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[ben ji]

Randomly found this book at my local JoCo library and am about halfway through it, basically a history book on Western KS. Pretty damn good.

Same author has one called "west of Wichita" which covers western KS from 1865-1890.

[ben ji]

@steve dave in the first half of the book the focus has been 75% SW Kansas and 25% NW Kansas.... Meade has been mentioned multiple times but mainly it's Garden City.

[ben ji]

Check out this sexy ass sugar beet factory in garden city

[steve dave]

look at that stack smoking coal! elite

[KST8FAN]

Nice little barn find at the cousins to end the week.  Old JD spray rig, painted red, converted to a weed wiper at some point.


Tom

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[KST8FAN]

Helped run the silo unloader to the top this morning as final preparation for silage cutting next week.


Tom

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[KST8FAN]

Fueled, greased, oiled, aired.  Ready to roll.  Headed to signs of getting old to post how sore I am from getting off and on tractors a hundred times the last 2 days.


Tom

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[ben ji]

Helped run the silo unloader to the top this morning as final preparation for silage cutting next week.


Tom

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how old is that silo?

[pissclams]

Helped run the silo unloader to the top this morning as final preparation for silage cutting next week.


Tom

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how old is that silo?

silo guy here, i’m estimating that puppy is 28 years old.

[KST8FAN]

Helped run the silo unloader to the top this morning as final preparation for silage cutting next week.


Tom

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how old is that silo?

silo guy here, i’m estimating that puppy is 28 years old.

Built in 1970.  Dad followed up with ours in 1974.  That's him in front of newly completed silo.  We had the exact same unloader so we were training the next generation on disassembly, balancing the load on lift cable, and guiding it to the top.


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[KST8FAN]

Ben ji, my rough ole farmer cousin, has a herd of barn cats himself.   It's probably 7-10 that he feeds pretty well.


Tom

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[ben ji]

Ben ji, my rough ole farmer cousin, has a herd of barn cats himself.   It's probably 7-10 that he feeds pretty well.


Tom

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Very Nice! I'm heading out to the cat ranch over labor day to slaughter some doves and gift the cats the carcasses after I breast them out.

[michigancat]

Helped run the silo unloader to the top this morning as final preparation for silage cutting next week.


Tom

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how old is that silo?

silo guy here, i’m estimating that puppy is 28 years old.

Built in 1970.  Dad followed up with ours in 1974.  That's him in front of newly completed silo.  We had the exact same unloader so we were training the next generation on disassembly, balancing the load on lift cable, and guiding it to the top.


Tom

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https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1828101741209878668

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Randomly found this book at my local JoCo library and am about halfway through it, basically a history book on Western KS. Pretty damn good.

Same author has one called "west of Wichita" which covers western KS from 1865-1890.

Very good book. Would also recommend his book _Harvesting the High Plains_ about wheat farming in Thomas County, KS.

Also, if you might like _Beyond the Hundreth Meridian_ by Wallace Stegner if you are interested in history and policy related to farming in semi-desert areas.

[ben ji]

Randomly found this book at my local JoCo library and am about halfway through it, basically a history book on Western KS. Pretty damn good.

Same author has one called "west of Wichita" which covers western KS from 1865-1890.

Very good book. Would also recommend his book _Harvesting the High Plains_ about wheat farming in Thomas County, KS.

Also, if you might like _Beyond the Hundreth Meridian_ by Wallace Stegner if you are interested in history and policy related to farming in semi-desert areas.

Nice! I saw the harvesting the high plains documentary with Mike Rowe but didn't realize it was a book by the same guy.

[steve dave]

oh jeeze, did it get weird out west? my folks and brother didn't let me know and it's too late (after 9 PM) to ask.

Meade Buffaloes USD 226
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Due to extensive storm damage, Meade High will not have school tomorrow 8.30.24. Meade Elementary WILL BE in session as normal. All activities are still on as planned.

posting in farm thread because Meade

[nicname]

Enjoyed this 

https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1828573572425490551

[ben ji]

My dad's new favorite thing is to drag dead trees to the woodpile for me to cut up....he never cuts them up himself, just waits for me to come out and cut them up.

He sent me this picture a couple days ago

"Used truck to pull in another tree. Pls cut when you are out"

[Stupid Fitz]

Enjoyed this 

https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1828573572425490551

I want to have beers with this guy.

[KST8FAN]

Enjoyed this 

https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1828573572425490551

LoL.

 Tom

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[ben ji]

Made it to the cat ranch to kill some doves and the cat rancher has identified a kitten in need of help. It's spent the last two days in the house getting fed through a dropper and eye washes to clear up the puss/gunk on the eyes.

[ben ji]

Check out this beast of a tractor my dad was using to "sweep" some weeds in a lagoon area of our harvested wheat field. It's our tenants tractor (dad went to HS with him back in the day) and now he has to drive it 20 miles back to his place where he will swap it out with a smaller tractor with a mowing attachment.

[steve dave]

Yeah, we have (had) various models similar. You’re supposed to get out and scrape off the accumulated stuck on mud/dirt on the sweeps every hour or so if it’s sticking to some for some reason. Did I do that every hour the last 14 straight hours? Yep, sure did dad (nope). Those things on the back of the sweep are called pickers. What do they do? I don’t know/care.


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[steve dave]

Also those hydraulic lines that go to the sweep to unfold it and raise it up/down blow out in spectacular fashion and blast hydraulic oil all over the place. I’ve had to drive to “town” with the blown out one to have another one fabricated at Friesen Machine Shop in Meade about 1,000 times. They had a soda machine with ice cold doctor pepper so that always ruled.


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[star seed 7]

Ice cold Dr pepper does sound pretty rulely. Glass bottles?