Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

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.

Lou, I always enjoy your posts. You have and share a lot of wisdom. Thank you.

 

[LouNY]

LS, where you buy geo textile? Looks like you can order thru Lowe’s. Searching shows mostly the garden fabric I bought, guess it’s about the same.

Here is a link to an article on fabrics there is a considerable difference in fabrics;
geo tex for roadways and driveways is considerably different then garden fabric.
The Importance of Selecting and Using the Correct Geotextile Fabric

 

[sodamo]

Per usual, educational time on GM

 

[sodamo]

Congrats, Dennis. Let the fun begin.
Curious what land prices are like. Just did a quick search locally and 13 acres listed at $595K. Smaller parcels even higher per acre. Ouch.
So blessed with our property, only about $6500/acre, but almost 20 years ago.

 

[Thomas]

Dug another bucket of potatoes last night before dark. Ran out of buckets. Need to put potatoes in something else anyways. What do you all store potatoes in? On the farm we had 2 big wooden potato bins in a cold room in the basement. Dad insulated the ceiling, and would leave a window open in that room. Above the potato bins were shelves for all the canning jars.

Need to mow. Been needing blades sharpened half the summer now, never seem to find time.

When I was tadpole parents had dirt floor root cellar and no sun could shine on vegs in wooden box.

Notice it's that time of year grass etc. more coarse come compared to summer months.

 

[Thomas]

2022-09-17, 0936

44° right now...high about 70 or so...sunny

Stepdaughter's test (yesterday) came in negative, so she went to work. Wife and I weren't so lucky...if any of you had this bug, you know what it's like...

Should make a dump run, but not enough energy for that today

Hope your whole better to day Roy.

 

[Thomas]

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

Interesting.

 

[Thomas]

Congrats on the deal BEF hope you don't stench your bones and muscles to thin.

 

[Thomas]

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

Very best thoughts for the both of you.

 

[m7040]

had a fun time at the Old Time Power show. Fun old tractors, hit and miss engines, steam/coal powered log mill and just a wide variety of cool stuff.
lots of pics.
some things I had never seen before. Powered potato and peach sorter. El Camino is for Scaredy
And I loved the Lo-Lo Boy. Very nice pristine Z28.

The Frederick fair week has started and there are plenty of animals and equipment on display as always. Dennis are you going?

 

[m7040]

LS, where you buy geo textile? Looks like you can order thru Lowe’s. Searching shows mostly the garden fabric I bought, guess it’s about the same.

Frederick Brick Works in Frederick has the geo textiles for roads and patios

 

[PJSprog]

61°F and partly cloudy this morning, got up to 85° today.

Got the pasture mowed during the late morning. Decided to let some of the dew evaporate first. It was still a little wet when I got started about 09:45, and dry before I finished about 2-1/2 hours later. Quicker than I anticipated. Some of the yellow foxtail was over a foot tall, as I didn't mow back there last week. Not fond of that stuff, and the pasture is full of it. Probably mow the rest from the barn to the road tomorrow morning.

Doug, I heard a news story about a week ago about a road in the southern part of my state that closes twice a year for a mass migration of venomous snakes.
Southern Illinois road set to close due to snake migration

Congrats on the new land, BEF.

Good evening, gents.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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?
.

This part of MD is very pretty. But MD politics stink. Will leave it at that.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

LouNY, thanks for milking info. I remember helping a friend milk, when I was in HS. He was helping a neighbor.
We had one milk cow when I was young, hand milked.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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.



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.

RS, Thanks, I did mean you.
Guess I could ask my brother, he’s retired ODOT engineer.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Here is a link to an article on fabrics there is a considerable difference in fabrics;
geo tex for roadways and driveways is considerably different then garden fabric.
The Importance of Selecting and Using the Correct Geotextile Fabric

The fabric I used in my garden appears to be very similar according to this.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The Frederick fair week has started and there are plenty of animals and equipment on display as always. Dennis are you going?

We were going to go tonight, but changed our mind. Probably go next Friday. We are disappointed the fair won’t let 4H clubs do their activities any more, like their cattle sale.
Only individual 4H members take their cows now. They are not there representing 4H. We heard the fair wanted a cut of the Sale profits, so 4H said no. Our boys were in 4H and used to take stuff to the fair. My wife used to take food entries.
We go to eat at Hemps and look at tractors and animals.

I was busy mowing today, got all mowed.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Frederick Brick Works in Frederick has the geo textiles for roads and patios

Thanks, bought bricks and rebar from them before.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Congrats on the deal BEF hope you don't stench your bones and muscles to thin.

Wife already wants me to mow it, lol. And get a driveway to at least get onto the lot.

 

[m7040]

We were going to go tonight, but changed our mind. Probably go next Friday. We are disappointed the fair won’t let 4H clubs do their activities any more, like their cattle sale.
Only individual 4H members take their cows now. They are not there representing 4H. We heard the fair wanted a cut of the Sale profits, so 4H said no. Our boys were in 4H and used to take stuff to the fair. My wife used to take food entries.
We go to eat at Hemps and look at tractors and animals.

I was busy mowing today, got all mowed.

Yes the 4H change is very regrettable. We are not going this year. We had kids in the 4H program and one was a camp counselor at the camp near Jefferson