Post a picture of your latest purchase

[HBARleatherneck]

This latest purchase wasnt cool like all of the things you guys post. It is very needed and VERY expensive. This is what $20,000 worth of seed in bags looks like. 5500# worth. The Ram has no problem with it. 400 acres worth of various grasses. It will be in the neighborhood of $12-16,000 to plant it (with grass drill rental) I already spent about $12,000 spraying out the weeds. All of this and ZERO guarantee it will even come up. Sucks.

[Bailey Guns]

2nd mortgage finally got approved...

[Bailey Guns]

This latest purchase wasnt cool like all of the things you guys post. It is very needed and VERY expensive. This is what $20,000 worth of seed in bags looks like. 5500# worth. The Ram has no problem with it. 400 acres worth of various grasses. It will be in the neighborhood of $12-16,000 to plant it (with grass drill rental) I already spent about $12,000 spraying out the weeds. All of this and ZERO guarantee it will even come up. Sucks.

We're getting into the hay business. Not big time...just on our little place. But we have 8 acres that produced right at 50 large round bales last year. We didn't fertilize or anything. I just took soil samples to the OSU ag extension office in Ada so they can formulate a fertilizer mix...pretty neat program for $10. We have a line on a Deere mechanical square baler for a good price thru my wife's family. But finding something to cut and rake on the used market it really tough...and even used stuff is expensive. I had no idea how expensive it is to run even a very small farm. Quite an experience...but I'm enjoying it.

[HBARleatherneck]

=Bailey Guns;2385246 But we have 8 acres that produced right at 50 large round bales last year. We didn't fertilize or anything.

I wish land here had that kind of productivity. That's great.

[encorehunter]

https://cosprings.craigslist.org/grd...593745061.html

I keep an eye on Craiglslist for hay equipment. Sometimes stuff pops up for good prices. Be ready to work on the older stuff.

[buffalobo]

Stock for Steel Challenge season with grandson.

Ran some I already had thru the 22/45, mags fed like they should and my old Stds love it.



If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

[TEAMRICO]

That’s some good stuff!

Me and the nephew are going out to do some shooting tomorrow and I bring a few boxes of that for rifles and pistols.

[arbol]

This latest purchase wasnt cool like all of the things you guys post. It is very needed and VERY expensive. This is what $20,000 worth of seed in bags looks like. 5500# worth. The Ram has no problem with it. 400 acres worth of various grasses. It will be in the neighborhood of $12-16,000 to plant it (with grass drill rental) I already spent about $12,000 spraying out the weeds. All of this and ZERO guarantee it will even come up. Sucks.

Got to say that if you ever need forum members to come up there and help spread grasses, just let us know.

For me, that would be too cool.

-John

[brutal]

Now I'm tier 0. Spoiled myself and spent way too much on a pair of eyepro.

[JohnnyEgo]

This is the nuclear solution to an annoying problem with wind on camping trips:



By which I meant the tent, not camping in my living room.


Went camping last weekend with the scouts up to Carter Lake. We arrived late Friday night, and had to take a site without tree cover. We got Wyoming level winds which were killing tents left and right. My own beloved Big Agnes Copper Spur didn't take damage, but the poles kept buckling in the nastiest wind gusts. Winds kept changing direction as well, so I couldn't really orient it or guy it into the wind. The other issue is that the winds were strong enough to blow the snow under the rain fly and through the mesh walls, so I woke up to the inside of my tent looking like a powdered donut.

These issues are infrequent, but they have similarly bit me in the rear during camping excursions to Pawnee and Great Sand Dunes, both of which blew fine grit right through the mesh walls of the Copper Spur. This trip was the last straw though. I am a middle aged man with disposable income and an internet connection, so I solved it in the appropriate manner; googling 'expedition tent for high wind and grit'. Which was a fascinating excursion down the rabbit hole of tents for polar expeditions and summiting K2 and Ranier. But of the options I could actually attain at the local REI with the 20% coupon, that left the Trango 3.

11 pounds, 32 possible stake points, solid walls and doors. This is complete, unnecessary overkill. And I love it. Will probably be used four times a year, max, and definitely not for any hike-in trips. But when the others are pouring grit out of their sleeping bags and trying to patch poles with gorilla tape and prayer, I will be sitting in dry, dust and snow-free comfort in my arctic rated tent.