Campfire pals, please ponder, discuss and add your own introspective observations.

You getting dehydrated buddy? Got a bottle of water in that thing? Seeing spots yet?

Might be time for lunch too.

For starters,

Have that rig thoroughly checked out......
Could be that exhaust is somehow leaking back into the cab
Just enough to cause problems during extended use


If it were diesel fumes it would be easier to detect

Peace out, always enjoy your work

This is the kind of quality content that keeps me coming back!

Maybe something is limiting blood circulation

Try moving up a size or two on those Texas crocs......

Just climbed out of machinery myself...

Glad to not be moving for a few...

How's the hay this year there? Making what it should?

Good stuff.

We farmed when I was growing up and my Dad would always blow the horn any wave any time he saw someone doing tractor work out in a field.

One day I asked if he knew that guy and he said no. He then told me why.

To this day I always blown my horn and wave to anyone out in a field by themselves, so they can wonder who the heck that was.

Just saw a jumping 🦉.

Head back to Mrs ant & have ant sex.

All will be better !

It was jumping the hell outta your way!

Owl can fly!


Thanks for the responses thus far.

Straight as those fields are, need a self-drive GPS. Then you can type and surf the ‘fire on that smart phone.

Air conditioning in that machine?

And I think you meant to say Gatorade instead of Renegade????

Driving a GD tractor disking dry farms is how I started smoking.

Heres to you buddy!!

free image upload

I always thought that OTR trucking might be the most boring job a person could have until I helped an injured friend plant several thousand acres of wheat.

Nice, that was me peering over the push mower today for two damn acres cutting the old church lady's grass, and the reason I didn't open the pit bull thread, today was my day to be nice, that dog would have just pissed me off!

Hi Sam

Howdy.

Thanks again for posting all.

Good hay.

Auto steer and a larger machine would be nice.


Enjoy the 🍺!

So if they make a movie based on this, who's gonna play the part of Sam? Kevin Costner? Brad Pitt??

I wish I could go all day and not have to talk to another fuggin soul.

Sam Elliott.

What kind of hay machine is that any way?

You fellers do your haying a bit different than we do here.

Deep thought #1. Sam doesn't realize we have humans eyes that are side by side and not one on top of each other so he doesn't think to turn the phone on its side. . Of course, I can't say for ants.

And drink beer. It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

Hours and hours of boredom followed by hours and hours of boredom. I can't say that I miss doing that at all.

drover

Fits with sections and sections of nothing but sections and sections!

Nice day for the hay, Samo.

Morning, stereo cranked & a huge mug of coffee. Lunch, chill, a sandwich, fruit cup, pudding, water etc. etc. After lunch hammer down for a while, stereo cranking.

Toward the end of the day, more stereo & beer.

Or if that don't take the edge of mind numbing boredom off, burn one & enjoy the ride.

Pugs, you telling me these things work sideways?!

Lol, you get bored in out there don't ya.

I do see a combine going about 3 miles away.



10 gauge, its a self propelled windrower aka swather.



Badger holes at 6mph will wake you up!

You don't run that fast down here...


You be clipping along at that speed and run over some hog damage, it'll wreck ya!

You’re the ant and I’m trying not to be the grasshopper.

But you sir are DEFINITELY the ant.

And that’s a huge compliment, man to man.

Well, maybe not in Montana.

bobbbbbbbbbbbbaleeeeeeeeeee

My bet would be that Sam spends a lot of time w/ earbuds installed absorbing the knowledge of the ages...and listening to Miles Davis. Alone time can be a good time. Working dark to dark, not so much.


mike r

Believe it or not the only thing I listen to is the machine. Every once in awhile you detect that something isn't right. Bearing going, header not jiving right, etc.


I do however sing to myself....alot....spare you the footage!

Silence? on a tractor?


mike r

Conrad and I are more dung beetle, he is anyway!

Deep Thoughts? Oh I thought it said Deep Throats....need to get my glasses
Nevermind

I've been using these all summer. Its nice to listen to a podcast or some tunes when going in circles all day.

https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Co...headphones&qid=1596583298&sr=8-3

Jack Handy was a rancher?

😎

Sam,
There's an app on your phone for podcasts. Game changer for long hauls behind the wheel.

My wife has this white-noise machine supposed to drown out me snoring, it plays raindrop sounds on metal roof, seashore, or crickets and rain frogs



I cant sleep with that shît on

After a while, on that crickets and frogs one, I can hear someone screaming at 6 second intervals. Its faint, really far off, but I can hear it.

That farming stuff looks like hard work.

I thought you said ass. Grin


Clyde

My wife has the EXACT same noise maker. She plays it on the 🐸. I wake up sometimes and wonder WTF is that noise?

After a day in the swather all you hear when going to sleep in the whiny hum of the hydro.

Hardest part of today has been fiddle dicking this phone and not leaving skips. This last pass looks like Ray Charles was driving!

Sam, I’m the same when running a skid steer. I want to hear what’s going on.

You know it could be worse. You could be on an excavator all day running a breaker. “Tunk, tunk, tunk.....tunk, tunk, tunk”

My tinnitus sings me to sleep......like a room full of cicadas

I like it - good honest productivity of a guy's own doing. And, plenty of time to think - the deep thoughts about heavy issues, the long thoughts that lead to plans and accomplishments, the fun thoughts about lovely people and events. Looks to me like a good day - a good life.

Anson Mount... Black hat edition

Jeff bridges........back in lebowski mode...

Still looking for that smell......

My first thought, The field would lay down faster if the machine were moved to the right a bit, and the header lowered.
grins, appreciate the pics and videos Sam. My little place is so chopped up and hilly, I have to open six fields and spend 8 hrs to cut ten acres with a 14 foot John Deere swather. But I don't have to worry about getting bored.

Roosevelt county is GREEN!

It fu-kin rocks, I highly recommend it!

I feel myself a cog in something turning...

Heeler, I couldn't do it. Do not put me in a back hoe, it'll get ugly in a hurry! Guess I could handle a breaker....maybe...



SC, I hear you. Rinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggg all day long.



CCCC, it is funny what a guy will start thinking about. Sometimes you kinda go into a conscious dream.

As for the work, I love to see bales on the ground. A big haystack is a good thing to have going into winter.



LJ, I don't know about this movie star stuff....




Jim, didn't someone write a song about that?

Speaking of the green, it is up there. Just barely hanging on though. Breezy this afternoon but I wasn't overly worried about starting a fire.
(knock on wood)



Idaho, hell all we use is that NH 2450 with a 14' header. Great machine, perfect for the irrigated river bottom stuff buy undersized for the thinner dryland hay.

Lot's of guys in the hills are running +20' drapers with bigger tires and better suspensions. We need to buy a bigger swather for the hills and keep the smaller one for the heavy alfalfa.





Gunner, I like it!

Back in the shelter now though. Woman and the dogs are good too....




Doc, give me a minute to ponder that....

Hmmmmm.

I wasn't allowed to ear headphones when I was a kid running an old Ferguson TO30. Was told I needed to hear what the hell was going on and not be distracted. I hated it. But have come to appreciate it greatly. I used to have a repertoire of several dozen songs. I've a voice that carries, but am often told to stop singing. If I'm working in the shop the fam claims they can hear me in the house.

Deep Thoughts From a Shallow Mind was an awesome album from Doug Supernaw. I hadn't listened to those songs in years. (no offense or implication Sammo. Just the thread title sparked an odd almost forgotten memory).

I never listen to the radio when I am running a piece of machinery these days.


MAYBE a little 560 AM in the Combine. Only when the kids are with me.

Gruff, trust me man, I am not offended......grin


When you're young you don't really give a chit, jam out!


My 10 year old nephew likes to ride in the ol' JD 4450 while I bale hay. First day he asked if it had a radio. I said yeah but we aren't listening to it.

Why not?

Because we are listening to the diesel do the singing.


Now we sing stupid ass, made up songs to each other about goofy chit. I get a kick out of it!

You need one of them newer tractors with a buddy seat.

Jim, I don't mind the radio in the pickup(sometimes) but anymore could do without it.

Music is good with beer and I rarely drink outside of the house...




Ethan, nephew is still small enough that he gets by sitting on the lowered armrest. Actually not a bad spot.

But yeah, a buddy seat would be sweet. Only cost another $100k!

You should be an eye dr and listen to little old 90 year old ladies cry about how they still cant see 20/20 and read the lifestyle required newspaper with their new specs after you told them 30 times they are gradually going central vision blind from macular degeneration from living too fughking long.

Jag, I couldn't do it.

Thankfully people like you help us.


My brother is a dentist.


No way in fuuckin' hell am I gonna dig around in someone's mouth!



Dirty cow, or greasy machinery, yes.


Human, no way!

Mine doesn't seem to for video Sam.

Of course, it's a model that's been obsolete since before The Donald was elected, so what do I know.

I'd rather sit in a 50 yo cabless tractor in -30 pushing snow with a blade on the 3 point singing to myself to make sure I'm still awake.

God bless you bro. Grow me a fuggin steak.

I do feel for you re the money per hour you make. Get some ear buds and listen to Hannity and Rush or risk going stark raving crazy rather than contemplating becoming a killer of little old ladies.

BTW, GOD bless youse farmer guys, BGG and Sam.

I hear you.

Wasn't out in the hay today but mowed a bunch for my cousin yesterday. About like being on the boat. You feel like you're still on the tractor for quite awhile.

What do you like to sing?


Richard boy and I sing Rocky Top and Rose of Alabammy.

10 year old nephew???


There's that auto steer you were mentioned wanting a few post back.

I was going to suggest borrowing Jim's Richard, but seems you have one in the making already.

Nothing like boring work to get the mind in gear.

Brainstorming can be fun. As long as the rest of the world doesn't hear me that is.

I'm not a farmer guy.

Not made for it. Love it, born to it, but couldn't do it for a living. My hat is off to them that do and can.

Hahaha. For sure that, VD.

Jim, might I suggest teaching Richard Boy...............


Put Another Log on the Fire?

It's a song the women in his life will love later on.

If he starts up while in the house with mom, especially if he lights into it when she asks him to do something, his life could be more interesting than it is today.

Charlie Robison
Some Willie
Some Waylon
Some Jones
Chris Knight
Metallica if I'm really lit

Dang right there BGG,

I like to get some rest at times.

Besides, I hear they never retire.

3 hours of my life I can never get back running the spinning blade of death to plant machine this evening.

High pressure front
Low humidity
80 degrees sun below the treeline

Done with da august cut!!!!


Cut that crap one time again around 15 sept, bout a week before deer season call it a year.

Make a grand total of 4 cuts this year since the 1st back in april.

Pics in the morning, so all the clippings left over stand out more.
Might rake em up.......
Nawwwwwww.... fugg dat......


[email protected]

How come so many phone videographers don't rotate the infernal device to the horizontal for landscapes and such?

Mine too, BGG. I drive by and see the big fields my grandad used to spend all day planting and breathe the fresh air and think about how nice before thinking about the exhaust he breathed half the day from the exhaust 2 feet over the cowling when the coastal breeze was from the south.

Or my other Granddad trodding all those miles on foot all day over the clods turned up by the plough Ole Bill pulled and remembering the smell of those sweet corn farts he emitted all day.

Hot dayom i hope that Eve biotch had fun being seduced buy Satan.

Pugs enlightened my dumbass earlier....

But it takes way longer to upload infernal.
(fricken phones are outta control)

Old time farmers worked their ass off.


These new modern guys are spoiled.



(I still reserve the right to whine about not having auto steer)



And we have cows.


Smart farmers who like time off don't tend to livestock.

I can imagine the looks id get ifin i had told my elders about airconditioned cabs. Hahaha. Crap i hope i dont dream about that tonight.

Jag, today was one the easiest 'work' days of the year.


Sit on your ass all day.


And yes the A/C works great.


Blew the radiator out with the pressure washer(again) before we left the riverbottom and engine temp gauge didn't hit 180F all day.



Rough in places though.

Could use a softer seat.

I've been known to rock out to a little self sang Justin Bieber, and sometimes Taylor Swift when running machinery, or if leading a pack train by myself all day.

I usually look around once I'm done to make sure no one was watching.

A/C? That's moving on up! No A/C in the tractor in 1978 Wisconsin. You a baller now!

Any fires out by you from the storms last week?

God bless you, Sam for the schitt you do at times. I hope you get you that softer seat.

Grape soda, makes the wheels turn

TMan, this might sound kinda gay but I bet you have a really nice singing voice.




Ribka, no big fires here. Bunch of little firecracker ditch fires.

Luckily it is still fairly green.



Jag, so many birds up there it is almost unreal. All kinds of birds, small tweety to medium large raptors. Owls and sharptails.

Fresh air from Canada.




Slum, I like ice tea(unsweetened) and (diet)Mountain Dew. And beer(wet).

And dill pickle sunflower seeds.


Hate to run out of snacks way out in the boonies.

One more question sorry;

Seeing any huns or sharpies?

I'm telling you Sam, get that nephew to be your autosteering, sit back with an iced tea, and enjoy them sunny seeds (good choice of flavor too!).

Do you spit them shell on the floor or do they make it out the window?

I knew better

The tea, me and the hummingbirds take several lumps


conrad aka southern gentleman, still working on him. He has a new campfire buddy.

llol, partly my fault

Check your settings, it may be locked in vertical format.

Ribka, it appears to be a good year for upland. Good hatch conditions.


I don't want to brag it up but birds had a good year so far.

mmmmnnn?

There's possibly a setting for that?

I can take stills in either orientation, no change in settings.

Why do they make these things so hard for old people to understand? If I was around one of my teenage nieces I'd ask them to find that setting for me. Now I have to try to do it without screwing up everything else!

Geno, nephew is a trip.


I have never been around kid brain/thought and it is entertaining.

Good energy and perspective.

Geno, your flipper even do them vidjas?

I haven't figured out how to post gifs.

Better watch it, our dead buddy the 'flave will make snide remarks about you not being a kid person.

You prolly like dogs too.

Kids and their brains are a trip............................kinda like human puppies. Always trying to figure scheidt out.

Gifs of your movies

Or gifs grabbed off the internet?

Genuine Smart Phone here,

A sorta dumb version, not one a them "eyefones", just an old Motorola. Ancient by some standards.

Geno, meanwhile we're trying to remember what we forgot.

Jitterbug?

😃

The smoker I got , the higher I is?

Gotta go watch a HOCKEY game.

goodnight fellas.

Movies?

I want to make one.

With you and Renegade.


And Conrad,










No dude, just the standard gif/emoji thing on the phone/android.


Content cannot be entered here....
(is what shows up on the 'Fire)

If you can snap in both orientations, probably not locked.

But, I've told you more than I know!

Just go find a gif, save to your images/photos

Open up postimage

Navigate to that gif or image and click it for upload intk postimage

Grab/copy the image url tags for Post into Forums


Im using iphone but i would think it should be similar in thst regard

Renegade has android says he cannot figure it out, i need to see what he is doing. He is still trying use Rick Bin’s uploader thingy.

I use the air compressor to blow the radiator out because I'm afraid of bending the fins with a pressure washer. Mine needs it...AGAIN. Takes about five minutes for it to get about plugged up again. The a/c did work pretty good this year though. Only got uncomfortable in the cab a few times. Then again I think its only reached 100 maybe a couple of times. Lots of 95 degree days though.

Hay only made about half what it did last year, but last year's crop came out a lot later, probably hurting the yields.

I mowed most of my rough-as-hell meadows in 6th gear. Got on my cousin's big, smooth meadow. I was hurling along in 7th. I dropped back to 6th in some rough stuff and saw he was broke down, so I gave him a ride to the gate where my wife taken him over to his shop to get some shixt to fix his mower. He was riding and he's like, "why you goin' so slow?". Shixt ALL my stuff is too rough to go any faster. I think he was running in 8th all over the field. Open station tractor too. Like, a 1968 or so IH 856. Screw that old-school shixt.

You're right, about seats. I could use some more padding.

I use a blowgun with a small opening to blow out radiators in the field. Small opening, and really does a great job!

One of these... https://www.harborfreight.com/20-in-telescoping-air-blow-gun-68261.html

Yes Harbor Freight does have a few things worthy of owning...

I do periodically pressure wash everything, including the radiators. I just use a medium nozzle, and try to not hit it from the side. Not bent any fins.


Those air ride seats are worth their weight in gold! All three of my machines have an air ride seat.

And a stereo. Used to not listen to anything but the machinery, but have found out that I can listen to talk radio with it drowning out what I need to hear. Music does drown out too much... So I ride around listening to Rush...

Nuh uhhhh.
Lol!!
I use post image

Bin scrimped on the MB,s from 8 down to 2
Had to start recropping pics.


Man .....
If I could figure out this GIF direct link thing.
I have found some obscure GIF sites.
Fugg this place up

LOL!!!

The " I justed layed a big ole steamer bio land mine on the cut lawn look"

LOL!!!

You guys,

riddle me this one Batman.

They've been making tractors for how long now? And you folks been cutting hay and alfalfa for how long now? And having to stop to clean off the radiator/A/C condensor for how long now?

Don'tcha think they could have figured out a way for you to do at least a half days work without risking the engine overheating?

But, maybe that's their plan?

Just brainstorming here, Sam et al.

Uh Oh,

Busted!

It always seemed to me that when almost finished with the field that the tractor or whatever machine i was on started making more noises.

My tractor has no cab and i can hear that bar bearing going out before it shows up,over the noise of the tractor.

Are you just fluffing up that cut hay?

They've had them on combines since the early 70s at least. Think some swathers run them too

What have they had on combines and swathers since the early 70's?

Something to keep chaff and crap off the radiator fins? So a person can keep working without stopping the machine to clean stuff up?

great

thanks

Screen with really small holes and a rotating brush.

Cool, do they work?

We had things like that for water intake screens, keep the algae and trash from stopping flow.

Drives my wife nuts, but I can drive halfway across the country without using the radio in the car/truck. I listen to engine noise, tire noise, etc., and it lets me know how the vehicle is doing on the trip. I wanna know if I run over a nail or screw or whathaveyou, and I want to know how the engine is doing.

Granted, it's not too important, really, as our vehicles are newer and very well maintained, but it makes me feel better. On our last trip, in fact, I was able to figure out that I'd ran over a nail and got it in my tire, and get it fixed before it became an issue (the tickticktick gave it away, and I caught it inside of 50 yards).

The wife actually drove down the highway with a shredded tire she didn't know about because her radio was too flippin' loud, but that was when we were first married, and I've tried to cure her of that.

Yup

I had a sheetrock screw in a tire on one of my trucks for 30k miles. Didn't leak. Held until the tire wore out.

Yeah, those work pretty well.

My old tractor I traded off on my new one was bad about overheating. Small fins on the radiator plugged up within a couple hours, and the temp gauge would start rising... Stop, fire up the compressor, and blow it all out... Good for another couple hours.

My new tractor though, has much more space in fins of the radiator, and runs absolutely cool. I just blow it out once a month or so. It also has front screens that slide out, and you knock the obstructions off on a tire, and slide them back in.

MUCH better. Much.

Sorry I can't reply much at the moment.


Beautiful day, swather is running right along at 175F.


Saw the biggest fricken jackrabbit of all time about an hour ago. Swear that sucker was 20lbs!

Big boy, you ever drive that thing with your shirt off??💕💕

I'd probably get banned from YouTube if I made a selfie video right now.


Swathing in the nude by Jack Mehoff...

PM it renegade

He got the bromance goin

Gawddd i hate carburetors

2 time off today

You have snowshoe hares in your area Sam? Might have been one of them??? A hybrid maybe?

bucktail and rockin',

thanks for that info. Not that I'll ever be in the market for something that does that type of work on a scale big enough to overheat.

It's just nice to know the mfgs are actually using modern technology at times.

Probably adds $10K to the price of a new rig though

Buck or a doe?

If a buck, how many points did it have?

My new CTL has a HUGE radiator, and doesn't plug up easily, but operating in dusty, dirty conditions, it needs blown out too. Air filter, and inside a/c filter too. Amazing how much dust gets sucked in.

The coolant isn't standard antifreeze though. It's the new OAT coolant. Great... more product to have to carry around. OAT coolant, DEF fluid, hydraulic fluid,... My pickup is just a rolling toolbox and fuel station.

Not a deep thought....but I actually scared a bull today.

Testing bulls and was running up behind one in the alley way.

Not making much noise except for the thud thud thud and wheezing.....

Bull turns his head and jumps straight up! Then forward.

Realized he fugged up and tried to turn around to escape....as he had gone too far forward in his surprise.


Nope....closed the gate on him......then he got a giant electric probe in his ass.

Bad start for him.....but then we turned him out with the cows.

Whitetail jackrabbits? They are big SOBs.

Yeah, I was amazed the 35 year old MF with the shuttle transmission states 10w motor oil meeting xyz mil spec, but it wants hydraulic fluid meeting abc mil specs in the transmission.

Fortunately, there's some multi use fluids out there now that meet all the specs.

I seem to remember the old Case 480 and 480B backhoes my friend owned used diesel and hydraulic fluid. None of this new stuff needed. Five gallon milk cans of each kept in the truck in reserve.

Diesel weedwhacker for the win.

A little nookie will make him feel better, eh?

Speaking of deapness...

Where's the turkey vultures this year? In my area, haven't seen a single one from mid-March to now. I don't think that is normal.

Geno, pretty sure it was just a jumbo jack.

Big fat shiny greasy sob.

I figured those, the antelope variety is only down in S AZ I think.

Are them whitetails as big as a snowshoe hare?

Twice as big and three times as mean.

Funny, eh? Normally they fly on by during the migration up to the mountains or you folks. Hardly ever see on in summertime here. This year is different. Many of them hanging around the sagebrush areas this year.

These two were resting after eating on the fox I shot the other night:



They apparently are like vultures everywhere. They went after the tasty bits first (the guts). Cell phone pics the best I could do yesterday.

Kick your ass mean?

Like if you only stun one and go over an pick it up and then it proceeds to whoop ass on a fella?

I'll remember that if they are. We supposedly have some around here. I'll be sure and use a finishing shot as I walk up if I get one in my sights.

An SKS with the bayonet is the safest way to hunt them when on foot , not that I recommend anyone hunting them on foot solo !

How did you know that?

When I lived in Odessa I was known as the W.D.M.Bell, of the permian basin, for my rabbit killing skills with small bore rifles and hand guns as small the 22 short , and most of this hunting was done under the cover of darkness !

The "D" was for danger !

My good friend ,George Thorogood wrote, "bad to the bone" for the sound track of my rabbit hunting adventures !

Around here you can actually see the other side of most all fields. Might be a half mile, but dang you can see trees or a fencerow on the other end. Sam, how much time between turns with that thing?

Oh my

I seen some flying around in arkansas

Ya know,..actually flying

Like up in the air....the sky!!


I need to ask Birdwatcher about this...i’ll be durn

Tip from varmint guy

Yes, Whitetail jackrabbits are big enough to leg rassle a logger!

Turn white in da winter. Look like a big ass blacktail one with a lighter tail now. We have a gaggle of them here. Our beagle will have her a challenge.

Geno, I have seen Whitetail jackrabbits down off OR140 about at the NV line. In the winter I expected to see a lynx, alas I saw a bobcat....

I was walking out to make a coyote stand just north of Vernal, Ut. in late October and spotted the biggest rabbit I have ever seen in this country. I shot it w/ 55gr Vmax. I took a picture of it w/ my rifle next to it for scale. When I looked it up I leaned about White tail Jacks. Our Blacktails here are less than 1/2 the size of that one and they are pretty big. It was infested w/ fleas which is common w/ the coyotes in that region but rare here in Nevada.

If you got a healthy one it would make a big meal.


mike r

Fleas, ground living vermin and meal don't sound good! Plague?

My Dad's family lived on jackrabbits during the Depression. Now there ain't any to be found hereabouts.

When I was a kid, we would constantly have them loping ahead of us when we were hunting pheasants; then one morning we woke up and they had all packed up and left.

Man, that's a nice machine. I haven't blown out my a/c filters this year. So far, so good. First field I was ready to roll on and the boy reminded me after I was already set to go. F u c k it. So it blew cold and I never bothered. They're gonna need it bad.

Mathsr,

there's a reason they call it Big Sky Country on their license plates.

Some places in the West , the horizon is so far away you can't see it.

Both Jacks and Cottontail populations vary a lot here from year to year but there are always coyotes, strange.


mike r

Our jacks are in a down year. I sure hope they come back.

I felt really bad as I had a suicide jack get under the front bumper about a mile from the house the other evening. I'm pretty sure it was a female of course, probably full of young ready to hatch. Just might luck you know, waiting for the population to rebound and I put a dent in it.

Going to keep my eyes out for the whitetail variety. Might have to do a scouting trip up to the corner of the State up past Ft Bidwell.

Valsdad, I heard that! I've made a few trips out there hunting and doing a drive around and I always felt like I was sitting right in the middle of a big plate. I couldn't wait to get back into some woods!

Come visit the Redwoods, or the Olympic National Park.....................


you'll find that woods take on a whole different meaning than the ones in Georgia too.



And we have this thing some folks call The Ditch..........................it's a pretty definitive example of a canyon.


And there ain't no valley low enough.................to beat the Death Valley.


The West is pretty incredible. We have real mountains, some who's foothills start higher than the tallest mountains on the E Coast.


But we're humble folks and don't brag on it much..

Hahahaha!

Keep your chin up.

this girl ?

https://www.biography.com/performer/linda-lovelace

Little Debbie will make your seat softer.

Mathsr, that stretch is a mile long. Probably about 10 minutes per run. But when swathing a field that long I'll split in half. That way if you do happen to start a fire you have a much better chance of catching it soon enough to possibly put it out.

In the vid I was driving back to the middle to cut out a coulee and square the field back up.

More gold.

& in "landscape" format too !

Ya really can teach a dirty dog new tricks.

Sammo,

you need to ditch that "air freshener" pine tree goodie.

The fumes from that thing are no good for a man like you.

Need something to cover up some stank? Know anyone with a lavender bush? Sagebrush. Clip a few leafy twigs of that.

No telling what kind of chemicals you're breathin' from that pine tree thingie.They might be affecting your 'deep thoughts'

I liked the high seas reference there.

That's fer covering up the Marlboro stank Geno !

Samm0's a real cowboy farmer.

Sammo,

You can slide your thumb and booger finger in opposite directions on the screen and zoom in on that combine. Just FYI.

Sure hope you're better looking than the babe.....God help you if you aint.

Can you match babes bling accessories?

I'm tellin' you,

Go over to the side of that hay field, grab you up some sagebrush, free and better smelling than the pine trees and outside of maybe some allergies, not as likely to poison a person as them dang "air fresheners".

The sage is organical like, loses its stink, toss it out on the ground. Pick a new piece.

Don't like sage? Lots of options. Juniper branch, pine bough. cedar works really good too, they even use it in chests of drawers I hear.

Prolly smokes menthols !

Paul, slowly but surely, baby steps with this thing!


And no Marbs or menthols for this guy. Only thing I ever smoke is...........










Geno, I have wondered if the 'scent' given off from those trees is bad for a guy?

It really probably wouldn't be a bad idea to do as you say and use something natural.

Rooster I tried that the other and figured out that you have to have the 'steady hands mode' disabled in order to use the finger zoom method.

But like I told Paul, way behind the curve on this little handheld distraction.

Babe is The Man.


I forget the bling, didn't he used to flash some gold neck ice?

Ethan, sorry I'm just going back through this thread.

I use the medium tip(green?) with the pressure washer. The engine radiator is stiff enough that the fins will not bend even if you hit it at an angle. But the hydraulic fins are those skinny little fuuckers and will bend pretty easy so I am careful and hit them straight on only.


Out in the field I just use air but sometimes you need to blast out the nasty build-up with water.

He sho nuf did.. .

He wore it like he was being held hostage..

Roger Raglin is my favorite geriatric hunting show

Dam hes a hoot!

And didn't Babe's wife have a cooking segment on every show?



Can't remember her name.


Used to love to watch that show when I was a kid.

That and the Lindner brothers.


Talkin' 30 years ago,

Yes he made a point to feature his show wife on every episode.

She musta been hot.

Or ol' Babe was just makin' sure he was gonna get some on show taping night.

Cant recall, apparently enough for the babes cooking segment.

Babe had a good outdoor show.