Good morning!!!!

Looking4new · Feb 1, 2018

0 right now and going colder by tomorrow morning. Ground hog day tomorrow and the forecast is for sunny weather. The rodent better wear his long johns.

toppop52 · Feb 1, 2018

I’m going to bed, but I have a dynamite/stump story from when I was about 17. I’ll post it tomorrow.

buckeyefarmer · Feb 2, 2018

Speaking of dynamite, friends neighbor was trying to dig up a rock. Rock was too big, so he got some dynamite, drilled hole in rock, blew up the rock. One chunk of rock came down right through the house roof.

RoyJackson · Feb 2, 2018

2018-02-02, 0332

29 right now...going to drop quite a bit with the high being 18 today. We got a couple inches of snow yesterday, then a bit more last night. Light snow is coming down as I type this, in fact...maybe another inch or so today, before it's all said and done.

Eric Salop · Feb 2, 2018

Keep at it Don, some of us leave such sheltered lives this is the best entertainment we've seen in a long while. Next time, can you set up a live webcam too ?

You could take the bark off with an axe just below soil level, then cut through the clean wood with a chainsaw - then again going at it with a tractor is much more in keeping with the spirit of this forum :thumbsup:

Eric Salop · Feb 2, 2018

The water standing in puddles outside is still liquid. Until I looked at the thermometer that was the only clue that we are above freezing. It seems much colder thanks to a cruel wind that instantly had the same effect on both me and the dog. A day of sunshine is promised so it shouldn't be too bad outside as long as I keep to the south side of the buildings.

CWB, I have paperwork that lets me reload and shoot smokeless powders, but to buy and keep black powder at home I would need to fill in yet another form and apply for a "Certificate to Acquire and Keep Explosives". Maybe I will do that one day, meanwhile please can you shoot a few rounds, then remind me how good it is to feel black powder's steady burn push into your shoulder and fill the air will a dense cloud of that special perfume ? One day electronics could evolve so that TBN posts also suppport a "Smell this" feature, which wold be great for this - though I guess other uses would get a few of us banned too.

Would your harrow be from William Hackett Chain Products Drew ? There is an old saying in the area I come from - if something doesn't quite fit, a rough and ready fix is to , "Hack it and Smack it" (cut/file, then hit it with a hammer). Maybe that originated from harrowing clods of soil ?

Randy, looking forward to your dynamite story

Ed of all trades · Feb 2, 2018

Good morning all, 36 now with a high today of 28 and a low tonight of 14. The mountains did it again, we got a very light dusting of snow. Could see the radar pic part and go around us. Piddled at making a wooden spoon yesterday, waiting for the gouge to be delivered so I can do the bowl. Wife likes to cook with them. My dad had a problem with dynamite, his BP would drop very low so when we widened the driveway, 9/10 mi long, I got the job of powder monkey even though I was about 6. Dad would dig the holes under the stumps and tell me how much dynamite to bundle together and I would put it under the stump and cover it with a little dirt and dad would finish. Blew one stump and it just rose up in the ground and settled back in the hole and dad said we should have put two more sticks under that one. I did and when we blew it it flew 50 yards down through the woods.

Bird, praying Lady Bird is doing well.

Dab, mini ex. :thumbsup: my thought exactly.

Kyle, Prayers sent.

Buckeye, Prayers sent your way too.

Rip, prayers sent.

Have a great day. Ed

wngsprd · Feb 2, 2018

38 and rain stopped. According to radar, the snow is about a mile north, but not much. Should only go up 4 degrees today and get very windy. Groundhogs will be cold today.

Don, great project...sorry Ron broke your BH

. Sounds like the vote is going towards a dynamite video. Randy, better wait to tell your story until after Don blows it up. Don, ignore BEF's rock story. Can one even buy dynamite any more? I've heard of folks blowing up beaver dams with it, but not recently.

Rip, sounds like your wife had a factory built in her back...hope she gets back to a happy life, she's sure paid her dues.

Prayers for the gang and wives.

My wife bought a storage cabinet so today is assemble-it-day, and watch for backhoe updates from Texas.

mpham · Feb 2, 2018

29 here this morning. Looks like we got3-4 inches of heavy wet snow. Waiting for the town to come clean the road. I have all my driveway partially cleaned up so wife can leave for work. I leave 1/2 hr. Later. Will finish cleanup tonight. Tractor time!!!!!