Good morning!!!!

[farmer2009]

36 this morning and headed to 56 today. Light frost this morning also.

Need to check and see how wet the ground is. Don't think our rain accounted for much. Except for some large snow flakes yesterday. If not too wet I'll finish my seeding project. That like Eric is taking a lot longer than it should. Then check hay and get the ROPS off the tractor so it'll fit in the chicken coops.

Eric. The joys of livestock. If only they'd listen.

 

[txdon]

Good Morning! 33˚ on the hill but 32˚ in the valley my basil plants will live, barely.

Time to call the tree man after a close call with a falling limb. My dear wife was walking on the pavers heard a loud crack and scampered quickly away as the limb came tumbling down just missing her. I had mowed under the tree just an hour before. Another large dead limb is above the pavers.

Take a guess on how much will the Tree Man charge to remove this tree. It's 3-4' in diameter.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 64° with mostly clear skies this morning. Heading to 90° with partly sunny skies. Going to be a warm day. Going to spend most of it on the patio.
Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

Let's play a game. How much will the Tree Man charge to remove this tree? It's 3-4' in diameter.

At home in MI. that would be a $1k removal job. Getting cut down so you could move it off to a large hole on your place would be $500.

 

[farmer2009]

I'd guess $700-800. Don.

 

[mkr7734]

Good morning,

Moving kind of slow. Started a different med yesterday. Done with the steroid I was on for the rotor cuff tear, Whatever it is I slept!

34 heading to 51 with sun.

No plans

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 0840, sunny, 43F with 58% humidity. Forecast high of 64F with no chance of rain today, and a low of 38F with a frost advisory tonight.

Had a windy night at the camp. Too windy for a fire, but it did keep the frost away. Much less wind forecast for tonight, and 1 degree colder. I might be out in the garden with a hose spraying off the plants before daylight in the morning.

I haven't seen Bad Word {real name rhymes with Bell Hitch}, my garden cat for a few days. As nice as it is to work in the garden without her underfoot, I'm starting to worry. I've always said she was too mean for anything to happen to. I might be wrong about that though.

Don, $600 for tree removal.

You guys have a good one,

Larro

 

[lostcreekranch]

34 degrees this morning, forecast for 68 this afternoon. Wind finally dropped off.

Houston Livestock Show finished yesterday, was a long three weeks of many hours and not much sleep.

Relaxing this morning waiting for New EA Grapple 73" to be delivered this afternoon by SE Freight lines. Bought for my LS XR4046HC so I can get into some places the NH TL100A and 84" HD grapple can't get to.

 

[toppop52]

Good Morning! 33˚ on the hill but 32˚ in the valley my basil plants will live, barely.

Time to call the tree man after a close call with a falling limb. My dear wife was walking on the pavers heard a loud crack and scampered quickly away as the limb came tumbling down just missing her. I had mowed under the tree just an hour before. Another large dead limb is above the pavers.

Take a guess on how much will the Tree Man charge to remove this tree. It's 3-4' in diameter.

There's a guy here that honest to goodness, does them for $100 ea. As long as it's not involving buildings or anything. He shows up in his 60's rusted out dump truck with an old Ford tractor with a beat up loader that leaks oil to beat h3ll. He'll cut the tree hack it into small enough pieces for the loader, pick up the small limbs and off he goes, $100 in hand. He also cuts the stump to near ground level with his huge old saw.
He cut 6 that were too large for me to handle and did a fine job. Everyone else wanted $1500-$2500 for the same work.

Snow overnight but no accumulation, cold and breezy now, 52° later.

 

[Trails End]

Good Morning! 42 Deg F at the moment and sun trying to break through the overcast.
We had 5-6 inches light fluffy snow overnight. Just finishing 2nd cup of coffee then
out to get a little seat time blowing snow.

Don, I'd guess about $1500 to take down and remove that tree!

 

[Buppies]

Similar size tree last year $300 and that included removal from property

 

[rswyan]

... Houston has/had 3 or 4 major industries that stunk to high heavens. Coffee, paper/pulp (near Galena Park), and numerous petro/chemical refineries (Pasadena/LaPorte). I almost died one night driving my motorcycle down Fairmont Parkway towards LaPorte. Horrendous VOC's let out by some plant nearly stopped my breathing ability in 1980...

Brings back fond memories of walking through clouds of ammonia, I think @ Tenneco, during a shutdown ...

Then there was that vessel @ Oxirane, with the tar-like substance on the bottom whose fumes could penetrate your skin that we had to clean out ... fresh air masks and rain gear taped up at every opening.

That plant made food preservatives IIRC.

 

[rswyan]

Don,

If a kid named "Seth" shows up and offers to cut it down for you, make sure to call the cops ... after he gets it down of course ... :laughing:

 

[txdon]

Don,

If a kid named "Seth" shows up and offers to cut it down for you, make sure to call the cops ... after he gets it down of course ... :laughing:

I have seen the pic of him you posted. I'll wait till after he cuts it down and then call the cops. $0:thumbsup:

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .21 inches rain

Double check and then file the taxes this morning. Looks like I don't have to write a check, but those unknowns I support can rest easy as I won't be getting much back either. Wife would like a good refund, but I aim to be just positive of zero.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[rswyan]

39.7F and overcast @ 14:00 ... but now sunny @ 14:08 ...

The Woman and I got the last of the tile on the shower ceiling removed yesterday, removed some of the drywall on the outside of the shower, cleaned up all the debris, and got about 1/2 the linoleum taken up. Also bagged up a large bag of blown-in cellulose insulation that had fallen down into the area above the stairs to the basement ... still have fiberglass batts and more blown-in insulation to remove from there.

There is room over the stairs to the basement to expand the shower and install a seat, so thinking about doing that.

Orange cat got another dose of hairball medicine.

Need to disassemble the air pump today and adjust the diaphram, as it's making a racket.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Don
Hope I am wrong but with that tree leaning over the drive like that I will guess $1800. If you lived next door and I had 6 mounts to do it after I got it on the ground I would do it for a lot more. Ed

 

[mostly_gas]

Good afternoon all. Waiting for a computer to update so I have time to check in . 34F in STL this morning without the Texas sized wind. Made it to 61F nice spring day here. This morning stated in on the #1 priority as of Friday, after three hours I hear, Didn't they tell you ... On to priority #2 which lost to priority #3 which only took 30 min. Now on #4 on list and net issues created a Mexican standoff that finally had to hack the local admin account to solve. Might get to leave @ 6 after start @ 7AM this morning.

 

[daugen]

good trip up to Lederach Pa, n/w of Philadelphia. Staying with childhood friend who conveniently lives ten minutes from the rv dealership. Went to the "Perk", the old hotel restaurant in Perkasie Pa, the nearest large town, very Mennonite area. Yummy roast beef sandwich dipped in au jus, brought half home for lunch tomorrow. Going below freezing here tonight, going to be a good test of the heater in the trailer tomorrow. 15k heat pump powered by propane. Not very big but not a big trailer either.

I hope to have my dealings all completed by lunchtime, then I will work in the trailer all afternoon cleaning it and putting things away. And the crack of dawn Wednesday I'll head home. This location is over an hour closer than what I'm used to since I bear off and go North before reaching Philadelphia, so I don't have all that awful city traffic to go through. Route 95 goes right through the center of the City, if you haven't been here and never is a nice drive.

So I'll see how the day is going and if I want to stop early, I have a place picked out near Richmond Va

 

[txdon]

Roy (and anyone else can chime in) I need your help. A TBN widow, Bernice, (mikim's wife), has a John Deere ZTR mower just like yours Roy. I had it a short time, but because I had two ZTRs I sold it to Mike. As you remember when Mike was changing the blades it fell on him, killing him. Bernice text me tonight and still has the JD ZTR and was trying to mow with it but after a short time 1 to 10 minutes while it is running with the blades engage then they suddenly disengage the mower is still running fine. The knob to turn the blades on is still up. The belts are all connected.

Let's see if we can troubleshoot it for her.

First, Roy what is the model of your JD ZTR and second do you have any idea what could be going on. I'm leaning to a faulty blade engaging switch. Is the knob you pull up electronic? Any way to check it? Any other thoughts? OK some twilight zone things are going through my mind, but I think we can find mechanical solution.