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First stop today: It's 8:15 A.M.. Two guys standing outside smoking a joint. I pull up and first they get all panicky like I might be a cop or something, then they look at me and keep on smoking. I undo my straps while they watch, then one guy starts walking towards the forklift.

"Hey, is that a Toyota?" I say. The guy nods.

"Mind if I try it?" I ask.

"You got a ticket?" He asks. You need a ticket to operate a forklift in ...

I started a new job about three or four months ago. It's good. I drive parts and materials around the city for a tractor manufacturer. The work is pretty easy if you don't mind the suicide terrorists who pass for motorists in Winnipeg and can put up with slow-moving forklift operators.

The truck is an '03 GMC C5500 with a Duramax diesel and a six speed Allison automatic. It has a few proclivities, being eight years old and having almost a quarter million mostly-city kilometres on ...

Old #115 developed some strange swelling the last several days. Her jaw area swollen so much she could only drink...no opening it to eat. Left front shoulder swelled also. Never seen one quite like this! Poor old cow had her calf yesterday & was in terrible shape. She couldn't even lick her calf clean, so Josh & I got the calf into the milk parlor & washed off with warm water. It was shivering cold. Got the cow up & attempted to get to market today, as it's the last sale tomorrow till January ...

I mentioned this a couple times and thought I would post some pictures. Last year was our first year roasting a pig but we have been doing apple pressing annually for many years. I am not sure how many gallons we pressed of apple cider but probably somewhere around 20 gallons on Saturday and another 35 or-so on Sunday.

Pig roast was Saturday. This porker weighed in at around 110 lbs. Friday we put the spit though the pig and filled the body cavity of the pig with apples, garlic, ...

Originally Posted by bmxkid313

thought i would share some pics.

my 75 1614, my dad bought this about 5-6 years ago and we restored it. we experimented a lot with clear coat and it got all cracky and messed up, it should be done again now. over time i started using it then he slowly stopped and i was using it 95% of the time and he just mowed with it. after a while he started to reference it as mine and then one day i asked why and he said because it belonged to me, not him. i have 48 belly mower, snow plow, snow

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Originally Posted by bmxkid313

me and my father worked with guy named Timmy with splitting wood and cutting down trees. we wanted to make a dump trailer out of it from the second we spotted it in the woods at Timmy's house. we asked about it and he said he and his dad build it about 30 years ago and used it for logs and that its been there for a few years and that if we wanted it we could have it. we brought it home and we didn't do anything with it so we moved it ''down the hill'' so it could sit in the woods for a few

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Got the new oil-less Bou-Matic vacuum pump installed after milking this morning! This one is inside the parlor & quiet enough not to be a bother at all. Outside, you can't hear anything at all! It has 2 large mufflers, one inside, then another outside. Fred won't hear us when we're milking at all. Before, he could hear the drone of the old pump. The old one will stay in place as backup, running it at least once a month to keep all in working order. After lunch, we're putting the milker pulsator ...

We had three over achieving mother sows this fall - 35 little ones saved from 3 litters . Now time for new home , we don't have room for all . Really don't want to put them on a cold truck to market . We advertised . Know what Dan goes thru at times .

My last couple days have been a mixed bag to say the least. The good yesterday was the easy job taking the parlor equipment out where we bought stuff at an auction, then bought ourselves a Massey 362 tractor for odd jobs on our farm. But also yesterday, I awoke to find a 300lb heifer had got knocked into a concrete U-shaped feeder & wedged upside down. She was dead. Then after morning milking yesterday, we found a dry cow dead in the field.
My day was today was great for Thanksgiving, ...

I did the morning milking, then had to install a new magnetic switch for one of my cooling compressors. It quit last night, but we limped through with the one cooling unit. The 2nd compressor is now back online. Now on to the furnace that finally gave up the ghost. Won't light up at all and so old I didn't want to put a $150 circuit board that it needed.....maybe NLA anyway. So yesterday I located a lightly used furnace that was changed out to a larger unit. Have the old furnace in, and after ...