What are y'all working on today?

We would use a bottle at first then switch to a bucket. Just get them sucking on your fingers first and then put them in the bucket. They try to drowned them selves the first couple of times but get the hang of it. I used to work with simmental and Angus! Is is nothing like trying to wrestle a couple month old calf trying to get them in a trailer to take to pasture in the summer. They would beat you bloody.

 

My BIL bucket feeds calves...no nipples.

 

Went to an equipment consignment auction, new firewood toy came home with us...

 

Final adjustments to the Jred 2077 turbo's carb,finished tidying up the mini garden area,planted some mesclun (mixed lettuces/salad greens),some yellow/red onion sets.Will finish rest of garden once the stores get their plants in a couple weeks.

Earlier in the week got a small gear puller at Ace hardware for $9 & change,pulled the clutch drum with stuck rotor & 2 good shoes from the Mac 125C.Tossed the broken pieces of the 1 shoe in the recycling bin,saved all the rest of the good parts in a small plastic Nutella jar.Everything on the saw & clutch drum looks great,from the 8 pin rim to the needle bearings & crankcase oil seals.

Yesterday ordered a new clutch assembled ready to go from Saw King (Rich Dougan) in Oregon.New spring,everything else excellent,$39 shipped.Should arrive by Thursday or Friday.

 

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Nice!! That will be as handy as a pocket on a tshirt!!

They are hands down the best attachment for a skid loader or front end loader. Such a back saver! I'd really to get a post/tree puller as well.

Father in law has a Blockbuster grapple but it only fits his Case 1840, and doesn't have a lot of grip to it. The new grapple is a Stout, built like a tank and better hose and cylinder guards... we will see if it has a better grip.

The manufacturer brings brand new units to a lot of local machinery consignment auctions. They had 4 different sized grapples, 3 post hole diggers, a few pallet forks and other attachments at this auction. The post hole diggers brought retail or better prices, but the grapples all went just under retail prices.

I'm happy to say I got the steal of the auction, I was looking for wooden line posts, they had a few hundred of used ones in good shape. I was looking at them with FIL and a buddy if mine. Buddy spouts of that he has a pile of them he would give me just for getting them out of the way... I jumped on that. Ended up with 50 line posts and 4 corners, ended up costing me a case of Coors Light... so I have $15 in cost, so about 30 cents a post... The line post at the auction went for $5 each and corners went for $9 each.... score me!

A pic of my score...

 

Around here you can get old phone poles free if you in the right place at the right time during an ice storm. Sometimes they break off for miles down certain roads.

 

I salvaged some posts last month from a old hardware/lumberyard. After pulling a pile of ringshank spikes and cleaning the ends, I ended up with about 50 posts from 6-17 ft long. Saving the long ones for a pole building for wood storage.

 

New clutch arrived & installed late this afternoon.Hadnt run the saw since mid February,forgot how loud it was! I'm sure my neighbors 2-3 blocks around remembered it however.....

 

What's that board thats under it. Says cardinal and what else in yellow?

 

Printed paper bags that originally held 50 lbs of bird seed.On top of my 23 yr old outside heavy duty workbench.I always keep a couple dozen of those empty bags around,2 of them placed underneath any saws that sit on shed or garage floor to catch any oil drips,chips,sawdust. Also lay down a couple on workbench when working on the saws.

Once they get soaked or torn up pretty good,in the burn barrel they go.

 

Ok now I see its a heavy paper sac! Says Cardinal and probably "black oil sunflower"

 

Dang Dex y'all are 70!! We havent been there in days!. We may of barely got there today but think it was 68? Yesterday the high was like 56 here?

Should of started a fire last night. I hate to admit but I let the heat pumps work

 

Gradual warmup here past few days,from low 60's to mid 70's yesterday.80 at 5PM today,quite dry though.

Upper 60's tomorrow,very good chance of rain & a thunderstorm possible.May see 1 to 2 inches by late Sunday over the western half of the state.Hope so,barely half the normal winter snowfall,only about an inch of rain in the past month.Over 3 inches below normal precip for the year so far,and with planting season about to start,that's not good.

 

We have had more than our share of rain thus winter/spring. Got a 2 week dry period to disk the garden. Back saturated now.

 

Over the winter my wife decided she wanted to try turkey hunting this year... so I'm working on getting one in range for her this weekend... had a big OLD Tom come in on our first set this morning, he got site of the decoys and took off in the other direction, smart old bird, no shot but AWESOME hunt!

Just sitting in a fence row now waiting for something to come along.


That's a tower blind for deer hunting you see in the background.

 

Best of luck on getting the wife a turkey!

 

Someone mention cows?