What did you do today?

[Achto 27,565]

6 hours ago, Dan.gerous said:

And finally the fruits of our night and days labour - it doesn't look like much but that's roughly what we send away every three weeks, rain hail or shine.

 

 

 

What's the finished weight on your pigs when you ship them?

[Dan.gerous 2,696]

9 hours ago, Achto said:

 

What's the finished weight on your pigs when you ship them?

The little ones I think need to average 7kg then they go away to a fattening unit. any that are below that we hold onto for another three weeks and they go with the next batch. This last bunch were huge, the mother's did a great job.

 

We supply a local butcher with bigger animals but will have to ask my wife what the weight of them is

[WHX?? 48,814]

You would like, or maybe the missus would ,  like Iowa over here Dan. Huge hog farms as far as the eye can see! Far from the ocean too so no going to sea! 

Trouble is many of the hog slaughtering plants were shut down or closed because of the covids. Surprisingly pork prices did not go up. Beef on the other hand!!! 

Most of the folks in Wisconsin here are of German descent  so we do like our pork! 

Edited August 7, 2020 by WHX24

[Dan.gerous 2,696]

42 minutes ago, WHX24 said:

You would like, or maybe the missus would ,  like Iowa over here Dan. Huge hog farms as far as the eye can see! Far from the ocean too so no going to sea! 

Trouble is many of the hog slaughtering plants were shut down or closed because of the covids. Surprisingly pork prices did not go up. Beef on the other hand!!! 

Most of the folks in Wisconsin here are of German descent  so we do like our pork! 

We have often debated moving to the US if a situation that arose where it was possible we would probably do it, have lived all around the world anyway over the years so its not such a big deal

 

Being away from the sea would be nice, I am sick of ships, just do it because it pays the bills until something more interesting comes along - usually I spend 6 years at sea then six years ashore, been a fairly consistent life cycle so far.

[WHX?? 48,814]

11 minutes ago, Dan.gerous said:

am sick of ships, just do it because it pays the bills until something more interesting comes along - usually I spend 6 years at sea then six years ashore,

Exactly why I didn't make the Navy a career! Haze grey and under way got old! 

[Pullstart 62,834]

Spent some time “At sea” last night...  About 5 miles offshore, in 180 ft of water.  We went 6 for 6!  The 27.2 pounder hooked on 140 feet of line and ran out to 645 and held for a good 30 minutes before I could make any good progress.  

[Stormin 9,981]

 That'll feed you for a while.

[squonk 41,067]

On 8/6/2020 at 4:27 AM, ebinmaine said:

 

 

Being of northern European descent myself I find this particularly amusing. However I am lucky enough to have been afflicted with a slightly different syndrome.  Whiteous hairius. 

 

 

 

 

Soon to be followed by another syndrome "Missing Hairius" 

[ebinmaine 67,421]

10 minutes ago, squonk said:

Soon to be followed by another syndrome "Missing Hairius" 

That's happening too brother man. That's why I keep it so short....

[D_Mac 8,607]

Went to have 2 CT Scans today. Get my results next week. Year out from my cancer diagnosis, surgeries, and treatments. Guess i will see whos winning the battle so far. These scans were on my abdomen and chest. I go later for testing on my throat. I feel good but still tense. 

[Achto 27,565]

24 minutes ago, D_Mac said:

Went to have 2 CT Scans today. Get my results next week. Year out from my cancer diagnosis, surgeries, and treatments. Guess i will see whos winning the battle so far. These scans were on my abdomen and chest. I go later for testing on my throat. I feel good but still tense. 

 

Sending prayers for the best. Really hope you make the 5yr all clear mark. This was the mark when my doc's told me that I no longer had to come in for check ups.

[12Horse Paladin 1,038]

@D_Mac...you're still on my prsyer list; hope all goes as needed, friend.

[Achto 27,565]

9 hours ago, pullstart said:

 

Nice chinny Kevin!! Sounds like it put up a good fight. Looks like some choho & a rainbow in the mix too.

[D_Mac 8,607]

@pullstart Get some of those into a smoker. One of my favorite meals. Smoked salmon and some of your fresh veggies out of the garden.

Edited August 8, 2020 by D_Mac

[Mickwhitt 4,615]

Repaired my first fee paying mower today, mountfield with broken cable guide. Gave it a clean and brush up before I returned it and the owner was over the moon.

We will see if there are any more calls but if there are i can handle a few repairs.

Just hope no one calls with a 5 gang cylinder machine for a cricket ground lol.

 

[Dan.gerous 2,696]

On 8/7/2020 at 1:53 PM, WHX24 said:

Exactly why I didn't make the Navy a career! Haze grey and under way got old! 

It's been mostly fun but you get over it after nearly 30 years in the industry. I have owned ships, chartered ships, worked on ships, tried nearly every type of ship from deep sea trawlers to passenger ships. Been all around the world, and drank in the worst pubs in existence!

 

Now I am over traveling, just happy messing about at home 😊

 

 

[Stormin 9,981]

 Spent a few years traveling around myself. Only in this country though. Machinery installation, maintenance and repair. Was interesting but I don't miss it. Just the money.

[Dan.gerous 2,696]

17 minutes ago, Stormin said:

 Spent a few years traveling around myself. Only in this country though. Machinery installation, maintenance and repair. Was interesting but I don't miss it. Just the money.

It's fun, but I found not long after turning forty that the love had gone out of it - I used to freelance so never knew where I would be working next in the world, was happy to take a full-time job finally.

 

I started out in NZ around 1992 on trawlers, said bye to Mum in 1997 as I joined a cargo ship heading over the horizon and never looked  back, only seen her about three times since then.

[Stormin 9,981]

Mowed green and verges. Hoovered the Hyundai out ready for Monday's road trip

Edited August 8, 2020 by Stormin

[Pullstart 62,834]

Back to the house/barn project at my FIL’s place.  In floor heat!

 

 

[Tractorhead 9,064]

Great, but i like to mention you, rework your plan in the red section.

Run firstly along the complete outside, how you planed it on the other rooms.

 

The hot water shall firstly run along the outside walls, to reduce the sweat possibillity along the outside walls.

 

All other looks great to me.

👍

[Pullstart 62,834]

24 minutes ago, Tractorhead said:

Great, but i like to mention you, rework your plan in the red section.

Run firstly along the complete outside, how you planed it on the other rooms.

 

The hot water shall firstly run along the outside walls, to reduce the sweat possibillity along the outside walls.

 

All other looks great to me.

👍

I see what you mean.  I know my MIL wants the bathroom warmer than the bedrooms, but I could zip along the outside first, then bathroom, then bedrooms.

[Pullstart 62,834]

Stefan, here’s my engineering change.  Look better?  

 

 

[Tractorhead 9,064]

It was just a suggest.

😇

[Pullstart 62,834]

Rylee picked us up for a bite of ice cream and some late lunch...

 

 

We same this awesome Studebaker at our local ACE Hardware...

 

 

Then got back to work tying the grid together.