Dang, 27 degrees this morning, I wasn't anywhere near done with my summer projects yet, can I get a mulligan on summer, please?:whacked:
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Dang, 27 degrees this morning, I wasn't anywhere near done with my summer projects yet, can I get a mulligan on summer, please?:whacked:
Winters aren't long enough for me to get my winter projects done---damned global warming----------
So, do I have to finish my summer projects before I can start on my winter projects, or should I just give it up and go to Florida for the Winter?Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry clayton
Its muggie in Florida-go to Arizona
Florida is awesome this time of year. The summers are really tough though. You gotta have AC in the garage.
I just hope this winter doesn't extend until the middle of May and June 1 we go straight into summer. :LOL:
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What happened to summer???
I worked my way right through it!!! Seems I just woke up and it's freekin' winter!
Looking at frost this weekend and my garden is still producing!
That's what I do, but am running a little behind. The kid and his family are coming home for the annual "Eat Dead Turkey Day" so I gotta be here too :D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Severson
It snowed here last night! Not much, but snow is snow!!:mad: as I ask myself, why am I here again?
yep snow here too. didn't get all the leaves raked up yet. BUT I did get the plow put on the plow truck
We got some too. I don't have my leaves all raked up yet. Funny story on that.... Our yard waste gets picked up on trash days which is Thursday for us. I took the kids to school yesterday and then came back and loaded the yard waste can up. I mean it was crammed full. The wife and I took our oldest to the doctor to get her broken finger checked out because she broke it 3 weeks ago. We were almost home after taking Izzy to school and Allyson turned the corner. I noticed the trash was picked up, and WTF? Our yard waste can is gone. I thought at first maybe it got knocked back or something. Nope, it is just flat gone. We saw the trash truck a couple streets down and the driver was on break. We went up to his door and told him our can was gone and he swears it wasn't in the back of his truck. I know times are tough, but why the heck would some one steal a yard waste can especially when they give you the can to use for free. It's part of our city taxes. I'm still betting that can is at the land fill with the rest of the leaves right now. :LOL:
Our county uses convicts to pick up trash, and I'm convinced they threw my industrial waste container into the compactor, rather than pull the bubble wrap out of it. I had plumb stuffed it with the mass amounts of bubble wrap which was used to ship my four post lift. I should have put the wrap into trash bags
I do not remember summers going by this fast,it went from the 90s to the 50s and kept on getting colder.
Still summer here. Will also be summer in December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, etc., etc......... Jeff, I spent 1954 to 1963 in Dayton and was glad to escape. No more snow/ice for me.
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I will be down your way in a couple weeks but only for a short time then back to reality.Quote:
Originally Posted by techinspector1
We just finished the last of the corn on Saturday and it was around 27* with winds in the 30s-40s. Once the sun went away it dropped into the teens and none of the pit augers wanted to work at first. I know they're glad to be done but now it's a race to finish ground work and applying anhydrous.
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Most are getting finished up combining around here, too. This is one of those years that I'm really glad I don't farm anymore!
2nd snow dropped here friday night!!!..feel bad for the farmers around this area. Fall was Rain followed by more rain, then rain again! Tractors couldn't get thru the fields! Now with the colder weather at least they can get onto their fields and harvest!
we had hell this year. rain in spring screwed up hay cutting. then no rain during summer . got a good rain at the end to give folks a good cutting for winter feed but the army worms destroyed a lot . never seen them so bad .
It's been a tough year all over for agriculture! It's been so wet around here, lots of hay got rained on when it was down and now combining corn and beans for many has been a matter of pulling the combine out of one mud hole so that it can go get stuck in the next one! I'd guess hay especially is going to get quite expensive this winter.
coastal round bales here are 95 to 150 . i sold the last of my 2016 hay for 50 . everybody sold off herds during summer rather than feed . going to be big bucks to restock .
My garden survived the frost, and it looks like I'll have at least another week above freezing.
I'm betting the hay market will be rising especially with more fires in California. There are a lot of dairies in that area if I remember correctly. I just helped my mom haul her winter supply home on Saturday. Hopefully her 12 bales will get her through. Currently large round bales are bringing $65/bale. Of course it did more winter activity during all this too. Haha
In the 80's when the big drought hit in Montana and Wyoming, we were hauling hay out west, some of the prices then were outrageous with big rounds and squares bringing crazy prices of $150.00 each and up! "Idiot cubes" (aka small square bales) of good alfalfa were even higher! I was still involved with farming then and remember some made more money off hay then they did corn and beans that were dirt cheap for a bunch of years there!
Ryan, is that a tri axle trailer.? I'm curious what kind of weight is/was on there.
If you know, I'd appreciate it.
Mike, yes, it is a 3 axle trailer. Each axle is rated for 8k. The trailer used to be a pintle hitch trailer that was used to haul a massive trencher. It got broke nearly in half in the late 90s. The original owner had it sent to a shop and had it fixed. When they did they used 3/8" thick 4x4 angle iron and plated the frame inside and out. Then they made it a goose neck as well and re did the beaver tail. They should have lengthened the trailer in between where the hitch was put on and the front axle. The trailer puts very little tongue weight on the truck unless you put the weight clear up front like this scenario. The trailer weighs 5500 with nothing on it. The first load was 25,380. The 2nd it was getting dark so I didn't bother going and weighing it. :LOL: That 2018 F350 didn't bat an eye. It has a cool engine brake feature among a lot of other nice features. I didn't want to use it and fall in love. HahaQuote:
Originally Posted by 34_40
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That's an impressive load. And the stack overhanging at the front caught my eye. DoT over here would've loved to see that one! LOL..
The local cops would've frowned but looked the other way. Good to hear that the truck handled it just fine. I am skeptical of the new trucks and all the claims. We have two late models at work an F-550 and a 450. They spend as much time in the shop as they do working. Silly problems too. the older of the 2 was 3 years old when the fuel tank "rotted"!!! The dealer says it's common also! Oh, and the wiring / computer "glitches" just leave me frustrated. I would not want to own one!
Yeah, the DOT here would not have approved either. But I made 3 loads into 2 and it was safe. It wasn't any wider than white line to my lane's yellow line. I just had to make sure to look up and far ahead when coming into narrow bridges etc. I took back roads as well and diverted around towns. I really need to build a round bale trailer but my list is long enough. :LOL:
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Now that's an understatement!! :LOL::LOL::LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe
Or you could really leave it at 3 trips, not two.:rolleyes:
i'm not even going to admit to how many bales we haul around here :) but usually a 34 ft trailer double stacked.
I've had 10 large rounds on that trailer but it gets to be a PITA with those rear ramps. It takes 2 people to strap them up and when things shift you have to keep stopping to check. Plus then the ramps almost drag going across intersections etc. Just more head aches :LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by shine
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Back during the same drought in the 80's, our S. Dakota Governor, Bill Janklow, removed all the height and weight restrictions on loads of hay going west to Montana and Wyoming, you should have seen some of the loads leaving the hay yards around Yankton, SD and heading West!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by shine