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Sunny and 60 degrees today. Time to spread last winters collection of wood ashes and finish splitting next winters wood supply.

Today I went and got a truck and trailer load from an old dealer today. One thing I was excited about (among many others) was a new truck decal set from 1969

That gives me an idea

So I been needing a light for over my computer for awhile now. Didn't really need anything super bright, so I figured I'd just build a little light. Well this is what I came up with. Just got to finish placing the wire. I wet sanded the hood and clear coated it. Also this hood was smashed and rusted through on the other side, so I didn't cut up a good hood, I do have a conscience when it comes to rusty history.

OK EB here's a true chicken story. My wife grew up in the country, very country and her dad raised a little of everything, including chickens for eggs and meat. When it came to butchering time he had an old stump that he cuts the heads off on and would throw the bird into a 5 gallon bucket to flutter its last. When the kids were around he would cuts the head off and toss the chicken on the ground. It would run around (with maybe a little blood spurting out it's neck). Of course the kids would chase the headless chicken and she says he would laugh and laugh. So the phase "Running around like a chicken with it's head cut off" is a true statement. Of course today this would be very politically incorrect to expose a child to butchering chickens, blood, etc, and PETA would say it's cruel to chase a headless chicken.

They are easy to feed!

Three letters that takes all the work out of raising chickens. KFC

My chickens were cheap. Don't eat much. The 3 on the ground spend the winter in the house. dogs and cats don't seem to mind. The big one who likes to hang out o nthe roof of the coop is named Homer. Because he's the first thing we see when we get home. Nobody messes with him either! Maintenance is simple. I went out yesterday and cleaned things up with the leaf blower. The local hawks and eagles aren't to happy but too bad!

Guess his camouflage didn't work that well on an eagle eyed horse hunter "Noth'n to see here! No horses for sale! Just keep move'n along please".

Sweepin cinders with the 657. Can't beat free driveway fill.

Jim beat me too it.

Every 4-6' I just put a sawn block of wood under the "log" (or roll said log onto sawn block) this will keep it up out of the dirt/rocks and you don't have to lift it very high to boot the use of a "cant hook" comes in handy as well especially with the bigger diameter logs don't cut all the way through then roll it over to finish...or a chain and a FEL will get them hanging high.

I will get some pics, the main house is 8x12 with a fenced run attached with the top covered, can't let them out with the fox and hawks. you going to need heat inside for the winter. keep in mind it's a hobby it's cheaper to buy than to raise

my 7 year old has about 30 chickens, if he can do it you can, he got another 6 chick's 2 weeks ago and 6 more pullets coming tomorrow. mostly Rhode Island reds, and bar rocks and some silky breed. it keeps him occupied.

I know it has been almost 4 years since I have posted about my Lawn Ranger but I finally got my hood back and a few other parts from my cousin who had them for about 3 years. I have gotten a few thing done since that time including a Honda Clone engine installed and partially have the tractor reassembled. Last night I started to sand down the many layers of paint off the hood so I could do rest of the body work that is needed. Here is a picture of the hood as of this morning. If you look at the first few pictures you will see the the previous owner has cut the hood in half right before the hood reaches the center console and they added latches and a hing on the hood. They also cut the sides of the hood and folded them back. My cousin got it all welded back in place and even filled in the original gas filler hole how my new engine can not use that hole. Next few days I am hopping to get the rest of the hood cleaned up and start doing the body work. I am waiting to hear back about a quote from the company my father works at that does powder coating. Most likely going to have them powder coat the 4 rims on this tractor and the 2 rims off of the 7-2211 dump trailer that I recently acquired.

I'm going to guess you're referring to one wheel slipping and turning while the other does not, like when you're on ice or snow. The rear end has a differential gear system kind of like a car does and one wheel needs to "slip" (rotate slower) so the tractor will steer much easier otherwise the tractor will want to go straight when you want to turn if both rear wheels are locked to rotate at the same speed. If the tractor is on ice (or any number of slippery surfaces), one wheel will turn while the other does not Here's a great old tutorial on how the differential works to achieve that different rotation speed of each rear tire.

Today I (Joette) was fortunate to talk to Howard and found out that he has some news to share with everyone. It seems that Howard found out that his kidneys are not working so well for him. He just found out about his kidneys one week before he had his first heart attack. The medical team that assisted with Howard's first surgery, did not complete the entire surgery that Howard required. The reason was that his kidney's shut down due to the contrast dye that the medical team use. So they closed him up and sent him home to recover and to allow his kidneys to mend, before they decided to schedule his next surgery. He received a phone call from the kidney doctor and he received the all clear to have the second surgery. He will be having that surgery on Monday, March 18, 2019. He told me that he will be at the big show in June. The reason why Howard has not been on Red Square is because he forgot his password and has to relocate the paper he wrote it on. Then he will be back on Red Square. Please keep Howard in your thoughts and prayers

It's just you, crap like that never happens to me.

My tractor needs a new gas cock. It leaks so I may have to order a new cockerel... Nope looks good here Richard ....

During the summers when I was a 12-14 yo, I raised and butchered approx. 1500 every year. I raised many breeds, but without question, Silver Cornish was the best meat chicken. Fast growing, easy scalding , and excellent flavor. The only real problem I recall was the fear of spring thunderstorms. Seem the chickens would all run for a corner of the house, pile up and suffocate if you didn't keep them scattered.

We started getting our eggs from a Amish farm. I don' know what breed chicken they are, but the eggs are super jumbos and to crack the shells, you need a BFH.

Got up to 56° and sunny this afternoon!!!!! Had some Burgers on the grill

Rooster.. Rooster, Rooster. Hmm, my boys didn't get bleeped Dick.

Growing up in central NY my dad had several chicken coops. The winter coop was the largest holding a couple hundred laying hens and it was subterranean. He had it dug down into the ground about four feet and the walls above grade were only about two foot high with windows and the second story above that was feed and straw storage so we took advantage of the warmth of the ground and the insulation of the straw. All of the lighting was heat lamps and was on a timer, as @Aldon said, we attempted to convince them it was summer. In the winter we would get ten or twelve dozen eggs per day. Hand washed, candled and packed, a fair amount of work each afternoon after school. All we raised was Rhode Island Reds, the stores we sold to loved the brown eggs. In the late winter we would get about a thousand non-sexed chicks, the walls of one of the smaller chicken coops were then lined with strew bales to hold in the heat and we turned them loose, that was always fun. The run was an area between four chicken houses, probably 100' X 100' and it was cross fenced into four areas. Older hens from the winter coop in one, pullets in two and ***** (chicken dinner on the talon) in the smallest one. We got day old bread and other baked goods from the stores we delivered eggs to and that helped keep the feed bill down, in fact that is all the ***** were fed. We would also give them grass clippings from the lawn, they loved that! At about six months of age the ***** would be shipped off for slaughter and we would cull out the older hens that were not laying and send them off too. In the late fall we would sell off all but a couple hundred hens and the cycle would repeat. Seems our politically correct obscenity filter didn't like the four letter word for an boy chicken.

ways to do it cheap...... cedar posts for the run make the coop out pallets, and scrap roof tin tractor supply cuts the price on chick's to 50 cents when new orders are getting delivered.

Predatory animals are definitely a huge concern here. We have every possible Predator you could imagine. We would be able to have them free range in the backyard to some extent while we are here supervising but certainly would never leave them out when we are gone. Heating depends on who you ask and what breed you have. There are those that don't heat their coops at all during the winter even in the far north. Obviously, those are specially constructed coops with that in mind. The financial consideration is a big part of the reason why we have not pulled the trigger on this the last couple of years. That is also one of the reasons why we would be raising dual-purpose birds. We're going to purchase them non-sexed and the males would turn to soup as soon as possible. Whatever females we have left would be kept for eggs and we would roadside sell whatever eggs we don't eat. In this area we would sell out every day at them going for $2 per dozen because no one else has any available. We know because we try to buy them when we can. The bottom line is that this is something that we would like to hope to break even financially but that's not really the biggest concern. We would like to have control of more of our own food intake and the raising of your own chickens typically will give you an egg that is better for you than a store-bought farm-raised egg.

Good thing our forefathers didn't believe in this or we wouldn't be here!

Where do you come up with stuff EB?!?!? Actually this ain't a bad one as I have been after the Missus to let me get a few. Maybe a turkey or three. Went into TSC the other day and started drooling for an omelet. Seems TSC is got the spring chickens in! Was a thread about this awhile back and we had to look at Squonk's metal ones!

Reminds me of an old cartoon in Dad's toolbox titled "last great act of Defiance" - it was a mouse giving a huge cat the one-fingered salute. Sarge

John's spot on. I remember my Dad fiddle with the throttle lever to kill the engine not too long after he bought the 400 new. It wasn't a very good set up. That's why I put the kill button that was on the engine shroud in the hole next to the steering wheel.

Though quite a bit overcast, it did hit 69 here today... thankfully all the rain in today's forecast slipped just south of us.

Well. Thank you. I appreciate that. Fact of the matter is: this website is the ONLY social media that I use. i'm not on that books with the faces thing and i'm not all twitterpated either. i don't bother to chat. I figure if I want to know something there is probably one or two people on this particular site which I happen to like quite a lot, that might have the answer. @jabelman those are great suggestions and I had already had the same idea about the recycle pallets and the tin roof. I have both on hand. Cedar Post are not so easy to get a hold of around here but I'm sure I can figure something else out.

Mud season is here. Time to swap out turfs and chains for AGs on the L-107. Switched her to Studs and Lugs a couple years ago . Change over is almost as fast as a NASCAR pit stop. So much easier!!!!

Iron in your diet and a set of tin snips.

Except she won’t help get the mud bath off!

There's a few NOS and used ones like I used available. Search Kohler engine kill switch.

How much wheelhorse stuff can u find in this photo? Believe it or not, there are two tractors, unknown models but I believe they are C's, a snowblower attachment and a blade. I am guessing there is not a mower deck.

That fender ain’t beat, it’s the dovetail option!

Thank you so much this helped tremendacely you are the man again thank you to all.....

I have been known to spot "Tin in the Woods" but in the winter it can be difficult. The patina blends into the background. If there is a mower deck it hasn't been used much!

Welcome Both rear wheels better turn or you won't get anywhere fast. If one is locked then maybe a bad bearing or something broken inside the rear end. We need some more information to help you better. Cleat

Here we go Denny...I had originally thought the same but could be dead nuts wrong. Bob will know fer sure I thought the tail hung down to short. but not so sure .. this is what I ended up with but again a Clinton. This is eventually what I ended up with but again a Clinton.

Smart gal.... how the he double hockey sticks did she end up with your sorry a$$?? Got the video finally so make it 4 sticks or Craig's idea....

I see your point EB. I got to tell you this story. I had a guy here with a track hoe running drainage pipe and swells. When he first pulled in, we looked over the job, and I was instructing him about what I thought needed done. He looked at me and said really? In the county I live in, that is just a nice way of saying that's stupid. Okay what do you have in mind? he said first lets establish this; "there was only one guy that made water run uphill and he ain't here"! He got out the transit and voila, I was off. Living on this hilly terrain I learned that a good level and a piece of string, maybe a transit, water hose maybe is a good place to start and lay out elevations to plan.

making your own parts is fun! I don't regret buying this one, I only know of 2 of these in nj, for what I spent on the tractor and tracking parts down I would have been better off trying to locate a complete or finished one and having it shipped. but that wouldn't be any fun! most people looked at this when it for sale passed on it and wanted to chop it up for parts. I realized it was restorable. in the end it's a hobby I am going to have way more into this one than its value.

We should use this on the calendar