We learned a TON. The biggest thing we learned was that we're not making any blatant mistakes, other than not putting down fertilizer when we planted, which we knew was an issue. Got some ideas for harvesting, and decorticating (separating the short inner fibers from the long outers). It all boils down to a lot more fabricating work for me. So the '52 gets set back another couple of months.
Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT A trip back from the edge.
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Workspaces between 705 and 1200 squarefeet.
We learned a TON. The biggest thing we learned was that we're not making any blatant mistakes, other than not putting down fertilizer when we planted, which we knew was an issue. Got some ideas for harvesting, and decorticating (separating the short inner fibers from the long outers). It all boils down to a lot more fabricating work for me. So the '52 gets set back another couple of months.
shortykorte
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Ok ok I’ve been dragon on reading your post. Truss me, I’m keeping an eye on you because you don’t need to be headed for another injury. I think you should high tail it down here for the upcoming safety course.
nice buggy, looks just like my first RC car.
nice buggy, looks just like my first RC car.
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Old news, this past weekend we did a hemp thing in Indiana. We learned a ton, but mostly that we’re not far off the mark. Our hemp looked ok compared to this farm. The first pic is the same variety we’re growing (from Poland), and a consistent 5' tall. The second picture is a French variety. And we learned we have a ton to do. Make sure your tables are in the upright and locked position, the wild ride will continue.
harley jim
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Kirk you have time to get the building done, the wine will take a couple of weeks.
mybigwarwagon
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She may be good at it. She is already out standing in her field.
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jollygreengiant
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That first variety looks terrible compared to the second variety. Did they forget to fertilize it?
harley jim
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Have you started the building yet
We haven't even finished clearing the site yet. I was hoping to do that this weekend, but the GF will barely run. For it to even idle, timing is about 25* BTC. Thought the valves might be too tight, but I backed them off at least a 1/2 turn from my initial setting. Going to look for vacuum leaks next, Did some some repairs to the sickle mower, only to have it break in the field. Saturday we went to the west side of Indy to look at a hay crimper, only to be met by a incredibly rude jerk. We kept our money, didn't even bother to look at it.
mybigwarwagon
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Gee, three swings and 3 misses. You're outta there.
mybigwarwagon
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There are days that I quit ten or twelve times. Never seems to last long. I think once I made it 4 hours.
harley jim
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Get a can of carb cleaner and start spraying the lines and gaskets. Even under the dash around the heater, vaccum controls
harley jim
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Wish I was there to help, I used to be pretty good at leaks. I had a propane torch converted into a leak detector with a piece of rubber hose to use on pretty motors.
shortykorte
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I thought you used starter fluid for leaks like this.
Usually use carb cleaner, but I've even used water in a squirt gun. Found a leak, the carb base plate is the big culprit. She's still not running right, but I need her working two weeks ago, so I put her to work. After I get the new shop site prepped, I'm going to go back through the valves again and try a different carb on her. I screwed the idle mixture screws all the way in and there was no change in how she ran, though the idle is still pretty high. I think the internal choke passage is leaking as well.
Strouty
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It has been a while since I really dealt with a carb, in my personal vehicles I went straight to fuel injection, but we had enough of them floating around that I still had to deal with them. I can do the basics, but after that I am not any help.
From the picture, the firing order looks right and the position of the cap looks good, but 25 degrees is a lot, are you off a tooth?
From the picture, the firing order looks right and the position of the cap looks good, but 25 degrees is a lot, are you off a tooth?
harley jim
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Ok, I know your really busy.....but we need an update
HJ, you're right on both accounts. Things have been lurching along. The GF is operational, barely, so I put her back into service….for now. Once the She Shed Sight is cleared, I’ll start looking a little closer to what the issue is. As stated, the sickle mower died close to the end, this close, ugghhhh. So we used the rehabilitated hedge trimmer my Old Man gave us.
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On a more exciting note. While trying to clean up a few widow makers left up in the trees from Robin pulling the stumps, we were using the neighbor’s tractor as a ladder. The chainsaw ran out of gas 90% through a limb. Just as I was restarting the chainsaw, I heard a crack and turned in time to see the large branch I had been cutting go crashing through the windshield. Fortunately, Robin was only startled. Can’t figure out why it fell that way, the notch was over 90* to the direction it dropped. $750 later.
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shortykorte
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Ouch! On windshield. So is the hemp harvested?
Chrisb62
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Nothing truer could be said about that, but could have been so much more horrible for Robin........ money comes hard but goes so easy
jollygreengiant
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I'm surprised that the front window on that tractor isn't tempered glass.
mybigwarwagon
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***** about the windshield. Glad it wasn't any worse.
Nothing truer could be said about that, but could have been so much more horrible for Robin........ money comes hard but goes so easy
Yeah she got lucky and so did I. Any later, and I'd have been on the pallet forks and in it's way. Just glad she dodged that 15' bullet.
It was tempered. It shattered into a bazillion little pieces.
I hear you. Tractors we can fix. People are a lot harder.
harley jim
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That's not quite the update I expected but I'm glad Robin didnt get hit. Stuff like that is going to happen regardless of how careful a person is, dont sweat it and just carry on. I need to get my **** in gear and knock a couple more projects off of my list,
Keep smiling buddy.
Keep smiling buddy.
jon72vega
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Wow,
You have alot of things going on there.
***** about the windshield cost, but very glad Robin wasn't injured.
You have alot of things going on there.
***** about the windshield cost, but very glad Robin wasn't injured.
Ugghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stopped to help a neighbor last night, put up hay. I was on the wagon by myself, feeding bales to 3 high school teenagers in the loft. 225ish bales in an hour. Boy am I feeling it, felt good last night though. Boy, I don't miss it. Tough story. Grandpa just had a chunk of his colon removed, dad (47 yrs. old) had a massive stroke (can't talk, can't move his right side, and has just learned to stand, for about a minute), and the 17 yr old son has his left arm in a cast (including all of fingers, caught it in the baler). The boy was still up in the loft moving bales.
Chrisb62
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What a horrible run of luck for that family... I’m afraid I would have helped them also and highly regretted the pain after as well.
May the Karma kiss you back when you need it to.
May the Karma kiss you back when you need it to.
harley jim
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I'm glad someone is holding up our end, old guys rule.
jollygreengiant
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Wow Kirk, here's hoping things improve health wise for your family.
mybigwarwagon
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I thought you might find this article interesting
www.freethink.com
Hemp plants pull toxic “forever chemicals” from soil
To rid an indigenous tribe’s land of toxic forever chemicals, scientists are having hemp plants pull the contaminants straight from the soil.
www.freethink.com
harley jim
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Kirk how are you holding up, can you see the light yet.