Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

[BW]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meat-supply-threats-grow-first-181155792.html

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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They 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.

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[steve dave]

We call them the house, barn, etc. I’ve never heard anyone use the term “homestead” irl.


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[Spracne]

Yeah, well, some of us are bona fide homestead'rs instead of beef barons. Check your priv.

[Katpappy]

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?".

[WillieWatanabe]

in NC kansas the area with a house was a "place". "we are going to head over to the davis place later"  If no house it was called a "farm". "Gonna work at the smith farm now".  Homestead was only ever used to describe the first place a family settled down back in the day

[ben ji]

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.

[ben ji]

Ready for some more abandoned "homestead" porn? Okay

[steve dave]

yes, please more

[ben ji]

Here is the Levant Nursing Home. My dad lived in Levant for a couple years as a kid.

[ben ji]

Not a homestead but here is the old boxcar in the pig pen at the cat ranch. It was about to fall down when I was a kid out here in the 90's and the pen has not held pigs in at least 20 years.

Sometimes my uncle puts his herd of mini ponies in here but not recently.

[steve dave]

we have shitloads of old train cars on our ranch. most used as sheds or crap apparently.

[Spracne]

Just looked up Levant, KS. Does anyone live there? Are there businesses?

[ben ji]

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.

[Spracne]

Like, the second Google result was a ghost town registry.

[KST8FAN]

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.


Tom

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[ben ji]

Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.

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?

[ben ji]

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.

[steve dave]

Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.

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?

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.


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[michigancat]

Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.

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?

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.


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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 stolen

[BW]

Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.

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?

Every once in a while, you'll hear of meth heads trying to steal from the tanks. Usually doesn't end well.

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[ben ji]

Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.

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?

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.


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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 stolen

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?

[steve dave]

Occasionally, but pretty difficult to pull off


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[slackcat]

Average price of an NH3 tank is 6-8K in SEK.  More if you have meth orders to fill.

[Cire]

Tell me about these 15 trailers/tanks of Amonia lining the road I discovered while checking out WIHA areas tonight.

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?

Every once in a while, you'll hear of meth heads trying to steal from the tanks. Usually doesn't end well.

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My grandpa owned and ran a fertilizer distributor through Phillips in the 70s-80s.

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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[puniraptor]

possible ammonia poisoning of the brain