I feel exercise is pretty much overrated. I have been walking 3 miles a day. It takes me an hour and 15 minutes. If I stop and pull weeds out of the new alfalfa field it takes me an extra half hour.
Today I skipped. I had no motivation. I got another lecture on the beauty of the Dolomite mountains and I kept thinking, "4,000 feet up to see another tree..." I do like trees. I look at them every day. Rocks are nice as well. Sometimes I find interesting rocks on my walk. I should fly 15 hours and climb 8,000 feet and see different rocks, AND trees!
Pushing oneself to take another step is also great. A personal triumph every time. Yesterday I made my three miles in record time. The last mile I did in 18 minutes. But I really had to poop. That was a wonderful reward to the last mile, however, I could have had the same reward by having an extra cup of coffee and not getting out of my easy chair until I was in danger of going blind.
Not to be negative. Just saying...
The weather has stopped hay making. We are done with grass and starting on alfalfa again. Also have oats that are losing a race between reaching proper height and dogfennel. Dogfennel hay doesn't sell well even if call it Camomile hay and say it is medicinal. The cows will eat it as I just up the rate of molasses I apply with my gatorsprayer. I have 1000 gallons of molasses, might as well use it.
I made 10,000lbs of feed. Sold 6,000lbs. I had 7,000lbs in orders. None of those people actually bought pellets when I notified them as promised. However, another fellow bought 3,000lbs of ground mix and I sold 40 small bags of Super Chick N.
Now I am out of oats.
Working on the POS White 2-105. POS should be an official White model. Maybe it is just a generic term for White Tractor. I hope they do not have White tractors in Italy. Probably lots of the POS Fiat that is the POS White 2-60. Perhaps I will meet an Italian farmer and we can talk about how much we hate AGCO. That would be nice.
The POS 2-105, has an internal hydraulic leak. I figured when hydraulic oil ran out of the gearshift it was time to pull the PTO. But then I looked at a book. This is always a mistake. It could be the charge pump. In fact it probably should be the charge pump because I just rebuilt the POS PTO.
Apparently I forgot an O-ring.
I pulled the top drain plug. I put a gauge on the pressure line to the PTO. It has 200lbs and oil runs out the drain hole when I run the PTO. It continues when PTO is in neutral. It stops when PTO is in brake.
This was an important test. Not sure what it means exactly. But, we couldn't do it on the tractor because the lever seems to go into the brake position, but because this tractor is the POS model and someone stuck the PTO lever though the 3-point lift lever hole, it will never actually go into Brake when you are running the tractor.
Maybe I can get a nephew to work on the PTO. They are better mechanics.
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| I found rocks on my walk. AI says the bottom one is a sharpening stone. I don't know. Top one has quartz in it. I returned them to the field. |
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| The POS 2-155 has a flat front tire. We had Superior Tire Service come out to fix a different tractor tire. I over filled the tire so I could move the tractor near their truck. They couldn't figure out where the leak was because the tire was not flat. Meanwhile air is hissing from the valve stem and around the bead. I would not say they are complete idiots. I mean, they found the farm... |
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| This was Tuesday's walk I think. Yesterday I did about the same but walked a little faster. Pulling annual ryegrass out of the new alfalfa cuts my speed per hour. |
What I need to do is find a sponsor for my trip. I have read about the high principles of the Mount Olive Pickle company. Perhaps they would sponsor me! I am partial to the Little Rebel dill variety.
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| Apparently the Little Rebel label was dropped after the Southern Poverty Law Center had to drop its support for the label. Too much Turmeric I suppose... |
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