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Well I guess getting stuck is part of haying too! There is a spring at the base of the mountain and it makes some really nice grass at the back end of this field. Just a few acres. The water is usually in a little depression not quit to the back fence but that was dry. It wasn’t dry in the corner. Fell right in. Walked out, got the SMTA and my buddy to yank me out. Took a few tries but got it done. Hasn’t really rained in a month but the spring is still going strong. I’ll take the Super A with the sickle mower over there tomorrow and cut the patch. I’ll be able to stay on top with that. Too nice of hay to leave behind.

i have my ways, ( there was an old quarry op on our land and they left most of it) lots of oil wells and pipes and everyone around me has scrap and there all old and pay me to get id of it, so i basicly get paid to be paid

So loooong story cut short because I dont tend to speak on it much; but I had cancer when I was 25 and as a result of treatment and operations, I developed lymphoedema in my left leg - its progressively gotten bigger and bigger ever since, for the most part I ignored it, as I do most things when it comes to physical ailments. Anyways, they gave me compression to wear 24/7 in the initial stages - and since then the care has increased and improved. I now (usually) wear a fully personalised stocking which is made to my leg measurements every six months, I have bandaging at home to self treat, and I was also given this amazing machine - called a Lymph Assist/Lymph Flow machine - my leg goes into the full cuff - and it moves excess fluid up and out of my leg, it has multiple settings for pressure and different cycles - anyhow, the cycles take 45 minutes+ and as a busy mum, I never really stuck to using it regularly. Just lately, since May, I decided that I had to start looking after myself better, I'd been given this second chance and frankly I was wasting it in a lot of ways. I've started walking daily, sometimes up to 10 miles on a good day with supportive walk mates, I have started swimming AND I've started using my pump- every single night without fail. I had a 6 month check with my nurses today and I'm absolutely over the moon with how it went - I was 45lbs lighter than 6 months ago AND my leg has improved so much, they have now changed my full length stocking to one that only goes to my knee and I know that medical science is partly to thank for it, I cant imagine how people suffered before these technologies and its been 9 years since I've been able to walk around without a full leg stocking on, I'll never not have lymphoedema but the progress is extraordinary, my nurses were amazed. 😭🥳 If you know anyone with lymphoedema in either their legs or arms, whether it is secondary to a cancer treatment, or they were born with it - I cannot recommend this teeny tiny machine loudly enough. There is a lot of things in my life that still need to change, but the progress is starting to really tip the scales over here 🤩 (My machine is a Haddenham pulsepress - I'm not sure if they supply the US or not, but I'm sure if not they'll have companies that do make them very similar)

I had some lymph nodes removed in my left armpit when I was 38 during a cancer surgery. Lymphedema was a possible side effect, but I never experienced it. I consider it a miracle that I am alive, since the cancer was caught as almost an accident. There was an acquaintance of mine who was the father of someone I went to school with who was diagnosed at almost the same time as me. We both went to the same doctor. His cancer spread to his brain and he died. Mine was cured with only surgery and as of yet has not returned. You just never know. I thank God I am here for my young kids and wife.

I can't bring myself to look at it long enough to tell!🤮. I was hoping it had dropped down the thread far enough to never see it again!🙈

Submitted two 30-40 page written reports, one on automation and controls, the other on Electrical Machines Management and gave a 35 minute presentation on the later. 100%, 100% & 100% marks. Also wrote two tests today, went batter than I thought on the thermodynamics. Don’t have those marks yet but I went into thermo thinking 0% and my answers seemed in line with the rest of the class while talking afterwards… final exams in two weeks, pressure is off, time to study thermodynamics hard asf.

A rare low crop WD https://www.facebook.com/reel/972336712500939

My brother direct markets as much of our beef as he can. He has never sold more than 20 in a year and usually less than that. The major problem that we have is people think it’s going to be a lot cheaper to buy direct. They never want to process it themselves and when they find out what it costs, they aren’t interested. Many people can’t come up with enough money for that much beef all at once, even a 1/4 or 1/2. We could not even begin to direct market all of ours. Plus dealing with the public is just awful in general. I don’t know of anyone around here that is direct selling more than single digit animals in a year. It’s uphill business. I have never heard of anyone who can sell enough to make a living doing it.

I would suggest, Rustred, that question is best left unsaid........ Mike

I have been mauled worse by black cows than all of the rest combined. Probably a good part of my HATE for the black cattle. Didn’t help that the only black steer I ever showed, years ago, won the class, but wouldn’t grade well enough to pay for the feed, let alone pay for him. Fed exactly the same as all the others I had showed and wouldn’t place in the carcass class. Just like tractors, vehicles, oils or anything else, our experience determines how we respond to it. I have been around some really nice eared cattle, also some man killers from the same place. I USED to really enjoy the man killers, 40 years ago. Now I love my Pinzgauer cows who come running when I call their names. Poor excuse for a cowboy, I know!!

I heard the guy that came up with the heat index passed away recently. He was 89, but reportedly felt like he was 107.

I think it’s pretty obvious that what works for 1 part of the world doesn’t work in ALL parts of the world. I am willing to bet BIG MONEY, that the feeders in western Kansas are wishing they had a bunch of eared cattle in the pens, instead of a bunch of dead black cattle heading to the rendering plant.

No, somebody built that for whatever reason. I've seen 'Low B's' but a low WD 45 is a new one on me. I truly envy those who have enough time to build stuff like that. Wish they would come over and help with the garden, mowing, and whatever else it is that I do that keeps me from doing stuff like that!

To GBell966, If you or anyone else were to purchase that tractor and loader, the FIRST THING to do is slide both rear wheel centers out on the axles and get them set MUCH WIDER than they are in pictures. Wide front axle as opposed to tricycle front will not be of much difference in preventing a side roll-over. Rear wheels set WIDE apart is most important, but even then roll-over can happen with a heavy load lifted high and tractor on a side slope or in motion turning left or right. Liquid filled rear tires or a stack of iron weights on wheel centers are important also.

Photo of Bob Thorndike’s log truck driven by Bruce Ladd commuting to the job. Kennebec River and Swan Island in Maine There are no bridges to the seven mile long island One summer a massive wind storm took down hundreds of virgin pine trees. The only option was to send logging trucks over on the ferry and bring the destroyed trees back all loaded for the mills. Backing on the ferry https://www.facebook.com/jerome.patadis/videos/1714706389801690/

The kool aid tasted pretty good. All I can say when we switched to majority black angus or angus with some simmental cross. We went from being picked apart farmer cattle with rat tail short hair calves from the traits of the cows and bulls. To selling 45 to 50 calves in a bunch and the sales barn using the price our calves brought to attract the neighbors cattle. Not every year did we top the market but it was over 50% of the time. Red cattle sell good in bunches also. But when cattle feeders want drug free angus steers for top dollar that’s what you strive to give them. Again when we started 35 years ago ourselves in cattle we had ones and twos of every breed, A rainbow herd they call it. Since then you take pride in the herd and try to make it the best you can.

My dad hasnt been back online since adding this to the group chat... At what point do you report a grown man as a missing person 🤔

3rd world no need to worry about DOT Nice truck though https://www.facebook.com/reel/1495525915127403

Cleaning out my grandfather’s garage.. mostly what we have lying around is sh!t. Gramp never found anything he didn’t want to save, the depression left its mark deep on him.

A few days ago, a cousin called me asking if I'd be interested in three old Farmall tractors... of course I am! Long story short, I got a wide and narrow front 400 LP and a single front 450 LP for under scrap price. He unloaded them for me on Wednesday, and I set to work. I decided that the single front 450 (last photo) would be the best one to start on, as it had nearly new looking oil and appears to be only lightly stuck. The others are stuck hard, and had about five gallons of water in the oil pans, so they will be the parts donors. Today, I drug the single front up by the shop and started to work on it. The engine is locked up, so I set it soaking with a bit of help on the crank pulley: It was also stuck in 1st gear, but a bit of Kroil and a long bar got it back in neutral. I'm sure I'll have a lot of questions as I go along, but for now my focus is on getting the engine moving. At that point, I'll start going through everything else little by little and hopefully have a running, driving tractor by this time next year.

I did mow it with an IH model 1100 mowers. A 7 foot bar and a 9 foot bar. The 7 footer is in REALLY good shape. The 9 footer is okay other than it has old guards with ledger plates.

...huh...thats no big deal..... ..our IH tractors came from America.. Mike

Im not parting it out. I also have a 5488 mfwd late model.

I imagine there'll be a few bidders fighting over it even if it is a little on the rougher side of most fire department pickups I've seen sell, even of that vintage. I'm surprised that department went with the 292 instead of springing for a 350.

Big reason to put too much tractor on a small square baler is to dampen the plunger rock. We usually powered our small square balers with a 686 diesel and sometimes used a 766. Just recently I was working on a JD 24 T and for convenience put a B Farmall on it to power it empty. The plunger rocked the tractor so bad I abandoned any notion of attempting to bale with it.

I can kinda see wanting the bigger machine on the baler, but in my mind it's also hard to justify using 65+ horsepower on a 35hp job... sorta like starting a 2+2 to plow the kitchen garden... you can do it, but it's a little bit much. It's also been my experience (baled a long time with a #37 baler and Farmall 300) that I was not limited by the horsepower of the tractor but by the baler's need to be run correctly; in other words, baling at 2.5mph is baling at 2.5mph whether you have a Farmall 300 or a 1206 in front of it. The only difference is the 300 won't use as much fuel as the 1206 to do the same work! (Dang it! Hit save too soon!) All that being said, when I got the 450 I put it in front of the baler, but only because it's just a nicer machine to run with the power steering and canopy on it. It used a bit more fuel baling last fall that I know. And I also know that I couldn't tell one bit of difference in the way it baled vs. the old reliable 300 that's baled my hay for the last 10 years. Boils down to personal preference, I guess.

Taking a pic was a endeavor then. Why we have so few really.

I’m sure it sat either idling or off with guys in it watching fire. AND 10,000 miles off road takes a minute or two. I seriously doubt that that pickup has traveled more than 50 miles away from the firehouse in its entirety.

I didn’t get stuck, but I couldn’t go forward anymore when I was raking. Left some deep tracks. We tried to develop a spring there, but I think the spring is actually further up the hill on the neighbors.

If your primary use is round bales you will be fine, most are less than a ton

Here is what has happened . That loader, if a true industrial will be the model 3000. They are very similar to the 2000 model , only difference being the style of hinge mechanism at the front of the boom arms for the bucket to pivot on. Can't quite see the bucket pivots on the lift arms but the loader could very well be a 3000. Plus generally the loader operation valves were mounted on the right side frame towers. See pictures below. First two are 3000 loader. 3 &4 are 2000 loader. The loader pictured by GBell966 was used on a small frame tractor such as an International 504, 2504 Industrial, 606, 2606 industrial or others and has been modified to put on that 706. It was never intended for row crop Farmall tractors 706 and up size tractors. The front loader mounts seen in his picture are for use on small frame utility and industrial models a fore mentioned. Yes, someone bolted them to the 706 Farmall and it did go on the tractor. But using those front mounting brackets causes a problem on the tall row crop tractors. It puts the loader frame so high above the ground that when the loader is lowered to full lift cylinder retract position, the bucket is not close to the ground surface. Below are his pictures. If you notice where the lift cylinders attach to the loader frame there are three holes there in the frame. The front one is where the factory attached the cylinder. On the pictured loader, the loader lift cylinder pivot was moved to the rearmost hole of the three. This involved welding new pin bosses in the frame holes as none are there from factory. This will allow the loader arms to drop the bucket to the ground. However this new location of the lift cylinder attachment changed the geometry of the motion so that the cylinder rod contacted the gusset bracing of the tower to the frame side rails. This did not work, so a portion of the gusset was torched out to provide clearance for the cylinder rod. The unpainted steel on the side of the frame was most likely a repair for some cracks that developed in the steel of the frame. Whomever mounted that loader should have looked at parts catalogs and pictures of loaders mounted on 706 and above tractors and constructed factory style front brackets and rear axle mountings so the thing fit properly. It would make the tractor and loader safer to operate. Below are two pictures of a loader mounted on a 706 as it should be. Notice the front mounting bracket. Also are two pictures I grabbed off Red Power years ago of the same thing done to a loader mounted on a 504 Farmall. It is too high on that tractor. The fellow who owned it posted a picture sometime later of the tractor and loader laid on its side in a road. Last picture is of a loader on a Farmall 504 with correct front mounting brackets. Notice how much higher the modified loaders are on both the 706 and 504 as compared to factory correct mountings.

I knew I should have kept my mouth shut! LOL

Great new! Thanks for sharing. I am glad to hear that all of you are doing so well after your treatments. Keep up the good work!

im going to bring it up eve page now lol, 😈 lol jk

Kuhn disbines, one is a foot or so wider than the other.

Dealing with the people is why I quit. Especially when they thought I was a bank and they could make payments.

If raising Angus or what qualifies as Angus pays the best, what reason is there to do anything else? If you are a small producer, it makes even more sense to do what pays best. You need to get the most that you can from a small herd. There’s no reason to leave money on the table. If someone can market something else and make the same or more, that’s great. But someone running cows through the sale ring selling anything else doesn’t make sense financially to me. We sell direct to Tyson a pot load at a time and we raise what they want. There’s no reason not to.

Thats really sweet, I wouldn't say so, but I do think that we should all be doing the best we can and making the most of this very short life we've been given.

Started the last 100 acres of first cut. Three fields. Loaded a customer this morning. Waiting for her to come back for another round. A friend is going to load the last load for me. Need to get back to the field and bale what I cut. Then spend the rest of the day dropping hay. Borrowed his loader tractor with a spear.

Took the power washer to the 856 and the original radiator out of the 450 yesterday. 856, ready to work. 450, still needs love!

Yeah, I stack outside, but tarp fairly quickly depending on weather. My bale wagon holds 68, 75-80lb bales. One man show. Bad thing is I have to bale for the bale wagon, 42" or my tie rows suck.

I have everything, thing from a 2 valve GM Diesel (not a Detroit Diesel) 3-71 (80 HP continuous) with all the fixings for a sail boat and other interesting stuff including and a 2001 Gillig short bus Cummins 8.3/voith with hydraulic retarder /air brakes Alcoa 22.5 wheels, good year tires to store everything in.

Both were unwanted by someone.

Ammo is a far cry from used pipe fittings and moth eaten grain sacks

We used to sell single pigs in the fall around deer hunting season. If pigs were bringing 45 cents a pound or 40 it was between 100 and 125 for a live pig at the shipping point. A couple sales barns would buy pigs one day a week to send a semi load to Sioux Falls. Most people were ok paying 125 and picking out their pig. But you had the ones that thought you should sell them a pig for 50 dollars.

A good bit of oddness. If you only need a loader for occasional use, it might be ok, not great but ok. I would not add much value to the tractor because it has a loader. If you are a Welder of some medium or better competency you will be ok. I have rolled a trike w/ loader, it was way easier than I thought to roll it. Definitely pick up a load with it before buying!

What would scare me off on that loader is the extremely long handles on the hydraulic valves. A lot of motion there to make anything happen! On the other hand - likely real easy to "feather" the action. Make sure the loader arms are not cracked or broken just above the front cross frame - There is a gusset plate on the outside, but they can still break inside. Recently had to weld one up that had broken nearly off there on both sides.