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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: Today at 08:48:39 PM »Need a place that's awesome, has a great wine list, and is somewhat on the way to Kauffman from the west side of KC.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: Today at 06:09:43 PM »
Actually that picture with full foliage does not show how hilly it actually is so here is one without as much foliage. I decided to go on a random hike on a nice day when I was out there this winter and holy hell it kicked my ass, just climbing hill after hill if you wanted to go in a straight line.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: Today at 05:58:32 PM »Did you have to truck topsoil back in before you started the reclamation or were you just throwing seeds in the gravel?Top soil was accumulated in berms around the perimeter during quarrying. It's put back on top after the over burden (non rock material) is contouring.
Each area quarried is left with a pond.
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Interesting. The reason I asked is the GF's parents own a couple hundred acres in MO that they bought for cheap because it was strip mined for coal right next to the Rock Island Railroad. It was never "reclaimed" so its basically just steep hills and ravines with tons of tree's and strip pit lakes.
I'm guessing they did not berm the top soil back in the day to make it easier to reclaim.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: Today at 02:52:10 PM »With my parents retired, they are pretty much open to going anywhere, anytime. I’m curious if there is a good place that shows the cheapest business/first class flight deals? Just opened end date/destination, here are cheap business/first class flights.
Do they like cruises? My parents freaking love cruises for some reason and sign up for all the rewards programs etc and get all sorts of free cruise offers randomly from all the major cruise lines. It's never during peak season (spring break, winter break etc) and they typically don't get more than a couple of months notice but its free.
They also booked like 10 billion cruises during Covid knowing that they would get canceled/refunded and used that to get some primo elite status which probably helps.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: Today at 02:48:28 PM »
Did you have to truck topsoil back in before you started the reclamation or were you just throwing seeds in the gravel?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: maps and liniguistics, (now my master cool maps thread)
« on: Today at 02:47:18 PM »map of US counties, color coded by the number of counties away each one is from a major body of water (xpost with kiss the rings thread)
I will not let this Tuttle Creek slander stand!
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS
« on: April 26, 2025, 03:31:33 PM »
I'm really liking this draft class. In fact I like it so much I'm predicting we will at LEAST make the AFC Championship game next year. 
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 24, 2025, 10:00:29 PM »I've been telling him for 5 years (since I started posting on this blog about it and everyone's advice was to just lease it out) to lease everything out to our distant cousin land Barron but he wanted to try share cropping it with some guy he knows from HS. Long story short he has basically broken even every year when he could have just been cashing checks. He has finally come around.I think we are planting Milo or something in that field this year but according to my dad next year he is just going to cash rent it to our local land Barron so he can actually make some money.
like hiring someone else to plant and harvest it? has he considered just not doing that?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 24, 2025, 09:56:26 PM »
Already back in KC but last night a big storm missed us by a couple of miles. It was sunny at the cat ranch but a couple miles to the southeast it was storming pretty hard. We ended up getting 40 pts of rain overnight. 
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 24, 2025, 09:37:39 PM »
I think we are planting Milo or something in that field this year but according to my dad next year he is just going to cash rent it to our local land Barron so he can actually make some money. 
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 24, 2025, 09:36:02 PM »
But when you compare it to the planted wheat field across the property line you can definitely tell the difference.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 24, 2025, 09:34:48 PM »
This was a wheat field last year, harvested in early July then my dad worked it over in September when he had his crop farmers tractor so volunteer wheat would come up for his cow farmer to graze cattle on in the fall. I was surprised at how much had come up from the waste grains.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 21, 2025, 09:01:39 PM »
Thanks for listening, here is a sunset pic including Milo 
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 21, 2025, 08:59:28 PM »
I grabbed the trusty harbor freight (unopened)multi tool kit that had been sitting in my dad's 2004 Chevy S10 and figured out a belt had slipped loose from the mower attachment. I removed the protector, put the belt back on and it ran clean as a Mormon. 
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 21, 2025, 08:55:08 PM »
I decided I'm a proud graduate of the Harvard of the plains and can fix this, put the mower up on a ramp thinking maybe something had got caught in the blades and after nothing was there I did some expert farm work. 
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 21, 2025, 08:51:45 PM »
So I have another week until the new gig starts and I head out to the cat ranch today. Took the mower for a couple of laps and it worked fine but when I fired her back up (the mower identifies as a female at the cat ranch) the engine would run but when you put the "mower" in gear nothing would happen.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 19, 2025, 09:25:34 PM »On way home. Pretty tired, but I’ll be honest. Farming isn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be.
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SF, where is this farm located? Based on the fact that there is a "Creek" and farm pond with crappie I'm going to narrow it down to east of Hutchinson at the minimum. I want to say the smoky hills area but I feel like there are still too many deciduous tree's and water for the smoky hills at this time of the year. I'm going to guess just on the west side of the flint hills, like Abilene/newton area.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 19, 2025, 02:35:36 PM »You caught a baby crappie, nice
I caught a fish.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 14, 2025, 09:24:07 PM »Our pasture has been in the WIHA program for quite a few years. That picture was from the road looking in at the pasture.Flint Hills pasture burned on Friday. Talk about scorched earth. Best burn I can recall. Lost a corner post, but it happens. Dropped off wire and posts for maintenance post-burn.
Tom
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Looks like a wilted WIHA sign stapled to the curvy homemade post in picture two showing which side was WIHA and which side was private?
Tom
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Give me the inside scoop, anything worth hunting in there? Also is it listed in the WIFA fishing atlas as well? If so I might go visit it sometime in the next couple of weeks and catch some certified Tom lunkers.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 14, 2025, 09:14:49 PM »catranch-adjace
"They are from a sturdy bloodline" is a phrase straight from the cat rancher's mouth. Love it.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 13, 2025, 08:34:55 PM »Flint Hills pasture burned on Friday. Talk about scorched earth. Best burn I can recall. Lost a corner post, but it happens. Dropped off wire and posts for maintenance post-burn.
Tom
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Looks like a wilted WIHA sign stapled to the curvy homemade post in picture two showing which side was WIHA and which side was private?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 13, 2025, 08:29:19 PM »
I might have asked this at some point but at what location in KS do they stop burning prairies? According to my dad nobody out by the cat ranch in Colby burns fields because it's too dry out there and I've never seen anyone do it so I'll just believe him on that.
When I was driving out to the cat ranch last week there was a ton of smoke around Russell so maybe that is the western edge where you can still burn?
When I was driving out to the cat ranch last week there was a ton of smoke around Russell so maybe that is the western edge where you can still burn?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 10, 2025, 12:00:47 AM »Stinky kitty and regular kitties
Went out around 10 to see if the stinky kitty was still around and yup, still there about the same spot as in the original picture.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 09, 2025, 11:58:54 PM »will you commit to me right now that you will go out this weekend and buy a YZ125?
Negative ghost rider, pattern is full.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: April 09, 2025, 09:18:27 AM »do you have a dirt bike to ride around on out there?
I brought a mini bike out here a couple of years ago but its currently not operational due to the chain being stuck. It was a POS and the chain would always come off the sprocket(?!?) when you were the furthest away from the house.