Ducks 4 in '24

[ducks4you]

Finished dehydrating. Last was the jalepanoes that a friend gave me. I put a plastic garbage bag on top of my tablecloth and moved them with salad tongs to a pint jar with a glass lid. Jar is in front of 3 1/2 quarts of tomatoes, and more will be canned before the tomatoes play out.

 

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Pleasant scene. Stainless steel –

"galvanized" . Silly, I'm feeling silly this morning – must be the blueberry bagels.

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@baymule have a couple leaning posts and gate problems . I might get the tractor out and pull the post straighter lto make them easier to open and close, and add a couple cross bars. I have a bunch of blocks and T posts holding them up but I still have to lift the gates up because the ground isn’t level and a lopsided post adds to the problem.

I just finished pulling out 24 6’x8” treated posts from the old coral and removing the 3 metal AG gates attached to the posts . I got one of the chains out and attached to the tractor front bucket to pull out a T post that was set in the ground too deep. I tried for 2 days to pull that post up and it’s stubborn. If it doesn’t rain tomarrow I’ll try again. So frustrating.

We were hoping NOT to crack the post. NOTE to self next Spring:
Dig the other side of the post deeper, like 2 1/2 ft deep and 18 inches wide.
We were lucky that didn't happen to an 8 ft tall, 8 inch diameter and 3 ft in the ground wooden fencepost didn't crack in 2.
The compact tractor had NO trouble moving it, but we crept slowly anyway.
After years of camping I have learned that you dig around metal fenceposts, then pound them N-S, E-W until they pull out so as not to bend them. Just FYI.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

We were hoping NOT to crack the post. NOTE to self next Spring:
Dig the other side of the post deeper, like 2 1/2 ft deep and 18 inches wide.
We were lucky that didn't happen to an 8 ft tall, 8 inch diameter and 3 ft in the ground wooden fencepost didn't crack in 2.
The compact tractor had NO trouble moving it, but we crept slowly anyway.
After years of camping I have learned that you dig around metal fenceposts, then pound them N-S, E-W until they pull out so as not to bend them. Just FYI.

The ground is hard pack clay soil around the one stubborn T post. Couldn’t dig around the T. So I took the tree feeder has 3’ metal post attached to the hose and poking down thru the clay added water around the post enough to loosen then digging around the post. Then took the chain attached to the tractor bucket and pulled that T post out. One T post was the most stubborn so was I.
Hauled off all the huge wood posts to be recycled.