Good morning!!!!

[brin]

Hello guys, not here much except to check on my thread in L&G about the BS Exmark 5 acres per hour claim. 82 here now, finally caught up with mowing for the first time this year, pulled the JD up to the garage, removed side panels and rubber floor mat, blew off all the dust and grass, going to wash it and wax the body when I get back out. It needs some serious coin this year, a new hood, a new battery, hydro system fluid and filter change, service the cooling system with flush and refill and new hoses and belt....a new drive belt for the deck...oh, excuse me this is the GM thread and I am here talking about my tractor....ME BAD....:laughing:

Hey JD only 57 more mistaken posts and you will be a Super Duper Super Star Member....but then I bet you did not know that...LOL

 

[JDgreen227]

Brin...you are so full of it I cannot understand why it's not leaking out of your ears by now...:laughing: and it's amazing how when I am here I usually get accused of postwhoring, but when I make an actual post about tractors I am said to be mistaken....

 

[brin]

Brin...you are so full of it I cannot understand why it's not leaking out of your ears by now...:laughing: and it's amazing how when I am here I usually get accused of postwhoring, but when I make an actual post about tractors I am said to be mistaken....

Way to go Bill....Now you've only got 56 more to go....:cool2:

 

[sodamo]

69F and .68 inches rain yesterday. A real blessing for my 51 just transplanted coconut palms. These palms line both sides of my recently rebuilt driveway. Clusters of 3 on each end, then spaced 25 ft apart about 10 ft off edge of drive. 500ft on one side, 525ft on the other.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[dave1949]

69F and .68 inches rain yesterday. A real blessing for my 51 just transplanted coconut palms. These palms line both sides of my recently rebuilt driveway. Clusters of 3 on each end, then spaced 25 ft apart about 10 ft off edge of drive. 500ft on one side, 525ft on the other.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

Oh oh!



That sign is supposedly in Honolulu.

Since you are pushing 70, you are going need a trained monkey to pick your coconuts before they wipe you out. :laughing:

Death by falling coconut:

In order for a falling coconut to indeed kill somebody, the coconut must be heavy enough and the tree it drops from must be tall enough. Documented instances of death by coconut include the following:

In approximately 1777, King Tetui of Mangaia in the Cook Islands had a concubine who died after being struck by "a falling green nut." The palm tree responsible for the death was promptly removed.

In a 1904 book titled All About the 'Coconut Palm', the author wrote that a review of inquest reports made during the year 1833 indicated that four persons had died from falling coconuts on the island of Ceylon.

In January 1943, a U.S. Marine was killed in his sleep upon being struck in the head by a falling coconut near Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. He had survived four months of intense combat during the Guadalcanal Campaign and was scheduled to leave the island the following morning. In his history of the Marine Corps, Francis Fox Parry wrote: "To survive four months of bloodshed only to be taken by an unthinking coconut hours before departure is somehow more difficult to accept than being cut down by enemy fire."

In 1966, a resident of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, was killed while eating lunch beneath a coconut tree. He was struck in the face by a falling coconut.

In July 1973, a two-year-old girl was killed and her aunt injured in what was described as "a hail of coconuts falling from a 50-foot (15 m) palm in Waikiki" in Hawaii. Police reported that the woman was changing the infant's diaper when a "cluster of 57 coconuts" fell from the tree.

In November 1991, a mourner was killed while attending a funeral at a cemetery in southern Sri Lanka. He was struck on the head by a falling coconut.

In December 1997, a resident of Vanuatu was killed by a falling coconut as she gathered fronds and branches to protect her home from Cyclone Susan.

In April 2001, another resident of Vanuatu was killed by a falling coconut while seeking shelter from adverse weather conditions relating to Cyclone Sose.

In May 2010, a one-and-a-half-month-old girl was killed by a falling coconut during a religious ceremony outside the family's home in Thiruvananthapuram, India. The infant was struck on her head while lying on her mother's lap.

In August 2010, a 69-year-old man was killed by a coconut that fell out of a 12-meter (39 ft) palm tree while he was sitting in a rocking chair outside his home in Melgar, Colombia.

Death by coconut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[sodamo]

Interesting article, Dave, thanks

Being the rather callous individual I am, I think any resulting injury would be someone being where they aren't supposed to be except for me mowing around them. My understanding is 5-6 years before any chance of nuts, but at 1100ft elevation not sure I will get any, but I hope so. Need to study up on fertilizing, our soil is rather poor in many places.

Today, I need to find a home and plant the remaining 14 sprouted nuts Eddie got me. Thinking along my lower boundary fence line. They won't be visible for years due to the slope and I'll likely space them further apart.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[sodamo]

Well, I planted those 14 and still have 8 left, small, unrooted, but sprouted. Guess I need to find another area. Sure hope I'm still around when Granddaughter is old enough to appreciate our efforts LOL
David
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[JDgreen227]

NUTS.....!!!! I bet an entire .007 % of TBN members have to worry about injury or death from falling tree fruit....HEY BRIN....I'm down to 55 now....:laughing:

 

[Larro Darro]

I read somewhere that more people are killed by coconuts each year than by shark attack. But I don't see folks lining up to shell out ten bucks to see a movie called "Great Green."

Larro

 

[RoyJackson]

2014-05-22, 1928

Definitely a crappy day as far as the weather...more of the same tomorrow...

I did get those 4 suitcase weights for $100. Pretty good price since Deere suitcase weights don't seem to drop in price much. They're about 60 bucks new.