I have twin tractors on the farm. 1948 Case model SC, 4cyl gas, 6 volts. Still use them...
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Ddaddy
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Yeah, but thats comparing apples and oranges. A good quality semi truck cost the same or more than that tractor did back then.
Industrial vehicles meant to haul and make money always cost way more than passenger cars do.
The farmer that rents my land had a 1997 john deere combine up to last year. That thing rarely gave him trouble. Now with the autosteer technology built in, its not for old farmers. The wiring in those machines is something short of the wiring in the space shuttle.
Combines gotta go fast, empty fast and never get stuck.
Think his last good used one he got a couple years ago was $480,000.
Combines gotta go fast, empty fast and never get stuck.
Think his last good used one he got a couple years ago was $480,000.
dukeboy440
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Nice. We have a 1957 model 60, she’ll, occasionally. It’s been rebuilt and has a new carb but we still can’t get it to run right. I think it’s the gas of today. It does ok on premium Rec 90, which is 0 percent ethanol and alcohol free but costs 5 bucks a gallon or more here.
dukeboy440
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Well yes. That would be a better comparison but still, the point stands. Which is that farming hasn’t been cheap for a long long long while it ever in the industrialized era of farming.
dukeboy440
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Yeah, the old Titan IIs of the late 90s were really the last of the old, fully driver input controlled machines. Now most are GPS tracked and driven with little input from the driver once the GPS system is engaged
Ddaddy
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That’s because it’s a big business that requires a lot of heavy equipment to produce enough product to make a profit. Just like any other big business.
Ddaddy
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dukeboy440
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True. In the last 60 years or so. But before the 1940s and early 50s, not really. Back then, 100 acres or more was a large farm. Now, 10,000 acres or more is a large commercial farm. It changed just like everything else. But most don’t think of the sheer cost when coming up on tractors in fields or on the road. When I was selling insurance, one of my neighboring agents had a situation where a client had state minimum insurance, got texting and driving, ran off the road at 50+ and smacked into a 8600 John Deere tractor that was sitting in a corn field several yards back from the highway. destroyed it. Yeah, that’s a couple hundred grand. Can you say lawsuit?
Ddaddy
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Close, same era...but not it.
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Ddaddy
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Okay so you can't like a post twice, but I did! Doing some backreading...this is frickin Outstanding!!!
Good evening all! I have a mouse in the house! Ate or at least nibbled a hole in all the food in our kitchen drawers. I live in an RV, not used to dealing with mice, bought two different kinds of traps 2 days ago, no catchie. Today I bought a sticky type and and eat and go die type. I figured they could be coming in though our power inlet door since it didn't close right. I taped and sealed it. Any suggestions? I'm about to go Caddyshack on them, scares the wife.
I've used a little peanut butter on a 99 cent wooden mouse trap. Worked every time. Happy hunting.
They, mice, cannot resist peanut butter.
My friends folks who used to Airstream swore drier sheets would keep them away. IDK. Must be something on them if it worked.
Personally, I also prefer peanut butter on traditional snap trap. Sometimes I'll just bait the trap for a day or two. Let em get used to it. Then refresh the food and set 'em.
Personally, I also prefer peanut butter on traditional snap trap. Sometimes I'll just bait the trap for a day or two. Let em get used to it. Then refresh the food and set 'em.
I've also used the inside mushy part of a snickers bar. Seems to last forever.
Problem is you use so little of it you just have to eat the leftover.
I agree with the dryer sheets but didn't think about that. I work in telecom and some places where the rats/mice eat the CAT 5 cabling at communications sites, some put dryer sheets to repel rodents. Good suggestion, thanks to all thus far, I don't have much experience with this.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Victor quick kill hammer trap. Works everything time. Just put a little peanut butter in the back of the bait well. It never misses. I have killed dozens with these traps over the years and have 3 going at all times in my garage.
I use to put out the eat and die around the house during the summer. I put it out every night for a month, and every morning it was gone. We live next to a wooded area. Anyway wife read where the owls eat the mice and will get sick and die. So she put it end to that.
In 30 years we've only had two times with a mouse. Usually its a snake coming up a basement drain pipe. Nothing funnier than when the cat brings her a live snake hanging from its mouth...ok I'm not suppose to laugh.
In 30 years we've only had two times with a mouse. Usually its a snake coming up a basement drain pipe. Nothing funnier than when the cat brings her a live snake hanging from its mouth...ok I'm not suppose to laugh.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Also, plug holes and cracks with steel wool. The little buggers can’t stand it and won’t pull it out.
It hurts there gums!
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