The post whore thread.

[buffalobo]

Needed better way to to haul and power weed sprayer. Had an old lawn cart/trailer(borderline junk f/f think we need) in bone pile. Couple new tires, little body straightening and some scrap reconfigured to a hitch for Mrs bo 4wheeler.

Hitch/pin is little wonky but secure, it will get reworked soon as finish first round of spraying.

[buffalobo]

Will probably spray 45-75 gallons for first go round.

[buffalobo]

That's a huge effort and will payoff big in ten years and on with more wildlife and privacy. When we built our home we inherited a wildlife shelter belt with a hundred trees and shrubs. We immediately added 350 trees and shrubs, then more each year with nursery plants, transplants and volunteers. It began with CO state forest service seedlings. It's really rich with wildlife now. We love it.

This is second go round with the trees. First time bombed due to series of disasters and drought in early 2000's, lost 160 tress.

120 of those trees were 18" tall ERC that local baler mowed and baled after his boss and I stood in the field and discussed how it would be no problem that grass was taller than the trees planted that spring.

"His operators pay attention in the field"

I hope he docked his operators for the money I refused to pay him.

[MrPrena]

Are they in a multi-story home that gets a lot of sunlight?

Another option could be that their system is just messed up.

Your guess was right on sunlight and possible messed up system.
Rear window are facing south and it does get warm. Their system is running louder than others for sure.

Still running 60f or under during march had me thought they lived in greenland or Nepal.

[Gman]

I had a problem with the outside unit running even when it wasn?t supposed to. Had a bad relay that needed replacement.

[buffalobo]

Woohoo, a little excitement last night.

About 10pm the power went out. Stepped out on deck to look around hood, saw neighbors west and north also out and saw a 10ft wall of flame headed towards us and neighbors just east of us.

Called 911 and dispatcher was already on with neighbors, ok good, firemen on the way.

We pulled a couple vehicles around house to light up field and waited for the flames and the firemen.

Good response time by our local volunteers. A couple of the guys were at volunteer firehouse near us(remote station) in two minutes and headed to fire with tanker in less than 5.

In that 5 minutes the wind(fire started by dry gusty tstorm) drove that fire almost a half mile.

Climax, the firemen got out in front of it and knocked it down quickly. The wind gusted it back up and it looked like blew it right around the crews towards the road. They repositioned and added second tanker that arrived from station 13 miles away. Took the firemen another 10 mins with the help of wind change to get it knocked back down.

No structures lost(fire burned right around a barn) and the volunteers saved the day again.

Best part was power outage caused by fire only lasted an hour after fire was out. Didn't have to drag out genny to save freezer.

Was the neighbors first experience with prairie fire, they were a little freaked out by how fast they move. They went from standing on porch saying "wow" to "oh shit" and running for the hoses when the wind cut distance in half in the five minutes it took firemen to get here.

[ray1970]

Spooky stuff.

Besides the fire thing, glad you have the power back on.

[Gman]

Only if you like shoveling snow, that's measured in feet. North central AZ, my area Is @ an average of 4800-5600' same as CO. Moderate temps, nice growing season, 5-10 min and you're off road.

Yeah, you're in a really nice spot. I looked into it and the elevation is what closed that idea for me. The wife is having some lung issues and we need to think about getting closer to sea level.

[Gman]

Glad to hear everybody is OK, buffalobo.

[buffalobo]

"They came from outer space", classic.