM
Post by: BW on July 25, 2022, 03:02:21 PM
https://twitter.com/ksmesonet/status/1550165183158534146?t=iPrK6iMbljZfjutGngmBbQ&s=19Perhaps some help on the way....
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Post by: passranch on July 25, 2022, 04:48:11 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 25, 2022, 06:53:54 PM
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Post by: cfbandyman on July 31, 2022, 12:32:56 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 31, 2022, 06:11:09 PM
Does tater ever help herd cattle? When I got back from vision questing after watching those dogs herd the cattle on the mountain I did some googling and my Instagram feed fed that into the algo to discover this IG account.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CgVSuWJjpOR/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
Post by: KST8FAN on July 31, 2022, 09:09:08 PM
Tater could only dream of doing this. He chases squirrels in JoCo then gets ran under the pick up by the first cow that doesn't take his crap in Waubunsee County.
Always amazed at the hours of training it takes to do this.
We had a dumped dog growing up... Doberman coloring. Loved to follow the cattle when we were on horse back. Once in the pen he went back to long naps in the pick up.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 04, 2022, 02:09:03 PM
https://twitter.com/RobertCMahon/status/1554909470131507200?s=20&t=0DE_2wc5ChTX0fsXYXm1qQ
Post by: passranch on August 04, 2022, 03:48:27 PM
Post by: Tobias on August 04, 2022, 10:39:49 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 06, 2022, 11:15:54 AM
Post by: michigancat on August 06, 2022, 11:38:15 AM
https://twitter.com/joelkoskan/status/1555565401576247297That was one of the most anxiety-inducing videos I've ever seen. Hell no
Post by: steve dave on August 06, 2022, 01:58:01 PM
Post by: wetwillie on August 06, 2022, 02:01:39 PM
Post by: michigancat on August 06, 2022, 02:55:02 PM
No farmer worth his salt is bare handing a badger, no sir.
My farmer grandpa imprinted upon me that badgers are as rough ridin' mean as it gets as early as I can remember
Post by: ben ji on August 06, 2022, 04:06:37 PM
Post by: cfbandyman on August 06, 2022, 05:26:40 PM
I like that he got it really pissed and just yeeted it at his girlfriend
I enjoyed that as well
Post by: Katpappy on August 06, 2022, 08:13:00 PM
Post by: Spracne on August 06, 2022, 09:02:59 PM
I like that he got it really pissed and just yeeted it at his girlfriend
That was my favorite moment as well, stevedave.
Post by: Dr. Fausto Rindón on August 07, 2022, 10:44:57 AM
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Post by: bucket on August 07, 2022, 11:12:57 AM
Post by: passranch on August 08, 2022, 04:23:45 PM
I like that he got it really pissed and just yeeted it at his girlfriend
https://twitter.com/2moreboys/status/1555621105854988289
Post by: nicname on August 08, 2022, 05:13:49 PM
Post by: Spracne on August 08, 2022, 06:31:16 PM
Post by: nicname on August 08, 2022, 06:35:13 PM
It's kind of funny to watch people do stupid things, but it's not much fun for me to watch idiots badgering wild animals like that. That could have ended poorly for the humans, too.
Would have also been entertaining.
Post by: ben ji on August 08, 2022, 08:53:49 PM
It's kind of funny to watch people do stupid things, but it's not much fun for me to watch idiots badgering wild animals like that. That could have ended poorly for the humans, too.
Would you have rather them stuck a shotgun down the badger hole or pew pew'd it once it was on the surface like most farmers would of done? Assuming they didn't pew pew the badger after the video ended I would say it came out alright compared to the majority of farmer/badger interactions.
Post by: michigancat on August 08, 2022, 08:57:29 PM
It's kind of funny to watch people do stupid things, but it's not much fun for me to watch idiots badgering wild animals like that. That could have ended poorly for the humans, too.
Would you have rather them stuck a shotgun down the badger hole or pew pew'd it once it was on the surface like most farmers would of done? Assuming they didn't pew pew the badger after the video ended I would say it came out alright compared to the majority of farmer/badger interactions.
The shotgun is arguably less cruel
Post by: ben ji on August 08, 2022, 09:01:35 PM
It's kind of funny to watch people do stupid things, but it's not much fun for me to watch idiots badgering wild animals like that. That could have ended poorly for the humans, too.
Would you have rather them stuck a shotgun down the badger hole or pew pew'd it once it was on the surface like most farmers would of done? Assuming they didn't pew pew the badger after the video ended I would say it came out alright compared to the majority of farmer/badger interactions.
The shotgun is arguably less cruel
Question for michigancat - Would you rather be abducted from your home by aliens where they brought you aboard their spaceship, locked your arms behind your back and dragged you around to show all their buds what they caught then returned.....or killed with a blast of lead pellets through your head as you opened your front door?
Post by: star seed 7 on August 08, 2022, 09:05:26 PM
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on August 08, 2022, 10:53:39 PM
Post by: OB_Won on August 09, 2022, 12:58:46 AM
Post by: Katpappy on August 09, 2022, 06:41:07 AM
If you follow the rabbit hole of tweets you can see he has caught badgers on multiple occasions.
That's a skill I don't want to learn.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 09, 2022, 01:36:55 PM
Yep, that cow was thinking to itself, just hurry up and slaughter me so you can enjoy my dumbass meat.
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Post by: WildcatNkilt on August 09, 2022, 02:32:34 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 09, 2022, 02:52:24 PM
In-laws bought a farm and just bought 2 mules. Sounds like a potential disaster.Sounds like that could provide a trove of interesting posts for this thread.
Post by: steve dave on August 09, 2022, 03:13:39 PM
In-laws bought a farm and just bought 2 mules. Sounds like a potential disaster.Mules are a great hobby farm pet I bet
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Post by: ben ji on August 09, 2022, 10:16:24 PM
My dad always talks about how if he ever gets some cattle of his own he will totes get a llama or mule to hang out with them and keep the pesky yotes away (which no real cow farmer does unless they maybe live in the mountains or something)
Post by: Institutional Control on August 10, 2022, 10:51:47 AM
Yeah, did they buy the mules to hang out with their cattle or just to keep in a fenced corral as hobby farm pets?It appears to be a pretty common practice here in Texas to put a donkey or mule in with cattle.
My dad always talks about how if he ever gets some cattle of his own he will totes get a llama or mule to hang out with them and keep the pesky yotes away (which no real cow farmer does unless they maybe live in the mountains or something)
Post by: steve dave on August 10, 2022, 11:15:34 AM
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Post by: star seed 7 on August 10, 2022, 11:22:05 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on August 10, 2022, 11:25:49 AM
LlamasWifes cousin has like 5 llamas. One of those sons of guns is a mean sob and they are huge
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on August 10, 2022, 11:30:14 AM
LlamasWifes cousin has like 5 llamas. One of those sons of guns is a mean sob and they are huge
champion spitters
Post by: sys on August 10, 2022, 02:52:27 PM
Pretty common in KS with sheep or goats but I’ve never seen it with cattle that I recall.
my grandfather always talked about coyotes getting a calf, but i don't recall it ever actually happening. probably it's only a (v low) risk for like the first day or so. or maybe never.
Post by: passranch on August 10, 2022, 05:14:26 PM
Yeah my Texas hobby cow farm family has a mule or donkey or something. They have like Irish or Scottish cows. Something like that.
Are they these fuzzy critters? (Scottish "Highland Coo"?)
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Adorable!
Post by: KST8FAN on August 10, 2022, 05:37:05 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on August 10, 2022, 06:04:54 PM
Yeah my Texas hobby cow farm family has a mule or donkey or something. They have like Irish or Scottish cows. Something like that.
Are they these fuzzy critters? (Scottish "Highland Coo"?)
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Adorable!
Unfortunately no, they are oreo colors
Post by: KST8FAN on August 10, 2022, 06:18:16 PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belted_GallowayYeah my Texas hobby cow farm family has a mule or donkey or something. They have like Irish or Scottish cows. Something like that.
Are they these fuzzy critters? (Scottish "Highland Coo"?)
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Adorable!
Unfortunately no, they are oreo colors
A guy west of Auburn has some of the Scottish Highlanders.
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Post by: Katpappy on August 10, 2022, 06:35:03 PM
Yeah my Texas hobby cow farm family has a mule or donkey or something. They have like Irish or Scottish cows. Something like that.
Are they these fuzzy critters? (Scottish "Highland Coo"?)
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Adorable!
They look to much like pets. They're way too adorable to eat.
Post by: sys on August 10, 2022, 07:37:04 PM
they are oreo colors
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Post by: steve dave on August 10, 2022, 09:23:18 PM
Yes, never seen a coyote get one. Have posted a lot ITT on it and any coyote seen eating a baby calf found an already dead baby calf to eat. But farmers are rock hard horny for shooting coyotes so blood must be spilled.Pretty common in KS with sheep or goats but I’ve never seen it with cattle that I recall.
my grandfather always talked about coyotes getting a calf, but i don't recall it ever actually happening. probably it's only a (v low) risk for like the first day or so. or maybe never.
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Post by: ben ji on August 10, 2022, 09:58:11 PM
Looking forward to blessing this bbs with more sunset/badger/random farm implements pictures.
Current plan is to take a picture of the badger if I see it again but there is a 5% chance I YOLO and grab it by the neck to become internet famous.
Post by: Katpappy on August 11, 2022, 01:55:59 AM
I'm heading out to the cat ranch this weekend because I have nothing going on in the big city and want to cut some more firewood and do some pheasant scouting on some WIHA near the cat ranch.
Looking forward to blessing this bbs with more sunset/badger/random farm implements pictures.
Current plan is to take a picture of the badger if I see it again but there is a 5% chance I YOLO and grab it by the neck to become internet famous.
If you decide you're brave enough to try to catch one bare handed, may you pray to God that you are able to keep some of your fingers. They will attack an mountain lion and just like a wolverine they usually win.
Post by: passranch on August 11, 2022, 05:25:37 PM
Yeah my Texas hobby cow farm family has a mule or donkey or something. They have like Irish or Scottish cows. Something like that.
Are they these fuzzy critters? (Scottish "Highland Coo"?)
(https://www.kilts-n-stuff.com/wp-content/uploads/AdobeStock_336644580-scaled.jpeg)
Adorable!
They look to much like pets. They're way too adorable to eat.
They are apparently incredibly yummy. :lick:
Post by: farming_cat fan on August 14, 2022, 10:07:16 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 18, 2022, 01:12:15 PM
tl/dr:
1. Wheat faced lots of adversity - especially in Western KS and especially until late in the spring.
2. Kansas wheat is very strong - has "9 lives", if you will and is a great gift to our state and the world.
https://www.agupdate.com/midwestmessenger/news/crop/a-year-in-kansas-wheat/article_86528882-1e3c-11ed-8b7b-3f0263d9cc23.html (https://www.agupdate.com/midwestmessenger/news/crop/a-year-in-kansas-wheat/article_86528882-1e3c-11ed-8b7b-3f0263d9cc23.html)
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 18, 2022, 01:21:49 PM
If you follow the rabbit hole of tweets you can see he has caught badgers on multiple occasions.
his intern sent those dumbass
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on August 18, 2022, 03:58:45 PM
i have no idea what any of that means but i assume it is good news for our farming friends
Post by: wiley on August 18, 2022, 04:02:55 PM
https://twitter.com/kwiens/status/1558688970799648769?s=20&t=I_MuRjqvmmGRHPDquODEZA (https://twitter.com/kwiens/status/1558688970799648769?s=20&t=I_MuRjqvmmGRHPDquODEZA)Software that runs a John deere tractor can be modified to run Doom (video game). They’re sharing that the John Deere software is just running a version of linux that likely will never be patched/updated.
i have no idea what any of that means but i assume it is good news for our farming friends
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/15/23306650/def-con-hacker-john-deere-tractors-run-doom-right-to-repair
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Post by: ben ji on August 21, 2022, 12:47:13 AM
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Post by: ben ji on August 21, 2022, 12:50:31 AM
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 31, 2022, 07:22:12 PM
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on September 01, 2022, 08:09:07 AM
are your pictures in chronological order and they are fixing the top part? That makeshift platform they created up there to sit on, no thanks. Also wtf is that ladder standing on? also a LADDER?
Post by: XocolateThundarr on September 01, 2022, 08:14:43 AM
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Post by: ben ji on September 01, 2022, 07:49:57 PM
Made it back to the garage before the rain god's came. Ended up getting a total of 1.1 inches last night.
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 01, 2022, 08:30:18 PM
I have some questions. You said the silo is full? I didn't realize farmer's still use them...thought they are mostly for show anymore.
are your pictures in chronological order and they are fixing the top part? That makeshift platform they created up there to sit on, no thanks. Also wtf is that ladder standing on? also a LADDER?
Cousin winters cows for a guy so he still needs silage and hay.
Pictures 2 1 3 4
I think they took some plywood up to set stuff on.
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Post by: ben ji on September 01, 2022, 08:44:09 PM
I can't believe that silo is only 50 years old, looks like the leaning tower of Pisa.I have some questions. You said the silo is full? I didn't realize farmer's still use them...thought they are mostly for show anymore.
are your pictures in chronological order and they are fixing the top part? That makeshift platform they created up there to sit on, no thanks. Also wtf is that ladder standing on? also a LADDER?
Cousin winters cows for a guy so he still needs silage and hay.
Pictures 2 1 3 4
I think they took some plywood up to set stuff on.
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on September 02, 2022, 09:21:55 AM
I can't believe that silo is only 50 years old, looks like the leaning tower of Pisa.I have some questions. You said the silo is full? I didn't realize farmer's still use them...thought they are mostly for show anymore.
are your pictures in chronological order and they are fixing the top part? That makeshift platform they created up there to sit on, no thanks. Also wtf is that ladder standing on? also a LADDER?
Cousin winters cows for a guy so he still needs silage and hay.
Pictures 2 1 3 4
I think they took some plywood up to set stuff on.
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and a dong
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 06, 2022, 02:45:14 AM
Please tell me more about this farm blower(?) Tool. It was in the back of a flatbed/haybale dispensing farm truck.Its a mist sprayer. Not sure the application in your area of the state. I think you can spray cover crops, vegetables from the edge of the field. Possibly trees too.
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Post by: Skipper44 on September 06, 2022, 07:02:11 AM
Also please guess how many riding lawnmowers are currently in the garage at the farm. Bonus points if you can guess how many are operational.4 total - 1 operational but out of fuel
Post by: Cartierfor3 on September 06, 2022, 02:42:08 PM
Cant. Stop. Watching.
https://youtu.be/vvzZLI04_is
I'm sorry what? Are all farms so rat infested you can round up 250 rats with some rat catching dogs? Gross
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2022, 06:19:26 PM
Also please guess how many riding lawnmowers are currently in the garage at the farm. Bonus points if you can guess how many are operational.4 total - 1 operational but out of fuel
Close. 4 total and now TWO are operational.
One wouldn't start this spring so my dad went and bought another and at some point in the last month he got it running again.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on September 06, 2022, 06:54:53 PM
Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2022, 07:02:09 PM
I love that he keeps buying the same’ish POS mower, lmaoIt's probably the only one they sell at the local Walmart...
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Also I'm sure he just writes that off as an expense when the farm accountant guy does the taxes.
Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2022, 07:03:26 PM
I can smell that shed just from looking at that pictureDirt, mixed with some oil/chemicals and some lingering cat/bird/mice poop ammonia smell.
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Post by: ben ji on September 06, 2022, 10:51:48 PM
Also, that’s an astounding number of electric chainsaws.Harbor freight specials. My dad bought around 5-10 of them over the years and would put the generator in the back of lil red so we could chop up firewood.
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I bought a Ryobi gas powered lil guy for a bday present a couple of years ago but he never uses it.
I cut up all this firewood from dead trees in the windbreak since the spring. Still have a couple of piles out in the windbreak my dad doesn't know about because I'm tired of going out there in late December/January and he has burned all the wood I cut.
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 07, 2022, 01:42:27 AM
Don't cut your noggin on that sickle bar in the rafters.Also please guess how many riding lawnmowers are currently in the garage at the farm. Bonus points if you can guess how many are operational.4 total - 1 operational but out of fuel
Close. 4 total and now TWO are operational.
One wouldn't start this spring so my dad went and bought another and at some point in the last month he got it running again.
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 16, 2022, 08:59:24 PM
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Post by: schreds21 on September 16, 2022, 09:36:24 PM
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Post by: ben ji on September 17, 2022, 03:00:14 PM
I'm suprised there's anything to cut. Aren't you in western ks?Tom is a Flint hills farmer
Post by: ben ji on September 17, 2022, 09:40:32 PM
This includes the "irrigated" circle (split well thats on my aunts land, we get it like 1/4 weeks) which my dad fought with the GOVERNMENT insurance man to get classified as irrigated for insurance purposes. What my dad didn't realize is that if you grow the same crop year over year the insurance payments go down (to encourage crop rotation) and of course my dad has grown milo on that circle for like 4 years straight because one year he made some money doing it.
The good news is that my dad has finally realized he is not a farmer and is going to cash rent our land to the local land baron which is what I told him to do 5 years ago......
BUT we still have like 120 acres of pasture + grazing on harvested crop fields that my dad has been leasing to a local kid about my age and now he wants to get a couple of heifers to start his own herd and let the local kid take care of them all.
Post by: ben ji on September 17, 2022, 09:44:52 PM
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Post by: ben ji on September 17, 2022, 10:04:25 PM
good move not farming. Looking forward to the adventures ranching.
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Fun fact. Last year my dad bought 3 feeder calfs at the local sale barn to fatten up. One of them died like 3 days later and the remaining 2 escaped the first time my dad went back to KC and ended up 7 miles away. He ended up selling the remaining 2 like 1 month after he bought them. There was also a random vet visit that costs what he thought most of his profit would be if he had actually sold the cows for a profit.
As long as the young local rancher is around it should be all good.
Post by: KST8FAN on September 17, 2022, 11:51:28 PM
I'm suprised there's anything to cut. Aren't you in western ks?NEKS
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 18, 2022, 08:59:14 AM
That grain cart is a hot POA1100 bushels. Unloads in about 2 minutes.
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Post by: bucket on September 18, 2022, 11:23:24 AM
good move not farming. Looking forward to the adventures ranching.
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Fun fact. Last year my dad bought 3 feeder calfs at the local sale barn to fatten up. One of them died like 3 days later and the remaining 2 escaped the first time my dad went back to KC and ended up 7 miles away. He ended up selling the remaining 2 like 1 month after he bought them. There was also a random vet visit that costs what he thought most of his profit would be if he had actually sold the cows for a profit.
As long as the young local rancher is around it should be all good.
:lol:
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on September 18, 2022, 11:33:49 AM
In other news the drought out at the cat ranch zero'd out our milo crop, just gonna cash some gov insurance checks now.Milo-killing drought is bad drought.
This includes the "irrigated" circle (split well thats on my aunts land, we get it like 1/4 weeks) which my dad fought with the GOVERNMENT insurance man to get classified as irrigated for insurance purposes. What my dad didn't realize is that if you grow the same crop year over year the insurance payments go down (to encourage crop rotation) and of course my dad has grown milo on that circle for like 4 years straight because one year he made some money doing it.
The good news is that my dad has finally realized he is not a farmer and is going to cash rent our land to the local land baron which is what I told him to do 5 years ago......
BUT we still have like 120 acres of pasture + grazing on harvested crop fields that my dad has been leasing to a local kid about my age and now he wants to get a couple of heifers to start his own herd and let the local kid take care of them all.
Post by: ben ji on September 21, 2022, 07:48:02 PM
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Post by: ben ji on September 21, 2022, 07:51:46 PM
I'd say SD wrote this book but he has made everyone aware he drives a giant SLED to haul around his gaggle of children.
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Post by: mocat on September 21, 2022, 07:55:20 PM
Post by: steve dave on September 21, 2022, 08:03:40 PM
Just checked this book out from the Library and am looking forward to reading it. Author is from SW KS and it's about the ogallala aquiferI don’t like the uppity tone of the description but let me know if it’s good and what towns make an appearance
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Post by: ben ji on September 22, 2022, 07:02:24 PM
I'm about 3/4 the way through it now and you would love the book.Just checked this book out from the Library and am looking forward to reading it. Author is from SW KS and it's about the ogallala aquiferI don’t like the uppity tone of the description but let me know if it’s good and what towns make an appearance
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TLDR - Kids parents get divorced when he's little and he grows up a "city" kid in Liberal and is now an Anthropology Professor at OU. Reconnects with his father/family history on the old homestead along the Cimarron to write about the depletion of the aquifer and his dad gets him interviews with a bunch of people etc. Tons of references to water mining/farm mafia/agribusiness/Mennonites/KSU/GMD (groundwater management districts for the city folk) etc.
Also the writing is pretty good.
Post by: farming_cat fan on September 23, 2022, 10:13:23 AM
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Post by: steve dave on September 23, 2022, 05:40:25 PM
Nice, will orderI'm about 3/4 the way through it now and you would love the book.Just checked this book out from the Library and am looking forward to reading it. Author is from SW KS and it's about the ogallala aquiferI don’t like the uppity tone of the description but let me know if it’s good and what towns make an appearance
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TLDR - Kids parents get divorced when he's little and he grows up a "city" kid in Liberal and is now an Anthropology Professor at OU. Reconnects with his father/family history on the old homestead along the Cimarron to write about the depletion of the aquifer and his dad gets him interviews with a bunch of people etc. Tons of references to water mining/farm mafia/agribusiness/Mennonites/KSU/GMD (groundwater management districts for the city folk) etc.
Also the writing is pretty good.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on September 29, 2022, 10:15:07 AM
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Post by: steve dave on October 05, 2022, 08:44:13 PM
The elite family pasture is near Harveyville.
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hell yeah
Post by: ben ji on October 05, 2022, 11:20:16 PM
The elite family pasture is near Harveyville.Juvenile Bobcat
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Post by: Spracne on October 06, 2022, 01:46:02 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 12, 2022, 08:02:18 PM
https://kswheat.com/news/dusting-it-in-kansas-wheat-producers-plant-with-hope-for-moisture?fbclid=IwAR0PPulbmDgqMTSdSBEwRuU27N5B-dqVGUrRSmO8NiYg6HL6Q4EiG30haOc (https://kswheat.com/news/dusting-it-in-kansas-wheat-producers-plant-with-hope-for-moisture?fbclid=IwAR0PPulbmDgqMTSdSBEwRuU27N5B-dqVGUrRSmO8NiYg6HL6Q4EiG30haOc)
Post by: ben ji on October 12, 2022, 09:13:49 PM
Heading out there this weekend to see if there are any birds left to hunt during pheasant season.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on October 13, 2022, 09:29:42 AM
Pretty sure the cat ranch is just going to fallow all their fields over the summer and hope for some moisture before planting winter wheat next fall.....At least that was the plan until my dad got his phat government insurance check for the zero'd out milo.
Heading out there this weekend to see if there are any birds left to hunt during pheasant season.
damn socialists :shakesfist:
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 13, 2022, 09:48:04 AM
Not to pit this up, but here's a very interesting website where you can see who got what farm payments in your area over the past several years:Pretty sure the cat ranch is just going to fallow all their fields over the summer and hope for some moisture before planting winter wheat next fall.....At least that was the plan until my dad got his phat government insurance check for the zero'd out milo.
Heading out there this weekend to see if there are any birds left to hunt during pheasant season.
damn socialists :shakesfist:
https://farm.ewg.org/index.php (https://farm.ewg.org/index.php)
Post by: ben ji on October 13, 2022, 05:42:38 PM
Ben ji's dad was super excited when I showed him he showed up on this list the first time for like 1k for some of those trump/china trade war checks. Seeing his name along with all the big time Thomas county farmers made him feel like he was had made it.Not to pit this up, but here's a very interesting website where you can see who got what farm payments in your area over the past several years:Pretty sure the cat ranch is just going to fallow all their fields over the summer and hope for some moisture before planting winter wheat next fall.....At least that was the plan until my dad got his phat government insurance check for the zero'd out milo.
Heading out there this weekend to see if there are any birds left to hunt during pheasant season.
damn socialists :shakesfist:
https://farm.ewg.org/index.php (https://farm.ewg.org/index.php)
Crop insurance payments do not show up there though (even though the insurance is 60% subsidized by taxpayers), just direct payments.
Post by: ben ji on October 14, 2022, 09:43:26 PM
Planning to walk Milo through them tomorrow to see if there are any birds out here after the drought.
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Post by: Katpappy on October 14, 2022, 10:14:54 PM
Post by: ben ji on October 15, 2022, 07:23:59 PM
Walked past it thinking it was some horny grasshoppers but it kept on rattling so I took a look.
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Post by: passranch on October 17, 2022, 04:33:32 PM
ENHANCE
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Wowzers! That rough rider is all coiled up and ready to go! :eek: :ohno:
I came across one on a hike (solo) in Arizona last spring just like that in just about the same manner. Didn't see it until after I walked right past it (within striking distance). Got the ol' heart rate elevated that's for sure!
Post by: star seed 7 on October 17, 2022, 04:37:00 PM
Post by: ben ji on October 17, 2022, 06:44:40 PM
Glad the 'ji pups didn't tangle with that bastard. My dad has had two dogs bit by rattlers out on the hobby farm. Both survived, one barely though.
They were blissfully unaware.
Do you know what the wound looked like? When I was out there over memorial day weekend I let the mutts out to run around when I was unloading the car. Milo came back limping and wouldn't put any weight on one of her front paws the whole weekend which was kind of swollen.
I thought she had just sprained an ankle or something, no outwards signs of being sick, just lazy/lethargic. When I got back to KC this wound popped up so I took her to the vet and there were like "Dunno but here are some antibiotics and anti inflammatory meds"
The only thing I can think of was she got bit by some sort of snake but they didn't pump her full of venom.
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Post by: ben ji on October 17, 2022, 06:50:28 PM
"Ben ji found this one in the CRP. Just be aware snakes are on the farm - "do not kill them".
There is a "Green Smooth" snake living in the fireplace ash pit. It is not venomous. Just be aware - do not kill it.
I will look for some rattler warning signs to post around the property. Good deterrent for trespassers."
Can't wait to see the "DANGER, RATTLESNAKE AROUND" signs he puts up.
Post by: sys on October 17, 2022, 08:25:39 PM
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Post by: sys on October 17, 2022, 08:29:36 PM
"Ben ji found this one in the CRP. Just be aware snakes are on the farm - "do not kill them"
good job outta ben ji's father!
Post by: star seed 7 on October 18, 2022, 12:00:33 AM
The younger took it it like a champ and just needed rest at home for a few days. His lip was a little swollen and he was lethargic but the vet wasn't worried about it at all. After a week you couldn't even tell it had happened.
Post by: Tobias on October 18, 2022, 12:58:05 AM
ENHANCE
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Post by: ben ji on October 18, 2022, 10:52:07 PM
So I have this super heavy work bench that I added heavy casters that allow you to move it easily then flip the casters up so the bench can sit firmly on its legs while being used.One day after my dad passed the cat ranch garage will be that clean for like 10 years until I become a super old and start hoarding coffee cans and gallon milk jugs.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 19, 2022, 08:16:22 AM
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Post by: schreds21 on October 19, 2022, 07:09:26 PM
I've got junk creep on the other side of the barn.That shop is entirely too clean. No way that is on a real farm.
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Post by: Cire on October 20, 2022, 05:51:03 AM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on October 20, 2022, 11:03:08 AM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on October 20, 2022, 11:19:50 AM
and the exact same folks oppose student loan forgiveness
Getting dangerously close to the pit here, but this crap drives me nuts. "Yeah, but this is different". no it isn't, just admit that you only care about getting yours and shut the eff up.
Post by: Spracne on October 20, 2022, 11:47:36 AM
and the exact same folks oppose student loan forgiveness
Getting dangerously close to the pit here, but this crap drives me nuts. "Yeah, but this is different". no it isn't, just admit that you only care about getting yours and shut the eff up.
I mean, this is just people in general. Basic human behavior. I wouldn't call it political.
Post by: Pete on October 20, 2022, 11:56:28 AM
Post by: cfbandyman on October 20, 2022, 11:56:32 AM
and the exact same folks oppose student loan forgiveness
Getting dangerously close to the pit here, but this crap drives me nuts. "Yeah, but this is different". no it isn't, just admit that you only care about getting yours and shut the eff up.
I mean, this is just people in general. Basic human behavior. I wouldn't call it political.
I agree, but in my experience farmers are the most hypocritical about this crap more than any other group, if anything cause they "salt of the earth" themselves into thinking they are more important than any other group. Not saying they aren't, but enough country songs and self fellating groups reinforce it
Post by: Cire on October 20, 2022, 11:58:14 AM
white farmers don't like black farmers eating at the teet
Post by: Cire on October 20, 2022, 11:58:34 AM
Post by: Spracne on October 20, 2022, 11:59:03 AM
and the exact same folks oppose student loan forgiveness
Getting dangerously close to the pit here, but this crap drives me nuts. "Yeah, but this is different". no it isn't, just admit that you only care about getting yours and shut the eff up.
I mean, this is just people in general. Basic human behavior. I wouldn't call it political.
I agree, but in my experience farmers are the most hypocritical about this crap more than any other group, if anything cause they "salt of the earth" themselves into thinking they are more important than any other group. Not saying they aren't, but enough country songs and self fellating groups reinforce it
There are folks from all walks of life who like to fantasize that they lifted themselves up by their bootstraps. But where are my handouts for running a law firm? :shakesfist:
Post by: cfbandyman on October 20, 2022, 12:07:26 PM
and the exact same folks oppose student loan forgiveness
Getting dangerously close to the pit here, but this crap drives me nuts. "Yeah, but this is different". no it isn't, just admit that you only care about getting yours and shut the eff up.
I mean, this is just people in general. Basic human behavior. I wouldn't call it political.
I agree, but in my experience farmers are the most hypocritical about this crap more than any other group, if anything cause they "salt of the earth" themselves into thinking they are more important than any other group. Not saying they aren't, but enough country songs and self fellating groups reinforce it
There are folks from all walks of life who like to fantasize that they lifted themselves up by their bootstraps. But where are my handouts for running a law firm? :shakesfist:
You need to band together and have a facebook group dedicated to all the things you sacrifice for your friends and family, songs that glorify what you do as the american way, how early you wake up, etc etc
Post by: ben ji on October 20, 2022, 07:56:07 PM
I need a few of these farmers in the Lawrence area to go under and breakup their land and sell it to people like me (specifically me, actually) so that their son and dad can go murder mammals and birds together with bows and cross bows and rifles and traps all sorts of awful things on the land. Not me tho. I only murder fish.
This but in the flint hills is my dream. House with a Creek/Farmpond/40ish acres and within 30ish min of Manhattan.
Post by: Katpappy on October 20, 2022, 08:00:35 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-government-court-black-farmer-relief-program-rcna51916
white farmers don't like black farmerseating atsucking off the teet
FYP, city boy.
Post by: star seed 7 on October 20, 2022, 08:02:15 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-government-court-black-farmer-relief-program-rcna51916
white farmers don't like black farmerseating atsucking off the teet
FYP, city boy.
Katdaddy, yes! I had a good city slicker zinger ready but got distracted and forgot to post it
Post by: Katpappy on October 20, 2022, 08:04:19 PM
and the exact same folks oppose student loan forgiveness
Getting dangerously close to the pit here, but this crap drives me nuts. "Yeah, but this is different". no it isn't, just admit that you only care about getting yours and shut the eff up.
I mean, this is just people in general. Basic human behavior. I wouldn't call it political.
I agree, but in my experience farmers are the most hypocritical about this crap more than any other group, if anything cause they "salt of the earth" themselves into thinking they are more important than any other group. Not saying they aren't, but enough country songs and self fellating groups reinforce it
There are folks from all walks of life who like to fantasize that they lifted themselves up by their bootstraps. But where are my handouts for running a law firm? :shakesfist:
You're doing it wrong; coorprate welfare is where it's at!!! :Woot: Small business, :'bye cruel world:
Post by: Katpappy on October 20, 2022, 08:06:52 PM
Post by: KSUBrian on October 22, 2022, 11:13:08 AM
and the exact same folks oppose student loan forgiveness
Getting dangerously close to the pit here, but this crap drives me nuts. "Yeah, but this is different". no it isn't, just admit that you only care about getting yours and shut the eff up.
I mean, this is just people in general. Basic human behavior. I wouldn't call it political.
I agree, but in my experience farmers are the most hypocritical about this crap more than any other group, if anything cause they "salt of the earth" themselves into thinking they are more important than any other group. Not saying they aren't, but enough country songs and self fellating groups reinforce it
There are folks from all walks of life who like to fantasize that they lifted themselves up by their bootstraps. But where are my handouts for running a law firm? :shakesfist:
I thought lawyers got theirs every month when I am paying bills @ $500+/hour.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on October 23, 2022, 01:28:50 PM
and the exact same folks oppose student loan forgiveness
Getting dangerously close to the pit here, but this crap drives me nuts. "Yeah, but this is different". no it isn't, just admit that you only care about getting yours and shut the eff up.
I mean, this is just people in general. Basic human behavior. I wouldn't call it political.
I agree, but in my experience farmers are the most hypocritical about this crap more than any other group, if anything cause they "salt of the earth" themselves into thinking they are more important than any other group. Not saying they aren't, but enough country songs and self fellating groups reinforce it
There are folks from all walks of life who like to fantasize that they lifted themselves up by their bootstraps. But where are my handouts for running a law firm? :shakesfist:
uh, there are literal crap tons of handouts available. Just ask (hire a smart accountant)
Post by: KST8FAN on October 23, 2022, 09:10:08 PM
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Post by: ben ji on October 24, 2022, 03:08:28 PM
Always have to get a pix of the flint hills driving home from the game today
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 30, 2022, 09:36:28 AM
I think every cattle operation has that one old truck to haul crap in. You spend half the morning getting it to run 1-2 times a year.
Brake fluid got the brakes working, we pushed it with skid steer to get it started, add a gallon of hydraulic fluid, gallon of anti freeze. Off and running.
We have not hauled for a couple years so this was good manure we just hauled onto a couple low terraces. The cousin will plow the terraces and disc it down later.
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Post by: KST8FAN on October 31, 2022, 02:22:40 PM
Is that an International Harvester?'65 Loadstar 1600
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Post by: Spracne on October 31, 2022, 03:01:08 PM
Post by: Katpappy on October 31, 2022, 08:16:26 PM
Is that an International Harvester?'65 Loadstar 1600
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My dad bought a brand new '72 Loadstar 1600 and I hauled our high school female teachers in our homecoming parade. They were dressed as the opponent football team and ppl threw all kinds of crap at them. It was fun, but I wished I wouldn't spend the day before cleaning the truck. :Carl:
Post by: cfbandyman on November 03, 2022, 02:56:38 PM
Post by: Cire on November 03, 2022, 03:04:38 PM
We had an 80th birthday party at kick off so I sent my cousin and wife to the cats beat down while I passed the time hauling manure before the party.
I think every cattle operation has that one old truck to haul crap in. You spend half the morning getting it to run 1-2 times a year.
Brake fluid got the brakes working, we pushed it with skid steer to get it started, add a gallon of hydraulic fluid, gallon of anti freeze. Off and running.
We have not hauled for a couple years so this was good manure we just hauled onto a couple low terraces. The cousin will plow the terraces and disc it down later.
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My grandpa had that same truck. Used to go get rock with him to put on the drive into the house.
Post by: ben ji on November 03, 2022, 03:08:48 PM
https://twitter.com/HADLEY_PANZER54/status/1588173974563098625It's beautiful
Post by: Spracne on November 03, 2022, 05:51:20 PM
Post by: cfbandyman on November 05, 2022, 10:19:47 AM
https://twitter.com/Hayden_Gillum55/status/1588655648992120832
Post by: Spracne on November 05, 2022, 10:31:08 AM
Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 06, 2022, 11:48:05 AM
The hayseed jokes would be a bit too on the nose, so I'll refrain.
Hey mother rough rider, we're not the ones who "Wave the Wheat". :shakesfist:
Post by: farming_cat fan on November 09, 2022, 12:21:06 PM
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 09, 2022, 12:29:58 PM
Post by: Cire on November 09, 2022, 01:17:48 PM
Finally finished harvest last night. Didn't get as many neat pictures this year. I have some drone footage that I need to review/edit.
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Hell yeah
Post by: ben ji on November 09, 2022, 03:50:42 PM
Finally finished harvest last night. Didn't get as many neat pictures this year. I have some drone footage that I need to review/edit.Those are some HAWT harvest/sunset pics.
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 09, 2022, 08:33:12 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 09, 2022, 09:30:24 PM
Post by: farming_cat fan on November 10, 2022, 07:20:23 AM
I noticed a windmill in the first pic, is farming_cat cashing some sweet sweet wind mill mafia checks?I am not. That is some ground that my brother rents.
Post by: ben ji on November 15, 2022, 06:40:34 PM
I took it apart and it looks like the "stop cap" on the end of the water pipe in the trough had split (was down in the teens at night) and was spraying water out like a fountain.
It was the night before I left and I couldn't find an individual water turn off for that trough so I'm going to have to replace the cap on the pipe when I'm out there over Thanksgiving weekend. I turned the water well for the house/pens off before I left so we don't have a monster electric bill due to the pump running 24/7.
My dad is currently in the middle of a 2 week long cruise and does not have cell service so I couldn't ask him what to do.
How would you rank ben ji's city boy farm decision making abilities?
(Important side note, there are no cows or other animals currently out there that would need access to the other non broken water troughs) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221116/336867e3f19fdce68d157963ed322d2b.jpg)
Post by: cfbandyman on November 15, 2022, 06:44:34 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on November 22, 2022, 09:20:26 PM
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Post by: steve dave on November 22, 2022, 09:24:32 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 22, 2022, 10:00:55 PM
benji, need update on water sitchuash'I confirmed there is a pipe wrench hanging up in the garage and turned the water off when I left so it is no longer leaking.
I bought like 5 different sized pipe caps at my local KC home Depot so one of them should fit when I get back out there.
Should be pulling in tomorrow evening and will turn the water back for the night then eventually get around to fixing it on Thursday/Friday.
The house/pen water pump is pretty new(15ish years?) So all I have to do is climb down some silence of the lambs type manhole and press a button on the control panel to turn it on/off.
I will ask this thread for advice if I am unable to do basic farm boi tasks.
Post by: ben ji on November 22, 2022, 10:04:05 PM
The best pic from last week's vacation at the farm. Cousins calves he is wintering lined up at the bunk.I honestly thought that was a picture of your old tractor tire windbreak at first.
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 22, 2022, 10:15:53 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 23, 2022, 07:50:06 AM
The best pic from last week's vacation at the farm. Cousins calves he is wintering lined up at the bunk.Looks great. Love to see those calves chowing down.
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Post by: Katpappy on November 23, 2022, 06:10:06 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 24, 2022, 10:27:37 AM
This guy decided to take a swim in the dogs water bowl overnight but somehow drowned?
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Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2022, 06:30:32 PM
There is an old water trough by a pen that is no longer in use that started leaking mad water over the weekend while I was out at the cat ranch trying unsuccessfully to find pheasant.Felt like a real farm person when I fixed this today.
I took it apart and it looks like the "stop cap" on the end of the water pipe in the trough had split (was down in the teens at night) and was spraying water out like a fountain.
It was the night before I left and I couldn't find an individual water turn off for that trough so I'm going to have to replace the cap on the pipe when I'm out there over Thanksgiving weekend. I turned the water well for the house/pens off before I left so we don't have a monster electric bill due to the pump running 24/7.
My dad is currently in the middle of a 2 week long cruise and does not have cell service so I couldn't ask him what to do.
How would you rank ben ji's city boy farm decision making abilities?
(Important side note, there are no cows or other animals currently out there that would need access to the other non broken water troughs) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221116/336867e3f19fdce68d157963ed322d2b.jpg)
Old cap and new cap, no water is leaking now.
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Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2022, 06:32:57 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2022, 06:36:41 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2022, 06:37:49 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 25, 2022, 06:37:51 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2022, 06:42:08 PM
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on November 25, 2022, 07:16:31 PM
Post by: Katpappy on November 25, 2022, 07:40:15 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2022, 07:41:09 PM
Benji, let me know if you want to kill a nice whitetail.There are plenty out at the cat ranch, saw more deer than pheasant out here. Watched this big boi fight with another younger boi over some female...if I had a rifle instead of a shotgun it would have been easy pickings. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221126/b8de246b28c0d13f94fa63ae45a01f30.jpg)
Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2022, 07:42:18 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2022, 07:53:46 PM
In my younger years, we were drilling an oil well in western KS and found an old house about a half mile away. We were slow drilling so we had some free time, but since we worked the morning tower which was 11:00 pm to 7:00 am it was dark. We had a spotlight and went into this house. The next thing that happens is I fell through the rotten floor and landed in the basement. When Tim got done laughing, he lay down flat on the floor and lowered his belt for me to grab hold of which I did and climbed out. That morning we went by the house after our shift was over and all four of us went in the house. We didn't spend much time in there because we saw a big old timber ratter crawling around in there. Needless to say, we kept the eff away from that old house. :ohno:Yeah, I'm afraid to go into these old houses for that exact reason.
Post by: Katpappy on November 25, 2022, 08:02:42 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on November 25, 2022, 08:16:41 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 25, 2022, 08:22:06 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 30, 2022, 08:02:36 PM
I had a Buddy coming out on opening weekend to look for those mystical pheasants and decided to clean out the second bedroom upstairs to make it not look like a hoarder lives there...my mistake
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Post by: ben ji on November 30, 2022, 08:06:37 PM
Post by: Tobias on December 01, 2022, 01:12:25 AM
Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 02, 2022, 03:13:39 PM
https://twitter.com/NWSGoodland/status/1598758525089460224
https://twitter.com/feedcattle/status/1598778219095674880
Post by: Spracne on December 02, 2022, 03:20:41 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on December 07, 2022, 06:09:59 PM
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Post by: Katpappy on December 07, 2022, 09:01:29 PM
Post by: ben ji on December 07, 2022, 09:54:39 PM
Tom, I love the picture of the little guy sitting on your lap while riding on the tractor. Is he an official "farm dog", as it looks like he's earned it? :love:
Tater is an official 24/7/365 adorable dog whether its in the city or the farm.
Post by: star seed 7 on December 07, 2022, 10:02:47 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on December 11, 2022, 11:03:05 PM
Starting to fill up!I've got junk creep on the other side of the barn.That shop is entirely too clean. No way that is on a real farm.
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 11, 2022, 11:05:42 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on December 11, 2022, 11:09:17 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on December 12, 2022, 07:41:22 AM
Post by: wetwillie on December 12, 2022, 07:44:28 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on December 12, 2022, 08:01:50 AM
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Post by: star seed 7 on December 12, 2022, 12:48:50 PM
Post by: ben ji on December 16, 2022, 04:55:17 PM
Will be interesting to see where this goes.
I'm guessing it will be something where in a couple of years farmers can get some sweet sweet government cash to give up their water rights for irrigation.
The cat ranch has one irrigated circle but it shares a well with my Aunt's circle and the well is on her land. The well used to pump enough for both circles but now it can only pump enough for one circle at a time so the cat ranch get it like 25% of the time.
So if they do start offering people money to give up their water rights I'd be all for it since the cat ranch currently does not get our full allocation.
Post by: KST8FAN on December 18, 2022, 08:34:42 PM
This led me down the path of a magnetic mirror for the blind spot and be able to see what's behind me.
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Post by: star seed 7 on December 18, 2022, 08:55:53 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 22, 2022, 11:48:27 AM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on January 05, 2023, 01:53:04 PM
MY CUP OVER FLOWETH WITH THIS STUFF RIGHT NOW!Greatest display of heroism by Americans probably since the Battle of the Bulge.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on January 05, 2023, 01:56:25 PM
The cousins hand crank wore out on the auger elevator. My son hooked him with this new one you run with a cordless drill.That is awesome. I remember running one of those cranks on Grandpa's auger so it could be lowered for transport.
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Reminds me. Did anyone grow up reading "Farm Show" magazine? It was packed for of articles about different things that farmers had built on their farms. Some of them were super cool but some seemed like more trouble than they were worth "Manitoba beet farmer modifies John Deere 95 combine as a mobile platform for hanging Christmas decorations" etc...
https://www.farmshow.com/ (https://www.farmshow.com/)
Post by: steve dave on January 05, 2023, 02:42:04 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 06, 2023, 07:20:06 AM
Curry comb. Used for brushing livestock, usually horses or show cattle.Horses love those things. They're good for cleaning up the winter coat.
You should try it on Milo.
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Post by: steve dave on January 06, 2023, 07:58:50 AM
Curry comb. Used for brushing livestock, usually horses or show cattle.Horses love those things. They're good for cleaning up the winter coat.
You should try it on Milo.
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yeah, we had them for horses back in our owning stupid horses for some reason days of my youth.
Post by: steve dave on January 06, 2023, 07:59:19 AM
Post by: farming_cat fan on January 06, 2023, 08:03:07 AM
I've probably chronicled it a few different times ITT but I hate horses.Horses are a waste of space. Hay burners as I call them.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on January 06, 2023, 07:24:32 PM
Cows at sunset
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One of my buds at KSU was an architecture major. He taught me something really deep that he had learned in his studies of design: the cows and the hay bales are always placed exactly where they are supposed to be in the scene. They always position themselves in the correct spot.
Post by: Katpappy on January 06, 2023, 07:27:33 PM
Cows at sunset
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ben ji, what did you use to take that picture? This is most likely the highest quality picture ITT.
Post by: ben ji on January 06, 2023, 11:25:37 PM
Cows at sunset
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ben ji, what did you use to take that picture? This is most likely the highest quality picture ITT.
Just your genric Pixel google phone I bought like 3 years ago.
Right after I took that picture the cows started sprinting towards me thinking I was going to give them some food. I had my mutts with me and didnt want to deal with the cows so I loaded back up and had 50 cows sprinting after me as I drove out of the pasture. 10/10 would recommend.
Post by: star seed 7 on January 07, 2023, 12:20:08 AM
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Post by: ben ji on January 07, 2023, 06:30:20 PM
Cow pictures always whip ass. Really foggy cow pictures dominate the most in my experience.How do you feel about snow cows?
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Post by: ben ji on January 07, 2023, 06:30:35 PM
Mrs8 took that pic in 2005. I had drug here along to fix fence in the flint hills. Got caught in a shower then she snapped this picture. That's the best of our collection.That grass looks lush AF
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 07, 2023, 08:45:25 PM
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Post by: ben ji on January 07, 2023, 09:39:14 PM
Need some mutt pics plzJust two mutts exhausted from running buckwild all day chasing birds/rabbits/mice and excited they are allowed to recharge on the furniture out at the cat ranch.
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Post by: KST8FAN on January 18, 2023, 05:33:11 PM
Tater looks a little worried about the declining water levels, TomYeah his wading area dried up. It gets deep fast now.
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Post by: Katpappy on January 18, 2023, 09:12:28 PM
Tater looks a little worried about the declining water levels, TomYeah his wading area dried up. It gets deep fast now.
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Looks like he lost a little weight. Is it due to swimming vs wadding?
Post by: KST8FAN on January 18, 2023, 09:33:07 PM
That little feedbag with legs is on a diet. He was pushing 60 lbs. That's a big lift into the F250 with an artificial hip and shoulder.Tater looks a little worried about the declining water levels, TomYeah his wading area dried up. It gets deep fast now.
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Looks like he lost a little weight. Is it due to swimming vs wadding?
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 08, 2023, 01:10:39 PM
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Had the opportunity to ride on a private jet for the first time in my life. Beck's Hybrids flies farmers out to their facility in Indiana to learn about their history and why they do what they do. The one pic is of the 20'+ tall corn they breed for fun. They enter a plant in their local county fair every year and win.
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WTF, yellow New Hollands?
Post by: KST8FAN on February 08, 2023, 09:52:53 PM
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Post by: cfbandyman on February 08, 2023, 11:07:19 PM
I recall yellow NH combines back in the 70s. Combine forum claims now European mfgd are yellow and US mfgd are red?
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My time in Canada must have warped me, I only see yellow NH, so that's how I spot them
Post by: star seed 7 on February 09, 2023, 12:04:24 AM
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Had the opportunity to ride on a private jet for the first time in my life. Beck's Hybrids flies farmers out to their facility in Indiana to learn about their history and why they do what they do. The one pic is of the 20'+ tall corn they breed for fun. They enter a plant in their local county fair every year and win.
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One of the guys I work for took that same trip. Said it was insane. Did you get a framed pic to put in your office too?
Post by: farming_cat fan on February 09, 2023, 02:39:16 PM
That looks like a cool trip, farming_cat. Did they feed you good?
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Turns out Beck's has a cafeteria for all of their employees to eat at. They claimed they don't charge anyone to eat there, but I'm sure that makes the entire thing a business expense and they write it all off of their taxes. So we ate whatever was on the menu that day which happened to be BBQ brisket. So I would say they fed us pretty good.
Post by: farming_cat fan on February 09, 2023, 02:39:58 PM
One of the guys I work for took that same trip. Said it was insane. Did you get a framed pic to put in your office too?
I'm told it will be coming in the mail.
Post by: farming_cat fan on February 09, 2023, 02:53:11 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 09, 2023, 03:14:39 PM
Do you think there is an objective difference between Beck's and other seed companies like Channel, Ohlde, Pioneer?That looks like a cool trip, farming_cat. Did they feed you good?
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Turns out Beck's has a cafeteria for all of their employees to eat at. They claimed they don't charge anyone to eat there, but I'm sure that makes the entire thing a business expense and they write it all off of their taxes. So we ate whatever was on the menu that day which happened to be BBQ brisket. So I would say they fed us pretty good.
Post by: farming_cat fan on February 09, 2023, 03:36:54 PM
The majority of Beck's genetics started with something from the likes of Monsanto (Dekalb, Channel, etc.) and Corteva (Pioneer). They use these genetics and breed in other traits that they like. None of Beck's hybrids will have a cross of genetics between Monsanto and Corteva. That would break their contract agreements and Beck's would essentially be no more. Ohlde is much the same as Beck's except much smaller. Ohlde most likely breeds hybrids to excel in Central Kansas. Whereas Beck's are bred to excel where there is substantially more rain fall. However, Beck's has research sites all across the corn belt, so they probably have a few hybrids very similar to Ohlde. Hybrid selection all comes down to which hybrid is best for your location, soil type, and crop management style. Some companies don't necessarily always have a hybrid that fits a farmers particular case, but another company might. Beck's head agronomist admitted that the 109-115 day corn hybrids are where Monsanto excels and everyone else is playing catch up.Do you think there is an objective difference between Beck's and other seed companies like Channel, Ohlde, Pioneer?That looks like a cool trip, farming_cat. Did they feed you good?
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Turns out Beck's has a cafeteria for all of their employees to eat at. They claimed they don't charge anyone to eat there, but I'm sure that makes the entire thing a business expense and they write it all off of their taxes. So we ate whatever was on the menu that day which happened to be BBQ brisket. So I would say they fed us pretty good.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 09, 2023, 03:39:39 PM
I didn't realize that Dekalb and Channel were part of the same entity.The majority of Beck's genetics started with something from the likes of Monsanto (Dekalb, Channel, etc.) and Corteva (Pioneer). They use these genetics and breed in other traits that they like. None of Beck's hybrids will have a cross of genetics between Monsanto and Corteva. That would break their contract agreements and Beck's would essentially be no more. Ohlde is much the same as Beck's except much smaller. Ohlde most likely breeds hybrids to excel in Central Kansas. Whereas Beck's are bred to excel where there is substantially more rain fall. However, Beck's has research sites all across the corn belt, so they probably have a few hybrids very similar to Ohlde. Hybrid selection all comes down to which hybrid is best for your location, soil type, and crop management style. Some companies don't necessarily always have a hybrid that fits a farmers particular case, but another company might. Beck's head agronomist admitted that the 109-115 day corn hybrids are where Monsanto excels and everyone else is playing catch up.Do you think there is an objective difference between Beck's and other seed companies like Channel, Ohlde, Pioneer?That looks like a cool trip, farming_cat. Did they feed you good?
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Turns out Beck's has a cafeteria for all of their employees to eat at. They claimed they don't charge anyone to eat there, but I'm sure that makes the entire thing a business expense and they write it all off of their taxes. So we ate whatever was on the menu that day which happened to be BBQ brisket. So I would say they fed us pretty good.
Post by: farming_cat fan on February 09, 2023, 04:02:36 PM
I didn't realize that Dekalb and Channel were part of the same entity.There are really only 3 major corn seed companies in the US. Bayer who owns Monsanto which has several different brands of seed including Dekalb and Channel. Corteva who owns Pioneer and several others. Finally Syngenta which has the brand Golden Harvest which you may have heard of. I'm not too familiar with all of the seed brands that are in the US, but let me tell you that there are A LOT!
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Post by: farming_cat fan on February 10, 2023, 12:02:19 PM
What do cash crop farmers do all winter? I get that people with cattle still have things to do but if you are strictly a grain farmer what do you do between harvest and planting?Repair equipment in their big fancy heated shops and haul grain. I would imagine the BTOs (big time operators) have grain contracts about every month throughout the winter so they have to haul grain regularly. Some go on vacations to resorts in much warmer climates. Some probably have winter homes in Arizona.
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Post by: steve dave on February 10, 2023, 12:08:14 PM
small town kansas farmers fly personal jets irl way more than city people per capita. obviously geography plays a part but also in my experience so does just being big time at doing cow farming. also everyone has their pilots license. both my parents did and we owned an obviously non-jet beechcraft bonanza when I was growing up which I've talked about on here.The nickname of the Beechcraft Bonanza is “doctor killer”. I’ve never asked my dad how many doctors he shot down in it but will next time I talk to him.
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Post by: farming_cat fan on February 10, 2023, 01:06:23 PM
which seed company will murder you if you try and save their seeds to use next year?All of them, but notoriously Monsanto. Most corn and soybean seed purchases require a signed contract stating that the grain won't be kept back for planting.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 10, 2023, 01:47:37 PM
"The Fork-Tailed Doctor Killer."small town kansas farmers fly personal jets irl way more than city people per capita. obviously geography plays a part but also in my experience so does just being big time at doing cow farming. also everyone has their pilots license. both my parents did and we owned an obviously non-jet beechcraft bonanza when I was growing up which I've talked about on here.The nickname of the Beechcraft Bonanza is “doctor killer”. I’ve never asked my dad how many doctors he shot down in it but will next time I talk to him.
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The SW KS farmers much be much wealthier than the north central KS variety. I only knew one farmer who had a plane and he was mostly a crop duster, not a farmer. Sadly, he died in a plane crash while flying near Ness City in the late 1990s. Investigators determined that carbon monoxide had leaked into the cabin of the plane.
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Post by: Katpappy on February 10, 2023, 02:56:54 PM
"The Fork-Tailed Doctor Killer."small town kansas farmers fly personal jets irl way more than city people per capita. obviously geography plays a part but also in my experience so does just being big time at doing cow farming. also everyone has their pilots license. both my parents did and we owned an obviously non-jet beechcraft bonanza when I was growing up which I've talked about on here.The nickname of the Beechcraft Bonanza is “doctor killer”. I’ve never asked my dad how many doctors he shot down in it but will next time I talk to him.
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The SW KS farmers much be much wealthier than the north central KS variety. I only knew one farmer who had a plane and he was mostly a crop duster, not a farmer. Sadly, he died in a plane crash while flying near Ness City in the late 1990s. Investigators determined that carbon monoxide had leaked into the cabin of the plane.
At lease he died in his sleep; kind of like grampa, and not kicking and screaming like his passengers. ;)
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 10, 2023, 03:55:27 PM
That's pretty messed up, katpappy"The Fork-Tailed Doctor Killer."small town kansas farmers fly personal jets irl way more than city people per capita. obviously geography plays a part but also in my experience so does just being big time at doing cow farming. also everyone has their pilots license. both my parents did and we owned an obviously non-jet beechcraft bonanza when I was growing up which I've talked about on here.The nickname of the Beechcraft Bonanza is “doctor killer”. I’ve never asked my dad how many doctors he shot down in it but will next time I talk to him.
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The SW KS farmers much be much wealthier than the north central KS variety. I only knew one farmer who had a plane and he was mostly a crop duster, not a farmer. Sadly, he died in a plane crash while flying near Ness City in the late 1990s. Investigators determined that carbon monoxide had leaked into the cabin of the plane.
At lease he died in his sleep; kind of like grampa, and not kicking and screaming like his passengers. ;)
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 10, 2023, 03:56:44 PM
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Post by: ben ji on February 15, 2023, 07:19:57 PM
the old "I don't think there's anything wrong but the wife made me get checked out" line you get from these farmers.
https://twitter.com/EM_RESUS/status/1624139824062922752?s=20&t=N8IUXOvvQ5kNoFGheQ4_JA
I lol'd at this
Post by: ben ji on February 15, 2023, 07:21:35 PM
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Post by: ben ji on March 08, 2023, 08:10:38 PM
Is that the lazy JI brand? Those pics trigger a lot of memories.No idea on what the official brand is but I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures.
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Post by: ben ji on March 08, 2023, 08:11:24 PM
farmer wants a wife debuts tonight on fox, 8pm central!Watching this between big12 tourney games and it is pretty LOL so far
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farmer wants a wife debuts tonight on fox, 8pm central!Watching this between big12 tourney games and it is pretty LOL so far
that’s entertainment, buddy
Post by: ben ji on March 08, 2023, 08:44:30 PM
Lets write a real script for "Farmer wants a wife" KS version. Here are my 4 contestants
Ron - 43 year old NW KS farmer, inherited 3000 acres of dryland farming/ranching land and is an aspiring land baron. Never married because Jessica left in in 2000 and he hasn't recovered.
Jordy - 37 year old flint hills rancher who was incredibly successful in a high pressure career and saved enough money in that career to retire early and buy some land where he was from. Local's love him but also hate that he has more money to buy up land they want.
Zeke - 28 year old Hired man, owns no land and has bounced around the plains working on harvest crews and as a hired man. Most attractive of the 4 but has a couple run ins with the law that will add some drama later in the season.
Kayden - 24 year old from Miami county whose family grows 400 acres of row crops on the edge of JOCO and is waiting for a developer to make the right offer. 5 horses (aunts own them) and lots of dirt bikes/Polaris's etc.
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Post by: KST8FAN on March 08, 2023, 09:23:11 PM
LOL, one of these "farmers" has a FORTY SIX ACRE RANCH.
Lets write a real script for "Farmer wants a wife" KS version. Here are my 4 contestants
Ron - 43 year old NW KS farmer, inherited 3000 acres of dryland farming/ranching land and is an aspiring land baron. Never married because Jessica left in in 2000 and he hasn't recovered.
Jordy - 37 year old flint hills rancher who was incredibly successful in a high pressure career and saved enough money in that career to retire early and buy some land where he was from. Local's love him but also hate that he has more money to buy up land they want.
Zeke - 28 year old Hired man, owns no land and has bounced around the plains working on harvest crews and as a hired man. Most attractive of the 4 but has a couple run ins with the law that will add some drama later in the season.
Kayden - 24 year old from Miami county whose family grows 400 acres of row crops on the edge of JOCO and is waiting for a developer to make the right offer. 5 horses (aunts own them) and lots of dirt bikes/Polaris's etc.
Kayden also runs john deere equipment that he trades in every three years.
Otherwise pretty damn good, Benji.
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Post by: Spracne on March 08, 2023, 09:24:46 PM
Juvenile?
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Oh that's just Tina. Pretty wild chick.
Post by: ben ji on March 08, 2023, 09:57:04 PM
Juvenile?
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Post by: KST8FAN on March 26, 2023, 07:56:15 PM
Checked out a Farmall on the drive, not sure if it's for sale. Stocked another quarry pond with bait fish. Let them reproduce for a year then come back with bass, crappie, etc. Had to replace a tube for drive access to one of the crop fields.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/592562831ce13536eb3920b135f44919.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/2ccde96d9e139a886ccbe80341d41775.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/367616363634450917ca52dbfb8a98d6.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/0196f33ec70ff0d552508ed5b4f3e23d.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/80ac908947f87d970fc579c0584d4455.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/e34859267270bfe26f363ab8e5f153ce.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/2a3df4816b941b2ee844e668efd05777.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/6628d8ca9b957f67902d91bad65be18d.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/e672d055147b55de184fa559d18ce0f7.jpg)
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Post by: ben ji on April 03, 2023, 08:44:17 PM
Spring break week concluded today. In between the cats March Madness games Tater sbd I got a little farm time in.Does that "Tube" connect to another tube I can't see or what does it do? (Only familiar with WKS farms where it barely rains)
Checked out a Farmall on the drive, not sure if it's for sale. Stocked another quarry pond with bait fish. Let them reproduce for a year then come back with bass, crappie, etc. Had to replace a tube for drive access to one of the crop fields.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/592562831ce13536eb3920b135f44919.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/2ccde96d9e139a886ccbe80341d41775.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/367616363634450917ca52dbfb8a98d6.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/0196f33ec70ff0d552508ed5b4f3e23d.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/80ac908947f87d970fc579c0584d4455.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/e34859267270bfe26f363ab8e5f153ce.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/2a3df4816b941b2ee844e668efd05777.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/6628d8ca9b957f67902d91bad65be18d.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230327/e672d055147b55de184fa559d18ce0f7.jpg)
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 03, 2023, 09:48:35 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 03, 2023, 10:06:04 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 03, 2023, 10:15:30 PM
A picture of 4 of the apple trees (planted with cow manure). The larger trees behind the apple seedlings are pear trees my uncle planted a couple of years ago. There is a water faucet thing by the quisonet building so Im guessing that is where the automatic watering device will connect to.My brother finally ran a soaker hose to the apple and pear tree's that were recently planted, even put some chicken wire around them to keep the dam rabbits out.
Also LOL at the "Danger Keep out" sign on the collapsing out building my dad put up sometime in the last year.
You can also see the incinerator (aka 2 steel drums welded together with hatches at top and bottom) that i cleaned out last year when i was trying to do something productive. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190612/0bb964ff1094f66f4d51e3628543d40c.jpg)
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See that old falling down tool shed in the backround? Apparently my dad burned it down as the way to get rid of it in the last 3 months and is now taking some of the junk in it to the local scrap yard to get like $20 a load. He is living his best life.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 07, 2023, 09:29:03 PM
Every time I see a glimpse of Tater I am reminded of how lucky Tom is to have him.Tater struggling with a leg injury so I am little worried about my sidekick. Tried to reduce his activity and anti inflammatory, but I fear the injury maybe worse than a sprain or bruise. Going back to see what the Dr says .
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Post by: pissclams on April 07, 2023, 09:38:31 PM
Every time I see a glimpse of Tater I am reminded of how lucky Tom is to have him.Tater struggling with a leg injury so I am little worried about my sidekick. Tried to reduce his activity and anti inflammatory, but I fear the injury maybe worse than a sprain or bruise. Going back to see what the Dr says .
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what anti inflammatory are you using? our puppy did something to her leg too, sometimes she has been dragging it a little
Post by: cfbandyman on April 08, 2023, 05:32:55 PM
Every time I see a glimpse of Tater I am reminded of how lucky Tom is to have him.Tater struggling with a leg injury so I am little worried about my sidekick. Tried to reduce his activity and anti inflammatory, but I fear the injury maybe worse than a sprain or bruise. Going back to see what the Dr says .
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:frown: Hope he gets feeling better, the dude is a rockstar IMO
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 08, 2023, 08:16:48 PM
Post by: sys on April 08, 2023, 11:26:29 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on April 09, 2023, 03:06:50 AM
do you have to clear it with anyone to dig next to the road like that?This is Shawnee County so you have to get a right of way permit from public works. They have to approve the location. Also submitted a dig safe request before we started.
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Post by: AST on April 16, 2023, 12:32:35 PM
pretty sure Cat, Bobcat, & Deere are outside what I would be wanting to spend. Thinking about Kubota. Parts and service centers abound with them. Other option would be by some off-brand online for about half the cost, including shipping, and hope for the best. Realistically could save about 50% going that route, just not sure if setting myself up for issues when it comes to needing service/parts.
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Post by: sys on April 16, 2023, 03:57:52 PM
Fitting inside a 3’ gate is a must.
man, that's tiny. didn't know they came that small.
Post by: AST on April 16, 2023, 04:27:04 PM
Fitting inside a 3’ gate is a must.
man, that's tiny. didn't know they came that small.
Yep, they do and they are small.
Post by: star seed 7 on April 16, 2023, 05:56:26 PM
Post by: AST on April 16, 2023, 06:24:31 PM
I've run the tiny little baby ones but they have all been rented. They have absolutely no breakout power but I'm sure you're aware of that and still beats a shovel.
Oh yes, I absolutely know what breakout power is. I am having a difficult time explaining it to my buddy though. Maybe you could tell him how you would explain it so I can pass that along to him so he will understand.
Post by: star seed 7 on April 16, 2023, 07:37:28 PM
Post by: AST on April 16, 2023, 08:25:00 PM
Past sand and topsoil you may find the little fella wanting if you get into fill dirt. I don't know how deep you'll need to dig in texas, so just a consideration.
Typical is 18”-24” to run pool pipes here.
Post by: Skipper44 on April 16, 2023, 08:54:36 PM
https://www.forconstructionpros.com/equipment/earthmoving-compact/product/10083540/ditch-witch-xt855-excavatortool-carrier
Post by: AST on April 16, 2023, 09:16:06 PM
why not use a trencher? also Ditch Witch made what they called a tool carrier that had a little backhoe that were popular with turf contractors but they stopped making them in 2012
https://www.forconstructionpros.com/equipment/earthmoving-compact/product/10083540/ditch-witch-xt855-excavatortool-carrier
I think there would be other applications I could use an excavator for in my line of work.
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Post by: Spracne on April 19, 2023, 08:58:25 AM
The gathering has begun ...
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Post by: steve dave on April 21, 2023, 08:25:15 PM
Dang man, that sucks. I guess it is a good thing it is early in the year? Looking for silver linings.We made it through man, appreciate you
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Post by: Cire on April 21, 2023, 10:03:58 PM
What started it?Dang man, that sucks. I guess it is a good thing it is early in the year? Looking for silver linings.We made it through man, appreciate you
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 21, 2023, 10:10:10 PM
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Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2023, 06:41:23 AM
Silage fire?No, just normal dry AF grass and wind. No known ignition source. Burned a ton of acres and CRP but overall nothing of merit lost.
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Post by: ben ji on April 22, 2023, 09:51:42 AM
https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-day-the-fire-came/
Post by: KST8FAN on April 22, 2023, 10:35:06 AM
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Post by: Spracne on April 22, 2023, 11:20:03 AM
Post by: steve dave on April 22, 2023, 12:06:38 PM
Where's the beef? And by that I mean, were any cattle lost?Nope, all good
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Post by: Katpappy on April 23, 2023, 12:07:45 AM
Post by: steve dave on April 23, 2023, 07:44:52 AM
looking at the bright side, this is the time of the year for burning pasture to get rid of the pesky weeds so if crops didn't get damaged it should be all good. :crossfingers:That’s not how pasture works but thank you
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Post by: schreds21 on April 23, 2023, 08:30:53 AM
Post by: steve dave on April 23, 2023, 08:47:59 AM
Do you have to replace a whole crap load of fence now?No, it’s mostly just open range. There is fence but it’s like miles from the fire.
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Post by: Spracne on April 23, 2023, 02:01:27 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 23, 2023, 05:13:51 PM
It was dry and ideal burning conditions. There was nothing left of this post along with 2-3 brush piles.
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Post by: schreds21 on April 23, 2023, 07:01:57 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on April 23, 2023, 07:30:45 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 23, 2023, 08:29:04 PM
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Post by: Katpappy on April 23, 2023, 09:28:48 PM
One casualty while driving around today. We burn with neighbors so they let the fire run between us. One of our big corner posts got consumed. This was a huge hedge post. What you see in the picture is just the top remaining.
It was dry and ideal burning conditions. There was nothing left of this post along with 2-3 brush piles.
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Tom, is that a hole where the post was? I have never seen one burn more than a foot below ground, so that's why I'm interested.
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Post by: Katpappy on April 23, 2023, 09:41:39 PM
looking at the bright side, this is the time of the year for burning pasture to get rid of the pesky weeds so if crops didn't get damaged it should be all good. :crossfingers:That’s not how pasture works but thank you
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Do farmers/ranchers not burn pastures around Meade? Farmers/ranchers burned pastures all around our place in the area around Cedar Buff Reservoir. My dad never burned pasture, due to the number of cattle we had and the crap load of expensive 5-wire fences with stays every three feet. The rough ridin' range cattle were like deer and very hard to keep them fenced in.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 23, 2023, 09:51:12 PM
Yes. This was crazy to me how thoroughly this thing burned up.One casualty while driving around today. We burn with neighbors so they let the fire run between us. One of our big corner posts got consumed. This was a huge hedge post. What you see in the picture is just the top remaining.
It was dry and ideal burning conditions. There was nothing left of this post along with 2-3 brush piles.
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Tom, is that a hole where the post was? I have never seen one burn more than a foot below ground, so that's why I'm interested.
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Post by: Katpappy on April 23, 2023, 10:31:18 PM
Yes. This was crazy to me how thoroughly this thing burned up.One casualty while driving around today. We burn with neighbors so they let the fire run between us. One of our big corner posts got consumed. This was a huge hedge post. What you see in the picture is just the top remaining.
It was dry and ideal burning conditions. There was nothing left of this post along with 2-3 brush piles.
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Tom, is that a hole where the post was? I have never seen one burn more than a foot below ground, so that's why I'm interested.
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That post and ground had to be really dry.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 24, 2023, 02:57:48 PM
County Sheriff called this morning to inform me that a car had left the road and wiped out fence on the home place. Looks like they took out a good stretch here.
Tow truck couldn't get them out of the ditch so they had to go a quarter mile come thru the gate and come back down here to load up their vehicle. We fix this corner almost once a year. There are no cattle anymore so just roll it up, pull the posts that are left and call it good.
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Post by: CNS on April 24, 2023, 03:10:19 PM
Past sand and topsoil you may find the little fella wanting if you get into fill dirt. I don't know how deep you'll need to dig in texas, so just a consideration.
Typical is 18”-24” to run pool pipes here.
Look into a Dingo TX1000. They come in a wide track(won't fit a 3' gate) and a narrow track as well. You can get one brand new for something like $42K. You can get a good trencher attachment for it for somewhere around $3k. Believe it or not, but they also have a small hoe attachment for it. I have no idea how much it is, but I have seen it work, and it works well as long as you aren't tugging on huge rock or roots.
Kubota makes an equivalent. I think it is the SCL100 or something like that, but they are more prone to tip on a slight grade.
Dingos are like Swiss army knives for small equipment. Also, much smaller and lighter to transport on trailer. You don't need a monster truck or a CDL/ Class whatever license due to DOT overweight issues.
I have Dingos and a Kubota. AMA.
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Post by: cfbandyman on April 27, 2023, 09:47:14 PM
Proud of him
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Post by: Institutional Control on April 28, 2023, 01:04:22 PM
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Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2023, 03:28:26 PM
I want to buy this and do this work for a living.
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You would forget to grease the zerks, it would crash into the field and set it on fire resulting in you getting sued.
Post by: Institutional Control on April 28, 2023, 03:35:04 PM
They've got drones doing light shows and crap, I'm pretty sure that thing would fly itself and the only thing I'd have to do is cash those farmers' checks. And grease the zerks.I want to buy this and do this work for a living.
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You would forget to grease the zerks, it would crash into the field and set it on fire resulting in you getting sued.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 28, 2023, 05:34:40 PM
Combine this drone technology and IA to spot spray lespedezia on grass pastures.
Input the pasture coordinates and let it fly a grid and zap the lespedezia.
It cost $11k to spray 550 acres last year so there's your starting point.
Tom
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 30, 2023, 12:26:51 PM
I needed some long pices of tongue and groove to repair the floor in my wagon.
https://www.baldeaglebarnwood.com/
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Post by: farming_cat fan on May 02, 2023, 08:03:18 AM
What are we broadcasting here?Tom, I'd guess this is a top dress application of Urea.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on May 02, 2023, 08:03:36 AM
https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/stolen-tiny-house-found-at-kansas-grain-elevator/amp/
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LOL
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The tiny house is valued at $9,000. The sheriff said the $33,000 Bobcat was stolen out of Castle Rock, Colorado, and the $25,000 trailer is from Florida.
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I had a Chinese co worker read the bag. You are correct.What are we broadcasting here?Tom, I'd guess this is a top dress application of Urea.
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on May 07, 2023, 07:19:18 PM
So my dad took home a runt kitten from the family homestead earlier this spring and nursed it back to health. He calls it "Farm Kitty" and loves this thing more than he loves Rush Limbaugh, even after it gave him and my mom ringworm.
Everytime he goes back to western KS he takes the cat and sends us pictures of it doing farm things with him.
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After a couple of years of failing health Farm kitty/Lil Lil passed peacefully this evening in the burbs of KC. She was born in a barn outside of Colby Kansas, abandoned by her mother as the runt of the litter and nursed back to health by a kind cat rancher.
She lived 5 years on a diet of kibble and eggs and out lived all of her blood relatives who were eaten by coyotes, she brought joy to all around her. She is survived by her younger sister Tazee (another farm cat runt).
Lil lil will now live on forever at the cat ranch thanks to this touching tribute my dad ordered. As far as I know lil lil is the first barn cat to get this treatment but I'm sure Tazee will get it as well whenever she passes.
Pour one out for lil lil tonight
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 07, 2023, 08:05:37 PM
Post by: ben ji on May 07, 2023, 08:39:26 PM
"Lost one of our owls"
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Post by: ben ji on May 07, 2023, 08:39:58 PM
That's great. Thinking of you tonight lil lil.Thank you for your thoughts, the ji family is keeping you in their thoughts as well.
Post by: wetwillie on May 07, 2023, 08:59:19 PM
Post by: steve dave on May 07, 2023, 09:25:33 PM
I say this with all respect to lil lil…..lmaoSo my dad took home a runt kitten from the family homestead earlier this spring and nursed it back to health. He calls it "Farm Kitty" and loves this thing more than he loves Rush Limbaugh, even after it gave him and my mom ringworm.
Everytime he goes back to western KS he takes the cat and sends us pictures of it doing farm things with him.
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After a couple of years of failing health Farm kitty/Lil Lil passed peacefully this evening in the burbs of KC. She was born in a barn outside of Colby Kansas, abandoned by her mother as the runt of the litter and nursed back to health by a kind cat rancher.
She lived 5 years on a diet of kibble and eggs and out lived all of her blood relatives who were eaten by coyotes, she brought joy to all around her. She is survived by her younger sister Tazee (another farm cat runt).
Lil lil will now live on forever at the cat ranch thanks to this touching tribute my dad ordered. As far as I know lil lil is the first barn cat to get this treatment but I'm sure Tazee will get it as well whenever she passes.
Pour one out for lil lil tonight
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Post by: cfbandyman on May 09, 2023, 03:31:39 PM
I say this with all respect to lil lil…..lmaoSo my dad took home a runt kitten from the family homestead earlier this spring and nursed it back to health. He calls it "Farm Kitty" and loves this thing more than he loves Rush Limbaugh, even after it gave him and my mom ringworm.
Everytime he goes back to western KS he takes the cat and sends us pictures of it doing farm things with him.
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After a couple of years of failing health Farm kitty/Lil Lil passed peacefully this evening in the burbs of KC. She was born in a barn outside of Colby Kansas, abandoned by her mother as the runt of the litter and nursed back to health by a kind cat rancher.
She lived 5 years on a diet of kibble and eggs and out lived all of her blood relatives who were eaten by coyotes, she brought joy to all around her. She is survived by her younger sister Tazee (another farm cat runt).
Lil lil will now live on forever at the cat ranch thanks to this touching tribute my dad ordered. As far as I know lil lil is the first barn cat to get this treatment but I'm sure Tazee will get it as well whenever she passes.
Pour one out for lil lil tonight
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RIP lil lil
Post by: ben ji on May 09, 2023, 07:07:41 PM
Well eff guyz, I may be getting grounded from the farm for doing too much cleaning AGAIN.
I had a Buddy coming out on opening weekend to look for those mystical pheasants and decided to clean out the second bedroom upstairs to make it not look like a hoarder lives there...my mistake
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After 6 months my full farm privileges (Can visit without my dad there) have been fully restored.
Lil Lil's burial must of given him the closure he needed.
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Post by: ben ji on May 10, 2023, 08:16:42 PM
So what's everyone gonna do with their farms when the Aquifer runs out?Pffff rains are back baby. All it took was my dad burying lil lil and ungrounding me from the farm to make the rain god(s) return.
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Post by: ben ji on May 12, 2023, 06:16:16 PM
I asked why he wouldn't grow it in our semi irrigated circle but apparently when you grow MILO/MILO/MILO/MILO (WHO WOULD OF GUESSED) for 4 years straight the field gets overtaken with herbicide resistant weeds so we are gonna have to till it up a couple times this summer and do other weed prevention stuff before we plant wheat in the September.
Post by: ben ji on May 12, 2023, 06:24:30 PM
But honestly I just want him to buy a 4 wheeler so I can zip around the cat ranch on a 4 wheeler and pretend I'm 12 years old again without a care in the world.
Post by: KST8FAN on May 13, 2023, 10:18:13 PM
Corn planted April 12th is up and going here in northeast Kansas.Planted April 27th.
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Post by: DaBigTrain on May 21, 2023, 10:53:18 PM
WOOF
Could not do it
Post by: Spracne on May 22, 2023, 09:31:20 AM
I was out in western Kansas all weekend and I just have to say, thank you to the peeps who actually live and work out there.
WOOF
Could not do it
Spent the weekend in Manhattan?
Post by: DaBigTrain on May 22, 2023, 09:50:31 AM
:dubious:I was out in western Kansas all weekend and I just have to say, thank you to the peeps who actually live and work out there.
WOOF
Could not do it
Spent the weekend in Manhattan?
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2023, 10:44:03 AM
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/kansas-farmers-abandon-wheat-fields-after-extreme-drought-2023-05-22/?taid=646b7442dcfd9f00018cda00&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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Post by: star seed 7 on May 22, 2023, 06:36:59 PM
I was out in western Kansas all weekend and I just have to say, thank you to the peeps who actually live and work out there.
WOOF
Could not do it
Spent the weekend in Manhattan?
:Keke:
Post by: nicname on May 22, 2023, 08:56:12 PM
I was out in western Kansas all weekend and I just have to say, thank you to the peeps who actually live and work out there.
WOOF
Could not do it
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Post by: OK_Cat on May 23, 2023, 02:46:19 PM
A lot of people couldn’t do it. It’s fine.Really shows which people aren’t afraid to get a little dirty and which people don’t want to get their loafers dusty, imo
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Post by: ben ji on May 26, 2023, 09:43:48 PM
N fork of the Solomon river in October of last year after a 2 year drought.Picture from underneath the windmill looking at where this picture was taken.... first time I have ever seen the "river" actually flow, usually it's just random pools.
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A classic Aeromotor windmill from Chicago, can't wait for Tom to give me all the history of these bad bois.
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Post by: bucket on June 02, 2023, 08:07:28 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 02, 2023, 11:04:10 PM
Good to see some rain rolling in out there. Is lil Red running again?Lil red got towed into town by our cow farmer who runs cattle on our pasture. Lil red had a busted radiator and some mice who had made a home in the air filter.
Running great now tho. My dad burned down an old collapsing shed and we Loaded lil red up with some metal to turn in for like $20.
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Finally got our windmill in the pasture fixed (the pump "rod"? Broke) this week even tho we don't really need it since the "river" is full.I've never seen one in the wild that actually pumps water. I need to stop by the Benji ranch to observe. Honestly, I don't know much about them other than the ones I've been around are either ornamental or laying on their side in disrepair.
A classic Aeromotor windmill from Chicago, can't wait for Tom to give me all the history of these bad bois.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 03, 2023, 09:23:02 AM
He was in a burning mood and also burned down the Old boxcar that was in the pig pen (no pigs have lived there in maybe 25 years)I got one that needs to be gone. Township fire chief said I would need a permit to burn it since it was "a structure."
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Would be another good rabbit hole for this thread. Like every farm had 1-2 boxcars for storage or incorporated into a barn. What was peak boxcar inventory in this country? Did the RR just give these things away?
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 03, 2023, 09:24:21 AM
Burned down shed (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230603/633eb62a9128689f75fbcbe660fdbc2e.jpg)This was the shed with all the sicklebars in the rafters.
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Post by: Katpappy on June 03, 2023, 09:33:35 AM
Finally got our windmill in the pasture fixed (the pump "rod"? Broke) this week even tho we don't really need it since the "river" is full.I've never seen one in the wild that actually pumps water. I need to stop by the Benji ranch to observe. Honestly, I don't know much about them other than the ones I've been around are either ornamental or laying on their side in disrepair.
A classic Aeromotor windmill from Chicago, can't wait for Tom to give me all the history of these bad bois.
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It's amazing how well-galvanized those old windmills were. We had a couple of windmills at my dad's farm and even though everything around them was rusted the windmills didn't have any rust on them.
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Post by: ben ji on June 03, 2023, 01:38:19 PM
Old Shawnee Days parade always has a little farm flavor.Why didn't you participate this year?
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Post by: ben ji on June 03, 2023, 01:41:14 PM
No permits needed in Thomas county but my dad does call the local fire department to give them a heads up so they don't respond.He was in a burning mood and also burned down the Old boxcar that was in the pig pen (no pigs have lived there in maybe 25 years)I got one that needs to be gone. Township fire chief said I would need a permit to burn it since it was "a structure."
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Would be another good rabbit hole for this thread. Like every farm had 1-2 boxcars for storage or incorporated into a barn. What was peak boxcar inventory in this country? Did the RR just give these things away?
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Post by: bucket on June 03, 2023, 02:33:02 PM
He was in a burning mood and also burned down the Old boxcar that was in the pig pen (no pigs have lived there in maybe 25 years)I got one that needs to be gone. Township fire chief said I would need a permit to burn it since it was "a structure."
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Would be another good rabbit hole for this thread. Like every farm had 1-2 boxcars for storage or incorporated into a barn. What was peak boxcar inventory in this country? Did the RR just give these things away?
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My great aunt and uncle lived in one. I’m told it was pretty nice.
Post by: ben ji on June 03, 2023, 02:39:23 PM
He was in a burning mood and also burned down the Old boxcar that was in the pig pen (no pigs have lived there in maybe 25 years)I got one that needs to be gone. Township fire chief said I would need a permit to burn it since it was "a structure."
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Would be another good rabbit hole for this thread. Like every farm had 1-2 boxcars for storage or incorporated into a barn. What was peak boxcar inventory in this country? Did the RR just give these things away?
Tom
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My great aunt and uncle lived in one. I’m told it was pretty nice.
Pretty sure that back in the day to be considered a real farm on the plains you need either a boxcar or a quonset hut, if you had both you were big time.
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We have probably 20 boxcars and at least one is built into a barn
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Tell me more. Are they all still standing? What are they used for? Barns/workshops/etc.
How did the SD ranch acquire them? I'm guessing you would just pick them up on a flatbed and dump them where you wanted them but I honestly have no idea since that boxcar in our pig pen area had been there since before I was alive.
Post by: star seed 7 on June 03, 2023, 03:18:17 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on June 03, 2023, 03:37:09 PM
This was peak boxcar barn combo. Neighbor had a similar set up though not as big. We used ours to store bagged feed, mineral, salt blocks, seed. Mom used to hang onions in it. Set on a stone foundation car floor was the same height as the pickup.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 03, 2023, 03:39:44 PM
I thought I would be in Chicago for work, but that got pushed. I also forgot. My son works for a local construction company so we might make an entry next year.Old Shawnee Days parade always has a little farm flavor.Why didn't you participate this year?
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Post by: ben ji on June 03, 2023, 04:26:13 PM
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McNee_Barns_boxcar_barn_Chase_County_Kansas.jpgThat is amazing.
This was peak boxcar barn combo. Neighbor had a similar set up though not as big. We used ours to store bagged feed, mineral, salt blocks, seed. Mom used to hang onions in it. Set on a stone foundation car floor was the same height as the pickup.
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Also I had a shower thought this afternoon. Basically when meat packing shifted from KC/Omaha/Chicago etc to rural areas all the RR companies had a ton of cattle cars they didn't need anymore and that is why there are boxcars all over farms.
Post by: Tobias on June 03, 2023, 08:21:00 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on June 03, 2023, 09:01:31 PM
Livestock cars were open air. Their demise was due to the refrigerated box car. Packers like Swift and Armour developed and built their own fleet of refrigerator cars because the railroads were making bank shipping live cattle and hogs.https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McNee_Barns_boxcar_barn_Chase_County_Kansas.jpgThat is amazing.
This was peak boxcar barn combo. Neighbor had a similar set up though not as big. We used ours to store bagged feed, mineral, salt blocks, seed. Mom used to hang onions in it. Set on a stone foundation car floor was the same height as the pickup.
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Also I had a shower thought this afternoon. Basically when meat packing shifted from KC/Omaha/Chicago etc to rural areas all the RR companies had a ton of cattle cars they didn't need anymore and that is why there are boxcars all over farms.
My shower thought is box cars got replaced by trucks once the interstate system was in place. That would have been 1950s so the timeline fits my dad's operation.
Packing plant migration began in the 1970s I think.
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Post by: CHONGS on June 08, 2023, 06:28:19 PM
Is this really a tractor (yes I know it's not a tractor) worth posing in front of?
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 08, 2023, 10:27:17 PM
11:50 mark. I suspected emissions, and this video confirmed. Tractor shipped to California.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 08, 2023, 10:28:23 PM
My dad was checking some random game cams out at the cat ranch.I need some guidance on cams for the farm.
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 08, 2023, 10:35:48 PM
Side hustle was using the dirt box to smooth terraces.
Went thru one set of tracks then it didn't bring his reserve at the retirement auction. I ended up listing it on one of the early online auction sites, and a guy in Minnesota bought it.
He is still the only farmer in our area to have owned a tracked tractor 15 years after he passed.
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Post by: DaBigTrain on June 08, 2023, 10:43:18 PM
Post by: ben ji on June 13, 2023, 10:49:55 PM
Original plan was to plant wheat in the breakout pasture and semi pivot this fall but all the rain in the past month has them all horned up.
Current plan is to plant 100 acres of Milo (3rd year in a row
) asap in the former pasture then the rest to wheat in the fall. When he first sent me this pic I thought he was breaking out a new pasture area...but nope, there was Milo here the last 2 years.
"Workin"
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Post by: ben ji on June 13, 2023, 10:57:07 PM
"Catless ranch for now"
Post by: steve dave on June 13, 2023, 11:02:00 PM
I may be Luking here, but in the twilight of my dad's farming career he decided he wanted to be the first guy in the area to have a tracked tractor. Despite some banker protests he got a Cat 45 Challenger. It was a smooth ride the few times I rode along.
Side hustle was using the dirt box to smooth terraces.
Went thru one set of tracks then it didn't bring his reserve at the retirement auction. I ended up listing it on one of the early online auction sites, and a guy in Minnesota bought it.
He is still the only farmer in our area to have owned a tracked tractor 15 years after he passed.
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we had that exact sled. the downside to them was you are cresting a hill, windrow, culvert, etc. and it goes up....until it comes down and then it crashes down. had the exact same controls as a ford new holland iirc. it was fine and, agreed, very cool at the time. allegedly good for compaction like my dad gave a crap (he was in it for the cool I can assure you)
Post by: DaBigTrain on June 13, 2023, 11:06:12 PM
I may be Luking here, but in the twilight of my dad's farming career he decided he wanted to be the first guy in the area to have a tracked tractor. Despite some banker protests he got a Cat 45 Challenger. It was a smooth ride the few times I rode along.
Side hustle was using the dirt box to smooth terraces.
Went thru one set of tracks then it didn't bring his reserve at the retirement auction. I ended up listing it on one of the early online auction sites, and a guy in Minnesota bought it.
He is still the only farmer in our area to have owned a tracked tractor 15 years after he passed.
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we had that exact sled. the downside to them was you are cresting a hill, windrow, culvert, etc. and it goes up....until it comes down and then it crashes down. had the exact same controls as a ford new holland iirc. it was fine and, agreed, very cool at the time. allegedly good for compaction like my dad gave a crap (he was in it for the cool I can assure you)
This checks out for me. You both have similar posting styles so I figured you were both close in age.
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Post by: ben ji on June 14, 2023, 10:44:18 PM
"5 Coyote pups. One hid when he should have run. They are Fox size, fat, well fed."
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on June 15, 2023, 01:56:22 PM
He was back in KC a couple of days ago so I asked him if he was back at the cat ranch or if these were old photos. His response
"Catless ranch for now"
:cry: :cry: :cry:
Post by: passranch on June 15, 2023, 03:12:03 PM
He was back in KC a couple of days ago so I asked him if he was back at the cat ranch or if these were old photos. His response
"Catless ranch for now"
:cry: :cry: :cry:
I feel like there's more to this story that's being withheld from us.
Post by: ben ji on June 15, 2023, 03:27:41 PM
Yotes got em all 3 years ago.He was back in KC a couple of days ago so I asked him if he was back at the cat ranch or if these were old photos. His response
"Catless ranch for now"
:cry: :cry: :cry:
I feel like there's more to this story that's being withheld from us.
Attempted to restarr the population with 4 rando cats my dad picked up from another farm about a year and a half ago but the yotes got them too.
Post by: bucket on June 15, 2023, 03:35:36 PM
Yotes got em all 3 years ago.He was back in KC a couple of days ago so I asked him if he was back at the cat ranch or if these were old photos. His response
"Catless ranch for now"
:cry: :cry: :cry:
I feel like there's more to this story that's being withheld from us.
Attempted to restarr the population with 4 rando cats my dad picked up from another farm about a year and a half ago but the yotes got them too.
And now he has a score to settle so he’s murdering all the baby yotes like a mad man!
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Post by: ben ji on June 15, 2023, 04:39:12 PM
Are you sure it was coyotes? In my experience hawks and owls eat a lot more cats than coyotes.Yeah, it was probably owls (2 live there) but my dad likes them so he blames the yotes
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Post by: mocat on June 15, 2023, 04:42:06 PM
Post by: steve dave on June 15, 2023, 04:49:12 PM
Are you sure it was coyotes? In my experience hawks and owls eat a lot more cats than coyotes.Yeah, it was probably owls (2 live there) but my dad likes them so he blames the yotes
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classic farmer move. find a dead calf that's been eaten on it's always the coyotes that killed it and not that it just died and they started eating the corpse. same with prairie dogs. cows could break their legs in the holes! gotta shoot the crap out of them! luckily coyotes are absolutely BITB at being alive everywhere no matter what.
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I pulled back but lady kept walking and was nearly on top of it. I was all like "HERE" and she just looked at me like "dude I'm already here". We did this about 3 times before I grabbed her by the neck and dragged her away. She was super confused
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Post by: ben ji on June 17, 2023, 06:18:59 PM
My dad has a lil lil memorial/shrine out on the cat ranch.Just remembered a great lil lil story. See those middle pictures where it's on my mom's shoulder? That was right after my dad brought it back from the farm.
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About a week later my mom got a rash on her neck and didn't know what it was. She showed it to me and I had to inform her that lil lil gave her ringworm. (Super stud highschool wrestler here so I knew exactly what it was)
Post by: ben ji on June 17, 2023, 08:47:43 PM
At 830am our crop farmer showed up to see how much rain we had gotten while I was walking the mutts. I told him I just emptied the rain gauge and we got an inch last night. He replies with how he got 120 points over at his place.
Around 11 our cow farmers wife shows up in a Polaris to check on the cows in our pasture and brags about the 150 points they got at their place 7 miles away and casually dropped that some other pasture they rent got 240 points.
Also it's raining again, basically ShangriLa on the high plains of NW KS this year.
Post by: ben ji on June 17, 2023, 09:12:10 PM
The wheat behind it is starting to turn golden but I doubt they get much out of it.
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Post by: Katpappy on June 17, 2023, 09:29:11 PM
Are you sure it was coyotes? In my experience hawks and owls eat a lot more cats than coyotes.Yeah, it was probably owls (2 live there) but my dad likes them so he blames the yotes
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classic farmer move. find a dead calf that's been eaten on it's always the coyotes that killed it and not that it just died and they started eating the corpse. same with prairie dogs. cows could break their legs in the holes! gotta shoot the crap out of them! luckily coyotes are absolutely BITB at being alive everywhere no matter what.
Like to add coyote hunters are the rough ridin' worst hunters as any farmer/rancher would tell ya. Those fuckers liked driving 4X4 jeeps or lifted pickups and tore the crap out of the land, cut fences, and shot the eff out of anything that moved. Most of those SOB's were trespassers with no respect for property.
Post by: Katpappy on June 17, 2023, 09:52:27 PM
Today hammered home the POINT of how western KS farmers talk about rain in points not inches and love talking about how much more they got then someone else. (For the city slickers 100 points equals an inch).
At 830am our crop farmer showed up to see how much rain we had gotten while I was walking the mutts. I told him I just emptied the rain gauge and we got an inch last night. He replies with how he got 120 points over at his place.
Around 11 our cow farmers wife shows up in a Polaris to check on the cows in our pasture and brags about the 150 points they got at their place 7 miles away and casually dropped that some other pasture they rent got 240 points.
Also it's raining again, basically ShangriLa on the high plains of NW KS this year.
Back when I was at home close to Cedar Bluff Reservoir locals always talked about the amount of rain in hundreds of an inch. Basically, the same as the people now are using points. It was much easier to brag when one said 25 hundreds vs a quarter of an inch. As we all know 36 hundreds is more than a third of an inch. When rain is scarce, they made the most of every drop for bragging rights. Also, all or most rain gauges are measured in hundreds of an inch increment.
Post by: steve dave on June 17, 2023, 09:56:04 PM
Today hammered home the POINT of how western KS farmers talk about rain in points not inches and love talking about how much more they got then someone else. (For the city slickers 100 points equals an inch).I’ve never hear points in my life. Hundreths is always what they’d say where I was from. 30 hundreths, etc.
At 830am our crop farmer showed up to see how much rain we had gotten while I was walking the mutts. I told him I just emptied the rain gauge and we got an inch last night. He replies with how he got 120 points over at his place.
Around 11 our cow farmers wife shows up in a Polaris to check on the cows in our pasture and brags about the 150 points they got at their place 7 miles away and casually dropped that some other pasture they rent got 240 points.
Also it's raining again, basically ShangriLa on the high plains of NW KS this year.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on June 19, 2023, 09:11:24 AM
Today hammered home the POINT of how western KS farmers talk about rain in points not inches and love talking about how much more they got then someone else. (For the city slickers 100 points equals an inch).I’ve never hear points in my life. Hundreths is always what they’d say where I was from. 30 hundreths, etc.
At 830am our crop farmer showed up to see how much rain we had gotten while I was walking the mutts. I told him I just emptied the rain gauge and we got an inch last night. He replies with how he got 120 points over at his place.
Around 11 our cow farmers wife shows up in a Polaris to check on the cows in our pasture and brags about the 150 points they got at their place 7 miles away and casually dropped that some other pasture they rent got 240 points.
Also it's raining again, basically ShangriLa on the high plains of NW KS this year.
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uhh, same. Are you sure they aren't trolling you, Benji?
Post by: ben ji on June 19, 2023, 08:02:04 PM
what's the plan for that green wheat? graze it, bale it?No idea as it's my aunt's land. I'm assuming even the non green wheat has been zero'd out like most the dry land crops in the area so maybe they can bale it for feed or let cows graze it?
Maybe some real farmers can come in here and explain what happens when your crop is X'd and you take the insurance payout. Do you get to do whatever you want with it or do they make you plow it under or something?
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Post by: KST8FAN on June 28, 2023, 09:47:26 AM
The cousin with mad farm skills is restoring an IH 1206. Then we're hitting the parade circuit.Down to the rear tires, fenders. After market seat bracket will need some modifications.
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I am a John Deere guy but that looks awesome.Tom(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230628/d7d5880e96e35a94428f942d91d49c7d.jpg)
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The cousin with mad farm skills is restoring an IH 1206. Then we're hitting the parade circuit.Down to the rear tires, fenders. After market seat bracket will need some modifications.
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I did most of the fieldwork with an IH 856 during high school years. Tom, is that a torque converter on the right side of the tractor?
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It has a turbo charger. He tracked down an original to get that whirling sound.The cousin with mad farm skills is restoring an IH 1206. Then we're hitting the parade circuit.Down to the rear tires, fenders. After market seat bracket will need some modifications.
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I did most of the fieldwork with an IH 856 during high school years. Tom, is that a torque converter on the right side of the tractor?
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Post by: steve dave on June 29, 2023, 07:24:16 AM
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on June 29, 2023, 08:18:08 AM
Post by: steve dave on June 29, 2023, 08:26:28 AM
That's some pretty good straight line winds. That piss elm(I think?) didn't stand a chance. Lucky it missed the house.
yeah, that thing has been there as long as I've been around. finally got got.
Post by: michigancat on June 29, 2023, 09:03:32 AM
Post by: GregKSU1027 on June 29, 2023, 09:57:11 AM
Also, what is the year and power rating of that brute?The 1206's with Turbo Diesels were only built from 1965-1967, Drawbar HP I think they are 95 HP and for the PTOs they were 112 HP.
My Grandfather and Uncle restored Farmall's and Cub Cadets from the 1940's to the 1980's models. Red Tractors rule, Green Tractor's drool.
During the summers we would go to Tractor Shows and Red Power Roundups. I truly know more than I should.
Post by: ben ji on June 29, 2023, 10:10:56 AM
Post by: KST8FAN on June 29, 2023, 06:38:54 PM
Thanks for triggering my fear of dying in bed because a big tree crushed my house.
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Post by: steve dave on June 29, 2023, 07:20:45 PM
SD we hope everyone is ok. Grain bin damage sucks.
Thanks for triggering my fear of dying in bed because a big tree crushed my house.
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everyone just fine. had a few shop doors, barn doors, etc. that blew in as well but pops is feeling a lot better today than when I talked to him yesterday.
Post by: Cire on June 29, 2023, 07:47:05 PM
My folks had a bit of a stiff breeze blow through yesterday
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That looks like what went through Tulsa a week ago
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Post by: schreds21 on June 29, 2023, 10:22:39 PM
Thanks for triggering my fear of dying in bed because a big tree crushed my house.
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This is why you should have all vegetation removed with 100 yards of your house. That, and it provides a clear field of fire.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 30, 2023, 10:10:06 AM
https://kswheat.com/day-7-kansas-wheat-harvest-report (https://kswheat.com/day-7-kansas-wheat-harvest-report)
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In the northern part of Barton County, Dean Stoskopf reported even higher abandonment, estimating up to 90 percent of local acres would not be harvested due to extreme drought conditions. Some of Stoskopf’s fields went a year without an inch (or some even a half inch) of moisture. The majority of the county finally moved out of D4 (exceptional) drought, thanks to rains in the past two weeks, but more rain is needed to keep that status at bay.
“If it doesn't rain, we’ll be right back in exceptional drought,” Stoskopf said.
Stoskopf abandoned 80 percent of planted acres and chose not to spray the remaining 200 acres. As a result, he decided to use only a conventional combine, which handles the ever-growing weeds better than his other rotary head. He noted 100-degree weather also helps chop weeds a little bit easier.
Post by: farming_cat fan on June 30, 2023, 11:56:29 AM
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Post by: farming_cat fan on June 30, 2023, 01:38:09 PM
Nice harvest pic. What are your yields like?
Yields are probably about average to slightly above average for our area. Dry fall and winter held it back.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 30, 2023, 01:55:33 PM
Okay. Hope you get done without any breakdowns and stay safe out there.Nice harvest pic. What are your yields like?
Yields are probably about average to slightly above average for our area. Dry fall and winter held it back.
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Post by: ben ji on July 02, 2023, 11:30:24 AM
We planted some Milo about 2 weeks ago but no idea if we got any damage.
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Post by: Katpappy on July 02, 2023, 10:25:24 PM
Also, what is the year and power rating of that brute?The 1206's with Turbo Diesels were only built from 1965-1967, Drawbar HP I think they are 95 HP and for the PTOs they were 112 HP.
My Grandfather and Uncle restored Farmall's and Cub Cadets from the 1940's to the 1980's models. Red Tractors rule, Green Tractor's drool.
During the summers we would go to Tractor Shows and Red Power Roundups. I truly know more than I should.
Sorry for the late response, Greg. TY for the info. IIRC, My dad's 856 had around 90 HP but the torque converter was a work saver due to it dropping down a gear when I needed it without having to shift it under load. I can't tell you all the hours I spent on that tractor. I helped my dad rebuild this tractor and an Oliver that he used to level around 120 acres with a pull-behind land leveler. I can't remember the model of Oliver he had since I was too young during the time.
Post by: Katpappy on July 02, 2023, 10:41:14 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 03, 2023, 08:20:12 AM
A fully ripe wheat field really gets the ole juices flowing.I really enjoy the contrast between a blue Kansas sky and the bright golden color of the straw in a freshly harvested wheat field.
Post by: ben ji on July 03, 2023, 09:45:48 AM
Yup. Up until Russia invaded Ukraine I had no idea that Ukraine's flag symbolized a wheat feild and the sky.A fully ripe wheat field really gets the ole juices flowing.I really enjoy the contrast between a blue Kansas sky and the bright golden color of the straw in a freshly harvested wheat field.
Post by: farming_cat fan on July 03, 2023, 12:04:20 PM
Got some hail out at the cat ranch, our crop farmer sent us a picture of the neighbors corn.
We planted some Milo about 2 weeks ago but no idea if we got any damage.
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That about makes a guy sick to his stomach to see that. Hopefully the damage wasn't widespread.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 03, 2023, 12:57:13 PM
Every year, the corn plants amaze me with how fast they can grow. It seems like one week they are tiny baby corn plants just barely peaking out of the ground and you blink and they are towering over you.
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Post by: ben ji on July 03, 2023, 03:56:38 PM
Only planted about 100 acres of Milo (other 300ish acres is going into wheat this fall) but according to our crop farmer it got hailed out.Got some hail out at the cat ranch, our crop farmer sent us a picture of the neighbors corn.
We planted some Milo about 2 weeks ago but no idea if we got any damage.
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That about makes a guy sick to his stomach to see that. Hopefully the damage wasn't widespread.
2 years of drought and when the rain finally comes it brings hail
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Post by: ben ji on July 05, 2023, 08:16:26 PM
No negative consequences
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Post by: Spracne on July 06, 2023, 03:50:45 PM
Post by: passranch on July 06, 2023, 04:46:32 PM
Team Horny? :fatty:
First thing I noticed too. I think I might need to know more about this "event company" that ben ji bro runs... :fatty:
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 06, 2023, 05:44:47 PM
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Post by: OB_Won on July 06, 2023, 06:53:42 PM
Does he like ICP and or fists?Team Horny? :fatty:
First thing I noticed too. I think I might need to know more about this "event company" that ben ji bro runs... :fatty:
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Post by: ben ji on July 08, 2023, 04:26:25 PM
High plains anaconda?
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Post by: ben ji on July 08, 2023, 05:50:23 PM
Ron is a 60 year old farmer who recently got into raising horses to pull antique equipment in parades/shows.
Pulled up in a flat bed pickup with his dog on back who never left the entire time. Was rocking overalls, a cutoff flannel and a cowboy hat accented by a chew in his mouth.
Anyways I gave him a tour of our junkyard and he explained what every old piece of equipment was and how it was used.
I asked him if he lived around here and he said "So you know XYZ's old place? I'm right by them" I was like "nah, I just know letters and numbers from street signs" and he explained he lived about 5 miles NW of us.
Put him in touch with my dad and he might haul off some of the stuff.
10/10
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on July 08, 2023, 05:57:29 PM
Had a visitor on the farm today. Name was Ron and my uncle told him about the antique farming equipment in the junkyard so he drove by to look at it, saw me and we started chatting.elite post
Ron is a 60 year old farmer who recently got into raising horses to pull antique equipment in parades/shows.
Pulled up in a flat bed pickup with his dog on back who never left the entire time. Was rocking overalls, a cutoff flannel and a cowboy hat accented by a chew in his mouth.
Anyways I gave him a tour of our junkyard and he explained what every old piece of equipment was and how it was used.
I asked him if he lived around here and he said "So you know XYZ's old place? I'm right by them" I was like "nah, I just know letters and numbers from street signs" and he explained he lived about 5 miles NW of us.
Put him in touch with my dad and he might haul off some of the stuff.
10/10
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Post by: wetwillie on July 08, 2023, 06:25:05 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 08, 2023, 06:57:02 PM
Everything looks nice and green at the cat ranch
got another 90pts on Thursday, just lush as hell out here.
My grandpa dug out some sort of pond with an excavator back in the day next to the "river" that catches a lot of runoff. It was dry the past 2 years but is now filled with driftwood that flash floods have pushed through.
Driftwood on the high plains?!?
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Post by: steve dave on July 08, 2023, 08:32:13 PM
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That’s lil sd bombing off the tree into what I expect is like 2 feet of water because he’s smart AF
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Post by: ben ji on July 08, 2023, 08:35:42 PM
SW KS is filthy with water right now too. Pics of lil sd and his cousins who are there right nowHell yeah, is lil SD down there for a week or so? I used to spend a week at my grandparents farm each summer around that age and it was a blast. Like summer camp but with a 4 wheeler and .22
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That’s lil sd bombing off the tree into what I expect is like 2 feet of water because he’s smart AF
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 08, 2023, 10:33:15 PM
Neighbor farm had a down size auction... an eclectic blend of house wares, small tools, old equipment, furniture...
I came away with a sweet copper weather van/ lightning rod.
Then I fixed a "gate." Years ago dad had ATV riders trespassing along a creek. His solution was 5 big hedge posts with 2 cables ran thru it. Now we need access to mow the CRP. I took the cable apart, out of the end post. Used an old pipe of something green and made it like a wire gate with chain and padlock.
Saw a nice field of sunflowers on the drive home.
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Post by: steve dave on July 14, 2023, 10:19:24 PM
ANOTHER BRAG: I can slowly back a double trailer (tractor, implement, anhydrous tank) reliably. This is an impossible task for 99.99999% of human beings.
I will challenge anyone in this blog to a backing up contest.
Post by: steve dave on July 14, 2023, 10:20:24 PM
Post by: michigancat on July 14, 2023, 10:36:43 PM
I can back a trailer faster than 99% of the human race can back their car. I'm born into this. It's my heritage.Pro tip for non farmers who have no idea how to back up a trailer:
Actually not giving it. learn it yourselves, losers!
Post by: Spracne on July 14, 2023, 11:04:21 PM
I can back a trailer faster than 99% of the human race can back their car. I'm born into this. It's my heritage.Pro tip for non farmers who have no idea how to back up a trailer:
Actually not giving it. learn it yourselves, losers!
I'll give the pro tip: just do the opposite of what you'd think.
Post by: michigancat on July 14, 2023, 11:33:48 PM
WRONGI can back a trailer faster than 99% of the human race can back their car. I'm born into this. It's my heritage.Pro tip for non farmers who have no idea how to back up a trailer:
Actually not giving it. learn it yourselves, losers!
I'll give the pro tip: just do the opposite of what you'd think.
Post by: steve dave on July 15, 2023, 01:08:53 AM
BITCH YOU THOUGHT!I can back a trailer faster than 99% of the human race can back their car. I'm born into this. It's my heritage.Pro tip for non farmers who have no idea how to back up a trailer:
Actually not giving it. learn it yourselves, losers!
I'll give the pro tip: just do the opposite of what you'd think.
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 15, 2023, 04:40:52 PM
got off track in another thread:Dad used to send mom and me to pick up cattle before I could drive. My sole job was to back the trailer up to the loading chute. Let's do this...ANOTHER BRAG: I can slowly back a double trailer (tractor, implement, anhydrous tank) reliably. This is an impossible task for 99.99999% of human beings.
I will challenge anyone in this blog to a backing up contest.
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Post by: schreds21 on July 18, 2023, 12:39:01 PM
Post by: XocolateThundarr on July 18, 2023, 03:42:05 PM
:comeatme: :comeatme: :comeatme:
Post by: nicname on July 18, 2023, 04:19:34 PM
I am the opposite of Steve Dave in trailer backing prowess. I attribute this to never living on a farm.
Same. Trailer backing is top 5 most intimidating tasks for gE’s very own nicname.
Post by: Spracne on July 18, 2023, 04:21:07 PM
Post by: ben ji on July 18, 2023, 09:06:21 PM
Neighbors hailed out corn.
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Post by: ben ji on July 18, 2023, 09:11:05 PM
UPDATE: Apparently it's getting baled up for cow food. Check out these windrows from about 10 days ago.what's the plan for that green wheat? graze it, bale it?No idea as it's my aunt's land. I'm assuming even the non green wheat has been zero'd out like most the dry land crops in the area so maybe they can bale it for feed or let cows graze it?
Maybe some real farmers can come in here and explain what happens when your crop is X'd and you take the insurance payout. Do you get to do whatever you want with it or do they make you plow it under or something?
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Post by: ben ji on July 18, 2023, 09:13:34 PM
Some basic wheat shots of my aunts crop next door. The green wheat at the front got some bad wind erosion this winter and has only recently grown in the past month with the rain, has not headed out.Here was the green wheat that was windrowed, probably before the hail Storm.
The wheat behind it is starting to turn golden but I doubt they get much out of it.
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Post by: sys on July 21, 2023, 12:24:01 AM
UPDATE: Apparently it's getting baled up for cow food. Check out these windrows from about 10 days ago.
fantastic news.
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Post by: Katpappy on July 21, 2023, 09:06:35 PM
Tater and I think we might grow some corn this year.
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MY fur baby is about the same size as Tater and she loves buttered corn on the cob. My wife hates it when I give her one because the first thing she does is bring it into the house.
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Post by: Kat Kid on July 22, 2023, 12:43:12 PM
One time I for some reason was asked to back a boat trailer in to retrieve a fishing boat at Tuttle and the guy waiting on my dumbass in the line just saddled up and did it before I mumped something up seriously.I can back a trailer faster than 99% of the human race can back their car. I'm born into this. It's my heritage.Pro tip for non farmers who have no idea how to back up a trailer:
Actually not giving it. learn it yourselves, losers!
Post by: Kat Kid on July 22, 2023, 12:46:40 PM
And she said “but you do know who the fed chair is so I guess there’s that.”
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Post by: bucket on July 23, 2023, 08:08:21 PM
Post by: farming_cat fan on July 23, 2023, 08:21:28 PM
What are you driving there, farming_cat? An old model A or B?1951 John Deere A.
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 23, 2023, 09:30:29 PM
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Post by: farming_cat fan on July 24, 2023, 07:34:15 AM
Where was this farming_cat?Started and ended in Wetmore. First year for the event, but by the sounds of it, they will try to have annually.
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Post by: KST8FAN on July 24, 2023, 02:17:20 PM
Cool. Need go get on the mailing list.Where was this farming_cat?Started and ended in Wetmore. First year for the event, but by the sounds of it, they will try to have annually.
Tom
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Post by: Katpappy on July 24, 2023, 11:53:52 PM
Where was this farming_cat?Started and ended in Wetmore. First year for the event, but by the sounds of it, they will try to have annually.
Tom
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Hey wait, is that anywhere near Dryless? :Carl: :confused: :dunno: ;)
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Post by: steve dave on July 25, 2023, 09:26:03 AM
Anyone here have a ZT mower recommendation?My folks have a Hustler and are hard as hell on it and it’s been cutting huge swaths of poorly maintained farm “grass” for like at least 5 years and still going strong so I can recommend that one. Also it hauls ass.
Tom
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Post by: farming_cat fan on July 25, 2023, 10:12:45 AM
Anyone here have a ZT mower recommendation?I researched mowers a decent amount this summer then the rain decided to shut off so I figured I'd get by with what I have for the remainder of the year. If you have much acreage at all, I would strongly consider a commercial unit. Scag, Ferris, Hustler, Deere, and Exmark all make excellent commercial units. Ferris has suspension all the way around if you have rough terrain. Former coworker had a rear discharge Grasshopper and he mentioned that it would windrow pretty bad if the grass had much height to it at all.
Tom
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Post by: star seed 7 on July 25, 2023, 03:17:06 PM
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Anyone here have a ZT mower recommendation?Husqvarna with Kawasaki is my choice.
Tom
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Post by: ben ji on July 25, 2023, 08:38:27 PM
There are actually 4 mowers in the garage right now and 1.5 of them are operational.
Also he once blamed me for them being POS"s because I kept mowing trails through the wind breaks with them.
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https://twitter.com/WOWT6News/status/1686822578453684224
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 03, 2023, 07:43:07 AM
https://twitter.com/coloradowheat/status/1685007916410232832?t=uarXqzVgblQ8zmBbAfJPIA&s=19Incredible. I was surprised to see wheat harvest still going on west of Scott City in W. KS and eastern Colorado a couple of weeks ago.
Have you guys heard about the billionaire who bought part of the old Missouri Pacific railroad between Towner, CO and Pueblo and is building new grain terminals to ship crops out of this region? Pretty interesting and ambitious.
https://weskangrain.com/ (https://weskangrain.com/)
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 03, 2023, 11:57:58 AM
IIRC a couple of years ago someone in this thread mentioned a Russian buying up any farmland that went for sale near Scott City.Soloviev is of Russian descent but was born in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Soloviev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Soloviev)
Post by: steve dave on August 03, 2023, 04:22:11 PM
https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-mountain-lion-sightings-photos-video/44727715
Post by: ben ji on August 03, 2023, 07:56:28 PM
Interesting bio between being the 22nd largest land owner in the US and being able to field a full offensive football team with only his offspring.IIRC a couple of years ago someone in this thread mentioned a Russian buying up any farmland that went for sale near Scott City.Soloviev is of Russian descent but was born in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Soloviev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Soloviev)
(But basically this was a way to get some oligarchs money out of Russia and into legit assets right? )
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 08, 2023, 08:49:52 AM
an in the wild sighting of rain in pts.Is this a western KS thing? I've always heard "inches" and "hundreths"
Post by: steve dave on August 08, 2023, 12:55:22 PM
Western KS is 100% all hundreths. I never heard points u til this thread.an in the wild sighting of rain in pts.Is this a western KS thing? I've always heard "inches" and "hundreths"
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Post by: schreds21 on August 08, 2023, 03:57:49 PM
an in the wild sighting of rain in pts.Is this a western KS thing? I've always heard "inches" and "hundreths"WesternKS is 100% all hundreths. I never heard points u til this thread.
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Post by: schreds21 on August 08, 2023, 11:33:20 PM
My family always used basis points.Your family also allowed their kid to attend KU.
Post by: steve dave on August 09, 2023, 07:04:17 AM
My family always used basis points.
lmao, irl when finance bros use basis points I mentally convert that to hundredths
Post by: michigancat on August 09, 2023, 07:15:03 AM
Not sure if you saw the pet peeves thread but I work with a guy who calls them "bips" and it sends me into a rage every time lolMy family always used basis points.
lmao, irl when finance bros use basis points I mentally convert that to hundredths
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Post by: Spracne on August 09, 2023, 10:51:42 AM
My family always used basis points.Your family also allowed their kid to attend KU.
Pffft. That's rich, for many reasons.
My family had no say in the matter. Not that they would have interfered, but it wasn't their money and therefore not their choice. I don't even know where my undergrad degree is, but I cherish the mammaries.
Post by: ben ji on August 11, 2023, 09:08:16 PM
#SunflowerState
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Post by: ben ji on August 11, 2023, 10:36:26 PM
It’s honestly a horrific outside experience 90% of the timeIt's hot as crap and all you want is a nice summer breeze? NOPE, enjoy some squitos instead.
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Its cold as crap and all you want is the wind to stop? NOPE, Still going at 15-20mph all day everyday.
But did you not see those majestic sunflowers?
Also found an adorable baby toad who was grumpy I picked him up.
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Post by: ben ji on August 12, 2023, 08:43:27 PM
3 months ago it was a desert wasteland in the middle of a 2 year drought and then the rains returned and we have non toad amphibians just popping up out of the ground?
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Post by: sys on August 13, 2023, 09:00:45 PM
i think you can find the larvae pretty easily if you look for them, but i never did that. the adults are underground most of the time.
Post by: steve dave on August 13, 2023, 09:04:48 PM
tiger, like sd said. pretty cool, i only ever found a couple in kansas.We’d find them all the time in Meade and keep them as pets until we grew bored of them and let them go.
i think you can find the larvae pretty easily if you look for them, but i never did that. the adults are underground most of the time.
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Post by: pissclams on August 13, 2023, 11:07:20 PM
pro tip- boil them with a heavy dusting of your favorite cajun seasoning and enjoy a simple yet flavorful meal that rivals anything you will find at the fanciest seafood restaurants in paris
Post by: yoga-like_abana on August 14, 2023, 08:31:02 AM
Post by: ben ji on August 14, 2023, 10:20:30 AM
Such fun!
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on August 14, 2023, 11:22:29 AM
The intense heat during the last half of July "burned up" a lot of the dryland corn in my part of central KS. Farmers are chopping it like crazy for silage. Irrigated corn and most soybeans still look good.
I didn't realize it got that bad. Seemed like it was humid enough to keep it going.
Post by: pissclams on August 14, 2023, 11:26:35 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 14, 2023, 12:16:50 PM
The corn in my immediate vicinity had been "living hand to mouth" in terms of rainfall for most of the growing season. It looked strong early in July but a couple of dry weeks combined with high temps (the corn plants like to be able to cool off at night, I'm told) zapped it.The intense heat during the last half of July "burned up" a lot of the dryland corn in my part of central KS. Farmers are chopping it like crazy for silage. Irrigated corn and most soybeans still look good.
I didn't realize it got that bad. Seemed like it was humid enough to keep it going.
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Post by: steve dave on August 16, 2023, 07:54:25 AM
My farming experience has been quite rewarding. I've been tending to crops and livestock for years, and it's a whole lot of hard work but equally satisfying.Go back and read the thread Wally, we already know all that
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Post by: steve dave on August 16, 2023, 09:41:02 PM
Post by: Spracne on August 16, 2023, 10:43:21 PM
28 loads, day one. One flat, one shear pin broke, one chain came off. Other wise a decent day. I didn't directly break anything, and I kept up.
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You need to slow down with that frequency of loads. Refractory periods are real.
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 17, 2023, 07:33:54 AM
I say this with the utmost respect and admiration but why are you doing it like that? is something going on that my age 0-18 farming life is missing (I was not paying attention most of those years so this is a VERY high probability)You're probably used to a big self propelled cutter, trucks, and a pit? This is a small part of the operation to winter cows for a neighbor. Still very much old school, old machinery to fill an upright silo in 3-4 days.
I realized this week too my cousin has like a crap load of tractors for the acres farmed. I am not sure he knows what trade in means. LoL.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 17, 2023, 08:20:46 AM
Neat to see the old-school silage production. Dad talks about when the neighbors would get together to put silage into an actual silo. Nowadays, there is a guy with a massive chopper who puts it in a pile on the ground or a trench (probably wastes a lot of silage compared to this setup).I say this with the utmost respect and admiration but why are you doing it like that? is something going on that my age 0-18 farming life is missing (I was not paying attention most of those years so this is a VERY high probability)You're probably used to a big self propelled cutter, trucks, and a pit? This is a small part of the operation to winter cows for a neighbor. Still very much old school, old machinery to fill an upright silo in 3-4 days.
I realized this week too my cousin has like a crap load of tractors for the acres farmed. I am not sure he knows what trade in means. LoL.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on August 17, 2023, 08:52:40 AM
Neat to see the old-school silage production. Dad talks about when the neighbors would get together to put silage into an actual silo. Nowadays, there is a guy with a massive chopper who puts it in a pile on the ground or a trench (probably wastes a lot of silage compared to this setup).I say this with the utmost respect and admiration but why are you doing it like that? is something going on that my age 0-18 farming life is missing (I was not paying attention most of those years so this is a VERY high probability)You're probably used to a big self propelled cutter, trucks, and a pit? This is a small part of the operation to winter cows for a neighbor. Still very much old school, old machinery to fill an upright silo in 3-4 days.
I realized this week too my cousin has like a crap load of tractors for the acres farmed. I am not sure he knows what trade in means. LoL.
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This is what we did. Had the old-school setup and put it all in a big trench built into a hill. Used to plant sorghum silage too.
Post by: steve dave on August 17, 2023, 10:28:50 AM
I say this with the utmost respect and admiration but why are you doing it like that? is something going on that my age 0-18 farming life is missing (I was not paying attention most of those years so this is a VERY high probability)You're probably used to a big self propelled cutter, trucks, and a pit? This is a small part of the operation to winter cows for a neighbor. Still very much old school, old machinery to fill an upright silo in 3-4 days.
I realized this week too my cousin has like a crap load of tractors for the acres farmed. I am not sure he knows what trade in means. LoL.
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yeah, that's accurate and basically what I assumed
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Post by: Katpappy on August 17, 2023, 10:17:55 PM
I say this with the utmost respect and admiration but why are you doing it like that? is something going on that my age 0-18 farming life is missing (I was not paying attention most of those years so this is a VERY high probability)You're probably used to a big self propelled cutter, trucks, and a pit? This is a small part of the operation to winter cows for a neighbor. Still very much old school, old machinery to fill an upright silo in 3-4 days.
I realized this week too my cousin has like a crap load of tractors for the acres farmed. I am not sure he knows what trade in means. LoL.
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Tom, he sounds a lot like my old man. LOL
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Post by: Spracne on August 18, 2023, 06:07:25 PM
Post by: steve dave on August 18, 2023, 06:20:45 PM
Gimme that cow. Not sure what to do with it, but it needs to be mine.
you have to prove that you own it. the sheriff is on one side and you are on the other. you call to it and if it comes to you it's yours.
actually I have no rough ridin' clue how you'd claim this thing. obviously isn't branded. just show up and do it imo.
Post by: Spracne on August 18, 2023, 06:47:11 PM
Gimme that cow. Not sure what to do with it, but it needs to be mine.
you have to prove that you own it. the sheriff is on one side and you are on the other. you call to it and if it comes to you it's yours.
actually I have no rough ridin' clue how you'd claim this thing. obviously isn't branded. just show up and do it imo.
There's a nearly 100% chance I will do this.
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Post by: steve dave on August 20, 2023, 12:43:18 AM
anyone know the best part of the country to buy a hobby farm? like the part of the country where you can get the most grass for your dollar.I do not but if I was guessing I’d say somewhere like New York or obvious places like shitty North Dakota.
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Post by: steve dave on August 20, 2023, 12:44:00 AM
sd, can you have your father submit a bid for me on that boy cow? i'd like to bring him home.NO! ITS NOT YOUR COW (bull)!
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Post by: ben ji on August 20, 2023, 09:10:30 AM
anyone know the best part of the country to buy a hobby farm? like the part of the country where you can get the most grass for your dollar.
I bet you could buy some desert land in BFE Nevada for super cheap but you wouldn't have grass. If you're just looking for grass and not cropland I'm sure you could find an old house on the plains where the owner has recently died. The hard part would be finding one with only 40-60 acres of grassland and not some giant 1000+ acre farm with cropland.
Or just wait another 10 years until the boomers start really die'n off and buy some prepackaged hobby farm from them.
Post by: ben ji on August 20, 2023, 09:19:59 AM
Ben ji go claim this juvenile bull as your own and start a herd.
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Let me remind you of the last time my dad tried to "start a herd" a couple of years ago.
Bought 3 feeder calves at the sale barn and put them in the 20 acre pen by the house which doubles as a junkyard, One died like 3 days after arriving back at the cat ranch.
A week after he bought them he went back to KC because he is an IRL city boy and the 2 remaining cows got out and wandered about 4 miles away where they were found chomping away in someone's crop field.
He had to drive the 5.5 hours back to the cat ranch to pick them up. Then like a week later they both got sick and he had to call out the vet to hit em with the Nuflor or something and then he finally realized he was never going to make any money off these suckers so he sold them back at the sale barn about 3 weeks after he bought them.
Now we just lease our pasture to cow farmer nate....and by lease I mean he currently pays us in work and has been replacing all the fencing around the cat ranch and fixing random crap.
Post by: wetwillie on August 20, 2023, 11:15:05 AM
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Post by: sys on August 20, 2023, 02:39:49 PM
I bet you could buy some desert land in BFE Nevada for super cheap but you wouldn't have grass.
yeah, i'm trying to find out where land is cheapest on a per cows it can support basis, not a per acre basis. it's surprisingly hard to find that information.
my guess is that's probably missouri or kentucky or something. somewhere with abundant rain, long growing seasons and where not a ton of people want to live in rural areas.
which i probably wouldn't either, but maybe i'd see somewhere at like, number six on the list, where i'd want to live.
Post by: KST8FAN on August 20, 2023, 05:43:19 PM
I used to play so much goddam pitch on weekends at the sale barn in republic county. AMASale barn stories... St Mary's, Holton, Falls City (NE), Wakarusa,...
Every sale barn had the little diner serving up hamburgers, fries, ice cold coke, and PIE, HOMEMADE PIE.
It all tasted great despite the smell of livestock that permeates the local sale barn.
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Post by: ben ji on August 20, 2023, 06:48:06 PM
I bet you could buy some desert land in BFE Nevada for super cheap but you wouldn't have grass.
yeah, i'm trying to find out where land is cheapest on a per cows it can support basis, not a per acre basis. it's surprisingly hard to find that information.
my guess is that's probably missouri or kentucky or something. somewhere with abundant rain, long growing seasons and where not a ton of people want to live in rural areas.
which i probably wouldn't either, but maybe i'd see somewhere at like, number six on the list, where i'd want to live.
There is some sort of formula in the midwest based on how much rain you get = how many cows you can stock per acre. I remember seeing it on some university extension site but a 10 second google search of "Cows per acre per inch of rain" yielded no results.
So basically find the cheapest land that gets alot of rain and has mainly grass for cows and not tree's (Unfortunately I think people have been doing this for hundreds of years on the plains).
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That is my cow, I acquired it through a trade and his name is Mr. Pickles. If anyone in Collins county tells you otherwise tell them to talk to the Judge
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That is my cow, I acquired it through a trade and his name is Mr. Pickles. If anyone in Collins county tells you otherwise tell them to talk to the Judge
Yeah, that's for sure your bovine, Mr. Pickles. No doubt about it. Clear as day. And I'm an officer of the court.
Post by: IPA4Me on August 21, 2023, 06:37:10 PM
Mississippi is quite green in this hot ass summer. Would support the cows quite well.I bet you could buy some desert land in BFE Nevada for super cheap but you wouldn't have grass.
yeah, i'm trying to find out where land is cheapest on a per cows it can support basis, not a per acre basis. it's surprisingly hard to find that information.
my guess is that's probably missouri or kentucky or something. somewhere with abundant rain, long growing seasons and where not a ton of people want to live in rural areas.
which i probably wouldn't either, but maybe i'd see somewhere at like, number six on the list, where i'd want to live.
Post by: sys on August 21, 2023, 08:11:21 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 22, 2023, 02:55:28 PM
Day two in the books! Neighbor busted out his 6430 to pull wagons today. So desire one of those. Silo filling has its benefits like copious amounts of bourbon when the day is done.That bottle of WT101 looks delicious. Are you going to post pictures of happy cows chowing down on that delicious silage this winter?
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Post by: CNS on August 22, 2023, 03:21:13 PM
Mississippi is quite green in this hot ass summer. Would support the cows quite well.I bet you could buy some desert land in BFE Nevada for super cheap but you wouldn't have grass.
yeah, i'm trying to find out where land is cheapest on a per cows it can support basis, not a per acre basis. it's surprisingly hard to find that information.
my guess is that's probably missouri or kentucky or something. somewhere with abundant rain, long growing seasons and where not a ton of people want to live in rural areas.
which i probably wouldn't either, but maybe i'd see somewhere at like, number six on the list, where i'd want to live.
I have heard that cows won't eat kudzu but that kudzu will eat cows. Confirm?
Post by: KST8FAN on August 22, 2023, 06:22:21 PM
This was from last November he wintered a pen of heifers.Day two in the books! Neighbor busted out his 6430 to pull wagons today. So desire one of those. Silo filling has its benefits like copious amounts of bourbon when the day is done.That bottle of WT101 looks delicious. Are you going to post pictures of happy cows chowing down on that delicious silage this winter?
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Post by: pissclams on August 22, 2023, 09:04:52 PM
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 22, 2023, 09:17:53 PM
Gorgeous. Love seeing happy bovines lined up at the bunk.This was from last November he wintered a pen of heifers.Day two in the books! Neighbor busted out his 6430 to pull wagons today. So desire one of those. Silo filling has its benefits like copious amounts of bourbon when the day is done.That bottle of WT101 looks delicious. Are you going to post pictures of happy cows chowing down on that delicious silage this winter?
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 25, 2023, 08:51:48 AM
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Post by: BW on August 25, 2023, 09:40:40 PM
On feed or held back? Nice set.This was from last November he wintered a pen of heifers.Day two in the books! Neighbor busted out his 6430 to pull wagons today. So desire one of those. Silo filling has its benefits like copious amounts of bourbon when the day is done.That bottle of WT101 looks delicious. Are you going to post pictures of happy cows chowing down on that delicious silage this winter?
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Post by: mocat on August 25, 2023, 09:50:56 PM
Definitely rust beltI bet you could buy some desert land in BFE Nevada for super cheap but you wouldn't have grass.
yeah, i'm trying to find out where land is cheapest on a per cows it can support basis, not a per acre basis. it's surprisingly hard to find that information.
my guess is that's probably missouri or kentucky or something. somewhere with abundant rain, long growing seasons and where not a ton of people want to live in rural areas.
which i probably wouldn't either, but maybe i'd see somewhere at like, number six on the list, where i'd want to live.
Post by: KST8FAN on August 27, 2023, 08:40:53 PM
Those are feeders.On feed or held back? Nice set.This was from last November he wintered a pen of heifers.Day two in the books! Neighbor busted out his 6430 to pull wagons today. So desire one of those. Silo filling has its benefits like copious amounts of bourbon when the day is done.That bottle of WT101 looks delicious. Are you going to post pictures of happy cows chowing down on that delicious silage this winter?
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 31, 2023, 07:25:34 AM
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Post by: KST8FAN on August 31, 2023, 10:11:57 PM
I bet he laughs when he pulls into the car wash with the sign that says "NO CATTLE TRUCKS"
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Post by: ben ji on September 02, 2023, 10:35:01 PM
When he was done for the day he noticed one of the big circular discs was missing so figured it fell off.
This morning I took the minibike out and spent about an hour looking for this missing metal circle until I gave up.
Later in the day my dad called his crop farmer and was like "yeah this one part is missing, trying to find it etc"
Crop farmer dude was like "nah, that's been missing since a couple of years ago"
Anyways here is the disced/swept? Soon the be planted wheat field next to our current Milo crop.
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Post by: ben ji on September 02, 2023, 10:48:19 PM
This is some pit my grandpa dug hoping to be a pond...kinda failed at that but when it floods all the driftwood collects there.
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Post by: steve dave on September 03, 2023, 03:30:01 AM
Out at the cat ranch and my dad disced/swept (not sure of the difference) the field we are planting wheat next month with our crop farmers equipment he had left there.Disc. Sweeps are big arrows that go under the ground and are better for soil water retention.
When he was done for the day he noticed one of the big circular discs was missing so figured it fell off.
This morning I took the minibike out and spent about an hour looking for this missing metal circle until I gave up.
Later in the day my dad called his crop farmer and was like "yeah this one part is missing, trying to find it etc"
Crop farmer dude was like "nah, that's been missing since a couple of years ago"
Anyways here is the disced/swept? Soon the be planted wheat field next to our current Milo crop.
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 03, 2023, 10:46:43 AM
So another farm glossary discussion in the points vs tenths vein.Out at the cat ranch and my dad disced/swept (not sure of the difference) the field we are planting wheat next month with our crop farmers equipment he had left there.Disc. Sweeps are big arrows that go under the ground and are better for soil water retention.
When he was done for the day he noticed one of the big circular discs was missing so figured it fell off.
This morning I took the minibike out and spent about an hour looking for this missing metal circle until I gave up.
Later in the day my dad called his crop farmer and was like "yeah this one part is missing, trying to find it etc"
Crop farmer dude was like "nah, that's been missing since a couple of years ago"
Anyways here is the disced/swept? Soon the be planted wheat field next to our current Milo crop.
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What SD describes was called a spring tooth, shank, field cultivator where I grew up. I never heard the term sweep until probably college.
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Post by: Katpappy on September 03, 2023, 12:57:23 PM
I thought sweeping was like the windrow thing with the spinny things
You'll know it's a rake because if it had a handle it would be a giant rake. LOL
Post by: Katpappy on September 03, 2023, 01:01:22 PM
So another farm glossary discussion in the points vs tenths vein.Out at the cat ranch and my dad disced/swept (not sure of the difference) the field we are planting wheat next month with our crop farmers equipment he had left there.Disc. Sweeps are big arrows that go under the ground and are better for soil water retention.
When he was done for the day he noticed one of the big circular discs was missing so figured it fell off.
This morning I took the minibike out and spent about an hour looking for this missing metal circle until I gave up.
Later in the day my dad called his crop farmer and was like "yeah this one part is missing, trying to find it etc"
Crop farmer dude was like "nah, that's been missing since a couple of years ago"
Anyways here is the disced/swept? Soon the be planted wheat field next to our current Milo crop.
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What SD describes was called a spring tooth, shank, field cultivator where I grew up. I never heard the term sweep until probably college.
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So another farm glossary discussion in the points vs tenths vein.Out at the cat ranch and my dad disced/swept (not sure of the difference) the field we are planting wheat next month with our crop farmers equipment he had left there.Disc. Sweeps are big arrows that go under the ground and are better for soil water retention.
When he was done for the day he noticed one of the big circular discs was missing so figured it fell off.
This morning I took the minibike out and spent about an hour looking for this missing metal circle until I gave up.
Later in the day my dad called his crop farmer and was like "yeah this one part is missing, trying to find it etc"
Crop farmer dude was like "nah, that's been missing since a couple of years ago"
Anyways here is the disced/swept? Soon the be planted wheat field next to our current Milo crop.
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What SD describes was called a spring tooth, shank, field cultivator where I grew up. I never heard the term sweep until probably college.
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Agree completely, Tom. Sometimes when you talk to degreed farmers(also AKA hobby) don't have any idea what equipment is called or used for in the field.
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My dad wanted a picture so I obliged and he blasted it out to the family group chat.
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Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 15, 2023, 04:29:28 PM
I don't get the chicken stuff. I mean, if you didn't have like stores to buy eggs for basically free then I'd get it. but otherwise it just seems like a PITA and waste of energy. unless you enjoy it obviously. then go nuts if that makes you happy.
Yeah, but eggs cost more than like $3 now and a lot of people are very pissed off about it, so all of the manual labor associated with putting up a coop, going out to feed those fuckers every damned day, and then finding out they all got killed by coyotes sounds appealing to people who need Ts and Ps.
Post by: WillieWatanabe on September 15, 2023, 04:56:21 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on September 15, 2023, 04:58:14 PM
I feel unless you have 5+ kids who love eggs, egg people are always trying to give them away at certain times.
I feel the same way about growing my own weed
Post by: ben ji on September 15, 2023, 05:19:14 PM
Post by: sys on September 15, 2023, 08:48:33 PM
Post by: steve dave on September 15, 2023, 09:46:52 PM
chickens are great. very diverse.
also kinda fluffy
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2023, 10:02:45 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2023, 10:04:52 AM
Post by: Spracne on September 16, 2023, 12:01:55 PM
Should mention in this thread we ate one of our roosters the other night.. wife had mentioned for a while we had too many roosters. Got home from work and she had killed, skinned and cooked that ole boy.. :horrorsurprise:
Very confused about the gender identity of this "rooster."
How old was the rooster, and how did it taste? Don't even think about saying "like chicken."
Post by: Skipper44 on September 16, 2023, 12:03:56 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on September 16, 2023, 12:59:01 PM
Post by: sys on September 16, 2023, 01:27:18 PM
Should mention in this thread we ate one of our roosters the other night.. wife had mentioned for a while we had too many roosters. Got home from work and she had killed, skinned and cooked that ole boy.. :horrorsurprise:
Very confused about the gender identity of this "rooster."
a lesson for the other roosters to step up their egg game.
Post by: steve dave on September 16, 2023, 03:37:17 PM
Should mention in this thread we ate one of our roosters the other night.. wife had mentioned for a while we had too many roosters. Got home from work and she had killed, skinned and cooked that ole boy.. :horrorsurprise:lmao what on earth
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Post by: wetwillie on September 16, 2023, 03:44:28 PM
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Post by: Spracne on September 16, 2023, 03:48:27 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2023, 04:40:55 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2023, 04:41:35 PM
Post by: Spracne on September 16, 2023, 04:47:55 PM
Used my biggest pair of garden loppers. :horrorsurprise: She’s also a complete hippy god bless her and hatched them from eggs in a massive like 30 or so incubator and about 5 of the ones that hatched were roosters. Could be a yla wife thread. Few months ago I wasn’t home and she spotted three (hide your eyes sd) raccoons at night in the tree by our chicken coop. She couldn’t find my shotgun shells (responsible gun owner) she used my 40 cal hand gun and blasted the three of them in 4 shots
Doesn't sound like a hippie, to me. Sounds a little whiskey tango, actually. Glad the fresh male genitals was tasty.
Post by: bucket on September 16, 2023, 04:50:19 PM
Wasn’t definitely tougher than store bought chicken but was tasty
Did you pressure cook it? You have to do that for those older birds.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2023, 04:53:54 PM
Post by: Spracne on September 16, 2023, 04:55:25 PM
Was actually a younger one. He was a little to Randy and was pestering the hens. He also wouldn’t give us adorable blue eggs I was told.
You keep saying this, and I'm still confused. You have "too many roosters." Is your wife really clued into the sex lives of these birds?
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2023, 05:00:44 PM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2023, 05:13:21 PM
It's a serious question. How does she know this particular rooster was responsible for the offensive œufs?We’ve all witnessed it. Fella had no chill. Think if any of her chicken friends would’ve wanted it though she would’ve gladly given him away. She hated every minute of it
Post by: IPA4Me on September 16, 2023, 05:13:41 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 16, 2023, 05:49:31 PM
Post by: sys on September 16, 2023, 06:18:09 PM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 16, 2023, 07:07:45 PM
Post by: IPA4Me on September 16, 2023, 07:47:07 PM
They do when you crossbreed and hatch those eggs ole boyAlrighty, breeding. Gotcha.
Thought someone had convinced you male genitals or no male genitals changes the color daily.
Post by: Fedor on September 18, 2023, 07:58:17 AM
Goddam you guys are dumbasses. Mrs. YLA sounds like a keeper.They do when you crossbreed and hatch those eggs ole boyAlrighty, breeding. Gotcha.
Thought someone had convinced you male genitals or no male genitals changes the color daily.
Post by: IPA4Me on September 18, 2023, 08:00:52 AM
Not the dumbass as I'm well aware of how to raise chickens as I have over 80 running around the hobby farm.Goddam you guys are dumbasses. Mrs. YLA sounds like a keeper.They do when you crossbreed and hatch those eggs ole boyAlrighty, breeding. Gotcha.
Thought someone had convinced you male genitals or no male genitals changes the color daily.
However I know several dumbasses that get roped into dumbass ideas.
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Post by: mocat on September 18, 2023, 08:08:57 AM
Post by: sys on September 18, 2023, 12:05:41 PM
Besides shooting animals who venture onto your property, what other classic hippie stuff does mrs yla do
keeps blue egg-laying chickens as pets.
Post by: passranch on September 18, 2023, 02:25:33 PM
Here, yla's wife comes to snuff the rooster, oh yeah.
Goddamn this one took way too long. Kudos to you RATM.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 18, 2023, 03:51:31 PM
Besides shooting animals who venture onto your property, what other classic hippie stuff does mrs yla domaybe resourceful is a better word. other than the small orchard and garden she has going I think bees and mini goats are in our future
Post by: Dugout DickStone on September 18, 2023, 04:10:25 PM
Besides shooting animals who venture onto your property, what other classic hippie stuff does mrs yla domaybe resourceful is a better word. other than the small orchard and garden she has going I think bees and mini goats are in our future
I remmeber when those fads wen through KC. pendlton heights and hyde park were like a collective in 2012
Post by: steve dave on September 19, 2023, 10:44:35 AM
Make her post ITTBesides shooting animals who venture onto your property, what other classic hippie stuff does mrs yla domaybe resourceful is a better word. other than the small orchard and garden she has going I think bees and mini goats are in our future
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Post by: star seed 7 on September 19, 2023, 12:40:11 PM
Post by: sys on September 19, 2023, 01:32:19 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on September 19, 2023, 01:42:09 PM
Post by: wetwillie on September 19, 2023, 01:44:05 PM
at least post pics of the chickens and eggs.
Any cocks as well
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 19, 2023, 01:54:04 PM
Post by: Katpappy on September 19, 2023, 04:08:58 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on September 19, 2023, 04:12:00 PM
This brings me back to my childhood days. My mom had leghorns and some reddish-brown ones. She would order chicks in the spring and get them mailed to us. She would let me or my little brother hold them because it was easy to quash them. At about 6 weeks old she would be picking out young fryers and keep the biggest and meanest of the reddish-brown and leghorns. All the rest made fine Sunday meals. YLA, enjoy those tasty meals.
i participated in a full on slaughter at a neighbors house. meaning head chopped with hatchet, ran around spraying blood, dip in boiling water then pluck and use machine to get pinfeathers off.
Post by: Katpappy on September 19, 2023, 04:15:25 PM
I don't get the chicken stuff. I mean, if you didn't have like stores to buy eggs for basically free then I'd get it. but otherwise it just seems like a PITA and waste of energy. unless you enjoy it obviously. then go nuts if that makes you happy.
The chicken ranching gives the city/hippy/greenies who have a large suburban lot or mini ranch some sense of getting with nature farming.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on September 19, 2023, 04:19:27 PM
I don't get the chicken stuff. I mean, if you didn't have like stores to buy eggs for basically free then I'd get it. but otherwise it just seems like a PITA and waste of energy. unless you enjoy it obviously. then go nuts if that makes you happy.
The chicken ranching gives the city/hippy/greenies who have a large suburban lot or mini ranch some sense of getting with nature farming.
And has for 15 years. Then genius restauranteurs realized they can sell these same women "farm to table" concepts at a nice 20% markup over the Tyson birds that they were actually still serving
Post by: Dugout DickStone on September 19, 2023, 04:20:09 PM
Post by: Katpappy on September 19, 2023, 04:24:34 PM
This brings me back to my childhood days. My mom had leghorns and some reddish-brown ones. She would order chicks in the spring and get them mailed to us. She would let me or my little brother hold them because it was easy to quash them. At about 6 weeks old she would be picking out young fryers and keep the biggest and meanest of the reddish-brown and leghorns. All the rest made fine Sunday meals. YLA, enjoy those tasty meals.
i participated in a full on slaughter at a neighbors house. meaning head chopped with hatchet, ran around spraying blood, dip in boiling water then pluck and use machine to get pinfeathers off.
Yea, we did it the same way. Mom had a stump and an axe and she was very good at it. My job was to go find the headless chickens, and they loved getting in the ditch with the ten-foot-high fireweeds. Also, the house stunk really bad with her putting them in the sink with boiling water. Sometimes it took days to get rid of the smell, but damn they tasted good.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on September 19, 2023, 04:27:21 PM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 20, 2023, 08:31:10 PM
Speaking of cats.. 4 of these gals roaming around here
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on September 20, 2023, 09:17:52 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on September 20, 2023, 11:35:43 PM
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 21, 2023, 10:41:35 AM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 21, 2023, 02:19:26 PM
I think his wife probably male genitals fights the bird that looks bad. Just says the neck is naturally all mumped up that way as a cover story.Poor, ugly nakie was the one that was getting the brunt of the horncock
Post by: sys on September 21, 2023, 02:28:41 PM
Post by: steve dave on September 21, 2023, 02:32:15 PM
We had a huge outdoor kettle that sat on top of an incenter made of stacked steel tractor wheels with the spokes removed. We would put wood in it and fill the kettle with water and while the fire heated the water to boiling we would shoot a pig just above the eyes while it was eating from a trough of grain and then hang it by the hind legs with the tractor and take it over to the kettle then dipped the pig for butchering. In a way it was similar to butchering a chicken, but on a larger scale.
jesus christ did you grow up at texas chainsaw massacre?
Post by: Katpappy on September 21, 2023, 09:21:16 PM
We had a huge outdoor kettle that sat on top of an incenter made of stacked steel tractor wheels with the spokes removed. We would put wood in it and fill the kettle with water and while the fire heated the water to boiling we would shoot a pig just above the eyes while it was eating from a trough of grain and then hang it by the hind legs with the tractor and take it over to the kettle then dipped the pig for butchering. In a way it was similar to butchering a chicken, but on a larger scale.
jesus christ did you grow up at texas chainsaw massacre?
LOL, SD I didn't tell you what my job was when my old man shot the pig. Do you want to know?
Post by: steve dave on September 21, 2023, 09:22:41 PM
Post by: Katpappy on September 21, 2023, 09:30:23 PM
leatherface could do the quote function properly katdaddy!
Don't know what is causing it? I hold off on describing my slaughter job. :ohno:
Post by: ben ji on September 25, 2023, 04:19:04 PM
"Krause drill, loaded with Hamilton variety of dryland wheat seed bought from Jim Tubbs (TTT seeds). We used all the seed I bought, getting 300 bushel from Ken's bin, then taking to TTT for cleaning, the planting today."
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 25, 2023, 06:38:01 PM
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Post by: KST8FAN on September 25, 2023, 06:39:24 PM
Is he using an air hose to get the wheat out of the truck?
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Post by: ben ji on September 25, 2023, 06:57:13 PM
Ben ji are soil moisture conditions better than last year?No idea about the air hose but yeah, it rained this year. 18 inches so far (20 inches is average)and most of it since May so we may get a crop from our Milo this year and a wheat crop next year.
Is he using an air hose to get the wheat out of the truck?
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Post by: ben ji on September 25, 2023, 07:35:49 PM
https://m.facebook.com/PrincetonPopcorn/videos/the-best-popcorn-youve-never-tried/1003300044354003/Lol, I like how he says that his popcorn is gluten free....
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Post by: DaBigTrain on September 25, 2023, 10:51:46 PM
https://m.facebook.com/PrincetonPopcorn/videos/the-best-popcorn-youve-never-tried/1003300044354003/Lol, I like how he says that his popcorn is gluten free....
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As someone who has to look to make sure it's gluten free on ever-y-rough ridin'-thing now I appreciate this even if it's obvious tbh.
Post by: KST8FAN on September 26, 2023, 08:21:54 AM
How sweet would one of these be for the Farmageddon trophy.
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Post by: Katpappy on October 03, 2023, 05:47:40 PM
One of the worst farm jobs around and would not recommend it.
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Post by: schreds21 on October 04, 2023, 10:28:21 AM
Wild seeing that cow deflate like a balloon, though she did look relieved (as would I). Has @stevedave or anyone else ever experienced this irl?Yep. Been a part of two cow deflations. My experiences were more similar to Katdaddy's though I didn't have to sit on the cow to speed up the process.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 04, 2023, 11:36:34 AM
Did some flint hills pasture spraying last Saturday. About 40 replacement heifers waiting for their ride back to the home place. The old truck cab has been on this place since dad bought it. Tater enjoyed a 100 gal shower after we drained our unused water from the tank.:love:
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Post by: farming_cat fan on October 04, 2023, 01:02:01 PM
Embarrassingly low farming IQ, so I apologize for this question, but what happens with the stocks? You know, the majority of the plant ...When corn is harvested for the grain only, the stalks are usually left on the field. The stalks themselves are where the majority of the potassium is stored for the plant. When they are left on the field, they will break down and return the potassium to the soil for the needs of future crops. Some farmers will also bale the corn stalks for livestock bedding.
Post by: Spracne on October 04, 2023, 01:13:33 PM
I appreciate the knowledge drop.
Post by: KST8FAN on October 04, 2023, 01:47:58 PM
Stabbed into some corn yesterday. Got rained out for today.Any yield estimates? We (the renter) harvested last weekend. Made 160-180.
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Got a harvest moon shot with the stalks.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 04, 2023, 02:07:50 PM
Wild seeing that cow deflate like a balloon, though she did look relieved (as would I). Has @stevedave or anyone else ever experienced this irl?I have witnessed cow deflations. It is gross.
Post by: Spracne on October 04, 2023, 02:09:12 PM
Wild seeing that cow deflate like a balloon, though she did look relieved (as would I). Has @stevedave or anyone else ever experienced this irl?I have witnessed cow deflations. It is gross.
Is there a term for it? Or did I accidentally stumble upon deflation?
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 04, 2023, 02:09:32 PM
Stabbed into some corn yesterday. Got rained out for today.
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that looks great. have you harvested any beans? Dad cut some last week that make about 10 bu / acre after drought and hail impacts. He said the insurance adjuster was coming out - hopefully it will save him the time and fuel need to harvest any more fields that are that terrible.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 04, 2023, 02:15:09 PM
maybe a fistulization?Wild seeing that cow deflate like a balloon, though she did look relieved (as would I). Has @stevedave or anyone else ever experienced this irl?I have witnessed cow deflations. It is gross.
Is there a term for it? Or did I accidentally stumble upon deflation?
Post by: farming_cat fan on October 04, 2023, 02:46:46 PM
Any yield estimates? We (the renter) harvested last weekend. Made 160-180.I'm not sure how it's doing as I was driving truck all day. I would guess about average for our area since the combine operator wasn't griping about yields.
Tom
Post by: farming_cat fan on October 04, 2023, 02:57:40 PM
that looks great. have you harvested any beans? Dad cut some last week that make about 10 bu / acre after drought and hail impacts. He said the insurance adjuster was coming out - hopefully it will save him the time and fuel need to harvest any more fields that are that terrible.We are mostly done harvesting our beans. They've been a little below average which is a lot better than I was expecting. I saw a lot of flat pods and figured we were in for an insurance claim. Turns out I checked about the worst parts of the field.
Post by: Katpappy on October 04, 2023, 08:44:37 PM
Wild seeing that cow deflate like a balloon, though she did look relieved (as would I). Has @stevedave or anyone else ever experienced this irl?Yep. Been a part of two cow deflations. My experiences were more similar to Katdaddy's though I didn't have to sit on the cow to speed up the process.
schreds21, I was a kid during those times and didn't weigh that much. I am sure that my adult weight would probably hurt a cow in the bloated condition. I actually kneeled on a cow with the stinking gas floating in my nostrils and that was one of the reasons I dreaded it.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 04, 2023, 10:10:15 PM
Glad to hear that they turned out okay.that looks great. have you harvested any beans? Dad cut some last week that make about 10 bu / acre after drought and hail impacts. He said the insurance adjuster was coming out - hopefully it will save him the time and fuel need to harvest any more fields that are that terrible.We are mostly done harvesting our beans. They've been a little below average which is a lot better than I was expecting. I saw a lot of flat pods and figured we were in for an insurance claim. Turns out I checked about the worst parts of the field.
Post by: star seed 7 on October 04, 2023, 10:12:40 PM
Post by: Tobias on October 04, 2023, 11:30:55 PM
maybe a fistulization?
katdaddy NO!
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Post by: ben ji on October 05, 2023, 07:14:45 PM
For the last 4-5 years I have always wanted to get a cowboy hat but can't decide so I'll let gE decide
PRO'S
I'd probably look pretty cool
Non cowboys are wearing them now (PRIME TIME)
I quasi have some land that cows eat in western KS so I could sort of claim legitimacy
CONS
ALL HAT NO CATTLE
None of my farming cousins/uncle wear them and if they ever saw me in one they would SHRED me
Not really sure when I would actually wear it
Post by: ben ji on October 05, 2023, 07:20:32 PM
Then while tailgating I met 3 UCF fans who made a stop in Wamego to get black cowboy hats to wear to the game along with their jorts.
I was enraged...I've wanted a cowboy hat for 5 years but figured I didn't deserve one and now all these people around me are wearing one....
So the question is...Should ben ji drop a couple hundred dollars on a cowboy hat that he doesn't know when he will actually wear just so he can have one?
Post by: Spracne on October 05, 2023, 07:42:34 PM
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Post by: wetwillie on October 05, 2023, 07:53:25 PM
Post by: Spracne on October 05, 2023, 09:21:36 PM
Prime ranched long horn cattle before 'Ji's nuts dropped and he has the audacity to call him a fake cowboy, smdh.
Thank you.
Post by: steve dave on October 05, 2023, 09:29:47 PM
Not sure if this should go in the shame yourself thread or in this thread but here it goes
For the last 4-5 years I have always wanted to get a cowboy hat but can't decide so I'll let gE decide
PRO'S
I'd probably look pretty cool
Non cowboys are wearing them now (PRIME TIME)
I quasi have some land that cows eat in western KS so I could sort of claim legitimacy
CONS
ALL HAT NO CATTLE
None of my farming cousins/uncle wear them and if they ever saw me in one they would SHRED me
Not really sure when I would actually wear it
there are a lot of general rules about them. if you just wear one but don't do cowboy stuff you'll be thought poorly of by the cowboy people but you aren't the only one and honestly eff those guys, but if you are in KC and do it then you are more cowboy then them so that's fine and bigtime their asses. My concern is that the examples you gave are cowboy hat wearing in a jocular way and I don't think that's what you are going for. only the hardcore cowboys wear them everyday. I know tons of them and they look cool as crap and I never think about their hats but it's 24/7/365. you want to know another fun rule? you wear them in church. they don't come off for formal events until it's REALLY rough ridin' CERTAIN to be bigtime respect paying time. Like when you get up to the body at the funeral procession. otherwise it's like a formal thing. also when you take it off an lay it somewhere it's top down. why? who the eff knows, I'm no cowboy. my dad has like thousands of cows and he doesn't wear one at all but he owns some. I think if there was a big cowboy funeral he would maybe wear it but not sure. He doesn't ride horses anymore so probably not.
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Post by: steve dave on October 05, 2023, 10:28:57 PM
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Post by: ben ji on October 05, 2023, 11:16:48 PM
in my experience you start with a nice straw hat. then move on to the expensive nonsense. I would have these kinds of hats growing up and into HS and would just creese the crap out of them and make them kind of eff off hats and it was pretty cool. Like in HS we had a lot of our football team that had those kinds of hats. Some were actual cowboy type kids and some were just Meade KS type kids.
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This was the hat the PLEDGE wore while I harassed him about how many cattle he ran (ZERO) and now I feel bad.
I'm going to skip the straw hat nonsense and get a decent one that I will only wear around KC when I want to assert my country creedos (even tho I grew up in joco).
I appreciate the formal/funeral etiquette info even tho I would never wear the hat out in NW KS.
Post by: star seed 7 on October 05, 2023, 11:20:20 PM
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Post by: Katpappy on October 06, 2023, 05:42:46 PM
If it's this hat, I vote yes.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 20, 2023, 12:45:48 PM
Post by: Stupid Fitz on October 20, 2023, 01:42:01 PM
If one of my KC friends showed up with a cowboy hat at any type of event whatsoever, I would immediately knock it off his head without saying a word. Your friends are going to do that Benji so be prepared.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 20, 2023, 01:53:32 PM
Do cowboys take their hats off for the national anthem?Stand for the flag, kneel for the cross (with hat removed)
If one of my KC friends showed up with a cowboy hat at any type of event whatsoever, I would immediately knock it off his head without saying a word. Your friends are going to do that Benji so be prepared.
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Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 08:09:17 AM
I need some advice. What is the bottom entry level amount of farming/ranching crap I should do in order to call myself at least a hobby farmer and be able appropriate farm/ranch culture (e.g. wear hats such as those featured recently in this thread, etc.)?
Those of you who follow this thread closely may recall that I once contemplated a crazy farm land scheme in northern MN, but I put that plan on hold. HOWEVER, I have a new crazy land scheme in the works and have about a 27% chance of buying a parcel of land outside of Lawrence (Paradise Club side of town) with some pals from HS.
We would have control of 50+ acres. Most of it wooded with a really deep creek gully winding through it. Of the wooded amount, on corner (about 25% of the total wooded amount) is thickest cedar grove you could imagine.
One pal already has 10 acres of this area purchased and has started putting enough apple trees on it to claim it for Ag use on taxes.
Post by: steve dave on November 10, 2023, 08:38:16 AM
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Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 08:54:54 AM
WEAR THE HAT PETEIf I get this land, I will purchase a Charlie Daniels style hat with pheasant plumage, and put that rough rider on as soon as I sign the closing documents.
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Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 08:56:36 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 10, 2023, 12:03:14 PM
Saw milling seems cool. That’s up there on my list of ridiculously unnecessary things to do on the land.I could watch videos of people using their home saw mills to make beautiful boards for hours.
Post by: wetwillie on November 10, 2023, 12:06:08 PM
This thread never disappoints.
I need some advice. What is the bottom entry level amount of farming/ranching crap I should do in order to call myself at least a hobby farmer and be able appropriate farm/ranch culture (e.g. wear hats such as those featured recently in this thread, etc.)?
Those of you who follow this thread closely may recall that I once contemplated a crazy farm land scheme in northern MN, but I put that plan on hold. HOWEVER, I have a new crazy land scheme in the works and have about a 27% chance of buying a parcel of land outside of Lawrence (Paradise Club side of town) with some pals from HS.
We would have control of 50+ acres. Most of it wooded with a really deep creek gully winding through it. Of the wooded amount, on corner (about 25% of the total wooded amount) is thickest cedar grove you could imagine.
One pal already has 10 acres of this area purchased and has started putting enough apple trees on it to claim it for Ag use on taxes.
Need a side by side
Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 01:55:28 PM
Same here! And vids of simplistic rustic cabin builds with rough cut lumber.Saw milling seems cool. That’s up there on my list of ridiculously unnecessary things to do on the land.I could watch videos of people using their home saw mills to make beautiful boards for hours.
Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 01:57:05 PM
HAVE YOU SEEN THOSE PRICES?!?!This thread never disappoints.
I need some advice. What is the bottom entry level amount of farming/ranching crap I should do in order to call myself at least a hobby farmer and be able appropriate farm/ranch culture (e.g. wear hats such as those featured recently in this thread, etc.)?
Those of you who follow this thread closely may recall that I once contemplated a crazy farm land scheme in northern MN, but I put that plan on hold. HOWEVER, I have a new crazy land scheme in the works and have about a 27% chance of buying a parcel of land outside of Lawrence (Paradise Club side of town) with some pals from HS.
We would have control of 50+ acres. Most of it wooded with a really deep creek gully winding through it. Of the wooded amount, on corner (about 25% of the total wooded amount) is thickest cedar grove you could imagine.
One pal already has 10 acres of this area purchased and has started putting enough apple trees on it to claim it for Ag use on taxes.
Need a side by side
I’m probably more of a 2 or 3 golf cart guy. Need a couple electrics for the silent traversing of custom paths around the property, and maybe, MAYBE, a gas Cushman.
Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 01:59:35 PM
Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 02:02:41 PM
Post by: star seed 7 on November 10, 2023, 02:04:30 PM
-golf cart
-dodge ram 1500 farm truck (purchased his work truck when he got a new work expedition)
-john deere tractor
-777 bobcat
-4 wheeler #1
-4 wheeler #2
-ex mark mower
-john deere gator
-dodge ram 2500 diesel farm truck
-razor side by side
Post by: ben ji on November 10, 2023, 02:18:39 PM
order of vehicles purchased by my legit hobby farm dad over the last 20ish years (none have been sold)So he currently has 2 4 wheelers, a gator and a side by side? Has there ever been a time when they have all been in use at the same time or it a situation where half are broken down at any point in time?
-golf cart
-dodge ram 1500 farm truck (purchased his work truck when he got a new work expedition)
-john deere tractor
-777 bobcat
-4 wheeler #1
-4 wheeler #2
-ex mark mower
-john deere gator
-dodge ram 2500 diesel farm truck
-razor side by side
Post by: star seed 7 on November 10, 2023, 02:39:09 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on November 10, 2023, 02:41:12 PM
Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 03:25:02 PM
Post by: sys on November 10, 2023, 06:44:45 PM
Post by: Spracne on November 10, 2023, 06:58:20 PM
one of the things that gives me pause about diving full on into the hobby farming lifestyle is that i hate fixing stuff. don't really like machines in general.
I think the sweet spot for me is being good friends with someone who has a hobby farm, because I'm lazy (and like to keep my money).
For example, a very good friend down here has a ranch that's been in the family since, like, slavery times. I don't have to deal with the upkeep or anything. I can just go there for fun.
Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 07:23:58 PM
one of the things that gives me pause about diving full on into the hobby farming lifestyle is that i hate fixing stuff. don't really like machines in general.Be sure and buy brands that have a local dealer then.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 10, 2023, 08:14:38 PM
Happy to demo skid steer, turbo saw on your "home place."
I got a 855D Gator I might part with for the right buyer.
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Post by: Pete on November 10, 2023, 10:43:38 PM
Looking forward to possibly being farm neighbors, Pete.I hope this land scheme works out so I can take you up on all of that!
Happy to demo skid steer, turbo saw on your "home place."
I got a 855D Gator I might part with for the right buyer.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on November 13, 2023, 08:44:58 AM
That looks like a lovely piece of property.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 13, 2023, 09:23:31 AM
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Post by: schreds21 on November 13, 2023, 09:49:01 AM
Sunday was a perfect day for plowing terraces. IH 1066 turbo with straight chrome pipe and 5 bottom plow.There is never a perfect day for plowing anything, especially terraces.
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 13, 2023, 11:40:16 AM
Plowing fell out of favor for V rippers, which was still a dad thing, so it was all discing and field cultivating (aka sweeping?) for me.
Now the farmer cousin likes to maintain terraces which is a good practice.
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Post by: Katpappy on November 13, 2023, 09:01:29 PM
Tom, is that IH 1066 an early '70s model?
Post by: KST8FAN on November 13, 2023, 10:21:47 PM
CRP buffer coming along nicely as it nears one year anniversary. I need a plaque noting its DRP as we seeded this the day of our 2022 Big 12 Championship (before and after the game).
Polished steel mold boards after a day in the field. Just think back in 1837 John Deere figured out polished steel self scoured the sticky Midwest soils, made a killing selling them, and built a global company.
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Post by: Katpappy on November 14, 2023, 07:47:33 AM
Post by: michigancat on November 14, 2023, 07:52:34 AM
Post by: Pete on November 14, 2023, 08:15:30 AM
I would say yes, it's early 70s.Do you officially get govt funds for that crp border or are you just referring to it as crp due to the purpose of it?
CRP buffer coming along nicely as it nears one year anniversary. I need a plaque noting its DRP as we seeded this the day of our 2022 Big 12 Championship (before and after the game).
Polished steel mold boards after a day in the field. Just think back in 1837 John Deere figured out polished steel self scoured the sticky Midwest soils, made a killing selling them, and built a global company.
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 14, 2023, 10:18:40 AM
Cost share to prep and seed plus annual payment per acre. They use GPS to calculate acres, and we have roughly 7 acres enrolled on that 80 acres.I would say yes, it's early 70s.Do you officially get govt funds for that crp border or are you just referring to it as crp due to the purpose of it?
CRP buffer coming along nicely as it nears one year anniversary. I need a plaque noting its DRP as we seeded this the day of our 2022 Big 12 Championship (before and after the game).
Polished steel mold boards after a day in the field. Just think back in 1837 John Deere figured out polished steel self scoured the sticky Midwest soils, made a killing selling them, and built a global company.
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It's a 15 year program. Splitting the payment 50/50 with my renter.
That money isn't getting me in the Shamrock Zone, but erosion mitigation is a feel good to preserve what we have.
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/state-offices/Kansas/news-releases/2023/-usda-announces-conservation-reserve-program-signup-for-2023
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Post by: KST8FAN on November 14, 2023, 12:33:43 PM
maybe it's the angle but it looks like the terrace maintenance was long overdueDon't make me beat a plowshare into a sword, Mich.
That is funky area in the field where 3 terraces come to a point. I think he dropped the plow in a bit before one terrace, hoping to extend it a bit.
This place has been a 15 year work in progress since my dad passed away. New tile drains replaced grass water ways, some heavy dirt work, annual maintenance with box scraper, plow, skid steer.
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Post by: schreds21 on November 14, 2023, 05:53:47 PM
That money isn't getting me in the Shamrock Zone, but erosion mitigation is a feel good to preserve what we have.
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/state-offices/Kansas/news-releases/2023/-usda-announces-conservation-reserve-program-signup-for-2023
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This also provides good habitat for birds and animals. Great conservation practice all the way around Tom!
Post by: Spracne on November 14, 2023, 06:16:18 PM
Post by: schreds21 on November 14, 2023, 06:24:24 PM
Post by: ben ji on November 14, 2023, 06:43:09 PM
Cost share to prep and seed plus annual payment per acre. They use GPS to calculate acres, and we have roughly 7 acres enrolled on that 80 acres.I would say yes, it's early 70s.Do you officially get govt funds for that crp border or are you just referring to it as crp due to the purpose of it?
CRP buffer coming along nicely as it nears one year anniversary. I need a plaque noting its DRP as we seeded this the day of our 2022 Big 12 Championship (before and after the game).
Polished steel mold boards after a day in the field. Just think back in 1837 John Deere figured out polished steel self scoured the sticky Midwest soils, made a killing selling them, and built a global company.
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It's a 15 year program. Splitting the payment 50/50 with my renter.
That money isn't getting me in the Shamrock Zone, but erosion mitigation is a feel good to preserve what we have.
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/state-offices/Kansas/news-releases/2023/-usda-announces-conservation-reserve-program-signup-for-2023
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Hopefully it gets some birds in there. It's weird seeing CRP that short but maybe it takes a couple of years to get established and tall as hell? I was out in NW KS last weekend chasing birds in my aunt's CRP and its all at least knee high and there are patches where I am in shoulder tall grass.
I would figure that since you are in the flint hills it would be tall grass prairie and all 5ft tall.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 14, 2023, 08:46:04 PM
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Post by: Spracne on November 14, 2023, 08:55:39 PM
This farm is in Douglas County. Grass should get progressively better.
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Some lovely land there.
Post by: KST8FAN on November 15, 2023, 07:46:11 AM
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Post by: star seed 7 on November 15, 2023, 12:11:54 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on November 15, 2023, 12:13:31 PM
You sure they were talking about wheat?No.
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 15, 2023, 12:14:10 PM
Post by: steve dave on November 15, 2023, 02:39:17 PM
Small me was always fascinated by how impossibly shiny the plowshares would become after a bit of plowing.You should have seen them when they were swords!
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Post by: Katpappy on November 15, 2023, 07:00:11 PM
One of the first fields a young Schreds ever plowed was a quarter section. It took over an hour to get around that field when first starting. I was pulling a John Deere plow with an on land hitch and 5 18's. Imagine the feeling of hopelessness when after an hour of plowing I got back to the beginning and saw a strip of plowed ground only 90 inches wide. I was convinced I would spend the rest of my life in that field. Thus began a deep hatred of plowing.[/b]
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Post by: steve dave on November 15, 2023, 09:37:44 PM
Small me was always fascinated by how impossibly shiny the plowshares would become after a bit of plowing.You should have seen them when they were swords!
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ANYONE!? Anyone? no, that's fine. just no big deal to anyone. fine.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 17, 2023, 12:27:22 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 25, 2023, 08:20:30 PM
Lots of good grazing thereThese cows are grazing on some luscious Winter wheat and getting fed alfalfa bales when they aren't being used as a wind break. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231126/199b343e489bbebf6f71753b99d3e2c6.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231126/c3c893cefa3140e2c5369bf8744e9407.jpg)
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 27, 2023, 01:34:55 PM
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Post by: ben ji on November 27, 2023, 05:45:12 PM
Anyone bought/used a battery powered chainsaw? I pulled the trigger today and am hoping it has enough musk in it to cut the things I want it to.
Will this be used for cutting up small limbs that fall into your yard or for cutting up firewood?
Post by: Katpappy on November 28, 2023, 02:32:29 AM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 28, 2023, 11:06:53 AM
I got a 12" GreenWorks 60V chainsaw from TSC. It's a POS that can't cut more than a few 3" bushes. The battery is huge so the saw is heavy and it doesn't last. Would not recommend it, but I don't know about other brands.Damnett katpappy, I ended up buying a 60v 16 in bar but was only $150. Hoping to just use it for smaller locust trees and things of that nature. Will report back how shitty or great it is
Post by: Skipper44 on November 28, 2023, 01:49:50 PM
Post by: michigancat on November 28, 2023, 01:55:37 PM
I had western Kansas wheat farmers on the floor in Marlatt. Brothers used to talk about plowing marathons and taking 8 hour rotations plowing their vast acreage 24/7.
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wheat farmers near our farm definitely did this when I was a kid and I have plowed a bunch of acres. doubtful anyone still does the 24-7 thing though
Post by: michigancat on November 28, 2023, 01:56:59 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 28, 2023, 02:05:55 PM
a wood blade in a cordless sawzall is pretty effective for small limbsHave definitely done that and you're 100% correct
Post by: Stupid Fitz on November 28, 2023, 02:15:47 PM
I got a 12" GreenWorks 60V chainsaw from TSC. It's a POS that can't cut more than a few 3" bushes. The battery is huge so the saw is heavy and it doesn't last. Would not recommend it, but I don't know about other brands.Damnett katpappy, I ended up buying a 60v 16 in bar but was only $150. Hoping to just use it for smaller locust trees and things of that nature. Will report back how shitty or great it is
I have a black and decker one that i've used for like 3 years and it whips ass. The battery isn't great, but it works like a champ. A tree falls down in or around my yard almost annually so I've used it quite a bit.
Post by: Fedor on November 28, 2023, 02:39:39 PM
I have an EGO 16" bar that actually works pretty well. It is over twice what you paid tho.I got a 12" GreenWorks 60V chainsaw from TSC. It's a POS that can't cut more than a few 3" bushes. The battery is huge so the saw is heavy and it doesn't last. Would not recommend it, but I don't know about other brands.Damnett katpappy, I ended up buying a 60v 16 in bar but was only $150. Hoping to just use it for smaller locust trees and things of that nature. Will report back how shitty or great it is
Post by: sys on November 28, 2023, 07:28:57 PM
Post by: Cire on November 30, 2023, 06:04:09 PM
https://twitter.com/kcstar/status/1730376548333592842?s=46&t=qihx_M5rao00w7e29gt7Rw
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Post by: steve dave on November 30, 2023, 08:55:53 PM
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Post by: Pete on December 01, 2023, 07:26:19 AM
A barrel in Meade Lake would be 1/4 above water so obviously the wrong Meade. Also fun fact got my first MIP at Meade Lake.Mine was at the Aggie Lounge.
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Post by: passranch on December 01, 2023, 02:32:59 PM
Post by: yoga-like_abana on December 01, 2023, 08:49:09 PM
Cut the rest of a dead limb down today. So far I like it but it definitely doesn’t have the gusto of a gas powered chainsaw. I also cut down a decent sized cedar and another larger idkwhattheshititwas tree that was by a fence
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Post by: steve dave on December 01, 2023, 09:56:38 PM
"first" is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting here...I’m not even joking I think I got a total of ~7 MIPs. 4 in Meade or Meade adjace. and 3 in Manhattan. I think I got a “diversion” in all or most. I bet spacne can check my stats here.
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Post by: ben ji on December 09, 2023, 12:41:43 PM
Cat ranch is back, tell a friend.
One of 5 cats my dad rounded up from somewhere to restock the cat ranch after being catless for the past year or two.
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Post by: star seed 7 on December 09, 2023, 03:52:15 PM
Post by: Katpappy on December 09, 2023, 11:17:26 PM
Post by: Spracne on December 09, 2023, 11:21:10 PM
ben ji if your dad loses these city cats, you should catch a few raccoons. They make great pets and since they know how to get along at the cat ranch, your dad won't need to worry about them disappearing. If he forgets to feed them they will find food, only difference is they are used to the wild and have methods of finding food, unlike the dependent cats.
Cats are natural born killers.
Post by: Katpappy on December 09, 2023, 11:22:56 PM
ben ji if your dad loses these city cats, you should catch a few raccoons. They make great pets and since they know how to get along at the cat ranch, your dad won't need to worry about them disappearing. If he forgets to feed them they will find food, only difference is they are used to the wild and have methods of finding food, unlike the dependent cats.
Also, I forgot to mention that when you capture them take them to the vet to get their rabies shots. Raccoons tend to get rabies due to their tendency to fight with other animals which may bite them. The shots will make them harmless and you can have fun with them just like cats.
Post by: Katpappy on December 09, 2023, 11:25:12 PM
ben ji if your dad loses these city cats, you should catch a few raccoons. They make great pets and since they know how to get along at the cat ranch, your dad won't need to worry about them disappearing. If he forgets to feed them they will find food, only difference is they are used to the wild and have methods of finding food, unlike the dependent cats.
Cats are natural born killers.
Sorry, city cats are too rough ridin' dumb to fend for themselves, just ask ben ji what happened to the other cats his dad brought to the farm.
Post by: yoga-like_abana on December 10, 2023, 09:33:43 AM
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Post by: ben ji on December 10, 2023, 09:43:07 AM
ben ji if your dad loses these city cats, you should catch a few raccoons. They make great pets and since they know how to get along at the cat ranch, your dad won't need to worry about them disappearing. If he forgets to feed them they will find food, only difference is they are used to the wild and have methods of finding food, unlike the dependent cats.
My dad does not like raccoons and encourages me to blast them if I see them (I've only seen 2) because they get in the garage and eat the cats kibble....he has a very weird kill/no kill list.
Raccoons - BLAST EM
Skunks - DONT YOU DARE
Coyotes - BLAST EM
Owls - DONT YOU DARE
Possums - NEUTRAL
Badgers - BLAST EM
Snakes (including rattle snakes) - DONT YOU DARE (Unless the rattlesnake is right next to the house)
Post by: Spracne on December 10, 2023, 11:47:36 AM
Post by: bucket on December 10, 2023, 11:48:43 AM
Why the hell would you murder an owl? What is wrong with you? Plus, I doubt you could.
Cat killers
Post by: steve dave on December 10, 2023, 11:49:15 AM
Post by: Spracne on December 10, 2023, 12:08:58 PM
Why the hell would you murder an owl? What is wrong with you? Plus, I doubt you could.
Cat killers
Hmmm. Where can I buy an owl?
Post by: pissclams on December 10, 2023, 01:27:07 PM
the locals shot at every single living animal that we came across including a hedgehog, an owl, and multiple other species. they were very careful, however, to only shoot male pheasants
Post by: yoga-like_abana on December 10, 2023, 01:59:34 PM
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Post by: ben ji on December 10, 2023, 02:30:23 PM
Why the hell would you murder an owl? What is wrong with you? Plus, I doubt you could.
Cat killers
Yup, which is weird that they are on the DONT SHOOT list. We have 2-3 big ole horned owls that live in our windbreak and I'm pretty sure that they were the ones that cleaned out the last cat population.
I have never shot one but my dad is very concerned that I might somehow mistake it for a pheasant so he reminds me a couple of times a year not to shoot them.
Post by: bucket on December 10, 2023, 03:23:45 PM
possum should be above skunk on the don't kill list. skunks get rabies a lot.
Possums eat pests too
Post by: sys on December 10, 2023, 05:04:40 PM
Post by: Spracne on December 10, 2023, 06:02:32 PM
we don't have hedgehogs in north america.
Well we do, but he's in prison.
Post by: Katpappy on December 10, 2023, 07:33:39 PM
KS is big male genitals country!
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Are you talking about KS folks in general, or just guys like SD and me?
Post by: Katpappy on December 10, 2023, 07:38:01 PM
Why the hell would you murder an owl? What is wrong with you? Plus, I doubt you could.
Cat killers
Yup, which is weird that they are on the DONT SHOOT list. We have 2-3 big ole horned owls that live in our windbreak and I'm pretty sure that they were the ones that cleaned out the last cat population.
I have never shot one but my dad is very concerned that I might somehow mistake it for a pheasant so he reminds me a couple of times a year not to shoot them.
If your hunting pals are worried about shooting hens, that's nothing compared to what a Wildlife and Parks Ranger will do if he catches you shooting an owl.
Post by: Spracne on December 10, 2023, 07:52:39 PM
KS is big male genitals country!
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Are you talking about KS folks in general, or just guys like SD and me?
I think he's saying clams and his associates are big male genitals hunters.
Post by: pissclams on December 10, 2023, 08:14:49 PM
we don't have hedgehogs in north america.it was actually a porcupine
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 21, 2023, 02:40:59 PM
Quote
I want to give a shout out to a couple of true heroes! An incident happened on I-70 yesterday (Dec. 19, 2023) that led a NW Kansas farmer and his son to do extraordinary things to keep people safe in our county. A semi-truck driver traveling west on I-70, had a medical incident where he blacked out. His semi went into the median at highway speeds! Traveling in the median, it stayed between the traffic lanes for about a quarter of mile where it jumped over a crossover. This slowed the semi-truck down. The farmer and his son traveling in the same direction noticed the driver needing help, so they went into action. The semi-truck slowed down enough so they could jump onto the passenger’s side, but they found the door locked. The son riding on the semi-truck asked his dad to throw him a hammer. He then broke the window out, crawled into the semi-truck and stopped the semi-truck before it got to the overpass at exit 17. This action more than likely saved the life of the truck driver along with protecting all the other travelers on I-70 and Highway 27. It is amazing what people will do to help others they do not know. Thank you to Brent Ginther and his son Brady for your heroic actions. Our community is incredibly grateful!
Sheriff Burton Pianalto
Sherman County Sheriff’s Office
https://www.facebook.com/ShermanCountySheriffsOffice (https://www.facebook.com/ShermanCountySheriffsOffice)
Post by: DaBigTrain on December 21, 2023, 03:08:17 PM
incredible work by western KS farmersQuoteI want to give a shout out to a couple of true heroes! An incident happened on I-70 yesterday (Dec. 19, 2023) that led a NW Kansas farmer and his son to do extraordinary things to keep people safe in our county. A semi-truck driver traveling west on I-70, had a medical incident where he blacked out. His semi went into the median at highway speeds! Traveling in the median, it stayed between the traffic lanes for about a quarter of mile where it jumped over a crossover. This slowed the semi-truck down. The farmer and his son traveling in the same direction noticed the driver needing help, so they went into action. The semi-truck slowed down enough so they could jump onto the passenger’s side, but they found the door locked. The son riding on the semi-truck asked his dad to throw him a hammer. He then broke the window out, crawled into the semi-truck and stopped the semi-truck before it got to the overpass at exit 17. This action more than likely saved the life of the truck driver along with protecting all the other travelers on I-70 and Highway 27. It is amazing what people will do to help others they do not know. Thank you to Brent Ginther and his son Brady for your heroic actions. Our community is incredibly grateful!
Sheriff Burton Pianalto
Sherman County Sheriff’s Office
https://www.facebook.com/ShermanCountySheriffsOffice (https://www.facebook.com/ShermanCountySheriffsOffice)
:Carl:
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 21, 2023, 03:51:40 PM
my one and only time in western kansas was spent pheasant hunting in a town between quinter and park, kansas, with some locals.
the locals shot at every single living animal that we came across including a hedgehog, an owl, and multiple other species. they were very careful, however, to only shoot male pheasants
annually hunt up by Cuba/Munden and the locals go into a blood lust frenzy when they get onto a coyote.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 21, 2023, 03:54:57 PM
Speaking of Pianalto's... Does anyone remember the story of the art teacher in Lincoln, KS who killed his wife, two children and then himself with a deer rifle back in 1990? A relative was a student of Mr Pianalto, loved art class and was pretty shaken up by the situation.incredible work by western KS farmersQuoteI want to give a shout out to a couple of true heroes! An incident happened on I-70 yesterday (Dec. 19, 2023) that led a NW Kansas farmer and his son to do extraordinary things to keep people safe in our county. A semi-truck driver traveling west on I-70, had a medical incident where he blacked out. His semi went into the median at highway speeds! Traveling in the median, it stayed between the traffic lanes for about a quarter of mile where it jumped over a crossover. This slowed the semi-truck down. The farmer and his son traveling in the same direction noticed the driver needing help, so they went into action. The semi-truck slowed down enough so they could jump onto the passenger’s side, but they found the door locked. The son riding on the semi-truck asked his dad to throw him a hammer. He then broke the window out, crawled into the semi-truck and stopped the semi-truck before it got to the overpass at exit 17. This action more than likely saved the life of the truck driver along with protecting all the other travelers on I-70 and Highway 27. It is amazing what people will do to help others they do not know. Thank you to Brent Ginther and his son Brady for your heroic actions. Our community is incredibly grateful!
Sheriff Burton Pianalto
Sherman County Sheriff’s Office
https://www.facebook.com/ShermanCountySheriffsOffice (https://www.facebook.com/ShermanCountySheriffsOffice)
:Carl:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salina-journal/127507157/ (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salina-journal/127507157/)
Post by: steve dave on December 21, 2023, 05:44:21 PM
Post by: DaBigTrain on December 21, 2023, 05:52:20 PM
NOT COW FARM RELATED
IS TRUCK RELATED
Post by: star seed 7 on December 21, 2023, 05:54:28 PM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 21, 2023, 06:16:17 PM
NOT COW FARM RELATEDsorry to derail your very good farm thread, SD.
I may start a Kansas True Crime thread.
Post by: IPA4Me on December 21, 2023, 06:21:07 PM
SD just jealous he didn't get to rodeo a runaway truckNOT COW FARM RELATEDsorry to derail your very good farm thread, SD.
I may start a Kansas True Crime thread.
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 21, 2023, 06:27:42 PM
Not sure what speed the truck was doing but, I don't think I would have the cajones to do what this guy did. probably would have called the Highway Patrol and hoped for the best.SD just jealous he didn't get to rodeo a runaway truckNOT COW FARM RELATEDsorry to derail your very good farm thread, SD.
I may start a Kansas True Crime thread.
Post by: passranch on December 22, 2023, 10:44:34 AM
SD just jealous he didn't get to rodeo a runaway truckNOT COW FARM RELATEDsorry to derail your very good farm thread, SD.
I may start a Kansas True Crime thread.
I have to suspend a WHOLE LOT of disbelief to think that events went down anywhere close to as described. Too many holes in this story for me. Sorry.
Post by: ben ji on December 22, 2023, 11:52:43 AM
https://www.kake.com/story/50233647/kansas-farmers-and-ranchers-help-round-up-cattle-after-semi-crash
Post by: Katpappy on December 22, 2023, 07:30:03 PM
Same truck?
https://www.kake.com/story/50233647/kansas-farmers-and-ranchers-help-round-up-cattle-after-semi-crash
The wrong county and the truck was stopped and not rolled.
Post by: steve dave on December 22, 2023, 08:26:10 PM
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 23, 2023, 03:39:03 PM
cowboys rounding up crashed truck cattle is a daily event in KS irl.
have seen IRL.
also, the cowboys I saw doing looked about as happy and excited as you can see a grown human being. like just won the Super Bowl thrilled. There was a news truck there and they sure knew it
Post by: Katpappy on December 23, 2023, 05:51:45 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on December 26, 2023, 10:05:19 PM
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Post by: sys on December 27, 2023, 12:55:58 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 27, 2023, 08:39:00 AM
Serious question. We have dogs getting ACL surgery, but if you're a horse and break your leg, well, the treatment is still the same as it was since guns were invented?Your comment reminded me of this classic Far Side cartoon:
Tom
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Post by: steve dave on December 27, 2023, 08:52:41 AM
Post by: Katpappy on December 27, 2023, 09:28:27 AM
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 29, 2023, 01:42:00 PM
https://youtu.be/WCjTTPIr83c?si=g3jxSAtZBHYECHzC
Post by: steve dave on December 29, 2023, 01:51:49 PM
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Post by: ben ji on December 29, 2023, 08:12:41 PM
He took a week off work to hand dig holes and plant 200 walnut tree's one summer.....they all died within 10 years except for like 2 of them that ended up where the snow drifted. This conversation ensue'd
ben ji "so did you ask grandpa if you could do it? what did he say?"
dad "Yeah, I asked to make sure it was okay and he just snickered and said "sure go ahead""
ben ji "so he didn't think they would survive but you went ahead and bought 200 walnut seedling and hand planted them"
dad "Sometimes you have to do something to learn it won't work"
That walnut windbreak was replaced with a cedar windbreak a couple of years later which is still there. I'm out here bird hunting and my dad is coming out tomorrow so hopefully he can show me the few remaining walnut trees that were part of his retirement plan.
Post by: Katpappy on December 29, 2023, 09:05:28 PM
I recently learned a new ben ji's dad/farm story. In the early 80's my dad had a great idea to plant 200 walnut tree's on the cat ranch windbreak. The plan was to cut them down and sell them when he retired like 40 years later. (For reference the cat ranch is in NW KS where there are very few trees).
He took a week off work to hand dig holes and plant 200 walnut tree's one summer.....they all died within 10 years except for like 2 of them that ended up where the snow drifted. This conversation ensue'd
ben ji "so did you ask grandpa if you could do it? what did he say?"
dad "Yeah, I asked to make sure it was okay and he just snickered and said "sure go ahead""
ben ji "so he didn't think they would survive but you went ahead and bought 200 walnut seedling and hand planted them"
dad "Sometimes you have to do something to learn it won't work"
That walnut windbreak was replaced with a cedar windbreak a couple of years later which is still there. I'm out here bird hunting and my dad is coming out tomorrow so hopefully he can show me the few remaining walnut trees that were part of his retirement plan.
Were they black walnut trees? I see a lot of black walnut trees in NE Kansas. I don't remember seeing very many walnut trees, except a few around rivers and city parks in Western Kansas.
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 29, 2023, 09:26:28 PM
Post by: steve dave on December 29, 2023, 10:54:54 PM
I recently learned a new ben ji's dad/farm story. In the early 80's my dad had a great idea to plant 200 walnut tree's on the cat ranch windbreak. The plan was to cut them down and sell them when he retired like 40 years later. (For reference the cat ranch is in NW KS where there are very few trees).Tale as old as time
He took a week off work to hand dig holes and plant 200 walnut tree's one summer.....they all died within 10 years except for like 2 of them that ended up where the snow drifted. This conversation ensue'd
ben ji "so did you ask grandpa if you could do it? what did he say?"
dad "Yeah, I asked to make sure it was okay and he just snickered and said "sure go ahead""
ben ji "so he didn't think they would survive but you went ahead and bought 200 walnut seedling and hand planted them"
dad "Sometimes you have to do something to learn it won't work"
That walnut windbreak was replaced with a cedar windbreak a couple of years later which is still there. I'm out here bird hunting and my dad is coming out tomorrow so hopefully he can show me the few remaining walnut trees that were part of his retirement plan.
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Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 10:24:25 PM
I recently learned a new ben ji's dad/farm story. In the early 80's my dad had a great idea to plant 200 walnut tree's on the cat ranch windbreak. The plan was to cut them down and sell them when he retired like 40 years later. (For reference the cat ranch is in NW KS where there are very few trees).One of the lone surviving walnut tree
He took a week off work to hand dig holes and plant 200 walnut tree's one summer.....they all died within 10 years except for like 2 of them that ended up where the snow drifted. This conversation ensue'd
ben ji "so did you ask grandpa if you could do it? what did he say?"
dad "Yeah, I asked to make sure it was okay and he just snickered and said "sure go ahead""
ben ji "so he didn't think they would survive but you went ahead and bought 200 walnut seedling and hand planted them"
dad "Sometimes you have to do something to learn it won't work"
That walnut windbreak was replaced with a cedar windbreak a couple of years later which is still there. I'm out here bird hunting and my dad is coming out tomorrow so hopefully he can show me the few remaining walnut trees that were part of his retirement plan.
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Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 10:26:48 PM
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Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 10:28:16 PM
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Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 10:31:31 PM
Here is an incredibly bad phone picture of about 50 antelope in NWKS where I had to zoom in because I was maybe a mile away from themThat weedy area between me and the antelope is loaded with pheasants which is what I was going for.
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Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 10:32:37 PM
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Post by: star seed 7 on January 04, 2024, 10:47:18 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 10:48:42 PM
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Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 10:52:24 PM
I think I've talked him into getting a giant deer feeder but filling it full of cat food for next year. Like they just spray cat food or whatever.
Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 10:56:45 PM
First night he sets one up and baits it with dry spaghetti noodles because "the kitty's won't like that but the coons probably will"
Two hours later he cracks the blinds at the house, sees something in the trap...busts out his binoculars and says "I think we got a coon!" We go outside to the garage to find this
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Post by: ben ji on January 04, 2024, 11:00:16 PM
How old is lady these days?
Lady is almost 12...the perfect city dog and country dog as long as you don't want her to hunt. She is terrified of gunshots so when I'm actually hunting birds she just lays on the couch in front of the fireplace but she gets to walk all around the windbreak 2-3 times a day at the farm and just go nuts chasing mice/rabbits etc.
Post by: star seed 7 on January 05, 2024, 12:27:21 AM
Post by: schreds21 on January 05, 2024, 10:22:18 AM
Good sunset pic and 25 EMAW points for whoever can name what this farm machinery does.It's a swather.
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Post by: ben ji on January 05, 2024, 10:56:47 AM
Winner!Good sunset pic and 25 EMAW points for whoever can name what this farm machinery does.It's a swather.
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Post by: steve dave on January 05, 2024, 10:58:45 AM
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Post by: ben ji on January 05, 2024, 11:23:42 AM
anyone who can guess this animal gets $1,000,000 from ben ji as well. HINT: that thing behind it is not a big dumb round poop. it's something else this animal is known for!Peacock
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Post by: Tobias on January 05, 2024, 12:13:40 PM
Also he was super concerned about coons/skunks/possums stealing the cat food so he bought a couple of metal traps from China.....
First night he sets one up and baits it with dry spaghetti noodles because "the kitty's won't like that but the coons probably will"
Two hours later he cracks the blinds at the house, sees something in the trap...busts out his binoculars and says "I think we got a coon!" We go outside to the garage to find this
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lmfao, incredible
Post by: Katpappy on January 06, 2024, 08:48:20 AM
Also he was super concerned about coons/skunks/possums stealing the cat food so he bought a couple of metal traps from China.....
First night he sets one up and baits it with dry spaghetti noodles because "the kitty's won't like that but the coons probably will"
Two hours later he cracks the blinds at the house, sees something in the trap...busts out his binoculars and says "I think we got a coon!" We go outside to the garage to find this
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That's how I got my first feral/barn cat. I was getting fed up with coons and possums getting in the trash cans and making a mess so I put a live catch trap and put dog food in it. Guess what, the only thing I kept catching was a cat. Growing up on a farm, I knew wild cats can do some damage to a person's skin. I was careful when I let the cat out. After about 2 weeks of this crap, the cat would come out of the cage and rub against my leg purring her head off. After a while when the cat saw me, it would run up and rub my leg, but I never petted her. I didn't want her to go ballistic so I would just walk away. The problem was she would follow and continue to purr and rub my leg. One day she followed me into the house. Well, I got two house dogs the size of Tom's Tatar and I thought there would be a battle. NOPE, she made friends immediately and they were inseparable. So I would let her become part of the family, as she and the dogs played and slept together. After a while, she would crawl on my lap and sleep with me and the dogs in my bed. The whole thing was kind of like this.
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Post by: steve dave on January 16, 2024, 09:34:23 AM
What's the breakdown on cuts and stuff when one gets a side of beef?I think you just tell them how much hamburger you want and whatnot. We will butcher a bull and get the entire thing as hamburger. Otherwise would be inedible. Regular fat steers you get all the usual cuts. Roasts, steaks, ground, etc. My dad usually gets them all t-bone/porterhouse instead of tenderloin/strip for some reason.
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on January 16, 2024, 09:40:25 AM
What's the breakdown on cuts and stuff when one gets a side of beef?Its up to you and the locker, they'll ask you what you want or often will have a cut card
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on January 16, 2024, 02:48:04 PM
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After 48 seconds of watching, i'm convinced that guy owns the sharpest knife in the world.
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Post by: ben ji on January 16, 2024, 09:59:35 PM
in spain, beef from old cows and steers is considered higher quality and costs more than beef from young animals.
There is a reason spain had a 200+ year head start on settling the america's and blew it.
Post by: steve dave on January 17, 2024, 09:05:33 AM
in spain, beef from old cows and steers is considered higher quality and costs more than beef from young animals.They also sword fight cows
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Post by: Cire on January 17, 2024, 01:51:57 PM
in spain, beef from old cows and steers is considered higher quality and costs more than beef from young animals.
American's used to do that too before the pure food and drug act!
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I’m irl going to search out zucks cows in July when I’m there and try to get some pics of them for the content
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How will we know they are his cows and you aren't just pulling a fast one?
Post by: steve dave on January 17, 2024, 04:16:04 PM
Maybe re-read this entire thread before you asking me something like that again you son of a bitchI’m irl going to search out zucks cows in July when I’m there and try to get some pics of them for the content
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How will we know they are his cows and you aren't just pulling a fast one?
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Post by: Stupid Fitz on January 17, 2024, 05:03:26 PM
Maybe re-read this entire thread before you asking me something like that again you son of a bitchI’m irl going to search out zucks cows in July when I’m there and try to get some pics of them for the content
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How will we know they are his cows and you aren't just pulling a fast one?
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Very well versed at your cow knowledge and access to "non Zuck" cows. Seems even more suspicious now that I think about it. Those cows better better be wearing VR goggles in the pics or i'm calling you out.
Post by: Cire on January 17, 2024, 07:28:57 PM
If you think that's impressive, you should learn about Zuck raising premium cows in Hawaii by only feeding them macadamia nuts.HE FEEDS THEM BEER TOO
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Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on January 20, 2024, 08:58:51 PM
Post by: ben ji on January 20, 2024, 08:59:28 PM
The new chicken Hilton.Reminds me of a story my dad told me last month when I was pheasant hunting....
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I saw a rooster flying super high over me, like up where ducks fly and mentioned it to my dad.
"Yeah, I've seen that a couple of times. One time I was hunting with grandpa when I was a kid and he told me not to waste the ammo...anyways I led it a bunch and actually hit it...when we got to it I realized he wasn't actually dead, no pellets in it and it was knocked out"
"Grandpa told me to ring its neck and put it in the bag but I was a kid and wanted to keep it... anyways it lived in the chicken coop with the chickens and I named it "Phicken" thinking I could breed it with the chickens"
(Me intrigued) "so did it work? What happened?"
"Fox or coyote got in the pen a couple weeks later and killed it and some others"
End of story
Post by: ben ji on January 20, 2024, 09:01:47 PM
Awesome. Do they needs some kind of heater to keep warm in cold temps? What is the lowest temp they safely tolerate. How do you keep foxes from killing them?Last pic it looks like there is some electrical hookup for heat lamps (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240121/851f353246a93b25145dc9433eaf4702.jpg)
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in spain, beef from old cows and steers is considered higher quality and costs more than beef from young animals.They also sword fight cows
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SD, I think you mean bulls you SW KS farm boy. :cheers:
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Tagged along to the seed dealer customer appreciation chili feed just to get out of the house. I am really coveting one of these overhead radiant heaters for the barn.
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Great pic. I'm going Gates of Hell. Did you do any editing to that?I pressed the "Enhance" button on my phone but that's it.
Here is the non "Enhanced" version of the gates of hell.
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Yeah, fires on the horizon is irl peak rural ks
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Hazy smoky skies in KC yesterday confirm this. Had someone come in to my office yesterday to warn me that she thought something in the building was on fire and I had to tell her "nope...it's just Kansas farmers". :Carl:
Post by: KST8FAN on February 24, 2024, 05:09:17 PM
Rough collie/Pyrenees mix were the show special. Breeder said those were an "accident."
Looked at the latest in drone sprayers.
Round bale wrap in US colors.
Almost bought a windmill with aerator for the pond, but floor model got sold before I texted him back.
The first 4020 with PowerShift on display. I told the guy I had one as well. He was not impressed as his was THE FIRST serial no 65001.
Granddaughters got to sit on stuff poppa will never buy.
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Post by: sys on February 25, 2024, 05:06:35 PM
i follow a guy on twitter who's posted some drone vids of using drones to check cattle that opened my eyes to ag drone use.
Post by: ben ji on February 26, 2024, 09:14:04 PM
i've seen border collie x pyrenees crosses before. neat looking animals, but i think the conflicting instincts/energy levels could make for a problematic dog.How far can a drone that is available to a median cow farmer fly?
i follow a guy on twitter who's posted some drone vids of using drones to check cattle that opened my eyes to ag drone use.
Could you buy a helicopter type drone with a live feed camera for say $1000 that has a 5ish mile range?
I honestly have no idea but I assume the tech is going to continue to get cheaper and more accessible.
Post by: bucket on February 26, 2024, 09:54:52 PM
i've seen border collie x pyrenees crosses before. neat looking animals, but i think the conflicting instincts/energy levels could make for a problematic dog.How far can a drone that is available to a median cow farmer fly?
i follow a guy on twitter who's posted some drone vids of using drones to check cattle that opened my eyes to ag drone use.
Could you buy a helicopter type drone with a live feed camera for say $1000 that has a 5ish mile range?
I honestly have no idea but I assume the tech is going to continue to get cheaper and more accessible.
Can you count cows with a drone?
Post by: tdaver on February 26, 2024, 10:11:11 PM
In regards to the NINE new cat contractors we brought on last month (feral cats caught in local town) we have caught 6 of them on the game cam located in their home aka the garage. My dad even set up a heat lamp and box with blankets for them to stay inWhere are you getting those cats? In the alley behind the B-Hive?
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Post by: KST8FAN on February 26, 2024, 10:12:23 PM
I am meeting with a guy later this spring about spraying pasture with a drone. Excited to learn more.i've seen border collie x pyrenees crosses before. neat looking animals, but i think the conflicting instincts/energy levels could make for a problematic dog.How far can a drone that is available to a median cow farmer fly?
i follow a guy on twitter who's posted some drone vids of using drones to check cattle that opened my eyes to ag drone use.
Could you buy a helicopter type drone with a live feed camera for say $1000 that has a 5ish mile range?
I honestly have no idea but I assume the tech is going to continue to get cheaper and more accessible.
Then I want one of those Lazer weed killers for the row crops.
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Post by: farming_cat fan on February 27, 2024, 07:41:25 AM
i've seen border collie x pyrenees crosses before. neat looking animals, but i think the conflicting instincts/energy levels could make for a problematic dog.How far can a drone that is available to a median cow farmer fly?
i follow a guy on twitter who's posted some drone vids of using drones to check cattle that opened my eyes to ag drone use.
Could you buy a helicopter type drone with a live feed camera for say $1000 that has a 5ish mile range?
I honestly have no idea but I assume the tech is going to continue to get cheaper and more accessible.
I don't think there are any in that price point with a 5 mile range. I'm really not sure any have the battery life for a 5 mile range. Also, legally you have to be within line of site of the drone.
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Post by: ben ji on February 27, 2024, 04:51:13 PM
One of our cats just recently had 7! 7! 7 freaking kittens. I thought more than likely it would be 3 or so. Not 7!Last time I was at the cat ranch I saw 4 of the 6 cats my dad dropped off a couple of months ago.
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Two of them were (makes circle with one hand, puts finger through circle with other) out on the driveway one evening so hopefully some kittens are coming our way soon.
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it is cool. i'm proud that my dad is always one of the ones first to help, and doesn't have social media, but he'd never post any of the back patting stuff you see if he did. he and a bunch of area (NE Kansas) farmers drove down to Ashland 5 or so years ago, brought a bunch of hedge fence posts and other fencing supplies and helped out.Yeah, this is mainly spouses of the rural fire departments and county who do fire break lines and crap. None of the people who actually help fight/break the fire post anything.
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I know in the flint hills and in eastern KS prescribed pasture burns happen all the time but I've never heard of or seen any out in NW KS. I'm guessing it's just too dry for it to be a normal thing that far west?
Ben ji, you have much to learn about Western KS from folks out there. Where I grew up, there were grass fires when some farmer wanted a family hotdog cookout. It was a gathering of men and teenaged boys with shoves helping out and women folks came along for picnic-type food support and gossip.
Post by: KST8FAN on March 03, 2024, 08:35:13 AM
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Post by: Skipper44 on March 03, 2024, 08:57:24 AM
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/colorado/news/colorado-ranchers-patrick-esch-ed-dean-jager-sentenced-rain-gauges-tampering-federal-crop-subsidies-nws-fcic/which season of Yellowstone was this?
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Incidentally, one of the co-conspirators turned on the group and extorted Esch in particular. The unidentified male threatened to expose the entire enterprise to authorities in exchange for Esch paying the man's bond for release from jail and giving several five-figure payments to the man's girlfriend. Esch, according to his plea agreement, even shrugged off the man's admitted theft of an all-terrain vehicle from Esch in exchange for the man's silence.
In August of 2023, a month before Jager and Esch reached their plea agreements with prosecutors, this unidentified male co-conspirator escaped from prison. This triggered a nationwide manhunt and caused Esch and his family "to go into hiding," as stated in a court document. Two weeks after the escape, the co-conspirator was found dead.
Post by: KST8FAN on March 03, 2024, 03:43:12 PM
Side note they tried to burn pasture their first year there, and it got away from them. They burnt a brush pile a couple years back, and it got away, too. Now they're using fire fighters whose side gig is burning pasture. We use them too and just burn it all at once.
Good folk, though. Two cute AF cattle dogs, and they have a sweet Cat skid steer. Helped us clean up some brush, and they've really improved the place.
Also had 2 stealth planes fly over. Anytime military planes fly over the farm I immediately go into Wolverines movie mode and wonder if WWIII has started. I guess we'd survive on chicken and goat milk til we got bombed or over run.
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Post by: ben ji on March 04, 2024, 04:45:25 PM
neighbor let me borrow his ford 4000 tractor. want one now
I see no reason why you shouldnt
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neighbor let me borrow his ford 4000 tractor. want one nowhttps://www.tractorhouse.com/listing/for-sale/231849407/1963-ford-4000g-40-hp-to-99-hp-tractors
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on March 05, 2024, 11:19:53 AM
Did some light work with it last night. Thankfully didn’t have to push this sucker all the way to the charger again
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Post by: ben ji on March 05, 2024, 07:43:49 PM
Now I'm just LOL'n again at my dad thinking he could rent out our big barn for people to store hay bales in....like this is how close the barn (white roof) is to all the hay bales but my uncle just leaves them outside on the hill.Sometimes our katz suck and you get angry but then you head up to hay bale hill and watch the sun set while you crush brews and blare tunes with your mutts.Back in KC and already missing watching a sunset on hay bale hill.
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I'm going to ask/offer to pay for my uncle to leave a couple bales on the hill this winter/next year so I can continue to sit on them and blast music while watching sunsets.
Here is a picture looking back at all the hay bales (which are actually like alfalfa or some sort of silage)
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My dad's dream has finally come true, he is storing some feed bales in our giant barn after talking about it for 5+ years.
We had a failed milo crop this year that my dad had baled and he is finally getting around to having it moved into the barn.
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Post by: ben ji on March 05, 2024, 07:49:18 PM
ben ji "To who"
dad "people will pay good money for them when there is a drought"
ben ji "You don't have the equipment to move them so they will have to pick them up?"
dad "Yes, or I might save them for when I get my own herd"
These bale's are going to be in the barn for the next 20 years IMO
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 05, 2024, 09:22:30 PM
How much is hay bale insurance
"It's free!"
the government
Post by: ben ji on March 05, 2024, 09:22:50 PM
Hay bales are a big fire hazard if the moisture in them isn’t right. He should leave them outside.They have been outside for like 3-4 months so I assume they are fully dried but who knows.
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His dreams are finally coming true
Post by: Stupid Fitz on March 06, 2024, 09:11:53 AM
Hay bales are a big fire hazard if the moisture in them isn’t right. He should leave them outside.
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Benji's dad knows this I bet. He's trying to burn the whole farm down and will collect sweet insurance money so he and Mrs Benji's mom can live out their days on cruise ships and not have to worry about their bastard kid messing around with his stuff in the barn.
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Post by: ben ji on March 07, 2024, 05:48:53 PM
Top tier post hereHay bales are a big fire hazard if the moisture in them isn’t right. He should leave them outside.
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Benji's dad knows this I bet. He's trying to burn the whole farm down and will collect sweet insurance money so he and Mrs Benji's mom can live out their days on cruise ships and not have to worry about their bastard kid messing around with his stuff in the barn.
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"5 cats for sure. 1 skunk, 2 raccoons. I lowered South garage door, check camera in am. Also have 2 live traps with corn bait."
(There is a very scientific method for how high the garage doors can be cracked to allow cats to enter and it involves sticking your foot at the bottom and wiggling it... so basically a foot width will allow the cats to enter but hopefully keep out the yotes)
Post by: ben ji on March 07, 2024, 07:16:12 PM
Also he was super concerned about coons/skunks/possums stealing the cat food so he bought a couple of metal traps from China.....
First night he sets one up and baits it with dry spaghetti noodles because "the kitty's won't like that but the coons probably will"
Two hours later he cracks the blinds at the house, sees something in the trap...busts out his binoculars and says "I think we got a coon!" We go outside to the garage to find this
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Hopefully he doesn't catch another cat in his corn trap.
In the top right of the photo you can also see the very scientific height that the south garage door should be cracked in order to allow cats access to the garage.
Post by: steve dave on March 07, 2024, 07:42:16 PM
Ben ji's dad finally got around to checking the game cam he set up in the garage next to the automatic cat feeders after being gone for 2 months.lmaoQuote"5 cats for sure. 1 skunk, 2 raccoons. I lowered South garage door, check camera in am. Also have 2 live traps with corn bait."
(There is a very scientific method for how high the garage doors can be cracked to allow cats to enter and it involves sticking your foot at the bottom and wiggling it... so basically a foot width will allow the cats to enter but hopefully keep out the yotes)
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Post by: ben ji on March 12, 2024, 06:46:44 PM
Following up on this. Im guessing the last time the roads inside the cat ranch had rock dumped on them was around 1990.Put down some gravel! Sheesh.Lol, i have a story about my brother and I's naive ideas about how to fill these ruts. Gonna have to wait until sunlight tomorrow to show our futility.
There was a "road" by the corral that was used to dump feed to the cows but is no longer in use. Still a ton of stone/rocks out there and part of our golf course.
My brother and I decided to be productive and collect a bunch of those rocks by hand, fill up a large cattle feed container and dump them on the road to fix the ruts, good idea huh?!?
Spent about 45 minutes picking up rocks by hand to fill the container and dumped it in a large rut.
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If I remember, the cat ranch is in far NW KS. If so, your closest source for decent crushed gravel is probably going to be Eastern Colorado (Holly). Good news is that this is crushed river gravel and very durable. Bad news is freight costs are going to suck. I think there are some sand sources around the area, but it won't be crushed material and won't stabilize the road for crap. If someone has some crushed concrete around the area, that could be an option as well. However, just know that there will still be some pieces of steel in the material and you will need to cover it with an inch or two of some other material to help eliminate flat tires. I have it on my driveway and I covered it with crushed asphalt. We still find a few small pieces of wire from time to time that we pick up and throw away.
The aggregate source info is from my experience many years ago travelling around the state making and laying asphalt for highway projects. There may be a new source or two that have popped up since then that I'm not aware of. If you can find a material source and you have access to a skidloader, you could probably heal up the ruts and then have someone tailgate the rock on the drive. This isn't ideal, but it will be cheaper than hiring someone to haul a blade to the ranch and grading the road.
My guess is that you are going to pay at least $10 per ton at the source and then freight to the ranch on top of that. If you have 500 feet of driveway that is 12 feet wide and you want to place 3" of rock on it, you would be looking at about 100 to 125 tons of rock.
BUMP...Are asphalt millings a good choice for a road/driveway?
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Post by: ben ji on March 12, 2024, 08:00:52 PM
Farming is not something you can just do with no equipment capital. You also can’t just cut into your RAZER sharp margins by paying other people to do it for you because you own land (other than leasing said land). The only times you can is when you can plant and take care of thousands of acres and just have someone cut it for you. Your dad is adorable and I love him but lease that crap out immediately.
PS. barn lease for alfalfa bales is lmao
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DAMNIT! We’ve got no covered place to store our alfalfa bales! What if we were to PAY some guy who lives miles away to store them there and when we need them we drive our asses all the way over there and get some and drive back here! Holy crap.....are you sure you aren’t some farm genius? Yes, I actually am irl.
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Post by: ben ji on March 12, 2024, 08:07:59 PM
In regards to the NINE new cat contractors we brought on last month (feral cats caught in local town) we have caught 6 of them on the game cam located in their home aka the garage. My dad even set up a heat lamp and box with blankets for them to stay inWhere are you getting those cats? In the alley behind the B-Hive?
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Just seeing this and I'm not sure but I have definitely ate/drank coors at the B-Hive between 5-10 times. Its an experience I enjoy every time.
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Post by: ben ji on March 23, 2024, 08:57:39 PM
https://twitter.com/RobSomerville1/status/1771681513165205509I believe I asked earlier about the feasibility of using drones to check on cattle and some peeps responded that you must be in visible contact with the drone to operate legally....
But honestly if you are in BFE and just running it within 5-10 miles ish if the main farm I would imagine your chances of getting in trouble are pretty small?
No idea but I'm definitely interested in the capabilities even if I will never utilize them.
I also assume they would be helpful in flying over row crops to inspect them etc.
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Post by: ben ji on March 23, 2024, 09:04:51 PM
When I was leaving an older gentleman with a poney tail pulled up next to me and let me know he was watching me and thanked me for staying on the WIHA land and not going onto his adjacent 200 acres of CRP that is absolutely loaded with pheasants (all the birds I flushed would fly directly into his land) and no hunting signs. He explained that he was "re wilding" his land etc.
I've seen him a couple of times since then either flying over or just driving by.
I bet he would love the crap out of a drone.
Post by: ben ji on March 23, 2024, 09:15:25 PM
Here’s the thing, these people have a lot of the most valuable resource on the planet, time. It’s not an industrial efficiency issue. They work 24/7/365. And the irl last thing they want is someone taking something from that.So they are bored and would rather drive out to a pasture to check on the cows than fly over them with a drone?
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Post by: steve dave on March 23, 2024, 09:28:32 PM
No idiot. I don’t think cow farming is for you tbh. It wasn’t for me either.Here’s the thing, these people have a lot of the most valuable resource on the planet, time. It’s not an industrial efficiency issue. They work 24/7/365. And the irl last thing they want is someone taking something from that.So they are bored and would rather drive out to a pasture to check on the cows than fly over them with a drone?
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Post by: pissclams on March 25, 2024, 07:07:49 PM
https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-dairy-cattle-usda-kansas-texas-c3040bb31a9a8293717d47362f006902
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Post by: Katpappy on March 29, 2024, 09:21:43 PM
We had an IH cyclo air planter at one point. Pretty cool technology for the time.
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I'm not sure what the make and model were, since he bought it about the same time I went to fight for our freedom. I do remember seeing it in the driveway one time and I think it had a large air tank and a seed bin with a plexiglass side facing the rear of the tractor. Maybe it was for checking how much seed was left during planting. I can't remember how the air compressor was driven or where it set.
Post by: schreds21 on March 31, 2024, 11:27:11 AM
We had an IH cyclo air planter at one point. Pretty cool technology for the time.
Yep. We had one and Schreds dad convinced grandpa Schreds to get one as well.
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Post by: ben ji on April 05, 2024, 10:45:11 PM
Was having dinner with my parents tonight and my dad mentioned how half his dream farm scenario was complete because he had some feed bales inside of the Morton building/barn.
Then we started talking about his "turn key" solution for when he is too old in a couple of years where he basically just leases the land to our land baron 2nd cousin.
....
Post by: ben ji on April 05, 2024, 10:51:44 PM
Ben ji: So why not do it now?
Dad: I'm waiting until we harvest the wheat and fill the bin.
Ben ji: So you're going to hold 8k bushels in the bin that hasn't held grain in 10 years... why not just sell the harvest?
Dad: China/Ukraine/Russia/war you will thank me as it's our backup retirement/survival plan.
Post by: ben ji on April 05, 2024, 11:01:40 PM
Dad: At least 2-3 years maybe if you fumigate it.
Ben ji : so you really just wanted a barn full of feed and a silo full of wheat in case the apocalypse came and once you have that you will just lease out the land?
Dad: The barn is full of feed and once the silo is full of wheat I will feel pretty good.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 14, 2024, 08:53:55 PM
Not sure what to make of that if it's being transmitted by wild birds. Seem to be enough safe guards around the milk unless they're selling raw out the back parlor door.https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-h5n1-food-raw-milk-dairy-9d3a579b9bdb6f4d879b14b153174102
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 14, 2024, 09:03:25 PM
Old fence line over run by cedar trees that we've cleaned up an burnt over last 2 years. Some brome seed and a new fence and call it good.
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Post by: Pete on April 21, 2024, 07:28:29 PM
I am 100% purchasing TWO ATV’s later this spring to use in MN. The county just passed a new ordinance that extends the same road driving rights to ATV’s that UTV’s have….just have to move over to the side of the road. They already have trails next to the road almost everywhere due to everyone up there having ATV’s and snowmobiles.
These will be gateway ATV’s to hopefully a nice new(er) UTV in a couple years.
SD’s dad sounds like a Polaris man thru and thru, but for the older used purchases I see people saying get a Honda or Yamaha with a drive shaft instead of belt driven like Polaris and Artic Cat etc.
I am trying to not to go over $3K on each.
Post by: pissclams on April 21, 2024, 07:55:21 PM
Need used ATV advice.https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1981-honda-atc-200/
I am 100% purchasing TWO ATV’s later this spring to use in MN. The county just passed a new ordinance that extends the same road driving rights to ATV’s that UTV’s have….just have to move over to the side of the road. They already have trails next to the road almost everywhere due to everyone up there having ATV’s and snowmobiles.
These will be gateway ATV’s to hopefully a nice new(er) UTV in a couple years.
SD’s dad sounds like a Polaris man thru and thru, but for the older used purchases I see people saying get a Honda or Yamaha with a drive shaft instead of belt driven like Polaris and Artic Cat etc.
I am trying to not to go over $3K on each.
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Post by: cfbandyman on April 21, 2024, 08:26:46 PM
It's Taters world, and I'm just the chauffer.
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Post by: Pete on April 21, 2024, 08:46:22 PM
i’d also look at the honda fat cat
Both those and the three wheelers are very badass and I love them, but no dice with my wife. It's been a huge victory to get to the "two 4 wheelers" point.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 21, 2024, 09:18:53 PM
Man, we had him all comfortable in the back seat until today, then I hit a rut and bounced his 60 lb carcass off the Gator today.It's Taters world, and I'm just the chauffer.
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Got back on, but he was reluctant so Mrs8 rode in the back with him.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 21, 2024, 09:25:22 PM
Let's call then juvenile turtles.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 22, 2024, 08:13:23 AM
Tater weighs 60 lbs !?!?!He is a bit of a chunk. City life, and his owner probably slips him too many snacks. It's pretty much throwing a sack of feed in the back seat for each farm trip.
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Post by: steve dave on April 23, 2024, 11:07:42 AM
Post by: ben ji on April 23, 2024, 12:02:54 PM
https://twitter.com/DudespostingWs/status/1782801019983859960
If you take your girl to the local dairy queen and see this stud sitting inside you better just turn that truck around if you want to keep your girl.
Post by: cfbandyman on April 23, 2024, 12:32:08 PM
https://twitter.com/DudespostingWs/status/1782801019983859960
If you take your girl to the local dairy queen and see this stud sitting inside you better just turn that truck around if you want to keep your girl.
He's the reincarnation of this guy
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Post by: cfbandyman on April 23, 2024, 12:33:32 PM
Man, we had him all comfortable in the back seat until today, then I hit a rut and bounced his 60 lb carcass off the Gator today.It's Taters world, and I'm just the chauffer.
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Got back on, but he was reluctant so Mrs8 rode in the back with him.
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Poor guy, glad she was able to get him comfortable.
Post by: Stupid Fitz on April 23, 2024, 01:31:05 PM
https://twitter.com/DudespostingWs/status/1782801019983859960
If you take your girl to the local dairy queen and see this stud sitting inside you better just turn that truck around if you want to keep your girl.
He's the reincarnation of this guy
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I don't know anything about farm stuff so those parts were whatever for me. I was more focused on him having the mannerisms of a 68 year old. His, "how the hell am I going to get out of this conversation" technique was also very elite.
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Post by: cfbandyman on April 23, 2024, 02:29:20 PM
https://twitter.com/DudespostingWs/status/1782801019983859960
If you take your girl to the local dairy queen and see this stud sitting inside you better just turn that truck around if you want to keep your girl.
He's the reincarnation of this guy
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I don't know anything about farm stuff so those parts were whatever for me. I was more focused on him having the mannerisms of a 68 year old. His, "how the hell am I going to get out of this conversation" technique was also very elite.
Yeah the way he said "Well I'm gonna look around for a lil bit" was top notch
Wonder if crops U is already recruiting him. He's gotta already got some talk of being a 5 ears of corn/shock of wheat recruit
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 23, 2024, 04:42:24 PM
https://twitter.com/DudespostingWs/status/1782801019983859960He's got a bunch of videos. His 4 part commentary on his farm layout is pretty awesome.
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Post by: ben ji on April 23, 2024, 05:13:39 PM
I just tried to stand like that and my artificial hip hurts now. What exactly is he packing on his belt? That's not a pliers holder.
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It's a cell phone to keep in touch with all of his GF's
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 25, 2024, 10:41:38 AM
You can't make this stuff up. He called the fictitious company Middle Finger Ranch.
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Post by: ben ji on April 25, 2024, 10:53:39 AM
https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/kansas-accountant-accused-of-embezzling-money-to-build-house/
You can't make this stuff up. He called the fictitious company Middle Finger Ranch.
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In things absolutely no one could predict it looks like that is the cat ranch's accountant.....
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on April 25, 2024, 11:59:03 AM
Post by: meow meow on April 25, 2024, 12:04:03 PM
https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/kansas-accountant-accused-of-embezzling-money-to-build-house/
You can't make this stuff up. He called the fictitious company Middle Finger Ranch.
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In things absolutely no one could predict it looks like that is the cat ranch's accountant.....
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 25, 2024, 12:42:27 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on April 25, 2024, 01:04:27 PM
No negative consequences?Really hoping ben ji dad has no payments to MFR.
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Post by: pissclams on April 25, 2024, 09:46:36 PM
https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread/
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Post by: wetwillie on April 25, 2024, 10:01:36 PM
Post by: Spracne on April 25, 2024, 10:08:29 PM
It's in the gd milk star seed, this ain't no laughing matter
This is going to impact clams directly.
Post by: ben ji on April 26, 2024, 09:29:39 AM
I doubt he messed with a tiny operation like the cat ranch, he only did basic tax filing for us and wasn't a signatory on any of our accounts.No negative consequences?Really hoping ben ji dad has no payments to MFR.
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My dad's more concerned about adding some additional 1099's (his new term for cats, he likes to think of them as his employees) to the cat ranch.
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Post by: wetwillie on April 26, 2024, 09:33:27 AM
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Post by: yoga-like_abana on April 26, 2024, 10:41:36 AM
Post by: sys on April 26, 2024, 01:56:46 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 26, 2024, 03:49:59 PM
Damn Cedars ruining the great plains.
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Post by: Spracne on April 26, 2024, 04:26:00 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 26, 2024, 06:43:14 PM
calling cats 1099s is incredible. do dogs come in as w2s?Just 1099's for now, just got an email.
Subject: New 1099 employee
Solid body beauty, nice coat, coal black with a white spot on the throat. Identifies as an alpha male.
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Post by: wetwillie on April 26, 2024, 06:53:22 PM
Post by: sys on April 26, 2024, 07:18:41 PM
Post by: ben ji on April 26, 2024, 07:33:49 PM
Is he trapping them around KC and transporting?No, some landlord in Colby had a cat person that was feeding all the strays and there were 20+ hanging around the property after she left so they started trapping them.
That was a year ago tho so I'm not quite sure where he is getting these but I imagine it's something similar.
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Post by: ben ji on April 27, 2024, 06:41:46 PM
Also zero cats have shown up on the cat ranch randomly and in the year or so there were no cats we had mice drowning in dog bowls of water left outside because there were that many of them.
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Post by: Pete on April 28, 2024, 07:31:21 AM
I've been bloviating against woody encroachment for years, but everyone thought I was insane. Well, look at me now.Give me an air conditioned enclosed cab high flow skid steer with a forestry muncher and turn me loose.
Cedars don’t regenerate from the roots.
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Post by: Spracne on April 28, 2024, 07:33:23 PM
Post by: wetwillie on April 28, 2024, 07:40:11 PM
i'm maybe going to get some sheep to try my hand at hobbying. got to figure out how to take care of sheep real fast.
You hobbying in Kansas?
Post by: KST8FAN on April 28, 2024, 08:31:09 PM
Pete's all over it. We turned this guy loose a couple falls ago on some woody eradication.I've been bloviating against woody encroachment for years, but everyone thought I was insane. Well, look at me now.Give me an air conditioned enclosed cab high flow skid steer with a forestry muncher and turn me loose.
Cedars don’t regenerate from the roots.
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Post by: sys on April 28, 2024, 08:33:45 PM
i'm maybe going to get some sheep to try my hand at hobbying. got to figure out how to take care of sheep real fast.
You hobbying in Kansas?
california. this is just a hobby hobby flock.
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Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2024, 09:33:07 PM
i'm maybe going to get some sheep to try my hand at hobbying. got to figure out how to take care of sheep real fast.
You hobbying in Kansas?
california. this is just a hobby hobby flock.
Sheep used to be a real life thing in WKS and alot of other places but then some smart people invented synthetic fibers and no one needed wool anymore. From my limited research the meat you can get from sheep is not really worth it by itself so you would need to shear the sheep for wool which is a pain in the ass and labor intensive which is why BEEF is now the dominant bovine in most of the US.
My dad did mention they had a small herd of sheep at the cat ranch back in the 70's but the only reason I remember that is because he said they always got some nasty parasites/worms that you would pull out through their nostrils.
Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2024, 09:40:13 PM
Here are two blackberry and 1 raspberry bushes, planted them behind the garage/quonset building thinking that the extra run off will give them enough water....my only concern is when it's 100 degrees out there in the summer and the metal siding is radiating heat.
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Post by: sys on April 28, 2024, 09:51:15 PM
Sheep used to be a real life thing in WKS and alot of other places but then some smart people invented synthetic fibers and no one needed wool anymore. From my limited research the meat you can get from sheep is not really worth it by itself so you would need to shear the sheep for wool which is a pain in the ass and labor intensive which is why BEEF is now the dominant bovine in most of the US.
My dad did mention they had a small herd of sheep at the cat ranch back in the 70's but the only reason I remember that is because he said they always got some nasty parasites/worms that you would pull out through their nostrils.
if i lose less than $1000 and don't get a parasite they have to pull out of my nose on this hobby i'll consider it a huge win.
Post by: wetwillie on April 28, 2024, 09:52:16 PM
End game being eat them after you flock them?i'm maybe going to get some sheep to try my hand at hobbying. got to figure out how to take care of sheep real fast.
You hobbying in Kansas?
california. this is just a hobby hobby flock.
Post by: ben ji on April 28, 2024, 10:03:29 PM
Sheep used to be a real life thing in WKS and alot of other places but then some smart people invented synthetic fibers and no one needed wool anymore. From my limited research the meat you can get from sheep is not really worth it by itself so you would need to shear the sheep for wool which is a pain in the ass and labor intensive which is why BEEF is now the dominant bovine in most of the US.
My dad did mention they had a small herd of sheep at the cat ranch back in the 70's but the only reason I remember that is because he said they always got some nasty parasites/worms that you would pull out through their nostrils.
if i lose less than $1000 and don't get a parasite they have to pull out of my nose on this hobby i'll consider it a huge win.
Not your nostril, the sheep's nostril.
I'm 100% in favor of sys buying some sheep and starting a hobby hobby farm.
Post by: sys on April 28, 2024, 10:13:41 PM
End game being eat them after you flock them?
my preliminary plan is to eat one and have another one butchered for the landowners to eat. the rest to survive the year. but we'll see how it goes.
Post by: KST8FAN on April 29, 2024, 09:00:48 PM
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Post by: Pete on April 29, 2024, 10:06:50 PM
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Post by: Cire on April 30, 2024, 02:56:22 PM
But they made good fence posts when there were no trees anywhere
Post by: Pete on April 30, 2024, 03:15:15 PM
my grandpa used to have a giant tank of roundup on his 3 wheeler and one in a pickup and on days when there "wasn't as much to do" he drove around and round upp'd all his fence lines to keep cedar out!I ask this with all due respect and seriousness…did he die of cancer? Lot of those guys who were exposed to Roundup 24/7/365 have.
But they made good fence posts when there were no trees anywhere
Post by: ben ji on April 30, 2024, 05:19:55 PM
Pretty sure it's Parkinson's not cancer....or both. My aunt and uncle who are full time farmers have Parkinson's.my grandpa used to have a giant tank of roundup on his 3 wheeler and one in a pickup and on days when there "wasn't as much to do" he drove around and round upp'd all his fence lines to keep cedar out!I ask this with all due respect and seriousness…did he die of cancer? Lot of those guys who were exposed to Roundup 24/7/365 have.
But they made good fence posts when there were no trees anywhere
They also had a giant tank of Roundup on the back of a three wheeler.
Post by: Pete on April 30, 2024, 06:40:55 PM
Pretty sure it's Parkinson's not cancer....or both. My aunt and uncle who are full time farmers have Parkinson's.my grandpa used to have a giant tank of roundup on his 3 wheeler and one in a pickup and on days when there "wasn't as much to do" he drove around and round upp'd all his fence lines to keep cedar out!I ask this with all due respect and seriousness…did he die of cancer? Lot of those guys who were exposed to Roundup 24/7/365 have.
But they made good fence posts when there were no trees anywhere
They also had a giant tank of Roundup on the back of a three wheeler.
That's awful, sorry man.
Post by: KST8FAN on May 01, 2024, 09:00:15 PM
is that a collector's price or a price based on a self serviceable tractor for actual farm use? i would be leery of a buying a car, bike or boat that old with those few of hours if i wanted to actually use it.Yeah, it's hard to say the buyers' motivations. True too, that if it's just been sitting for years, getting back in working condition is problematic.
The pre Def stuff is top dollar because guys can work on it.
fcf can probably speak to used tractor market.
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Post by: steve dave on May 01, 2024, 09:39:44 PM
My dad has basically bathed in roundup the entire time he has been alive and I grew up slopping it around from commercial sprayers and boom rigs and on a tank on a four wheeler I drove around and sprayed things with. Pops has the commercial license for the top grade stuff random farmers couldn’t buy off the rack too. My dad is in his upper 60s now and still no known roundup related diseases (about died a dozen other times from various things as documented in this blog) and so far I seem to not be dead. Really hoping that continues to be the case.Pretty sure it's Parkinson's not cancer....or both. My aunt and uncle who are full time farmers have Parkinson's.my grandpa used to have a giant tank of roundup on his 3 wheeler and one in a pickup and on days when there "wasn't as much to do" he drove around and round upp'd all his fence lines to keep cedar out!I ask this with all due respect and seriousness…did he die of cancer? Lot of those guys who were exposed to Roundup 24/7/365 have.
But they made good fence posts when there were no trees anywhere
They also had a giant tank of Roundup on the back of a three wheeler.
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Post by: wetwillie on May 01, 2024, 09:56:30 PM
Post by: KST8FAN on May 01, 2024, 10:06:21 PM
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