Good morning!!!!

[farmer2009]

Use caution with Pramitol 25e. If the area to be cleared of vegetation is on an incline or slope, use care in application as Pramitol can easily leach downwards towards desirable plants or water sources. Pramitol is a bare ground herbicide that has been widely used by industrial and commercial applicators. "Bare Ground" means exactly that: wherever Pramitol is sprayed, nothing will grow for one year or more.

Home from the store and paying bills. Maybe time for a nap.

Pramitol is a ground sterilizer. It's water activated and will move across the ground until it's put in the ground. So yes you must becareful with it.

 

[toppop52]

What kind of nutsedge?

The big green ugly kind! Lol I don't know, it's just been called nutsedge all my life. It sort of looks like a small corn stalk for lack of a better description.

 

[sodamo]

What is your starting point and ending point on the Zephyr? I greased the tractor, aired up the front tires, filled it with diesel, strapped down the cement blocks, and I'm ready for the road trip. I even bought a couple of stick on mirrors from Walmart. The weather is not cooperating - rain. I'll wait another 2 hours before calling it off today.

We picked it up in Sacramento thru Chicago. In Chicago we change to Capitol Limited to DC.

Getting lots of seat time, but the wrong kind.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. It's good to be back home again after a few days away doing engineering work. Shame I missed out on some dry days that would have been good to get on the fields and today it is raining, but still a real pleasure to get outside for a walk.


As I read a couple of TBN pages last night I wondered what this BLUE day is. Finally made it back to Kyle's post and now I see. By coincidence the night before I had been out for a meal with a few old friends and we were talking about a programmer who started working with us going on for 20 years ago. At that time he had just left school and wanted and needed somewhere to start. We were only a very small company, most of us having been made redundant from the mining machinery industry and all now trying to pay the mortgage by designing and manufacturing control panels for commercial fire systems. From the first informal interview we could see he would be challenging. Our heads all said no, get someone else, but our hearts said yes as we feared that if a bunch of misfits like us wouldn't give him a chance, then who else would. For the first few years he was a real handful. Quite clever when it came to using a computer, however his autism made it very difficult for him to understand what was important and what was not, resulting in often going off at a tangent without realising it and wasting a great amount of time on things that were not relevant. It was often hard to get him back on track because his reasoning worked in a different manner to the rest of us. I remember one day when he couldn't believe that a program taking a couple of seconds to run would be more than acceptable to customers, when he thought they would expect it to run at the speed of light and be instantaneous. It took me the best part of a week to try and convince him it would be ok and to stop looking for ways to speed it up. I don't think he actually believed what I was saying, more likely that he didn't want me to be unhappy any longer, so he finally let it alone.

The lad did make progress, relatively slowly at first but as each year went by he got much better at understanding other people. After taking a university degree his ability with computers and people really took off. Today they can all trust him to make the best decisions for himself. Even better, he grew up to be a really nice young man, with all the right values in life and a great dry sense of humour that never fails to make me smile.



RNG That trip must have been a hard one to set out on. Then to return safely home, complete with actual safe and to find nature ignored the sceptics and filled the lake after all. Quite a journey through the country and life.

 

[KevT]

73 now and going to 77 with rain all day. Glad I got the millet seed and fertilizer down yesterday. Wondering if anyone knows why grass seed is so expensive this year? It is 3 times the cost it was last year, hence why I am planting millet.

Eric, good to see you. Hard when work keeps you away, I know I have been like that for a couple of months.

Kyle, I have my "Blue Shirt" on today.

With the weather, I think I am going to kick back and watch movies today, listen to the rain, and smile knowing the garden and pastures are happy

 

[wngsprd]

51 and dropping fast - 14 degrees in the last couple of hours. Raining and going to 64.

My blue shirt is on.

Searched again for a part for my pressure washer yesterday...most challenging part I've ever tried to find.

 

[rswyan]

38.2F and cloudy @ 07:30 ... high today is only supposed to reach 48F.

Got quite a bit of the lower jaw/frame for the grapple welded together yesterday. I tried to exercise some care in how I went about it and it looks to have turned out reasonably straight/not racked.

Still have the two outer masts to weld on, along with the lower bar with the rake teeth ... which I actually need to finish straightening first, as welding the rake teeth on bowed/warped it. Hopefully I can get some time in with a friend's rosebud later today, and get the lower bar reasonably straight. Have to go pick up a commercial refrigerator with him this morning and bring it back to his place, so I'll be over there anyways.

Once I get the two outer masts welded on I can start welding in the bushings for the hinge and cylinder pins. Should be able to get to that later today, although the top jaw may need a little tweaking with the rosebud too ... as it appears to be racked a bit.

Last item will probably be welding the QA plate on. Doubt that I will get to that today ... but the weather is supposed to get colder through Tuesday, so I'll have plenty of inside time available.

Probably need to start thinking about getting some measurements on the hoses and getting those ordered.

Hope everyone has a safe, productive, and enjoyable weekend.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 44˚ chilly and clear, heading to the mid 60's. I got my tractor to Dad's house yesterday (59 minutes @ 14 mph) evening but froze in the process. I started out at 66˚ but the 30mph North wind dropped the temps unexpectantly to 55˚. Challengiing day today to see if we can unload the heavy load without damaging anything. My Dad suggested one tractor on each side and let the trailer pull out after we lift it. The problem is he is almost completely blind so I'll have to operate both tractors. We may go with my plan of setting on end down then the other as the trailer pulls out.

David S. how are you going from D.C. to Flordia?

To make sure I fully participated, starting at midnight, I wore my blue pajamas.

 

[daugen]

good Saturday morning all and a hope of promise and long fulfilled lives for all folks with autism.
Wearing a blue shirt today for Finnly.

Houseguests left, headed to Florida. Peace and quiet again.
My ex and her husband have now been married 24 years and doing well together. I am delighted for them.

Raining out, going to be a quiet day. Might try to change out the ceiling speakers in the travel trailer. The speakers in there are 2 dollar specials.
I have a set of three way 6 1/2 inch JBL speakers to replace them. I sure hope there is 2 1/4 inches of depth between the liner and the roof, they might have used the oem speaker not just for cheap cost but also because of no magnet to get in the way. Good speakers of course almost always have heavier larger magnets in the rear.
Going to take the stock speakers out very carefully and hopefully there will be some clearance.

 

[sodamo]

38°F here in Omaha, NE, but warm and cozy inside the train.

Be safe
Have a great day.

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[toppop52]

Blue shirt here!
Upper 50's and lots of rain, temps dropping later today, 50 mph winds overnight they say. I have a dead pine in back that's in a bad place to cut, it's leaning way over, I hope all the rain and wind bring it down so I can clear it out. Found a leaking hydraulic hose on my tractor, so today I'm ordering 7 hoses, one is already new, should have done them all to start with.

 

[daugen]

David/Sodamo, are you going by train for the experience or because you don't like to fly?
I don't like to fly at all so I'm interested in your experiences.
Can you give some feedback at the end as to how nice the trains were?
thanks

 

[farmer2009]

39 this morning and headed to 61 today. High wind advisory out for today and a freeze watch out for tonight. Forecast low of 34.

Need to pickup yard and mow. But we have a birthday party for a nephew and the wife is talking about taking the boy to the Newport Aquarium. If so we'll leave tonight and do the Aquarium tomorrow and come home. As I have to be here Monday morning to check dryness and show the spreader what fields to spread. Wife and boy are home all week as its spring break.

KevT good to see you back.

 

[farmer2009]

The big green ugly kind! Lol I don't know, it's just been called nutsedge all my life. It sort of looks like a small corn stalk for lack of a better description.

Pictures help. But then I'm guessing it'll be yellow nutsedge. Here's an article on it. https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/ay/ay-19-w.pdf There's some herbicide recommendations in there also.

 

[RoyJackson]

2016-04-02, 0854

41 right now...high of 52 today.
Got a pretty miserable cold...not much going on today

 

[toppop52]

Pictures help. But then I'm guessing it'll be yellow nutsedge. Here's an article on it. https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/ay/ay-19-w.pdf There's some herbicide recommendations in there also.

Thanks, that looks like it, it's a bit greener than the picture but the shape and arrangement are right.I don't have any pictures and it's not warm enough for it to be growing good yet. I'll try one of those remedies.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 59° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 81° with plenty of sunshine. Sinuses are getting better. Should be a good morning for a few miles bike ride. Then back to relaxing on patio. Got my blue shirt laid out to put on after breakfast.
Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

We call nutsedge "nutgrass," but it doesn't usually show up until later in the season here.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 0830, overcast, 58F with 99% humidity. Forecast high of 70F with 20% chance of rain today, and a low of 48F tonight. A cold one today and even colder tonight. Glad I'm at work, so I don't have to worry with it. I just hope these guys were not planning an outside wedding.

Blue shirt on.

You guys have a good one,

Larro

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 52 F @ 6:30 AM. Mainly sunny. High near 75F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Try some Cold-EZ Roy. Might shorten your recovery time.

RS, are you documenting your grapple build in another thread?

I have a dark blue long sleeve shirt all picked out for when I get dressed this morning.

Robert Harrison at Verizon Wireless is to be commended for following through and getting the new cell phone shipped yesterday. He could have easily shuffled my paperwork off into some dark corner and me with it, leaving me to find some other customer service person, but he followed through and got the job done. Unlike the folks at Straight Talk, who seem to be capable of doing little more than making notes in their computers. I called them again yesterday to again ask for a refund of the month's cell service that was never delivered, and was told that the line was still active even though it had been transferred to Verizon weeks ago. It was like I'd never told them to cancel the service in the first place, even though I had an Incident Number that supposedly tied into their documentation of the whole unfortunate series of events. My guess is I'll end up protesting the charge with VISA before I see any of those funds return.

And speaking of Visa, the cell phone purchase triggered their fraud alert system, but I was able to verify the charges while I was still on the phone with Verizon by using the BofA web site. But an hour later while ordering a new flail mower from Donna at Betst Products, the fraud system again went berserk and the web page was no help. Took a phone call and several transfers to get to the right person who could clear the error. But by Tuesday or Wednesday next week I should have both a new cell phone and a better way of mowing the pasture. My tractor isn't as big as David S's, so I downsized to the 68" version, but Donna said it'll still shred anything up to 3" in size with hammer blades installed. I'll need to figure out how to plumb the hydraulic lines for the side shift mechanism, but I should be able to try it out before jumping into that.

Looking forward to next week's seat time, as the only seat time I'll be getting in the immediate future will be sorting through a month of mail and finishing off the income tax form in the office. Then there's Mom's dinette set to put back together, and all those boxes to unpack and put away, and instead of putting the new battery in the Yamaha yesterday, I took a nap. :laughing: