Author Topic: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions (Read 370715 times)

ben ji · « **Reply #1675 on:** July 30, 2019, 11:10:28 PM »

Quote from: KST8FAN on July 15, 2018, 07:52:13 AM

Ben ji updates are great.

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."

Tom

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Tom,

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.

ben ji · « **Reply #1676 on:** July 30, 2019, 11:16:35 PM »

Also there are two 10ft holes in our land where my gpa or uncle dug out dirt, no idea where it went.

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.

ben ji · « **Reply #1677 on:** July 30, 2019, 11:24:14 PM »

the second 10ft deep hole is in the junkyard area of the farm and so recent that its not visible on google maps.

Where did the dirt go? I'll have to do some "Digging" to find out!

pissclams · « **Reply #1678 on:** July 31, 2019, 10:33:13 AM »

prob dead bodies

Ksuminnesotacat · « **Reply #1679 on:** July 31, 2019, 06:37:24 PM »

I’m guessing juvenile mountain lion dens?

steve dave · « **Reply #1680 on:** July 31, 2019, 06:42:44 PM »

lmao ‘sota

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KST8FAN · « **Reply #1681 on:** July 31, 2019, 10:06:33 PM »

I love aerial photo porn. Discovered you could view photos from prior years. Our county has pix back to 1937... a discussion for the conspiracy thread of you ask me.

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

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star seed 7 · « **Reply #1682 on:** July 31, 2019, 10:20:39 PM »

I want to know the conspiracy

KST8FAN · « **Reply #1683 on:** July 31, 2019, 10:32:10 PM »

I guess given all the footage from World War II I shouldn't be surprised that there were aerial photos of this country long before I would have expected.

Tom

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ben ji · « **Reply #1684 on:** August 01, 2019, 12:45:06 PM »

Went deep down a rabbit hole and found the original 160 acre homestead deed for our farm. Issued on 4-18-1898 to my grandmothers grandfather.

https://glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#

Pretty cool

KST8FAN · « **Reply #1685 on:** August 02, 2019, 08:37:07 PM »

https://siouxfalls.craigslist.org/grd/d/rock-rapids-856-international-tractor/6922222265.html

Anyone close enough to check this tractor out for a relative?

Tom

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steve dave · « **Reply #1686 on:** August 02, 2019, 08:59:00 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.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #1687 on:** August 02, 2019, 09:11:05 PM »

Straight hoods

Ksuminnesotacat · « **Reply #1688 on:** August 02, 2019, 09:19:30 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on August 02, 2019, 08:59:00 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

steve dave · « **Reply #1689 on:** August 02, 2019, 09:47:35 PM »

Also when we were back for Memorial Day sddad was raging to me about how some farmer guy had one for like 6 months. I was like, “why do you let him borrow it?” And he said, “because he’s on the something something farmer something commission” and I lmao’d at him. sddad is irl a master farm politics mastermind tho.

ben ji · « **Reply #1690 on:** August 05, 2019, 11:53:20 AM »

If you want to look up how much of that sweet sweet trump money (in addition to their normal subsidies) farmers you know got here is the link.

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.

steve dave · « **Reply #1691 on:** August 05, 2019, 11:56:48 AM »

lmao, known socialist Tim Huelskamp again suckling at the govt teet

steve dave · « **Reply #1692 on:** August 05, 2019, 11:57:42 AM »

also trump needs to do more for our wheat, alfalfa, and beef producers. this sorghum and bean crap is for the commie red farmers.

Ksuminnesotacat · « **Reply #1693 on:** August 05, 2019, 12:12:21 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on August 05, 2019, 11:57:42 AM

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.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #1694 on:** August 05, 2019, 12:14:13 PM »

Is that code for sticky icky?

ben ji · « **Reply #1695 on:** August 05, 2019, 12:16:12 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.

steve dave · « **Reply #1696 on:** August 05, 2019, 12:30:24 PM »

Quote from: ben ji on August 05, 2019, 12:16:12 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

Ksuminnesotacat · « **Reply #1697 on:** August 05, 2019, 12:31:34 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on August 05, 2019, 12:30:24 PM

Quote from: ben ji on August 05, 2019, 12:16:12 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

KST8FAN · « **Reply #1698 on:** August 06, 2019, 12:31:31 PM »

They do a little farmin' at Fenway.

Tom

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pissclams · « **Reply #1699 on:** August 06, 2019, 01:35:27 PM »

rough ridin' hayseeds