Round One done
 

"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/5/2014 2:20 PM, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:06:51 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Just finished doing round one of plowing. Still snowing though.

I use the truck for the bulk work and then use the tractor to clean up
once the sun comes out.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n8mcksds1vch8bd/plow1.jpg

I may have to mow the grass.

We are in severe drought so may not have lawn this summer.



I saw some satellite images of the drought stricken areas out there. Not
good. Hope it's not going to become a permanent thing.

We have had 100 year droughts in historical times. The problem is they
want to keep sending all the water to the Cental Valley farms and SoCal.
Heck with the fish and drinking water here. Subsidized water the farmers
are getting for $9 or less an acre foot and reselling for $300-1500 an acre
foot to water districts. And at the same time growing water hungry
subsidized crops in the desert. Since about 2000 they have doubled water
deliveries. With no extra storage.

Round One done
 

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:43:47 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 2/5/2014 1:38 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:16:45 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 2/5/2014 11:37 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:06:51 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

Just finished doing round one of plowing. Still snowing though.

I use the truck for the bulk work and then use the tractor to clean up
once the sun comes out.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n8mcksds1vch8bd/plow1.jpg

Cool. Can you leave those cool lights on the truck without the plow?



Nope. It all comes off with the plow.

The older type plow setups *did* leave the plow frame and lights on the
truck. Only the plow itself came off. However, whatever government
agency in charge of such things mandated that the attachment frame also
has to come off. I think this was about 7 years ago. So now, there is
a receiver mounted under the front bumper (and bolted to the frame) that
the whole thing connects to.


You should put a bunch of lights on top also. And figure out a way to keep the plow lights. Do I see
a couple rifles in the rear window? Good on ya!


If you plow for hire you have to have a flashing yellow top light. I
don't plow for hire. The first year I had the plow I thought about it
because a guy who works for the Public Works Department in the next town
over said I would get $65/hr plowing for the town. They base the rate
on the size of your truck and plow. Thing is, all the "newness" and
"fun" of plowing quickly goes away. Now it's a chore just to do my
driveway.

Actually, I was thinking more along these lines:

http://tinyurl.com/n37go9q

Round One done
 

wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:57:16 -0600, Califbill
wrote:

"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/5/2014 2:20 PM, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:06:51 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

We are in severe drought so may not have lawn this summer.



I saw some satellite images of the drought stricken areas out there. Not
good. Hope it's not going to become a permanent thing.

We have had 100 year droughts in historical times. The problem is they
want to keep sending all the water to the Cental Valley farms and SoCal.
Heck with the fish and drinking water here. Subsidized water the farmers
are getting for $9 or less an acre foot and reselling for $300-1500 an acre
foot to water districts. And at the same time growing water hungry
subsidized crops in the desert. Since about 2000 they have doubled water
deliveries. With no extra storage.

I have been saying for a long time that we are going to run out of
water long before we run out of oil.
We even have water problems here some time, just not right now. My
daughter has a lake where her back yard should be.
(sort of ironic since her hubby is a water manager)

I think we may have water brokers and a national distribution network
some day just to even out that disparity.

I think the next wars will be over water and not oil. Look at the problems
with too many people in arid sections of Africa and the starvation and
wars. As Samuel Clemons stated about Western water. Whisky's for drinking
and waters for fighting.