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finished sowing my wild oats

jeff in ca said:
Nice set of drills. I hope you have a tender to fill them?
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some of the farmers around here are getting pretty fancy with their equip. i have a neighbor (born with a silver spoon stuck up his arse) that has the nicest equipment you'll ever see. he had a tenderer built on one of his trucks to fill air drills. everything is remote - he just stands on top of the air drills and can go from seed to fertilizer with the flip of a switch and not take one step... lazy sob. meanwhile since 2004 i have been 5 gallon bucket filling 38 ft of conventional drills out of bulk bags. oh well - if the s%it hits the fan with my neighbor he won't mess with me. the straight farmers around here are gettin pretty lazy and their kids will never lift a finger... off their gamegirl anyhow.
 
Hereford76 said:
jeff in ca said:
Nice set of drills. I hope you have a tender to fill them?
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some of the farmers around here are getting pretty fancy with their equip. i have a neighbor (born with a silver spoon stuck up his arse) that has the nicest equipment you'll ever see. he had a tenderer built on one of his trucks to fill air drills. everything is remote - he just stands on top of the air drills and can go from seed to fertilizer with the flip of a switch and not take one step... lazy sob. meanwhile since 2004 i have been 5 gallon bucket filling 38 ft of conventional drills out of bulk bags. oh well - if the s%it hits the fan with my neighbor he won't mess with me. the straight farmers around here are gettin pretty lazy and their kids will never lift a finger... off their gamegirl anyhow.
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Oh my goodness, you are da man!

I was going to reply to jeff and and say that I couldn't see him filling that thing with a five gallon pail!! :shock: :o
 
Northern Rancher said:
Done that back in my working for the farmers days-it's really not that bad if you got rhythmn lol.
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once you break a sweat - its all downhill from there. we lost all the farmer equipment when we split the place years back. my old man retired in 98 and i can't justify much for farm equipment... besides its only 160 acres of either oats or peas that i put up as hay. i like making my boys help - makes them appreciate the little things cause it seems like there isn't much these days they can learn that from away from this place. picking rock by hand is another good one for them. we did a little of that before we seeded. we just walk out and start "shot putting" the rocks into a pile and then go back and hand load the piles into the loader. not much better excercise lugging a 50 lbs rock 100 yards thru nice soft summerfallow. when we got done my younger boy says "man i'm glad that job is done". i had to laugh and told him as a kid me and my 4 sibs used to pick rock like that all summer. he didn't believe me so i showed him some of the rock piles we built and his eyes got real big.
 
I can relate... We pickup rocks... Makes those kids damn appreciative, that and digging thistles.... Hubby and I used to load sacked fertilizer by hand on to the flatbed of our pickup and then unload it again into the fertilizer boxes of the corn planter... Then we wised up and put an auger and motor onto a gravity box.... Amen for that one... Another one is packing grain in five gallon buckets.. You know ya have to move right along a filling and packin or the hog calves will have your grain ate and waiting at the gate for more while the tiny timid calves get none.... Best one was I was pregant with our youngest one and we were buying some land. The realtor was there to finalize the deal and I was packing buckets to feed that night.. He said he would help me, but it might hurt his back.. :roll: I giggle about that one.. Hubby was flat on the floor with his back waiting for surgery........ The things we do when we are young.. :roll:
 
katrina said:
I can relate... We pickup rocks... Makes those kids damn appreciative, that and digging thistles.... Hubby and I used to load sacked fertilizer by hand on to the flatbed of our pickup and then unload it again into the fertilizer boxes of the corn planter... Then we wised up and put an auger and motor onto a gravity box.... Amen for that one... Another one is packing grain in five gallon buckets.. You know ya have to move right along a filling and packin or the hog calves will have your grain ate and waiting at the gate for more while the tiny timid calves get none.... Best one was I was pregant with our youngest one and we were buying some land. The realtor was there to finalize the deal and I was packing buckets to feed that night.. He said he would help me, but it might hurt his back.. :roll: I giggle about that one.. Hubby was flat on the floor with his back waiting for surgery........ The things we do when we are young.. :roll:
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The things we did when we were young and some of them not so smart. We had a barn rented for feeding 200 Holstein calves one summer about 20 something years ago. Fed them rascals with 5 gallon pails of corn all summer out of a gravity wagon that we could get close to but not right up to the bunk.

Sometimes when I was running late I would carry two pails of corn in each hand to save a bit of time. Ended up wrecking a disc or two in my lower back and the $10,000 dollars we made on the calves turned out to be the worst earned money I ever made.

I would gladly give the 10 grand back for a healthy back but it's not so easy as that, is it.

We spend our health to get our wealth then we spend our wealth to get our health . . .
 
Had my kids out picking rocks the other day. Don't tell them we own a rock picker because my Dad likes to make rocks disappear. :gag: I blew several disks one time doing something a loader that was 20 feet away could have accomplished. Re injured them again 4 years later. I am very careful now because it is hard on my golfing habit. :wink:
 
per said:
Had my kids out picking rocks the other day. Don't tell them we own a rock picker because my Dad likes to make rocks disappear. :gag: I blew several disks one time doing something a loader that was 20 feet away could have accomplished. Re injured them again 4 years later. I am very careful now because it is hard on my golfing habit. :wink:
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It warms up there enough to golf????
 
katrina said:
per said:
Had my kids out picking rocks the other day. Don't tell them we own a rock picker because my Dad likes to make rocks disappear. :gag: I blew several disks one time doing something a loader that was 20 feet away could have accomplished. Re injured them again 4 years later. I am very careful now because it is hard on my golfing habit. :wink:
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It warms up there enough to golf????
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You saw that Soccer dome in the Sports section. Well we also have Golf Domes so we can be ready to go for that 2 week window :wink:
 
I'm starting to wonder if we are going to get that 2 week window this year per. Stupid weather. If the wind ever stops blowing around here I'll probably fall down.
 
Big Swede said:
I'm starting to wonder if we are going to get that 2 week window this year per. Stupid weather. If the wind ever stops blowing around here I'll probably fall down.
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I was thinking about that but I am sure we will get it here. I have come to the conclusion that our weather up here is slightly better than yours. :wink: Men's night starts tomorrow night. Might have to go with a colored ball. :shock:
 
thanks for the pic! running a Big Bud is on my bucket list.... I love big machinery, always fun to haul hay to western kansas and see the big boys play out there!!

getting a lot of 16 and 24 row planters in our area, and 2 48 rows are on order from Deere!!!



Ace, I might need to come up to your place, look at some cattle, and play with that tractor!
 
katrina said:
I can relate... We pickup rocks... Makes those kids damn appreciative, that and digging thistles.... Hubby and I used to load sacked fertilizer by hand on to the flatbed of our pickup and then unload it again into the fertilizer boxes of the corn planter... Then we wised up and put an auger and motor onto a gravity box.... Amen for that one... Another one is packing grain in five gallon buckets.. You know ya have to move right along a filling and packin or the hog calves will have your grain ate and waiting at the gate for more while the tiny timid calves get none.... Best one was I was pregant with our youngest one and we were buying some land. The realtor was there to finalize the deal and I was packing buckets to feed that night.. He said he would help me, but it might hurt his back.. :roll: I giggle about that one.. Hubby was flat on the floor with his back waiting for surgery........ The things we do when we are young.. :roll:
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All but the replacement heifers are leaving tommorrow. We will go from 45 buckets to 8. :D :D
We put them in the loader bucket and back down the grain bunks. Wife drives, dimwit dumps the buckets.
 
gcreekrch said:
katrina said:
I can relate... We pickup rocks... Makes those kids damn appreciative, that and digging thistles.... Hubby and I used to load sacked fertilizer by hand on to the flatbed of our pickup and then unload it again into the fertilizer boxes of the corn planter... Then we wised up and put an auger and motor onto a gravity box.... Amen for that one... Another one is packing grain in five gallon buckets.. You know ya have to move right along a filling and packin or the hog calves will have your grain ate and waiting at the gate for more while the tiny timid calves get none.... Best one was I was pregant with our youngest one and we were buying some land. The realtor was there to finalize the deal and I was packing buckets to feed that night.. He said he would help me, but it might hurt his back.. :roll: I giggle about that one.. Hubby was flat on the floor with his back waiting for surgery........ The things we do when we are young.. :roll:
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All but the replacement heifers are leaving tommorrow. We will go from 45 buckets to 8. :D :D
We put them in the loader bucket and back down the grain bunks. Wife drives, dimwit dumps the buckets.
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Ditto...32 in the morning and 32 at night... Our best buy was a feeder wagon.. I'm still smiling... And you don't have to ask me twice to feed the calves. :D
 
katrina said:
gcreekrch said:
katrina said:
I can relate... We pickup rocks... Makes those kids damn appreciative, that and digging thistles.... Hubby and I used to load sacked fertilizer by hand on to the flatbed of our pickup and then unload it again into the fertilizer boxes of the corn planter... Then we wised up and put an auger and motor onto a gravity box.... Amen for that one... Another one is packing grain in five gallon buckets.. You know ya have to move right along a filling and packin or the hog calves will have your grain ate and waiting at the gate for more while the tiny timid calves get none.... Best one was I was pregant with our youngest one and we were buying some land. The realtor was there to finalize the deal and I was packing buckets to feed that night.. He said he would help me, but it might hurt his back.. :roll: I giggle about that one.. Hubby was flat on the floor with his back waiting for surgery........ The things we do when we are young.. :roll:
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All but the replacement heifers are leaving tommorrow. We will go from 45 buckets to 8. :D :D
We put them in the loader bucket and back down the grain bunks. Wife drives, dimwit dumps the buckets.
Click to expand...


Ditto...32 in the morning and 32 at night... Our best buy was a feeder wagon.. I'm still smiling... And you don't have to ask me twice to feed the calves. :D
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By feeder wagon is it just for grain? Does it have a scale on it?

We have an old grain feeder trailer that was given to us. It is in good condition but we would still have to measure the grain somehow. Buckets anyone? :lol:

Next years Christmas presenet is hopefully a screw type TMR wagon. Used of course, can't afford a new one. :wink:
 
Yes it does have a scale... RotoMix is the name.. 300 cubic foot one.. Not to big so you can mix differant rashions for differant bunches... Spendy suckers.. :shock: And it don't sink quite so much in the mud.. :D :D
 

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