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« on: November 09, 2015, 07:58:45 AM »
Did some applesauce in the pressure canner last night. 10 lbs for 8 minutes. I had an inch of head space. I didn't pack it down but I tapped the jar to get it down so there were no air pockets. Is it suppose to swell up like this?
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« on: October 27, 2015, 08:02:28 AM »
Brought this home Sunday. It was my Grand pa's. 53 John Deere 60 all fuel. My uncle had it. He abused and neglected it. If I wasn't so happy to have it home I would have been pissed. Still it was disappointing in how he kept it up. To him this is all old junk. Carb was gummed up from sitting. Thats no biggie. Its when I found out it was over a gallon low on oil that got me. I haven't had time to go over everything yet. If grandpa seen the shape it was in he would be mad as hell. I know how particular he was with his equipment.
The loader is a New Idea brand. I have all of it its not on in the pic.
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« on: October 18, 2015, 09:49:55 AM »
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?
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« on: October 14, 2015, 07:42:39 AM »
Anyone else have a child with food allergies? Our youngest has them pretty bad. Eggs, chicken, soy, milk, goats milk, wheat and everything in the wheat family including oats. At first we had no idea what was going on. He would scratch himself bloody. He did it so bad one night in the car it looked like someone was murdered in his car seat. body was covered in scales. Dr was pulling his hair out trying to figure out whats wrong. Changing formulas, try this cream try that cream. Finally we went to an allergist. Found a good one in Omaha that also a professor at UCLA.
Doc took one look at him and said the scales were a skin infection from all the scratching. Give him a bleach bath every day. One or 2 cap fulls in a his normal size bath. They tested him found out with in 15 minutes what was wrong. Once we got a hold of his diet and beat the infection he is so much happier. He is 2 now. The next 2 paragraphs I copied and pasted off my wife's Facebook status.
Yesterday he was retested for all of the things he was tested for at 8 months old. Only one new allergy, Cats. Thankfully we only have outdoor cats. He loves them so much and I hate that he's developed an allergy to them. As for food allergies, milk & eggs were the same as before. Wheat actually decreased to one number away from intolerance but still an allergy. Soybean went from an intolerance to high number just like milk & eggs.
Banana, walnut and chicken were all slight intolerance. He loves bananas so that bothered me. He's never had an issue eating them. He goes back in Dec for a checkup. He was put on Allegra allergy meds, an antihistamine for his itching and an inhaler for his cough & wheezing from the gravel road dust as well as soybean dust from the fields. Otherwise he's healthy, lungs & heart sound great.
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« on: September 10, 2015, 01:59:41 PM »
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.
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« on: August 23, 2015, 05:51:02 PM »
I got a different 5er this spring and I quickly found out that the water tank is smaller than what we were use to. Someone had changed it out. I knew we were going to be boondocking at cave run lake in Kentucky so I needed a extra tank. Even at our local campground we normally go there is no water close by. Its a pain to hook it up and go get water. Getting a barrel was easy but a pump was 80 bucks and Im kinda tight so I came up with this.
Used a 12 volt air compressor Ive had for years. Cost me about 10 bucks for the spigot and the valve stem and reducer. Takes a couple minutes but then have more than enough pressure to push the water into the fresh water tank. I have a long box pickup so there is plenty of room to mount the barrel right behind the cab.
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« on: August 23, 2015, 04:54:29 PM »
I am a farm hand from Pender Ne. 42 years old. 6 kids. 4 from first marriage 2 from second. My wife of 4 years is from south eastern Kentucky. Met on the the internet. We enjoy gardening. We got into it more when we found out our youngest 2 has severe food allergies. soy, chicken, milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts. oats and goat milk. Its been rough but we got it figured out.
We also enjoy traveling and camping. We go to Kentucky at least once a year sometimes twice to visit the wife's family. This year we took the camper and made a big trip out of it. We try to go on several camping trips a year even if its just to the local camp ground 12 miles away.
My wife and I have been canning for the past several years. I don't consider myself "prepper" I just missed my grandmothers canned peaches. Shes dead so I had to figure it out myself. I wish so much I had paid more attention when I was younger but I had to be on the tractor with grandpa. Now I can everything. Beef, pork, chicken, I make my own chicken stock. Made pickles this year for the first time. 8 gallons.
I like to hunt and fish. Not so much hunting anymore but I try to fish quite a bit. I like to dump the canoe in the river and spent the day. Nothing better then fresh catfish.
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« on: August 23, 2015, 02:34:47 PM »
Pictures taken this spring before planting. The steel water tanks worked out great. This is the second year for them. The bottoms are rusted out so they are no good for anything but this.
The concrete feed bunks are left over from when we had cattle here and from when we updated our cattle handling facility on the other place. They worked out fairly well. I was worried that dirt would plug the cracks and not allow water to drain. I have the opposite problem. I have to go back and dig the dirt out of every seam and seal it somehow. Water runs right through. I think it has harmed my yeald on the tomatoes. As a matter fact i know it has. I tried to fill the cracks with expansion foam but didn't work very well. On the side it worked but the bottom it just fell out.
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« on: August 23, 2015, 10:54:32 AM »
This all started one day I had some time to waste and seen a bass pro shop so I went in to browse around. I seen this. http://www.basspro.com/Horizon-Smoker-16-Ranger-Backyard-Smoker/product/10202040/. I loved it but who has nearly 2 grand to drop on a smoker? I was talking to a fried of mine showed him a picture and he set me up with some water heater tanks. Shortly after we got 3 inches of rain and couldent do anything at work and the rest is history. Its not done yet but getting there. I still need a fire box. http://s1008.photobucket.com/user/jonandjen/media/1a1a1a1a.jpg.html One side is the smoker and cooker the other side is the charcoal bbq grill. The axel and trailer frame came from an old auger we had cut up for scrap iron.
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