Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

RNG, great pictures. Never did the CA end of shore line drive. Did do OR and WA. Beautiful drives. May still do the CA drive someday.

 

[PJSprog]

Unwelcome excitement here at work today. Some idiot shot up a car at the intersection near our facility during lunch. No one here was hit, fortunately. Most of our guys sit outside at lunch. No extra holes in my car either.

... and no, this isn't the best neighborhood. A day in the life in North St. Louis, sadly.

 

[daugen]

You're gonna have fun with that Brush Hog, Drew. But you might have better luck backing it into the heavy brush instead of trying to run it over first with the tractor. It'll make a lotta noise when it's workin' hard, too!

Absolutely. I sized it small to fit the small tractor with hydrostatic; one less thing for me to look at while backing up. Anything over an inch I'll use loppers on anyway. One inch is a pretty big stick to chomp up no matter what their rating. I want to use it on my neighbor's overgrown field down at the bottom where he let everything just go, and where I was hauling
old implements out of this overgrown jungle. Too dangerous to back in blind there, just my luck I'd find out he had a sixth Holland transplanter. Now for sure that would make a loud noise
and work hard munching on the transplanter...or who knows what else he chucked into his woods.

I also have a spot on the opposite end of my property, the other roadside and ditch, where I'd like to clear out the woods near the road a little.
Might even make a building lot out of it.

Had a nice day outside today, got some leaves blown into woods, and was having a good time pounding Jobes fertilizer stakes into my fruit orchard until
I looked down and found my left hand in a fire ant mound. I came into pretty quickly and slathered it all with 1% cortisone, but left hand puffed up nonetheless.
Nothing major mostly itchy. I was only half way done but had to stop, wrist was on fire. nasty nasty bugs

Started up the larger Massey when it was pretty cold out still, and with no heaters whatsoever that thing starts on the first revolution. While starting acts like it had a
heater on it. Yet it also takes quite a while to warm up. I've always had glow plugs, this thing has nothing and doesn't seem to need any either.
Versus the little Massey which has a cold heart. It needs at least 30 seconds on the glowplugs or complains bitterly. Hot blooded Indian vs cold blooded Japanese.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Awesome, RNG. Makes me miss my '89 R100RT even more than I already do.

Yep, the RT is definitely one of those "pry it from my cold, dead hands" bikes.

Glad I made it home when I did. While I was away, 1.53" of rain fell, another 0.6" last night and this morning, and it's supposed to dump another inch before midnight. Then another quarter inch tomorrow before a brief respite, then another couple inches next Monday.

I don't know if it's just the news media covering more shooting stories so we hear about it more, or if there's actually more violence. The FBI's uniform crime statistics show a drop in 2014, the latest year for which numbers are available, so they're not much help. Regardless, glad you're OK.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Drew, You are right about being careful, I bush hogged a horse drawn plow in a field that was "clean", nothing in it. Ed

 

[txdon]

Fish bones instead of sand make up the Salton Sea beach:

How does it smell?

 

[sodamo]

Nice pics, RNG and thanks for the travelogue.

 

[newbury]

Good morning! 65˚ heading to 80˚. Can't decide which project to do, paint porch railing, caulk outside house trim or tractor dirt work.

Costco has their kitchenAid stand mixers on sale and I always wanted one to make bread so I picked one up yesterday. I was looking on youtube at several attachments to knead the dough and there appears to be the J hook or the spiral hook.
It came with the spiral but I can see some definite advantages with the J. Does anyone use a mixer to mix and knead bread? Any preference?

. . . . . . .
I seriously think I may need some help. I've been buying more kitchen appliances last year than tractor implements.
I wonder If I should list these under my avatar with the tractor implements: tamale making machine, dehydrator, air frier, stand mixer

Best Buy had the "Pro" KV25G0XER Professional 500 Series Stand Mixer on sale for $200 last week, picked one up for my Daughter, they are back up to $500.

 

[newbury]

When there is a choice of projects to do. The one with tractor use should always move to top of list.
We have a kitchen aid mixer. But have not done bread or anything else with it in a few years. I call it a cement mixer. It has the J hook. There were some problems with them a few years ago. Something to do with speed switch. Why not use a Bread Machine?

A bread machine is a single purpose tool. The KitchenAid is the "tractor" of the kitchen. Basically an electric motor with a PTO and lots of attachments.
I wonder if they have a winch for it?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Drew, your pond barely shows on google maps, satellite view. But your fenced in orchard shows up well, as does your neighbors junk