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ben ji · « **Reply #2000 on:** December 17, 2019, 11:23:13 PM »

Speaking of shovels, last time I was out there my dad had me clean out the ash pit from the fireplace and I had to use the stupid little ash shovel. I had no idea there was that much room for ash under the fireplace.

ben ji · « **Reply #2001 on:** December 17, 2019, 11:27:35 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.

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.

WillieWatanabe · « **Reply #2002 on:** December 18, 2019, 08:11:21 AM »

meow meow · « **Reply #2003 on:** December 18, 2019, 11:21:51 AM »

the legend grows

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #2004 on:** December 18, 2019, 11:30:00 AM »

Quote from: ben ji on December 17, 2019, 11:19:41 PM

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.

sys · « **Reply #2005 on:** December 18, 2019, 11:43:17 AM »

fire ants aren't in kansas. at least not yet.

steve dave · « **Reply #2006 on:** December 18, 2019, 12:22:25 PM »

Quote from: sys on December 18, 2019, 11:43:17 AM

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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sys · « **Reply #2007 on:** December 18, 2019, 12:25:03 PM »

yeah, harvester ants are big. fire ants are small.

steve dave · « **Reply #2008 on:** December 18, 2019, 12:26:17 PM »

I knew it!

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XocolateThundarr · « **Reply #2009 on:** December 18, 2019, 12:27:00 PM »

What about those big, mean bastards that you always see along the railroad tracks?

steve dave · « **Reply #2010 on:** December 18, 2019, 12:30:40 PM »

You guys ever got the living crap stung out of you by a velvet ant? Well guess what, that thing is irl a WASP! Learned that from a book about bugs that lil sd has. Also it feels like you got shot by a gun filled with poison bullets that are made of lava when they sting you. Also they call them Cow Killers because they will kill the crap out of a cow (probably not but the name would indicate it’s a possibility).

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star seed 7 · « **Reply #2011 on:** December 18, 2019, 04:23:33 PM »

I don't know that I've ever been bitten by an ant

slackcat · « **Reply #2012 on:** December 18, 2019, 06:53:32 PM »

I burned many an ant with a magnifying glass when I was a lil slack.

Spracne · « **Reply #2013 on:** December 18, 2019, 07:07:32 PM »

Stepped I'm a fire ant hill as a child. No not recommend.

Institutional Control · « **Reply #2014 on:** December 18, 2019, 08:13:56 PM »

Fell on top of fire ant hill when I was drunk. I do not recommend doing that.

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steve dave · « **Reply #2015 on:** December 18, 2019, 08:32:10 PM »

dipped my honey covered ball sack into a giant pissed off pile of fire ants when I was...just shut up people. quit trying to one up my ant poison stories.

KST8FAN · « **Reply #2016 on:** December 18, 2019, 09:23:36 PM »

Quote from: ben ji on December 17, 2019, 11:27:35 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.

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.

https://lifttrucksupplyinc.com/turbo-saw-rotating-tree-saw/amp/

Quit messing around benji... get dad a skid steer and one of these.

Tom

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steve dave · « **Reply #2017 on:** December 18, 2019, 09:31:58 PM »

I think I've documented fairly well the folly of getting one or more skid steers itt.

Katpappy · « **Reply #2018 on:** December 19, 2019, 12:30:08 AM »

Quote from: sys on December 18, 2019, 11:43:17 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.

steve dave · « **Reply #2019 on:** December 19, 2019, 06:43:34 AM »

Those are harvesters. And yes they are giant assholes.

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Ksuminnesotacat · « **Reply #2020 on:** December 19, 2019, 08:18:28 AM »

Quote from: steve dave on December 19, 2019, 06:43:34 AM

Those are harvesters. And yes they are giant assholes.

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ben ji · « **Reply #2021 on:** December 19, 2019, 08:31:10 AM »

Quote from: KST8FAN on December 18, 2019, 09:23:36 PM

Quote from: ben ji on December 17, 2019, 11:27:35 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.

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.
https://lifttrucksupplyinc.com/turbo-saw-rotating-tree-saw/amp/

Quit messing around benji... get dad a skid steer and one of these.

Tom

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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.

Katpappy · « **Reply #2022 on:** December 19, 2019, 10:03:05 AM »

Early settlers could get a free quarter section of land if they built a home and lived on it for a minimum of 5 years. Also, they had to plant a wind row consisting of 1/4M of trees that thrived. In the Hutchinson area they planted hedge trees because they were easy to grow. The area around Hays, they planted cedar trees or cottonwood trees.
I'm sure SD knows what they planted around the Dighton area.

steve dave · « **Reply #2023 on:** December 19, 2019, 10:18:34 AM »

The only thing I know that was planted in the ground around Dighton was their football players when we whipped their asses 24/7/365.

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KST8FAN · « **Reply #2024 on:** December 20, 2019, 06:40:27 PM »

NE Kansas has all of it... hedge, cedars, locust. Until I start getting that carbon credit check for the CO2 they absorb it's my mission to cut them all down.

Tom

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