Moisture for next year

rusty6 · Oct 24, 2022

We really needed some moisture to replenish the dry ground here but yesterday's snow and rain have made for a miserable couple of days here. Highways closed and power off some places. Hard to say how deep because the wind blew it around so bad but I have knee deep drifts in my yard this morning. I was pushing a lawn mower and raising dust a couple of days ago.

KDCannon · Oct 24, 2022

What a change, yes sir. What year is your Ford? Nice old truck.
Dad had one similar that I think was maybe a 1950. Flathead six, three on the column.

rusty6 · Oct 24, 2022

(quoted from post at 11:52:32 10/24/22) What a change, yes sir. What year is your Ford? Nice old truck.
Dad had one similar that I think was maybe a 1950. Flathead six, three on the column.
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Nice truck. Mines a 49 Mercury. Still pretty much identical to the Ford versions also available here. No sixes in the Canadian trucks though. All flathead V8s. This one is a one ton (M68) so its got the four on the floor.

Bruce from Can. · Oct 24, 2022

You can just go ahead and keep the white stuff, cold
weather and whatever moisture you can squeeze out
of it way out west. Beautiful sunny and 70F here in
South Central Ontario. Combines are roaring through
soybean fields once again after a week of rainy
weather.

casecollectorsc · Oct 24, 2022

Had a 48 like that...flat head six and three on the floor.

Masseyharrisnut · Oct 24, 2022

There is another upside to the moisture (snow ) rusty6 and that is no more grass hoppers or bugs. We ended up with about 1/2 of moisture out of that storm here in
southern Alberta. But our ground is all brown again already.

rusty6 · Oct 24, 2022

(quoted from post at 17:18:17 10/24/22) There is another upside to the moisture (snow ) rusty6 and that is no more grass hoppers or bugs. We ended up with about 1/2 of moisture out of that storm here in
southern Alberta. But our ground is all brown again already.

We had a few grasshoppers here in late summer but nothing like they had further South. I heard the hoppers ended up in the combine hopper with the grain and spoiled the grain.
Not much melting here at all with clouds and barely up to freezing temp all day. If the sun comes out later this week it could all melt but.....

ghanson · Oct 24, 2022

We had a 48 Ford, could shift without clutch once we got going. Dad ordered another transmission
from Montgomery Wards

rusty6 · Oct 24, 2022

(quoted from post at 20:17:43 10/24/22) We had a 48 Ford, could shift without clutch once we got going. Dad ordered another transmission
from Montgomery Wards

So shifting without the clutch wrecked the transmission? I know people say it can be done and yes, under ideal conditions I've tried it on the Internationals. Its just so much easier to use the clutch.

hd6gtom · Oct 24, 2022

We dug a trench and ran some cat 6 wire from the house to the
Honey production building on Saturday. The trench was 24 deep.
It was powder dry all the way down.

BillinCentralMO · Oct 25, 2022

Looks cold. Im still running late on preparing for Winter. Always enjoy your posts. Throw another log on the
fire.

rusty6 · Oct 25, 2022

(quoted from post at 04:48:26 10/25/22) Looks cold. Im still running late on preparing for Winter. Always enjoy your posts. Throw another log on the
fire.

It is cold and quite uninspiring to do anything more than the essentials outside. Warmer weather coming in a few days they say.

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