Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 77 going to 88 and cloudy now.
After Drews tree cutting party took dog to peddlars village for a walk.
Later out to diner.

Today either a car/tractor show in Lambertville or to the beach, depending on weather.

Happy birthday Kyle !

Be well,

Packed and ready to go

Having a tractor and rope/pully made this one easy to take down.
There was some kind of metal in the mid-section though. Seeing sparks while cutting is never a good thing, no damage to chain though, and it sharpened up fine

Rabbit staring us down when we got home

 

[Buppies]

Nice photos Ken

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thank you to all for the Happy Birthday wishes! A great group of men.

Popgadget, do you program your smaller holes a little oversize or use cutter comp, or slow your feed down? Wondering if your cnc has a "look ahead" feature, which can reduce the herky jerky movements from a system. On many high dollar cnc mills, when interpolating a small hole, it works best to slow the endmill's feedrate down to help hold tolerance. Anyway, if it is working well, keep going.

Phil, absolutely beautiful work.

Ron, love the pics! Really liked the turkey chicks/mom the other day. What a bird friendly place you have. I bet many are annual returners.

Going to change up my pond rake design, by shortening and lightening it for a first edition. Will have to drill 2 holes in the tractor bucket. Will have only 1 pole reaching out. I have an old basketball pole. Need to bring home some really old stock from work that I will make into tines. Trying to just use old stuff that have otherwise went into a scap pile.

cleaned up some of the fabrication mess we made in the barn. Will have to do it again after next round.

Steiner beast's kubota diesel motor is not wanting to run right. Falls on it's face when you try to raise rpm's. Really hard to start too. Hope it might just be a fuel filter, but will have to dig into it soon.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Ken and team, thanks for helping Drew out!

 

[m7040]

Tree cutting in progress. First up is raising the canopy over the driveway cutting back to the base of the trees so it will last a few years before a repeat. Fortunately the grass has dried out so the truck had traction to haul up the trailer to the dumping spot. Still a long stretch of driveway to go. 5 trees to come down is next

 

[daugen]

a busy but successful morning.
did some food shopping, then went to TSC for roundup, then stopped at Popgadget's on way home and we installed dash speakers in
my car. Due to limited clearance, hard to get crimpers in, I was going to use lever butt connectors. But Paul suggested a much better way, cut off the oem connector and solder it on the new speaker. Which we did. And YES, it really does sound better, clearer midrange, finally hear cymbals in music, music seems alive now instead of muted. Mission accomplished.

stopped at farm stand on way home to buy local corn, and bought some for my neighbor.
wow, a dollar an ear, dozen for ten bucks. Most expensive corn I've ever seen. US average is 5-8 bucks a dozen.

 

[rswyan]

78F and mostly cloudy @ 11:00, heading up to around 80F for the day's high with a chance (24%) of a stray shower or thunderstorm (which would be welcome) Winds out of the WNW @ 10 to 15.

Not much materialized in the way of rain yesterday ... just a couple of drops here and there.

Large area of rain off to the west in IN and IL tracking east, no indication that we get any of it ... nothing really on the menu for the next 5 days.

Woman mostly worked on weeding the brassicas yesterday, got that about half done. Hope She can finish it up today.

Got the soaker laid down there inbetween the 2 rows about half the total length, hope to finish that up as well.

I spent most of the day working in the woods over on the west side, removing more large saplings and raking/clearing debris from around the larger trees that will stay.

Woman came over later in the afternoon to get out of the sun and helped with that, trimming off small saplings with the loppers at ground level so they weren't poking at the belly of the Kubota.

Am now at the point where I'm back to a large maple trunk (16" to 18") that broke off and came down last year or the year before. Not really sure if I will be able to move it in one piece or not. May have to do more clearing to even get to it.

Attempted to locate corner pins ... without a whole lot of success.

We know that the 3 or 4 adjoining north lots on the west side are marked with iron pipes driven into the ground. Not sure if it's the same deal for the ones on the southern end. They might be marked ... or not.

They were marked with wooden stake when the gas company surveyed it to put in the well. Really, really wish I had taken the opportunity then to mark them permanently ... or had at least made the effort to verify that there were existing permanent markers at those locations.

There's a considerable amount of poison ivy growing back there. Will probably hit the areas around the larger trees which are clearly not near the property line with glyphosate to kill off what's growing around those.

Then give the entire area a couple of weeks before hitting it again for new growth to emerge prior to seeding it with grass seed.

Woman has blueberry picking on Her agenda today.

Probably do some watering with soaker hoses and Water Buffalo.

Other than that see what else comes up.

Pumpkins on east edge of flower bed are starting to take off, lots of yellow wax beans sprouting.

Hope everyone is having a decent Sunday.

Happy belated birthday to Kyle !

 

[daugen]

RS, once you find it...these are cheap and easy.
after wooden stake hit by lawn crew, since my place was just surveyed, now is the time
to pound those stakes in.
the value of the survey is supposed to be long term, but lose the marker, and well.....

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[daugen]

ten years ago I learned a new word.
huffing
when teenagers inhale glue and lose consciousness, in this case winding up in neighbors soy beans and
needing a medivac chopper. If any brain cells left, hope it was a learning experience.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and 1.2 inches rain. A wet one

Pretty much an inside day yesterday and today could be a repeat. No problem.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day