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Did once again today. I had air blowing by a gasket on my Krone baler compressor. I had been fighting for the last few days and after I got the hay all baled I went and fixed it. I would bale for awhile, blow off the knotters and then bale for a bit and do it again. Today I got the baler home, and popped the head off the compressor, bought some cork gasket material and made a new gasket. Wow now I won't have to blow off those knotters, why didn't I do it earlier.
 
Probably spent to much time on the internet this spring! Put in one of the "green cover seeds" cocktails for pasture improvement. Now I have 40 acres of this I'm going to turn the cows on to. I'll leave them until end of Sept then kill it and plant my usual winter cocktail. Sure hope it turns out. One thing I did discover is that with the hot weather and no rain, 4" down I hit wet soilfield improvement.PNG
 
Probably spent to much time on the internet this spring! Put in one of the "green cover seeds" cocktails for pasture improvement. Now I have 40 acres of this I'm going to turn the cows on to. I'll leave them until end of Sept then kill it and plant my usual winter cocktail. Sure hope it turns out. One thing I did discover is that with the hot weather and no rain, 4" down I hit wet soilView attachment 46865
That's pretty dang awesome right there.
 
That's pretty dang awesome right there.
It was pretty wild to watch grow for me. I'm used to a field full of Milo or Sudan that all looked symmetric and turned into round bales. To see the peas, mung beans, sunflowers, dwarf sorghum, pearl millet......and lots of crabgrass all at once made me a little nervous at first! Lots of drive by's really turtlenecked at first. But it will be fun to watch the cows disappear in this mix to graze. Will probably use electric wire to dish it out slowly, so they don't trample the whole place. Just wish a good batch of the sun hemp would have come up.
 
Probably spent to much time on the internet this spring! Put in one of the "green cover seeds" cocktails for pasture improvement. Now I have 40 acres of this I'm going to turn the cows on to. I'll leave them until end of Sept then kill it and plant my usual winter cocktail. Sure hope it turns out. One thing I did discover is that with the hot weather and no rain, 4" down I hit wet soilView attachment 46865
Where did you buy the mix? Do you have the name of the mix or link to website?
 
Where did you buy the mix? Do you have the name of the mix or link to website?
I saw them browsing video's online looking for cover crops to control weeds and get some extended grazing. The company is "green cover". Location was Blanden NE, but the rep I had took my location and worked up a mix that should work in my part of north Texas. I saw various companies that do the same, I was very impressed, and product was shipped right to my door for about $3 per acre. I can't drive for that. Sorry if that's TMI, or I sound like a commercial. They just made it easy to do and so far I like the results. What you saw in the picture was about $20 per acre and I didn't fertilize or terminate what I had after baling the triticale/wheat/rye winter crop.
 
Questioning my intelligence? These past two weeks... I've researched and created my long-over-due masterful dividend stock portfolio and seeded it, 27 stocks...at the absolute top of the market. Yes, started building on a mountain of foamy sand. I've waited and waited patiently for the huge stock market correction for years and years and I can't wait anymore....massive correction will probably occur after the November election in 5 months. Luckily...It's only seeded and not populated, so I'll be ready to fund it after economic realites set-in and the market corrects in massive fashion.
 
Questioning my intelligence? These past two weeks... I've researched and created my long-over-due masterful dividend stock portfolio and seeded it, 27 stocks...at the absolute top of the market. Yes, started building on a mountain of foamy sand. I've waited and waited patiently for the huge stock market correction for years and years and I can't wait anymore....massive correction will probably occur after the November election in 5 months. Luckily...It's only seeded and not populated, so I'll be ready to fund it after economic realites set-in and the market corrects in massive fashion.
I've been doing a lot of quick trades... in and out in short times and taking a ten percent profit several times on the same stocks instead of long, steady growth. The buy and hold strategy just doesn't work for me, and I agree that the market is overheated and is overdue for a correction.
 
I've been doing a lot of quick trades... in and out in short times and taking a ten percent profit several times on the same stocks instead of long, steady growth. The buy and hold strategy just doesn't work for me, and I agree that the market is overheated and is overdue for a correction.
I do both. We have IRA and 401k but I keep a trading account that I play with. It's fun and crazy at the same time.
 
I've been doing a lot of quick trades... in and out in short times and taking a ten percent profit several times on the same stocks instead of long, steady growth. The buy and hold strategy just doesn't work for me, and I agree that the market is overheated and is overdue for a correction.
I've actually done this too...and made money, once $800. profit for 6 second in and out...literally. BUT, i felt bad, might as well be the H.F.T. machine stealing money. I've always wanted a real long-term dividend portfolio where i get paid every month for relaxing, no brain work or risk. Happy to report I'm up over $900. in the last two days, as I'm situated mostly in commodities. I really feel good about what i did and the future...but i know i'll have to keep buying (lower my share average) when the lows come in 2025 and so on. I'll be the one catching the falling knife so to speak...that's my worse case. Market corrections-Recessions and depressions come and go....but my portfolio will be eternal and handed down in the family trust. I like what i built 6 years of research. I started stock trading 10 years ago at age 51...made lots of mstakes to arrive here. Never too late to make money...even in retirement
 
Yeah, I tried to trade stocks for about 10 years…without a whole lot of luck. Was a way better mutual fund picker than a stock picker.

Up $900….what's the percentage on that? I was up $1700 yesterday when I was expecting to be down about $8000.
 
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Yesterday I told the guy at the parts store to give me 6' each of 1/4", 5/16", and 3/8" fuel hose. Also told him to give me a box of 10 clamps to go with it. $72 later I had some fuel line and clamps 🤦. Bought it just to have on hand, better ask how much these days.
 
Not quite funny happening this morning. Finishing fence to split up the 40 acre bottom. Bent a bar on the brush hog so had a pry bar to bend back in place. This was in a six acre plot that is the last of my locations battling severe sand burr. Needless to say pry bar slips and I'm on my back. Watching me out in a field wearing underwear and boots in the back of my mule picking every burr out might have been amusing
 
In west Texas i have pulled down my pants and used tweezers to remove cactus thorns. Didn't care who seen it and i bet you didnt care either.
Cactus spines are brutal. I took some family kids hiking and my niece trips and comes up with about a dozen in her hand. The biggest all the way through. That long one was the easiest to get out because we could pull it out from the back. It was the others that we had to pull against the barbs that gave us problems. Poor kid was not happy.
 
Cactus spines are brutal. I took some family kids hiking and my niece trips and comes up with about a dozen in her hand. The biggest all the way through. That long one was the easiest to get out because we could pull it out from the back. It was the others that we had to pull against the barbs that gave us problems. Poor kid was not happy.
Sounds like fish hook 😩😩
 

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