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I like the old "drag" style disks that don't have wheels and hydraulic cylinders (so long as they dont need to be transported on the road).

Which vaccine did you get, and were the side effects worse from the first or second shot ? I had only the first (Phizer), with no side effects whatsoever. They were also very efficient at the Walgeens, across the road from Jerry F's old Mobile station, on County and Transit. I got there 15 minutes before my appointment and was out at about the time my shot was scheduled (short ride home and I felt ok so I skipped the 15 minute post-shot wait). I was home for dinner 5 minutes after my scheduled shot time. I hope the same nurses are there when I go back for the second shot in May. They were spectacular.

Maybe that explains the current southern border crisis.

Try zucchini and summer squash.

Ain't that the guy who couldn't handle the truth ?

I would go with my Ruger 10/22 if it was legal. I have killed dozens of crows with that and it is very effective at ranges to about 125 yards. I dont eat them, but I have not noticed excessive meat damage, using high velocity, Rem yellow jackets. I would be very reluctant to use a centerfire rifle, based on a single experience many years ago with a 150 gr 30/06 soft point and a ruffed grouse. It was struck near center of mass. The bird basically exploded on impact, yielding very little edible meat, from a few of the larger chunks.

I got to believe that VH, BM, LF, and C would follow Biden right over the edge of a cliff. None of them has shown the slightest bit of remorse in spite of rising gas and ammunition prices, or the border fiasco.

And 4 or 5 of them are members here.

My freezer would be poorly stocked right now, were it not for this Flextone call. It brought a 2.5 year old buck in on wire, on opening day of gun season last year. Before I used the call, he had passed by quickly, thru some cover at longer range. I could not verify then that he was a "shooter". In addition to buck grunts, the call will make fawn bleats and doe sounds, but I have yet to try those.

My wife set me up for the first dose of the Phizer shot last Thursday at Walgreens at Transit and County in East Amherst. No side-effects at all, not even a sore arm. I got there about 15 minutes prior to my time, got thru the paperwork, and got the shot right on time. My wife had gone for her shot earlier in the day at another location, down the road a few miles. She tipped me off on the early arrival trick. I was hoping to wait until I could select the one shot J&J deal, but so far so good on this one. Hopefully, the second dose will go equally well. The nurses were very nice and pretty.

I considered attaching a cable to the top band and assisting with a tractor pull. I decided against it, because I was more scared of climbing up to that height on a ladder, than I was of blocks falling on me. I did wear a hardhat for the job. I pounded out the first block on the side where I wanted it to fall. Fortunately, it already had a slight lean that way. Next I worked 1/4 the way around the back side, where I did not have a real good escape route. I finished up, pounding out the blocks towards the front side, where the escape path was much better. That worked out well. Some blocks blew out my way, the instant before the collapse. I will have to try and watch the video in slow motion, to see how close they came. Not sure how much protection the hardhat would have provided.

Lots of stories for sure. Last night, we were out playing cards with some family and friends. My aunt told a story of when her and my uncle were kids (he still lives next door to us). They were out in that barn after dark, and he told her that it was haunted by the ghost of a neighbor. He hung himself in it, sometime around WW I. My dad has told us about that many times when we were kids. The guys name was Jake. I wonder which beam he used, looking at the picture in my previous post. You can still see half of the "3" board up near the peak in that photo. That is all that remains of the "1883" that was cut out from the siding boards up there, marking the year that my great great grandad built it. I was too scared of heights to climb up that high and remove it gently, and it broke across the middle of the 3 when I tried to pull it down. I did salvage the "18" in one piece. I used that, along with a "20", on which I tried to match the font with a jigsaw, to mark the year that my new pole barn went up. I also used many of the old hand hewn posts & beams, and siding boards to make a hayloft and workshops inside the new metal pole barn. It is sad to see the end of those old barns, but a lot of them will hopefully live on for many years inside the new metal structure.

I hope to pull the barn frame down by the end of the summer. I completed the dismantling of a twin, slightly older barn a couple years ago. I had removed all the siding, and cut out many of the diagonal braces at the corners of the timber frame. Before I could pull it down, it fell on it's own. I was at work at the time and my kids were in the house. They said it sounded like two semi trucks had crashed on the road in front of the house. Looking out the window, they saw a huge cloud of dust. When it cleared, the barn was down, with 4 layers of asfault shingles on top of cedar shakes crushing it as flat as a pancake. The barn I am taking apart now has a lean towards our house, so I obviously dont want a repeat of that previous performance. I currently have it cabled to a tree out back, so it cant fall forward. When I finish removing all the siding, my plan is to pull it down towards the back with my largest tractor, and a snatch block and cable to double my pull force. We will definitely make a video of that.

I did have to run pretty fast. The bulk of it fell in the direction I wanted it to go, but a few blocks buckled and shot towards me, just before it went over.

My wife did make a video and it was pretty epic.

It looks like the disk is in decent shape. I don't see any broken blades and it looks like most of the cleaners are still there. As long as you don't need to take those on the road, they work great. One tip I will give you is to always grease it after you finish using it (and before you use it the first time). That way, the fresh grease will protect the bearings when it is in storage and it will always be ready to go when you need it. They will take almost a full tube of grease. Your 8n will handle that disk easily, I frequently use mine on my 8 footer. I use my 43 hp 4wd tractor on it in the spring, for the first pass. It is a bit undersized for that tractor, but the advantage of that is it lets you get the work done in less than ideal soil conditions (like a little too wet).

That is a trip plow and the levers are used to control the depth. It looks like the IH one that I had for a few years. When you want the blades to lift, at the end of a row, you pull a rope, it trips, and the blades lift. Then you turn around, with them supported by the wheels, and pull a rope so they trip again, and go back down when you get to your next row. That plow was made for a non 3 point hitch tractor (most likely a Farmall H). They work very well, and still fetch a good buck. The disk looks like an 8 foot "drag" type. Those also often work with a trip rope. You pull that, then pull it forward or back it up to change the angle. For transport, the gangs are straight, and at the steepest angle for deepest tillage. On large plots, that style of disk is light years more efficient than a 3 point disk. No implement has suffered worse from the 3 point hitch than the disk. Most likely, the primary tractor on that farm was a Farmall H, which that disk is also perfectly sized for. I use an old JD disk just like that for most of my plots, and a 6.5 ft 3 point one for smaller ones or when I need to road transport. Both take the same power to pull, but the 3 point one takes double the fuel to get the job done (because it is narrower and it takes more passes to get the ground worked fine enough to plant).

I am with you there. I always look forward to a dry summer and the grass going dormant, so I dont have to cut it twice a week. I only cut an acre, but there are many other things I would prefer to do with the hour that it takes me.

My grandfather's grandfather poured that one. He didn't hold a very uniform wall thickness. It looks like it varies from about a foot, to almost 20 inches. I will probably try to drill thru it, in a few spots at the thinner sections, so water can drain out. I finished cutting up all the steel bands, thankfully not running out of oxygen or acetylene. I dragged them all north, to the shady side of the barn first, so I didn't get sunburned. Plus, I thought I would run out of gas and need to finish with an electric cutoff wheel, and I had closer power up there. The 12 foot diameter, 140 year old, concrete fire pit will be a step up from my cut off air compressor tank. No fire in it until the old barn is down though, so we will have to get another season out of the red tank.

That picture shows just the first block pounded out. I had to pound out about half of the first course of blocks (on the side I wanted it to fall). Gravity is your friend on a job like this, and so is your running shoes.

I probably should have measured it. The "still standing" barn next to it has a 16 ft wall, so I will guess about 25 feet. Now that the silo is down the path is clear to pull the barn frame down in that direction. Our house and my new pole barn are on the other end, both in striking distance. I still have some junk to clean out of that old barn and about 1/3 of the siding to strip, before I can pull down the frame.

I knocked off the scary part of this spring project this morning. It only took about 20 minutes of swinging a sledge hammer to bring it down. I can't help but wonder how long it took my great great grandfather and crew to put it up in the 1880's. The foundation will make a nice fire pit. Now comes the time consuming part: cutting up the iron bands with a torch, and sorting the rubble to separate the busted blocks from the relatively intact ones.

There is no doubt that you are the cupcake king.

The problem with such a free for all, is that most deer quickly go full nocturnal once guns start going off. It makes more sense to have an archery season first. What I would like to see is open deer season for recurve and longbow on October 1, compounds and crossbows on October 15, and leave gun and ML as current. That gives the true "traditionalists" a well deserved "jump start" but sticks it to the "cupcakes" (compound only users who oppose the crossbow).

I think the main point that you are missing is that somewhere in NY, there is a 93 yr WW2 veteran who bow hunted for many years with a recurve, then a few more with a compound. He would really like to get out again before the weather gets too cold, with his 14 year old great-granddaughter. She has recently taken an interest in deer hunting. Problem is, his old shoulders are just not up to it. Weighing just 87 pounds, she also struggles a bit with a vertical bow. The crossbow could let them spend some quality time in the outdoors. A few, well-organized "selfish elitists" are holding them back. You must be very proud of your achievements. It looks like you got at least one more year when no "inferior" is going to get "your" buck before the cold weather and the peak of the rut. Bravo tough-guy. ps, if you think a guy that survived Iwo Jima is going to ask for a Dr's excuse to use a crossbow early now, you got another thing coming.