It'll be just like today the day that I decide I've been farming long enough. I don't think I could take another one.
The forecast yesterday morning said rain Tuesday night and Wednesday,but good Monday and Tuesday. So I spent the whole day cutting enough hay to be pushing it to even get it all raked and baled in two days. I got home for supper last night,checked the county forecast on the DTN site again and they said rain Monday night and Tuesday. Not just a 40% chance either,a 70% chance now. So even if Monday's decent,there's more hay on the ground than I can probably get up in a day.
What do you do when you have cattle and nothing else to do? You haul manure. I loaded two loads out of the back feedlot this morning,got on the loader tractor to load another one,started backing up and had a big stream of oil in front of me. It was pouring out of the transfer case around the front driveshaft. I cleaned that up,got a jack under it,dropped it out and there was a snap ring broken that let the shaft slide ahead past the seal.
I had that fixed by 3 o'clock,finished up the back lot,loaded one load out of the other lot,came back to load another one and a front tire was almost flat on the loader tractor. A 9.5 24 FWA tire. I pumped it up,thought I could get the load out that was pushed up I front of the gate and it was half flat again by the time I got it in the gate. I ran it out,took the pressure washer to it and by the time I got it up to the shop,the bead broken down and sheared the valve stem off the tube.
I'm getting too darned old to give a rats backside enough to keep this stuff up If I have a day like this again any time soon.
The forecast yesterday morning said rain Tuesday night and Wednesday,but good Monday and Tuesday. So I spent the whole day cutting enough hay to be pushing it to even get it all raked and baled in two days. I got home for supper last night,checked the county forecast on the DTN site again and they said rain Monday night and Tuesday. Not just a 40% chance either,a 70% chance now. So even if Monday's decent,there's more hay on the ground than I can probably get up in a day.
What do you do when you have cattle and nothing else to do? You haul manure. I loaded two loads out of the back feedlot this morning,got on the loader tractor to load another one,started backing up and had a big stream of oil in front of me. It was pouring out of the transfer case around the front driveshaft. I cleaned that up,got a jack under it,dropped it out and there was a snap ring broken that let the shaft slide ahead past the seal.
I had that fixed by 3 o'clock,finished up the back lot,loaded one load out of the other lot,came back to load another one and a front tire was almost flat on the loader tractor. A 9.5 24 FWA tire. I pumped it up,thought I could get the load out that was pushed up I front of the gate and it was half flat again by the time I got it in the gate. I ran it out,took the pressure washer to it and by the time I got it up to the shop,the bead broken down and sheared the valve stem off the tube.
I'm getting too darned old to give a rats backside enough to keep this stuff up If I have a day like this again any time soon.