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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 24, 2022 20:10:36 GMT
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Post by kdcintx on Jan 24, 2022 22:32:57 GMT
Yes, I see the resemblance.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 24, 2022 23:47:40 GMT
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Post by jackscrap on Jan 25, 2022 0:51:48 GMT
Do they come with a Teflon coating like most politicians?
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 25, 2022 2:27:52 GMT
Do they come with a Teflon coating like most politicians? Nah, but as BuckSkin has implied they all spread the same stuff. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 25, 2022 9:52:06 GMT
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Post by Lillias on Jan 25, 2022 10:29:39 GMT
Nah, but as BuckSkin has implied they all spread the same stuff. Ain't that the truth...LOL. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 25, 2022 14:06:34 GMT
John Deere Model "L" Ground-drive Manure Spreader Another nickname for manure spreaders is "Hearse" Notice the WWII-era NDT military tires. Due to rubber being dedicated to the war effort (both wars), civilian tractors and implements built during wartime were equipped with steel wheels. The fact that after a war there is always an immense surplus of military tires, both new and used, was not lost on tractor and implement manufacturers. Knowing that sensible farmers would prefer the option of cheap tires, manufacturers utilized 20-inch split-ring wheels, often retrofitted military surplus themselves, on anything that they would sensibly fit. Even on brand-new equipment, customers had the option of paying a premium for brand-new military surplus tires, or used ones at a deep discount. Even in the 1970s, when I was a kid, the country was full of surplus NDT tires; we thought there would never be an end to them; but, like wooden soft-drink crates, of which we had at least a million, they are now a rare sight. Even today, custom skid-steer and implement wheels are available that will allow the use of surplus 16.5" "Humvee" tires; many brand-new implements are available with second-hand Humvee tires. Commercial "Jet" airplane tires are also commonly used as they are only allowed a given number of landings before they must be replaced; these second-hand airplane tires will last for decades on farm implements. The long white tube is a continuous tube of rolled hay; there is no limit to the possible length of these tubes, so long as the plastic is available. Hay stored in these air-tight tubes will ferment and "go to sugar"; cows will tear the barn down to get a mouthful; on the other hand, it is a death ticket for the horse that happens to eat some. John Deere Model "L" Ground-drive Manure Spreader 30-October-2016   |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 5, 2022 23:26:02 GMT
Massey-Ferguson 265 Diesel with Massey-Ferguson 110 Spreader and definitely a country gal. Thursday_19-March-2009   |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 6, 2022 16:16:31 GMT
Your deciduous trees have no leaves but the grass is green like it is in the UK in winter. Here, our grasses are blah brown and I prefer snow cover in winter to brighten up the countryside.
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 6, 2022 17:14:57 GMT
Your deciduous trees have no leaves but the grass is green like it is in the UK in winter. Here, our grasses are blah brown and I prefer snow cover in winter to brighten up the countryside. You are observant ! I guess I am so used to it that I never noticed until you brought it to light. Forget anything you ever heard about Kentucky being the Bluegrass State; there hasn't been a genuine sprig of Bluegrass anywhere in Kentucky since the advent of endophyte-infected mold-ridden Kentucky 31 Tall Fescue way back in the 1950s. Kentucky 31 Tall Fescue was introduced as an erosion inhibitor; before it's advent, all Kentucky fields had huge deep gullies washed across them; I am talking you could stand in the gully and not see over the top deep. This species of Fescue has interwoven roots plumb to China and will take over and smother out anything else. One thing it did do, it stopped the ground from washing down the creeks. Although all pastures anywhere around here are Kentucky 31 Tall Fescue, it is toxic to livestock; it has an endophyte that causes all sorts of problems with horses, especially breeding mares; the placenta will be so thick and tough that a newborn often cannot break through and will die trying to get out. Mares often won't breed back until the foal is weaned, throwing foaling schedules off. It causes mares to slip their foals early in development. Cows eating it often will not breed back so long as a calf is at side; some may only breed every other year. It harbors a mold that causes all sorts of respiratory problems in both man and beast; it is probably the main cause for everyone in Kentucky constantly fighting allergies and keeping a chronic head-cold that never goes away ever. And, as you have noticed, it stays green as poison all winter long. In the fall, fields that haven't been mowed will be amber-yellow with Broom Sage, but the green Fescue is there underneath it. It will soon choke out anything else that is planted in a lawn and will then proceed to infiltrate the septic-tank fill lines and clog them up; people frequently dump a fifty-pound sack of salt down the toilet in an effort to kill the roots and clear the lines. Even though, along with all it's very negative attributes, as promised, long gone are the numerous deep gullies of my childhood. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 6, 2022 17:19:45 GMT
- and definitely a country gal - Oh....., and she is wearing her Muck Boots ! I wonder how many big clods warped her up side the head before they got that load spread... |
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