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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: August 09, 2015, 05:47:54 AM »

Nice picture from the car show. Looks like a bright sunny day.

Seems the weather has turned around again. We traded you our rain for your sunshine. Only a couple light showers the past month. Neighbors finally getting caught up on haymaking. Some late planted crops being sprayed and cultivated. Third cutting alfalfa starting to get a good regrowth. Would actually welcome some rain. My soybeans are looking good with pods setting nicely.

Been working on the new shop getting the floor ready for concrete and planning for the walls. Getting ready for the Portland tractor show campground. Have to go a day earlier as the grounds will be opening for camping next Friday instead of Saturday. Seems a Trace Atkins concert was flooded out earlier this summer and been rescheduled for Friday night. All the early campers que up on the fairground and would take up a lot of parking for the concert, so will be bringing them all in early. Just vision 200 campers waiting to cross the street to get a good camping spot as soon as we open the gate. We can actually accommodate about 1400 camping units.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: July 30, 2015, 05:45:45 PM »

July and summer has finally come to Ohio. Last major rain was on Sunday, July 12. A little shower on Monday morning. Weather was ideal for the family reunion last weekend. Temp in mid 80's and lots of sunshine. Good family get together. I took my sweet corn and was a big hit with everyone. Managed to keep the raccoons out of the patch till I had picked enough to feed the family. Disconnected the light and radio when I left on Thursday and by the time I got back Sunday the rascals had found the patch and helped themselves to the later planted rows

Looks like the canola is starting to turn and lose its color. Guess the flax will be right behind it? Crops here are a wide range from good corn and soybeans on higher to non-existent on the lower ground where water is still standing. Many fields never got planted. Been good weather for hay making. I mowed the second cutting last Thursday and raked and baled on Monday after I came home. No problem drying it last week. Had our first 90 degree temps of the year on Tuesday and Thursday.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: July 22, 2015, 07:02:02 AM »

Ralph, glad to hear you are finally getting some rain. Maybe get some hay after all.

Looks like we may finally getting a reprieve from the rain storms. Ground has been totally saturated for last 6 weeks eliminating any chance for field work. No hay being made and unable to get on the fields to do any spraying. All low spots in all fields are drowned out, and some of these ponds are impressive in size. Humidity has been running about 90 to 95 percent, so little drying. Wheat harvest is at a standstill. My second cutting alfalfa came along nicely and should have been cut 2 weeks ago but soggy field is impossible to get unto. My soybeans are doing well in spite of the excess water.

New shop has been built for a couple weeks, but the floor was saturated and could not even walk on it and every rain shower just added to the problem. Finally took the tractor with rear blade and skimmed off the top of the mud and now can finally get started grading the floor and preparing to install the concrete floor.

Family reunion is this weekend and will be heading to Kenton for 3 days with the motor home. Will harvest the sweet corn Thursday and have it at the reunion by mid afternoon. Always look forward to this family gathering.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: July 16, 2015, 06:56:24 AM »

Ralph, I hope the offer is still open to trade weather.Still lots of rain here. We had rain for 3 of the 4 days at the Greenville show. Had a good day on Saturday but more rain Sunday morning. Temps cooler than normal. Have only had 1 day so far in the 80's.

Heavy rain Monday morning caused more flooding with water over running the road tile and flowing across the road. Neighbor was out Tuesday in a kayak in his field by the road. This field never got planted. Other fields in the area were not planted and more with large drowned out spots. No where for the water to go. Wheat harvest was about half done when the rains started again. Combines and straw windrows just sitting in the fields. Finally got started mowing grass yesterday. Maybe could sell it for hay? Plan to finish that today before more rain comes in tonight.

Plain City show is this weekend. I took a tractor over yesterday and will go back on Friday for the day. Tractor parade is in the evening and I always like driving in this parade. Will take my umbrella as they have predicted rain for parade time.

The canola fields are pretty in full bloom. Not any raised here now. A few years ago some tried to get a market developed here but just never went past about 2 years. Was pretty flying over the yellow fields.

Sweet corn looks like it will be ready for the reunion next week. Yesterday I ran electric wire to the patch and set up a couple lights and played a radio there to keep the coons away. Seemed to work last year so doing it again this year. The patch is about 400 feet from the barn so takes a bit of wire to get there.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: July 09, 2015, 11:59:11 AM »

Been raining since I got here. Supposed to clear this afternoon.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: July 06, 2015, 09:31:13 PM »

Weather has finally changed here for the better. Been without rain since last Tuesday. That was a very heavy rain and flooded low areas some more. Ground is saturated, so nowhere for it to go as tiles are running full. Farmers were finally able to get into the fields on Sunday. Some wheat combining started on Saturday. I flew over the area to my northeast and north of me. Some areas completely drowned out and poor crops in all areas. We officially had the wettest month ever in June with over 16 inches of rain. I believe my soybeans look better than any others I saw. I was able to finally get the rest of my soybeans sprayed. Some places were as high as the sprayer booms.

Here is a couple pictures of my new shop building. Builders finished on Wednesday and door company put up the overhead door on Thursday. The heavy rain Tuesday flooded the interior of the building and with the piles of dirt from setting the poles acted as dams so the water could not run off, so all finish work was done tramping in the mud. Been running 2 fans since Thursday trying to dry up the water. Finally making some headway on that.


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Will be attending the Greenville, Ohio show this weekend. Will be taking the LA over tomorrow and the motor home on Wednesday morning. Always enjoy this show and running the sawmill with the big Case.

Gene

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Plowing Pic

« on: June 29, 2015, 02:17:19 PM »

John, the airplane is a 1977 Maule M5-210C. Stol airplane built in Moultrie Georgia. Has a 210 HP fuel injected Continental 6 cylinder engine. Maule Aircraft is a family owned company and has been making similar airplanes since 1965.

We had a good variety of tractors and dozers. Not shown in the pictures is a Cat 60 pulling about a 8 foot drag type disc. He alternated with RD-4 on the disc. I had my Case 900 with 4-16 Case plow. No driver, so was not in the pictures from the air.

Gene

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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Plowing Pic

« on: June 27, 2015, 05:18:43 PM »

If this link works it will be aerial pictures from Land of Legend tractor club in Newark, Ohio. I flew the airplane and our president's wife took the pictures. About 85 tractors and plowed 320 acres in a 2 day weekend. This album is on my profile page.

Gene


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ATIS General Tractor Discussion / Plowing Pic

« on: June 27, 2015, 05:07:40 PM »

Nice picture with a lot of memories. Glad to see your post.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: June 19, 2015, 07:32:39 PM »

Rain, rain and more rain. North western Ohio is totally under water. Have many roads closed due to high water. Has rained almost every day since last Friday. Wednesday had 6 inches from 5:00am to noon. Roads flooded in city of Lima with no highway open into or out of the city. Indian Lake area north of me is totally flooded. Went to Lakeview hardware this afternoon and parking lot for hardware and grocery store was completely under water. Parked in back of store and entered through service door. Had to drive through standing water to get to the back door.

Have some pictures of my front field and water over the road. Lost some more of my new gravel, but still passable.

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Building crew was here on Tuesday to start erecting my new shop, but was too wet to work. Only getting worse each day with more rain. Soybeans need spraying, but no chance of that till water dries up. warm weather has left with a high today of 67 degrees and more morning rain. Wish I could send some to Ralph to help his hay crop. My second cutting is growing very fast and lots of alfalfa. I have a neighbor about 2 miles east of me that i usually make hay off of 5 acres. I cut it last Friday and has rained almost every day since. Our total for this week is near 10 inches, so not likely the hay will be baled.

Haven't heard from Charlie lately. Hope he is doing well in New York.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: June 05, 2015, 09:30:51 AM »

Ralph, I had heard of some of those selling for prices, around $14,000 to $15,000, but $24,000 must be a new record. Had to be at least 2 bidders who wanted badly to take it home.

Rainy spell finally ended on Monday and warming spell made for good hay curing. I had mowed about 2/3 of my field last Tuesday and finally baled it yesterday, Thursday. Got 198 bales of mostly alfalfa that was still in fairly good shape. Mowed the rest of the field on Wednesday and favorably weather may be able to bale it Saturday.

Looking forward to getting the new shop. Will try to not fill it too full to not have room to work. Will still use the old shop for welding and some machine work. Try to keep most of the dirty jobs there.

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Pictures of my Case 700 tractor, Case 200 baler and Case wagon.

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And the sweet corn patch.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: June 02, 2015, 10:20:02 AM »

Dean, you called it right on the rain. Got about 1 1/2 inches from the Saturday afternoon and Sunday rains. Got rained out mowing grass Saturday when I ran out of gas on the airstrip. Had to go to station to get more gas and was caught in heavy rain before I got home. Drove straight out to the mower and put enough gas in it to get back to the barn in the rain. Waited for a lull in the rain and walked out and got the Jeep, all the while soaking wet.

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Got the material today for my new shop. Looks like it will be erected next week looking forward to that.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: May 23, 2015, 05:02:26 AM »

Dean, so glad to hear about the wedding. You are both such great people and deserve the life together. Congratulations to both of you.

I know about the chainsaw chain sharpening. I have always done my own filing and was surprised when I sold a bucket of small scrap with about 10 completely worn out chains. Sure was a lot of filing.

I spent the last 2 days trenching from my old shop to the new shop location to run electric wire and pipe for compressed air for when the new shop is erected. While at it I also ran a telephone wire and coaxial cable from the old shop to eventually have phone and eventually computer access. LP gas line will come later after the building is built. Like Dean the years are telling on my back.

At the Portland swap meet I was able to buy a Pioneer P28 chainsaw for $10.00. Seller had no idea of condition since he had bought it at a yard sale. Took it home and cleaned the spark plug and replaced the old gas. With a few pulls the saw started and ran perfectly. Now have 4 running chainsaws with 3 being Pioneer.

Wapakoneta tractor show is this weekend. I attended on Friday but didn't take a tractor this year. Too much going on this week. Mechanic coming this morning to do annual inspection on the airplane and tonight will attend our high school alumni banquet.

Ralph, hope you can get the crops planted and sprayed. Farmers around here finally got back into the fields on Thursday after last week's rains. Still plenty time to get planted as most are planting soybeans now. Early planted corn is coming along fine even with cooler temps this week. One night with frost scare when temp was down to 37 degrees, but brisk wind prevented any frost.

Hope all have a great weekend.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: May 20, 2015, 09:46:20 AM »

Wow, looks like Ralph is the warm spot this morning. Charlie and I are in the low 40's and Ralph in the 50's.

attended the Tri-State swap meet last week. First 2 days were chilly with night temps in the 40's and electric heater was welcome in the motor home was welcome with day temps in low 60's. Thursday started warming up a little then light rain on Friday morning then to 70's in the afternoon. Saturday was mostly rain, so was pretty much a washout. Got some good buys with a $10.00 Pioneer chain saw and $600.00 Atlas lathe and a few miscellaneous tools.

Got home Saturday evening with 1.3 inches of rain in the gauge. Soybeans had gotten off to a nice start and sweet corn looking good. Grass growing out of control in the lawn. Finally got caught up with the mowing yesterday evening.

Gene

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'round the pot-bellied stove / Western Ohio Update

« on: May 12, 2015, 10:27:45 AM »

Guess I better get caught up here. Weather last week was warm and dry with temps in the 80's through this past Sunday when rain moved in overnight Sunday with about 3/4 inch for a good soaking. I was able to get my ground all worked last week and planted the soybeans on Thursday and Friday. Conditions were good and the ground worked up nice and mellow. Had good moisture in the seed Zone so with this week's rain, should have good germination. Sweet corn is growing and can still a little difference in the corn that was covered.

Weather has turned cold today after yesterday's storms and rain showers. Weather service was reporting severe storms both north and south of us, but they missed us with only a couple light showers. Highs for this week forecast in the 60's and lows in the 40's, so a big drop in the temps. I will be going to Portland, Indiana for the spring swap meet the rest of the week. Can always expect a change in weather for that. I have to go a day early as a director to help people get into the grounds and try to keep things organized.

Apple trees here are full of blooms, so likely be a good crop again this year. Very few apples last year. Cherry tree bloomed a couple weeks ago, but suffered 2 nights of frost, so may have been damaged.

Gene