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Some pics of Dane county breakfast on the Farm

Been putting Annhydrous on corn between rain storms. Still have about 3 days left. Also still plugging away at first cutting hay. Down to a 30 acre custom job yet to do. Then we're done with 1st cutting.

First day of hay season. Put the 472 on one of the old guys’ tractor to open a field up for him. Then turned Curt loose with his noisy diesel. The orchard grass was really nice in this field. Cut the field at home with the Super MTA. Ended the day with a test of the 1495 swather. Where has this been all my life??? Made quick work out of this acre at the house.

Bush hogged water retention ponds with the 756. Grass was as high as the hood. Thick had to run in 2nd low. Got stuck on 1st pass. Had to get friends 4 wheel drive Massey to get get me out.

Used the 856 to play musical plows. Decided to work on the MONOFRAME while I'm searching for parts for the 546 Ollie. It would be fun to try both of them out this fall. Oh, almost forgot, put a cylinder on the fasthitch blade on 756D. Pivots real easy now!

We have to get a handle on this monopoly situation or it's over. You can't have a processing cartel and expect good results. Grain farming is a train wreck because there's a cartel on the front side and another (or a branch of the same one) on the back side and smack dab in the middle is the G making the world safe for consolidation. Brooke Rollins has a tough row to hoe and two years left to make things happen. It took a few generations to arrive at the point of no return and it will require vigilance and hard work to unravel this snake mating ball of collusion. Vote like your life depends on it because it does.

Went for a 4 Mile road trip last night to move some hay bales around.

Rakes some hay with the H yesterday.

Better him than Soros

The old farm, the barn attached to the house is no longer the one i knew when I was a kid. The farm is a mess today, when my parents were renters there it had to be very clean.

It’s a good feeling to bring back a piece of equipment from the dead!

Not quite sunset but close enough to get the fall pairs home and corraled before it got too dark to see After a hot windy day, it turned into a beautiful evening Calves got weaned today so good start to the weekend

Baling wheat hay during sunset last evening. 12 hours seat time yesterday between raking and baling. Based on the aching legs at the end of the day I’m thinking I might not be 18 anymore

Or Gates.

You got that right What has Soros done to advance humanity? Oh wait he invented a way to speed up the revolving door of justice

Always be first into bed to get the best spot

An event last nite for sure. Ended up 6th out of 8. Clutch is cooked, headgasket shot. Otherwise a successful nite.

The bulge comment caught my attention. Bulged like it was made that way or hit from the inside. Recently or sometime past. Scenario that comes to mind. Tractor is freewheeling down hill. Operater throws lever ahead to slow down. Tremendous speed of the little flywheel caused by the planetaries coupled with the strain and heat of the clutch trying to stop is enough to cause the flywheel to come unglued. If this is true. You may need a new disc. You certainly will need a new pressure plate and flywheel worse. Examine housing close. Have had fragments knock holes in filter housing.

You can control the data, hard to control independent cattle producers!

Easier to pass for data centers than food for the masses…ridiculous

I heard them talking on the radio about the closure in Pennsylvania and the person talking said that they could not source enough cattle for the plant as one of the major reasons for the closure. I don’t know if it’s true or not, they could just be dreaming up reasons to do what they already wanted to do.

No. You can use pretty much any hydraulic oil you have, or want. Even the super cheap stuff that comes in a yellow bucket is fine. The tractor is simple and well out of warranty.

Also. What a 200lb difference makes on the chappy

https://www.messicks.com/catalogs/case/510-international-harvester-end-wheel-grain-d/00-complete-machine/a-a-26-grain-feed-shaft Item #4 turns on #3. I do not recall any bushings inside of 4. Why not just pull the feed shaft out and take it apart and clean it up? Probably take you a day to do.

Looks like the one we had. I recall it having Pirelli tires on it from the factory. They still had lots of tread on them when we sold it but they were checked really bad.

Our older dog, Hank, has been like that since he turned 2. He just turned 10 a few weeks ago and he will growl if you interrupt his nap time.

Huge believer that money nor possessions have never, and will never buy happiness - certainly not for me, anyway - the people and the love around me will always make me richer than what my bank account has to say. That being said, hes doing some pretty great stuff and hes helped others to do the same, so good for him!

The title of this reminds me of that song "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses." 😁

250th anniversary celebration pumpjack near Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I couldn't agree more, Gate's involvement in the Covid fiasco will probably never be known but his involvement in Africa and Polio is, what a POS. You can't really expect much from a guy who stole an idea and then made millions from it, at least Paul Allen funded Burt Rutan in his private conquest of space, probably knowledge used in the Space X program as well. Huge kudos to Musk and his endeavors, I don't know him, of course, but I think, or I should say "I feel" that he is a good person and wants to do the right thing, more power to him.

I was out early this morning on a parts run, up and had coffee about 20 min before the alarm went off. I picked him up to snatch him off the end of the bed before he had been “properly” awakened by the alarm. He growled at me.

The "free" air-compressor is almost finished and ready to bolt to the floor. Not exactly free, have about $400-450 in getting it back in fighting shape. Saw a new one like it at Northern this week, $1600.

Don't matter if they're venomous or not to me... Satan's jump-ropes have no place around me!

Porsche Junior diesel

Ford 8N's

Old tractor show in Otelfingen Switzerland today Hurlimann 1K10

Agrar farm equipment factory in Balterswil

One of my hobbies other than wrenching on old iron is building lego models of stuff. Machines, trucks, tractors, engines, etc. Here is one of my latest projects, a Farmall H model I came up with. I started by modeling the engine, then made the grille and hood to fit it, and finished by building the rear end. It even has a set of bevel gears in the rear end to run a ground driven PTO. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out, though I wish I didn't have to make the wheels black (they don't exist in red). Hope you guys like it! Oh, and if any of you have kids or grandkids who'd like to build one, instructions are available here: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-251256/LegoLord1880/farmall-h/#details Use coupon code "RPM MEMBER" to get it 50% off until February 24

The Famous quote attributed to Mark Twain is still relevant today. "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over" India and Pakistan have been in a limited war for some time. Pakistan gets 3/4 of its water from India with proscribed by a treat from 1960. India is threatening to shut off the water to Pakistan. Pakistan relies on this water for it's expensive irrigation system and a disruption could cause disruptions in crop production. I'm not sure India can actually shut it all off immediately but they certainly can disrupt flows. If the water don't flow at the right time, irrigation can be substantially disrupted. It seems wars are a major driver of crop prices. https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/india-pakistan-indus-water-treaty-modi-b2993159.html

This is not what you want in your yard!! And yes it’s got rattles!!

Your main issue is your butterfly valves in the intake manifold aren't opening and closing properly, it sounds like the butterflies are sticking closed or partially closed. Your best bet would be to take the intake manifold off and make sure those butterflies open and close freely. Here is a good video on that from Just a Few Acres Farm. Another thing to check is that there are no restrictions or buildups in the air intake lines and manifold. This could also cause the tractor to run away. You might want to also check that the linkages to the manifold and the carburetor move freely too. Good luck!

No doubt that there are more than a few dummies if given the opportunity to rob Musk's mansion would be stunned when they did not find a trillion dollars in Musk's safe. As said above better Musk given his ventures than Soros or somebody just like him and his/theirs objectives.

There's haters out there that don't realize how many he's brought up with him. Good for him!

His net worth is based in stocks, which are based on hype; hype coming from said confidence man. The wealth funnels and amasses upwards.

Got a 1950 Farmall M restored after 3 years. It was a long time after having to swap the motor because of a cracked block. Now we have a good running engine but not much oil pressure when it gets hot. Planning on putting a set of main bearings in it and that should take care of it. Only thing that gets annoying is when the fuel filter gets clogged because of a dirty gas tank. Gonna just keep running it and it should clean up in a couple years.