Yesterday I helped a friend move some toolboxes. Every time I go down his driveway I get pissed at government and it makes me want to vote trump just out of spite. Not that Trump will actually fire the local head of NRCS or probably even have an affect on funding. Just because I want to see government plunged into Chaos.
My friend (who shall remain nameless at this point) sold his farm (in good faith) to the local soil conservation district and they screwed him. It took a decade. It took until there was a new head of the district. It took until the apparent the contact high that comes from spending your life with a pretty decent pothead farmer husband wore off for the chairman of the county board, but it happened.
You can tell from the sign. Look at that No-Trespassing sign. It is not "your/our" property, it is theirs.
I came home and no-tilled Rye into Barley ground. This is not that great an idea as you can't control the volunteer Barley other than winter kill. However, our neighbor really wanted five acres of Rye for his whiskey project and so we did it.
I planted 600lbs and the counter read 7 acres when I stopped. I was hoping for 600lb to 4 acres ratio as I wanted a higher crop density. Unfortunately, I went by the chart under the grain drill lid instead of measuring the drill output like I should have done.
It was my 26 year anniversary and I was supposed to have started a fire and turned on the porch light for my wife who was working late.
I am a bad husband.
I decided not to give her this chainsaw and tell her I purchased it for her as an anniversary gift. No sense adding insult to injury...
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I don't know about soil conservation districts as we don't have them here. There is no cheap land anymore (was there ever?) I hear good things about Stihl chain saws. Looks like your White could use some LED lights. I am just upgrading my 2090 Case to them.
ReplyDeleteThe White doesn't have the best lights and the light from the computer screen doesn't help. The LED lights sure cut down on the amperage draw. I have them on the grain drill.
ReplyDeleteOn each anniversary I tell my wife I have sold a chainsaw. My experience with the newer Stihl saws is it's three pulls at full choke. Move to the middle and it will start on the second. Past those thresholds it's flooded and just go to your #2 saw. If you think about it or curse it won't start. If it has a cold weather decompression thing pretend that it doesn't. They seem to start fine after running and then being re-fueled. My wife knows thatI am lying. Our anniversary was OCT 24th. I showed her the saw that I wanted to sell and the box with the new carb and said that if we skipped dinner I would get the carb swapped out.
ReplyDeleteThis saw starts really well. You do the full choke until it fires once then drop a notch. I have not flooded it yet. It is a little touchy when hot. I just discovered I have been married like 27 years. We went out to dinner. She told me she was glad I no longer worked at my old job.
DeleteYes, that's the way it's supposed to work. Today it was 38 degrees. The 361 wouldn't fire so I walked back to my pickup and grabbed the vintage 036 Pro. When the 036 ran out of gas I picked up the 361 and it started on the first pull.
DeleteAt my previous job the english as a second language people were obsessed with the big Stihl saws. However, there were difficulties. First problem was their tendency to mix up the fuel tank and the bar oil tank. Then they would find me to help them start it as they knew I would not tell on them. The other problem was running the bar in the dirt. No one ever knew who ran the bar in the dirt. Finally the mechanic yelled at them so much they were afraid to use the big saws so they took to sneaking off my my little saw when they needed to cut rocks. In the end I just turned my saw back to the mechanic and then everyone had to check out a saw when they needed it.
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