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MT Matt, it was great getting to meet you at St. Regis. And you are a real gentleman, kind and giving too! I like your "selfie" better than mine. I'll look forward to seeing you soon! Some photos of today's events. Randy was running Mike's Farmall M and I was on the binder. Cutting oats and removing it from the field, so the Elk can't get it. They were back again last night. Note their damage in the foreground. We all three took turns running the binder. This is the old guy running it. Randy and his Farmall A pulling his new bundle wagon. Mike is putting Randy's bundle wagon into the shed with his 300 Utility. I guess we had some IH Tractors on a Montana Farm operating there today. Gary?

Storms make for nice sunsets. But i could sure use a break.

..a little story about a bull,,,,,not as good as "yellowrose farm" or the other two amusing stories ...... If you go to the Trucking Forum......there is a bunch of pictures under the thread title..."Troll for the site"......among the truck pictures I posted is a R model Mack......pulling a load of logs , across the Anatori River , in North west Nelson ........The lead time for a return trip was about five hours.....so...on the R models maiden voyage from Nelson ......as it was heading down a big wide valley, through a reasonably intensive dairying area..... a large bull...of dubious genetic origin........some 100 yds or so from the tar top road.........took an instant dislike to the truck, and thundered towards it .....finally straight through the eight wire road fence and hit the Mack 's front left mudguard a serious blow......The driver had seen this bull coming ..sort of towards him at a angle......never slowed down.....for obvious reasons...and was shocked when the bull , via the road fence hammered into the truck.......Driver stopped down the road a little.....bull was not feeling to good, so driver went to the farm and the old cockie was a bit shocked also.....the bull survived......and the truck arrived back in Nelson......with the driver having to explain this almost unbelievable yarn about the bull damaging mudguard and passenger door etc on brand new truck..... At that stage I was part owner of that particular Mack....so....believe me....true story Couple of pics of feeding a small mob of mixed age cattle.......Black oats, doing a bout 2.6 tons of dry matter per hectare.......plus baleage on daily basis......Bit of a pain shifting electric fences every day.......but good for my new Indiana made knee joint.......(Yes sandhiller..have you got any of your knees replaced yet...??????!!!!!! ) Pig picture taken out of the 5130 cab window.......I am no longer allowed to shoot the pigs.......(this is a lease block....).....the almighty dollar has won that round.....one bloke paying to hunt them......note the reddish colour...no NZ wild pigs were ever that colour......the old trick of liberating young domestic , female pigs......keeps the hunters in work.....sigh Mike ..plus a couple for Ray 54......friends farm about 30 k from us......Autumn pasture

We think we have the tick cured , went with two thousands over sleeve pushed them in at above max stated pressure . Honed selves out to accommodate Pistons comfortably . Ran her six hours seems to be running perfect , but we develop a leak from tranny input seals so we had to split it again and replaced input shafts bearings and seal engine rear seal was replaced with clutch so all should be good and I'll have my girl done so I can to do a few fun Tonyisms to her . tony

There has been an OBG sighting!! Enjoy the plow shares Gary. Great to meet you both! We had a pretty good thunderstorm roll through last Saturday. I don’t remember having hail during a storm growing up here. Had lots of it while living in Missouri. Well, it did hail and some good ones too!! I was lucky to be on the east edge of the cell and it didn’t do much damage to my garden. I have friends on the north side of town that the hail demolished their gardens completely. One windshield was broken and lots of reports of dents on vehicles. I was lucky to not have any damage.

Which County are you in? That's some pretty country.

The elk are a real pain, I completely understand Gary. Last year I tried to save about 5 acres to combine for grain after I cut the rest for oat hay. I saved the best areas, it would have made 50-60 bushels per acre. In five nights the elk stripped it to basically nothing. I got 10 bushels per acre and a total of 42 bales of straw. That’s why I just cut the whole field for hay this year.

Progress is slow but we are moving. Winter is around the corner and I need this thing in rolling fashion before then. Finished up the clutch assembly and have it ready to go. The homemade springs worked out nicely and should provide enough life for my use. Also finished up repairing and rebuilding the carb, not that its needed anytime soon. The big item of note is our acquisition of an original OS4 exhaust. This was on a super W4 that was left to my uncle after the passing of family friend/neighbor. She used the W4 to pull logs for firewood out of her woods and knocked the original upright exhaust off and broke the manifold. I don't know who put it on, or how they got an OS4 exhaust but I'm glad they did. My uncle sent me a message that he is listing the W4 for sale and I said not until I put the right exhaust back on it. Our other score was a set of very nice, approximately 50% worn set of Firestone Field and road 14.9-26 tires. We were the high bidder at $55. For the leisurely life of this tractor they will provide all the life we need.

found this on a Facebook page

Well, I'm back! We met family in Coeur d'Alene Idaho from the Seattle and Spokane areas. Had a great time and got to see the Great Grandson again! On the way over, we stopped to gas up at St. Regis, Montana... Home of MT Matt! We met at the main hangout in St. Regis and ate, while Matt visited with us. He brought those two IH moldboard shears for our Little Genius two bottom plow. I will need to modify them to fit holes, but they are WAY more than I had to start with. Me and Matt out in the rain, selfie! The shears Matt gave us! I will need to remodel the holes that hold these shears onto the moldboards of the Little Genius plow, but I had to set them on there and take a picture! I took two photos of the oats crop. One from Mike's house... And another on the east end of the field. The Elk have returned and raised some havoc, so we are going to bind the crop tomorrow. Mike hauled Randy's 1945 IH Farmall A out today. Randy will pull his "new" bundle wagon with "Aimee," when threshing. Randy told me an interesting thing about his Farmall A. He has the original bill of sale, where two horses and $200 purchased it. And... Interestingly, it came with a disclaimer from International Harvester. From the US Government, it stated the tires were not quality and the tractor should not be driven over 5 mph! And also due to WWII the wiring harness contained aluminum wiring, not copper. We pulled the McCormick-Deering threshing machine out of the shed and out to the "threshing set." Mike backs up with the IH 300 Utility, when "planting" the threshing machine into the wheel divots. The Divots level the machine, and the wheels in those holes keep it from pulling forward, when the steam engine backs the belt into it. And I probably should add that the 300 Utility and the Farmall A are both IH Tractors on a Montana Farm. Gary?

Found this on FB

Hullo Runner.......are you still into fun with firearms !!!....took out the old Ruger 250-3000 today and picked up as deer with it....... .thought you might find this picture amusing ........I cannot remember form whence it came ???..possibly this site many moons gone Mike