Good morning!!!!

[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