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chamookman:
Really enjoying this thread BJ ! The work is never done. Bob

BowEd:
Good thread about farming BJ.It goes to show to the public that farming is'nt just putting seed in the ground and watching it grow.
There are no classes of jobs out there.Everyone is acquainted with the least meaning full job all the way to the most meaningful job.
You wear a lot of different coats farming.Appreciating each others skills to get to the final goal.

bjrogg:
Thanks Bob. It’s never even close to all done and I guess for some silly reason I kinda like it. Just seems to make you feel like you have a purpose.

Yup Ed been learning the Jack of all Trades skills almost all my life.

Fix it with some baler twine to finish the job. Then take everything apart and fix it right when you can. When I was young you could see mechanically how something worked. About the time I graduated high school computers where just becoming available. Now you have to imagine how something works. Some of it is pretty hard to imagine, but it works. The technology in agriculture is absolutely amazing and essential. One has to remember the planter I’m working on now’s technology is twenty years old.
The new one will blow your mind. Each row driven by its own electric variable rate motor. It knows exactly where it is on the planter and exactly where the planter is. If it’s on the outside of a 90’ wide planter on the inside of a turn it knows it’s traveling slower than the row on the outside of the turn so it slows it’s self down to plant the right population. The one on the outside knows it has to speed itself up.


Well I’m pretty happy with our progress. I think I have all the harness we have installed. I’m going to have to wait for the last one awhile. Hopefully not to long. I think it’s all going to work, but I’m certain there will be surprises . I want to find them as soon as I can.

I’m sure I will have lots of other things to do before that harness gets here.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Put in a little overtime and straightened a river cane shaft. Wrapped both ends with sinew

BowEd:
It goes to show people there is'nt nothing a person can't do if they are willing to do it and have the patience to follow through.
Attention to details trait carries through to practically all things being made.
If it's done enough times a person can remember for the future and not have to go through the getting acquainted part again.
The purpose part to me is saving money as the cost of labor is out of this world.
A friend showed me the remnants of 2 whole deer he made into beef jerky.You could put the contents of 2 deer into a small Wal Mart shopping bag.
Nice shaft but I usually wrap the arrow shafts after self nock is cut/finished and arrowhead is mounted.To avoid any cutting of the threads.

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