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There is a guy here that buys military trucks. The most popular ones are the big Oshkosh 8x8 trucks. They mount manure spreaders on them. Cant build them fast enough. Farmers love them. As soon as that spreader gets mounted it becomes farm equipment. This is where it gets tricky. You can drive on the road, You can use dyed diesel. BUT you have to drive more off road miles than on road.

I thought it would be cool to have a hummer if its only off road I would only be able to drive it in the winter when the crops are out. That's no fun its too darn cold.
Like in KY that are tons of trails to drive on. My wife is from Owsley county KY it is defiantly very different from any place Ive ever been. Love it there.

I ran across this site accidentally one morning having coffee. I'm sure some of you have seen it before.

http://www.govplanet.com/?h=

All kinds of stuff. Ive never been in the military but I have always liked the military vehicles. A lot of this stuff on here could easily be adapted to use onfarm and ranch.

They have Hummers starting bid at $7,500. I read somewhere you can now get them with an off road title. SO I have a question for the military guys. What would have to be done to make a military hummer road legal? Why cant I just go buy one and drive it around? If they are not road legal why are them selling them to the public?

He watched part of an episode of walking dead. That's his zombie face. He Went around for week growling and pretending to bite. 2 years old and one heck of an imagination.

What gets me is we have to hire special teachers because the kid can't speak English. My great great grandfather homestead here. Came legally. My grandfather who is now 95 was sent home from school as a child because he could not speak English. They spoke Czech at home when it was time to start school the teacher said nope. Go home until you speak english.
If they want to live here fine. Speak English. Get a job. Pay taxes. Become a citizen.

We just make sure the propane tank is full. Keep a couple weeks worth of food around. The longest we have been snowed in was 4 days.  Hook up the PTO generator so its ready. I wanted one that automatically starts on its own but I don't write the checks so I was out voted. We have a spare 1000 gallon and 500 gallon propane tanks on trailers for the drying bins. We keep them full so If need be can drag them up and hook into the house. All necessary equipment has full tanks of fuel and are kept inside the heated shop. Pay loader, Skid loader, and generator tractor. That way if power goes out in the middle of the night everything is still warm in the shop.

Thanks. I was hoping that your first reply was wrong. I don't get along well with jalapenos. I am going to try it as soon as I get a chance.

you could always get you a few cases of MRE's for occasions like that jon

Ive been wanting to get some but they are so darned expensive. The only ones Ive found reasonable was some lady had some in her dirty old basement shes had them for years. Probably still good but I passed.

Being that we are in full swing of harvest and the wife in the the grain cart our supper menu has been different.  We have to get everything ready in the morning before work. One day we just got a jar of canned meat out of the basement. Thats what it there for. Delicious. Then we got the crock pot out and made a roast the next morning. We were too tired to do much clean up that night was a long one. Next day I decided to put pork chops in the crock pot but it was still dirty and we are running late already.  Wife pulls out her spare. I knew there was a reason I keep her around. Pork chops with cream of mushroom soup over the top cooked on low for 13 hours. Didn't really even have to chew it. Kinda just fell apart. Tonight is going to be Mc Donalds. Have to go get the kids from my ex for the weekend.

The one in the fl60 is a 4speed but yea if you wanted to put it in a 4x4 that would cause problems. I don't think it has any electronics but then I never looked for any either.

Very interesting. I was also raised carhloic. Catholic school, alter boy and so on. I guess I always asked questions the priest could not answer. Like where was Jesus for 30 years? He was a baby and over night he was grown.
I wish I could remember where I read this but there is evidence in the Koran that Jesus visited and learned about Islam. Aslo in buddisim he was was mentioned. Jesus traveled a lot and learned many different religions.
The church makes the priest take a vow of poverty yet our church was freaking huge with gold and big statues everywhere. Things just didn't click with me.
My first wife was Lutheran so i changed. I don't attend services anymore I worship in my own way. I do send my kids to Sunday school became its important to learn about God and Jesus. When they are older they can make their own decisions on what they believe.

All you had to do was flip the axles. You gain 6 inches. You don't actually flip them you pull them out and weld a saddle on the other side so the axle sits under the spring. I was going to take mine in because the guys at the trailer place have done it a hundred times and it would be done in a few hours.

These frames are so thin I don't know if I would feel comfortable cutting and welding on one. Very good write up though I have not doubt its as good or better than factory.

The first thing you need to do with the the 6.7 is get it deleted. If I didn't see it for myself I would never believe the difference. Its a whole new truck.  The emissions crap just has it castrated. I love my duramax but when I need to tow something I jump in the dodge. Unless it's my camper. The chevy rides way better.

He had the paper work along with a driver/body guard. Driving a black suburban. They guy we worked with in the DEQ (department of environmental quality)  called and gave us a heads up and showed up with them. We had to go through him when we redid everything to make it all legal. DEQ is state EPA is feds. I know these departments are needed but dang get it together already.

That's how grandma use to make em. Pound of burger, can of van de camps pork and beans, some mustard and catsup or bbq sauce.

I actually use a lot of Chinese elm. There happens to be a ton of it out in the grove around the place. I start a fire and let it burn down to coals. IT makes an awesome coal bed. Then I just add small pieces as needed. It smokes real nice. I'm still using my old cooker it don't  have a fire box. 

You forgot Myth No8. Never use cast iron on a glass top stove. Ive been doing this for over 10 years. Just try not to slide it and don't drop it.

Last night our youngest would not go to sleep. He would only let mommy rock him so I went on to bed. Turned on the tv and fell asleep. I wake up to her freaking out. There is something flying around in the bedroom. I thought it was a bird.  Barn swallow or sparrow. I know they poop a lot so I pull the covers over my head. Wife starts laughing. I say tell me when its gone.  Mind you I am still half asleep at this time and not fully aware of the situation. Finally she said its gone. Ok so Im awake now and thinking its just a dang bird and how did it get in?
Not a bird its a bat. Hanging from the ceiling in the living room over the open stair case to the basement. Open the front door hoping it flies out and no more fly in. So I'm throwing things at it and it wont move. WTF. I came inches from hitting it with one of the kids blocks.
I have the wife holding a blanket over the door way to the rest of the house. I sneak over to the gun cabinet. I'm thinking do I use the .22? No too messy. Open the door and there is my daughters pink bb gun. That was my weapon of choice. Good ole daisy pump bb gun. Its even loaded. Pump that thing up a few times and direct hit. Bat falls straight down into the basement. Look down the stairs hoping to see a dead body. Nothing. crap. I go down the stairs and the sucker is hanging under the edge of a stair tread. Scared the daylights out of me. Right by my bare foot. This whole time Ive been running around in my shorts. Now I go get dressed quickly. boots and all. fly down the stairs and hit it again. This time its done. Hes dead. Now I cant sleep. We were up half the night waiting for another one to come flying circles over our heads.
The only thing I could think of was what I sight I must have been. Should have been in the movie the great outdoors with John Candy. 
Of course the Wife puts it on Facebook. I get drilled at work. The guys saying Wow what a tough guy hiding under the covers LOL. I don't care I admit it, im a bit of a chicken sometimes. Especially when Im woke up out of a dead sleep with things flying around my head.
We will be laughing about this for a long time.

No sence in pushing a child into kindergarten too soon. I have a boy in preschool his second year. They said he was not ready but we could move him into kindergarten anyway. No not worth it. He will just be on of the oldest in his class. My oldest boy that graduated last year was in a peer program like yours starting at age 3. There is a place in town that works with special needs kids. He loved it.

I live in a typical 1880s Nebraska farm house. What basement it did have was dug with horses pulling a tumble bug dragging the dirt out from under it. True 2x4 construction with square nails. The red brick foundation finally gave out. Everything was crooked. floors bowed. We jacked it up dug a new basement and put on an addition. The old red brick was not even in the ground. It was on top. Once the new foundation was poured and it was set down on the the carpenter said hes never seen a house so straight. everyone said we were crazy. Burn that old house down and start over. No way. How man people can say they live in a house over 100 years old?

This was me last weekend. I didn't measure it but I know im over length. I only went 12 miles.

You wanna know what irrtates me about the NRA? Well I'm gonna tell you. About every other month I get a bill to renew my membership or to upgrade it. I pay it once a year. They could save so much money if they quit sending me junk mail.

Ok ok  yea I have heard of them but never seen one. My cousin was talking about getting one a couple years ago. I had no idea wth he was talking about. Some box he puts carburetors in and it cleans them. First thing that went through my mind was that's a nice deep fryer!

I have a sobering thought for everyone to consider

We as a western culture are dying...literally

For a culture to be sustainable it needs to support a birth rate of at least 2.1:2.
So every married couple needs to have 2.1 kids. THe two kids replace the parents when they die, and the .1 allows for growth. Cultures either are gorwing or they are dying. No idling along at the same size, that doesn't work

Now the US has the highest birth rate of any western culture/country. Our rate is 1.8:2

So we are dying, growing smaller each year.

Islam on the other hand has the highest birthrate. They "Enjoy" a rate of 8:2!!!
Yep each family replaces itself and adds three more families to the mix.

Islam flourishes best in western permissive cultures and wanes a bit the farther they get away from a Christian nation. Purely Islamic nations like Yemen and Afghanistan just kill that rate and life spans are all the way down into the high 30's on average (38 for the stan)

So we need some talent coming in to fortify our numbers. Mexicans, Guatemalans, and the like come from a predominately Christian (Catholic) background.

So given the choice which would you prefer? Barry O is all about bring in as many of his kin as he can get away with. They are infecting areas like Flint, Detroit, Dearborn, Minneapolis, and Washington.

Personally I'll take the Mexicans or Latino, but not without condition.

Oh and if you think we Christians are not stupid. have you seen who is the largest sponsoring agency to take in and resettle these Muslims.

The American Lutheran Church.

I have 6 kids. I'm doing my part!

I wish my dang tomatoes would ripen up already. I juice most all of them. I like me a good red beer. The wife likes warm tomato juice with her grilled cheese.