Greetings from the Redneck!

[billybob_81067]

HI GUYS!!!!

[skife]

Hay!

[maniacmechanic]

no no no that should be ; Hay yau'll

[maxama10]

hey!

[Sundown]

haha nice pic

[MoeMag]

Ooooooo.

Fresh cut... thats nitromethane in my world.

[Army]

Technically, alfalfa, but.....

....what the hay

[behemoth]

Go back to where ya come from!

[billybob_81067]

Go back to where ya come from!

Funny thing is, I've never left where I came from!

My mom just happened to have her camera with her when she came by to see how things were going. That's the first pic I've ever gotten in the past 5 years of me on top of a semi I just loaded, and believe me I've loaded plenty.

Got another one to load tomorrow morning...

[maxama10]

So whats been going on? You build anything new or what?

[billybob_81067]

Not a whole lot going on really... selling tons (literally!) of hay, and working on other farm related stuff. Fixing fence around the fields so we can turn the cattle out on pasture, sorting off the bigger calves to work them and wean them, splitting firewood.

In the "storage" side of our shop we're digging up the dirt floor and getting ready to pour it all in concrete. That's going to be a nice 50'x65' slab of concrete! We were just going to do half of it, but decided we might as well do the whole thing. We've got a 2 post bendpak lift that we're going to put in there and that's what prompted the whole thing.

Let's see, the last things I built were my mailbox post and a 9 pack bale grabber, but that's been awhile back. We're putting a freshened up 390 in a F-600 service truck that is in the shop right now. Got the engine bolted up to the transmission tonight and then ran out of time and had to go feed the kids. Damn kids!

I'm getting ready to take a trip up to Fort Collins, CO here in a week or two. Got a highschool buddy up there that's been begging me to come visit him for the past 4 years, so I figured I'd better do it. I'm talking with a guy on Pirate4x4 that's got a few sets of 2.5 ton rockwells for sale in Longmont, so I'll probably take a car trailer with me on my trip up there.

Things have definately been busy!

How's everything going for you?

Edit: Oh and I have the local firearms dealer looking for a Mossberg 50579 Shotgun for me... hopefully she can find one!

[maxama10]

Things are good, and getting better.

I've been taking an online math class, stuff has been sucking up all my time but I finished my final yesterday so whew!

In school we are working on an 89 F-150, the engine was shot so we pulled one out of a newer year and dropped that in and been trying to get the wiring finished forever but my friend, whom the truck belongs to, doesn't have much interest. We made it run though!

My dad bought a Taurus P1911 a month or two ago, so last weekend we went out and shot about 50 rounds out of that and he finally shot my .308 savage I bought a while back.

I also finally wired up the rocker switches I bought for my 4 hella 500 lights I mounted to the front of my truck, but only after I fried a 50amp 5$ fuse

Not terribly exciting but thats about all I've done recently.

Lift, sounds cool!

Rockwells! Ugh oh, here comes the start of a serious build!

Keep us posted.

[billybob_81067]

Rockwells! Ugh oh, here comes the start of a serious build!

Yeah I got tired of looking for a dana 60 frontend around here! They are virtually non-existant, and if you do find one it's 1000-1200. The guy I'm getting the rockwells from has them priced at 1200 for a set, so it's pretty easy to see what I'm gonna do! He said he'd do a deal on more than one set too, so another guy on Pirate and I are going in on 2 sets, and maybe 3 if the price is right.

If I can get everything lined out for this trip it will be awesome. I've got a DewEze round bale hauling flatbed, Rockwell axles, 1600 T-posts, and 80 1/4mile rolls of barb wire to pick up. I'll be taking my dad's powerstroke and our 30ft gooseneck and it'll be pretty much loaded down with all that stuff!

[TeamBob]

hey

how many bales yall do in a year? how many acres ya got?

[billybob_81067]

how many bales yall do in a year? how many acres ya got?

Heck, I think the last time we actually figured up how many small bales we put up in a year it was around 40,000. We've got about 325-350 acres of our farm in grass and alfalfa.

Our tonnage in this area was way down this year, but the quality was up, so it pretty much balanced out. We got a lot of late freezes in the spring that kept first cutting from getting huge like it usually does, so there wasn't a bunch of it, but it was really fine-stemmed and leafy.