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Post by sd51555 on Oct 7, 2019 19:22:45 GMT -6
The Wrench That Almost Never Happened
by Skoog Skoogman
The year was 1907. Inventors Karl Peterson and Edward J. Worcester set out to revolutionize the tool industry. They saw the need to provide a solution for men who needed to fix things they could not get back to their farms. Mankind was saddled with heavy tool carts pulled by oxen that would often get stuck, take extra time to load, and often times, most tools weren't used. This led to day-long fixes and much lost productivity. They came up with the concept of the adjustable wrench, a wrench that could be manipulated to grasp many different sized nuts.
When they floated the idea past some close friends that were in the trades, they were met with not only doubt, but outright accusations of lunacy. Why on earth would anyone pay $1.50 for an adjustable wrench, when they could simply buy the wrench they need for 15 cents? Did Peterson and Worcester also believe the world was round? Should these men have been committed the moment they uttered such nonsense?
Unphased, those two men created and marketed the wrench anyway. They spent 20 years in the dark, castigated on a daily basis by their friends, wives, and children for the failure of such a whack-a-do invention. It wasn't until 1927 when visionaries Charles Lindbergh and Richard Evelyn Byrd shared their secrets for survival and success on their history making flights, that Peterson and Worcester were finally vindicated. Lindbergh was quoted saying, "I took only gasoline, sandwiches, a bottle of water, and a Crescent wrench and pliers. Having all those extra tools would have certainly crashed me shortly after takeoff, and eaten up all the space in my stabbin' cabin."
America is great today because of the savvy determination of yesterday's visionaries. My hope is that when people see a crescent wrench from now on, they also see a century old pillar of ingenuity, creativity, conviction, and front mounted ATV flail mowers.
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Post by Foggy on Oct 7, 2019 20:13:00 GMT -6
You are approaching Yoder levels of over-analyzation in this one. I think you should just go out and buy an atv and brush hog or flail mower this weekend and be done with it. If you wait too long you'll probably slip one past Kickball Becky's goalie and then it will be 18 years before you have money for fun habitat and hunting related stuff. I’m a cash only lover. No deposit, no return. And I can’t go part way on this mower thing. It’d be like telling Foggy his cab, bucket, AC, and 4WD are also unnecessary. Foggy, I accept your apology in advance and welcome you to Team Flailcat. I appologize for nothing. My flail will be powered by a diesel tractor and cab. I will ride free of rain and bugs and excess heat in AC comfort while listening to tunes in stereo. You....OTOH will be wondering how the fuck you spent so much of your income to cut some grass and rent some diggers as your budget allows. Party on.
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Post by sd51555 on Oct 7, 2019 20:21:13 GMT -6
I’m a cash only lover. No deposit, no return. And I can’t go part way on this mower thing. It’d be like telling Foggy his cab, bucket, AC, and 4WD are also unnecessary. Foggy, I accept your apology in advance and welcome you to Team Flailcat. I appologize for nothing. My flail will be powered by a diesel tractor and cab. I will ride free of rain and bugs and excess heat in AC comfort while listening to tunes in stereo. You....OTOH will be wondering how the fuck you spent so much of your income to cut some grass and rent some diggers as your budget allows. Party on. 1. You can't take back an apology I've already accepted. I would also have to claw back my forgiveness, and I don't do that. 2. I'm agreeing with you agreeing with me. I accept your endorsement of the SD Comfort Flail 360 Total Utility Management System.
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Post by Foggy on Oct 7, 2019 20:26:24 GMT -6
The Wrench That Almost Never Happened
by Skoog Skoogman
The year was 1907. Inventors Karl Peterson and Edward J. Worcester set out to revolutionize the tool industry. They saw the need to provide a solution for men who needed to fix things they could not get back to their farms. Mankind was saddled with heavy tool carts pulled by oxen that would often get stuck, take extra time to load, and often times, most tools weren't used. This led to day-long fixes and much lost productivity. They came up with the concept of the adjustable wrench, a wrench that could be manipulated to grasp many different sized nuts.
When they floated the idea past some close friends that were in the trades, they were met with not only doubt, but outright accusations of lunacy. Why on earth would anyone pay $1.50 for an adjustable wrench, when they could simply buy the wrench they need for 15 cents? Did Peterson and Worcester also believe the world was round? Should these men have been committed the moment they uttered such nonsense?
Unphased, those two men created and marketed the wrench anyway. They spent 20 years in the dark, castigated on a daily basis by their friends, wives, and children for the failure of such a whack-a-do invention. It wasn't until 1927 when visionaries Charles Lindbergh and Richard Evelyn Byrd shared their secrets for survival and success on their history making flights, that Peterson and Worcester were finally vindicated. Lindbergh was quoted saying, "I took only gasoline, sandwiches, a bottle of water, and a Crescent wrench and pliers. Having all those extra tools would have certainly crashed me shortly after takeoff, and eaten up all the space in my stabbin' cabin."
America is great today because of the savvy determination of yesterday's visionaries. My hope is that when people see a crescent wrench from now on, they also see a century old pillar of ingenuity, creativity, conviction, and front mounted ATV flail mowers. You are ripe. When I think of you.....I think of dead batteries....an uncut lawn due to mechanical breakdown....and a stinky outhouse. ( ) OH.....and Karl Peterson was my grandpa.
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Post by biglakebass on Oct 7, 2019 20:27:26 GMT -6
The Wrench That Almost Never Happened
by Skoog Skoogman
The year was 1907. Inventors Karl Peterson and Edward J. Worcester set out to revolutionize the tool industry. They saw the need to provide a solution for men who needed to fix things they could not get back to their farms. Mankind was saddled with heavy tool carts pulled by oxen that would often get stuck, take extra time to load, and often times, most tools weren't used. This led to day-long fixes and much lost productivity. They came up with the concept of the adjustable wrench, a wrench that could be manipulated to grasp many different sized nuts.
When they floated the idea past some close friends that were in the trades, they were met with not only doubt, but outright accusations of lunacy. Why on earth would anyone pay $1.50 for an adjustable wrench, when they could simply buy the wrench they need for 15 cents? Did Peterson and Worcester also believe the world was round? Should these men have been committed the moment they uttered such nonsense?
Unphased, those two men created and marketed the wrench anyway. They spent 20 years in the dark, castigated on a daily basis by their friends, wives, and children for the failure of such a whack-a-do invention. It wasn't until 1927 when visionaries Charles Lindbergh and Richard Evelyn Byrd shared their secrets for survival and success on their history making flights, that Peterson and Worcester were finally vindicated. Lindbergh was quoted saying, "I took only gasoline, sandwiches, a bottle of water, and a Crescent wrench and pliers. Having all those extra tools would have certainly crashed me shortly after takeoff, and eaten up all the space in my stabbin' cabin."
America is great today because of the savvy determination of yesterday's visionaries. My hope is that when people see a crescent wrench from now on, they also see a century old pillar of ingenuity, creativity, conviction, and front mounted ATV flail mowers. When I think of you.....I think of dead batteries....an uncut lawn due to mechanical breakdown....and a stinky outhouse. ( ) I just about damn near died gagging, choking and laughing at the same time.
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Coda1
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Post by Coda1 on Oct 7, 2019 21:11:37 GMT -6
I don't own land yet. Plotting on my parents property so I don't have to pay the electric bills.
$20 - Lawn mower - $20 - Just a guess. My dad has an old push mower that he cut the front open to allow tall grass in. We don't need no flail mower.
$3000 - Tractor - Late 70's 24 HP Yanmar $600 - Disc $40 - Drag $330 - Packer $325 - Planter - Hoss garden seeder. Tried it 1st couple of years and found out broadcasting works just as good. Wish I never bought this one. $35 - Earthway bag spreader $170 - Solo backpack sprayer with 4 nozzle boom - Used the 1st year because everything said you need a sprayer. Waste of money I no longer spray. $45 - 80 lbs push broadcast spreader
$160 - Sub soiler attachment to pull stumps $1575 - 5' tiller - My most expensive implement but my most used. Will go threw anything but the stumps. $50 - Cultivator #1 without gage wheels. Can't control the depth good enough with short wheelbase and 3 point implements.
$300 - Cultivator #2 with gage wheels. Still doesn't work as good as the tiller. Went back to the tiller. I might try again to make this work so I don't dry out the soil as much. $350 - One bottom plow. Thought I need this to break new ground. Didn't work very good on the very rough ground. Bought tiller and never tried it again.
$7000 - Total
Most were bought used and I could sell them again for about what I paid some for even more. Tiller was bought new and I would lose some money on that one but it has earned its keep. If I sold everything I would maybe be out about $1000.
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Post by biglakebass on Oct 7, 2019 21:40:57 GMT -6
Ok, I had decided to bow out, but what the heck.
We retired wetlands under the WRP(Wetland reserve program). We got 15k for that. I do not own the land. My Dad does. Its the family farm that was homesteaded in the early 1900's.
Tractor - 13k Cultipacker - FREE(found in weeds on farm while turkey hunting, 8 ft section and 2 sections of 4 ft) Drags - FREE(found while turkey hunting, got 4 5 ft sections all in great working shape) Oliver 12 ft disc with hydraulic lift - $100 52 inch PTO tiller - FREE(Grandpa had it, we just sold it for $800) 2 bottom plow - FREE(it was on the farm in the weeds) (Wade, the 3 bottom you bought from us we actually did buy from a neighbor cuz it was a 3 pt and not a pull behind) 3 pt spreader - $400(sold for $325 recently) 2 row JD 290 planter - $200(sold for $550) 2 row JD 290 planter - paid $350ish(sold to Wnklman about $400???) SWISHER - $1400 new and loving it for 10 years while it just mows and cuts shit like a mutha to this day! 6 ft digger/cultivator - FREE(it was on the farm and sold it to a guy a couple miles away for $400ish) 4 row JD 490 planter - FREE(Sold for $500) 2 row JD Flex 71 planter - Got in part of trade for an Allis Chalmers D14 tractor we got rid of. Price paid? Free?? the Allis was already at the farm. 12 ft Oliver 3 pt digger/cultivator - $100(bad ass piece of gear)
There is much more, but with our wetland retirement. We are at FREE status on everything when the day is done. Right place, right time, fortunate.
We are done plotting. The tractor is now home at Dads house. He uses it on his garden, and everyones garden in a mile radius it seems. Keeps him busy. He bought a rear blade and now grades the road to the lake cabin because the township does such a shitty job... now one of the neighbors at the cabin that has a John Deere zero turn with about a 60 inch cut, takes care of of our lawn because Dad fixed the road.
Moral of the story. Friends dont let friends buy flail mowers. Friends let friends by a Swisher!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by kabic on Oct 7, 2019 22:54:49 GMT -6
Planter - Hoss garden seeder. Tried it 1st couple of years and found out broadcasting works just as good. Wish I never bought this one. You have the wheeled version of this? hosstools.com/product/garden-seeder-combo/You burst my bubble, i wanted to rig one to a tool bar behind by tractor. Deere 1023E $12000 King Kutter tiller xb $1500 King Kutter middle buster xb $175 North Star sprayer $200 Hand seeder $20 Yard works tow behind spreader $90 I have to say i do enjoy playing on the tractor and 80% of the hours on it are probably not food plot related. A flail mower is also on my wish list and i have access to 5 foot brush hog.
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Coda1
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Post by Coda1 on Oct 8, 2019 3:42:32 GMT -6
Planter - Hoss garden seeder. Tried it 1st couple of years and found out broadcasting works just as good. Wish I never bought this one. You have the wheeled version of this? hosstools.com/product/garden-seeder-combo/You burst my bubble, i wanted to rig one to a tool bar behind by tractor. That's the one I have. Never tried it behind the tractor. The drop tube was too far behind the discs and in my sandy soil the slot would collapse before the seed dropped. I modified the drop tube so it was closer to the disc and it worked better. There were other problems as well. If ground was too soft it would not be consistent depth. If I packed it well before seeding I couldn't always get it to go deep enough. Didn't handle trash very well. If seed size varied it would either drop doubles or get plugged up. Overall it probably worked about as good as broadcasting but was much slower. Maybe if I was planting corn I would try it again but for seeding smaller seeds in larger quantities like buckwheat and rye I will broadcast then drag to cover the seed. My brother was using his Hoss wheel hoe with the seeder attachment for seeding soybeans with good results.
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Post by sd51555 on Oct 8, 2019 8:56:36 GMT -6
The Wrench That Almost Never Happened
by Skoog Skoogman
The year was 1907. Inventors Karl Peterson and Edward J. Worcester set out to revolutionize the tool industry. They saw the need to provide a solution for men who needed to fix things they could not get back to their farms. Mankind was saddled with heavy tool carts pulled by oxen that would often get stuck, take extra time to load, and often times, most tools weren't used. This led to day-long fixes and much lost productivity. They came up with the concept of the adjustable wrench, a wrench that could be manipulated to grasp many different sized nuts.
When they floated the idea past some close friends that were in the trades, they were met with not only doubt, but outright accusations of lunacy. Why on earth would anyone pay $1.50 for an adjustable wrench, when they could simply buy the wrench they need for 15 cents? Did Peterson and Worcester also believe the world was round? Should these men have been committed the moment they uttered such nonsense?
Unphased, those two men created and marketed the wrench anyway. They spent 20 years in the dark, castigated on a daily basis by their friends, wives, and children for the failure of such a whack-a-do invention. It wasn't until 1927 when visionaries Charles Lindbergh and Richard Evelyn Byrd shared their secrets for survival and success on their history making flights, that Peterson and Worcester were finally vindicated. Lindbergh was quoted saying, "I took only gasoline, sandwiches, a bottle of water, and a Crescent wrench and pliers. Having all those extra tools would have certainly crashed me shortly after takeoff, and eaten up all the space in my stabbin' cabin."
America is great today because of the savvy determination of yesterday's visionaries. My hope is that when people see a crescent wrench from now on, they also see a century old pillar of ingenuity, creativity, conviction, and front mounted ATV flail mowers. You are ripe. When I think of you.....I think of dead batteries....an uncut lawn due to mechanical breakdown....and a stinky outhouse. ( ) OH.....and Karl Peterson was my grandpa. When I think of you, I think of a man smiling, enjoying having the right tools for the job, getting the finish he wants, and knodding in approval as you see in real time the genius of the flail. I see that little chuckle where the solar 12 volt LED bulb finally comes on and you realize, "That SD is a relentless problem solver."
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Post by kabic on Oct 8, 2019 9:08:08 GMT -6
Im all for SD getting a flail mower. People buy stupid shit all the time they dont need.
I don't really need a small tractor, but i have one. Then i bought a truck so i could tow it easier. Other people buy boats, jack up trucks, fence in deer, buy 2nd houses in Arizona.
None of that stuff is needed but makes people happy.
What he does need to do is stop talking about it and just buy it already.
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Post by Foggy on Oct 8, 2019 13:28:51 GMT -6
Im all for SD getting a flail mower. People buy stupid shit all the time they dont need. I don't really need a small tractor, but i have one. Then i bought a truck so i could tow it easier. Other people buy boats, jack up trucks, fence in deer, buy 2nd houses in Arizona. None of that stuff is needed but makes people happy. What he does need to do is stop talking about it and just buy it already. Yeah....I suppose. But then what would we have to banter about? Grin.
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Post by honker on Oct 8, 2019 13:35:05 GMT -6
Ok, I had decided to bow out, but what the heck. We retired wetlands under the WRP(Wetland reserve program). We got 15k for that. I do not own the land. My Dad does. Its the family farm that was homesteaded in the early 1900's. Tractor - 13k Cultipacker - FREE(found in weeds on farm while turkey hunting, 8 ft section and 2 sections of 4 ft) Drags - FREE(found while turkey hunting, got 4 5 ft sections all in great working shape) Oliver 12 ft disc with hydraulic lift - $100 52 inch PTO tiller - FREE(Grandpa had it, we just sold it for $800) 2 bottom plow - FREE(it was on the farm in the weeds) (Wade, the 3 bottom you bought from us we actually did buy from a neighbor cuz it was a 3 pt and not a pull behind) 3 pt spreader - $400(sold for $325 recently) 2 row JD 290 planter - $200(sold for $550) 2 row JD 290 planter - paid $350ish(sold to Wnklman about $400???) SWISHER - $1400 new and loving it for 10 years while it just mows and cuts shit like a mutha to this day! 6 ft digger/cultivator - FREE(it was on the farm and sold it to a guy a couple miles away for $400ish) 4 row JD 490 planter - FREE(Sold for $500) 2 row JD Flex 71 planter - Got in part of trade for an Allis Chalmers D14 tractor we got rid of. Price paid? Free?? the Allis was already at the farm. 12 ft Oliver 3 pt digger/cultivator - $100(bad ass piece of gear) There is much more, but with our wetland retirement. We are at FREE status on everything when the day is done. Right place, right time, fortunate. We are done plotting. The tractor is now home at Dads house. He uses it on his garden, and everyones garden in a mile radius it seems. Keeps him busy. He bought a rear blade and now grades the road to the lake cabin because the township does such a shitty job... now one of the neighbors at the cabin that has a John Deere zero turn with about a 60 inch cut, takes care of of our lawn because Dad fixed the road. Moral of the story. Friends dont let friends buy flail mowers. Friends let friends by a Swisher!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn I wish I had your luck or lived nearby when you were getting rid of all it!
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Post by Tooln on Oct 8, 2019 14:09:54 GMT -6
I don't even want to add up my shit.
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Post by biglakebass on Oct 9, 2019 11:24:03 GMT -6
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