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i have a 6.7 cummins sittin in the shop on a pallet, got it for partial payment on a job and maybe i should put it in a prius for all the haters could call it the prummins ? if you guys need a good 6.7 you probably could use it quicker than i will get to the prius project

i never cared about a cab back then, never drove a tractor with one - all the ones i drove were open with maybe a canvas shade on a couple for the farmers i worked for. One guy finally got an 856 - i never got to drive it tho. One farmer had a ford 8600 but i never got to use it either. I got sun burned and dirty but didnt care.

all, i am on the tail end of a shingles episode - I believe i have had it flare up many times ovrer the years not realizing what it was because it presented as various issues internally my point to this is if they keep telling you there is nothing wrong they are likely wrong i wont go into the saga of my 30 year battle with that diagnosis over/over, pills/meds that never helped and all of my mysterious issues came/went w/out reason my latest presentation was internal pain near the drivers side of my spine - it came/went like acid reflux might - tired, weak, loss of appetite. the pain was more intense at times - aggravate by sitting in a chair or laying down because it irritated the nerves in my back got to the point i couldnt stand it, sleep was here/there and because of past blood clots/lung issues/heart arythmia i decided to go to the ER, same thing.........nothing wrong with you, went to DR, did all sorts of blood tests, low vitamin D is the only thing they found. So.........I kept feeding AI info, it settled on shingles even tho i have no presentation of sores/blisters. I was not familiar with internal shingles. Yes its a thing, has a diff name vs externally presenting shingles. The internal attacks the body and you have a virus running amuck in the nervous system. It travels around your torso, basically from the spine around to your sides at the rib cage level. For me it was a burning sensation with tingling/crawling like a bunch of worms moving around inside. This is what i fed into AI ( chat gpt ) and it said shingles. I asked my DR if they could give me something. In two days of meds I felt a change, after the 7 day of pills, i felt better but not great, lethargic, achey like flu, but better overall. I held out a couple days and gave in as it was coming back worse. I got another 7 days of antivirals and this time it seems to be staying away. I still feel tired and sluggish but doing small tasks and trying not to overdo it and relapse. Luckily my day job is on a computer so I have managed that ok. I did not get the shingles vax - i am contemplating it but still on the fence due to some minor risks and lack of trust of our blessed medical system who failed us along with the gov't and the great Fow Chee experiment. IF you have ever had chickenpox, the Shingles virus lays dormant in your system just like staph or strep. When we get weak it presents itself. the antivirals are hard on the kidneys so be aware of that. Hope this helps someone - Back in 1994 when i started having issues one Dr ( a former Army field dr. ) told me I dont know how to fix you BUT I know you have some smoldering virus in your system that keeps flaring up. Now I know what it was. It only took 32 yrs and self diagnosis.

i just dont understand why things are the way they are with fuel prices, so many theories, so many blames/finger pointing, it doesnt matter who is the pres, i think its so far out of their control people are foolish to thing someone in office is going to have an effect on it, its been too big and out of control for so long no one can reel it in. Big Oil controls US no one controls them.

i bought fuel pellets for same price as last year - guess they shipped them/quoted them before fuel prices went up! @cobfly that sounds like a deal on the propane, way to go - last my neighbor checked it was over 2

my neighbor has two 7.3 idi - underpowered if you ask me - but i suppose reliable not sure

then there is this https://www.wtvm.com/2026/05/07/100m-remington-investment-lagrange-faces-foreclosure-investor-meeting-canceled/ and https://www.lagrangenews.com/news/remington-back-in-test-production-with-new-business-partner-0071c797/

i found this online from just a month ago ish............ The Czechoslovak Group (CSG) in the Czech Republic now owns the trademark and brand name under the the LLC Ammunition Operations name. They acquired the brand when they bough the old Remington Ammunition plants (and all the ammunition plants Vista Outdoors owned, Federal, CCI, Speer, etc). Rem Arms LLC is paying to license the use of that brand name for firearms only. In theory CSG could end that arrange at their choice depending on the exact terms of that licensing agreement. The terms came out of the second Bankruptcy but do not appear public (duration and cost etc), but at the bottom of Rem Arms LLC website we have the following. and are licensed trademarks owned by Ammunition Operations, LLC and are used under license and Ammunition Operations, LLC is not a manufacturer, endorser, or seller of any products manufactured or sold by Remarms, LLC. found this too https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/goodbye-big-green-hello-big-data-rem-plant-to-become-data-center-44829241 I guess it's par for the course for Remarms: "Since 2021, arms manufacturer Remington has been planning to relocate its manufacturing facility to LaGrange from Ilion, New York. While Remington is America’s oldest firearms manufacturer, this version is like a startup formed after the parent company’s 2020 bankruptcy. The ammunition division was acquired by Vista Outdoor, and the firearms division, RemArms, was split with plans to set up shop off Sewon Boulevard in LaGrange. RemArms is owned and operated by Roundhill Group LLC, a private company run by investors Richmond Italia and Scott Soura. While still constructing the facility off Sewon Boulevard, RemArms has reportedly not paid many of its creditors. What makes matters worse is the property is expected to be up for foreclosure on June 2. There are reportedly three futures ahead for RemArms: pay up millions in capital and bills owed to creditors to push forward on construction, foreclose the building and lose millions in investment, or get a new buyer to take over the company. Chris Ripley, one of the creditors who is still owed money from RemArms, is looking to find a solution for all of the unpaid creditors. Ripley had planned to give a presentation at a town hall at Del’avant to creditors on Thursday but was stopped with a reported lawsuit, so Patrick Callaway vouched for Ripley and investor Mulford Waldrop in front of the creditors instead. Callaway cited a friendship with Waldrop that spans over 35 years and a strong business reputation for both Ripley and Waldrop. Callaway reported that over 250 creditors are still owed money in LaGrange, Georgia and the country, amounting to about $11 million in total. He said Ripley and Waldrop would be prepared to pay off all creditors on “day one” of being in business. Scott Stokes is one of the unpaid creditors. He said that his company Southeastern Site Development, which works for a subsidiary of RemArms, is still owed about $2 million. Stokes said he has filed a lien on the RemArms facility after asking to be paid for over a year, and cited many stories of other creditors not being paid." https://www.lagrangenews.com/news/remington-up-for-foreclosure-creditors-still-unpaid-cf2c87b0

i will bite my tongue but why would a 1066 be worth that much ? was it rare in some way ?

I live under a proverbial rock since pre covid, try to steer clear of drama and honestly don't know what is real or fake half the time. The news I grew up on has been exploited to little integrity and a money grab for marketing. I find myself wandering the interwebs and since age is catching up with me the grandeur of pumping a shotgun took me down a rabbit hole of something easier to use until it runs dry. I had no idea the beloved/hated Remington company I grew up on had been sold off. To some big group that is producing the ammo and then the other part after chopping it up went to another big company that was doing the boom sticks. tack on another couple years and it appears they abandonded their New York plant for some place in GA. They got the new name REMARMs or something like that. So they shut down production, ran out of stuff and it sounds like they never got things off the ground in GA. Now it appears the NY plant might be the site for a new Data Center and a sell off/bankruptcy and likely we will never see another Remington firearm. It just makes me sad to hear/read all this

boy have i learned a lot on this thread, i never heard of that acid stuff for mold never knew there was such a think as a bale launcher for the back of the baler my first experience was at 6y/o driving the B JD in low while others were picking up the hay in the field i was to get as close as I could to the row of bales i never was on the royalty end of baling hay, my early experiences were with one of these the only rake I ever used was one of these type wheel rakes that went round n round and the tires slid and it balled up and you had to back up a fair amount - likely self induced because I had no training and was told to go rake you will figure it out, to this day i dont think i ever did it properly the only cutting i ever did was with a sickle mower - a jd no5 and a balanced head 7ft and 9ft going slow for hours on end - breaking pitmans, getting hung in a fence now n then, slipping belts, hitting bumble bees nests and running for your life, fixing sections and guards and grinding/smashing rivets. as far as the tractors used they varied between 4000 ford, A JD, 400 Farmall, B JD, one guy i worked for had 5 or 6 of the N series Fords and not sure the models but a couple had the selecto speed - never knew what number you were in but learned quickly if you had one of the selections that free wheeled it only took one hill to remember that for a lifetime. only my uncle used the AC baler - he cursed a and drank a lot all the other guys used some small square baler i remember a couple red/yellow NH, a green one ( presume JD ) and a White one no clue what it was. I have never baled one bale of hay in my life was always afraid to tear something up and get in trouble. bale wagons always pushing us down hills, sliding tires to keep control, several wrecks/wagons spilled, mostly minor injuries not sure how though. I was a bale loader, wagon stacker, unloader, barn stacker, peasant. Every summer was 20 to 25K bales for the 5 farmers I worked for. I have no idea how i did it, it was hot and i remember getting over heated several times. Getting cold and then tingly extremities happened a couple times. no fancy tractors, no fancy wagons, no fancy stackers, just did what we did, didnt know any better. The big tractors were used for row cropping for other farmers I worked for. Biggest I was around in those days was an 856 and 1066, Ford 8700, the 8700 had a cab but ac never worked you can have those days, i do not miss it any more than sloppin hogs i wouldnt own an N series ford if you tried to give it to me and the only way i would put up hay these days would be with big rounds or squares with gathering units loading trailers for people that came to get it. in all fairness to ford, their utilities tractors were great from the 3000 and up series i experienced and the bigger ones were ok too.

i am morbidly obese according to the BMI charts at the DR, I could def stand to lose some weight but I do ok for my age. 5'10" 260 - walk 10 miles a week most weeks, still split all m y firewood with a maul. was 225 when i graduated h/s and lean regarding 501s they used to be button fly and bigger legs, they changed and I cannot wear them anymore, my legs are thick and my calves do not fit in most boots and when i try to tie teh ones with strings, the top two holes are empty i run outa rope cant lift the weights I used to, quit working out when I had heart rhythm issues and never picked it back up im sure a lot of us here could outwork a lot of younger folks even though we are a lil over weight. i weighed 190 in junior high then started lifting weights for shotput/discus my body was never thin we are all built diff

may as well spend it on something fruitful vs blowing it on ridiculous programs and grants that are wasteful its expensive but how many of us can really wrap our heads around how much it really is what is the cost for not exploring and making our country more able to protect itself ? i hope its profitable for our kids futures and those we leave behind we will likely never know what all comes of it because most of the information is protected for security sake i will say this in the late 80s we were using laser technology to take down flying objects in war, we drug the units around behind vehicles and could set them up anywhere, can you imagine what kind of things we have now 46 years later ? Iran better take us seriously we can turn them into glass

its so great to hear about all you guys and your birthdays so thankful you made another one and are still here to keep entertaining and contributing to this space -

happy bday to more amazing men here hope it was terrific

its a mixed bag here, 2 yrs, 4 yrs 8 yrs depends on how much i take care of them, how long they site w/out a tender on them during winter, i was using no name generics from a place for years but they got bought out and are now called continental batteries, not sure where they get them. On project farm channel he did a bunch of tests and believe it or not walmart batteries did very well. my group 31s are at 5 or 6 yrs on the 706 IIRC and they still make the kraut sing

Works great no issues

Well i made an annealer - heres a video i made - im still experimenting and making changes

Watching @Sledgehammer todds paint dry 🤣

fyi, the carbs are jetted different from the factory due to the load/airflow/clutch side vs the other side, do you know if you got the right one on the proper side when reinstalling? I learned this watching a youtube video not sure that would be the issue but it can cause overheating

i believe those lil brass barbs coming out are just vent tubes, just make sure they are not clogged up like with a mud dobber or something they usually have a lil hose on them IIRC that either would go back to the air box or down into the open engine compartment

my pencil sharpener varies, one is called a pocket knife, another a utility knife, sometimes i use my grinder or sandpaper

https://tcjl.com/fort-worth-business-court-finds-jurisdiction-in-dispute-between-owners-of-a-failed-meat-processing-plant/ this place came in about 3 miles from my house and they went belly up

@Jacka amen Jesus is the only way............WE are the church folks its not a building and likely why the go from house to house, we are the salt/light to others. so many different beliefs for all - the rules vary, the rituals, cultish natures, every religion has them but they will not determine if we get to heaven

Thanks all i made it to the 6 decade club - onward!!!! For the rest of you like me today i hope you are younger