RollingAcres
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Yes and chocolate milk comes from brown cows. lolDoes he think that milk is made in plastic containers in the back of the grocery store?
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greybeard
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Everyone knows real milk comes from almonds and soybeans....Does he think that milk is made in plastic containers in the back of the grocery store?
Poor guy, we are all ignorant of many things.
(where's the vomit emoticon when ya really need it?)
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RollingAcres
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And coconuts...
Bruce
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Right here! 
Though I guess there really isn't any vomit there. Oh well.
Apparently people who "milk" almonds, oats, soybeans, coconuts, etc can no longer use the word "Milk" in their packaging. I'm good with that though people have been calling the water that comes out of coconuts "coconut milk" long before all the other "milks" came out.
Though I guess there really isn't any vomit there. Oh well.
Apparently people who "milk" almonds, oats, soybeans, coconuts, etc can no longer use the word "Milk" in their packaging. I'm good with that though people have been calling the water that comes out of coconuts "coconut milk" long before all the other "milks" came out.
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Senile_Texas_Aggie
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It's been awhile since I posted on my own journal so I thought I would let you folks know what we have been up to.
scrap iron
Last Thursday I decided that it would be quite a while before the path into the junk area behind the pond would dry out enough to get the rest of the junk out of there, so I decided to take the junk I had moved into the pasture to a scrap metal place in Fort Smith. It turned out that what was in the pasture completely filled my trailer, so it was good. The scrap metal place took almost all of what I had loaded onto the trailer. They didn't take two old deer feeders, nor the lining for an above ground swimming pool, but they took just about everything else, including an old refrigerator, a V-6 short block engine, a child's backyard gym set, etc. The weight of all of the items they tool surprised me: 1800 lbs. They paid me $0.05 per pound, or $90 total. It more than paid for the diesel to go over and back.
picnic area
The weather cooperated enough to let us decide to take a chance on driving the tractor across the new road into the woods where the picnic area is supposed to be. The tractor hardly left any ruts, so we decided to remove all of the trees we had cut down and to move the bench and picnic table out to the picnic area. I wanted to take a picture of my Beautiful Gal sitting at the table, but she insisted that she take a picture of me. Fortunately for Miss @Rammy, @Mike CHS agreed to lend his arm to hide my face so that Miss Rammy would not be overwhelmed!
tractor stuck
For the past several days my Beautiful Gal and I have been trying to clean out the area south of the shop. It was completely overgrown with vines, briars, scrub trees, etc. We are trying to make it not nearly as jungle-like. I will post pictures once we finish. Anyway, I drove the tractor into the area to grab some vines and small trees we had cut and before I realized it the left front wheel of the tractor had sunk deep into the ground, all the way to the front axle. When I tried to back out, the left front tire and right rear tire spun. The tractor was stuck. Let me repeat that again: THE TRACTOR WAS STUCK. How in the world does a person get a tractor stuck in the mud? Apparently it takes a lot of skill to do that, and I succeeded beyond what I thought I could do.
Once I realized the tractor was stuck, I asked my Beautiful Gal to bring the Gator over and help pull the tractor out. We put the Gator into 4x4 low gear and with my Beautiful Gal driving the Gator and me driving the tractor we tried to get the tractor unstuck. Nothing doing. I thought I heard the mud laughing at me as the tractor's tires continued to spin. Well, time for the bigger gun: I positioned the F-350 dually and used a longer chain so that the truck was on more dry ground (the truck doesn't have mud tires on it). I then put it in 4x4 low range and had my Beautiful Gal drive the truck while I drove the tractor. This time the mud cried uncle and we got the tractor out. Thank goodness for the 4x4 truck! I know there has been discussion with Mr. @Bruce on his journal, but this is one reason I have a big honkin' truck. He is smart enough not to get his tractor stuck in the mud, but I am not, so I need some real pulling power should I do something like that again. I didn't take a picture of the tractor while it was stuck, but I did take a picture of the ruts it made once we got the tractor out. The picture may not show it clearly, but the rut on the left is almost knee deep:
books read
We recently finished two books. The first one is titled Deep Creek - Finding Hope in the High Country, by Pam Houston. The book is about how the author bought a 120 acre ranch in Creele, CO, in 1994, when she could barely afford it (her first book had come out by that time), and how that ranch proved to be a sanctuary for her as healed from a troubled childhood. The second book is titled Proust and the Squid - The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, by Maryanne Wolf. The book is about how learning to read affects the brain, as well as about brains that have difficulty learning to read (namely, dyslixic brains).
Miss Rammy
Finally, does anyone know what is going on with Miss @Rammy? Her last two posts back to back sound ominous. I hope she is OK:
Senile Texas Aggie
scrap iron
Last Thursday I decided that it would be quite a while before the path into the junk area behind the pond would dry out enough to get the rest of the junk out of there, so I decided to take the junk I had moved into the pasture to a scrap metal place in Fort Smith. It turned out that what was in the pasture completely filled my trailer, so it was good. The scrap metal place took almost all of what I had loaded onto the trailer. They didn't take two old deer feeders, nor the lining for an above ground swimming pool, but they took just about everything else, including an old refrigerator, a V-6 short block engine, a child's backyard gym set, etc. The weight of all of the items they tool surprised me: 1800 lbs. They paid me $0.05 per pound, or $90 total. It more than paid for the diesel to go over and back.
picnic area
The weather cooperated enough to let us decide to take a chance on driving the tractor across the new road into the woods where the picnic area is supposed to be. The tractor hardly left any ruts, so we decided to remove all of the trees we had cut down and to move the bench and picnic table out to the picnic area. I wanted to take a picture of my Beautiful Gal sitting at the table, but she insisted that she take a picture of me. Fortunately for Miss @Rammy, @Mike CHS agreed to lend his arm to hide my face so that Miss Rammy would not be overwhelmed!
tractor stuck
For the past several days my Beautiful Gal and I have been trying to clean out the area south of the shop. It was completely overgrown with vines, briars, scrub trees, etc. We are trying to make it not nearly as jungle-like. I will post pictures once we finish. Anyway, I drove the tractor into the area to grab some vines and small trees we had cut and before I realized it the left front wheel of the tractor had sunk deep into the ground, all the way to the front axle. When I tried to back out, the left front tire and right rear tire spun. The tractor was stuck. Let me repeat that again: THE TRACTOR WAS STUCK. How in the world does a person get a tractor stuck in the mud? Apparently it takes a lot of skill to do that, and I succeeded beyond what I thought I could do.
Once I realized the tractor was stuck, I asked my Beautiful Gal to bring the Gator over and help pull the tractor out. We put the Gator into 4x4 low gear and with my Beautiful Gal driving the Gator and me driving the tractor we tried to get the tractor unstuck. Nothing doing. I thought I heard the mud laughing at me as the tractor's tires continued to spin. Well, time for the bigger gun: I positioned the F-350 dually and used a longer chain so that the truck was on more dry ground (the truck doesn't have mud tires on it). I then put it in 4x4 low range and had my Beautiful Gal drive the truck while I drove the tractor. This time the mud cried uncle and we got the tractor out. Thank goodness for the 4x4 truck! I know there has been discussion with Mr. @Bruce on his journal, but this is one reason I have a big honkin' truck. He is smart enough not to get his tractor stuck in the mud, but I am not, so I need some real pulling power should I do something like that again. I didn't take a picture of the tractor while it was stuck, but I did take a picture of the ruts it made once we got the tractor out. The picture may not show it clearly, but the rut on the left is almost knee deep:
books read
We recently finished two books. The first one is titled Deep Creek - Finding Hope in the High Country, by Pam Houston. The book is about how the author bought a 120 acre ranch in Creele, CO, in 1994, when she could barely afford it (her first book had come out by that time), and how that ranch proved to be a sanctuary for her as healed from a troubled childhood. The second book is titled Proust and the Squid - The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, by Maryanne Wolf. The book is about how learning to read affects the brain, as well as about brains that have difficulty learning to read (namely, dyslixic brains).
Miss Rammy
Finally, does anyone know what is going on with Miss @Rammy? Her last two posts back to back sound ominous. I hope she is OK:
RIP Joe.
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Bruce
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Takes no skill at all, mud isn't a good traction surface.
Oh you think so huh? I came this -><- close a couple of times to calling Al to come pull my tractor out when I was digging out the pond. But you can use the bucket (or likely in your cited case, the grapple) to push down into the mud and lift the front. That should also put more weight on the rear tires so maybe they can get some grip. If you have the bucket in full dump when you put it down you can curl it to get some backward pressure. And if you have a backhoe on the tractor, you can use it to pull the tractor backwards out of the mud. There are probably other ways to self rescue if you don't have a 4x4 truck on firm ground.
greybeard
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Yep, lots of different ways and I've used most of them in my lifetime.
Mike CHS
Herd Master
I haven't gotten mine stuck yet but more than a few times, I had to use the front end loader to get me moving again.
RollingAcres
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Oh come on!
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Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Hey, everybody, just wanted to let everyone know that Miss @Rammy is OK. She PMed me saying that she is OK. I had considered PMing her to ask her but did not want to give (confirm? ) the impression that I am some creepy old man. She is having a hard time dealing with Joe's sudden passing. I think a lot of us are. She will be back on the forum in due time. Thanks to all who reached out to me to fill me in.
) the impression that I am some creepy old man. She is having a hard time dealing with Joe's sudden passing. I think a lot of us are. She will be back on the forum in due time. Thanks to all who reached out to me to fill me in.
