Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

lastly, does anyone recognize/know what this Leeds & Northrup gizmo does?

looks like an adjustable resistance box.

 

[sodamo]

Now 74° but I’m sweating. Got one more bucket of potatoes, all dug. had to empty a bucket into a box. Shoes got very muddy, should have put on boots. Grass very wet yet.
Cleaned out the rest of the corn rows. Need to pick up 2 large piles of weeds and cornstalks. Would use grapple, except tire rim not fixed, and still got that last piece of shed siding sitting on the forks.
Sitting on front porch listening to birds and traffic. Someone started mowing in the distance. View attachment 762901

It will be very hard moving from here. Sometimes I think it will be stupid to move. For the price of this land I could convert my garage into a downstairs bed and bath and put up a 2 car detached pole garage
Everything here I planted. Sugar maple trees out front from the farm. Also got one next to driveway and 3 in back.

Every now and then we discuss what-if/where, but the reality is can’t even imagine what would motivate us to actually move.

Yo mention converting your garage to a ground level bedroom, but have you looked at the possibility of adding a bedroom wing to house? Maybe even detached.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I bought a couple of these wooden large storage boxes from Target. The potatoes stayed good May - September in the pantry. We just ran out.
A GM approved product. Cha-ching.

Small Stackable Wood Kids' Storage Bin Light Brown - Pillowfort™

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I can make some and save a bundle, cha Ching.
Good idea.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Every now and then we discuss what-if/where, but the reality is can’t even imagine what would motivate us to actually move.

Yo mention converting your garage to a ground level bedroom, but have you looked at the possibility of adding a bedroom wing to house? Maybe even detached.

Don’t want to make the house any larger.

Just got a call, my cash offer was accepted. $15k under asking.
Looks like I’m buying land in VA.
Will see how much we use it in the next couple yrs, if we decide not to move we can always sell it later. Might be better having money in land right now than the bank.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

A pole barn with concrete floor was on my wish list a long time but thought it made more sense to put new roof and siding on the old barn. I am still in the process of setting up areas within the barn to be more useful to me. I would like to clean out this lower level room for a metal Fab area and Black smith stuff. The welding equipment is upstairs but with wood floors it is not very safe to use unless extended to outside the barn.
This room is 15 ft by 30 ft and has concrete floor. In the pic of the barn is at the end with two windows.View attachment 762936View attachment 762937

That sure is a pretty barn. I love those old bank barns.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Drew, neat show. Nice old equipment.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Mostly very hard some days thanks for asking

Busy day today looking at jobs grass needs mowed weed eated etc. almost time to go

BEF hope land search proves successful

Prayers for all our Country

Prayers for you and your wifey Bupps. The Good Lord never promised anyone an easy life, in fact, he warned us the contrary. We are still blessed. I know y'all know it.

54 going to 82. Was cold out feeding the birds early this morning.

Thanks for the prayers for my mom...still in hospital.

Billy, prayers for your mom. Lately, I've been praying for lots of moms, having many friends in our age group. Mine is 93 yo, and winding down, but maybe even more stubborn headed than she was when much younger. She had a tough life too, raising us kids with no father and hardly any money. She doesn't cuss, but she doesn't have much of a filter either when she talks, and will call a spade a spade without cursing....

Every now and then we discuss what-if/where, but the reality is can’t even imagine what would motivate us to actually move.

Yo mention converting your garage to a ground level bedroom, but have you looked at the possibility of adding a bedroom wing to house? Maybe even detached.

Yes BEF, I hope you like your new land, maybe a better investment than the market. I'm wondering where the motivation of moving comes from too?

TXDon, how long did it take to get those date palms that big? Wondering how the separation will stunt growth curve?

Had the son in the barn this morning working on some simple things. We fixed a flat on a bicycle, and we put a new seat on it, so it is re-purposed for use again instead of junking it. Although not so pretty, it is a decent bike with decent components (good rims, stainless spokes, etc) I got off of an auction years ago. IIRC it is a Diamondback? My daughter with autism likes to ride it when it's not too hot outside.

Speaking of flap/guards on mower decks, I need to rig something up on the beast. They want $125 plus shipping for one from the factory, which is basically a rubber flap. I was thinking of cutting a section out of an old car/truck tire, and bolting it to the 2 plates that sandwich the stock OEM unit.

Neighbor kids just saw a copperhead, but didn't have anything to kill it with.

M7040, I would too, be proud of a daughter that had accomplishments like your daughter is doing.

LS, good job on the jeep, time to enjoy it for some mountaineering/camping now???

Ken, thanks for the London pics. Sounds like you've been there quite a bit.

Thanks for the pics Drew.

 

[LouNY]

has anyone seen a milking machine powered off engine vacuum? Pretty neat, not sure how well it worked.

In your picture is a Surge milking machine, those machines actully had a strap that went around the cow and under the handle of the machine this held the machine in the area of the cows udder so the teat cups ( the 4 shiny cans) could slid up on the cows teats, the teat cups had what was called an inflation inside the can. The inflation sealed both ends of the teat cup and the small line to the nipple on the teat cup got the pulsator vacuum, this pulsed on and off, when it pulsed on the vacuum would stretch the inflation out, then went the pulsator vented the vacuum out the inflation would squeeze the cows teat. So the pulsator would open the inflation then release it, stretch out, squeeze, stretch out, squeeze continually with constant vacuum at the end of the inflation through the claw which held the 4 teat cups sucking the milk the inflations squeezed into the milkers pail. This would actually simulate a calf sucking on the cows teats.

Surge, Universal, and Delaval had pulsators that worked on strictly vacuum, later they went to electrically controlled powered by vacuum.
A gas engine tractor could run one or two machines.

Most farms had an electric powered vacuum pump with vacuum lines run down the roll of stanchions in the barn.
When the power failed you would bring down a tractor and run a hose out to power the machines temporarily.

 

[LouNY]

lastly, does anyone recognize/know what this Leeds & Northrup gizmo does?

That is an example of an old Decade Box a variable resistance device used for the calibration of meters and other devices that used resistance for measurement.

 

[rswyan]

LS, where you buy geo textile? Looks like you can order thru Lowe’s.

BEF,

Assuming you meant "rs" since I was the one talking about geo-tex.

Yes - you can get it through Lowes, although I've never bought geo-tex from them.

I previously bought geo-tex when we redid the driveway was from a local (Ohio) company called Discount Drain (or Drainage) which had multiple locations throughout the state. This time around they were the highest ($748.39) ... which was a little odd given their name ...

Lowes came in second @ $557 or thereabouts (and didn't have it in stock, had to order taking a week or two)

Best price was from local place (W L Tucker Supply Company in Cuyahoga Falls, OH) that specializes in masonry supplies:

W.L. Tucker Supply Co.

www.wltucker.com

They had 12.5' x 432' Mirfai 500X woven geo-tex - which is ODOT rated "Type D" - for $465 per roll.

Mirafi 500X - Road Fabrics, Inc.

Searching shows mostly the garden fabric I bought, guess it’s about the same.

Not sure about that.

I've always been told to use a woven fabric on "roadways" for stabilizing aggregate on the subsoil and that's what ODOT calls for:

Ohio - Geotextiles & DOT Specifications - US Fabrics

Whereas the non-woven is more of a filter fabric to prevent soil intrusion on French drains and the like, although from reading the above link, it appears that non-woven is also used on paving applications ... although I'm not exactly sure of the exact application.

Hope that helps.