The bad news is I got the bush hog and tractor all greased up, all the tires aired up added hydraulic fluids and started bush hogging about 6:30 this afternoon. The old john deere fuel filter plugged and quit.
The good news is I get to DOW about 90 miles in the morning to get a new one!!
Sounds like an excuse to DOW to me.
Hey Carl,
A little disappointed this morning. I was anticipating a 90 mile drive to the John Deere dealership to get a fuel filter but the local auto parts had one
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On the brighter side we have been invited to a 4th July event that will be over a hundred mile round trip.
SWEM
Wayne, is that a giant dual-brush hog? Holy crap…
Hi Brian,
I figure, it is triple!? And yes, HOLY SMOKES!
Best regards,
Sam
Sam: Yes, I blew up the picture really big, and yes there seems to be a 3rd in the middle where the dog is stepping!
One of the tough things I encountered when we first moved to Texas was when everybody here would talk about “shredding” their fields and buying a tractor with a “shredder” attached. Then the light came on and I realized that in Texas “shredding” means the same thing as “bush-hogging” in Mississippi (and, apparently, in Alabama as well).
Alex T: up here in Washington state they are either a “brush hog” or a “bush hog”. A “shredder” (or chipper) is what you put the cut up brush into to after it’s cut to turn it into mulch that usually goes into the back of a truck.
Under severe drought conditions, like we have now in S. TX, the cows eat any grass that grew in early Spring, leaving the weeds and thorny Mesquite and Huisache (which both have very deep tap roots) with no competition. It takes me 40 hours to shred them with a rotary cutter, plus more hours to keep up with the flat tires from the thorns. You have got to shred them, or you lose the pastures. As I shred them on the diesel tractor, I keep telling myself that they are bringing up nutrients from deep down, and on the other hand, I know I am just pruning them. My shredder only has a 5’ blade, but I can pull it with 25 to 35 hp.
Hello Brian, Sam ,Alex and Ray,
The cutter is three seven foot blades , the tractor is a 70 horse and in tall grass you need every one. Weeds are not as bad.
I had never heard the term shredder for a mower . I think down here the Bush Hog brand was the first and most popular cutter so the term bush hog meant cutting a pasture etc.
Also when I was growing up a coca cola was any soft drink in a bottle regardless if it was nehi orange , root beer or a 7 up.
Same with cameras, regardless of the brand it was called a Kodak.
A refrigerator no matter the brand as long as it kept something cool was a frigidaire
Example . I just come in hot and tired from bush hogging, found a big orange coke in the frigidaire and the wife got me on the kodak as I durnk it.
I grew up with farmer background parents. It wasn’t until high school that I realized this exotic food I heard called steak was what I had at home called cow meat.
I think I passed a small test yesterday when I went to renew the tag on the Dakota. I never intended to say anything, but my loudmouth friend walked in and says " Hey Carl, how’s that woodburning Dakota running? Still driving for free?" The two little heads behind the counter popped up like prairie dogs and time stood still! Then one of them said: “Does it really burn wood?” And another customer in there says" I’ve heard about that truck that burns wood." From there on it was all chatter about wood burning vehicles, WWII gasification, and using waste wood.
Still a great small town, in a great state, in a great country!
Happy 4th of July everyone.
Carl keep a close eye on them prairie dogs often means trouble.
Where I grew the three meals were breakfast, dinner, and supper. Lunch was taken to your fight
Hopefully you dodged a bullet Carl. I hope they don’t check with state about road tax on alternate fuel vehicles. If it was the girls in G’wood we might be ok. You never know.
My son in Texas had his heart cath on Tuesday. Came out that he did not need stint. Only bad part was that he had to go for the cath at 6:30 AM. At 3:30 AM the transplant unit called with a perfect match of a kidney and pancreas. He had to turn it down due to the cath. He’s bummed out about that. As of now he is scheduled for a kidney from his sister-in-law at the end of the month. Maybe another pancreas and kidney will come up before the end of the month.Time will tell. Anyone that is not an organ donor, please consider being one. The life you save might be a family member of your own. You can donate to someone else and some else can donate for some one else. Sort of like a trade program.
Hope everyone had a super 4th of July. Any of you that have members of your family in the service, or you were in the service. Thanks, and any of you were in Nam, welcome home!!
Hello Chris,
We pray all will be well with your son. (I am a donor)
On another note, I took yesterday the 4th of July off and spent time with family on the Coosa River.
Pictures below.
A lot of food and fun with the family on the water but when you are DOW part of the fun is just driving there.
SWEM
Great! Maybe I still have a chance at the first gasified pontoon boat.
Picture 1: Chipped up a bunch of dead brown blackberry vines and random branches (“brown”/carbon-rich stuff) and shredded ssomeapple/plum/alder leaves, as well as some green blackberry vines (“green”/nitrogen-rich stuff) to make compost builder/foods.
Picture 2: Compost porn.
Wow !! the years fling by.
Hard to believe the youngon sitting on the hood of the ole ford is now explaining the gasification system, hauling loads and is twice the size of his Mama!!
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The American farm family, with a wiff of sweat and smoke, the salt of the earth.
I found this video and thought yous would enjoy it since it has both fire and farming. Ballsy farmer uses his tractor to cut a fire-break in his field, right next to the fire. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=760_1373385040
