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

[highway61]

Didn't really old tractors have metal wheels with spikes? Seems like that would provide better traction in a straight line and might work better than rubber wheels for the limited purpose of tractor pulls.

[farming_cat fan]

Didn't really old tractors have metal wheels with spikes? Seems like that would provide better traction in a straight line and might work better than rubber wheels for the limited purpose of tractor pulls.

Steel wheels would be against the rules. Each pulling class has a certain tire size they have to use. Plus they have a max weight limit. Steel wheels would probably not be advantageous when trying to maximize the traction to weight ratio.

[Stupid Fitz]

When I was a young small town white trash fella, these tractor puller thingies were places to go and kick or get your ass kicked. Like every one I remember either being at or heard about the next day, there was a huge fight. Is that still a thing or was I more white trash than I thought?

[Dugout DickStone]

When I was a young small town white trash fella, these tractor puller thingies were places to go and kick or get your ass kicked. Like every one I remember either being at or heard about the next day, there was a huge fight. Is that still a thing or was I more white trash than I thought?

that was men's league fast pitch games in my town.  Had a buddy whose dad was super major fast pitch pitcher and would hit guys then they would brawl.  Also, they played some all star barnstorming team named "The Kind and his Court" and actually beat them and then fought them in the parking lot.  His name was Marty and i really liked that guy

[wetwillie]

In Salina you did your fighting on Friday nights at the high school football game, as god intended.

[star seed 7]

My hippie school didn't do any fighting

[Katpappy]

My hippie school didn't do any fighting

Didn't you live in the city of death, Topeka?

[Stupid Fitz]

In Salina you did your fighting on Friday nights at the high school football game, as god intended.

My friend in HS was one of those guys. He would come to almost all of my football and baseball games and almost every single time he would get into a fight with someone on the other side. I was never really the fighting type, but thankfully I never had to be. If anyone even attempted to do anything to me, he took care of it. All of my current and college friends grew up around Blue Valley and Shawnee Mission. They have no idea what it was like growing up in a small town in the 80's/90's. It was wild.

[Katpappy]

In Salina you did your fighting on Friday nights at the high school football game, as god intended.

My friend in HS was one of those guys. He would come to almost all of my football and baseball games and almost every single time he would get into a fight with someone on the other side. I was never really the fighting type, but thankfully I never had to be. If anyone even attempted to do anything to me, he took care of it. All of my current and college friends grew up around Blue Valley and Shawnee Mission.
They have no idea what it was like growing up in a small town in the 80's/90's. It was wild.

Same in the 70's.

[ben ji]

Never knew this

https://www.kcur.org/2024-08-01/its-grain-country-now-but-western-kansas-used-to-be-awash-in-watermelons

[sys]

why is the groundwater replenishing itself plus more along the axis from la crosse to wichita?

[ben ji]

why is the groundwater replenishing itself plus more along the axis from la crosse to wichita?

Aliens

[Cire]

why is the groundwater replenishing itself plus more along the axis from la crosse to wichita?

Cheyenne bottoms ? Probably a generally low lying area that doesn’t drain quickly


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[steve dave]

I'll tell you what's not replenishing itself very quickly, the Ogallala DRYuifer

[KST8FAN]

Thanks for that, Ben ji.  Never knew that Kansas was melon central at one time. 

Very familiar with Lakin, KS, as we fed cattle at Kearny County Feeders north of town for years.

Lakin sits on the mountain time zone line, but the feedlot worked on CST to align with their customers on the plains.


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[steve dave]

Yeah, we kicked Lakin’s ass in sports and it was always very important to remember the time zone so we showed up on time


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[KST8FAN]

Miniature horse pull... Effingham, KS


Tom

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[steve dave]

Amaze


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[Spracne]

rough ridin' ham ...

[ben ji]

Its currently 66 degrees at the cat ranch and I'm wearing a hoodie....in the middle of August. WTF

[steve dave]

I wore a hoodie to football practice this morning and, brother, it ruled


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[ben ji]

Wut

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9oO617JgR2/?igsh=YWhlc3JsYnN6NzVi

[KST8FAN]

Ole 21 posing in front of the rock wall plus crop check yesterday.


Tom


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[KST8FAN]

Before concrete bunks, dad and neighbors built a bunch of these steel bunks with angle iron and some type of heavy square tube they split down the middle.

My earliest memory of chores was shoveling corn cobs and cow crap out of these in the winter.  Also, hooking a chain to these to move them with the tractor to a new feeding location.


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[KST8FAN]

So I learned this spring there are 4 grease zerks on each axle on the Gator.  Bought this thing used, but I've never greased em.

Luckily, a guy we let deer hunt is also a Deere mechanic so he gave me a big discount on labor to replace all the bushings that were completely worn out.

#1 got me a used electric grease gun to improve my pm habits.


Tom

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