Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road

[oldironfarmer]

That's dirt on the straw and not just weathered because it wasn't windrowed?

Great work!

I'm assuming cows don't eat soybean straw.

 

[sgfarm]

Love reading this thread and seeing all of the photos. Thanks for taking the time to document what you do and how you do it.

Up north we are struggling with weather. a little bit of rain every 2 days makes it tough to get everything off. I still have 25 acres of beans to go that I am hiring out since my combine died.

Mike

 

[Muzzy]

Get four drawer file cabinets and you'll have more storage and an avant guarde stand-up desk.

Stand up desks in an open office plan are all the rage now. One place I worked even had a couple treadmill desks so people could get their steps in while working. The comparison to a hamster wheel was not appreciated by the people who used the treadmill desk..

 

[jblnut]

Get four drawer file cabinets and you'll have more storage and an avant guarde stand-up desk.

I'm not really all that big into staying with the times or being "hip". I don't understand the standing desk thing, I went though all that work building a nice desk chair out of a Geo Metro front seat, no way I'm not going to use it !!

That's dirt on the straw and not just weathered because it wasn't windrowed?

Great work!

I'm assuming cows don't eat soybean straw.

Some of it is weathering, some is that they were a different variety, a lot is dirt. The steers chew on EVERYTHING and I see them munching on it from time to time. They're working their way though the treated 2x6's I put up to keep them away from the outside walls so soybean straw is probably a treat for them

Love reading this thread and seeing all of the photos. Thanks for taking the time to document what you do and how you do it.

Up north we are struggling with weather. a little bit of rain every 2 days makes it tough to get everything off. I still have 25 acres of beans to go that I am hiring out since my combine died.

Mike

Posting updates on here is how I usually wind down the day. Sit in front of the PC looking through the pictures of the day and trying to decide what anyone else will want to see. I end up deleting well over half that don't turn out or don't capture what I was trying to photograph.

***** that your combine gave out on you so close to the end !! At least you didn't get 500' into the first field and eat a rock the size of a basketball like a buddy of mine did this fall. Their combine is fine but they need a new auger in their bean head !!

Stand up desks in an open office plan are all the rage now. One place I worked even had a couple treadmill desks so people could get their steps in while working. The comparison to a hamster wheel was not appreciated by the people who used the treadmill desk..

I've helped convert a few desks in our offices at the shop at work to standing desks. The employees are all into it and talk about how much more productive they'll be and how they'll be more alert because they're not sitting and blah blah blah. It usually isn't more than two weeks later that I'm putting together a tall chair that is the perfect height for an overly tall desk for someone

We have a few gals that sit on yoga balls at work. I don't really understand that one. I built my office chair at home out of an old Geo Metro front seat and love it. I also built one out of a Waldoch conversion van that I ended up selling to someone who uses it at their job. I was able to keep the heated seat function working on that one and it was quite nice !!

 

[oldironfarmer]

One swanky office I worked at had adjustable desks so you could stand up if you liked. I did that a few times, usually during a long conference call. I can yell better standing up.

The Yoga ball thing came through Tulsa. It supposedly is better for your back and several ladies in our office had them. They were discussing the fad at Zumba and I was able to tell them that "several of our girls at work have balls".

Where's Bobby when I need him?

 

[Bob Heine]

For the folks who are conflicted about standing at work, remind them that really cool geeks kneel at work. Maybe a wheeled box under it to reach the tall desk. I bought the Catholic version that had very little padding and very rough covers on the pads.

 

[C_F]

Man, this shot of the combine next to the tractor makes the tractor look kinda small, I didn't think that would be possible.
Love the action shots of the combine!

 

[welder57]

Both cameras take great pictures, it whom eye is better at telling the whole story....Great pictures of the kids, these need to go on the frig and wall frames, they will last a life time and that what life is all about....

 

[jblnut]

I can yell better standing up.

"Who's that always yelling in the office?"
"Oh, that's the new guy Andy. He's angry alot."
"Why?"
"Well, all he wants to do is go home an clean up his shop but he's here instead."
"That makes perfect sense !"

For the folks who are conflicted about standing at work, remind them that really cool geeks kneel at work. Maybe a wheeled box under it to reach the tall desk. I bought the Catholic version that had very little padding and very rough covers on the pads.

There is a gal at work that has one. It's on wheels and I overheard her telling someone else not to get one because she almost dies every time she gets on and off the goofy contraption.

Man, this shot of the combine next to the tractor makes the tractor look kinda small, I didn't think that would be possible.
Love the action shots of the combine!

The combine is really just a big box with stuff inside it so it looks bigger than it actually is. This particular combine has well under 20% the capacity of the newest largest ones on the market today.

Both cameras take great pictures, it whom eye is better at telling the whole story....Great pictures of the kids, these need to go on the frig and wall frames, they will last a life time and that what life is all about....

The fridge is full of crayon drawn masterpieces .... at least above the height Leo can reach

 

[jblnut]

Yesterday started the same day as most. The chickens are getting big and ugly again. Coming into the colder months I've had to relearn how to ventilate this barn to keep the temps and more so the humidity where they need to be. 30 degree air coming into a barn that is 80 degrees causes some interesting things to happen !!


We transferred over a few thousand more bushels of corn to fill the end bin up yesterday morning.


When it's cold out the auto shutoff on the fuel nozzle doesn't always work. I was checking the weather on my phone instead of watching it fill and I ran it over. Grrrrr


Breaking open the field we call "The 18 acre field". You'll never guess where it got its name


The 886 is a real trooper. It sits on the auger all fall and moves every bushel of wet corn into the hopper bin. It is incredibly easy on fuel and we can usually fill it once when we start and have enough to get us through the entire corn harvest. The auger only comes down if it's going to rain or is going to be really windy.


This 10" auger makes short work of unloading the 600bu boxes !!


Dad puts about 200bu in the rear boxes only. It seems like you barely get the auger running and this one's empty.


Full harvest moon !!

 

[jblnut]

Sometimes it's the little things that frustrate you the most. Like having to use the key 90% of the time in the "keyless" lock on Dad's shop. He got it on some super duper sale at Menards a few years back and it worked trouble-free for about 9 minutes.

Out with the old and in with the new Schlage. I've got this same lock on the house, my shop, chicken barn and my skid loader shed door and have had zero problems ever with any of them. $89 delivered to my door, can't argue with that.

We contracted a load of soybeans to be hauled off as the bin is full and we still have some soybeans sitting in a gravity box. It's a good problem to have more to store than we thought we'd have but ***** because price is rather crappy right now .....

It's always a snug fit loading out of this bin but it fits and is really easy to line everything up. Just drive until the front tires touch the other bin and it'll all fit

The driver was running behind and I got bored so I started taking pictures. This is how the auger gets lifted into the air to reach the tops of the bins. There is a large hydraulic cylinder that pushes a cable through a set of pulleys and up it goes !!

This is the end the cable pulls on. It slides on a track as it goes up and down. I'm not sure the max height it can reach but it really goes up a ways ....

And he finally arrived. Loaded him up and send him on his way.

The grain dryer was getting rather fuzzy ....

So I got out the ol' broom on the end of a stick to clean it off. Looks better and will work better because the steam doesn't have to travel through all the chaff.

We managed to unload on the go a few times today. It's always fun. Not sure why but it is

Lots done, lots left. Munch our way though another field.

2,345.6hrs. Neat .... oh wait. Damn, I missed it again !!

We combined the fields by my house today. The corn was a tad on the wet side at 21% average but it was starting to tip over so it was time to combine it.

A look at the business end of the dryer in the dark really shows off the 3 million BTU burner

There is a small inspection window at the opposite end of the dryer. If you were a kernel of corn this is what you would see as you pass through the dryer. The basic idea is to force lots of air and heat through a moving column of corn to push the moisture out and get it down to a level where we can safely store it.

 

[XJSuperman]

Unloading on the go is fun, like adrenaline rush stressful fun. John Deere Machine Sync takes the stress away, but the fun is still there. Esp for the combine operator. I think harvest down here is finishing up now. Still waiting on wet fields from all the rain and floods awhile back.

 

[jblnut]

Unloading on the go is fun, like adrenaline rush stressful fun. John Deere Machine Sync takes the stress away, but the fun is still there. Esp for the combine operator. I think harvest down here is finishing up now. Still waiting on wet fields from all the rain and floods awhile back.

I kept pushing the Greenstar button in the 7630 but the red combine didn't want to play along

 

[jblnut]

Yesterday started with Dad heading out with 1,300bu of dry corn headed to town to fill a contract. Really makes the 7630 grunt pulling almost 43 ton behind it

I started hauling corn straw bales home. I noticed I was one short on the first trip ... I'm pretty sure I loaded them all !! Turns out one rolled off in the field before I got on the road. Good thing, I'd hate for one to roll off while on the road !!

Second load loaded up. I didn't take pictures of all the loads

There was one little bale that I thought the ol' Ranger could handle bringing home

Seeing as how a bale rolled off in the field I didn't want to take the chance for that to happen while on the road so I went to one of my many overfilled sheds to find some lumber.

A pair of old 2x4's on each side should do the trick. These are old enough that they are actually 2" x 4"

Next it was time to run around with the refuel rig. The 886 probably had enough for the day but it was getting low and I had time so I put 40gal or so in it. That ol' 95' F250 has right at 80,000 miles on it. Hard miles but low miles. Should make it worth a mint to "the right buyer"

I literally tripped over Dad's old pressure washer that has a bad motor while getting a new grease cartridge from the shelf next to it. Fell flat on my face. While laying on the ground an idea started forming ....

It wasn't but a few days ago that I tripped over this old auger (see a pattern here) and thought it needed to get cut up and disappear .....

Dad's pressure washer has a bad motor but a good pump ... the auger is an old 6" that is too little to do anything with for us BUT has a good 90 degree gearbox and a PTO shaft. All I need to do is the math to get the right sized pulleys and boom .... I've got a PTO driven pressure washer. I'm sure if I ever finish the project I'll show y'all a picture of where it is and why it's nice to have.

Somehow the 7630 and the 7810 got parked next to each other and begged me to take a picture. Well okay I guess ....

Looks like we'll be needing rear tires on the 7810 soon

By early afternoon Dad had enough corn hauled to town so we started combining again.

He and my Mother were unloading on the go ....

Life was good and we were making decent progress until a belt jumped off the combine.

Kind of a weird deal. Never happened before so something must be unhappy but we couldn't tell what so put it back on and away we go I guess ....

This is a newer toolbox but all the Craftsman tools in here were purchased by my Dad right out of high school in the mid 1970's. They're all still there. Fullish set of 1/2" sockets and wrenches from 1/4" - 1 5/16".

The 7810 decided that it was a good time to develop a leaky injector so the 7400 got to haul wagons home. The 7810 is 150hp and the 7400 is around 100hp so it was not the end of the world but the smaller tractor definitely had it's shorts full pulling them up the driveway out of the field !!

The 7400 looks a lot bigger from this angle ....

We started on another field after dark ....

The combine really needs more/newer/LED lights. I turned my tractors lights off and this is what was left

 

[XJSuperman]

Ive heard more than a few guys are running all-nighters this last week in northern Iowa. Is the crunch that bad up by you?

I haven't looked at the weather but there was a rumor about rain coming so maybe that was it.

 

[jeepxj]

you running that blue parrot headset all the time? Just got done harvest as well and zello walkie talkie app was a major improvement over the standard radios esp for the far fields. Really nice to still be on radio while dumping a truck or working on some piece of something. We created a channel for all farm and for just the truckers.
zello.com


I too got some nice farm steaks. But the butcher went overboard on my "man steak cuts please" order. His photo made them appear not so big

On a 24 pack you can get a sense of my problem.

PS: the quick draw marker still going strong for me. how about you?

 

[BSAschields]

I guess it's cheaper to draw, edit and draw again than to build and rebuild so here is revision #109... Added some doors and changed the whole upstairs. I might add that this will be slab on grade with a 2nd story, no basement. TO keep the posts from being in the ground like a typical pole shed we were thinking about using perma-columns or wet set anchors to hold the posts off the slab.

Either concrete perma-columns or something like this ....

Nice drawing!! Great property too. What program did you use to draw these?

Thanks

 

[C_F]

Today on the Bing main page, they had a photo of a corn maze, and it made me curious, have you guys ever tried to make one in one of your fields? I don't know how they can get them so uniform like this, on such a large area.

Also, I decided to take a peek at page 1 in this thread just 'cuz. Two things...
1) I see you have had to go back & fix the photos on the first few pages that were killed by those Photobucket bastards, so thanks for that! I see there's others to still fix later on, but there are only so many hours in a day! Just glad to be able to see the ones you have done.
2) It's really amazing how far your place has come in three years! Very impressive, I must say & I'm glad you chose to take us all along for the ride.

Anyway, as always, I'm looking forward to your continued posts of your days on the farm!

 

[carlquib]

Import the design as a shape file, then go for it.

My name is Brian and I'm a toolaholic.

 

[jblnut]

Ive heard more than a few guys are running all-nighters this last week in northern Iowa. Is the crunch that bad up by you?

I haven't looked at the weather but there was a rumor about rain coming so maybe that was it.

We're down to 55 acres of our own and 150 acres for the neighbors. It's been raining for 4 days here again and things are WET again. There has been a few guys up here that are going as long as they can but the dew/frost has been slowing everyone down once it sets in.

you running that blue parrot headset all the time? Just got done harvest as well and zello walkie talkie app was a major improvement over the standard radios esp for the far fields. Really nice to still be on radio while dumping a truck or working on some piece of something. We created a channel for all farm and for just the truckers.
zello.com

I too got some nice farm steaks. But the butcher went overboard on my "man steak cuts please" order. His photo made them appear not so big

On a 24 pack you can get a sense of my problem.

PS: the quick draw marker still going strong for me. how about you?

I've tried a few walkie talkie apps and they've all been disappointing but I'll give that one a shot and report back.

OMG Those steaks look amazing

The markers are working out very well. I've marked a few wires that have been outside for a while and the marker is still shining strong and black.

Nice drawing!! Great property too. What program did you use to draw these?

The building tool on the FBI Building site. Not FBI like FBI but FBI like a building company. https://design.fbibuildings.com/

Today on the Bing main page, they had a photo of a corn maze, and it made me curious, have you guys ever tried to make one in one of your fields? I don't know how they can get them so uniform like this, on such a large area.

Also, I decided to take a peek at page 1 in this thread just 'cuz. Two things...
1) I see you have had to go back & fix the photos on the first few pages that were killed by those Photobucket bastards, so thanks for that! I see there's others to still fix later on, but there are only so many hours in a day! Just glad to be able to see the ones you have done.
2) It's really amazing how far your place has come in three years! Very impressive, I must say & I'm glad you chose to take us all along for the ride.

Anyway, as always, I'm looking forward to your continued posts of your days on the farm!

A corn maze is on my bucket list. I think it'd be fun and a potential money maker as no one around here does one.

I had to go back and look as well because I was sure I fixed all the links I could. Seems the only ones that are still broken are the ones other people quoted. I spent a few hours an evening for weeks when those photobastards pulled that stunt fixing photo links on here.

I went back through it from page one a few weeks back too and I thought the same thing. I never thought anyone would be interested in the boring repetitive stuff I do on a daily basis when there are so many other wonderful threads on the Garage Journal to look at as well !!

Import the design as a shape file, then go for it.

A neighbor of ours has a multi hybrid planter that I think could work to do a corn maze. Plant two distinctively different hybrids so you can easily detect the plants to mow off and boom .... you have your corn maze !!

 

[dchance]

The things that you daily do may become common to you but they are educational to some of us and we enjoy following along. To see the problems and the solutions.

Dwight

 

[oldironfarmer]

I really liked seeing your mom loading corn on the go.

 

[Sifan]

We had a Super M Farmall with a 2ME picker. I would get up before school and pick two wagons of corn and Mom would unload them while I was at school. One day she decided this unloading stuff is easy enough and decided to pick a load. I got off the bus and right off saw the picker wasn't where I parked it. She tried to pick through a low spot that I had been going around and got stuck She decided to stick with unloading. She also didn't know to shut the elevator off at the end of the field and threw corn while turning around, whoops!

 

[jblnut]

Friday I got the privilege of working in the attic of a dairy barn. We ran (so far) three Cat 6 shielded wired. One for a NanoStation AC Loco and two for a UAP-AC-Mesh's. Eventually this barn will have a bunch of cameras and WiFi EVERYWHERE !!! The light is provided by a cheap Black Diamond headlamp. It was $40 I think on eBay ....




Mama Bear and I are going to head to St. Paul for a concert Friday night and am planning on meeting up with some friends for dinner. I bought some steaks along for them. It's my bi-annual resupply run for them


Depending on who you ask it was either "OMG OMG OMG !!! Brothers Osbourne!!!" or "Holy ****, look at the phenomenal job the electricians did at running all that EMT. It looks like artwork in itself!!!" Mama Bear had a good time and I had a blast people watching. Gosh people are STUPID in large groups. Just amazing really.


I do enjoy their music so it was a good time had by all ... plus neither of us had been to a concert of any kind since we were 18 so it was fun


Saturday morning we traded a very dirty Subaru Forester for a very clean Subaru Ascent. There is an incredible amount of buttons in this thing. It lets you know when you wander out of your lane and slows you down when you come up on someone and all kinds of other annoying things.


After we picked the car up it was time to bring a load of feed over. The 886 usually pulls mixer duty but the bald tires on it would not get close to the barn so the 7400 gets to play along today.


The 886 wouldn't have made it far in this mess !!!


We got 11 acres of corn combined this afternoon after things dried up a bit. This was a VERY full box and the corn was just about running over the sides ...


While unloading corn I noticed the 886 was leaking a little oil ....


So I did the responsible thing and kicked some dirt on it to soak the oil up

 

[Farmall450]

886 is a unique tractor. It would match the 806 & 856 well!

Glad to see everything is running OK. Those new rear tires are damned expensive but better than the newer, thicker/deeper ones like on an 8530 (see OLF on YouTube, he'll be 10k in rubber, no duals).

 

[jblnut]

The things that you daily do may become common to you but they are educational to some of us and we enjoy following along. To see the problems and the solutions.

Dwight

Well thanks. The entire reason I started posting stuff was to show so what goes into a small family like ours. Mission accomplished !!

I really liked seeing your mom loading corn on the go.

Haha. Dad didn't like it all that much

We had a Super M Farmall with a 2ME picker. I would get up before school and pick two wagons of corn and Mom would unload them while I was at school. One day she decided this unloading stuff is easy enough and decided to pick a load. I got off the bus and right off saw the picker wasn't where I parked it. She tried to pick through a low spot that I had been going around and got stuck She decided to stick with unloading. She also didn't know to shut the elevator off at the end of the field and threw corn while turning around, whoops!

Yeah. Mom is very helpful and a very smart woman but she's not the farmer/machinery type naturally. I could totally see my mother doing the same thing !!

886 is a unique tractor. It would match the 806 & 856 well!

Glad to see everything is running OK. Those new rear tires are damned expensive but better than the newer, thicker/deeper ones like on an 8530 (see OLF on YouTube, he'll be 10k in rubber, no duals).

We used to have an 856 and I loved driving it. I always volunteered to haul silage boxes with it. It smoked like a chimney and had tons of power. If you could give that tractor, and the 886 for that matter, a power shift they would be almost the perfect tractors !!

Our STX325 will need new tires soon .... Eight 20.8 r48 deep lug tires will really put the hurt on the pocket book one day soon

 

[Farmall450]

We used to have an 856 and I loved driving it. I always volunteered to haul silage boxes with it. It smoked like a chimney and had tons of power. If you could give that tractor, and the 886 for that matter, a power shift they would be almost the perfect tractors !!

Our STX325 will need new tires soon .... Eight 20.8 r48 deep lug tires will really put the hurt on the pocket book one day soon

Just try not to think about it! Or trade it in
Honestly though...aren't they 42" rims?

 

[mfg0772]

QUOTE [Saturday morning we traded a very dirty Subaru Forester for a very clean Subaru Ascent. There is an incredible amount of buttons in this thing. It lets you know when you wander out of your lane and slows you down when you come up on someone and all kinds of other annoying things.]

I'd be interested what you think about the Ascent. We have a Forester right now and we love it. The only issue is I'm 6'-6" and it can be a bit tight, especially with a car seat. I was thinking about an Ascent if it could buy me more room.

 

[jblnut]

Just try not to think about it! Or trade it in
Honestly though...aren't they 42" rims?

We've looked into trading it in or selling it to get something larger and it just doesn't seem to make sense for the size of our operation. If I had it my way, we'd have an old green Steiger sitting in the shed instead of this new thing with all kinds of electronics and stuff that goes wrong.

Although the tire size was a typo they are 46 inch rims ordered that way from the factory so it goes faster down the road. It hums along right round 24 miles an hour.

 

[jblnut]

I'd be interested what you think about the Ascent. We have a Forester right now and we love it. The only issue is I'm 6'-6" and it can be a bit tight, especially with a car seat. I was thinking about an Ascent if it could buy me more room.

Alhough we've only had it for a few days the initial first impressions are very good. There is a considerable amount more room in this than the Forester which is what we were after. When we purchased the Forester we had one kid, now we have three and three car seats were a bit tight in the Forester. They all fit with room to spare in the new Ascent.

 

[davo727]

OK I just did 92 pages. Took a couple days. Very good.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Don't understand your dad being less than ecstatic that your mom was helping. Would he be happier if she stayed in the house or went shopping?

I was always very pleased when my wife could help, even though her skill set was minimal. One time she drove a 2 ton IH 1600 with a pop up loader for me. I was on the truck stacking hay. She amazingly could hit every bale and was picking up hay fast. Too fast, I couldn't stay on the truck and stack hay and she couldn't hear me over the engine. Compound low worked much better.

 

[Farmall450]

We've looked into trading it in or selling it to get something larger and it just doesn't seem to make sense for the size of our operation. If I had it my way, we'd have an old green Steiger sitting in the shed instead of this new thing with all kinds of electronics and stuff that goes wrong.

Although the tire size was a typo they are 46 inch rims ordered that way from the factory so it goes faster down the road. It hums along right round 24 miles an hour.

Good call. And I was joking. Although I'd have the first gen quadtrack with the sick hood.

 

[MNSam]

Did you buy the Subaru from Morries Mtka? I'm really digging those new Ascents.

 

[jblnut]

OK I just did 92 pages. Took a couple days. Very good.

Wow !! Thanks for pouring yourself through it and putting up with me. I can't make it past about page 5 when I decide to go through it all again. I get bored and move on to a thread about some dude Cleaning Up His Shop. I can't seem to keep up with that one though either

Don't understand your dad being less than ecstatic that your mom was helping. Would he be happier if she stayed in the house or went shopping?

I was always very pleased when my wife could help, even though her skill set was minimal. One time she drove a 2 ton IH 1600 with a pop up loader for me. I was on the truck stacking hay. She amazingly could hit every bale and was picking up hay fast. Too fast, I couldn't stay on the truck and stack hay and she couldn't hear me over the engine. Compound low worked much better.

When I go back and read it it reads as we are not happy Mom is helping, that is certainly not the case. That was her first run at unloading-on-the-go and although it went well there was a lot of squabbling back and forth on the CB's

Dad and I both combine about 2.7 - 2.8mph so we both know how fast to drive and where to keep the combine unload spout and blah blah blah. Mom doesn't as well and needs to be instructed where to go and all that. It's very nice to have all the help we can get but Dad and I get so used to working with each other that when Mom, or anyone for that matter, helps out they don't do things like we do it (weather we're right or not) and it takes adjustment to make it all go smoothly. That being said, it's often that working with someone else we will learn something and change our view of the "well that's how it's always been done so that is how it is" .....

Good call. And I was joking. Although I'd have the first gen quadtrac with the sick hood.

A guy up here got one back in the late 90's and we all thought it was the strangest thing ever. He sold it a few years back and we were all sad to see it go. No official number on it, just a "QuadTrac" sticker on the fuel tank. T'was built on a 9370 chassis if memory serves me. It had something bonkers like 20,000hrs on it or something crazy when he decided it was time for a new one. A nice shiny 620 Quad sits in the shed now.

Did you buy the Subaru from Morries Mtka? I'm really digging those new Ascents.

St. Cloud Subaru in St. Cloud. The Mrs. really likes it. Package 11, Premium trim, no moonroof, Eyesight and all that ****, hitch and it's an 8 passenger. OTD price was right at $37k but is sure is nice. When her Forester was paid off we kept the monthly payment going but put it into savings instead so when the time came we'd have a chunk of cash to throw at is as well as whatever the trade was worth. It worked out to be about a third each, trade allowance, cash saved and amount financed.

 

[MNSam]

Nice! Just a heads up, if you join the MNSubaru.com forum, they do have discounts setup at the Mtka dealership for sure and maybe some others. I've been daily driving some sort of Subaru for the last 10 years basically and it's saved me some cash for sure.

 

[Farmall450]

I love those mirage hoods - 20,000 hours and still had a spring in her step.

 

[davo727]

I enjoy seeing all your activities. Your camera setups are interesting to me. Im contemplating whether its feasible to make up a solar powered setup to monitor my rural property where I dont yet live.

I think I can get cable internet there, wondering if I have to have a PC out there if I want to be able to monitor the property via the internet elsewhere from my laptop or phone?

Really low wattage consumption computer???

Thanks

Im going to start building things out on that property.

 

[jblnut]

Nice! Just a heads up, if you join the MNSubaru.com forum, they do have discounts setup at the Mtka dealership for sure and maybe some others. I've been daily driving some sort of Subaru for the last 10 years basically and it's saved me some cash for sure.

I'll check out the forum for sure. I think we'll have a Subaru in the stable for quite some time unless perhaps this one is a lemon. The Forester gave us 75,000 trouble free miles. I'd expect a car to be trouble free at least that long I guess but it was nice that it was. Not even a burnt out headlight or something else petty, it all just worked.

I love those mirage hoods - 20,000 hours and still had a spring in her step.

I'd imagine the spring was about gone at that point but it drove out of the yard under it's own power and is working in someone else's fields now.

I enjoy seeing all your activities. Your camera setups are interesting to me. I'm contemplating whether it's feasible to make up a solar powered setup to monitor my rural property where I don't yet live.

I think I can get cable internet there, wondering if I have to have a PC out there if I want to be able to monitor the property via the internet elsewhere from my laptop or phone?

Really low wattage consumption computer???

Thanks

I'm going to start building things out on that property.

I may have a solar powered solution for you. It may take me a bit but I'll snag some pictures of a solar powered set of antennas I put up and post them up here for you.

You wouldn't need a PC out there to run the Unifi stuff, they have a few low power options you could use as an NVR. It'd take a hell of a decent solar setup to power everything for a week of cloudy days and a trip onsite may be needed to boot it all back up if the batteries die ....

 

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The last few days have been really hectic but here are a few highlights with a few more to be posted at a later date.

I got more feed mixed !! Not a big deal really as it's almost an every other day deal but hey, it happened.


I'm WAY happier about this one. There used to be a massive pile of straw, twine and net wrap here. I got sick of it and cleaned it all up. Swept and everything !! Gosh it feels good to have it all cleaned up !!


Apparently rafter delivery trucks aren't built for the mud.


I always wondered how they got the rafters off the truck .... Never seen one up close and never watched it done before .....


Bye Bye rafter guy !!


We made a bit of a mess ....


What a nice looking pile of rafters. As long as they're here I may as well find something to do with them. Maybe a garden shed or a sauna shack or a pool house or a new farm house !!!