Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Had to look up Halesowen on the map. Closest I've been to there is Warwick. Neat castle there.
I enjoyed visiting the UK years ago.

28°

 

[toppop52]

Summer of 69 I turned 17, got a job with a guy that ditched with a crane and dug septic tanks on Saturday. I mostly cut small trees with an ax or dug holes with a shovel, moved 125lb skid boards to load the crane, etc...
We often blasted stumps in our path. We drilled One stump and put the usual 4 sticks in the holes, connected the wires and went to cover and blew it. When the dust cleared it wasn’t even cracked! It was Friday afternoon and we were not messing around. We drilled more and put 6 sticks in and wired them to the detonator (6v dry cell). Started back to cover and I got my foot tangled in the wire and tripped knocking down Earl and pulling the battery off the stump where we left it. As luck would have it wire number two made contact. The stump blew and covered us in debris and near deafening us. When we jumped up und looked the stump was headed for low earth orbit! Didn’t quite make it, instead reached terminal velocity about 80 yds down range and crashed through an outdoor toilet in a small black community nearby, totally destroyed the outhouse! When we got our wits we ran over there to find about 10-12 elderly black people standing around staring. Thank God the Johnny was empty upon vehicle re-entry.
I’ll never forget the sight of that 5 ft chunk of cedar arching through air that far from the launch point. And the horror I felt when I realized it was headed for the relief station! We spent Sunday and Monday building a toilet!

 

[toppop52]

Rainy and cold 30s and dropping. Cold until Sunday when it rains again. Farmers will not be complaining about dry. We’ve had 12 inches of water between rain and snow since December 1.

 

[Einthewoods]

Good happy Friday everyone!

-3 here this morning with 3-4 inches of new snow yesterday.

Got the tractor out yesterday to clear away the snow. I debated doing it at all being with the warm up a couple weeks ago, there is ice under the snow and was hoping the new snow would give some traction. I went ahead and plowed knowing if I wasn't happy with it, there'll be more snow tomorrow.

Had my first "fun" with the tractor after the back slid on the ice a bit and I found myself on a slight sideways slope with a tree right behind the back blade and a old stump in front of the front tire...kind of like being parallel parked. My first attempt at getting unparked actually made it worse being I was on the small slope and the tractor just wanted to get even more parked while sliding down the slope. so after back and for the a few times the light bulb came on that I could spin the backblade giving me a couple of feet of room rather than the couple of inches I was edged into. Lesson in all this? Get the chains I figured I didn't really need and stop sliding around on ice!

Have a great day everyone.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy groundhog day everyone!!!!!

How did a destructive rodent ever get a holiday.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Even with overcast cloudy skies and snow falling, the rat saw his shadow? Whuuuut??

 

[txdon]

Even with overcast cloudy skies and snow falling, the rat saw his shadow? Whuuuut??

For us in Texas if the Pennsylvania groundhog does see it's shadow Summer is shorter!!!!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 43˚ cloudy. A diesel run for me a grocery run for Mom a early lunch and the back at it. I was really surprised how solid the tree was after half the roots were gone. I need to start coming up with another solution if it still won't budge after all the root I can reach are cut. I'll probably cover the hole up and get a stump grinder. This is one project where my tractor seems so small.

 

[wngsprd]

Don, does the show start at 10am Eastern, or Central?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Don, does the show start at 10am Eastern, or Central?

And how long will the union allow you to work today? I have to put my popcorn order in, and the wife wants to know how much to pop.