Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

71 light rain high of 78 later today. Finally finished back deck started weeding beds in rear of house two loads of weeds in ranger. Looks like an engineers holiday for me today. Been really busy so far averaging a thousand tons a week laying asphalt. A day off due to rain is welcome

 

[Buppies]

Having been on here only six years a newbie learned a lot about tractors enough to make the right decision for me on our 5240. Some really helpful people on those threads but found this one and just stay here. The people are friendly and impart their wisdom about numerous things and adventures. A kinder gentler place so to speak. Even as I approach my mid 60s learn something new almost every day

 

[ronjhall]

If I got the story straight, Muhammad's dad's version, Muhammad and Ibrahim had the Kubotabynet forum and dad told them that one of two things was going to happen. Either Kubota would buy the site or file a cease and desist. The boys built a parallel forum and when the cease and desist came the transition was as simple as can be. Allegedly Muhammad has a photographic mind and he had all of the manuals and parts memorized for Kubotas. Someone, might have been Ron, once told me that Muhammad could cross reference the parts across models so if you needed a part for one model that wasn't available he could reference you to the same part under a different number for a different model. The kid was and is amazing.

One has to wonder if a project like Don's bridge could be done today. If you get some time locked inside with this weather check out the old ATV Bridge thread.

When I met Muhammad he was 18 (wife wanted to take him home, good looking young man). When Kubota stopped him from using their name. He was 14.
I still communicate with Garry Summers on FB. He was one of the early Moderators. From what I understand he still is. But does not spend much time here.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 54° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 76° with some clouds. Got detoured yesterday and forgot to cleanup drive. Will put that on top of list today. Need to get on pole barn roof and check for missed spots when doing coating. There were no leaks from storm last week. But I'm sure there are some missed spots. Then back to the animal barn repairs.
Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

Sure wish I could remember names. One thread I liked was instructions on how to make pictures like my signature. Probably cannot do it again. Would have to get Drew's friend to do it.
Then there's the epic Christmas video of tractors.

 

[Thomas]

52F partly cloudy mid 70's for high rain arriving later.

Take of early autumn weather yesterday sure felt nice but new work week upon us.

Maybe little weed puling after work if the rains hold off.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[riptides]

69 outside this AM. Looks to have sprinkled a little. Hope more rain is on the way.

I think I came on board to TBN right after the switch from the Kubota forum. I was looking to get a new sub-compact, but new meant really new by model type and the only thing I was getting out of TBN was stuff that made the book on how-to purchase a tractor. LOL. Is that still available? I still have that tractor and have added a few other pieces and property since.

I recall, no offense, it was a tighter community back then, with a slant towards the southern western areas.

I also recall getting involved in sending Ron a get well card, that had to go from member to member via postal and we used TBN to ferret each other out.

Have a great day all, be safe!

 

[daugen]

some showers overnight, warm and sticky morning, going to rain this afternoon, which like Buppies is fine with me.
Need a little break from the heat.

headed to Kubota dealer, instead of getting a bill from them for a new Echo hedge trimmer/brush cutter, I got a refund check. Hmmmm, new girl in accounting. Think I'd better go have a chat with them.

Over the weekend my Samsung Chromebook stalled due to lack of memory for the last time. Granted I'm overusing this little thing, video seems to defeat it after awhile. So....did my research, and ordered an Acer Aspire, a convertible model that folds, good for watching movies in the rv, 15.6 inches, 256gb SS memory, I7, 12gb ram.
If it comes today I'll have a good project setting it up in rainy weather.

Over the last 20+ years buying laptops, from business Toshibas to this little Chromebook, I have found the price of a good laptop was for decades over $2K. Now it's under $800. Amazing how pricing has dropped. And what really attracted me to this model, other than great reviews, is that Acer doesn't pack it with bloatware that takes forever to get rid of.

I owned a Radio Shack franchise in my very small home town for five years. I turned a "where's that thermistor?" electronic geek palace into an adult toy store. Sony and Panasonic electronics. A variety of audio and video equipment that Radio Shack would never carry. But i stocked every single one of those "parts and pieces" on those big swinging display racks that were always in the back of the older Radio Shacks. I wasn't sure what a triac did but I had one...

And this was the time PC's were coming in, and here I am selling Tandy 100's. (since we are on memory lane this morning...) You could throw a 100 off the roof and it would keep working, those early pc's were tanks. And heavy... I quickly learned that while I had to offer them, that Tandy was never going to be a good long term choice for computer. So I brought in Acer, in the mid 80's, and they were flawless computers. Never ever had a unit returned for service or problem. Of course times were simpler then, no malwares and live streaming was just a vision. So when I went looking for a conventional laptop, that wasn't too heavy (I've had the 9 pound 15 inchers before) and it was an Acer, I had a good feeling.

Now a new computer is no where as cool as a new flail mower, but maybe now my Youtube videos will no longer lock up. I don't watch any tv at all so the internet is important to me.

got on the scale this morning and smiled Down to 211, haven't seen that number in awhile. All that wood chipping and outside work in the heat just drained a few pounds off me. I've been up to 260, and have wanted to get to 200. When I was 5'11" my bmi was off but not terrible. Now that arthritis and spinal issues have dropped me to 5'9", my bmi numbers are worse and I get "the look". Of course if I got down to 180 or wherever they expect me to be, I'm likely to be in the morgue. 200 would be just fine.
Frankly if I followed a plant based diet like Don, I bet the pounds would melt off. But I sure liked my steak last night...

 

[daugen]

Eric, what are you electroplating for? I assume you must wear a good filter mask breathing in those fumes, safer or not. Isn't electroplating similar to powder coating?

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. 65 here now going to 74. with a 100% chance of rain expecting about 1". I joined 5 years ago and have really learned a lot that I have used and likely more that I have stored away in case the need ever arises. Today I just skip down to Good Morning and enjoy that. We are excited, today is the day I do and pick up the communication board for our family member. He has said something more than his 3 words 3 times in his life and he is pushing 50. It's in there we/he just can't get it out. With this thing he pushes a button and a mans voice says _________ relating to that button. If he can just push the buttons with out getting overwhelmed. We are praying.

Have a great day everyone. Ed

 

[Bird]

I'm gettin' old and forgetful, I reckon. Don't remember whether I've looked at this thread or not in the past. I bought a Kubota kB7100 (forgot the date), but traded up to a B2710 that was delivered on August 12, 1999. Sometime in those days, I found Kubotasource.com when looking for information about Kubotas. Of course out in the boondocks of Navarro County, we had dialup Internet service by a company that no longer exists. So I, too, was a member before the name change to Tractorbynet. I can even remember a time when I read EVERYTHING that was posted on TBN. But in late 2002, we had to sell everything in Navarro County and move back to town for family reasons. So I haven't owned a tractor since. I started using our John Deere L (1940 model, I think) when I was 12, then used a Ford tractor some in 1991, and for the 6 years we lived in Navarro County, I used a neighbor's big old Oliver cutting and baling hay.

Wroughtn_Harv was the guiding force that got a lot of us in this area, plus some visitors from other areas, such as ronjhall, together for various projects. I think we all made a lot of good friends at those get togethers, and I, for one, learned a lot from them.

And today . . . I see some of you talking about rain and cool weather. Well, yesterday we had a forecast of 90% chance of rain today, so I was hoping, but right now it appears that we are in that other 10%; just hot and dry.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Daugen. Want to see pics of you new laptop hooked to your tractor. :laughing: Hope it does well for you. Ed

 

[wngsprd]

70 and winter-looking overcast skies. Going to 78, and 90% chance of a celebration of wet... sure hope we won't be the 10%, like Bird.

Buppies , glad you're getting a day off.

I sure have enjoyed the stories of the pioneer days on this forum. I had wondered about how Muhammed got this going. TBN is a wealth of experience and reason, and has helped me fix, repair, buy, sell, even find out that something exists for the first time. Most valuable is it provides an understanding of how others view and think about things. I joined 13 years ago when buying my first and only tractor, but was working too many hours with not much time left to dial up TBN. Now retired and with faster DSL service, find TBN very rewarding.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Morning all,

I spent the weekend outside working. The neighbor came over and we fixed my mower and my wife's quad and then I fired up the saw and processed those last trees we had cut. I've go video I cant post, LOL... Saturday I did all the cutting and built most of the burn pile, Sunday was easier (meaning I did not work as hard) and we built up the burn pit cleaning up debris from the trees and I stacked wood. I'm up to at least 22 ~17' logs 18"+ at the butt stacked for the sawmill guy. I've got a huge pile of other assorted pine logs, and quite a bit of small round hardwood to cut up for firewood.

Late on Sunday afternoon I started grinding the big pine stumps, it too like 2.5 hours to grind 4 of them. For certain, green stumps are harder to grind.

We are going to move dirt around and change the contour of the hill between the house and barn after we've ground the biggest stumps. I quit working about 5pm.

I think my tractor is up to 258 hours now. The wife and I sat on the porch with cold drinks and admired our hard work for a bit and then we cleaned up.

I left my tractor outside because it is supposed to rain today and it REALLY needs a bath... LOL. I'm not sure I've ever washed it since I first got it...

All in all it was a good weekend.

Be well all!
David

 

[txdon]

Good morning! A cooler 71˚ this morning with a few showers around 4am. It will be a good day to mow without dust.

The roundup went well, no people or cows were injured.

When I moved from the city TBN was my only link to civilization and it proved very valuable many times. Before I moved I was looking at a JD110 but after research here and at the dealer test driving them I went with a Kubota with a BH. The only thing I miss is the flip seat when digging mesquite. The trouble shooting help on TBN is amazing when I had to do repairs on my tractors and my Dad's tractors.

What really surprised me were the projects, Bridge, Garage, and Gate. I found Harvey's weak spot - creativity- I just provided a blank slate and let him go. His talent drew others here on TBN to participate and enjoy. I sometimes felt like I was getting everyone to paint my picket fence but everyone was actually enjoying it. I was able to help Jim on his Lift project and Mike on his gate and entrance project but I still owe a lot of people a hand with their projects.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

67° and rain today.

 

[PJSprog]

64°F and foggy this morning, going up to 81° today. Expecting low to mid 80s all week here.

I got the grass mowed Saturday, and the Wife got the basement bedroom painted. Rained off and on most of the day yesterday. Not a lot, but some nice steady rain when it did. Wife and I used that as an excuse for an indoor day, and finished tearing out some wall paneling and old drywall, and cleaning up a bit in the basement.

It's been fun this morning reading some of the long-timers' stories about the early days here on TBN.

 

[PJSprog]

Randy, will you need a new avatar now? I really like the ZZToppop idea, though I never listened to them.
PJ could show you how to play the guitar :thumbsup:

Bass guitar, maybe. Been playing that song since I started playing bass in 1982. No idea how many times I've played it, but I suspect it is well over 1000 over that 35 year span. One of those songs that's just a rock standard.
It's in A minor, and modulates to C minor for the solo ... if that helps any. (cheap sun glasses pun intended)

 

[hawkeye08]

I too really enjoy the GM thread, the folks that want to help each other, that care for each other and as mentioned, no politics.

I stayed inside most of the weekend, really did not want to breath the smoke we have (mostly from the Canadian fires)... We have a couple of the floor models of air conditioners we got from Costco, they work great usually, but when the air quality is bad outside, we don't use them. They use room air and exhaust outside so it creates a vacuum that pulls outside air in. Not a problem when air quality is good, but not so much with the smoke. Wife picked up a window unit that we will put in if this smoke continues.

We usually only have a few weeks of "doesn't cool off at night" where we need the air conditioning, but this smokey air has been a bigger problem (can't run whole house fan to cool down at night)...

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 47*, Yesterday high was 85*. Today it's overcast and the highs are going to be in the 70's. With chance of showers in the afternoon.

I did do some fishing yesterday. I caught a few little ones. All and all it was a nice day.

Like I said before, I've been reading TBN for about 6-7 years. I can remember a lot of the post you are talking about. This thread was one of biggest reason I joined. I've enjoyed hearing about the weather and the daily projects the members are doing. And learning about stuff a long the way.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB