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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #224 on: December 02, 2020, 01:15:43 PM »
I reckon so.

We'd spend a few weeks each summer on my grandparent's farm in TN.  I'd try and pitch in with things like bailing hay.  You do NOT want to bail hay.  I was a skinny weak 11 year old or so and that kicked my butt.  I also tried my hand at plowing behind a mule.  I thought you just walked along behind the mule.  Nope.

They wouldn't let us into the tobacco field for obvious reasons once it got high, but I spent some time deworming tobacco plants when they were small.  Tobacco worms are amazing things.  Nicotine is very poisonous of course.

If we wanted eggs for breakfast, we had to go get'em out yonder in the chicken house, I believe.

We used to rastle calves in the barn, I got holt of one oncet that was too big fer me.
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #225 on: December 02, 2020, 01:16:23 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on December 02, 2020, 01:10:56 PM
Apparently I can keep basil alive (and thriving). Does that count?
Ya sure we'll go with cannabis basil
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #226 on: December 02, 2020, 01:17:07 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on December 02, 2020, 01:10:56 PM
Apparently I can keep basil alive (and thriving). Does that count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia657B_FGZ4
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #227 on: December 02, 2020, 01:20:43 PM »
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #228 on: December 02, 2020, 01:21:40 PM »
rural farming (crops) isn't as labor intensive or as tough as it was a few decades ago

kids don't even walk beans any longer, let alone throw hay bales
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« Reply #229 on: December 02, 2020, 01:21:58 PM »
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« Reply #230 on: December 02, 2020, 01:25:39 PM »
So he has a proctology exam
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #231 on: December 02, 2020, 01:33:50 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 02, 2020, 01:21:40 PM
rural farming (crops) isn't as labor intensive or as tough as it was a few decades ago

kids don't even walk beans any longer, let alone throw hay bales
True, I had a close up look at a combine a few years back, GPS, XM radio, A/C, padded seat.  Speaking of something that will be automated soon enough ...
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #232 on: December 02, 2020, 01:43:20 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 02, 2020, 01:33:50 PM
True, I had a close up look at a combine a few years back, GPS, XM radio, A/C, padded seat.  Speaking of something that will be automated soon enough ...
They already are. At this point the farmer is only in the seat as a precautionary measure. 

For a lot of tasks, such as distributing fertilizer or pesticide, you don't want to miss a spot nor do you want to double-cover a spot, both for optimal crop yield and to save money, and a computer can get you precision that the farmer can't do manually. 

Heck, this was back in the mid-oughts, but the company I worked for at the time was selling industrial single-board-computers to the companies producing the automation systems. I can only imagine it's gotten even more advanced in the last ~15 years. 
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #233 on: December 02, 2020, 01:45:24 PM »
So, I could sit in a seat and listen to tunes and drink beer ad get paid for it?

Can you be charged for a DUI in a combine?
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« Reply #234 on: December 02, 2020, 01:47:30 PM »
Many farmers do just that, drink beer while "farming"

as long as you stay off public roads, no DUI
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #235 on: December 02, 2020, 07:23:10 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on December 02, 2020, 12:53:28 PM
Can you tell me what states the Hatfields and the McCoys were from?
I'll take that one for Kris.

West Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. 
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #236 on: December 02, 2020, 07:26:27 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on December 02, 2020, 01:43:20 PM
They already are. At this point the farmer is only in the seat as a precautionary measure.

For a lot of tasks, such as distributing fertilizer 
A lot of people doing this on the board.  :57:
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Re: Urban to Tejas?
« Reply #237 on: December 02, 2020, 07:31:20 PM »
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Fertilizer.html#:~:text=Primary%20fertilizers%20include%20substances%20derived,of%20natural%20gas%20and%20air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

The Haber process, one of the most significant innovations in human history, largely ignored.

Ammonia was first manufactured using the Haber process on an industrial scale in 1913 in BASF's Oppau plant in Germany, reaching 20 tonnes per day the following year.[12] During World War I, the production of munitions required large amounts of nitrate. The Allies had access to large sodium nitrate deposits in Chile (Chile saltpetre) controlled by British companies. Germany had no such resources, so the Haber process proved essential to the German war effort.[5][13] Synthetic ammonia from the Haber process was used for the production of nitric acid, a precursor to the nitrates used in explosives.
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