One of them days

Decide clean the driveway of 8 inches of snow--started the 1600 to warm up, came back out in 5 minutes to find hydralic oil all over the floor. OK onto the 8n with the other blade---will not start. So onto the MH 30--3gal of gas, battery and starts right up. haven't started it in about a year--finally 2 1/2 hrs later a 45 minute job is done.

Kind of sounds like the story of the 3 bears...LOL

Hey. It could be worse. One day I went through four tractors , two trucks and a bulldozer to find one that worked. Yours is a well maintained fleet!

Thank goodness for multi s.

My MH44 would start regardless of the weather.

Had one of them days again yesterday. Had to grind feed,had about 2 loads of corn left on one crib. Got the grinder up to the crib and the recoil on the power corn rake wouldn't work in the cold enough to get it started. So I opened up a different crib. A Behlen round crib with the swinging doors. I tied a short piece of nylon rope around the post and door before I took the stops out. It started out OK,then the corn pounding the door slipped the know out of the rope and it swung all the way out against the winch on the grinder auger. I tried to stop it with my body but it was running out all over the ground on both sides. I just hoped it would bridge up somewhere before the mixer was full,but it didn't. I got the rake handle and a scoop wedged in enough to stop it temporarily,but I couldn't pull the grinder away. I had to get the silage cart and unload in to that. I went and got a small ratchet strap and hooked that to the door. By the time I got another half a load I got the flow stopped and the door shut. I pulled ahead and cleaned another half a load off the ground. Thank God for ratchet straps,but I think it would have been easier and less time consuming if I'd have just pulled the corn rake out and shoveled all of it out of the other crib.

Bad day but not farm related. Daughters boy friend driving her car into small town. The local cop pulls them over cause his tag reader says tag and insurance are canceled. My wife (were seperated)swapped insurance from Georgia to Tenn.which auto cancels car registration. The boy got a $700 no proof of ins. and $700 for expired registration. I got a $185 tow bill to move the car less than 300 foot.

Wow!! here in Michigan, expired / no registration or insurance is $136. And you have 3 days to make it right, and then there is no fine. So the max is $272. Michigan isn't so bad on some things. I guess.

Coulda been worse. I went out yesterday to do my snow plowing only to discover my nephew had taken the Ford 2600 and blade into town to plow snow for his mom and Grandma.

Randy-
I don't mean to hijack this post but you mentioned a power corn rake- sorry for my ignorance but what is that and how does it work? We handle 4-5 round cribs of ear corn a year and what you talk about might save me some shoveling....
Thanks,
Lon

Glenster posted some pictures the other day that had a picture of one. Mine is a square tube frame with two augers 8 feet long. They turn opposite directions and run off a 4 horse Briggs and Stratton with a centrifugal clutch. You just put it in the crib when the corn gets down to where you can't rake it out by hand and it pulls it out. In the long cribs,I set an aluminum elevator out the door in the side and put the corn rake in longways and pull the corn in to the elevator.

Thanks, I'll check it out.
Lon