Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / September 2005

What to do? Tomato Juice?

HOWEDY People,
Here's why you can't make hide nor hare
outta these pet lover's news groups:
"Don't infer from that description that force is an

Rita might be going to get us. All of the cows are laying down, all facing
the north. The chickens have not come down from their roosts even though
there has been nearly 4 hours of daylight. No dragon flies this morning.
Frogs are so loud they drown out the radio in the truck. ...

Yup, that time of year again, time to chop em down and burn the
burners.  These rotten sobs think nothing of getting honest land owners
into legal crap so the only thing to do is run a brush hog over em.

I'm a realtively new small pond owner and have some concerns about the
accumulation of pond scum over the summer.  Since the pond was stocked with
catfish, I am wondering if the algae will interfere with their growth.  It
is also a pain to fish since it sticks to the fishing line ...

I'm looking for a new chain saw and would appreciate any
recommendations/experiences.  I need something a bit above
"residential" since the trees that have come down recently
have been anything but small.  I'm thinking a 20" bar is

Was riding my bike.
Had just crossed over 300 feet of open grass on a game trail/walking trail of
beaten-down grass.
Turned on to a little paved service road, got about 20 feet and bzzzzzzZZZZZZZZ

My neighbor just got sited for an un-permited  porch and cabana ( over
the mobile home) that was there when she bought the place 16 years
ago. She is poor retired and the County came out last year and put a
new roof on the cabana for free. Now they have told her to tear it

Anyone ever seen a John Deere model 40 manure spreader?
I just bought one at an auction and need a few parts.  I cant find any
reference to this model on the web.  The actual ID tag lists it as a
S0940 and use the word "type" instead of model.  But there is a large

I need to pump water uphill, once a week or so, to fill some tanks
(non-pressureized). I don't want to leave the pump down there, I want to
carry it down when needed.
I'd like a submersible pump. The one at

I'm just changing a couple of cracked hoses on a tractor bucket.  What
do I do about the air in the new hoses?  This is going into a double
acting cylinder.  I would have assumed that the cylinder (being the end
of the line) would have some sort of bleeder screw, but there is none.

First let me say hello to this group.  My husband and I moved to the
country two years ago to have our "dream come true" life.  We are
squarely in the middle of reality now and I have a million questions.
We have about 1.5 acres, small by any standard, two horses, five dogs,

Has anyone out there lately, brought to mind the thought, That mankind
was brought forth on this planet by a power greater than he. In the
last few years the people of this country has been defying and
decrediting that power. Could it be that the humans here are being

Found this on another newsgroup and thought this place being rural and all
might have a use for 'things' just laying around the barnyard.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1534821.html
Inventor turns dead cats into diesel

I grew up in California hills, and have returned to them to give my young kids a taste of
"rougher" living. Something that hadn't occurred to me before was that the local fauna, which
includes cougars, bobcats, & coyotes, not only have no fear of men (people, that is), they also