The Farm & Construction Thread

[Thruth]

Talking to my neighbour Bill today. I said "where are your cows?". His herd of black angus were gone.

"Sold them."

"To who"

"A nice Ukrainian couple who wanted a herd, saw mine and asked if they could look at them"

"Didn't know you were getting out of angus"

"Wasn't but they wanted to look even though i wasn't selling. Liked what they saw so I said make me an offer"

"...and?"

"He wrote down a figure on a piece of paper and pushed it over to me. I was about to say 'you've made a mistake' but I caught myself and instead said I'll take it"

As fxh said, the buyer determined what it was worth to him and that was 3x what my neighbour paid for them 6 years ago.

Everyone is happy.

 

[fxh]

I'm not sure theres a farm thread here - soo - thruth -whats the preferred type of stock up there for real farmers - beef - vealers? Dairy?

 

[Grand Potentate]

Start a farm thread Thruth. I find this shit fascinating. Plus, there are other types of animal fucking that I'm sure your neighbors are engaging in and we can't cover it all in the horse dating thread.

 

[LelandJ]

Cow fuckers?

 

[Zé Ferreira]

Cow fuckers?

 

[Thruth]

Upon request an omnibus farm & country thread for everything. An appropriate place for human animal coitus.

 

[fxh]

I wonder when sarto will wander in?

 

[Thruth]

I'm not sure theres a farm thread here - soo - thruth -whats the preferred type of stock up there for real farmers - beef - vealers? Dairy?

Variety. Fair bit of dairy, lots of beef. Veal less so. A fair bit of niche specialty breeding too. Angus is popular as it is in a lot of places.

Saskatchewan is primarily wheat and pulse crops. Sort of caught in transition from the family farm to huge commercial farms with tens of sections of lands.

 

[Thruth]

Cow fuckers?

Cow fucking is a common rite of passage around here and in many other rural places around North america. Probably more common that horse fucking.

 

[Thruth]

Goat fuckers? I hate goat fuckers?

 

[fxh]

I suppose Angus are used to the cold.

 

[doghouse]

I'm still bummed my grandpa got rid of all his cows and pigs years ago. We used to eat so damn well.

 

[Thruth]

I suppose Angus are used to the cold.

We all adapt

 

[John Lee Pettimore III]

My great-grandparents sold their dairy farm in Pinellas County on a handshake agreement that the purchaser would keep it a dairy farm. In fifteen years it was home to St. Petersburg, FL's first mall. Pinellas County has been the most densely populated county in the Southeast since at least 1970.

Many cattle ranchers in Florida are expecting that the opening up of Cuba will turn out to be very profitable. At one point in time, Tampa's main industry was shipping cattle to Cuba, with cigars trailing behind.

 

[Thruth]

My shit pile in the evening sun.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Thruth why is this in DT? Never realized that before now.

 

[Thruth]

Thruth why is this in DT? Never realized that before now.

Never noticed

 

[Thruth]

Moved it

 

[Sanchopanza]

My shit pile in the evening sun.
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That is the best fertilizer known to mankind.
What kind of tractors do you have? My brother in law has a couple of John Deere, but He thinks that the German Fendt is the best. Unfortunately in Italy they cost €1000/hp!

 

[Thruth]

That is the best fertilizer known to mankind.
What kind of tractors do you have? My brother in law has a couple of John Deere, but He thinks that the German Fendt is the best. Unfortunately in Italy they cost €1000/hp!

John Deere. Fendt's are pretty nice and expensive. They sell them here. Use Deutz engines and i see a lot of old Deutz tractors around here too. I like Kubota but the Kubota dealer pissed me off so i went across the street and bought a Deere

 

[Sanchopanza]

Where are the kubota made?

 

[Thruth]

Where are the kubota made?

The big ones in Japan still but smaller garden ones and other things are made in America and other spots around the world.

 

[fxh]

So thats horseshit mixed with hay? Do you spread it around on the paddocks or do you mulch it up first?

 

[fxh]

testing to see why my browser is jumping around

 

[Thruth]

So thats horseshit mixed with hay? Do you spread it around on the paddocks or do you mulch it up first?

yup shit + straw. use it straight as it is around trees and tilled beds. also do mulch it too. there is some great compost underneath as well. it is a pile of wonders

 

[fxh]

How many acres/hectares you got thruthy?

 

[Thruth]

How many acres/hectares you got thruthy?

only 23 acres

 

[fxh]

More than I have - mine is 1/2 an acre. But it is in the city. Well 12 ks from CBD. 20 mins by train. No horseshit except when I watch the TV news. No horses. No flooded dams and pumps.

 

[Thruth]

Fencing is done. At least that side of the pasture.

Stretch it

Inch and three quarter staples

10 per post x 60 odd posts about 450 feet

My only assistant. Works harder than my Son-in-law and Leitmotif combined

Next is 4 rail to match the other side of the drive, and no I wasn't stoned, just haven't set those posts yet

 

[Grand Potentate]

Cool

 

[Thruth]

More than I have - mine is 1/2 an acre. But it is in the city. Well 12 ks from CBD. 20 mins by train. No horseshit except when I watch the TV news. No horses. No flooded dams and pumps.

But an oasis from the madness

 

[fxh]

Not all that much different from the kind of fence one might build on a ageing hippy's hobby block - small farm here.

I don't see any strainers - what are you straining it from - to?

And we'd usually run a top and bottom plain wire strained and clip the mesh to it.

Oh and we'd have the fence in line and straight not wobbly - but I guess thats a Canadian quirk. heheh

 

[Thruth]

Not all that much different from the kind of fence one might build on a ageing hippy's hobby block - small farm here.

I don't see any strainers - what are you straining it from - to?

And we'd usually run a top and bottom plain wire strained and clip the mesh to it.

Oh and we'd have the fence in line and straight not wobbly - but I guess thats a Canadian quirk. heheh

Interesting method the two wire & clipped mesh. Don't see that here.

Hm, straight fence lines. Don't see that here.

 

[fxh]

you don't do the clipped mesh - mmh - I always thought it was because you can strain the two single wires better

crooked - I suppose the iGent farmer can call it wabi sabi - as those Canadians say

 

[fxh]

See the top wire here

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Strainers etc

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Still this is what many Australians are used to:

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[Thruth]

See the top wire here

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Strainers etc

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Still this is what many Australians are used to:

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you don't do the clipped mesh - mmh - I always thought it was because you can strain the two single wires better

crooked - I suppose the iGent farmer can call it wabi sabi - as those Canadians say

The corners have something similar with the crossbracing to keep the posts & corners square.

 

[Grand Potentate]

I found a video of Thruth on the farm

 

[fxh]

rambo - you shouldn't be posting his private sex tapes.

 

[Thruth]

rambo - you shouldn't be posting his private sex tapes.

Nah, I'm cool with it. BTW, the Forrestry Farm/Zoo had a baby bison born today or so my grandkids told me as they were there today. 30kg little Buffalo.

 

[fxh]

I must say those bison things are pretty bloody cute.