What you doing Today?

Loren in MN · Mar 18, 2015

Just sold some livestock this morning myself.
Gotta go feed the chickens!

Have a great day!
Just checking?

rrlund · Mar 18, 2015

Just in for lunch. Trying to get some manure out of the feedlots today since it got down in the 20s overnight and the ground has firmed up.
I need to take advantage of the cold snap again tomorrow morning and get some bales hauled home out of a fencerow while the getting's good.

Zachary Hoyt · Mar 18, 2015

I've been cutting aspen trees up on a hill and winching the logs down to the road and skidding them to the sawmill while the ground and the snow are frozen, but now I am heading to lunch.
Zach

donjr · Mar 18, 2015

Cleaning manure outta the barn. Got a lot of it from the whole month of February, and I need to get MTM on it tomorrow or ASAP.....

Richard from SE AZ · Mar 18, 2015

Rainy day today. Gonna stay inside and reload ammo. Benefits of retirement. Do what I want, when I want.

welled deers · Mar 18, 2015

hauling firewood to my boiler for next year. Ran short this past winter and glad it is over, but it was a good winter for cutting wood, no snow.

JML755 · Mar 18, 2015

At work.

Then tonite pull a bathroom countertop for granite replacement going in tomorrow. Wife is concerned she won't have her magnifying mirror to do her makeup since she has to use the main bathroom tomorrow in the AM. :roll: Me? I really don't need ANY mirror to shave, just go by feel.

jon f mn · Mar 18, 2015

Right now I'm sittin in Chicago waitin for a load home.

Dave H (MI) · Mar 18, 2015

Tax returns. Lots and lots and lots of tax returns. Working up to a good season, now if I can just get/keep all the equipment running come May the next phase of the year could maybe be good also?

Dalex · Mar 18, 2015

I'm fixing a flat tire (rear) on my '40 Case VC It's getting close to being finished in time for the Tulare, Ca. show ...

JMS/.MN · Mar 18, 2015

Taking the car to the dealer to get fixed after blowing a tire while on vacation in Galveston...hit a chuckhole in their less than fine streets, frame hit the asphalt, and it drives funny now. Then, go to the shop and weld my latest shelf project.

Harold Hubbard · Mar 18, 2015

Trying to grit my teeth and call on an expensive piece of machinery on Craig's list.Really afraid if I buy it, it will open another whole can of worms=money pit.

Brian G. NY · Mar 18, 2015

Zach,

What do you use the lumber for predominantly?
I have lots of Aspen (Poplar) on my property.
Some of the trees only get to be a foot or so in dia. and they die, break off at the top and are generally a nuisance.
On the other hand, in another part of my woods I have about ten that range from two to two and half in dia. and seem to be in excellent health, very straight with no limbs on the lower trunks.
My wife's cousin has a bandmill and I have been trying to give him a couple of these trees to saw up into lumber.
He says poplar make very good lumber for door and window trim and it looks a lot like knot free white pine.

fixerupper · Mar 18, 2015

Trying to get the Deere 630 together, an ongoing project since last Sept! Could have it running tonight IF!!!!! I'm patiently (hah!) waiting for the 630 catalog to come up on mother Deere's parts website. (twiddle my thumbs)

Zachary Hoyt · Mar 18, 2015

I have used it for trim and for paint grade indoor furniture. I am using these logs for framing lumber for a 28x48 barn type building going up this summer. It does not have the reputation of lasting long in the weather so I only use it for things where it will be protected.
Zach

DoubleR · Mar 18, 2015

Hauling Manure. Taking a lunch break and a little nap before I hit it again.

Loren in MN · Mar 18, 2015

Jon,
Someday I may stop in. Think of you and the "Funny for the Day" every time I cross the one lane bridge on south side of the lake.

Have a safe trip!

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 18, 2015

Pulp mill is paying 46$ a ton I think for poplar locally. Not bad.

jon f mn · Mar 18, 2015

That bridge is 1 mile from my house.

Zachary Hoyt · Mar 18, 2015

That's a good deal by the sound of it, as long as you don't have to haul it too far. I don't think there's a pulp mill for a long way around here anymore, though.
Zach

Super-H-Mike · Mar 18, 2015

Installing a used 2.3 engine in an 05 Mazda Tribute, kinda like an oversize jig saw puzzle, should be running by nightfall if all goes well....which it wont !

waltdavies · Mar 18, 2015

Sitting hear watching the news on FMC. Still trying to up from my last heart attack doing better now but they got me Home Bound and I can't drive my new sports car BUMMER.
WALT

wd9garymn · Mar 18, 2015

Hauled in 3 loads of pole wood--all i could pile on forks of skid loader. picked up maple sap--only 8 taps--just enough for 4 families for a year. Wife and i trimmed 14 cottonwood trees along driveway.

Brown Swiss · Mar 18, 2015

Chores, that is getting killed by fresh heifers. Then worked on picker some, hauled poop, and now ground feed. Now have to go have fun and milk the girls and fresh heifers, life is painfully good some times! Might haul more manure tonight.

Mike (WA) · Mar 18, 2015

Takin' it EZEEEEE! Went to work today, but decided at noon I had had enough, so came home and watched the Mariners spring training game.

Normally a little more dedicated than this, but had a new ACL put in my right knee last Friday (a ligament from some unidentified dead guy- thanks!). They said I'd be on crutches for a week, but quit them yesterday. Getting around OK, but don't want to overdo.

Miracles of modern science- wife had the same procedure 25 years ago, but she was in the hospital 3 days, and couldn't walk for 2 weeks, with or without crutches. 2 6" incisions.

I went in at 6:15, operation (under general anesthetic) at 7:15, in post-op by 8:45, home by 10. Up and around from the start. Never had any pain. 3 little holes and a 3/4 inch incision- bandage off the next day, Band-Aids for a couple of days, now nothing.

If you have a bad knee, GET IT FIXED! Life's too short to limp around for the duration.

farmerjohn · Mar 18, 2015

Laid off from my job so am working on my house, spent the day painting a room I am finishing in the 3rd floor.

Mike (WA) · Mar 18, 2015

Loved that, "getting killed by fresh heifers"- remember it well. I milked when I was 12, but had specific instructions to leave the heifers to the end and go get Dad. He was big and tough enough to have heifers do a tap dance on him with no lasting effects. He was very patient. Me, not so much. I remember thinking, "Wouldn't it be easier to just shoot 'em?"

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