Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

I like looking at the grass but it's a challenge to mow. It really needs. Mowing at 5-6 days but I'm on my weekly schedule come heck or high grass! Last year it never got thick except a few areas that retained water better. And it was brown a lot, not this year.

 

[JDgreen227]

I'm with sseelhoff on thius one, JDgreen! If you have that photo, it must be from a past Springtime, and you are being a "tease" posting it here in July! :laughing:

NOT A JOKE...click on the picture to enlarge it and look at the corn in the baqckground !!!! NO WAY is corn in Michigan that high prior to July !!! I checked my records and according to my book, from April 1 to the end of July in 2012, I put 24 hours on my tractor..all mowing hours. From this April 1 to today, I have put FIFTY SEVEN hours on it....so there.

 

[sodamo]

NOT A JOKE...click on the picture to enlarge it and look at the corn in the baqckground !!!! NO WAY is corn in Michigan that high prior to July !!! I checked my records and according to my book, from April 1 to the end of July in 2012, I put 24 hours on my tractor..all mowing hours. From this April 1 to today, I have put FIFTY SEVEN hours on it....so there.

Lemme see... 2012 - thinking about divorce
2013 - thinking about the new lady friends - probably worth 33 hours

Seat time sure is good thinking time

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

 

[JDgreen227]

Lemme see... 2012 - thinking about divorce
2013 - thinking about the new lady friends - probably worth 33 hours

Seat time sure is good thinking time

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

Actually, my ex blindsided me with the suggestion about the divorce in late October of last year....so the April-July timeline doesn't fit.

 

[sodamo]

Finished reading an incredible book last night, "A Higher Call" Adam Makos. A true WWII story.

Took me awhile to read as I was constantly looking up the places on my iPad. That little research would often get me sidetracked. Having spent almost 7 years in Germany myself, part of it in aviation, finding those old places, looking for the airfields was interesting.
See the 4 windowed area, top left of the building? That was my air traffic control tower at Nelligan Army Airfield. Helicopters were CH37B, Mojave. 1967ish

Got my mowing done in front of the pool this AM, couldn't believe how tall and thick it was. Tank and a half of gas in my little 20 inch pusher when I fenced it, I didn't allow for entry by a rider mower, so now the plan is about 300ft of chainlink fence with at least 2 gates, one a 6ft so any mower or even my tractor can access. Wife helped with layout and has almost approved. Once approved, time to start digging holes and putting in fence posts.
Anyone done a chainlink before? I haven't, but have done hog wire and barb wire. Doesn't look like rocket science.

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

 

[JDgreen227]

Finished reading an incredible book last night, "A Higher Call" Adam Makos. A true WWII story.

Took me awhile to read as I was constantly looking up the places on my iPad. That little research would often get me sidetracked. Having spent almost 7 years in Germany myself, part of it in aviation, finding those old places, looking for the airfields was interesting.
See the 4 windowed area, top left of the building? That was my air traffic control tower at Nelligan Army Airfield. Helicopters were CH37B, Mojave. 1967ish

Got my mowing done in front of the pool this AM, couldn't believe how tall and thick it was. Tank and a half of gas in my little 20 inch pusher when I fenced it, I didn't allow for entry by a rider mower, so now the plan is about 300ft of chainlink fence with at least 2 gates, one a 6ft so any mower or even my tractor can access. Wife helped with layout and has almost approved. Once approved, time to start digging holes and putting in fence posts.
Anyone done a chainlink before? I haven't, but have done hog wire and barb wire. Doesn't look like rocket science.

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

Chainlink fence, by it's very nature, requires sturdily set posts to enable the mesh to be stretched and fastened. It's also very critical that the bottom not be dragging the ground when you stretch it. I started a thread here at one time on the subject and members gave suggestions about how they stretched the fence. Do a search here on "Chain link fence"

 

[Larro Darro]

Anyone done a chainlink before? I haven't, but have done hog wire and barb wire. Doesn't look like rocket science.

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

Nothing to it, David. The salesman will make sure you have all the hardware you need. Just pour concrete around your post and let them set a day before you pull wire. A come-along will pull it as tight as you need. If your land is level, you will breeze through it.

I mowed in the rain off and on all day. But I had a very important piece of farm equipment fail today, leading me to wasting a half hour trying to repair it. In the end I was force to spend some of my hard earned savings to replace it. My ten year old, $15 MP3 player bit the dust. Too much water. Ordered a replacement from New Egg for $25. Inflation!!! Also bought a cigarette lighter powered FM transmitter/MP3 player for the truck for $8. You tune your radio to the right frequency, and it plays the MP3's over your truck radio. I had one of those cassette tape adapter things, but it had quite working.

As far as rain goes, other than three days without it, it had rained for about three and a half weeks. My little melons are starting to split already. And the cukes are blowing up over night.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks Bill, found the link. How did yours come out? Yep, I've stretched welded wire fencing before. Tractor works well if you watch the tension.

Thanks Larry. Level???? I live on the side of a mountain LOL. Like all my projects, can't do the simple. 4 changes of direction, non 90s, at least 3 different slopes. I made a 2x4 w/ carriage bolt puller years ago, just have to find it LOL




I'll probably get all the the hardware from HD, but a neighbor told me I could get a heavier mesh at a fence company. As I intend this to be the last fence there, I'll likely opt for the better. I'll set all the posts in concrete. I found a couple good references online.

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

 

[RoyJackson]

2013-07-25, 0355

59 right now and a very pleasant 75 as the high today.
Maybe I can finish my mowing when I get home...

 

[Buppies]

71 this morning chance of thunderstorms this morning high in low 80s but no humidity. Storm in Atlantic may cause East Coast problems next week