The Ph00 House is officially open and ready for business. Yeh, we have that other stuff for the less sophisticated ones among us..............

Rise, shine, enjoy - - a new week is upon us. It is going to be a good one.

...........................................

Bob

 

Why do you farmers DO that? About 2/3rds of all the farmers I have ever known will watch the weather, see that it's going to rain in a couple days, then chop hay KNOWING they aren't going to be able to get it in before the rain.

Thanks for the c0ffee B0b! Good raisins you left on the counter too. Fresh! Shoulda left them in the box tho, good thing the ants didn't get to them.


Today is Sunday, the first day of September. That would make it September 1st.

1799 - The Bank of Manhattan Company opened in New York City, NY. It was the forerunner of Chase Manhattan.

1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.

1810 - The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by John J. Wood.

1859 - The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service.

1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.

1884 - The Thomas A. Edison Construction Department and the Edison Company for Isolated Lighting merged.

1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.

1894 - A forest fire in Hinckley, MN, killed more than 400 people.

1897 - The first section of Boston's subway system was opened.

1905 - Saskatchewan and Alberta became the ninth and tenth provinces of Canada.

1923 - About 100,000 people were killed when an earthquake hit Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan.

1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.

1942 - A federal judge in Sacramento, CA, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.

1945 - The U.S. received official word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. In Japan, it was actually September 2nd.

1979 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn.

1983 - A Soviet jet fighter shot down a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 when it entered Soviet airspace. 269 people were killed.

1985 - The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast.

1997 - In France, the prosecutor's office announced that the driver of the car, in which Britain's Princess Diana was killed, was over the legal alcohol limit.

1998 - The movie "Titanic" went on sale across North America.

1998 - Vietnam released 5,000 prisoners, including political dissidents, on National Day.

1999 - Twenty-two of major league baseball's 68 permanent umpires were replaced. The problem arose from their union's failed attempt to force an early start to negotiations for a new labor contract.

Today's thought:
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Remember to TOB&F today.

 

Morning all

 

Good day to all.

Going fishing with my daughter at a nearby reservoir then over to the in-laws for their 55th anniversary and a football game.

Then I get to pull the slip tank from the truck to find the leak.

I see the Doc on Tues about my Achilles which is not responding favorably to the dextrose injections.

Yo Scott I'll msg you on Tues as I expect to be down your way on Thursday.



Those aren't raisins.

 

Good morning all y'all. It is a beautiful day on the dry side of the Rockies. Not a cloud in sight, no wind yet and I can see about 150 miles of mountains on the western horizon. This weather pattern is supposed to hold for a few more days. That is all good.

NEFarmahnd - how many cuts of hay do you get per year? About 95% of the hay fields up here get one cut a year. There are a few fields that have a lot of alfalfa that sometimes get a second cut BUT the second cut is only about a third as big as the first one. Grain harvest is due to start in a week - barley, wheat, canola etc. It is awesome in late September to see the line of 6 or 7 massive combines coming over the horizon at 11pm with the lights all on high. It looks like something out of 'Close Encounters of a Third Kind'.
The crazy thing is that those machines often cost 3/4 of a million bucks and they get used for 3 or so weeks a year. And we all grumble about the operating cost of our trucks. Those big combines are way worse.

Have an awesome day everyone, back here later.

 

Rain? In southwest Nebraska? Yeah, right!!! Well, it actually has rained here lately. Got another inch-2 inches last night. All I can figure is Lavern's new swather must not have a conditioner it in, because it was just about ready to bale the other night when rain hit. A week for hay to dry, granted this was pretty thick, seems long to me.

It's a gamble. Sometimes a low chance of rain gets you soaked, sometimes a good chance leaves you dry. Sometimes a clear forecast this morning calls for a week of rain tonight. Sometimes hay will dry right down, others it just sits and sits and sits, you tedd it, rake it, rake it, and you roll it up so that it can sit there in the round bale and continue to dry for a few more weeks before you haul it home.

Grandpa used to watch the weather, then go cut, even if they said rain. He didn't get much hay wet. He was also an aerographer's mate in the Navy. Old Polish neighbor almost never got hay wet either. Don't know what his trick was.
On unirrigated alfalfa, 2 in a good year, 3 in an exceptional year. On irrigated you can get more, but we usually put cane on a pivot after wheat is cut, then cut it and put wheat back on afterward. If you could get cane or sorghum/sudangrass drilled early and keep the water to it, I don't know how much you could get off a pivot in a summer. First thing I did here when I started was hauling 380 bales off the pivot that they had put cane on that year. And that wasn't a full size pivot, with 5x6 round bales, just one cutting.

Back in Pennsylvania, we could easily get a third cutting, if it wasn't too dry, and in a good year we could get 4. Yield decreases with each cutting, but later ones tend to grow more leaves and less stalk, so quality is much better. The stalk is mostly fiber, the leaf is where the nutrients are in forages.
Boss wants to try some corn this week. We had a few weeks of cool weather and some rain, then a couple hot weeks, and the corn really took of once it heated back up.
That's why there are custom harvesters. They can buy a combine and run it for half the year instead of for a couple months. There's several guys around here who have brand new machines. The boss had to replace the 9660 after the frame broke and ruined a bunch of internal stuff. It's the next larger, next series newer model he replaced it with, but it sure isn't a new machine!!! Even a low-hour combine, if it's more than 3-4 years old, can be a 50-60% cost savings over new.

 

Sounds like more work for you too.

Seems like the hay has 12 times as much dust if it gets wet before you can get it baled.

Scott, making hay is like having kids. If you wait until everything is just perfect and you know you're ready you'll never have any. The only way to get a second cut on a field is to get the first one off. Sometimes you just have to say I've got the time this week and go for it.

Afternoon all.

 

................................UUHHHH, Scott - - - so solly, but them ain't raisins, big boy. I cleaned everything up before heading out but I couldn't catch several of the rabbits that were running around breakroom - - caught a bunch and put them out, but man those things are quick. Really sorry about that. Glad you enjoyed the pellets anyhow....................

Rain, rain, rain down here. Boy we have had it this summer. Quite a bit above our average and my lawn man is having a fit trying to keep up. Has not had time to do much, if any, plant trimming. I tried to help him out, but I have been snowed too.

Ph00 - - - - more ph00....................................UMMM GOOD.

 

That's pretty much anything in farming. You only know you had the timing perfect once you're done.

 

Howdy, thanks for the breakroom Bob, the history lesson Scot, and good afternoon to everybody else.

I reached a point with this place where I haven't done hardly any major work in years. The new addition still needs to be taped and mudded.
I have sheet rock to put back up downstairs from doing rewiring and plumbing and loads of other stuff.
We have looked at it for so long we don't even notice that the house is only 4/5's of the way done.
I may wind up having to hire somebody to finish it since I lack the motivation.

I was just reading about a rainbow trout caught on the Kanektok River this week that had eaten 20 shrews just before it was caught.
http://midcurrent.com/2013/09/01/big-eater/
They don't say how much it weighed.
~

 

aww Barky bark, i'll knock that out for ya. but I don't sleep with shrews....

will be in California then Nevada. sw flight points woo hooo

feel like a wrung out rag. three more cords firewood done. our own, so tree tractor hauling with the grapple, second son learning to operate safely. so we cut and split fast enough to keep pace with him bringing in new logs.

humid all day, storms now with light show. waiting for hot tub, now skeered to be in it.

fraid i'll look like traddy.....ba ZOT!!!!!

Hi Mountaineer!!! thanks for stoppong bye!~

we are in third hay cut, mostly timothy, alfafa.

 

morning yall...
I gotta head back to texas tomorrow...

 

Uh oh. Now you got me worried (about Déjà vu).

Beats sleeping with the fishes.

I wont be in NV until the end of Oct (couple of free nights at the Peppermill we have to use). Starting the drive in about 10 days. Should be in CA in a few weeks.
Keeps getting harder to find free spots on the Vegas strip to park the rig. Luxor will still let us park in the fenced area where the big wigs park their buses.
A lot of the other casinos are frowning on tying up 40+ft of parking even if you get a room.
Used to be you could bluff your way into all kinds of free stuff but now they keep track of everything with computers so they know I am a cheapskate.
They even have you swipe a card when playing Black Jack nowadays and you cant even find a $2 dollar table anymore.
Life must be good if that's what I have to complain about today.

 

Hello all, hope everyone has found their summer well.

Busy busy busy. This is how you set a side puller on a new carrier. Nice to have the right equipment for the job!

 

Ever heard of suctioning out and re-filling the hi-pressure oil pump reservoir on a 7.3 Powerjoke at every oil change? Me neither. Apparently if you don't, that 6-7% of the old oil that you don't get drained will contaminate your new oil and clog up your injectors and cause you to have to replace them all regularly.

I'm guessing most people with those engines don't do it that often, and unless I was pulling samples and running extended service intervals I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Got my truck back on its feet tonight. Finished up just after the sun went down. Have to get someone to help bleed the brakes properly and then I think a bit of a road trip is in order. You can use a 6pt deep socket on the bleeder, and it will hold enough fluid to get them good enough to move it, but it leaves a funky (inconsistent) pedal.

New ball joints on the left side, all new front wheel bearings, races, rotors, pads, calipers, and hoses. Should be good to go for a while. Or at least til I can get new control arms and better ball joints.

Getting the coil spring back in on top of the control arm didn't take that much fenegalling. I thought it was fairly easy.