Baby bottle calves are surprisingly fragile. You have to recognize health issues immediately and get on it right away. A sick calf is a dead calf....
Menards, $8 per gallon with the 11% rebate. I buy all my logging and saw supplies there, cheapest I've found anywhere, even online.
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We went down to Ames early yesterday and moved my daughter out of her dorm at Iowa State. She was paying big bucks for what should have been a...
We went to Marshalltown and cleaned up my mother-in-law's yard today. My wife took both my generators down a few days ago when it looked like the...
I got a new tractor, a big M! I grew up farming with M's and H's. The first tractor I bought when I got my own farm was an H and I've always...
The last of the does came in today. Overall had a pretty good year. A few kid pics and one of Agnes, our new Great Pyrenees in training....
Have you ever tried a hammock? You can use a sleeping bag with a reflective pad, but what really works is an underquilt on the bottom and a top...
I wouldn't use any concrete at all. What I do is just set the post in the hole and backfill with crushed rock, like with what we call a 1''...
I thought he was being mighty optimistic about clearing and grubbing in those conditions with a loader cat. An excavator? Maybe. But once you...
I think I'd probably steer clear of the excavator. If that was my job your ears would be ringing with me cussing you out for cutting the stumps...
I spent the better part of the day trying to get a couple of the big excavators running to go and clear drifted snow out of cuts for the railroad....
I usually clear and grub several miles of fencelines every year. Sometimes I'll take my gooseneck and grab a load of nice straight ash if there is...
I chuck them out on the manure pile. If the pens have a lot of snow and ice I'll spread it in there, adds a little dark to help melt and it blends...
I ate way too much venison as a kid, don't really care for it today. But beings we're overrun with the woods rats, I try to take a few out every...
Have at least two, if not more, overhead doors for work bays. That way you can have one "long-term" project bay, and one for emergency or quick...
Yeah, I found that info easy enough. But that says nothing about getting certified and providing proof to the council. For example with youth...
Is anybody here BSA chainsaw certified, and if so what does it consist of? Is it just your ordinary watch a video then take a test, or is it more...
If you're going to do that, wrap a piece of erosion fabric, or roofing or landscaping fabric if you can't get any, tightly around the pipe under...
Too wet to do much this weekend, got another 7 or 8 inches of rain this week. So headed out to the cabin and watched the water rise. Smoked a pork...
