DUmmies Discuss Banning Dust On Farms

[Rebel]

I have an idea! Let's ban dirt! I hear crops grow just as well out of concrete. 

[diesel driver]

Daddy made a gadget like the vet had....and I was pulling calves at age 10 or 12. ....puking the whole time tho. Nothing like trying to eat breakfast after being shoulder deep in a cows ass.

Been there, done that!

The worst was pulling a dead calf from a heifer that had jumped the fence and disappeared for 2-3 days.
I was about 12 at the time, and to make a long story short, we used a block and tackle and OB chains, and literally pulled the calf out in pieces....4 to be precise....

[Rebel]

Daddy made a gadget like the vet had....and I was pulling calves at age 10 or 12. ....puking the whole time tho. Nothing like trying to eat breakfast after being shoulder deep in a cows ass.

What kind of experimental cows are you guys growing that you can pull a calf out of it's ass?

[DumbAss Tanker]

tularetom  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-14-09 11:14 PM
Response to Reply #3
9. Sometimes farmers need to be told what to do for their own good

Yeah, look how great that turned out in the former Soviet Union, North Korea, and Zimbabwe, for instance.

 

[diesel driver]

I don't see a problem with eliminating the dust. They just need another vehicle going behind the "working" vehicle with a big water tank and a sprayer on it. [/dumode]

I used to hate helping to bale hay.

Ever ride on a "sacker" combine?  Instead of a grain tank, 2 people would sit on a bench, and place sacks on a diverter.  When one got full, you'd switch to the other sack, tie off the full one, and place it on a tilting table.  When the table got full, you dumped it out in the field, and go back later with a truck and a loader tractor and take them to the barn.

My uncle had one of those combines, and from age 9 til I was about 13, I would be the one that put the empty sacks on and flip the diverter from the full sack to the empty one.  My dad would tie the full sacks and place them on the table.  I don't care which direction you were traveling in a field, but the breeze would ALWAYS be blowing from the combine straight into your face!  I believe that if you did a complete 360 degree circle in the field, the wind would still blow right into your face.  I may have started the day as a "white boy", but by evening, I looked like a coal miner from all the dust and chafe....

As soon as I was able, I volunteered to bale straw rather than ride that combine....

[dutch508]

What kind of experimental cows are you guys growing that you can pull a calf out of it's ass?

them thar rebels aint all that smart...

[diesel driver]

Let me dissect this stupidity point by point....

tularetom  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-14-09 11:14 PM
Response to Reply #3
9. Sometimes farmers need to be told what to do for their own good

Why?  And by whom?  YOU?  I'll trust a farmer with years of experience over ANYONE, mainly because he's been there, done that....

...like the guys who planted the same crops year after year after year until they leached all the nitrogen and phosphorus out of the soil.

What about Potash (and I'm not talking about what's leftover after you smoke a joint.)  Potash is the short name for potassium carbinate.  It's the third number on the fertilizer bag, the first is nitrogen, second is phosphorus, the third is potash. (ex. 10-10-10 fertilizer has 10% of each nutrient per pound.  In order to get 100 pounds of nutrients per acre, you would have to apply 1000 pounds of 10-10-10 fertilizer per acre to do it....)

DUmbass doesn't even mention calcium, manganese, iron, selenium, and other trace minerals necessary for proper plant growth. 

And the guys who didn't practice contour planting and watched their hillsides erode away from wind and water.

Where to start with this.  With the price of land and the availability of good tillable land both being at a premium, there is not a farmer alive that is going to piss away this valuable asset. 
THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN!  PERIOD!  This DUmbass doesn't have the slightest idea what the hell he's talking about.  He probably thinks the farmer is sitting around on this huge pile of cash, paying Mexicans 25 cents a day to harvest his crops while he looks for more land to "ruin".  The "farmer" this DUmmie is referencing DOES NOT EXIST!

Yep farmers always know better than them pointy headed intellectuals workin for the guvmint.

EVERYBODY knows better than "them pointy headed intellectuals workin for the guvmint", especially the farmers....

Farmers are the best in the world at shitting in their own food dish.

Name one, jerkoff!

And before somebody gets in my face I was a farm kid and I still live on 40 acres of dry pasture out here.

  BULLSHIT!   

[franksolich]

Where does the tularetom primitive, the primitive who made a killing in real-estate during the "lousy" Bush economy, get the idea that 40 acres is a lot of land, practically a farm?

[Chris_]

Ever ride on a "sacker" combine?  Instead of a grain tank, 2 people would sit on a bench, and place sacks on a diverter.  When one got full, you'd switch to the other sack, tie off the full one, and place it on a tilting table.  When the table got full, you dumped it out in the field, and go back later with a truck and a loader tractor and take them to the barn.

My uncle had one of those combines, and from age 9 til I was about 13, I would be the one that put the empty sacks on and flip the diverter from the full sack to the empty one.  My dad would tie the full sacks and place them on the table.  I don't care which direction you were traveling in a field, but the breeze would ALWAYS be blowing from the combine straight into your face!  I believe that if you did a complete 360 degree circle in the field, the wind would still blow right into your face.  I may have started the day as a "white boy", but by evening, I looked like a coal miner from all the dust and chafe....

As soon as I was able, I volunteered to bale straw rather than ride that combine....

You are dating yourself.......the technology has changed a bit........but there is really no way (depending on the crop being harvested) that the dust is going to be eliminated without injecting copious amounts of water into the grain separation process, and the entire idea of harvesting the grain is to do so in a manner that minimizes the moisture content........it just ain't gonna happen unless you enclose the entire machine in a huge moving enclosure with fans and filters.........

doc

[dutch508]

Where does the tularetom primitive, the primitive who made a killing in real-estate during the "lousy" Bush economy, get the idea that 40 acres is a lot of land, practically a farm?

prob'ly from the idea of 40 acres and a mule is a good idea for the coloured folks.

[Chris_]

Where does the tularetom primitive, the primitive who made a killing in real-estate during the "lousy" Bush economy, get the idea that 40 acres is a lot of land, practically a farm?

Forty acres wouldn't make a decent "truck garden" in this part of the country, and I've been in the Nebraska sandhills........farms where you are, are measured in "sections" not acres.........

doc

[franksolich]

prob'ly from the idea of 40 acres and a mule is a good idea for the coloured folks.

I considered that a possibility.

Whatever land it is, though, the tularetom primitive has some prime lakefront acreage out there in California.....gotten during the "lousy" Bush economy of so very long ago.

[dutch508]

Forty acres wouldn't make a decent "truck garden" in this part of the country, and I've been in the Nebraska sandhills........farms where you are, are measured in "sections" not acres.........

doc

take alook at the pictures from my ranch out in western nebraska. the nearest town is 30 miles away.

www.maciraq.blogspot.com

I own 2400 arces as part of the family's ranch holdings.

[franksolich]

take alook at the pictures from my ranch out in western nebraska. the nearest town is 30 miles away.

www.maciraq.blogspot.com

I own 2400 arces as part of the family's ranch holdings.

Great photographs, sir.

But why are you wearing a skirt in the first one?

[diesel driver]

You are dating yourself.......the technology has changed a bit........but there is really no way (depending on the crop being harvested) that the dust is going to be eliminated without injecting copious amounts of water into the grain separation process, and the entire idea of harvesting the grain is to do so in a manner that minimizes the moisture content........it just ain't gonna happen unless you enclose the entire machine in a huge moving enclosure with fans and filters.........

doc

Oh, I know that.  The combine I talked about was my uncle's.

My dad and I did a lot of custom combining back in the 70's and 80's with a self-propelled IH 715 combine.  If you were doing small grains, you could not start until the dew was off and the plant was completely dry.  The only thing damp straw would do is wrap the cylinder and stop up the straw walkers and shieves....

Corn didn't have this problem, since the header snaps the ears off and leaves the majority of the stalks in the field....

[dutch508]

Great photographs, sir.

But why are you wearing a skirt in the first one?

that is the McLeod tartan, from my father's maternal side of the family the McAuleys. It was my birthday and I felt like being difficult.

plus- it annoys the wife.

[Ree]

Just imagine the first time they had to birth a calf! Or even a kitten for that matter! Hahahahahahaha!

I'd love to see one of the DUmmies with their arm up to the shoulder in a cow....Give em some straps and a come along....LMAO

[franksolich]

that is the McLeod tartan, from my father's maternal side of the family the McAuleys. It was my birthday and I felt like being difficult.

plus- it annoys the wife.

Actually, the intent of my comment was to draw traffic to your most-excellent site.

Really, people, it's good.

[Chris_]

take alook at the pictures from my ranch out in western nebraska. the nearest town is 30 miles away.

www.maciraq.blogspot.com

I own 2400 arces as part of the family's ranch holdings.

Gorgeous spot........when my wife and I drive through the area we are always impressed with all of the windmills for stock watering.......they have all but disappeared here in MO, but we mostly grain farm in our area.

We only till 880 acres, but it also has been in the family for about 150 years.......nearest town is only 15 miles, but our population density is somewhat higher than the sandhills.

BTY,....love the kilt......

doc

[dutch508]

Actually, the intent of my comment was to draw traffic to your most-excellent site.

Really, people, it's good.

I wrote alot while I was in iraq, from notification of deployment to return to the US. I would recommend it if you want to get a feeling of what I was feeling during combat.

(not to pat myself on the back, but I think I am funny).

[diesel driver]

I'd love to see one of the DUmmies with their arm up to the shoulder in a cow....Give em some straps and a come along....LMAO

I prefer the stainless steel OB chains myself....

[Ree]

I prefer the stainless steel OB chains myself....

We just used these black straps....I just love pullin a 120lb calf outta a 1st calf heifer...NOT

[Chris_]

Corn didn't have this problem, since the header snaps the ears off and leaves the majority of the stalks in the field....

With the older corn heads this is true......but we do no-till, so our corn head chops the stalks up before returning them to the field, which generates a lot of dust as well.  Not as much as combining beans, but depending on how dry the ground is, a hell of a lot of dust anyway...

doc

[dandi]

Ya gots to be kiddin'! SAVE THE WORMS???? Bwahahahahahahaha!

Well, there is a certain kinship between DUmbasses and earthworms. They're both slimy, hate sunlight, hide under ground, and copulate with themselves frequently.

[diesel driver]

With the older corn heads this is true......but we do no-till, so our corn head chops the stalks up before returning them to the field, which generates a lot of dust as well.  Not as much as combining beans, but depending on how dry the ground is, a hell of a lot of dust anyway...

doc

Most of the farmers we did corn for followed the combine thru the field with a bush hog, then raked and round-baled the stalks to feed over the winter.

Never did any beans, mostly corn, wheat, oats, buckwheat, and lot and lots of rye....

Our poor ol' Binder had over 6,500 hours on it, with 4,000 on the thresher, before it finally gave up.  It's engine chunked the #6 con rod thru the block....