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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Pig feeder was empty so had to fire up the tractor to make feed. I had the tank heater plugged in all night but the batteries were just too old to start it. So after a couple new batteries she fired up and ran good. These are not good starters when it's cold but with the rebuilt heads and good batteries it started. They also don't flow fuel well since they are just gravity fed, but with some number one fuel and Howes in the tank she ran fine.


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Has to clean the hog pen too as I was a couple weeks behind because of the engine troubles I had with the skid loader. It started and ran fine but took a long time to warm the oil enough to work good.


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Looks like by mid week the cold will be over. I'll be glad when that's done.
 
This is one of those days the silo unloader would jump a cog, the barn cleaner would jump a chain, and the spreader would bust an apron. Oh, I forgot the waterer.
 
Been there and done all that. I quit milking in the fall of 13. No way was I doing one more winter with wore out unloaders, worn out barn cleaner and a box spreader. Tom
 
i have battery charger/ maintainers on most all my machines. keeps the batteries up and easier to start in cold weather. home depot has some nice ones in the 20 to 40 dollar range. on the small machines like lawn tractors and such, the 6 dollar maintainers from rural king do the job after the batteries are fully charged.
 
I am almost afraid to comment and jinx myself, as everything went fine this morning. I do find that the skid steer bucket is getting smaller every day . A little more manure freezes inside the bucket, but hey, February is half over now, and things should start to warm up right !!??!!
 
We stayed about 10 degrees "warmer" (LOL), in the tropical part of the state.

Sub-zero makes everything a mite less fun.
 
I remember those days back home. By the time I was old enough most of that stuff was getting worn out. Chopped a lot of frozen silage from silo walls and frozen manure from manure spreader and barn cleaner chute.
 
My niece and her family live in Victoria, Texas. She sent some pictures of her husband and her 4 and 5 year old sons getting dressed to go outside this morning. I told her to enjoy the tropics, because in Minot, ND, the actual temperature was -20 with a windchill of -60. She sent back an LOL. Why would she do that? She and her family lived in Minot a couple years ago!
 
Don't remember having that much trouble, my pitch fork worked every time. I do remember enjoying the heat rising from the silage and wearing my legs out walking, tossing forks full of manure out of the loafing shed. LOL
 
and milk would be froze up so you would be take wash bucket to get receiver jar thawed out so you could milk the cows
 
glennster

One of the best moves I ever made was putting a permanently mounted float charger/maintainer on my has-to-start-to-feed-hay 398 Massey. Plug it in when I park it every time.
Never a slow battery in the winter since I did that.
 
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