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Hate that happened to you, hope it heals up fast. I’ve got a couple homemade iron post drivers made out of pipe with cap welded on the ends. One is probably 3 ft long or a little more and big around enough to go over the t post with out much play. No handles on it. Always have to be careful when...

That's a lot of what I was trying to say, there is work to be done on all of them, and parts availability and dealership competency is a major factor. Our closest New Holland/Massey Ferguson dealer is a cesspool. The nearest Kubota dealer looks to be in disarray. The John Deere dealer seems to...

I’ll agree with that assessment, and I’ve always thought that way about the Hohn Deeres too, but it was the best option out of a field of no so good ones. If the Kubota dealer had of had anything at the time we were looking they would have been a serious consideration, as I’ve heard mostly...

I'll agree with you, that any of them can be good or junk. My 3000 Ford has been a great little tractor, and the Ford 5600 that we used to have was a good solid problem free tractor too, then it got sold to buy the 7710 the big blue lemon as I called it. From what several people have told me was...

Thing that I see about tractor brands is that parts availability and dealership service is a priority. For years, I said I’d never have a John Deere. Had and still use a Ford 3000 some. Those models have been good machines. The Ford 7710 that we got practically new with just a few hours on it...

Congratulations! Showing livestock is a good thing for youth to be involved in.

We get something like that every few days, like Kenny said it goes in the trash can. I think a lot of it is scams. I have gotten texts too referencing a fictitious address property that they want to buy. Then get post card size ads in the mail with the same name as the texts. We often get...

My wife and a neighbor were talking about all the incidents a while back and they concluded something similar, but we’d never do it cause it would probably either backfire on us or get us in hot water. Saw where somebody was arrested in our state for booby trapping his driveway with hidden...

If we any tv stations it’s pretty much MeTV, and Grit. Wife has the Amazon deal and can get a variety of show series through that. The big problem is you get into watching a season of something and then they don’t have the rest of it. We were watching the Big Valley shows at night, and got into...

I probably should change I’ve had a plan through Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield for years and it is awful expensive getting close to $600 a month.

Hopefully they learned that y’all are watching and won’t be back. It’s getting bad. We are always in high alert around here. There’s an abandoned part of an old road across from where we live by another small property that ours, apparently it’s a popular spot for illegal transactions. Have to...

On the subject of insurance, our homeowners/property insurance has gone up over $500 on our recent bill, and my health insurance jumped up significantly more too recently.

Our property tax on 150 acres and house is almost $4000. Over 60% of our tax goes to the school system. @Lucky you are so right about that, the public school system is not a good steward of money. They should have to function within a much smaller budget.

Counting back through, my maternal grandmother’s side of the family, I am a seventh generation farmer on some of the family land. My fathers’s father lived on someone else’s farm and raised crops and garden someone else took care of the cattle on that farm. When my parents married they lived in...

Yeah it does, I think reading the thread about the calf with the injured leg and subsequently thinking about and posting my own experience with one from around that time back then kind of brought that back up.

My father passed away from emphysema 30 years ago. I was 18 at the time and had graduated high school at the time. I had saved some money before I started high school to buy some heifers for my FFA project. I had a chance to get some registered Charolais heifers and my parents helped me go ahead...

I figure you and I have fairly similar winters. There may be a little bit of difference with you being a little further south. Seems like the counties just north of us tend to get a little more snow than we do and the ones up next to Ohio are usually a 2-3 degrees colder than here, south of...

Mud is a fact of life here the majority of most any winter.

Made it to 57 here today it’s been a light rain or drizzle off and on. No snow yet, won’t bother me if there ain’t none. We are kind of in the middle, most years we get two or three measurable snows 1-3 inches at a time that’s gone in a day or two. The extremes can happen to, some years we’ll...

That reminds me of almost 20 years ago when I had sheep, I forgot to close a gate after calling the sheep up to the barn lot for the night. I came out of another barn and saw them in the back yard with the last few stragglers of sheep and lambs coming through the open gate. Panic mode hit, and I...