Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

I thought Fimco was US?

had to mow far side of property where I've been clearing a small part of the roadside, on the far left in this picture, entertaining making a building lot
there so I don't have to maintain two road frontages any more. Gravely has very low CG and now things are dry, I was tilted over quite a bit
on the ditch banks. How low shall I go.....
And then I decided to make the roadsides nice, what I normally cut with the tractor in what turns out to be half the time.
But community now looks nice for the holiday weekend. After three hours out there in the sun, spf 70 or not, I was feeling baked.
And it sure was hot when I was done.

Am waiting for sun to go down a little more before I go pick okra, by tomorrow morning the pods would be too big.
Remarkably fast growing plant, loves the sun.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I have a 20 gal fimco with pump, and rarely use it. Now that i have the ranger, need to make a 12v lead for it.

Make sure to fuse your lead BEF.

 

[daugen]

getting hotter, not cooler, not going out in that...

as I watch the temps in San Francisco where my sister is, 67 degrees. Very cool temps like Sodamo, both on Pacific Ocean.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Make sure to fuse your lead BEF.

Thanks, right now i clip to a spare 12v mower battery.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I have the Chinese knock off of that sprayer from Tractor Supply. Fimco I think it is. So far they've been good about being able to get parts, but when the pump/motor went out, I went to a local company in Chico that makes and sells agricultural sprayers and got a made in USA replacement. It dropped right in, the copy was so good. And it cost almost as much as the entire spray rig, but five years later it's still going strong. Had I to do it again, I'd have just purchased the whole rig from the ag store...:duh:

My other sprayer is a 15 gallon one that came from Tractor Supply over 20 years ago. The old Flo-Jet pump still runs okay but, not nearly as strong as the North Star and it’s not on-demand, it runs constantly.

Northern Tool had their North Star pumps on sale so, I bought another 2.2 GPM / 70 psi pump for the old sprayer. It mounts with same dimensions as the old pump.

https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200578568_200578568

The new North Star Sprayer also has a tank drain on bottom side of one end. I bought a 3/4” bulkhead fitting and cap at TSC yesterday to install on the tank of my old sprayer. Just have to drill a 1 1/4” hole in the end of the tank to install it. Should make clean-out easier too.

 

[lostcreekranch]

getting hotter, not cooler, not going out in that...

as I watch the temps in San Francisco where my sister is, 67 degrees. Very cool temps like Sodamo, both on Pacific Ocean.

Don, Kyle, and I sent our hot weather over to you Drew.

We were done with it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Don, Kyle, and I sent our hot weather over to you Drew.

We were done with it.

What do you think this is, August?????

Lol, got hot here again. Thinking of cancelling my annual labor day picnic, just dont feel good, and too much to do to get ready.

 

[daugen]

Texans are such generous people. :thumbsup:

what the rain and hot weather has provided besides mold:
foot a day briars
gallon a minute mosquitoes
inch a day lawn
inch a day okra

sitting around just waiting for the hvac cap to blow....

 

[lostcreekranch]

Texans are such generous people. :thumbsup:

what the rain and hot weather has provided besides mold:
foot a day briars
gallon a minute mosquitoes
inch a day lawn
inch a day okra

sitting around just waiting for the hvac cap to blow....

We believe in the “share and share alike” doctrine, Drew.

 

[riptides]

105 HEAT index here. Few miles east hit 109. Nice and soggy. Was a six bottle Gatorade day. Much walking back to the shade. Need to get the roof going forward. Just for shade.