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Right around 200lbs or a little more is a BIG deer here. He didn't score it. Hogs are incredibly destructive ! They will destroy all the habitat if not controlled. The farmer's aren't really happy either! Hogs love peanuts! I have done my part to try an reduce the population.

To have to work so hard at something that I take for granted, breathing. I will pray for continued strength and improvement in all areas believing they all interact. Also continued strength and resolve for Emily and all attending to Zach to bring him back to complete health.

January 30, 2023 Journal Entry by Emily Leinenbach — 9 minutes ago 5 1/2 hours of the breathing trial today. It seems like movements he has gotten back are stronger. We continue to be grateful for support, prayers, and messages. We are grateful for those that have and continue to step in- often in ways we don’t even know- to keep things moving in our ‘normal’ life. We pray for complete healing. We pray for independent breathing, return of normal communication and recovery of movement/reflexes to support and maintain this. We pray for nerve regeneration and healing body wide and recovery of functional movement so that we may capitalize on rehab time once we reach independent breathing. We pray for return to home and then back to “life” at sonic speed. We pray for both physical and mental strength and we pray for invested staff. We pray for the ability to get to rehab soon and “get to work” remembering we may be the builders but God is the architect. We are anxious to put things into motion. Thank you.

Years ago my dads buddy sold lots of tires. He had a studding gun and would stud a set of tires if you wanted them. One of the teenagers he had working for him studded his sneakers. That didn’t sit very well with the small school. Kid was destudding his shoes quickly.

Only on plow days. 1086 with Kverneland 6×16

Hopefully in a week or so we will be doing pictures. Have a lot to get ready yet . Sneak preview of the 7240, 7250 , and 7140 from left to right

This is my favourite 1948 Ford F1. It was sold new in New Zealand and is RH drive. All original running gear including the side valve V8 and 3 speed manual gearbox. It is always road worthy and I use it regularly. Also pictured is my 2012 Ford Falcon Ute that is my daily driver, it only has 47,000 km since new and has the 4.0 L six cylinder double overhead cam engine and six speed ZF auto gearbox. Manufactured by Ford in Australia but sadly no longer available. A great ute if you don’t need 4WD.

Nice looking deer. Interesting topic. Looks like a 10pt. Did you score it? How old would that deer be there? Sounds like you are managing it for nice deer and starting to see the fruits of your labor. Our firearm season is long gone. Archery ended a couple weeks ago. 95% of our deer are bred in Nov and early December. I didn’t realize there was that much rut difference in other areas. We don’t have hogs here as of yet. They seem very destructive. This deer was 245lbs on the hoof. That is above average here. 200-225 would be more normal.

When I found out that the normal incandescent bulbs were about to be outlawed, I stocked up, honestly over stocked up. Probably have enough stashed in the shop for at least 20 years, they use more power than the new ones, but the light is way better.

The solder connections fail causing individual diodes to drop out. You cant see it well without dismantling the whole thing, but most of the time, that is the cause . With LED as with anything, you get what you pay for. Biggest failure rate I have seen is with Commercial Electric (HD brand stuff) followed by Cree, if you could get one to last long enough you could probably get the rated hours out of one. Best luck i have seen is with Philips, followed probably by Sylvania . My best advice is to go get a regular old “boob” light with screw shells and some high quality LED bulbs (with a totally enclosed rating) remember to pay attention to Kelvin rating, 2700-3500K are the warm light you are used to from an incandescent, 4100k is commonly used in office lights and 5-6000K is very blue. Kelvin rating has no relationship to lumen output.

Metric sockets are best used for smashing over a badly rusted and eroded imperial fastener!

I know for a lot of you deer season ended a long time ago, but here in South Alabama the season goes for another couple of weeks. We have a 244 acre lease that is about 5 miles from my house. It is predominately Pea River bottom with some high ground. It was logged about 8 years ago and if just now getting back to good habitat. There are five areas of planted pines, three on the bottom and two on the top. There is a lot of turkeys, deer and as always along a river, hogs. I am more interested in hunting the hogs, but enjoy keeping the 10 food plots going. This year there has been numerous big bucks on the lease. There are only three members and one of them shot this buck recently at just after 10am. On camera there is another 10 point, who is larger, a big 9 point and a huge 8 point. Rut is in full force and lots of movement during the day. Bill

Serious plowing with a rare 650 and 525. Some good commentary on the plows and the tractors.

Yes I got his autograph at a Blackhawks convention along with Stan Makiita.

Becuz!!! Its eezy to unnerstan!!!!

First that I ran across this project. Really nice work. We had a TD-6 on the farm I grew up on. Got it in 1953, after they stopped using the TracTractor name. Mostly for pulling a four row potato planter but sometimes for disking. It had the farm grade bulldozer blade that made it easy to fill in washouts, back drag the farm roads to level them out, dig out rocks or give a little push to the back of the flatbed trucks that were loaded with bags of potatoes (that had been picked up by hand before the days of potato harvesters) when the field had gotten slippery. And there were plenty of times it cleared snow. I remember when, as a young boy, my father would take me with him to the field and let me ride on the crawler with him. I would be sitting with my legs in front of me on the platform to the left of the seat, safely tucked in between that and the steel hydraulic lines that surrounded the operator’s platform. After 1974 we were out of the potato business, but as one might guess, the TD-6 was not going anywhere. I remember my father telling someone that it wasn’t used very much anymore but he would never part with it. And he did keep it until the end when he had his farm equipment auction when he retired in 2007.

Not smta but a couple 300s at online sale in western ny just closed. Wide front $2250. Narrow front $3200. I never looked close at them. Just got an email about the sale as it was closing.

do you struggle with Imperial? I didn't and still don't. They converted to Metric here when I was half way through school so I don't struggle with it either. So I wasn't OLD but it was stupid and un-necessary just like the idiot that pushed for it We never completely converted. go to the hardware store you buy building materials in Imperial, you but nails by the lb,never seen a Metric nail yet , you have 3 times as many Imperial bolts as Metric, the concessions are 1 mile apart, the farms are in acres. virtually every blue print in machine shops are Imperial and the steel raw material is Imperial. I can keep going but going Metric was just a total waste of tax payers money up here so we will complain 💩theres a lot more to it than picking a combination wrench

This truck was like an extension of my arm. El Martillo Verde...the green hammer. It had 190K on it when this photo was taken. I should never have sold it.

Unfortunately in September 2021 I started my GMC after mowing one of my yards and it had this awful knock like sound (think of an old locomotive chugging). Lucky I had the white pickup to drive as the main pickup. To keep the story short a couple months later we had a mechanic (who actually owned the shop where we take our vehicles) and he figured it would be a front main seal out. A little later we towed it to the shop. It was at the shop FOREVER, from January to May (granted help is hard to find, they stay busy, getting parts is ridiculous. They got it in the shop and the crankshaft had cracked at the second cylinder…. the engine had 220,000 some miles on it then. So now there is a “new” used 350 engine that had 167,000 miles on it when installed. So I have an engine with a little more life in it. During that time it also got a new radiator, and transmission work was done to it, therefore it shifts like a new pickup. It runs great. It got new tires in June of ‘21 and took the plastic bed-liner out of it this summer. A couple other small things I added/fixed up this summer so it’s been fun to have an all purpose pickup that I can also learn off of. In June the bed panel got sideswiped by another guy. I was doing chores for him at his place, an accident, I didn’t have to pay he said he would. The body shop said it would need a new panel. They ordered two different ones and the both got LOST. How does that happen lol. One day I looked at it and tried to pop it our and most of it DID! So they were able to fix the original. Through it being in the shop I realized I wanted to keep it going. With pickup prices now I wasn't really enthused to buy something even half as old as my ‘92 for a good chunk of money. So me and Phantom 392 are both still going strong today. I imagine the bed liner had been on since about new. Here was the second incident. Lucky the dent was only between the gas lid and fender. Nothing but the panel was damaged. Here I had my mowers loaded and two steers for our pasture in the trailer. That was the day I got them. Trailer is a 1976 and is at our place which is next to where it spend most of its life since new. Here you can still see the dent. This is when I got it back from the body shop. One thing I did was find the GMCtruck emblem at the scrapyard and put it on. This was at a CaseIH dealer by Amarillo. This winter during all the snow. Pictured with a 1974 Ariens blower.

That pretty much sums it up. Because it really isn't all that hard to learn it. If you do remember one thing about metric, an inch is about 25mm. Oh and next time you are taking something apart, grab your metric combination wrenches. There's an equivalent metric for most common SAE sizes. That's the easiest way to learn metric, and you won't even realize you're learning. Soon enough you'll be grabbing the 19mm to turn the 3/4" head on a 1/2" bolt.

72 F100 my grandparents bought new from the local Ford dealer's show room floor. Was ordered by someone who backed out when it arrived. 302, C4, 3.25 rear axle, ps manual drum brakes. Dad bought it from grandparents and used it for 5 years or so and I bought it from him when I was 16. Picture from shortly after I bought it from dad. Current engine iirc was originally out of a van. Still have the truck but no current pic.

Been thinking about making a post about becoming a viscosity dealer. Didn't want to break any rules as far a selling stuff on here. But after seeing how many of us are already dealers, maybe do it more like a locater. Iam in between Louisville, and owensboro KY. I just do it so I can get mine cheaper, so I make a minimum order use what I need sell the rest. Please add your name. We can make this a list page to help each other find the oils we need THANKS GOD BLESS

Would be the cats meeeooow!😄

Thanks. I'm hoping so too. Had a guy we know test drive the Steiger on his way past last weekend and I have had a fair amount of interest in the Magnums . Hopefully the weather is ok for the sale. Snow is possible for that time of the year here yet

I'm not familiar with that skid loader but on the Case XT series we run (two digit numbers) I would rather drop 20k in a hydro and engine and reconditioning of it than buy a new skid loader .....

I thought I would put up a pic of one of the surviving roofs of the type I discussed earlier. You can see the horizontal seams.

Long shot. Check the drive plate did not get damaged during installation. Had a DB 995 that clutch would not release. Put drive plate in a lathe and put a dial gage on it had about .250” runout. Centre hub had got bent when reassembling the two halves of the tractor. The owner said he had difficulty getting the two halves together.

Really? They are being outlawed? I got some 100w incandescent's in the shop that will likely never get used. Been sitting there close to 10 years now since going all LED. I was doing good if I could get a week out of a bulb in the trouble light. Went to led, got twice the light and have only changed 1 bulb between 2 lights in the last 9ish years now. Can drop it and it won't burn out, splash oil on it and it's fine.

We barely touch these engines, with labor prices where they are, by the time we tore one down and go back together the reman is cheaper and doubly, parts warranty covers it rather than the shop. No short blocks etc. available, you get the whole thing. Problem right now is, getting one. I just checked availability and got the dreaded "no on-hand quantity found" message. If you do purchase a new one from Perkins, make sure to remove the oil pan and clean it out. The debris I've found in the pans of these things will make you cringe. We have had several customers buy a blue Perkins rather than from Cat, hasn't been an issue. Trick is finding an actual Perkins retailer. I wouldn't put much faith in a lot of these Ebay specials - as you mentioned, too good to be true - generally isn't.

Getting spoiled once in a while is ok lol I don't mind shovel work but boy is it ever nice to only have to knock a bit a snow out of the gates compared to full gates length worth. And it's pretty easy to get used to taking the gloves off in the cab when it's -40. Call me spoiled I don't care 😄

..to dodge the question above...but to comment on Eleanor Roosevelt 's quotes.... I am a great admirer of her quote re loved ones ..........''leaving foot prints on (my) heart.." I reckon that is really something Mike

Hanged if I didn't notice their ears. Next time I take the neighbor girls fishin, I'll make sure they are properly protected Thanks Mike!

That is a rough deal. Very sad. And don't blame you a bit. I ain't out to hurry things along but when the good Lord decides I've pestered people down here long enough and decides to take me home I hope he finds me workin'.

X2 No other words could say it better. 🙏🙏

Iam wanting to use this to help identify dealers. Maybe we can put are towns in the dealers tags.

I resemble that remark!! Lol 😂

In Alabama I am not worried about the 2nd Amendment issues. You have to understand who our Governor is. There are not a lot of problems with gun control. Virtually everyone I know has a firearm in their vehicle, unless they go on a Federal Reservation (Fort Rucker). At our church probably a dozen people in the sanctuary are carrying, and it is not a big church. Way too many people here take 2nd seriously. Bill

We had one of those when my kids were little, back in the early 90's.

That doesn’t teach a person a thing about metric. Just offers a questionable use for wrenches and sockets. I’ve spun enough nuts and bolts in my life to know what imperial and metric sizes are “close” and that is exactly what they are almost always. When “pretty please” isn’t enough, you’d better have the correct tool size on the fastener or disappointment will abound.

All the states violate federal laws all the time Weed and Immigration are the top two that come to mind

Odd place to crack the counterweight 🤔 was it a 911 landscaping call and you were at redline 😁 Good job pulling that plastic bedliner out, they usually hold water and never dry out but yours looks good all things considered Nice truck, even your stock trailer looks good for age and steel 😊

Personally I think machining is easier and more accurate in standard. The metric system just makes me angry.

The last 2 I would ever get rid of are my 1456 and 826 hydro former goldie. They both are so useful and easy to handle.

My dad doesn’t have an account but wanted me to post his favorite truck, his 1948 jeep truck that was our other neighbor’s project he didn’t even start. Was in pieces rolling chassis, cab and bed in other parts of the ranch no engine.

Guess l have two favorites. The black one is a ''95 F-150 with a 5.0 V-8 and a 5 speed manual. Had A/C and new tires when l bought it. l got from a friend that was trying to get enough money for a down payment on a new Mustang. l literally found this '67 F-100 in a barn. Belonged to a older farmer that was trying to sell it for his sister. l bought it from him for a"firm" $1500.00 and no less... 😉 lt had 30,900 original miles on it. Kind of a odd one though. lt has a 360 V-8 but a 3 speed column shift. Also has a dealer add-on A/C that still blows cold air. And has the original lightning gear logo on the floor mat. Since it was a spur of the moment buy, all we had to secure it with was some ratchet straps. we eased in to the next town and bought some chains and boomers.