Not a Tractor

But you are probably all tired of seeing yet another sunset over the McCormick Deering tractor in my yard. So here is today's sunset over the 49 Mercury. Just a little something to relieve the never ending misery of living out here in the snow

I’m living in the misery of not having any snow

In my part of minnesota we have had lots of fog and freezing fog, a little snow a couple times. Temps mostly in the 20s, couple days we break into the mid 30s but
overcast.

The winds from the east are wet, damp, cold.

But really, any time it is January in Minnesota and the temp is in the 30s, no matter how chilly damp it feels that a pretty good day for around here.heat wave really.

See how Mother Nature balances things out, everyone in the country is predicting a dry year, last time w had this warm of a January it turned brutal and terrible cold
into May..........

Nice picture, as always.

Paul

So, did the Mercury truck have the 110 hp flathead V8 like the car vs Fords 100 hp? Funny, you build a flat head I engine and never give exhaust passages
a thought. You build a flathead V engine and all of a sudden they matter. Had a buddy with an older every day 4 door 49 V8 with 3 on the tree. Hottest
totally stock sucker around town.

Had a machine shop in Houston that had backlog a mile long who specialized in repairing the cracked blocks between the two center exhaust valves.

Remember we used to block off the heat riser water port that went across under the carb so that the engine would run cold and make noise. Mud flaps,
curb feelers, blue dot tail lights, white rubber inserts for blackwalls, couple of fuzzy dice hanging from the RV mirror.......Lakes pipes, 2" lowering blocks
on the rear, rear deck speaker with a fader resistor........

I know it breaks your heart. Does mine too. I get out of bed every morning sobbing. Grin. I guess if you grow up with it it's just part of your life and you go about your business. For guys like me, born in Houston, in the 18 years I lived at home, it snowed once. left about an inch on the ground. Lived in town in a little pre WW2 frame house on a little lot and big sis and I rolled up the entire front yard to make our snow man. Great sport.

We need it for the water it’s just the way it works . Last year we had 7 inches of fall rain or about 10 feet of snow but now snow through the winter by the end Of may we were burnt to a crisp

Hear you on that. What's the ratio on that something like 10:1, inch of moisture accumulation, depending on show type of course?

beautiful!thanks!!!!

A foot per inch of rain but a lot of time it’s closer to two feet of snow per inch or rain

That’s a good average, 10-1.

We are so wet around me, I sure wish we could have shared the water we’ve gotten the past 5 years with those in the dry areas. I sure didn’t want to horde all this!

My farm is a lake bottom more or less, from the last glaciers melting. I’d prefer a little less than average moisture, I do well in a dry year.

The past 5 have been so wet, there are 2 county roads, several township roads, and one state highway that have suffered long term closings this past summer due to washouts, slumping sidehills, or long term flooding, all within 10 miles of me. The 2 county roads are still closed, detoured by me.

All the drainage ditches are sluffing in, the sidewalks of the ditches are crumbling and falling in wrecking the ditches. This makes drainage worse of course, so our fields can’t dry out.

Now, if it gets to be August and it’s too dry I’ll be right there woe is me the crop,is stinging...... but, we could use a good dry spell here to let things dry out once.

My best years in farming were 1988 and 2012, the two driest we have experienced. It was tough to watch my crops suffer, but in hind sight the crop prices went so high, and even in such extreme drought I get a half a crop, I made a good income and had very low costs to produce it those years, no weeds, no mud to fight, less breakdowns, little drying cost, less fertilizer needed the next year.

I understand, in the arid regions is the opposite, and I don’t envy those of you struggling with a dry climate and looking at an extra dry year coming up. It is the inverse of what I face, and neither extreme is any fun at all.

My tile are still trickling water into the ditch, even with the ground froze up since November. We don’t have heavy snow yet, but what’s here will do the typical spring melt and create ponds in the fields, most will run off the frozen ground and down the ditches and rivers. We typically get heavy spring rains to charge up the ground and make a muddy mess of spring.

Very nice picture. Just nice to see a good sunset. Although I
hesitate to complain about our winter weather here since so
far it’s been relatively mild and not much snow, we have been
stuck in a weather pattern with gray gloomy skies and
occasionally snow or freezing rain/fog/ sleet. If you go down
off the hill I live on there’s hardly any snow. An hour and a
half south of me there was 44” snow storm but that’s mostly
melted.

Wow! Fantastic photo.

(quoted from post at 03:07:41 01/07/21) So, did the Mercury truck have the 110 hp flathead V8 like the car vs Fords 100 hp?

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Hard to tell from the outside but my research says that Mercury trucks still used the Ford engine so just a 239. Not sure of their reasoning on that but they kept the 255 for the Mercury cars.

And in case anybody took my comment seriously about never ending misery in snow, it was meant as a sarcastic response to Woreout's comment in my video post. He seems to think I'm living in misery all winter long. In fact its a beautiful, quiet and peaceful place and I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be.

Misery is just south of Iowa although they
have a town in Iowa called Misery Valley
if I recall correctly.
Beautiful picture. That would make a great
puzzle.

I've been getting some body work done on my '50 Ford this winter. Not getting as much done as I'd like but that has always been the case. Never got as much done as I wanted before retirement. Still don't. Opposite result though. When I underachieved before retirement, it cost me money. When I underachieve after retirement, it saves me money.

Wonderful picture sir. I love those old trucks! That's when trucks were good. Simple to work on too. LOL Kow Farmer Kurt

Close on name Missouri Valley

Close called Missouri Valley

Well put !

That's pretty dry snow. In retrospect, that 1" of snow we had I mentioned was sopping wet, being down on the Gulf Coast and all. So I get my first duty assignment to Altus Ok. Get up the first snow morning I experienced and snow is all over my car... Didn't know what to expect.....I blew on it and it floated away. I'd say that was dry snow.

(quoted from post at 05:53:20 01/08/21) That's pretty dry snow. .I blew on it and it floated away. I'd say that was dry snow.

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The snow is dry because its cold here most of the winter. The same reason we get by without chains on our tractor tires. Wet snow is very slippery and heavy.