What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[CiscoRanger]

Where abouts is your place located?

We’re in between Eastland and Breckinridge.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

We’re in between Eastland and Breckinridge.

Ah OK, I'm in Northern Bee County, West of Pettus, we also have windmills. Your rolling terrain and brush/trees in the picture looks very similar to what's around here as well.

 

[fried1765]

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cleaned up the strawberry patch

Long long ago I had little helpers.
I sure do miss having those little people around!

 

[CiscoRanger]

Ah OK, I'm in Northern Bee County, West of Pettus, we also have windmills. Your rolling terrain and brush/trees in the picture looks very similar to what's around here as well.

yes yes the kind folk in the big city have decided to build me some lovely windmills to look at. They are especially nice at night seeing 500 red lights blinking at me. It’s almost like fireflies. At least 3 of the windmills work, too. (sarcasm).

 

[PoTreeBoy]

There are messy animals for sure!

I try remember to set traps every now and then, but I usually end up catching one our farm cats, lol.

On the advice of a pest control guy I called, I used a small can of tuna the first try. That night it rained, and I woke up to my first catch, a soaking wet black cat. When I opened the door, he shot out, never to be seen again.
Then, since the coons had been stealing my bird suet I applied a little logic and came up with: wire a cob of corn to the bottom of the trap. Then smear a generous helping of suet on the corn. Five times I've caught the culprit the first night out, so it's almost can't miss.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

yes yes the kind folk in the big city have decided to build me some lovely windmills to look at. They are especially nice at night seeing 500 red lights blinking at me. It’s almost like fireflies. At least 3 of the windmills work, too. (sarcasm).

LOL!!

Well we have 68 so far, but we(area residents) got the county involved and had the company install a radar system. The lights remain off until an aircraft comes within 3 miles of them.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

On the advice of a pest control guy I called, I used a small can of tuna the first try. That night it rained, and I woke up to my first catch, a soaking wet black cat. When I opened the door, he shot out, never to be seen again.
Then, since the coons had been stealing my bird suet I applied a little logic and came up with: wire a cob of corn to the bottom of the trap. Then smear a generous helping of suet on the corn. Five times I've caught the culprit the first night out, so it's almost can't miss.

I like the bird suet/feed idea, I'm gonna start doing that, the farm cats don't eat that.

 

[fried1765]

LOL!!

Well we have 68 so far, but we(area residents) got the county involved and had the company install a radar system. The lights remain off until an aircraft comes within 3 miles of them.

Interesting.
I wonder how effective/reliable that is......from a pilot perspective!
3 miles is only 3 minutes in the fog/haze at 180 mph,...... and the windmills are widely separated?
I don't like the odds for low time light aircraft pilots.

I don't like windmills either!

 

[Sparky Prep]

Interesting.
I wonder how effective/reliable that is......from a pilot perspective!
3 miles is only 3 minutes in the fog/haze at 180 mph,...... and the windmills are widely separated?
I don't like the odds for low time light aircraft pilots.

I don't like windmills either!

I think your math might be a little off.

 

[NCL4701]

We had a busy day with the little lady….she transferred bike bike rack and Adirondack rack to the big barn, got a mow in before the rain this evening, transferred some straw, did a small fencing job, and moved / Transferred our first bee box outside (into small fenced area in the hillside - bees should arrive this week!).

That has to be the prettiest functional beehive I’ve ever seen.

The pile of boxes of my father’s we recently gave away: those were all painted with paint off the mis-mix bargain shelf. Only requirement to be a light color. When all the boxes were mixed up and put together they were not aesthetically pleasing in any way whatsoever.

Yours is more like artful painting on a piece of furniture. Very nice!

 

[fried1765]

I think your math might be a little off.

What do you think 180mph is when described in miles per minute?

 

[ken erickson]

What do you think 180mph is when described in miles per minute?

3 miles per minute

 

[fried1765]

3 miles per minute


That is exactly what I said, but Sparky Prep thinks my..... "math might be a little off"

 

[ken erickson]

Pretty sure you typed 3 miles is only 3 minutes in the fog/haze at 180 mph.

 

[fried1765]

Pretty sure you typed 3 miles is only 3 minutes in the fog/haze at 180 mph.

Yup, my mistake!

3 miles at 180mph would take only one minute.
Thus, IMHO, that is a rather questionable time/distance to avoid an aviation obstruction, especially in a restricted visibility situation, and among a grouping of similar obstructions.

 

[hoot owl]

Don't expect honey your first year. Also they won't work the honey frames until the brood frames are drawn and full. Leave them off until the brood box has 3/4 full. Then spray the honey frames with sugar water to get them to start working them.
When you get your bees Feed, Feed & Feed them 1-1 sugar water until they stop taking it. They will draw the wax out faster.

 

[Old_Paint]

Both mine are female on the tractor side...makes no difference in functionality. A few colored zip ties to mark hoses and you never hook it up backwards.

Yeah, the colored zip ties are good, until they fall off. Ain't NO WAY to hook 'em up backward if the fittings are pointed in the direction to close the grapple (female on the head end lines of the cylinders, male on the rod end line). I don't even have to look for a color, it simply won't fit wrong. I like things as stoopid proof as I can make them, because sometimes, I get that stoopid infection and break things.

 

[Old_Paint]

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cleaned up the strawberry patch

Holy Moly, the leaves on those strawberries are HUGE. Waddayado to keep the berries from rotting? Our plants are on their second year now, and seem to be a little more likely to give us some berries. Up to now, every one we plant seems to bloom well, make berries, but just about the time they 'pink' up and start to ripen, they rot and mold. We 've tried mulch under 'em, landscape cloth, you name it. Nothing seems to work. But somewhere, one of us read that the berries rotting on the first year's crop is not uncommon. You have any issue first year? Our soil leaves some to be desired (hard clay) but we put in some raised beds with pine compost in it, and while the plants tried to take over the entire back yard, I don't think we got 5 edible berries last year. We've fertilized them with Miracle Grow this year, so now you can't even see the planter under the foliage. We left the landscape cloth in just to limit the growth a little, because they seem determined to take over the planet, let alone the planter. Good work teaching the kids young about a little hard manual labor, and the rewards of doing some things by hand.

 

[calibdovah]

replaced the stock starter with a starter from a reefer unit gen-set, repaired the positive connection going to the starter(the end was melted), and added a ground wire to run to where the starter mounts to the tractor. That gen-set starter is a real beast when turning the engine over. it puts the stock starter to shame. It bolts up the same but the starter motor is slightly larger. model number is 18144n.

 

[Bee-Positive]

That has to be the prettiest functional beehive I’ve ever seen.

The pile of boxes of my father’s we recently gave away: those were all painted with paint off the mis-mix bargain shelf. Only requirement to be a light color. When all the boxes were mixed up and put together they were not aesthetically pleasing in any way whatsoever.

Yours is more like artful painting on a piece of furniture. Very nice!

I remember my first year keeping bees, all pretty newly paint hives. Even got 70 lbs. honey from 2 hives. You should see them now, some repaired, some structurally sound but all need repainting. Just remember to strap them tight if you ever have to move them with the tractor. Pair of forks come in handy for putting hives into the truck bed.
BTW - Hoot Owls advice is spot-on.