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bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Trapper Rob on January 23, 2022, 08:02:08 am ---BJ I know what you mean by cattle I've carried lots of hot water over the years to thaw out water fountains.
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I know Rob. When we had milk cows . Between them and calves. I stayed so busy taking care of them all winter that I wondered how I got anything else done in the summer. They are easier to take care of in the summer. Putting them in pasture was always a big work saver. Of course 16 hours of daylight helps get stuff done to. They actually like the cold weather better than the hot though.
Bjrogg
PS got 10lbs of jerky Marinating for two days now. Ready to go in the dehydrator.
Pappy:
Got a farm BJ but don't do much farming, got the part you can row crop leased to a local farmer, he rotates Bean's and corn, I have 400 acres but most is wooded, only farm about 80 of it,use about 80 for TwinOaks and the rest I just ramble on ,the ground is just to hilly to row crop much without it washing away. My uncle told me when I got it [ it was his and in the family 80+ years at that time ] that it was a cattle farm, of course that was before no till, all they raised was tobacco ,hay and maybe a little corn for feed, but you could do that then and make a decent living on a 5/10 acre flat spot and hills don't matter much with hay. I love seeing your operation, not many that size around here, there are some a little father north in the edge of KY and some west Tennessee where the ground is flat just not much in Middle/east Tn. in the hill and hollows. I will be keeping and eye on you though, seems you have plenty to do. ;)
Pappy
bjrogg:
I really want to visit your farm someday Pappy. I’ve been to Clarksville to see my retired Army buddy. Nice area.
We have gotten lots of cattle over the year from farms just like your uncle talks about. From Tennessee, Kentucky or Virginia. They come in how we like em. Tall, lean and tough. They usually adapt pretty well to our farm and we put some finish on them. Fatten up pretty good.
I would love to see a old tobacco operation.
Well put another 8 sticks in the smoker.
The jerky is done.
Back to the shop to work o planter. Pulled off all the old fertilizer hose. It’s 17 years old and it’s really in the way for routing wires. I don’t think I will reuse it but might have to see how hard it is to get. A lot of stuff getting very hard to get. Making things very uncertain and impossible to plan and receive products ahead like we normally do.
I think my next step is going to be taking off old wiring and replacing with new as I go. This is the scariest part. Lots of wires and it won’t be wired the same. We previously had two variable rate hydraulic motors with shaft speed counters. They each ran half the planter 8 rows. Now we will have three v-rate motors and they will each run 6 rows. That will be nicer for my swat control. It will turn on and off in 6 row sections instead of 9. That will save me more seed and not double plant angled headlands and edges.
I would really have liked to totally upgrade to modern individual row electric drives and individual row shut off control, but right now it is impossible to get the new equipment. I’m recycling old equipment that others have discard when they updated to the new technology.
Your welcome to visit anytime Pappy. It’s nice here by the big lake in the summer most summers. Can get a bit humid.
Bjrogg
Hawkdancer:
Well, those put my 18 supplement tub garden to shame! we got a fair amount of tarragon, some squash, zucchs, and tomatoes, enough blueberries to top off a dish of ice cream, and a heck of a water bill! Anasazi beans didn't make at all. Did get the composter filled, been too dry to work, though! Try again this year! Sort of mini farming! (lol)
Hawkdancer
GlisGlis:
following you BJ (-P
by the way great obsidian arrow. So nice that it deserve to fly toward a deer :OK
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