Thread: Wet Day

Greetings,
Great. Another70 mm of rain over night to go with the 50 over the previous three days. Still drizzling and everything is sodden. No chance to do the zeroing and chronographing that is holding several projects up. Plus the road to town and everywhere else is flooded. Looks like being a long day. Still after a cup of coffee out to the shed. Something will stand out that needs doing.
GPM.

Our roads been closed since yesterday with flood water, now a slip, cant get out one side of farm our concrete bridge is a good meter under water. lost our power couple times last night, very brief. Gale winds last night.
lucky the rain has eased main river dropping.

Overcast and cooler here after a run of 30C+ days since well before Christmas.

A threat of drizzle right now.

Granpamac -I get out the boiled linseed and do everything with a wooden handle -makes them last a bit longer

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

Granpamac -I get out the boiled linseed and do everything with a wooden handle -makes them last a bit longer

Now there is an idea. I have a shed full of things with wooden handles but no linseed oil and no way to get to town to get some. Tomorrow perhaps.

Belay that. A quick hunt in the shed produced this. Joy
GPM

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Now there is an idea. I have a shed full of things with wooden handles but no linseed oil and no way to get to town to get some. Tomorrow perhaps.

well I am enjoying a few more days of - sat will be back on tractor and it will be mad - likely 15hr days for awhile -only good part is likely some hay to do- dont really enjoy the early season sticky silage especially the stuff the client has mowed with some old fashioned mower with no conditioners

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

well I am enjoying a few more days of - sat will be back on tractor and it will be mad - likely 15hr days for awhile -only good part is likely some hay to do- dont really enjoy the early season sticky silage especially the stuff the client has mowed with some old fashioned mower with no conditioners

I think I can remember that bottle in the shed at White Street in the late 1950s

Been unseasonably cold here in the CNI. Had the log burner running yesterday avo with all the crap weather flying about. Ended up putting the cast iron camp oven on top of the fire and pumping out some sultana scones....Mmmmmmm!

Our silage was put off almost a month due to 21 days in a row with some sort of dampness involved. Eventually cut and baled second to last day of the year. Expected just over a hundred bales...got 250

Has the silage wrap changed this season??? Never had multiple metres of the wrap unfolding as you cart them over to the stack

And now trying to get out and spray dock, thistles and blackberry. Suns out so prep everything...10 minutes later its pissing down again

Originally Posted by XR500

Been unseasonably cold here in the CNI. Had the log burner running yesterday avo with all the crap weather flying about. Ended up putting the cast iron camp oven on top of the fire and pumping out some sultana scones....Mmmmmmm!

Our silage was put off almost a month due to 21 days in a row with some sort of dampness involved. Eventually cut and baled second to last day of the year. Expected just over a hundred bales...got 250

Has the silage wrap changed this season??? Never had multiple metres of the wrap unfolding as you cart them over to the stack

And now trying to get out and spray dock, thistles and blackberry. Suns out so prep everything...10 minutes later its pissing down again

just normal green wrap ?? no- have not noticed anything like that - I wonder if baler driver had problems with wrapper tension or the knife blades - didnt notice him getting to attend to wrapper a lot ??-

Just spent 4 days wandering around in the clagg on the tops of the Kaweka's. Couldn't see from one snow pole to the next ........ and vowed on my way down to stay low for the next trip 2 days later.
So long story short, I'm just out from 4 wet days in a lower river valley catchment with water running out the bottom of my shorts. And river crossings were..... well, an exercise in testing experience
Cant win this summer

Used the last of my ancient "tin" of boiled linseed oil a few weeks ago. So bought some more. Tins are long ago out of fashion it seems
At $20, plastic must be more expensive than tin

At my last job the company owned and bottled Andrew chemicals. Just in case anyone doesn't know if it's on a rag and bundled up in a pile it can spontaneously combust.

Make sure you keep any rags separate from your house and shed to save losing everything.

https://fireandemergency.nz/assets/D...inseed-Oil.pdf

I just melted down 14kg of lead roof flashing into 2 dozen ingots

Yes..... that's correct RUMPY

Originally Posted by RUMPY

At my last job the company owned and bottled Andrew chemicals. Just in case anyone doesn't know if it's on a rag and bundled up in a pile it can spontaneously combust.

Make sure you keep any rags separate from your house and shed to save losing everything.

https://fireandemergency.nz/assets/D...inseed-Oil.pdf

Greetings,
Yes I was aware of that. The rag I used is spread out on the very wet ground. I did wonder while i was applying the oil how many knew of the danger.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

just normal green wrap ?? no- have not noticed anything like that - I wonder if baler driver had problems with wrapper tension or the knife blades - didnt notice him getting to attend to wrapper a lot ??-

White stuff.

...and I'm not sure if we'll use them again. Have most 10-12 bale equivalents, some 8 bale equivalents and some monster 15 bale equivalents you could feed a family of 8 around. Tractor certainly felt them. Won't be able to sell them as two wide would make the load 3.1m wide

Was also holing a lot of bales, so took his stander upperer off and that stopped. But means I have had to do an awful lot more work picking the buggers up...especially the soft ones