Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road

[Bob Heine]

I’m gonna have to get a Brinkley when we upgrade now to outdo him lol.

I'm assuming at least a Z 3610 so the young ladies get their own room.

https://www.brinkleyrv.com/rvs/fifth-wheels/model-z/3610/

 

[jblnut]

I'm assuming at least a Z 3610 so the young ladies get their own room.

https://www.brinkleyrv.com/rvs/fifth-wheels/model-z/3610/

If we went Brinkley at this point it’d likely be a Z Air 315. I’ve looked at other trailers with a similar floor plan and really liked how the bunkhouse in the back is setup. We’d need to sell our house and live in it though lol. I don’t want a 5th wheel as I have a tow pig that can handle anything I put behind it and I cannot get a 5th wheel hitch to work with it as the bed height is too tall.

 

[jblnut]

Following along and watching your very busy life. You seem to take the good and great and bad and worse all with a smile so keep up the great work.

Thanks Drives !! I’ve been trying really hard lately to let more little stuff go and not get too worked up about dumb ****. It’s hard and I’m not the best judge of how I’m doing at it lol.

So is Pops going to pull that new trailer with his Camaro?

it’d have the power for it for sure but no, he’s got a newer half ton Chevy that’ll drag it around.

Nice, it was about time for a harvest update from ya buddy.
I made some corn stover bales yesterday at work and thought you might be doing some baling up there as well. JD561 baler spit em out pretty quick for me, though I need practice on my weaving for even bales lol.

I’d imagine you may get to play with a new baler with Weave Automation sometime ? I made a bunch of bales the past few days and there was no need for weaving with how thick it was. 4mph was max speed and I was making a 1,000lb 4x68” bale in around 250’.

 

[jblnut]

Hey hey hey first corn of the season coming out !!


Om nom nom eating those bushels.


Mother Nature threw us some dang nice weather for most of corn harvest.


The feederhouse stopped working and upon inspection we realized there was a very worn item from last harvest season we forgot to fix 🫣


Old hub vs new hub. Yikes.


It wore some decent thickness off the shaft it lived on. We debated on replacing it but this one is a PITA to replace so I decided to build it up.


I fired up my shaft builderupper and got to work spraying some boogers on it.


It’s not half bad looking if you close one eye and hop on one leg while inspecting it.


As it usually does it turned into a game of “as long as it’s all apart we may as well replace everything else” so it got some new slip clutch fiber discs. I shined everything up and slapped it back together. New disc is on the left, old on the right. Definitely time for them to be done as well.

 

[jblnut]

While we were working on other combine things a neighbor stopped in and asked if we knew a rim was cracked on the combine. Well WTF, no !!


Take the tire off so I can grind it out and weld it up.


Drill a hole at the end of each crack to stop them and a few in the middle so I know how deep I’m grinding. The goal is to go deep enough so the weld will burn all the way through.


Not my best work but I put a layer of duct tape on it before putting the tube back in.


Baby powder it like it’s bright red lol


After a few hours of use it still looks great. I hope it holds. A new rim is $2350.


Back at it !!

 

[madison069]

Last two post seemed like Deja vu type stuff. Why do I feel like I’ve seen those photos before?

 

[jblnut]

It’s the internet. Anything is possible

 

[Finallygotit]

After a few hours of use it still looks great. I hope it holds. A new rim is $2350.

Holy ****!!

 

[Sifan]

lot of farmers cracking rims and breaking lug bolts ... maybe those grain bin extentions aren't such a good idea.

 

[ambenz]

Still following and enjoy seeing happening on your farm and the reason I continue to be curious about American Farming. I like to remember how my Uncle John in Nebraska and Uncle "Duck" in Indiana used to farm back in the 1960's when I was a little tike and how todays modernization has changed the machinery, techniques, and waste. Here, about 1968, grabbing a haystack before anyone ever thought about rolling it up....

Small International 1/2 ton farm truck dumping corn at the grain silo, using shovels. My cousin Marcia watching her Dad and farm hand...




More hay stack hauling....near Fullerton, Nebraska, circa 1968...


Cousin Marcia is still a true farmgirl and still works about 40 acres, 55 years later....


On Uncle "ducks" farm in Wanatah, Indiana, he farmed birthing cows and pigs, and enjoy tinkering with horse trading...
That cousin Terri with a youngin circa 1967...

This is me with my Father on Cousin Terries pony "Scout". I was 8 years old....



So thanks for sharing, thought you might share some of those picture packed away in Dad's attic. It allows me to imagine what Uncle Duck, Aunt Pat, cousin Terri, Uncle John, Aunt Valeria, and Cousin Marcia worked, enjoyed, and lived. I remember all the times I visited and was too young to grasp the true nature of what it takes to make farming a viable venture. I can imagine you might have some "memories" of your father and his parents, the older machinery, working the land and tending livestock, and hauling haystacks back to their barn lofts. I applaude your adventures....

 

[Boostingaz]

@ambenz

Wanatah, Indiana. Up north right outside of Valparaiso. Not terribly far from me. Thanks for sharing the pictures. Most of my extended family farms all over Indiana to this day. Machines have grown but still takes a certain kind of grit. Here is my 5 year old son on hole duty! And a pic of a few of the critters.

 

[jblnut]

Still following and enjoy seeing happening on your farm and the reason I continue to be curious about American Farming. I like to remember how my Uncle John in Nebraska and Uncle "Duck" in Indiana used to farm back in the 1960's when I was a little tike and how todays modernization has changed the machinery, techniques, and waste. Here, about 1968, grabbing a haystack before anyone ever thought about rolling it up....

Small International 1/2 ton farm truck dumping corn at the grain silo, using shovels. My cousin Marcia watching her Dad and farm hand...




More hay stack hauling....near Fullerton, Nebraska, circa 1968...


Cousin Marcia is still a true farmgirl and still works about 40 acres, 55 years later....


On Uncle "ducks" farm in Wanatah, Indiana, he farmed birthing cows and pigs, and enjoy tinkering with horse trading...
That cousin Terri with a youngin circa 1967...

This is me with my Father on Cousin Terries pony "Scout". I was 8 years old....



So thanks for sharing, thought you might share some of those picture packed away in Dad's attic. It allows me to imagine what Uncle Duck, Aunt Pat, cousin Terri, Uncle John, Aunt Valeria, and Cousin Marcia worked, enjoyed, and lived. I remember all the times I visited and was too young to grasp the true nature of what it takes to make farming a viable venture. I can imagine you might have some "memories" of your father and his parents, the older machinery, working the land and tending livestock, and hauling haystacks back to their barn lofts. I applaude your adventures....

Thanks for sharing !! I love seeing how others do things and the pics from back when are always nice to see.

@ambenz

Wanatah, Indiana. Up north right outside of Valparaiso. Not terribly far from me. Thanks for sharing the pictures. Most of my extended family farms all over Indiana to this day. Machines have grown but still takes a certain kind of grit. Here is my 5 year old son on hole duty! And a pic of a few of the critters.

Thanks for sharing !!

That quad looks like it still has its factory dresses on. Gotta hook it to an applicator and get some **** on the floor lol. Always thought the pivoting steps were a neat deal.

 

[Boostingaz]

Thanks for sharing !! I love seeing how others do things and the pics from back when are always nice to see.


Thanks for sharing !!

That quad looks like it still has its factory dresses on. Gotta hook it to an applicator and get some **** on the floor lol. Always thought the pivoting steps were a neat deal.

With 20k + pigs a year everything has **** on it eventually

 

[jblnut]

With 20k + pigs a year everything has **** on it eventually

That’s okay. Pigs are magical creatures. They make bacon out of vegetables.

 

[jblnut]

**** goes down in threes right ? Well here is broken **** #3. The top somehow of the clean grain elevator housing was leaking corn. What’s the simplest solution you can come up with in the field ?


Duct tape of course !! Wait. All we have is $12/roll tile tape. Okay that’ll work !! It worked for a while but kept bulging and the pulley would wear a hole in it. We need something more better at being a permanent fix disguised as a temporary fix. Edit - just noticed the gear is still slid over from doing beans and the clean grain elevator is running in low speed. That’d explain why it got cranky a few times and yelled at me that it was slowing down as if it were plugging up


Hey there it is !! A piece of 316SS 1/4” plate should out live the combine. Wait, it’s only temporary !! Spoiler alert -> It survived the last 80 acres so it worked !!


JD has an app called “John Deere Operation Center” and you can draw your own Family Circus cartoon sketches with it


Time to munch some stalks so they can dry out and get baled.


15’ at a time just gobbling up acres.


Getting my arts and crafts time in painting these blue lines.

 

[XJSuperman]

Are you sending yourself WorkPlans?

 

[jblnut]

Are you sending yourself WorkPlans?

Not yet. It’s just me mostly using the tech lol

I want to do a deeper dive this winter to get varieties and a seed plan together for spring. Chem/fert planning and as much as it’ll allow me to do.

 

[Sifan]

when you see $$$$ for new housing, your temp fix will become "spray paint and call it good!"

Flash back a few years when Brother in law was introduced to auto steer "that's nonsense, I know how to drive a straight line ect..."
Fast forward to this fall, 90 yr old bil giving it to his son "look at those combine trash tracks, what are you doing? Should be a straight line, you've got C's and S's, you're 30 rows off from your start line! " I'm going to put up a sign saying I didn't do this!!

 

[jblnut]

when you see $$$$ for new housing, your temp fix will become "spray paint and call it good!"

I’m fairly certain it has a SS liner in it already but they don’t cover the top for some reason. I’ll likely build another liner that does cover the top and sleeve it in there. A new housing is $1800. Honestly didn’t seem just too bad. Getting it out is gonna be a project. We shall see.

Flash back a few years when Brother in law was introduced to auto steer "that's nonsense, I know how to drive a straight line ect..."
Fast forward to this fall, 90 yr old bil giving it to his son "look at those combine trash tracks, what are you doing? Should be a straight line, you've got C's and S's, you're 30 rows off from your start line! " I'm going to put up a sign saying I didn't do this!!

That’s hilarious

 

[jblnut]

New guy cutting stalks. He did around 15 acres and I gotta tell you, the buddy seat is not very comfy lol


Here’s my stubbornness showing itself again. I like raking with the 5510 but it was a balmy 37F and windy out so I had to bundle up like it was mid January lol


Raking ‘em up 20’ at a time !!


Dust is a good sign things are dry !!


The dew didn’t set until around 9pm so I kept going with the lights on. That doesn’t happen often with the baler !!


Well that’s neat.


All in all I made a shade over 800 bales. 24 at a time hauled home says I have at least three days of hauling. Plus one load of soybean bales yet.


Bales are not all home but my bales spot is almost full. There are gonna be bales in the front yard soon

 

[jblnut]

On Sunday I used my first can of FlexSeal. It’s really neat stuff. Sort of like a spray able marshmallow spread lol


We then serviced and battle readied the “0 series” saws. Sharp chains, clean filters, blew all the dust off. Heck I even took a wire brush to a few areas to get some build up crud off. Cute little 026 with a full wrap handle on it. Awwwww.


I bucked up some big’uns and Leo and I got to splitting them. We filled four IBC totes. Not bad for a couple dudes in a couple hours.


I stacked them in front of wood mountain and filled in behind them.


Wood mountain is almost complete !! Four more totes and I can fill in behind them. I think I’m gonna put a large tarp over it all but I’m not sure yet. The wood stove doesn’t seem to care if there is a little ice and snow in the wood so I don’t know if I do either.

 

[RickP]

I bucked up some big’uns and Leo and I got to splitting them. We filled four IBC totes. Not bad for a couple dudes in a couple hours.

Way to get 'em hooked on saws while they're young!
Leo looks like he's having fun working with his Dad.

 

[madison069]

On Sunday I used my first can of FlexSeal. It’s really neat stuff. Sort of like a spray able marshmallow spread lol

That flex seal is interesting stuff. I'm currently watching a storm riser that was repaired with spray can flex seal. The joint between the concrete sections had 1/4" gap through the joint due to the contractor didn't use ConSeal to seal the joint. So, the owner sprayed the joint with black flex seal, it's been submerged several times over the past 8 years I've been monitoring it. Thanks for reminding me as it's time for its annual inspection!

 

[jblnut]

Way to get 'em hooked on saws while they're young!
Leo looks like he's having fun working with his Dad.

I spend many hours in the same spot when I was his size running that same lever. I say “okay” and he pushes it forward. Safety first after all. I don’t need to lose a digit !!

Leo is already nuts about saws. Every night part of his bedtime routine is “good night sleep tight dream about tractors and chainsaws love you see you tomorrow”. In the morning sometimes he says he dreamed about some crazy chainsaw that doesn’t exist yet and he proceeds to describe how it’s like a chainsaw AND a monster truck AND a dragon AND he’s the only one that can control all its power. Yeah, he’s hooked

 

[jblnut]

That flex seal is interesting stuff. I'm currently watching a storm riser that was repaired with spray can flex seal. The joint between the concrete sections had 1/4" gap through the joint due to the contractor didn't use ConSeal to seal the joint. So, the owner sprayed the joint with black flex seal, it's been submerged several times over the past 8 years I've been monitoring it. Thanks for reminding me as it's time for its annual inspection!

I’ve heard if your name is Ralph you can build a boat with a screen door bottom coated with flex seal and sail it like the Santa Maria.

It seems like stout stuff. I poked at it this morning once it’s had a day and a half to dry and it’s nice and rubbery. I think it’ll work great on top of the camper. Not sure how it’ll hold against sun but the camper is usually inside unless it’s being used.

 

[XJSuperman]

Bales are not all home but my bales spot is almost full. There are gonna be bales in the front yard soon

Serious question: why aren't you stacking them? Better airflow this way?

 

[jblnut]

Serious question: why aren't you stacking them? Better airflow this way?

If you stack them you need to tarp them and I don't want to tarp them. I'll haul most of them into the shed once the snow melts so they'll mostly be out of the rain. The snow and winter stuff doesn't affect them as much as the rain over summer does.

So yes, better airflow and they don't touch each other creating areas for the water to pool and cause rotten stuff to form.

 

[OutlawDrifter]

Used to stack them with one on the ground on the "flat" and one on top. Creates its own watershed. Then run them in lines with the upper bale's "flat" facing the next in line. See below...according to what I was taught, this is how they are designed to be stacked.



https://share.google/images/m68CNZ49BObUhrC4n

 

[jblnut]

Used to stack them with one on the ground on the "flat" and one on top. Creates its own watershed. Then run them in lines with the upper bale's "flat" facing the next in line. See below...according to what I was taught, this is how they are designed to be stacked.



https://share.google/images/m68CNZ49BObUhrC4n

I see lots of them stacked that way as well but it creates way more waste them stacking them single. It uses less space obviously so there are tradeoffs.

The water from the top bale will run down into the bottom bale and deteriorate it though the center as well as the bottom of the bottom bale being 100% exposed to the ground vs just a small patch with netwrap on it. It creates a lot more than just the crappy spot on the bottom of a bale when stacked single.

For funsies I'll stack a pair of them that way and leave them over winter to see how they do. I think there will be more waste though. It never hurts to try something new though !!

 

[OutlawDrifter]

I see lots of them stacked that way as well but it creates way more waste them stacking them single. It uses less space obviously so there are tradeoffs.

The water from the top bale will run down into the bottom bale and deteriorate it though the center as well as the bottom of the bottom bale being 100% exposed to the ground vs just a small patch with netwrap on it. It creates a lot more than just the crappy spot on the bottom of a bale when stacked single.

For funsies I'll stack a pair of them that way and leave them over winter to see how they do. I think there will be more waste though. It never hurts to try something new though !!

Our hay never lasted long enough to test long term storage. What we didn't use (when we still ran a herd) was sold. We got rid of the herd in 1996 (of course at the bottom of the market), and from then on all of our alfalfa was sold to cattlemen and dairies. I would put our small pasture of brome up in small squares, horse peoples loved it. Some of 3rd and 4th cutting of alfalfa would be in small squares as well.

I would imagine it depends on where they are stored, ours were put in the "hay lot" where they were on the higher ground...and in Western NE, rain really isn't a problem

 

[82355]

People stack them like that around here, and make snow fences with them.

Martin

 

[drivesitfar]

I saw a ton of round hay bales wrapped in black plastic in Ireland a couple weeks ago and I heard they put molasses or maybe something else inside the rolls to make them ferment for their critters. Mostly sheep in most of the very green countryside.

Of course I also heard the Irish don’t always let the truth get in the way of a good story.

I bet you could build a pretty solid building to cover your huge wood pile out of old trees sort of like the calves new building with your skills and your new chainsaw helper.

 

[tarmy]

Ok…I just took almost 4 days to go thru this entire thread.

I learned that OP has WAY too many tools, toys, equipment, patience, energy, chicken, chores and just plain ole projects for me to catch him! Oh hell, let’s just build a home and a little shed or two while we are doing a few things….

Awesome thread…that’s for PMing me about the other stuff and linking this…

 

[jblnut]

Ok…I just took almost 4 days to go thru this entire thread.

4 days isn’t bad. It’s taken me 11yrs to create it

I learned that OP has WAY too many tools, toys, equipment, patience, energy, chicken, chores and just plain ole projects for me to catch him! Oh hell, let’s just build a home and a little shed or two while we are doing a few things….

Those are very kind words !! Thank you so much. It all seems normal to me as it’s how we do it here I guess lol. On a “relaxing” note Mama Bear and I just booked a week at a Hilton in Cancun in February so I’ll get the chance to do some forced relaxing.

Awesome thread…that’s for PMing me about the other stuff and linking this…

Like I said in the PM’s, I try to be an open book. If there is something you’re wanting to see I’ll try to post it up !!

Thank you so much for slogging through the entire thing and leaving a comment !!!!!

 

[jblnut]

After 3939 days as a member of GJ I joined the group of “Alliance Members”. GJ has provided me with thousands of hours of entertainment and it’s the logical thing to do. Plus as it’s day 3939 of registered membership it seems fitting. I love and hate when numbers randomly do these things lol.

Thanks Ryan for hosting a great forum and running it like you do. It feels great here and I enjoy the level of moderation you employ to keep it just as it is.

I registered and in a moment the “Alliance Members” badge showed up. Whatever is going on in the background is truly impressive.

Join up gents !!

 

[jblnut]

Pops called and said “say hey, I dropped a disc blade off in your shop. We need to put it on tomorrow. I broke one”. WTF okay. 24” adjustable wrench for scale. It’s a 30” blade and weighs 75lbs. Yikes.


This felt like the old Tootsie Pop commercial where the kid is wondering how many licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop but instead it was “how many fat guy bounces on an 8’ pipe does it take to either bust the breaker bar or break the 3” nut loose?”


Hello Mr Bearing. You seem to be frozen to that shaft. I destroyed my LARGEST pulley puller trying to get you free. Turns out they don’t preform well with a 24” breaker bar applying the force. I should have seen that coming but I was in my “being polite” phase of attempted disassembly.


I got a little too bully with the air hammer and knicked the bearing seal so I decided to release some pent up aggression and took it all the ways apart. All the ways. Completelyish. Then I got out the hot wrench to persuade it a little more.


Things got heated and I won. Shaft is nice and not damaged. I’m not usually one to brag (yeah okay ) but that takes some skill. Skill I didn’t know I had but I assure you I’ll be bringing it up in my next performance review to leverage a big fat raise. “Say boss man, remember when I didn’t destroy that shaft on the disc that one time!?” “Oh you must mean the time you destroyed a $150 bearing because you got bully with a puller and then more bully with an air hammer?” “ Uh, that was the new guy…….”


To prevent things from getting western the next time I have to take this apart I put some of natures best antisieze on that shaft.

 

[jollygreengiant]

When you posted that in ZK's thread about using crayons for anti seize I thought you were just joking. Never thought it would actually work as an anti seize but it does make sense.

I'm surprised to see you using a cheater pipe and a breaker bar though. You're an alliance member now, you should really be upholding the GJ standards. That means a 1" impact on that nut next time lol.

 

[jblnut]

When you posted that in ZK's thread about using crayons for anti seize I thought you were just joking. Never thought it would actually work as an anti seize but it does make sense.

Wax paper has been use way longer than either of us have been around as an antisieze on old stuff. It also melts when you heat it up but it smokes a bit more. Grandpa used to wrap it around certain things and shove them together. I always thought it was because things were a bit slipped out and it made a nice shim lol.

I'm surprised to see you using a cheater pipe and a breaker bar though. You're an alliance member now, you should really be upholding the GJ standards. That means a 1" impact on that nut next time lol.

Like this one. It didn’t have enough uggadugqas to break it loose so I got out the breaker bar and pipe lol. Either way it won’t get it tight enough on reassembly so the bar and pipe had to come out anyway. Bar and pipe combo still allows a bit of calculation of torque spec and I like that

 

[OutlawDrifter]

Another "because you can" suggestion...push on the cheater pipe with the bucket of your skid steer, less chance of slipping off and coming into contact with your family jewels

 

[Jayman17]

Don't let the boss man see you lying down on the job, you might jeopardize that raise!