OSA Chit Chat Thread

[NightShade]

Have fun with it, answer the call and play along. Waste the scammers time, eventually they will just give up and quit calling. Right now it's just a computer dialing you, it costs them money but it will continue to try. When you actually have someone on the line it costs them a lot more.

 

[DRC458]

Have fun with it, answer the call and play along. Waste the scammers time, eventually they will just give up and quit calling. Right now it's just a computer dialing you, it costs them money but it will continue to try. When you actually have someone on the line it costs them a lot more.

Might have to try that. But, I don't know what to tell myself that I don't already know. Maybe I can ask me questions and solve some of the great mysteries of life! Or, maybe I can tell me the winning Power Ball numbers! Or, maybe I should just tell myself to get a life!

 

[Free Trapper]

 

[Timmy59]

OOPS, Well the flooding that hurt the wheat and planting is long gone, around here the earth is about concrete.. Put in 39 T posts, had to pre treat most spots with water.. Measured out the spot and twirled the T post like a fork in spaghetti to form a hole and watered and waited some.. NO WAY I was using the manual T post pounder, not with a tractor.. A few, very few pushed in and most had to be hammered with the bucket.. This is one that I thought was going to be pushed in, LOL, thought wrong... Even T posts have lost weight and no longer are made like they use to..

 

[Glock 40]

Shoot Timmy, I thought you were just trying to keep the post in line with your string.

 

[NightShade]

Since you have a tractor you may as well make up a post setter. A piece of tube and a cylinder that the ram will just slide inside the tube. Cylinder needs to extend as long as you want to set the post deep so probably at least a two foot stroke. Attach the cylinder to the tube and a foot onto the ram so that you don't destroy it. Make a pair of clamps so it can attach solidly to the bucket and run lines to the ports. Load in a post then set the bucket down and hit the hydraulics. Since there will be little space for it to bend it will either go or blow a line.

With a 2.25 inch piece of pipe the cylinder that will fit it you are looking at a 4 inch bore and 30 inch stroke so able to push right about 30,000lbs. If the ground is that hard you probably need some anfo to drive the post.

 

[TerryMiller]

OOPS, Well the flooding that hurt the wheat and planting is long gone, around here the earth is about concrete.. Put in 39 T posts, had to pre treat most spots with water.. Measured out the spot and twirled the T post like a fork in spaghetti to form a hole and watered and waited some.. NO WAY I was using the manual T post pounder, not with a tractor.. A few, very few pushed in and most had to be hammered with the bucket.. This is one that I thought was going to be pushed in, LOL, thought wrong... Even T posts have lost weight and no longer are made like they use to..View attachment 140219

I remember a T-post like that. Driving a small RV in Colorado, we lost the duals on one side of the RV. One of those tires hit a T-post and it looked just like that.

 

[Timmy59]

Since you have a tractor you may as well make up a post setter. A piece of tube and a cylinder that the ram will just slide inside the tube. Cylinder needs to extend as long as you want to set the post deep so probably at least a two foot stroke. Attach the cylinder to the tube and a foot onto the ram so that you don't destroy it. Make a pair of clamps so it can attach solidly to the bucket and run lines to the ports. Load in a post then set the bucket down and hit the hydraulics. Since there will be little space for it to bend it will either go or blow a line.

With a 2.25 inch piece of pipe the cylinder that will fit it you are looking at a 4 inch bore and 30 inch stroke so able to push right about 30,000lbs. If the ground is that hard you probably need some anfo to drive the post.

If I had more to do than what I have I might venture into that, But I honestly shouldn't have had the front wheels off the ground.. It was my eagerness that did that, lesson learned..

 

[Timmy59]

Shoot Timmy, I thought you were just trying to keep the post in line with your string.

LOL, You want a string joke..
3 strings go to a bar 1 evening, they grab a booth and 1 goes to the bar and says hey barkeep gimme 3 beers.. The barkeep says I don't serve strings here.. He sits back down and #2 gives it a try, Barkeeps says I just said I don't serve your kind here.. Well #3 gets up, goes outside and ties himself into a knot and frays his top.. Comes back inside and says hey barkeep gimme 3 beers, barkeep says aren't you one of them strings ? Nope, I'm afrayedknot...

 

[Timmy59]

Stretching and installing OK brand sheep and goat fence, 330 ft rolls.. It's a task by yourself, 3:30 and my butt has been handed to me.. I got 1 run done, I'll guesstimate 180-200 ft... Breaktime, then I'll start another of about the same and I'll start with a fresh roll as I'd bet what's left would have to be spliced where I don't want to splice..