bakerg
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Morning all, a chilly 59F heading to only 63F with up to 2 inches of rain in the forcast. Sure glad I got the lawn mowed last night.
Good morning!!!!
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txdon
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Good morning! Temp range today 76˚- 86˚ cool for June! Rain is heading this way from the North and will be here by noon. I still having to mow the yard every 5 days as the rains are frequent and generous this year. There is no use mowing the fields just the trails and roads.
I have two bolts that keep backing out and down on either side of the Farmall A's steering yoke. When they do steering is limited to 1/4 turn. They already have lock washers so I just cleaned them and put lock-tight on them if that doesn't work I'll try teflon tape, I guess. It's a pain to jump off the tractor and tighten them every 15 minutes. I'm still trying to get another good mowing year out of the 68 year old tractor.
I have two bolts that keep backing out and down on either side of the Farmall A's steering yoke. When they do steering is limited to 1/4 turn. They already have lock washers so I just cleaned them and put lock-tight on them if that doesn't work I'll try teflon tape, I guess. It's a pain to jump off the tractor and tighten them every 15 minutes. I'm still trying to get another good mowing year out of the 68 year old tractor.
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300UGUY
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Raining since I got up a couple hours ago. We have lots of water in some fields here. I guess I will be working inside today, not a bad idea anyway.
Have a good one!
Have a good one!
farmer2009
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70 this morning and headed to 78 today. Nice cool day for the end of June. I think everything will like it. Grass, cows, chickens, and of course me. Maybe I'll get something accomplished today. Spent most of time inside yesterday. Paperwork and then as I was set to go outside for the afternoon the rains started. Another.4 inches yesterday and over night. Heaviest rains have gone north and south of me. But only by a few miles.
Finish weedeating and bushhogging. Wife is going to wash chicken trays for me. So that saves a little more than a day. Birds start leaving tomorrow night then it's a rat race to have everything done and cleanout people in by Friday.
Dave you had some good hardware stores in Ohio. How are they in Maine?
Kev now that's funny. We are headed to Fort Myers Beach about the same time you are headed to Ohio. While I'm not from Ohio. It's the old. North moves South, South moves North.
Finish weedeating and bushhogging. Wife is going to wash chicken trays for me. So that saves a little more than a day. Birds start leaving tomorrow night then it's a rat race to have everything done and cleanout people in by Friday.
Dave you had some good hardware stores in Ohio. How are they in Maine?
Kev now that's funny. We are headed to Fort Myers Beach about the same time you are headed to Ohio. While I'm not from Ohio. It's the old. North moves South, South moves North.
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300UGUY
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We have a group in SE Michigan called the Kentuckians. They are a social group of folks from Kentucky, most of their families came here in the 50's and 60's. They have their own campground in SE Michigan, and hundreds of members. Our union local was called the "hillbilly mafia". Most seemed to come from the Pikeville area.
deerseeker001
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62 and sunny looks to be a very nice Day with a high of 76.We will be working in Flower Beds.
dave1949
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Farmer2009, Lehman's is part hardware, part tourist attraction. They have some unusual hand-operated/non-electric things that the Amish would use and lots of homesteading type items. What they sell is usually good stuff but you pay for it. Kidron is just a little place, there is a livestock auction barn across the street from Lehman's. Lehman's does an ice cream thing in the summer using hit and miss, one cylinder engines turning the churns. You can buy that set-up there if you want to go into the ice cream business. 
Twin 5 gal. churns on a trailer for $8500. https://www.lehmans.com/p-749-large-ice-cream-trailer.aspx
Hardware stores here are fairly typical. We have two nearby. One is The Farmer's Union, it's a co-op but open to the public. They sell seeds, feeds, lime & fertilizer, fencing, tools, fasteners, canning supplies, plumbing & electric, pet care, horse care, etc. The other is a New England regional chain called Aubuchon. Aside from lawn, pet and bird food, they don't carry seed and feed. Paint, tools, fasteners, electric, plumbing, they are a Stihl dealer too now. We had an Agway/John Deere/Stihl store but JD pulled their dealership like many others a couple years back. Without that JD business which was lawn mowers and SCUTS, they closed.
Twin 5 gal. churns on a trailer for $8500. https://www.lehmans.com/p-749-large-ice-cream-trailer.aspx Hardware stores here are fairly typical. We have two nearby. One is The Farmer's Union, it's a co-op but open to the public. They sell seeds, feeds, lime & fertilizer, fencing, tools, fasteners, canning supplies, plumbing & electric, pet care, horse care, etc. The other is a New England regional chain called Aubuchon. Aside from lawn, pet and bird food, they don't carry seed and feed. Paint, tools, fasteners, electric, plumbing, they are a Stihl dealer too now. We had an Agway/John Deere/Stihl store but JD pulled their dealership like many others a couple years back. Without that JD business which was lawn mowers and SCUTS, they closed.
farmer2009
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I have family in Michigan. They moved from Kentucky about the time you reference. The ones who moved were aunts, uncles and cousins to my grandfather. Or atleast that's my understanding of which generation it was. Some still come in every couple of years but I couldn't tell you who they are. My grandfather just says it's someone's son or daughter. And dad knows who then but I'm still lost.
farmer2009
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Farmer2009, Lehman's is part hardware, part tourist attraction. They have some unusual hand-operated/non-electric things that the Amish would use and lots of homesteading type items. What they sell is usually good stuff but you pay for it. Kidron is just a little place, there is a livestock auction barn across the street from Lehman's. Lehman's does an ice cream thing in the summer using hit and miss, one cylinder engines turning the churns. You can buy that set-up there if you want to go into the ice cream business.
Dave I think I'll pass on the ice cream wagon. But I bet it'd be a hit at the Jerusalem Ridge Festival. It's a week long Blue Grass music festival at the Homeplace of Bill Monroe. About 20 minutes from me and really this counties only claim to fame. Unless you believe Paul Harvey.
We still have a pretty good hardware store here. Big into garden and general stuff. Expensive but convenient. 4 farm supplies. One of which is also big into garden and cattle supplies. TSC is building a new store. But knowing what TSC has I don't see them hurting the local guys. I think it'll be good because currently there is no competition. Some business models overlap but none are very close to the same.
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7:30AM and 76F outside already. Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 97F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Dave, in the little town where I do most of my shopping, Chico, CA, they've already outlawed plastic shopping bags, even in places like Wal Mart. I have no love for them, as they let the contents roll out as soon as they are put into the back seat, and I have yet to find anything useful around the house for them to do. Merchants get to charge $.10 for a paper grocery bag, which most do. Starting next year, the ban goes state wide. I use the paper bags in the kitchen garbage receptacle (it's sized specifically for them), and when my supply of old bags runs out I'll be purchasing a new stock. Costco carries them for a few cents apiece. Six months into this foolishness, and easily half the time I'll still walk into a store without my reusable bag, and end up with an arm full of stuff going out the door or just putting it all back into the cart and wheeling it out to the truck where I transfer it into a forever bag. Yet department (non-food) stores continue to use those awful plastic bags. I'd have no problem if "they" put an outright ban on the plastic bags, but why prohibit the use of a recyclable, sustainably made wood product like paper bags?
KevT, once in a while as a boy in central Ohio the family would pile into the car and go for a Sunday drive. One of Dad's favorite areas was the Amish country northeast of Columbus. He was particularly fond of the cheese, which I remember as mostly Swiss or cheddar, and all deliciously sharp. One place in particular, an old hardware store with wooden floors and a pot belly stove, had a cave or coal mine shaft open from the back where the cheese was aged. I got to peek into it once, an eight year old boy's dream come true. I was too young to remember the name of either the store or the town, but it sure would be fun to track it down again, if nothing else than to see if it's still there. On another occasion my Mom announced that we must be close to where they made the cheese because she could smell it as we went down the road. At that moment we came around a bend and there was a large pig farm, so from then on we called them cheese factories! :laughing:
It was very warm yesterday morning and I didn't get very far spraying before the RTV overheated. After it cooled down I learned that the radiator has a new leak. It's already been repaired once from a stick puncturing it. I also found that the electric cooling fan no longer comes on. So instead of spraying I'll be taking that apart to see what's what. If it's not one thing it's just something else, huh?
Have a great weekend, folks!
Dave, in the little town where I do most of my shopping, Chico, CA, they've already outlawed plastic shopping bags, even in places like Wal Mart. I have no love for them, as they let the contents roll out as soon as they are put into the back seat, and I have yet to find anything useful around the house for them to do. Merchants get to charge $.10 for a paper grocery bag, which most do. Starting next year, the ban goes state wide. I use the paper bags in the kitchen garbage receptacle (it's sized specifically for them), and when my supply of old bags runs out I'll be purchasing a new stock. Costco carries them for a few cents apiece. Six months into this foolishness, and easily half the time I'll still walk into a store without my reusable bag, and end up with an arm full of stuff going out the door or just putting it all back into the cart and wheeling it out to the truck where I transfer it into a forever bag. Yet department (non-food) stores continue to use those awful plastic bags. I'd have no problem if "they" put an outright ban on the plastic bags, but why prohibit the use of a recyclable, sustainably made wood product like paper bags?
KevT, once in a while as a boy in central Ohio the family would pile into the car and go for a Sunday drive. One of Dad's favorite areas was the Amish country northeast of Columbus. He was particularly fond of the cheese, which I remember as mostly Swiss or cheddar, and all deliciously sharp. One place in particular, an old hardware store with wooden floors and a pot belly stove, had a cave or coal mine shaft open from the back where the cheese was aged. I got to peek into it once, an eight year old boy's dream come true. I was too young to remember the name of either the store or the town, but it sure would be fun to track it down again, if nothing else than to see if it's still there. On another occasion my Mom announced that we must be close to where they made the cheese because she could smell it as we went down the road. At that moment we came around a bend and there was a large pig farm, so from then on we called them cheese factories! :laughing:
It was very warm yesterday morning and I didn't get very far spraying before the RTV overheated. After it cooled down I learned that the radiator has a new leak. It's already been repaired once from a stick puncturing it. I also found that the electric cooling fan no longer comes on. So instead of spraying I'll be taking that apart to see what's what. If it's not one thing it's just something else, huh?
Have a great weekend, folks!