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

[KST8FAN]

Tom's Used T Post emporium!  Straight and almost Straight T posts.  One mile of old fence rolled up and posts removed.


Tom

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[KST8FAN]

Wednesday, the winter death storm forced me inside for the afternoon, so I helped replace bearings in the recently purchased 12 row planter that had flood damage requiring bearing replacement in all 12 row units.

Tillie kept warm by the gas heater in between ball fetching.


Tom

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[Institutional Control]

ben ji needs to set up a livestream of the cat farm like this one.

[wetwillie]

OnlyCats

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Stinky kitty and regular kitties

Holy crap. Was this captured with a security cam or was a person standing in the shop taking this pic. That is way closer than I ever want to be to a skunk.

[ben ji]

Stinky kitty and regular kitties

Holy crap. Was this captured with a security cam or was a person standing in the shop taking this pic. That is way closer than I ever want to be to a skunk.

I saw it there the night before just moseying down the automatic cat food feeder aisle without a care in the world. Went out the next night with my camera to grab a picture and it was right there when I slowly opened the door....barely even acknowledged me, just kept walking towards me slowly.

My dad thinks its the same one he trapped in the barn a couple of weeks ago...He was somehow able to get it out of the trap without being sprayed and just let it go because he wants it to have kids and try to kidnap one and raise it as a pet. 

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Stinky kitty and regular kitties

Holy crap. Was this captured with a security cam or was a person standing in the shop taking this pic. That is way closer than I ever want to be to a skunk.

I saw it there the night before just moseying down the automatic cat food feeder aisle without a care in the world. Went out the next night with my camera to grab a picture and it was right there when I slowly opened the door....barely even acknowledged me, just kept walking towards me slowly.

My dad thinks its the same one he trapped in the barn a couple of weeks ago...He was somehow able to get it out of the trap without being sprayed and just let it go because he wants it to have kids and try to kidnap one and raise it as a pet. 

I did not see this plot twist in the cat ranch story coming.

[KST8FAN]

Put a dent in the brush problem at one of the farms.  Timed refueling with WBB OT yesterday.


Tom

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[ben ji]

Put a dent in the brush problem at one of the farms.  Timed refueling with WBB OT yesterday.


Tom

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So what's the long term plan with the removed brush? Burn it later this year or next year when it has dried out?

[KST8FAN]

Put a dent in the brush problem at one of the farms.  Timed refueling with WBB OT yesterday.


Tom

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So what's the long term plan with the removed brush? Burn it later this year or next year when it has dried out?

Eventually, burn it.


Tom

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[KST8FAN]

Ag Mechanized the crap out of this fertilizer tank installation on the new 12 row planter today.


Tom

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[star seed 7]

That thing has to run out in like 3 minutes

[KST8FAN]

My farm dog gets spooked by the chickens and retreats under the planter for the afternoon.


Tom

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[KST8FAN]

That thing has to run out in like 3 minutes

Starter fertilizer, which is like a trickle at the furrow, I guess.  Not sure how many miles of pipe, hose, and tube this is going to take.


Tom

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[steve dave]

I used to have to put like that dark blue chowder all over the seed before it was put in the hoppers and, folks, that job sucked. my dad would go up and down and mostly I just sat in the truck waiting until he radio'd that I needed to get ready and then I'd have to rip open all the seed sacks and dump a scoop of that stuff into them and mix them up and then dump them into the hoppers when he got to me. feel like I've probably got cancer from whatever that stuff was/is.

[star seed 7]

If it's good for plants then probably great for humans

[KST8FAN]

I used to have to put like that dark blue chowder all over the seed before it was put in the hoppers and, folks, that job sucked. my dad would go up and down and mostly I just sat in the truck waiting until he radio'd that I needed to get ready and then I'd have to rip open all the seed sacks and dump a scoop of that stuff into them and mix them up and then dump them into the hoppers when he got to me. feel like I've probably got cancer from whatever that stuff was/is.

I think that seed treatment was insecticide?  Atrazine... I remember dad mixing a lot of Atrazine with dust flying everywhere from innertube like bags he wouid stick a hose in and mix.


Tom

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[ben ji]

I've got a couple of weeks off between jobs so I went out to the cat ranch. Went up to sunset hill this evening and noticed a pool of water around our irrigation pivot so I went to check it out.

[ben ji]

Turns out the release (?) valve or something blew off. Told the cat rancher to stop playing fortnite and come check it out and tell my city ass what was going on.

[ben ji]

There is 1 pump for 2 pivots so we had to drive over to the other pivot to turn the pump off. Currently waiting for the pressure to die down on our pivot so we can put a cap on it. The cat rancher can't stop boasting about how good the fresh fresh ogallah aquifer water is and is currently "drinking from the trough".

[ben ji]

Update, the cap was the wrong size. We are going back to the garage/workshop in hope of finding the correct size of cap.

[PandaXpanda]

I grew up in the superbs so this crap is absolutley wild to me. This is prolly my favorite thread on the board.

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[ben ji]

Found a cap, crisis averted and the ogallah aquifer is saved. Feeling like a real cat rancher right about now.

[ben ji]

Found a cap, crisis averted and the ogallah aquifer is saved. Feeling like a real cat rancher right about now.

Also this cap has an extension for 4 hose connections, no idea why but it works for now.

[ben ji]

Cat count is around 4-5 adults and 4 adorable kittens that are just about old enough to climb out of their baby box and take on the world.