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Always, always start with spark. Pull a plug wire and VERIFY that you have a bright bluish white spark that will jump a good 3/8" Short or yellowish spark will not do. Requires no tools to check. Only then go on to the other two sides of the triangle required for combustion - air and fuel. Doesn't matter if it is new or old, a 1 cylinder engine, 12 cylinder engine, 2 stroke, 4 stroke, air cooled, water cooled, etc. Start by checking your spark [ATTACH=CONFIG]12079[/ATTACH]

Cooked the last of the steaks tonight. One pound of hamburger left. Is deer hunting coming soon?

Thread today on Tractor Talk Forum. If we hunters don't start doing something about deer populations we are going to lose these good old days of hunting. I HATE DEER!!! - Yesterday's Tractor Co.

This is not the day for veterans. We celebrate the deeds and the sacrifices of our veterans on November 11th. Today is the day we celebrate those who did Not come back. Veterans are those whose names are found on emails and mail boxes and bank accounts, on college transcripts, tractor clubs, hunting licenses, as fathers of brides, on automobile titles, property deeds and church memberships. Today we celebrate, mourn and give thanks to those whose names are only found on tombstones and monuments. Please. Let's not confuse the two.

I built the deck a couple of years ago but never did get the handrails on it. Finally this weekend I got after it and got it done. The chains were the final drive chains on an old dragline I used to have. They've been laying around for years cause I thought they were just too cool to scrap. I finally found a use for them. There'll be NO PAINT on this thing. Ever. Just let it rust. Hmmm It says the files are too large to add. Here's some links to the pics on photobucket http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/Ultradog/Quincy/100_07601.jpg http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/Ultradog/Quincy/100_07581.jpg http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/Ultradog/Quincy/100_07591.jpg

People don't like like to have their thinking challenged. It makes them uncomfortable I guess. In a way I'm reminded of the uproar that occured back in the 60s and 70s when states went to bucks only seasons to get the populations up. People were furious. But now that we have learned the benefits of it we take it in stride and don't complain at all. Or like my grand dad was furious that in 1935 Minnesota first came out with a big game license. He could only shoot 2 deer and one bear and it cost a whole 25¢. That really challenged his thinking and he complained about it till he died in 1968. I know this site is mostly for and about Monster Bucks but I still think there is way too much emphasis on antler size - here and other places that talk about deer hunting. And I also think hunters should start thinking about the effects of deer populations as it affects the rest of the citizens in this country. So I just ask the question: What can hunters do about the over population in so many parts of the country? And shouldn't they at least be talking about it? I don't think the problem will be solved by only shooting monster bucks. And I don't think that speaking about small deer in a derogatory way (dinks) is helpful either. I think that the MB mindset is contributing to the problem, not helping it. But I didn't come here to get into a knockdown, dragout with you. Just voicing my opinion is all. Meanwhile, it's a nice day out and I've got stuff to do outside. Have a good holiday anyway. I hope you can visit with your loved ones in person this weekend and you don't have to go to the cemetary to visit them like so many people have to do. Done now. Jerry

To some extent I think that all this fascination with horns is bad for the sport. Especially if one's quest for big horns causes him to not take a deer that year. I mostly hang out on a couple of tractor forums where farmers and rural folk are the norm. Those rural folk are totally fed up with their state's DNRs because there are too darned many deer. Deer eating up their crops, causing auto accidents, etc, etc. Management of the deer populations has been called a huge success story as populations that were once in the hundreds are now in the many thousands. That is causing big problems for everyone. I am all for a fellow wanting to take a big rack deer. But in some areas I think that idea has gone too far. I can see more and more areas going to an Earn a Buck system - where you must first shoot a doe before you can take a buck. For someone to hold out for a big deer and not shoot one at all that year is completely ignoring the problems deer are causing for non hunters and in a way is kind of selfish. This is probably not a real popular view on this board but one that I think needs to be considered by all deer hunters. All it will take is for some high profile child, or wife of a popular lawmaker to be killed or permanently disfigured in a car/deer collision and the non hunters will team up with the anti hunters snd begin to curtail our sport. Hunters Must shoot a deer every year - or two or three if you can use the meat or our days of plenty, our days of picking and choosing are going to end.

Not bad huh?

A lot of folks around here still use salt blocks. I kind of laugh at that. I say if the deer were to eat all the salt that is put out for them every year they would be venison jerky before you even shot them.

Not a hunting dog per se. Meet George the Rat Terrier. George is a girl. At 14 she's slowing down a bit but still gives chase to anything in the yard. In her day she was a natural born killer. I never had much interest in a little dog but then I did some remodeling for a woman who had a Rat Terrier. When George finally goes to the happy hunting ground I'll probably get another one just like her. She is a great pal. [ATTACH=CONFIG]11958[/ATTACH]

I agree Letm, I drilled in a couple acres of rye a few years ago and had it high as my waist by fall. I let it ripen and then bush hogged it all down and disked it back in. It came up the next year almost as well as the first. Did that for one more year but by then it needed to be plowed and reseeded and i didn't have time to do it. So I just let it go back to hay grass and that's what it is today.

The feral cats are killing off our songbirds at a disheartening rate. If I see a cat on my land I see to it that it doesn't kill any more birds.

Not much action on the fishing board so I thought I'd post this here.

Well, You didn't specify exactly that it had to be for hunting though I've taken a few squirrels, cats and chipmunks with it. A Colt Python w/4" barrel. Plain blue. I'd probably let a few long guns go before I'd let that one go. Especially as I live here in the city.

Well, I went up to my land on Wednesday and did some spring plowing. I've been plowing the gardens for a few of my cousins and a neighbor up there for 10 or 11 years now. I also turned over a new plot out by the lake that I've wanted to try for a few years now but just never did. Then I disced the gardens. I didn't disc the new plot though. I need to pic about a ton of rocks out of there before discing and then pick more rocks. Ugh. A couple of them appear to weigh about 200 lbs. The new plot by the lake will have to get hunted with a shotgun as it's too close in for rifle. Might be an excuse to set the old single shot 16ga Stevens aside for a new/used Mossberg or something For seed i just go to the local feed/seed store and buy their local Big Rack mix. A few $ and a few hours of tractor work sure pays off in the fall. This plot is only about 200' X 200' but even that is enough of a tasty treat for them that it sets a pattern to their browsing/feeding that they follow right up till the snow covers everything. Meanwhile, may your plots grow as fast as your hopes for 'the big one" are.

I need to redo two of my plots this year. I generally get 2 maybe 3 years out of a planting. I'm in to tractors so have all the tools - plow, disc, etc. Some time in the seat of my tractor is almost as much fun as time in the deerstand. I wish I had a cultipacker though. Been thinking about making one out of a piece of culvert filled with concrete. A friend of mine uses one and gets much better germination rate with a cultipacker than I do dragging an old bed spring over the seed.

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I've said this before but it bears repeating. Using a 4 wheeler to do tillage is a good way to wear out a rather expensive machine. Far better is to buy an old farm tractor like an Allis Chalmers model B, C or WD45 or even a Ford 8N to do that kind of work. Those old tractors were designed to do plowing and discing for thousands and thousands of hours with no ill effects. Tractors are cheap now due to the economy so you could buy an old bruiser for around $1K, use it for 10 years and resell it for at least what you paid for it. [ATTACH=CONFIG]11796[/ATTACH]

Thanks for posting this. Shiloh was the battle that really put General Grant in Lincoln's favor. There were lots and lots of calls for Grant's dismissal after Shiloh but Lincoln made the comment which later became famous; "I can't spare General Grant. He fights!" I reread Grant's memoirs this winter. If you want a good history of the war - from his perspective - I recommend it. Though my own historical focus is on the WWII war in the Pacific, I've always enjoyed reading about the Civil War too. By the way, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and his men had their B25s loaded onto the USS hornet on April 1st and are now on their way west to bomb Tokyo on April 18th. One of the most daring raids of the war happened 70 years ago about this time.[ATTACH=CONFIG]11795[/ATTACH]

Driving my tractors - plowing up deer plots, mowing, bush hogging, stc.

I hope you don't have any close neighbors. Beagles are one of the barkingest breeds there is. And their voice carries a loooong way.

This was on another forum. "Companies like Buck Knives in Idaho are recognizing the true marketing potential of a stamp that reads “Made in U.S.A.” The company, which had outsourced about 30% of its knife production to Chinese manufacturers, recently returned production to North Falls, Idaho, where the company was founded in 1902. “Hunters are rednecks, and they don’t like anything with that C word on it,” Chuck Buck, the company’s chairman, told The Idaho Statesman."

I'm in to older Ford Tractors - have 4 of them now though 2 will be for sale this spring. But if I didn't have these I would look for an old pull behind disc harrow. Hook it up behind a 4x4 PU or jeep, etc. Add some weight to it and it would do enough ground engagement to get some seed to take hold. Some folks use their 4 wheelers for tillage. But I never thought much of that idea as you can wear them out fairly quickly pulling hard with them in low range. It really is tough to beat an old tractor though. You take something like an old Allis Chalmers or Farmall that you can get a decent running tractor for $1200, use it for 10 years and then sell it and get your money back. Just don't get in to the restoration thing on an old tractor. Buy like a Allis Chalmers WD-45 for $1500, spend $3500 restoring it and it will be worth $2000 when you are done. Not good. [ATTACH=CONFIG]11706[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]11707[/ATTACH]

US Navy, La Maddelena, Sardinia. 1973 Isolated duty. Living like dogs. Laying in the dirt drinking Carlings Black Label beer HOT right off the shipping pallet. We were Big, Black, Bad, Long, Super, Tough, Mean and a couple of other Dogs. I was Ultra. I'm still in touch with a few of those guys - get a call a couple of times a year and we catch up on things.

Interesting. 67 views and no replys. I wonder. Do people not care? Or are they glad this happened to her? Or do they not know who Giffords is? Oh well. I posted it because I was touched by it. Tha's all.