Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 57F for the start, mostly cloudy, windy, and 1.6 inches in the rain gauge. Low for the day was about 8:30 at 55F, sky cleared off, and wind died off in the late afternoon, and a high temp of 69F. Men's meeting this morning, followed by chain maintenance on the bike, bike ride (needed arm warmers). Nice long nap, then swept up acorns from the live oak, and walk the dog.
Roy, sorry to hear about your major finding in the audit, what happens now, the company I worked for never had a Major.
David, good luck with your cabinet rehab.
PJ, that's how my stepdaughter's dog dealt with snakes.
Drew, the rain and chic magnet
Prayers for all

 

[buckeyefarmer]

This happened today north of me, near Gettysburg.

 

[farmer2009]

75 today. Front coming through tonight. Noticeably colder tomorrow. Rain at some time. What we got today didn’t even settle the dust.

Spent the day putting the 3pt back on a bush hog. Dad managed to tear it off the landlords bush hog yesterday. He just wanted me to weld it back. But it had already been welded once, it was a very rusted break and I found more cracks. So I sent him for new angle iron. 3x3x5/16. Needed less than a foot total for both sides. A local machine shop gave him enough to do it. Scrap to them. Took about 4 hours of cutting, drilling and welding but it’s fixed.

Chicken coops are windrowed. When I checked them at dark they were already to 140. When they start cooling off I’ll turn them. About 20 hours in a windrow.

Did manage to get tickets to the General Jackson show boat in Nashville Friday. And a room booked for the night.

Wng. Glad to hear it works for you also.

Lots of rain headed inland. Stay safe.

Drew. Have you thought about setting up an extra shank on your cultivator tractor. Right down the middle. Put an extra wide sweep on it and dig your potatoes in with it. Now you just go through and plant the seed potatoes and cover them up. We never worried how the potatoes were positioned nature seems to figure out where the green side belongs. I’ve never seen a plant emerge roots up. Maybe your potato digging plow can serve dual duty. Plant and dig. By just being able to softly drop the seed tater in and cover by straddling the rows and dragging your feet. You can cut out most of the bending and all of the hoe work until it’s time to hill. Also broadcast spread your fertilizer and disc it in.

 

[txdon]

This happened today north of me, near Gettysburg.

Wow, looks like a even burn on both sides. Any idea how it started? Is that a wooden barn with a cinderblock bottom?

 

[Looking4new]

This happened today north of me, near Gettysburg.View attachment 574356

Any animals perish?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

wow, what an inferno. Looks really old. I'd be interested to know what started and spread the fire so thoroughly.

Had a good day today.

Hope all have a good one today and tomorrow.

One day at a time.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wow, looks like a even burn on both sides. Any idea how it started? Is that a wooden barn with a cinderblock bottom?

They said state fire marshall investigating.
Fire crew returning to station from a run saw the smoke and went to investigate.

Looks like block bottom, probably a
Bank barn.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Any animals perish?

Dont think any animals were in it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

This is probably the barn. They ran water from the creek.

 

[farmer2009]

This happened today north of me, near Gettysburg.View attachment 574356

Quite the blaze. Was that a cantilevered barn? I always admired those structures. Did they say the cause? As even as it is from here it looks like a tobacco curing gone bad. But I am also a few states away. But it’s time to fire tobacco here.

 

[farmer2009]

2018-10-10, 0530

Just about 70 in Muncie...high in the upper 70's today.

Last day of the audit. Things went south yesterday when the auditor found an error in a spread sheet (concerns heat treat calculations and I'm no expert...so, no further clarification) that was used for a monthly test...and the error has been in the calculations since Feb 2017. That is a major finding that an auditor cannot ignore. I expect one more finding...possibly a major..today.
Well, you get findings...you fix 'em. That's about all we can do.

Heading home tonight. I get back to the airport in Manchester NH about midnight, then a two hour drive home. Doubt if here will be a "Good Morning" post from me tomorrow...

How is the major handled? Just a rewrite and an inspection to confirm compliance. That’s how our audit failures are handled. But if the same problems are found 2 years running then you can loose your certification.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Wow, looks like a even burn on both sides. Any idea how it started? Is that a wooden barn with a cinderblock bottom?

Maybe full of hay?

 

[sodamo]

This happened today north of me, near Gettysburg.View attachment 574356

WOW, that’s sad. Hope noone, no animals hurt.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

WOW, that’s sad. Hope noone, no animals hurt.

No animals inside.

 

[sodamo]

Sounds like you have your priorities in order today, David!:laughing: Could you put an inexpensive plastic tub or oil drain pan in the bottom of the cabinet for the keg to rest in, then use brass tubing fittings to plumb a plastic drain line outside the cabinet?:confused3:

One has to have their priorities, Right?

This isnt exactly a surprise. Didnt realize the beer cooler wasnt self defrost, not in description, but does seem to thaw some on its own, resulting in some seepage. Took over 10 years to rot out. Not enough clearance for a pan directly under the unit as it sits. I’d like to put a pan under at floor level but it would have to be custom made. Current thinking is not fully replace floor of cabinet, just enough to support. These are solid plywood cabinets on 2x4s so quite solid. There is toe kick area on 3 sides that i can add some 2 inch vents and possibly a small fan to run when i suspect it might be wet at least temporarily. Maybe a humidistat?
Got it nicely cleaned out today. Give it another day to dry before i treat and refinish. Still toying with how i might collect condensate off the cooling plate.

Didn’t get to devote myself fully to project as my cottage tenant, John, had a medical incident. His wife came to get me after she found him in less than good shape by the bananas. Appears he passed out. 911 and medevac later he spent day at local hospital. Nothing conclusive so now enroute to Queens in Honolulu to check on possible blockage and more tests. His wife gets to fly on the med flight with him.

 

[Buppies]

68 breezy and raining over three inches so far flooding in neighboring counties more heavy rain today. Devastation in panhandle terrible and widespread. Prayers for those in harms way

Got a subdivision road done yesterday before heavy rain came today a washout. The ground around here is so wet unreal to say the least and mudslides are becoming the norm

 

[daugen]

forecast for next few days has calmed down, at least for here, thankfully.
Rain and 35mph winds today, but total rain now predicted at only a few inches instead of much more.

Headed downtown early to get a haircut, then figure I'll be stuck inside all day.
Forecast for tomorrow is clear and sunshine, and much cooler.

Pretty hard to save a barn unless you get lucky and get there fast. So many things flammable in there, and lots of open space usually to feed oxygen to the flames. Must have been awfully hard for the owner to watch that burn. Get the animals out first, and the tractor second. That looked like a drying or storage shed.
Lightning, electrical, spontaneous combustion, Mrs. O'Leary's cow...Wonder what caused it...
One reason I replaced the entire electrical panel in the barn; now I just check it for bugs and spiders getting into places they don't belong.

Everyone in the path of the storm, take care please. Farmer, is it passing East of you?

 

[Eric Salop]

It was almost as if someone had booby trapped the door handle this morning. Rain started to pour out of the sky like a burst water pipe to the exact second that I opened the utility door. One minute later and it was all over apart from the sound of water still running down the gutter pipes. Weird coloured sky again too, this must be more of that African weather, with Max now drying out from the shower that was surely intended to wash the dust off a Wilderbeast.

Rick, your pictures in anticipation of an English summer made me laugh. Not something that happened this year though, we seem to have been enjoying other countries weather for many months.

Sorry to hear of the loss of life and damage from the latest hurricane.

 

[wngsprd]

72 and light rain going to 80 and heavy rain. Hurricane damage looks really bad.

Buppies, sorry you guys are already saturated...we got a couple of light showers yesterday and it ran me in off the mower...dried out enough to mow more before dark. Before I mowed, I cleaned out the deck and couldn't believe how much moist molded grass crud I scraped out...the pile looked like more than the capacity of the deck itself. I had not been satisfied with any tool I had tried to scrape with last time, that didn't require me to crawl under the deck with the falling crud. So I bought a 4 ft. long 4" wide scraper from HF ($9) and it worked great...along with a little bit of follow up in a few spots with a short putty knife. I put a small tarp under the deck before I started, then dragged it full of crud over to the compost pile.

Took Coco to the dump so I could pour the 11+ gallons of hydraulic fluid into their oil collection tank, then went to the battlefield park for a hike down to the river...only the faintest smell of skunk lingered on her after her swim, and none in the truck. The yellow jackets are so bad at the plastic/glass recycle dumpster that the county employee there has made homemade warning signs. I got chased, but not stung.

Indoor day for me, too. Have lots of things to do.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 70 going to 76 with a 100% chance of heavy rain. NWS says we might get an inch today. Did some errands yesterday and the usual in the house stuff. No plans yet for today, will see.

The barn has the look of the common to that area bank barn that often has a gray stone lower wall. They are mostly used as hay storage and dairy barns. Sorry to see a working work of art like that go.

Prayers for those dealing with the storm. Have a great day. Ed