Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Has anyone heard from founding father Irv lately?

 

[Looking4new]

I got my 1 and only "Get Out of Jail Free Pass" from the Chief of Police of my home town after passing a "Hot Rod Harriet" Blue Hair Q-Tip ~ 90mph who would floor it on the very rare straight sections and 35MPH through every curve on the last leg of a long journey from Buffalo, NY. He was approaching at the time of my pass. I just pulled over and waited. He never had to turn on the "Blues." He actually was surprised to see me driving. I never speed through the Hilltowns around here.

RonJH- Thanks for the link.. I will order them today.

When I trucked stateside I found that if I took it nice and easy through the towns (the limit or less), the cops would look the other way out of town, within reason.
Up here is a different story. If you have Ontario plates, then you can get away with 12 km/hour over the limit unless it is a 'community safety zone' or a posted construction zone. Then the fines and penalties are doubled. Out on the highway I am often over the limit by at least 12-15 km/hour and I am in the slow lane. Out of Province plates need to do the limit and as much more as you think your wallet can handle.

 

[Looking4new]

jbrumberg-- on the two wheel tractor I use for fighting brush, I converted the wheels to be tubeless (lots of black goop around the rims) and then filled them up with something from England called PuntureSafe. I think its a copy (they would say improvement) of ultraseal. That was last September, I went and mowed in a field of blackthorn-- 2.5 acres, over the winter used it for snowblowing, and just a few weeks ago noticed among all the small thorns sticking out one monster thorn. So I took a video of the removal and subsequent plugging, needless to say I'm quite pleased that the stuff still works after half a year of being in the tire: Shared album - Andrew Ray - Google Photos

They have tireject in the states. It is stupid expensive up here. Same principle though.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG-- for the geese, can't you get some bird bangers? They launch with a blank pistol, or I think long ago I've seen adapters for .22 rifles. Here they are sold like fireworks-- bangers with a ton of flash powder for scaring away animals, but also all sorts of neat firework types. In the US, you can buy them for agricultural use, AFAIK. My grandma in Wyoming had some for scaring away something on her ranch. Sutton Ag - Bird Bangers, Bird Scaring Pyrotechnics

I'm also fooling with the AC in my van. The control for the back doesn't work right, and while I've got all those panels off, I'm installing speakers back there. Not sure what Volkswagen was thinking to make a 9 passenger van and only put speakers up front. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the panels off without breaking some plastic. The yellow zip tie in the photo is going to be keeping the AC on cool until I either figure out whats wrong on the circuit board or find one used for a decent price. For the next 4 months, doesn't matter, as "max cool" is the desired setting anyway.

Much as I'd love to "bang" away at the geese, any kind of firework would be a bad idea, even if they weren't prohibited. Fire season starts May 1, and it's already dry enough that a stray spark could set a major blaze. I'm even nervous about mowing, even though the tires come up damp from the green grass passing under the knives.

Old plastic gets very brittle, and I've found it difficult to glue back together as not many glues stick to it. Is that a Eurovan I spy? The Audi 5 cylinder engine I've seen in the ones here really gets them down the road in a hurry!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

ThreeBond makes a tire sealant that remains watery inside the tire so it is easy to remove at tire change time. I've used it for years on the motorcycles, and wouldn't hesitate to use it on car or tractor tires.

TB61 – Tire Repair Kit for Domestic Cars – ThreeBond :thumbsup:

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low was down to 42, going up to 78... maybe, if the sun comes out. Right now overcast and a chance of a shower.

Yesterday got the blades / mower back on the garden tractor. Now it cuts like it should. Finished up cutting around the house. Then, for whatever reason that possessed me, I thought it would be a good idea to use the garden tractor to cut around the rest of the property border / fence line. It was really rough and bouncy. Last night and this morning, my lower back is letting me know that it did not appreciate the repetitive impacts from the bumps. I got spoiled using the bigger LS for mowing the field.

Kyle, hope you are taking it easy today and that your recovery is expiditous.

Drew, sounds like the volunteer dinner was nice. Too bad you couldn't do your PowerPoint.

RNG, sorry to read that your gremlins living in the van are messing with you. Eventually you will chase them out! Patience...patience..

WNG, 8 hours on a rack that will support equipment is not too long...it's probably built like a brick....house and done right! No room there to skimp on stuff...

Today, I completed another trip around the sun...seems like it was much faster this time....

Hummers arrived yesterday...one was diving at me, almost to say "hey... I flew all this way and no food is out?". We put out the feeders and they instantly started enjoying the drink.

Everyone have a great start to the weekend! Prayers sent..

 

[daugen]

Out of Province plates need to do the limit and as much more as you think your wallet can handle.

We could have a whole thread on this, and more speeding ticket stories than imaginable, all of which would be great fun reading.
I even heard this morning, while out on a Ag Extension field trip to local tobacco farmer, who was running a beautiful Italian transplanter
putting down four rows of tobacco, with four members of the same Hispanic family, who were the second gen of their family over many years
to work that farm part time, and all work and live locally. The farmer said repeatedly: I am a lucky man.

But one of his tractor drivers this morning wasn't. Stopped by State Trooper for being in left lane, which happens to be exactly where he needed to be because he was turning left 1/4 mile ahead, you could see the road sign from there and he had a big planter on back.
After pointing at the road he was turning on, the officer's light bulb went on and they both departed quickly.
I saw at least six JD tractors with yellow and green JD planters hard at work on way home this morning.

This farmer proudly wears his university ag affiliation/certifications, he is second gen farmer and his 22 year old son just came in the business. All good. He clearly treats his folks well, they worked steady and sure, and fun to hear the yells in the field from the two QC ladies who followed the machine making sure the rows were perfect and fully planted, even if by them from a small supply they carried.

Well...too many mess ups for them to fix, the yelling starts and the tractor stops and they figure out what the problem/who the problem is. Didn't happen often over more than an hour we were there, but anyone who has worked in QC will relate. 4 folks sitting in small tractor seats behind a revolving plastic cup arrangement into which their job is to get the seedlings off the trays and into the holes. It's truly just in time delivery because if they sneeze or do something, whatever, to get out of synch, then they can't always catch up in time to avoid some empty holes. And that revolving planter wheel waits for no one...Nice JD 7 series 2wd running it.


Rain may have missed us, but need to go water. Have lots of farm pics to post later. Hopefully when it's raining.

 

[PJSprog]

49°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 66° today. Rain tomorrow, no Rain for Sunday, then rain pretty much all next week. We could use some not-rain time.

Wife came home last night and stopped at the mailbox. She was being watched by a small owl sitting on the phone company junction box, so she backed up and snapped a picture. That is the area between the lake and the road that is always a swampy mess in the Spring, which is probably providing some pretty good hunting for him.



Glad you're back home, Kyle.

Hope you get some sleep today, RNG. I have been known to pull all-nighters before I was married, staying up all night working on music stuff. With The Wife going out of town next weekend, I suspect my sleep pattern will get all messed up again.

 

[PJSprog]

Happy Birthday, Ted.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I could never make a living as a carpenter unless I could get paid by the hour instead of by the job. Took 8.5 hours to build my rack yesterday, with no lunch and no breaks except walking up to the house to swap out batteries on the charger for the saws and drill. But now the grapple is stored on the top of the rack, and the bucket and tiller are back on the tractor for summer maneuvers.

How can it already be Friday again?

Pics or it didn't happen..... Lol