Bruce's Journal

[RollingAcres]

Just a thought, I wonder if vegans eat bread? Bread (yeast bread) is made from yeasts. Yeasts are single-celled microorganisms, that should be considered a living thing.

 

[Bruce]

Don't confuse them with facts LS!

 

[Latestarter]

Huh? WhadIsay? Facts? huh?

 

[Bruce]

Went to get a bags of layer and a different flavor of dry cat food. The oldest cat suddenly tired of the chicken flavor. Stopped in the boot section JUST in case the winter boots I've been waiting for came in. They did Good for -50° to 65°(mind you that is if you are ACTIVE at those temps, my feet will still get cold sitting on the garden tractor blowing snow if it is -20° and there is a lot of snow to move). Now I don't have to gorilla tape the rips in the old ones and still get wet cold feet anyway.

And
Tossed my old taped up boots (what a crazy thought! ) while DW was there in the mudroom with me. She got a bug up her .... er ... a bee in her bonnet and decided EVERYONE should go through the footwear and get rid of old, beat up or things smelling of cat pee (Christofur was a bad boy before he got fixed in May). I think I tossed about 15 pair of shoes and boots in the trash

 

[Mike CHS]

We found a use for old boots as we use tarps outside our shop stall for added shade. We use T-posts on the outside to secure the tarps and then drive a T-post in the middle that we secure a 2x4 long enough to create some good run off. We put an old boot over the 2x4 that keeps the tarp from wearing on the 2x4.

 

[Bruce]

Good use for old boots! Got no tarped areas here though. If the animals want shade they (the chickens) hang out in the barn or under bushes by the house. The alpacas go in the barn, under the solar panels or under the tree behind the pond.

 

[farmerjan]

Down here old boots and such are used for "planters".... like at the end of walks on old country looking places, or under trees or in areas that are rather rocky. Gives some character to planters... they S_L_O_W_L_Y will rot away if they have much leather. Fill em up with good topsoil and plant things like "hens and chicks" in low ones, old lace up type work shoes can get anything you want...
I like mikes idea to prevent tarps from tearing. Good to put on the top of T-posts also so an animal doesn't get hurt or cut...
It's the country, we are not in it for looks but for practicality.

 

[Bruce]

It's the country, we are not in it for looks but for practicality.

Then you won't have anything insulting to say about my wood drying/storage racks

These boots were all rubber or synthetic. Some had fake fur on them.

 

[farmerjan]

Then you won't have anything insulting to say about my wood drying/storage racks

These boots were all rubber or synthetic. Some had fake fur on them.

Yep, candidates for the dumpster...... does your daughter have an aversion to leather because it comes from an animal? If so, then what is her take on all this fake stuff that won't even biodegrade????? I can't seem to get my head around some of the reasoning that the "tree hugger" types have. Not trying to be disrespectful.... I just don't get the not killing anything yet nature has intended for "higher life forms" to kill, eat , use and eventually discard "lower life forms" that will return to the earth in a natural way.

I think your idea of having the racks to put up on the porch all in a big "piece" rather than having to do it all by hand is a great idea. Who the he// cares what it looks like if it does the job?

If looks were important, I would be driving a new(er) truck, making payments, have newer tractors, and cows with registration papers.....
Instead, I have ALL PAID FOR....a 2000 subaru forester ( as soon as the rebuilt engine gets put in it), a 1994 ford ranger pickup with some "DEER MODIFICATIONS" and a different colored drivers door from a slight bent backwards door that was sprung and we had to replace it; a 1984 4wd ranger pickup with faded black paint, no tailgate but a short "stop board" and right now a broken muffler, and no radio but the heat does work....
Our newest big P.U. truck is a 1998 ford f350 crew cab; our preferred truck to pull the cattle trailer is a f-250 maybe a 95(?), plus various other trucks to take to and from fields... most on "farm use" tags.
Plus my preferred tractor is a 40's model faded paint, iron seat, no power steering, type, Farmall H to rake hay in small tight fields; faded old ford 4600 and 6600 tractors with live hydraulics to use other farm equipment; old Allis Chalmers 190's and 200's for other stuff, a BIG 7040(?) allis that actually has a cab.... plus the 2 newer tractors, a big agco allis to use with the discbine, and the 4wd big John Deere that is part of the payments on the rented farm....they both have air cooling ( not really air conditioning cold...) both over 100 hp each for the big equipment.
Plus so much other equipment it looks like a used tractor/equipment lot; rakes, tedders, round and square balers, wagons.... All paid for except the discbine.....
All the angus and other cross bred cattle.....paid for. All the bulls are registered purebreds so we do believe in "upgrading"... again paid for.

We are into as much paid for as we can.... yet we still owe nearly $20,000 in seed and fertilizer, spraying some fields, from 2018 operations....with feeder calf prices down and not looking good so don't know how much of that we will have to carry over .....

So don't apologize for being practical and a little ingenuity for the rack. Looks be d#@%d.

 

[Rammy]

Im the same way on debt. Everything I own is paid for. If I dont have the cash to buy it, I go without. I would love a new car, tractor, lots of stuff, but have to save for it first. Hey, if it runs and is paid for, fine with me. If someone doesnt like it, they can buy me a new one. I wont mind.