Weather Talk

[Caper]

Well, this was a most unusual winter for Ok compared with the last 60 years trend. It was such a bad week (early February) that I stayed at the ranch you may remember, feeding the cattle three times a day besides keeping them hay out, breaking ice on the ponds twice a day so they could drink, cutting firewood daily, and with no running water in the house…..

Yup, now I remember.
Ed has to go and break the ice in the cow ponds too. I think that year he drove his SXS from one side to the other and didn’t break any ice. Too thick.
He uses an axe after that. More work though. Haha
He puts Bluebird nesting boxes along the fence. He hates when the cattle use them for scratching posts.
Caper

 

[Admin]

 

[Montecresto]

Yup, now I remember.
Ed has to go and break the ice in the cow ponds too. I think that year he drove his SXS from one side to the other and didn’t break any ice. Too thick.
He uses an axe after that. More work though. Haha
He puts Bluebird nesting boxes along the fence. He hates when the cattle use them for scratching posts.
Caper

Our ice was too thick for axe….
Remember, I used the hay spears on the tractor and bent them….

 

[Caper]

Our ice was too thick for axe….
Remember, I used the hay spears on the tractor and bent them….

Dynamite ?
You guys probably can buy that at the hardware store.

Caper

 

[Smitty335]

Our ice was too thick for axe….
Remember, I used the hay spears on the tractor and bent them….

One winter my Grandpa drove down to the pond to bust ice after a blue Northern blew in with a bunch of ducks were froze on it, Grandpa saw this and started honking his horn, all the ducks started flapping there wings and flew off with the pond water! HA!

 

[Smitty335]

One winter my Grandpa drove down to the pond to bust ice after a blue Northern blew in with a bunch of ducks were froze on it, Grandpa saw this and started honking his horn, all the ducks started flapping there wings and flew off with the pond water! HA!

Yall have any yarns?

 

[lowrider]

Yall have any yarns?

They must begin with...once upon a time...in a galaxy far far away or like all sailor stories...NO SH+T, I was there...

 

[Rayger143]

 

[Caper]

One winter my Grandpa drove down to the pond to bust ice after a blue Northern blew in with a bunch of ducks were froze on it, Grandpa saw this and started honking his horn, all the ducks started flapping there wings and flew off with the pond water! HA!

Caper

 

[Montecresto]

Dynamite ?
You guys probably can buy that at the hardware store.

Caper

No, farmers and ranchers haven’t been allowed to buy dynamite for decades now….
It’s moot anyway, winter is over and we’re not likely to see anything like that again…

 

[Montecresto]

One winter my Grandpa drove down to the pond to bust ice after a blue Northern blew in with a bunch of ducks were froze on it, Grandpa saw this and started honking his horn, all the ducks started flapping there wings and flew off with the pond water! HA!

Yeah, I had a grandpa like that….

 

[lowrider]

Once upon a time I lived in an area of Northern Idaho surrounded by "good ole folks", a mountain in the Selkirk Range on the South side of the hill from Ruby Ridge. Lots of horse people, a few small farms and a fairly high percentage of retired or nearly so folks and one old "biddie" originally from downtown Detroit two properties away which equated to a 1/4 mile of evergreen forest or so. I had a 100 yard rifle range and I burned ammo at a normal rate but not every day. The old biddie complained constantly that my shooting was scaring her 3 lb lap dogs and about the smell for horse crap... not mine and noisy chickens...not mine.

Some of you may have picked up the fact that I'm building a Super Cub clone. My shop was insulated and steel clad. Not sound proof but certainly not an open bay. One day I was pushing snow around the shop and sheriff deputy came down the drive. I shut off the tractor and we exchanged pleasantries and he said they had received several complaints over a few months from the biddie saying I was shooting my machine gun at 0500 in the morning and it was scaring her dogs and the deputy was told to "check it out" which is why he was there. I told the deputy that I didn't have a machine gun but that she had complained to me many times about my shooting bothered her dogs. The deputy was OK with that answer but needed to know what he should tell his sergeant about the machine gun. The deputy made the "burrrrup" sound and said it did sound like a machine gun to him. Still stumped with what to tell him that I didn't have a machine gun...the "light bulb" suddenly came on and I invited the deputy inside my shop and took him over to where I was build a wing spar, picked up my rivet gun and fired it against my work table and sure enough it sounded just like a machine gun to the deputy. We laughed a bit and he left with the answer to the "machine gun" problem.

The old biddie died a few months later of a heart attack probably brought on by machine gun fire...mine.

 

[Montecresto]

Started out at 51* this morning. It will reach 76 for the high. We’ll have rain likely again this afternoon. I’ve never seen it so green here…

 

[Montecresto]

Dynamite ?
You guys probably can buy that at the hardware store.

Caper

My neighbor messaged me that his property came with a 500 gallon elevated fuel tank that he doesn’t need, said he though it was worth $200.00 USD……

He just got a Kubota tractor from his dad with no front loader and no implements. He’s interested in trading me the tank for an implement, I have several I no longer use, or he said he’d trade for help getting some scrap metal cleaned out of his place.

I called a local fuel company who said yes they deliver diesel to my neighborhood, a minimum of 100 gallons. I’m going over this morning to see him about it….

 

[Caper]

No, farmers and ranchers haven’t been allowed to buy dynamite for decades now….
It’s moot anyway, winter is over and we’re not likely to see anything like that again…

Did you ever shoot Tanaright . Probably not the spelling. You can buy a lb for a few dollars and it just mixes with another powder. You can hit it with a hammer, drive over it, there’s no fire , just a big explosion. You have to hit it with a high power rifle to make it explode. It gives a Big Bang. It would probably break up some ice. Or a tree. But you have to be able to hit it. Haha
Caper

 

[Caper]

My neighbor messaged me that his property came with a 500 gallon elevated fuel tank that he doesn’t need, said he though it was worth $200.00 USD……

He just got a Kubota tractor from his dad with no front loader and no implements. He’s interested in trading me the tank for an implement, I have several I no longer use, or he said he’d trade for help getting some scrap metal cleaned out of his place.

I called a local fuel company who said yes they deliver diesel to my neighborhood, a minimum of 100 gallons. I’m going over this morning to see him about it….

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Looks good, take a good flashlight to look inside. Might be so rusted you would never be able to use it.
But that would be great . My buddy has on on his farm in Alberta. Discount on fuel too.
Caper

 

[Mudder]

Its been sunny and hot all morning while doing chores, but just when I’m ready for pool time…prompt downpour. Typical in the South.

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[Caper]

Its been sunny and hot all morning while doing chores, but just when I’m ready for pool time…prompt downpour. Typical in the South.

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Looks beautiful Mudder
I think I’d be in that picture, rain and all. You gotta get wet anyway.

Caper

 

[lowrider]

Started out at 51* this morning. It will reach 76 for the high. We’ll have rain likely again this afternoon. I’ve never seen it so green here…

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Nice and green...good elk fodder.

 

[lowrider]

Its been sunny and hot all morning while doing chores, but just when I’m ready for pool time…prompt downpour. Typical in the South.

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Nice cement pond!! Probably not deep enough to dive off the deck.

 

[Caper]

Once upon a time I lived in an area of Northern Idaho surrounded by "good ole folks", a mountain in the Selkirk Range on the South side of the hill from Ruby Ridge. Lots of horse people, a few small farms and a fairly high percentage of retired or nearly so folks and one old "biddie" originally from downtown Detroit two properties away which equated to a 1/4 mile of evergreen forest or so. I had a 100 yard rifle range and I burned ammo at a normal rate but not every day. The old biddie complained constantly that my shooting was scaring her 3 lb lap dogs and about the smell for horse crap... not mine and noisy chickens...not mine.

Some of you may have picked up the fact that I'm building a Super Cub clone. My shop was insulated and steel clad. Not sound proof but certainly not an open bay. One day I was pushing snow around the shop and sheriff deputy came down the drive. I shut off the tractor and we exchanged pleasantries and he said they had received several complaints over a few months from the biddie saying I was shooting my machine gun at 0500 in the morning and it was scaring her dogs and the deputy was told to "check it out" which is why he was there. I told the deputy that I didn't have a machine gun but that she had complained to me many times about my shooting bothered her dogs. The deputy was OK with that answer but needed to know what he should tell his sergeant about the machine gun. The deputy made the "burrrrup" sound and said it did sound like a machine gun to him. Still stumped with what to tell him that I didn't have a machine gun...the "light bulb" suddenly came on and I invited the deputy inside my shop and took him over to where I was build a wing spar, picked up my rivet gun and fired it against my work table and sure enough it sounded just like a machine gun to the deputy. We laughed a bit and he left with the answer to the "machine gun" problem.

The old biddie died a few months later of a heart attack probably brought on by machine gun fire...mine.

Shooting rivets at her house.
Haha
Caper