Ridgetop
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And was the tin from the roof and can it be fixed?
CLSranch a journal to compensate my lack of memory.
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CLSranch
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Yes when I went back out at 6. They were all together.
After church and a run to Chelsea to see her Grandpa for father's day, we found her again, not a heifer. I could see all of them in the back and planned on leaving in the truck as soon as I threw out some hay for them and the horses, so I left the gate open. While carrying the chainsaw around to mess with it, it looked like the heifer just dropped and was fighting the bull off the calf. I take off to run him back and she takes off with the other 2 instead of staying with calf. She is still having some gushes coming, seeming to super excite the bull with each squirt. I get them in the back separate them, get the other 2 in the other pasture (the one that needs to grow until winter) and expect her to go to the calf. She run's right past the calf to the gate the others went into. I grab some hay for the horses, then look up and say where's the heifer?. I look down the driveway and say I bet I know where she went
. Give me the car keys I'll go get her. Got her run back in and after an a couple of hours she had got used to sucking and the calf had figured out as well. Calf still looks good this morning.
The tin was still attached to the ridge cap which it did rip on the one side where it got folded over. I don't know if I corrected but 3 pieces. I was able to separate one from the other 2, then separate it, then the others from the ridge cap. I got a drill on the wrong side of the screw and got it backed most of the way out then had to pry them apart. I should be able to put back on where they came from, just patch where it was folded in 2 if it's cracked.
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I got the little trailer unloaded, finally. On the way to church there was a tree down in the road completely blocking it. Figured I grab the truck, trailer and saws when I got home. While in Chelsea I figured I should grab my other chainsaw from a friends on the way home. Got it back because my stihl quit running, the little poulan never did cut great and now constantly dies and can only handle 3/4 throttle. So I get the Echo, the biggest Orschelyn's carried when I bought it (another time the stihl wasn't running). The chain is so stretched it won't tighten up near enough. PO'd at that, I didn't realize that I left the wrench with it. As soon as I get to the tree, unhook the little trailer spin the truck around, rehook the trailer and grab the poulan. It needs that wrench to tighten the saw. I have others in my wood cutting milk crate, but they didn't fit. It's just one small tree maybe it'll make it. Only a few minutes and the chain comes off, grab the stihl, it fires up, then putters out when you hit the throttle.
Go back home. repeat unhook, spin. Finally get the tree cut up and some of the smaller stuff loaded (with the help of the boys), and start on the rest of the bigger stuff. I get closer to the trunk and realize the trailer tire is flat. I unload all the big stuff and throw on the truck boxes (water tank still in the middle). Good thing I took farm truck or I'd had to throw it back in the ditch. We got home around 3, so I should've been, without the boys help, done and back at the house unloaded by 5, 6 if I goofed off after getting home. We were getting home after 9.
I usually check any trailer tire I haven't pulled in a week. It's only a couple of miles, I walk past it every day and it's up, I'm already late because of the cattle, it should be good. We idled home and ate dinner an hour after bed time.
Both of the little portable air compressors we have are burned up from airing up a tire on something EVERY time I need to do anything. I love that orange liquid stuff you put in tires. It reseals the next hole to if you have enough in there. Not the green slime. Can't buy new tires on something that moves less than 1,000 miles a year. So liquid it is, just a different tire every time I come home.
That was long.
Go back home. repeat unhook, spin. Finally get the tree cut up and some of the smaller stuff loaded (with the help of the boys), and start on the rest of the bigger stuff. I get closer to the trunk and realize the trailer tire is flat. I unload all the big stuff and throw on the truck boxes (water tank still in the middle). Good thing I took farm truck or I'd had to throw it back in the ditch. We got home around 3, so I should've been, without the boys help, done and back at the house unloaded by 5, 6 if I goofed off after getting home. We were getting home after 9.
I usually check any trailer tire I haven't pulled in a week. It's only a couple of miles, I walk past it every day and it's up, I'm already late because of the cattle, it should be good. We idled home and ate dinner an hour after bed time.
Both of the little portable air compressors we have are burned up from airing up a tire on something EVERY time I need to do anything. I love that orange liquid stuff you put in tires. It reseals the next hole to if you have enough in there. Not the green slime. Can't buy new tires on something that moves less than 1,000 miles a year. So liquid it is, just a different tire every time I come home.
That was long.
Ridgetop
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I thought that sort of stuff only happened to us!
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If it weren't for bad luck..... WOW... but I am queen of the flat tires around here... even brand new ones I get some sort of puncture/nail/screw/wire in them and get a flat....
SageHill
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You're not alone in that! Unfortunately I'm a member of that club too.
Ridgetop
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I guess it is true - there are only a few degrees of relationship between everyone in the world! I love you, long lost sisters and brothers!
Mini Horses
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I have a front tractor tire that's loosing air...NOT spending on new right now. So, a $30 tube is the repair for now!! 
We all "do what we can"!
We all "do what we can"!farmerjan
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Tube in tractor tires is always the first step. And... we use alot of car/vehicle tires on rakes, wagons, and front tires on the tractors.... of course some you can't... but the ones that are interchangeable... we use car/truck tires. Usually cheaper than "tractor" tires...
I will do patches inside the car tires with the different items I have "stuck through" the tires... but will also go to a tube if the tread is halfway decent to get more time out of a tire...
I will do patches inside the car tires with the different items I have "stuck through" the tires... but will also go to a tube if the tread is halfway decent to get more time out of a tire...
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canesisters
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Working at a landfill, I get plugs in my tires CONSTANTLY. The guys at the local tire joint don't even ask anymore, they just walk out & look, I point, they take it off and look for where it needs plugging. Once they came back laughing and said that I had half a dozen plugs in a tire and they wouldn't put anymore in.
Once when going to meet a friend I had to air up a slow-leaking tire. When I told her that I was glad it didn't make me late, she said "You DID change the tire, right?" ... I honestly - for jut a second - couldn't figure out what she meant.... CHANGE a tire just because it needed air-ing up every couple days?????
Once when going to meet a friend I had to air up a slow-leaking tire. When I told her that I was glad it didn't make me late, she said "You DID change the tire, right?" ... I honestly - for jut a second - couldn't figure out what she meant.... CHANGE a tire just because it needed air-ing up every couple days?????
