I spoke to a buddy in Australia and he said diesel was about double now, $14.85 a gallon and he has to drive 186 miles one way to get it. He pulls a trailer over loaded with 55 gallon barrels over and fills them. He manages a ranch about half the size of ND, so he uses a fair amount of fuel. He said he can not get anyone to deliver it since the price shot up.
I'm right on the edge of selling out and going to complete cash position (minus retirement). I've lost interest in the market almost completely. The only stocks I have left are DB and PPC, DB is up 105% for me since 2023 and PPC is up 68% since 2023.
I've found better investments outside the market for myself.
The markets have been treating me well. I have been thinking future investments may be better in things at the farm that will make life more convenient and hopefully generate cash flow that exceeds market returns
Im honestly questioning how much longer im going to be able to continue to work at my current job. Been adding in more income focused investment lately than I have in the past. Still hiting growth but income is geting higher on the priority list. But I could build a building for my wife to teach classes and that b investment should provide returns for decades and make life more convenient. I can buy more lawn equipment and tools for the boys and they can fare exceeds market returns. With that investment.. I dont see geting the high returns of the last 4 years the next several. I think it has to slow a lot.
I'm still fuzzy on whether you no longer hold certificates though. You stated you cashed them in which leads me to believe you no longer hold any? Not that its anybody's business...just that I thought all the certificate holders got an interest payment without turning them in. There is a process for turning in the certificates for their face value but I've never done it.
I cleaned the rust from my farmall H tank a couple of years ago. Kept fouling the carb. Used a handful of nuts and shook the H out of it. Blew it out and added some muratic acid. It cleaned it good. Then I put some gas tamk sealer/coater in and coated it well. Sorry Can't remember the name of it. Bought on line seemed to work well. If I can remember the name and where I got it I will post it. just
I cut the hard gas line before the sediment bowl and added a cheap 3/8 line fuel filter. One cane apart on me and I had to rebuild the carb for a 2nd time. This time I thin the problem with a s loose crap plugging the line. Fingers crossed I got it taken care of.
One day I want to do a corect full restore on this old tractor. I have pictures of my grate grandfather running it. Its pretty sentimental watching my kids bush hog the same land with the same tractor their great grate grandfather used. I wish I could have been able to buy more of the farm back when it was geting sold off..
This is Brian we spoke a while back and you were explaining to me how you made your aged skunk meat base bait.
You said 8 oz. Of non iodized salt to quart of aged skunk meat 2 cups of trout oil 4-5 drops of Tonquin musk 2 ounces of at least 4 month aged muskrat glands
So when I put all of this together do I have to add more salt or sodium Benzoate to the mixture or should I add salt to the muskrat glands after they are aged OR is the original 8 oz. Of salt in the skunk meat enough for the entire mixture?
I am just able to get some muskrat glans starting to age so I want to make sure I don’t scree it up.
we had an April 19 snow a few years back dropped about 6 inches.
it was 75 this last Monday , snow this weekend , it's just spring in WI whiplash weather for some folks is just the norm here.
Yep. Many heavy snow falls here in April. Does a lot of good filling the dams and we need the cricks running for longer periods. Melts is fast and furious this time of year only lasts a few days and hopes to melt a lot slower in high country.
Swamp… it’s in an open field no trees around. I used a 6’ log once as a toggle, boar dragged it about 200yds and it looked like a mule plowed the earth.
That will open the door for all kinds of discussion. What size and poundage for a kill spring. The stiffer 1x1900 snare cable or the more flexible 700x700. Will you need climbing spikes to set your snares at the correct height? And how to set so we exclude non target dinosaurs?
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