AKwelder Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 7 hours ago, Baradium said: Did you ever see this truck? http://alaskaslist.com/1/posts/10_Transportation/112_Classics_Racing/487236_International_Scout.html I think it'd look good in your yard. Never saw that one, the resourceful Alaskan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baradium Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 5 hours ago, AKwelder said: Never saw that one, the resourceful Alaskan. Right? Also, if you know anyone who has a wheel rake (for hay) they're wanting to get rid of, I'm more in the market now than I was before... especially for a V rake, but considering my 5 wheel rake is now a 4 wheel rake I'm a bit more eager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 1, 2017 Author Share Posted July 1, 2017 Nice. got to love those bumper stickers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 4, 2017 Author Share Posted July 4, 2017 Wife came back from the peonies patch with some trimmings flowers are doing well, we have been have soaking rain followed by hot and sunny. Hope most of you are getting what your crops need. now we need to get our soil tested and check the Ph. Anyone do this with a reliable home method? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 4, 2017 Author Share Posted July 4, 2017 Late Sunday we grabbed my inlaws RV and headed out to a local area for a night out. Stayed late at a nice campground and headed off to the hot springs and pools road outbound at 10:30 at night Gotta love the midnight sun and this his place is all set up for tourists so they have a lot of iron laying around This binder had the same tool box on the back that was being talked about in the last week or so Early snow machine, makes my kidneys sore just lookinh and a nice rack Kids swam until they turned to prunes, me and the wife enjoyed the hot springs and lounges around. had camp food and s'mores, sat around a fire, threw a stick for my dog, had a few adult beverages, and came home late last night. It was great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Englander Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 It just doesn't get any better than that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 4, 2017 Author Share Posted July 4, 2017 4 minutes ago, New Englander said: It just doesn't get any better than that! No it don't. Happy 4th of July all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baradium Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 13 hours ago, AKwelder said: This binder had the same tool box on the back that was being talked about in the last week or so There was one of those at the auction last month, actually more complete than that, although not in whole lot better overall condition! Can't really tell from those pictures, but there is at least supposed to be a knotter setup on the left hand side looking from the front in the second picture. That one still had them, looked almost identical to the ones on our square balers. Amazing how little the technology has changed. Speaking of hay, sounds like the weather is good for your flowers. It hasn't been what we're looking for. I need 3 days of dry to get hay out correctly. At this point I think the weather forecasters are just messing with me. It's went from 20% of rain, to 40% to 20 and back probably 5-6 times that I've seen just today for the forecast for Friday. Originally today was supposed to be a dry day too, but that very much didn't happen! I had been thinking of cutting some tonight but with the forecast going back and forth so much I think I'm going to let this one pass and just try to get some other work done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 6 hours ago, Baradium said: There was one of those at the auction last month, actually more complete than that, although not in whole lot better overall condition! Can't really tell from those pictures, but there is at least supposed to be a knotter setup on the left hand side looking from the front in the second picture. That one still had them, looked almost identical to the ones on our square balers. Amazing how little the technology has changed. Speaking of hay, sounds like the weather is good for your flowers. It hasn't been what we're looking for. I need 3 days of dry to get hay out correctly. At this point I think the weather forecasters are just messing with me. It's went from 20% of rain, to 40% to 20 and back probably 5-6 times that I've seen just today for the forecast for Friday. Originally today was supposed to be a dry day too, but that very much didn't happen! I had been thinking of cutting some tonight but with the forecast going back and forth so much I think I'm going to let this one pass and just try to get some other work done. And now the forecast is calling for really hot, for a couple days. They are sure confused. Hope you get a chance to get your hay off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baradium Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 14 hours ago, AKwelder said: And now the forecast is calling for really hot, for a couple days. They are sure confused. Hope you get a chance to get your hay off It's back to 60% chance of rain for Friday morning. I used to need 4 days to cut/rake/bale. now I have a mower that can cut damp/wet grass and a baler that has a treatment system, but I still basically need 3 days. Or at least 2.5. If it was Friday afternoon showers I could probably pull it off, but not morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 38 minutes ago, Baradium said: It's back to 60% chance of rain for Friday morning. I used to need 4 days to cut/rake/bale. now I have a mower that can cut damp/wet grass and a baler that has a treatment system, but I still basically need 3 days. Or at least 2.5. If it was Friday afternoon showers I could probably pull it off, but not morning. The weather sure is looking like crap for hay. Hope it turns around for you soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baradium Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 19 hours ago, AKwelder said: The weather sure is looking like crap for hay. Hope it turns around for you soon Thanks. I think I'd have gotten away with it if I'd cut Monday, but oh well. Forecasts here are so iffy anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 Down to Valdez for work on Monday. On my travel out to the terminal this morning wonderful morning, and the pink salmon are here so the commercial fishing is booming. One boat unloaded 300,000 pounds the other night. Deck hands collected $18,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 Getting ready to fly in some parts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyDairy Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Huh? The indians here keep telling me and brad there are no slamon so they need our water...weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaa600 Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 On July 5, 2017 at 10:16 AM, AKwelder said: And now the forecast is calling for really hot, for a couple days. They are sure confused. Hope you get a chance to get your hay off I'm curious what you consider "really hot".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 15, 2017 Author Share Posted July 15, 2017 57 minutes ago, Jaa600 said: I'm curious what you consider "really hot".... Here anything above 75 is hot, 80's are getting miserable. Please remember before pronouncing us ninnies that the sun never sets, so it's 80 degrees for a long time and doesn't really cool off at night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 15, 2017 Author Share Posted July 15, 2017 1 hour ago, TroyDairy said: Huh? The indians here keep telling me and brad there are no slamon so they need our water...weird yeah, and they close out sport fishing season. Go figure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaa600 Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 8 minutes ago, AKwelder said: Here anything above 75 is hot, 80's are getting miserable. Please remember before pronouncing us ninnies that the sun never sets, so it's 80 degrees for a long time and doesn't really cool off at night Wouldn't dream of calling you all ninnies. It's all relative to what you are used to. In the winter I consider 30 degrees cold. A big snow storm is 4-6". But, just for reference, it was 98 yesterday with high humidity. Cooled off to about 94 today but the humidity dropped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 15, 2017 Author Share Posted July 15, 2017 2 minutes ago, Jaa600 said: Wouldn't dream of calling you all ninnies. It's all relative to what you are used to. In the winter I consider 30 degrees cold. A big snow storm is 4-6". But, just for reference, it was 98 yesterday with high humidity. Cooled off to about 94 today but the humidity dropped. So if we take that further, it was 46* below zero at my house this winter, and was 96 above two weeks ago. That is a temp swing of 142* I am am not getting used to it. at least we don't normally have much humidity, but I remember it from growing up in Minnesota, were fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaa600 Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 1 minute ago, AKwelder said: So if we take that further, it was 46* below zero at my house this winter, and was 96 above two weeks ago. That is a temp swing of 142* I am am not getting used to it. at least we don't normally have much humidity, but I remember it from growing up in Minnesota, were fine I can't imagine 46 below zero. The coldest I ever remember here was about -10. That was enough. When it's that cold everything you do takes 3 times as long as it should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKwelder Posted July 15, 2017 Author Share Posted July 15, 2017 6 hours ago, Jaa600 said: I can't imagine 46 below zero. The coldest I ever remember here was about -10. That was enough. When it's that cold everything you do takes 3 times as long as it should. Yeah, that amount of cold takes some getting used to, then again so does working in hot and humid weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mader656 Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 49 minutes ago, AKwelder said: Yeah, that amount of cold takes some getting used to, then again so does working in hot and humid weather You can dress for cold you can only take so much off before it's illegal/gross. Montana record low -70 to 117 highest spread of any state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Englander Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 1 hour ago, mader656 said: You can dress for cold you can only take so much off before it's illegal/gross. Montana record low -70 to 117 highest spread of any state. We got everyone beat on wind speed not associated with a hurricane: 231MPH New Hampshire Mt. Washington. When flying shorter range aircraft from the west coast to Europe we used to fuel stop at Frobisher Bay where we regularly encountered -40s. It was strange to descend from altitude and not have it warm up much. Open the cabin door and it snatches the breath right out of you. Stopping there in the summer and the mosquitoes would suck the blood out of you in minutes. I have no idea why anyone would live there if not born an Inuit and I'm glad to be able to overfly it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baradium Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 21 hours ago, AKwelder said: Here anything above 75 is hot, 80's are getting miserable. Please remember before pronouncing us ninnies that the sun never sets, so it's 80 degrees for a long time and doesn't really cool off at night I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. It doesn't get dark but it does cool down. It might only cool down to 60 degrees or so normally, but you go to Georgia and it's miserable all night long too (and muggy). I'll give you that during the real heat waves it doesn't cool down as much as we like, but it's still better at night than the southeastern US. That said, I've contemplated the idea of getting a split unit A/C system in my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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