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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: February 01, 2015, 01:14:00 PM »
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Just trying to upload a photo.

Ron

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: February 01, 2015, 11:13:06 AM »
Back to winter.  Cold, snowing, blowing, drifting.  But with mud underneath.

Ron

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: January 28, 2015, 12:14:34 PM »
Yeah, Ralph is probably feeding cattle in his shirt sleeves.  Of course I can't talk as it was near 50 here yesterday and will be near 60 today.  But then the wind is going to blow and the temps will be dropping and winter will be back with a little snow, I guess.  These little respites sure do shorten the winter and help with the heating fuel bill.  My border collie is a complete muddy mess and cannot understand why she can't lay by my chair in the living room during the evening.  She minds though and stays on the porch.

Ron

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: January 26, 2015, 01:29:01 AM »
You guys are too cold over there for me.  I'll take my mud for now.:)

Ron

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: January 25, 2015, 05:25:24 PM »
Gene,
I wasn't aware of that link.  Thank you.  Which one do you use for Ralph?

Ron

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: January 25, 2015, 04:27:16 PM »
I am not up on Ralph's weather, but I have to say it has been pretty darned good here in western Iowa.  A couple days last week it was even 50 degrees and it has not really gotten cold since then.  My snow has melted and has made the place muddy.  As a matter of fact it is 40 degrees today.  No doubt it will get darned cold again soon, but this couple week reprieve from the cold temps we were having is much appreciated.  We had a little bit of rain yesterday afternoon which could easily have turned into snow but it did not happen that way.
I have not had a wood fire going now for 3 days, so I cannot get a photo like Gene's.  I have been sort of down since Christmas, so I welcome not hauling in firewood and I am sure the propane company appreciates me burning up their product.

Ron

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: January 08, 2015, 03:44:49 PM »
Ralph, I just checked the weather at Sioux City.  25 degrees F.  pretty nice!  trouble is.........wind is from the North at 41 gusting to 50!  I have to go out and cut up some firewood and bring it into the house.  The drawn out harvest and some health problems(maybe the flu) kept me from getting that done earlier like I should have.  At least my woodshed is open to the South and I can be out of the wind.  Just need the fortitude to go out.

Ron

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update
« on: May 26, 2011, 11:16:34 AM »
Gene, Charlie,
Here in western Iowa right around me(just southeast of Sioux City), the corn is probably 95% planted and most of that is up and going.  The soybean planting got interrupted by the rain that has gone nutz and I really have not a clue as to how much got planted.  I will venture a guess of around 50-60% with a few fields starting to emerge.  The rest is mud.  All in all, we are in very good shape here with the exception of the areas that have had storm damage.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Spring Calves on The Farm
« on: April 24, 2011, 04:41:10 PM »
Gene,
In my case, it was my labor that was not replaced.  My school teacher step-mother preferred bottled milk from the store anyway and no one wanted to run the cream separator and have to clean that thing.  A different way of life had come about and I was out on my own.

Ron

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Spring Calves on The Farm
« on: April 23, 2011, 12:55:13 AM »
It has been many years since I experienced that, Ralph.  When I was growing up, there were always at least two cows on the farm that I milked twice a day.  They each had calves every spring.  The herd never got below two and sometimes was up to six.  Funny thing, when I went off to college, the cow herd left too.  1961.

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John Deere / 810A plow parts
« on: April 23, 2011, 12:38:43 AM »
I am looking for a gauge wheel set-up for an 810A 3-point plow so I can use it on my 60.  If anyone has any idea as to where to locate such an item besides just running across it, I sure would appreciate any leads.  I used to plow with one of these things when I was much younger.  The plow was new.  I didn't like it then, but now I am trying to put one back in service.  Strange when it is my idea and not my dad's I have a different look at it.

Ron
Salix, IA

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Farmall / Farmall 340
« on: May 24, 2010, 10:32:55 PM »
Thanks, Charlie.  I think I will go with a flat charcoal if I can find something that suits me.  I still need to pull the steering wheel to get the panel off.  Not much time getting devoted to this tractor right now.

Ron

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Farmall / Farmall 340
« on: May 23, 2010, 09:40:04 AM »
I have the instrument panel exposed to replace instruments.  I was thinking I may as well take the thing clear apart and paint it while I am at it.  Would someone tell me what color it is supposed to be?  It looks like charcoal originally.  Now it is mostly rust colored.

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Massey in the snow
« on: January 27, 2010, 10:41:07 AM »
I am making my first post.  It has been a real bugger getting this far.  Light snow here this morning in Western Iowa.

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