Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

I'll spend the day topdressing N on corn. I'll have another guy trying to catch some Roundup resistant Marestail in a few spots in the beans. Also need the spray the cows for flys and fill up the creep feeders.

I have heard rumours of roundup (glyphosate) resistance but never come across anyone who has experienced it before.
Is it just the Marestail, or are you finding other plants becoming resistant too ?

Eric. Maybe you'll have better luck with those 6013's but only time I can use them is on new clean and shiny steel.

6011's handle rusty metal the best and are easier to run. With them listen to your arc. If it sounds like bacon frying then it's right. Only time you want it to sound like someone is being electrocuted is if you are using it as a cutting torch. Yes a welder will also cut.

Another easy rod to learn is 7014. Runs good on AC.

7018 is a structural rod and a DC rod. But it's not a beginners rod. But if you don't get an AC/DC machine spend the extra for the 7018AC rod.

Your power must be different over there. Here I'm using 240v 50a for my AC stick welder. And 120v 20a for my 125a flux core wire feeder.

Thanks for the rod info. I didn't know an arc welder could be used to cut steel. Is that better than using a grinder with a thin metal cutting disc ?

 

[daugen]

had a marvelous time at the car meet today in Lewes Delaware. Lots of Corvettes, lots of street rods and high performance machinery, plus some real oddballs.
I think I saw at least ten cars with chromed dual quads.
Ok, Eric, what is a dual quad?

Easy drive up, going to enjoy a nice dinner home with my friends.

 

[farmer2009]

I have heard rumours of roundup (glyphosate) resistance but never come across anyone who has experienced it before. Is it just the Marestail, or are you finding other plants becoming resistant too ? Thanks for the rod info. I didn't know an arc welder could be used to cut steel. Is that better than using a grinder with a thin metal cutting disc ?

Nope it's probably the worst thing to cut with. But when the rivers rising and your in the flood plain and you run out of gas in the torch and your all out of cut off wheels and you really just need one more cut then weld it back together. Crank the welder up and cut with it. Turn it down and weld it back up. But fun to show beginners.

Oh good ole Marestail. Atleast there is still stuff that will kill it. Over in Illinois they have Waterhemp and some others that have a 3 or 4 way resistance in them.

 

[sseelhoff]

I fixed the things on my van that I could, but the problem is electrical, so I towed it to a shop. They diagnosed it as a pass lock 3 body control module. But I am skeptical, because the symptom is more like a short. I guess we'll find out. $700. Ouch.
Our gator won't start, I'm thinking the $300 ignition box is out on it.
My wife called me to say our washing machine is squealing during the spin cycle yesterday.

When it rains, it pours.

I'll bet it's the Fetzer valve.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I'll bet it's the Fetzer valve.

Yep, Fletch had it figured out.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

had a marvelous time at the car meet today in Lewes Delaware. Lots of Corvettes, lots of street rods and high performance machinery, plus some real oddballs.
I think I saw at least ten cars with chromed dual quads.
Ok, Eric, what is a dual quad?

Easy drive up, going to enjoy a nice dinner home with my friends.

What a great way to spend a day. Me likey new 2015 vettes.

 

[dave1949]

73F after touching 80 today. It was a bit windy for spraying and fertilizer today, but I'm ready. Supposed to be less wind tomorrow. I bought some Bt liquid called Thuricide to spray on the cabbages. They are getting righteously holy. I'll run out the sprayer on the tent worms in the apple trees.

Mowed the yard after cleaning the underside of the mower deck which netted about 7 gallons of compost pile feeder. My mower deck has two hose connector nozzles that are supposed to clean the deck (hose attached blades running). What a bunch of hoo haw that turned out to be. I don't even bother trying anymore.

buckeyefarmer that's a nice layout in your new fridge. Hope it works for many years.

Kyle_in_Tex when it rains--well you know what happens. :laughing: Hope you get a quiet stretch of stuff to repair.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I tried the mower deck hose cleanout once or twice and gave up. easier to raise the front on the mower lift and scrape it clean with a putty knife.

Got some kind of caterpiller worms eating my blue spruce. started spraying sevin, but ran out. can't reach the top anyways, but they have really done a number on it in a couple days.

 

[dave1949]

I tried the mower deck hose cleanout once or twice and gave up. easier to raise the front on the mower lift and scrape it clean with a putty knife.

Got some kind of caterpiller worms eating my blue spruce. started spraying sevin, but ran out. can't reach the top anyways, but they have really done a number on it in a couple days.

Ya, when I tried the hose method I ended up with a puddle of slimy green and a mower deck that was still dirty. I use my floor jack to lift the front end of the mower and use a putty knife too. Those mower lifts probably go a little higher but the jack is good enough.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

Let me tell friend "it ain't a rumor". I've had good luck burning down with "Charger", Metribuzin, Sharpen and R-up, with surfactant and AMS. But I do get some escapes which I catch in beans with "Firstrate". All trade names by the way. It has to little, 4 inches or less, or you'll just piss it off.

 

[bakerg]

had a marvelous time at the car meet today in Lewes Delaware. Lots of Corvettes, lots of street rods and high performance machinery, plus some real oddballs.
I think I saw at least ten cars with chromed dual quads.
Ok, Eric, what is a dual quad?

Easy drive up, going to enjoy a nice dinner home with my friends.

Wild looking wagon with the trailer behind.:shocked:

 

[Redneck in training]

Nope it's probably the worst thing to cut with. But when the rivers rising and your in the flood plain and you run out of gas in the torch and your all out of cut off wheels and you really just need one more cut then weld it back together. Crank the welder up and cut with it. Turn it down and weld it back up. But fun to show beginners.

Oh good ole Marestail. Atleast there is still stuff that will kill it. Over in Illinois they have Waterhemp and some others that have a 3 or 4 way resistance in them.

Some strains of water hemp (pigweed) are naturally Round Up resistant. Water hemp germinates on surface or buried very shallow. Since farmers started using no till method they do not bury the seed. Then when they use RoundUp it will kill everything except the resistant weed that proliferates to sometime catastrophic infestation. We have personal experience with it because we got soy seed contaminated with resistant water hemp three years ago. The infestation was so dense and yield so low that even after the weed spraying company refunded our money we could hardly break even. Interestingly enough we didn't plant anything last years at spring because, as expected, the land was covered by the weed. Then we planted winter rye at fall. This year there is, so far, no sign of water hemp anywhere. The rye is about 4 ft tall so I am guessing it outcompeted the hemp.
We are also at war with alien. It is called Canadian thistle even though it originated somewhere from Mediterranean region. RoundUp works pretty well killing it. But you always miss some so it is endless battle.

 

[Eric Salop]

Showers have stopped and the sun has snatched the opportunity to show it's face for a while before the clouds come back over again.
It has been too wet for the field I expected to go for hay to be cut and dried, so I have given up and let the sheep in. We will have hay from another field this year.

had a marvelous time at the car meet today in Lewes Delaware. Lots of Corvettes, lots of street rods and high performance machinery, plus some real oddballs.
I think I saw at least ten cars with chromed dual quads.
Ok, Eric, what is a dual quad?

That one has me beat, even after searching with Google and Bing. It seems to be car related and at first I thought it was a part that made a car go faster, then realised that can't be right as those with chromed dual quads seem to spend most of their time stationary, mostly with the bonnet up.

Is it a term for charitable giving, where philanthropic car enthusiasts make donations to automobile accessory pension funds ?

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 64° with thunderstorms this morning. Heading to 78° with rain/thunderstorms all day. Good thing I got the eavestroughs cleaned yesterday. Another 1" of rain has fallen since cleaning. Inside projects today. Making some new shelving for motorhome. Then some NASCAR. Maybe, they are in the same weather pattern as I am.
Drew, nice cars.
Eric, Dual Quads will get you to the next gas station very quickly. Old racing quote. "If it don't go. Chrome it."
Kyle, good luck with your van. Most common problem I have found with older cars is bad grounds.
Good Morning All.

 

[dave1949]

50F. 77F today & partly cloudy.

Good day for a little garden work then back to the rocks. Sharon is taking Sira to a scent tracking training/activity session this morning.

Enjoy the day safely.

 

[KevT]

Not sure what I am doing today, feel pretty beat up after helping a friend clear his field and take down trees putting 8.8 hours on the tractor yesterday. It is 68 now hitting 99 today. Way to hot this early in the year. Looking forward to vacation in a few weeks although I am sure Ohio isn't that cool either.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

Redneck, I'm not sure what you mean by "naturally resistant"? It was generally understood that eventually some plants would become resistant to R-up but its in the last ten years when we've really had a problem. Part of the problem was the price (at one time) of Roundup prevented producers from using the full recomended rate. Likewise plants could become resistant faster by surviving low rates. I disagree with you, but it could happen, on the contaminated bean seed. The difference in seed size between beans and "pigweed" (palmer amarath) is considerable. Most any seed cleaner can remove it. Flooding can spread it, but more locally. Its hard for seeds to float north on the Miss/Ohio river. Contaminated equipment/trucks/forage moving around the country is most likley the cause. One "pigweed" plant can produce 600K seeds annually. A couple handfulls of residue in a combine/baler/head/rotary mower is enough for it to get a start.

 

[Thomas]

63F high low 80's another nice day.
Not much plan today other than giving motorcycle much needed bath,maybe watch little Nascar.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[RoyJackson]

2015-06-14, 0801

60 right now...high of 83 and clear today.

I'd mowed most of the lawn yesterday (after getting home from work..and after an hour nap). I'll finish up mowing today and do some weeding. I can't get my DR wheeled trimmer running...neither could a friend of mine. So some of the weeding will be by hand, some with my walk-behing mower.

 

[sseelhoff]

Rain started early this morning (3 am). Left the horses out. They can tolerate a light rain, and have a run in shed. Thunder and lightening rolled in about 45 minutes later. Up bringing in horses in the dark-always fun. Rain still coming down. So much for getting my ride in early to get a jump on the day. Radar shows we're going to be socked in for a while. Accuweather says at least two hours of heavy rain. Not sure what is on the agenda for today now that the rain is here. I guess I can get some office work done today.