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

[Sandstone Outcropping]

back to my second-least favorite genre of facebook posts -- interactions between farm and non-farm vehicles on the highways of Kansas. I mean, there is nobody out here. There is plenty of highway for everyone to enjoy. Unless you are rushing to put pressure on a spurting arterial wound, everyone just chill

[KST8FAN]

Absolutely hated moving equipment on paved roads with traffic between Topeka and Lawrence.  Thankfully, never had a serious wreck, but plenty of wild passing, tail gating, turning against traffic, close calls.


Tom

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[meow meow]

i remember driving a tractor and field cultivator down the 2 lane highway by our farm that was hilly and had zero shoulder.  cars would fly up and down that road, you had to drive with the right tires in the ditch when someone was coming from the opposite direction.  i was probably 12 years old.

[steve dave]

I have highwayed more tractor miles than most people have driven in their lives. I never stressed it. Even with massive triple fold sweeps and whatever. Also right through town including the one stop light and massive drainage dips all the time.


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[pissclams]

I have highwayed more tractor miles than most people have driven in their lives. I never stressed it. Even with massive triple fold sweeps and whatever. Also right through town including the one stop light and massive drainage dips all the time.


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might as well be written in mandarin

[steve dave]

I have highwayed more tractor miles than most people have driven in their lives. I never stressed it. Even with massive triple fold sweeps and whatever. Also right through town including the one stop light and massive drainage dips all the time.


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might as well be written in mandarin

YOU AREN'T THE TARGET AUDIENCE BITCH

[steve dave]

also if you think I was greasing the zerks on that folding implement like I was supposed to then lol, lmao.

[steve dave]

best part of the day when sweeping a field for like 18 hours straight was blowing a hydraulic line on the sweep because you have to lift it when turning (debateable, sometimes I just didn't do it and it was fine) and having to take it off and go into town like an hour drive (could have been 20 minutes but I made it an hour) back to Meade to go make the mennonites at Friesen Machine (mad respect to their grumpy asses for having a pop machine with glass bottles) make me a new line to then slowly meander back to start it back up. Also would generally stop for a Taylor Mart (RIP) gas station burrito and a can of skoal longcut wintergreen (they didn't care if I was 14, we knew each other).

[steve dave]

may have mentioned in this thread (multiple times) but you are supposed to scrape off the crust from the sweeps occasionallly so they don't degrade or rust or do better in the field, who the eff actually knows. I wasn't paying attention. In my entire life of doing this I never did it and it was fine.

[steve dave]

if you run a giant ass 8 wheeled tractor out of gas (supposed to call it fuel or diesel but I intentionally called it "gas" because it enraged my dad and grandfather) it's kind of a PITA to get it going again. Have to shut down for a long time and pull the gas (lmao) filters off it and fill them up and reattach them and finally can fire it back up. anyway, if it's that rough ridin' important just come out and fill me up fuckers. sick of this.

[steve dave]

when I was swathing alfalfa I'd constntly blow coyotes out of the alfalfa and instead of just swathing away I'd pull that boom up and chase their asses all over the field. never got one. but I got serious air over center pivot ruts going full out (20 mph) and it was a rush. didn't grease zerks before or after. it was fine.

[steve dave]

when I was in HS I got suspended for 3 days for having a pocket knife. we had SEVERAL fully outfitted gun racks in the HS parking lot. and I was packing .410 mad heat in my own sled unencumbered. was the wildest thing. I had to miss kicking Cimmaron's ass in hoops. so silly. anyway, not on my permenant record apparently because the KSU Wildcats still offered (for me to go there).

[ben ji]

when I was in HS I got suspended for 3 days for having a pocket knife. we had SEVERAL fully outfitted gun racks in the HS parking lot. and I was packing .410 mad heat in my own sled unencumbered. was the wildest thing. I had to miss kicking Cimmaron's ass in hoops. so silly. anyway, not on my permenant record apparently because the KSU Wildcats still offered (for me to go there).

Tell me more about this pocket knife story. Did you pull it on a Mennonite in the bathroom? Did you bring it for show and tell? Was it just chilling in your backpack because you were doing farm crap over winter break and forgot about it?

[Sandstone Outcropping]

best part of the day when sweeping a field for like 18 hours straight was blowing a hydraulic line on the sweep because you have to lift it when turning (debateable, sometimes I just didn't do it and it was fine) and having to take it off and go into town like an hour drive (could have been 20 minutes but I made it an hour) back to Meade to go make the mennonites at Friesen Machine (mad respect to their grumpy asses for having a pop machine with glass bottles) make me a new line to then slowly meander back to start it back up. Also would generally stop for a Taylor Mart (RIP) gas station burrito and a can of skoal longcut wintergreen (they didn't care if I was 14, we knew each other).

What was the last year that you remember a pop machine with real glass bottles?
The filling station (ie full service gas station, tire service, fuel delivery) in Tinytown had a Pepsi machine with glass bottles until about 1987 or so. There were these old-timey wood crates where you could put the empties when you finished you pop.

[farming_cat fan]

if you run a giant ass 8 wheeled tractor out of gas (supposed to call it fuel or diesel but I intentionally called it "gas" because it enraged my dad and grandfather) it's kind of a PITA to get it going again. Have to shut down for a long time and pull the gas (lmao) filters off it and fill them up and reattach them and finally can fire it back up. anyway, if it's that rough ridin' important just come out and fill me up fuckers. sick of this.

This post enraged me!

[star seed 7]

sd did you or anyone you know ever put gas into a diesel engine?

[KST8FAN]

if you run a giant ass 8 wheeled tractor out of gas (supposed to call it fuel or diesel but I intentionally called it "gas" because it enraged my dad and grandfather) it's kind of a PITA to get it going again. Have to shut down for a long time and pull the gas (lmao) filters off it and fill them up and reattach them and finally can fire it back up. anyway, if it's that rough ridin' important just come out and fill me up fuckers. sick of this.

This post enraged me!

LoL.  One of the worst chewings I ever got was running the 4240 out of diesel.  As SD noted, you have to prime the fuel lines, pump, etc.  All the while, dad was loosening lines, pumping fuel, diesel on his overalls just ripping my dumb ass.


Tom

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[star seed 7]

Gas pop bottles/desiel crossover post: when I was really young my dad worked at a truss factory out by the mhk airport. The owner would let my dad work on his truck at the factory on the weekend so I was like 7 having fun dicking around a truss factory and saw a glass Pepsi bottle and thought "score!". Took a swig and some rapscaillion had filled the bottle with gasoline. Anyway I spit it out and spent the rest of the day at the er.

[KST8FAN]

Gas pop bottles/desiel crossover post: when I was really young my dad worked at a truss factory out by the mhk airport. The owner would let my dad work on his truck at the factory on the weekend so I was like 7 having fun dicking around a truss factory and saw a glass Pepsi bottle and thought "score!". Took a swig and some rapscaillion had filled the bottle with gasoline. Anyway I spit it out and spent the rest of the day at the er.

We used to pack new grease on wheel bearings on the hay/silage wagons before each season.  We cleaned them in a bucket of gas.  Dropped that once, and gas splashed in my face/eyes.  I thought I was blind for life.


Tom

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[meow meow]

Gas pop bottles/desiel crossover post: when I was really young my dad worked at a truss factory out by the mhk airport. The owner would let my dad work on his truck at the factory on the weekend so I was like 7 having fun dicking around a truss factory and saw a glass Pepsi bottle and thought "score!". Took a swig and some rapscaillion had filled the bottle with gasoline. Anyway I spit it out and spent the rest of the day at the er.

bill avery?  i worked there during college, ama

[star seed 7]

I dunno, did he have a sweet pool at his house?

[meow meow]

yeah.  one day we were kind of slow or something was down in the plant, idk, so he had us come to his house and do crap around his yard/pool.

[Stupid Fitz]

I haven't been to my farm in like a month and a half and as far as I know it's all just fine. #farmlife

[Stupid Fitz]

also, i have no idea what they call it now, but when I take full control, everyone will immediately call it Go Go Juice