Christmas Shopping

[Beefy]

who wants new gates for Christmas?

 

[Gate Opener]

I have started shopping but I'm not finished.

 

[Ryan]

Do the gates come installed?

Just about got my christmas shopping done. One last trip to Walmart for my lil bros and maybe a trip to Barnes and Noble for a couple items, if i get motivated enough.

 

[cfpinz]

One good thing about being married: wife does all the shopping and all I have to do is get her something, which I haven't yet. Might get her a basement window to replace the one she knocked out last week. Gonna need a bigger stocking...

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[warpaint]

Is it Christmas Eve yet?

If not then, no I aint started!!

 

[backhoeboogie]

Figuring out what to get the wife for Christmas is almost as hard as trying to figure out what I want. You keep getting asked, "What do you want for Christmas?" and there is nothing that I can think of that I gotta have.

Gates? NO. She had better never get me any store bought gates and she knows it.

Tube steel. That's it. I am just about totally out of junk iron and there is never enough tube steel to build all the things I build. I can always use tube steel. Next time anyone asks, that is going to be my answer! Now if I can think of something else for her. Just for her. Something I haven't gotten her over the last 27 Christmas days.

 

[jack.diamond]

Boogie,

I just finished putting in the new posts the other day for some new gates. The ones I'm getting are store bought made out of 2 inch tube steel. What could be wrong with these??

As far as shopping goes, got the wife a new wagon for her lawn tractor. So she can haul the grandsons around the place like her grandaddy did her. As for me, I've got a new bull being delivered in January. Registered Beefmaster, AI'd son out of Black Magic. Should make for some interesting calves with the black angus/beefmaster crosses we have. The registered beefmaster cows we have are all red. Looking here to develope some seed stock.

Jack

 

[cowspider]

Looking here to develope some seed stock.

I bought some seed stock once, they did not grow. so I asked my redneck brother in law and he said I planted them too deep and too far a part. :lol: :lol: :cboy:

 

[Victoria]

I was finished long ago. After working in the malls at Christmas you won't find me stepping in one now past the end of November. Mind you I do most of my shopping online now anyway.
My husband is done too and this is the first year that I don't know what I am getting. Usually I tell him what I want and the packages under the tree look like they should. This year they don't. I am not certain if I should be excited or frightened! :shock:

 

[backhoeboogie]

Boogie,

I just finished putting in the new posts the other day for some new gates. The ones I'm getting are store bought made out of 2 inch tube steel. What could be wrong with these??

Probably nothing wrong with them Jack. I build all mine with tube steel frames and weld 20 foot panels to them. 2 inch tube steel is plenty strong. The panels work like gusseting. Welding the panel to one side tends to bow them so I try to clamp them in a reverse bow (prestress) before I weld the 20 foot sheep panels onto them. I weld one inch pipe to the ends and tap the pipe for grease zerks. Then I drive 1 inch round stock through the pipe and weld it to the gate post. They never sag and I am done forever. There are still some of those old galvanized panel gates around the place that need replacing some day but until they break, I'll live with them. Dragging my G/N through narrow gates through has led me to only put in 20 foot gates. Most 20 foot gates are simply not strong enough to suit me and they want too many nickels for them in the first place. I can build a better gate cheaper than I can buy one "store bought". I build just about everything that is made of steel and I am indeed extremely picky about fencing, gates, chutes, pens and the like.

 

[Beefy]

what about a reciprocating saw? useful enough to have around?

 

[Crowderfarms]

what about a reciprocating saw? useful enough to have around?

Yep. They work great for cutting Bulls out of Creep Feeders. :lol:

 

[backhoeboogie]

what about a reciprocating saw? useful enough to have around?

Excellent tool for all kinds of things. I have one of the battery powered ones and even used it to cut bad ends off of aluminum irrigation piping, right there in the field. You can cut pole barn nails and such too. It is not as powerful as my electric one but it works great out in the pasture. Now that I have used it so much, it would be hard to part with it.

 

[Beefy]

whats a good kind to get?

 

[Crowderfarms]

whats a good kind to get?

DeWalt.

 

[backhoeboogie]

My plug in is a DeWalt and I like it.

My battery pack is a Craftsman that came in a set with several other things for Father's Day. The nice thing about it is having 4 batteries out of that set.

I have had DeWalt cordless drills and the batteries don't last long and they are expensive to replace. The Craftsman batteries seem much better. Don't know who actually makes them but they are better batteries.

 

[cfpinz]

I bought a 1200watt inverter last year, about a hundred bucks or so and some of the best money I ever spent. Never have to worry about a battery pack again. Plug in tools are generally more powerful than rechargeable, plus I can use the wife's hairdryer to warm calves in the field. :lol:

As for sawzalls, I have a Makita - not really impressed, would vote for either Milwaukee or Dewalt.

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[fit2btied]

One good thing about being married: wife does all the shopping and all I have to do is get her something, which I haven't yet.

Same here, only I thought I was finished. I bought her a new tractor (1973 IH 454) but she found out about it and indicated that there had probably better be something else to go with it. So, I put in a new ignition switch, a new exhaust system, filled it up with gas for her, etc. I should be safe now. But just in case, I did pick up a pair of those diamond stud earrings she's been hinting about for the past couple years!

 

[Beefy]

i wound up getting dad (and me) a dewalt cordless recip. saw and i got mom (and me) a new weedeater/brushcutter. its got one of those metal blades for cleaning fencerows. i also need to get a new wand for the spotsprayer as i accidentally ran over the original and dad replaced it with one you have to twist to turn it off and you wind up getting whatever you are spraying all over you. man i'm almost thru shopping. i should start early every year.

 

[cfpinz]

Wife's Christmas present came in yesterday - a new basement window. Even got her to help me install it last night, she stood outside (in the cold) holding the window in the door while I was inside (nice & warm) putting the trim on that holds it in. I locked it while she was holding onto the window so she could stay out there and think about what she did for awhile, but wound up letting her in when she went looking for a hammer. I wonder if they make "nerf" hammers?

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