"Frank Boettcher" wrote:
> SWMBO purchased a GPS for her car last week. We took a trip over
> the
> weekend.
>
> I now have two women to argue with about the route when I travel.
Sit tight, GPS has invaded the farm.
Drive around the field in the P/U, lock in the coordinates, then load
data into puter on board tractor.
You now have auto pilot control for the tractor while planting or
harvesting the crop.
Lew
On May 13, 9:04=A0am, "Leon" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]...
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
> >> SWMBO purchased a GPS for her car last week. =A0We took a trip over the=
> >> weekend.
>
> >> I now have two women to argue with about the route when I travel.
>
> > ROTFL ... Leon's Tundra is equipped thusly. Her name is "Hilda". We used=
> > her
> > on recent trip with our wife's to AR to, among other things, scout out a=
nd
> > bring back some walnut. I've gotta admit, Hilda has a somewhat dry humor=
> > and
> > is an excellent companion/accessory when everyone else is sleeping, but
> > she
> > and I differed often drastically on the best way to get from Texas to
> > Arkansas.
>
> > ... "recalculating, recalculating, recalcu....."
>
> Turn left on Pissonit.
Heyyyy, I have an idea!! GPS for NASCAR!!
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
"turn left"
In article <[email protected]>, Frank
Boettcher <[email protected]> wrote:
> SWMBO purchased a GPS for her car last week. We took a trip over the
> weekend.
>
> I now have two women to argue with about the route when I travel.
Same here! I gave the GPS voice a name. Now I can at least tell her to
shut up. One out of two ain't bad :-)
Joe
On May 13, 7:24=A0am, "Dave in Houston" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:%CgWj.7803$Uz2.4377@trnddc06...
>
> > Sit tight, GPS has invaded the farm.
>
> > Drive around the field in the P/U, lock in the coordinates, then load da=
ta
> > into puter on board tractor.
>
> > You now have auto pilot control for the tractor while planting or
> > harvesting the crop.
>
> =A0 =A0 Our ranchers (lessees) have had them installed on their workhorse =
John
> Deere tractors. =A0I don't know what the payback period will turn out =A0t=
o be
> but they expect them to pay for themselves in fertilizer and chemical NOT
> used due to duplicating and/or overlapping.
> =A0 =A0 And, it's not as new as you would think. =A0When GPS for ag use fi=
rst came
> on the scene a few years back I read that with comprehensive soil testing
> and GPS mapping a farmer can program his equipment to put varying amounts =
of
> [say] fertilizer in different parts of the same field(s).
>
> Dave in Houston
Don't know how common it is in other parts of the country, but here in
the low deserts of AZ, pretty much everything is watered by
irrigation.
I have driven past cotton fields being prepared for planting by
plunking a rotating laser down smack in the middle of the field. The
tractor has a laser receiver controlling the blade height. I assume
this lets them get the field level to within a few inches, which makes
for better distribution of the irrigation water.
Jerry
"Dave in Houston" wrote:
> Our ranchers (lessees) have had them installed on their workhorse
> John Deere tractors. I don't know what the payback period will turn
> out to be but they expect them to pay for themselves in fertilizer
> and chemical NOT used due to duplicating and/or overlapping.
Add to that the average tractor fuel fill up can be $5K with $4+/gal
for diesel, and the payback cycle gets even shorter.
Lew
On May 13, 11:24=A0am, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Dave in Houston" wrote:
> > =A0 =A0Our ranchers (lessees) have had them installed on their workhorse=
> > John Deere tractors. =A0I don't know what the payback period will turn
> > out =A0to be but they expect them to pay for themselves in fertilizer
> > and chemical NOT used due to duplicating and/or overlapping.
>
> Add to that the average tractor fuel fill up can be $5K with $4+/gal
> for diesel, and the payback cycle gets even shorter.
>
> Lew
Go figgur. Diesel is the cheap shit.
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On May 13, 11:24 am, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Dave in Houston" wrote:
> > Our ranchers (lessees) have had them installed on their workhorse
> > John Deere tractors. I don't know what the payback period will turn
> > out to be but they expect them to pay for themselves in fertilizer
> > and chemical NOT used due to duplicating and/or overlapping.
>
> Add to that the average tractor fuel fill up can be $5K with $4+/gal
> for diesel, and the payback cycle gets even shorter.
>
> Lew
Go figgur. Diesel is the cheap shit.
It's not just the diesel. Most all that fertilizer and all those
chemicals are petroleum based.
About a month ago, Mr. K., aforementioned lessee, advised as how he'd
bought a 1000 gallons of farm diesel (zero taxes) and paid $ 3.72/gal. They
sometimes burn a 100 gallons a day for several days running and they're
relatively small time. I'm sure it's up another 20 cents or so since.
Dave in Houston
"Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:%CgWj.7803$Uz2.4377@trnddc06...
> Sit tight, GPS has invaded the farm.
>
> Drive around the field in the P/U, lock in the coordinates, then load data
> into puter on board tractor.
>
> You now have auto pilot control for the tractor while planting or
> harvesting the crop.
Our ranchers (lessees) have had them installed on their workhorse John
Deere tractors. I don't know what the payback period will turn out to be
but they expect them to pay for themselves in fertilizer and chemical NOT
used due to duplicating and/or overlapping.
And, it's not as new as you would think. When GPS for ag use first came
on the scene a few years back I read that with comprehensive soil testing
and GPS mapping a farmer can program his equipment to put varying amounts of
[say] fertilizer in different parts of the same field(s).
Dave in Houston
"Dave in Houston" wrote:
> It's not just the diesel. Most all that fertilizer and all those
> chemicals are petroleum based.
> About a month ago, Mr. K., aforementioned lessee, advised as how
> he'd bought a 1000 gallons of farm diesel (zero taxes) and paid $
> 3.72/gal. They sometimes burn a 100 gallons a day for several days
> running and they're relatively small time. I'm sure it's up another
> 20 cents or so since.
During WWII, my dad delivered gasoline to farmers.
Gasoline was strictly rationed.
During planting or harvest, a farmer burned a lot of fuel, the rest of
the year not much fuel was needed.
Years later, dad would tell me stories about how he played games with
gas stamps to insure his customers got gasoline when they needed it.
Lew
"Frank Boettcher" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:55:53 -0500, "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Speaking of accents, wife managed to fool around and convert the thing
> to British English and metric and couldn't figure out how to get it
> back. So all the way home "in 1.7 kilometers shift left, then turn
> left", by a very formal British female.
>
> I kind of liked her better.
>
> Frank
What brand GPS do you have Frank? I can change the accents also but it does
not affect the units of measure.
Rod & Betty Jo wrote:
> Swingman wrote:
>> ... "recalculating, recalculating, recalcu....."
>
>
> I'm rather fond of turning right when it says turn left and its inevitable
> plea to "make a legal U turn".....recently on a road trip, while going over
> a high snow covered two lane Mt. pass it told me to turn right, in fact it
> insisted and then of course repeatedly told me to make a legal U
> turn...there was no side road just hills, valleys and 6-10 ft of snow piled
> on the shoulders. In print on the screen it also identified the 50-100 mile
> road as a trail.....Your Hilda has inspired a needed name for the
> gizmo....possibly Wrong way Wanda. Rod
>
>
Mine moniker is Gabby.
"Dave in Houston" wrote:
> That's a pretty narrow outlook, Lew.
> In addition to planting there's cultivating, weed spraying,
> fertilizing. Then there's combining and transportation of the yield
> to it's market. After which most farming methods I know of call for
> plowing the remaining stubble under.
This was WWII son.
About the only thing that got sprayed were potatoes.
Two (2) cuts of Alfalfa, oats, wheat and corn in rotation,
Other than corn, June, July, August were harvest times.
This was Northern Ohio where you can be up to your armpits in 6 ft of
partly cloudy from Thanksgiving thru easter.
Rotate the crops, no need to lay fallow.
Today's economics dictate a different approach,
> While those fields are laying fallow [our ranchers anyway] are
> cutting and then baling hay for cold season cattle feed. On our
> ranch they plant wheat in December and corn around the first of
> March. The wheat gets combined in May and the corn in July. In
> addition to the 380 +/- acres they till on our ranch they have
> several hundred of their own and a couple of hundred more they
> lease.
Sounds like Texas agriculture, not Northern Ohio.
> Between planting they likely will turn the dirt at least once as
> a form of weed control and/or to make ready for the next planting.
Not during WWII, there wasn't enough gasoline available.
> Rest of the year my ass, Lew.
Might as well be.
> Stick to subjects you know something about.
Check the mirror son.
Lew
"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
>> SWMBO purchased a GPS for her car last week. We took a trip over the
>> weekend.
>>
>> I now have two women to argue with about the route when I travel.
>
> ROTFL ... Leon's Tundra is equipped thusly. Her name is "Hilda". We used
> her
> on recent trip with our wife's to AR to, among other things, scout out and
> bring back some walnut. I've gotta admit, Hilda has a somewhat dry humor
> and
> is an excellent companion/accessory when everyone else is sleeping, but
> she
> and I differed often drastically on the best way to get from Texas to
> Arkansas.
>
> ... "recalculating, recalculating, recalcu....."
The advantage I've found is I can call 'someone' a bitch and neither my wife
nor GPS knows who I'm taking about. <eg>
--
"Anybody can have more birthdays; but it takes
balls to get old!"
"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
>> SWMBO purchased a GPS for her car last week. We took a trip over the
>> weekend.
>>
>> I now have two women to argue with about the route when I travel.
>
> ROTFL ... Leon's Tundra is equipped thusly. Her name is "Hilda". We used
> her
> on recent trip with our wife's to AR to, among other things, scout out and
> bring back some walnut. I've gotta admit, Hilda has a somewhat dry humor
> and
> is an excellent companion/accessory when everyone else is sleeping, but
> she
> and I differed often drastically on the best way to get from Texas to
> Arkansas.
>
> ... "recalculating, recalculating, recalcu....."
>
Turn left on Pissonit.
On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:55:53 -0500, "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Leon" wrote
>> "Swingman" wrote in message
>
>> > ... "recalculating, recalculating, recalcu....."
>> >
>>
>>
>> Turn left on Pissonit.
>
>Ah yes ... good old "Bissonnet"! A hoot, where Hilda puts her accents. :)
Speaking of accents, wife managed to fool around and convert the thing
to British English and metric and couldn't figure out how to get it
back. So all the way home "in 1.7 kilometers shift left, then turn
left", by a very formal British female.
I kind of liked her better.
Frank
In article <140520080755000531%[email protected]>, 10x <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Frank
> Boettcher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > SWMBO purchased a GPS for her car last week. We took a trip over the
> > weekend.
> >
> > I now have two women to argue with about the route when I travel.
>
> Same here! I gave the GPS voice a name. Now I can at least tell her to
> shut up. One out of two ain't bad :-)
>
>
> Joe
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"Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
> SWMBO purchased a GPS for her car last week. We took a trip over the
> weekend.
>
> I now have two women to argue with about the route when I travel.
ROTFL ... Leon's Tundra is equipped thusly. Her name is "Hilda". We used her
on recent trip with our wife's to AR to, among other things, scout out and
bring back some walnut. I've gotta admit, Hilda has a somewhat dry humor and
is an excellent companion/accessory when everyone else is sleeping, but she
and I differed often drastically on the best way to get from Texas to
Arkansas.
... "recalculating, recalculating, recalcu....."
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Last update: 3/27/08
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Swingman wrote:
> ... "recalculating, recalculating, recalcu....."
I'm rather fond of turning right when it says turn left and its inevitable
plea to "make a legal U turn".....recently on a road trip, while going over
a high snow covered two lane Mt. pass it told me to turn right, in fact it
insisted and then of course repeatedly told me to make a legal U
turn...there was no side road just hills, valleys and 6-10 ft of snow piled
on the shoulders. In print on the screen it also identified the 50-100 mile
road as a trail.....Your Hilda has inspired a needed name for the
gizmo....possibly Wrong way Wanda. Rod
"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
>> SWMBO purchased a GPS for her car last week. We took a trip over the
>> weekend.
>>
>> I now have two women to argue with about the route when I travel.
>
> ROTFL ... Leon's Tundra is equipped thusly. Her name is "Hilda". We used
> her
> on recent trip with our wife's to AR to, among other things, scout out and
> bring back some walnut. I've gotta admit, Hilda has a somewhat dry humor
> and
> is an excellent companion/accessory when everyone else is sleeping, but
> she
> and I differed often drastically on the best way to get from Texas to
> Arkansas.
>
> ... "recalculating, recalculating, recalcu....."
"Drive ninety-seven miles and make a legal u-turn . . . "
Dave in Houston
"Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:NJoWj.12465$%X1.6121@trnddc08...
> "Dave in Houston" wrote:
>
>> It's not just the diesel. Most all that fertilizer and all those
>> chemicals are petroleum based.
>> About a month ago, Mr. K., aforementioned lessee, advised as how he'd
>> bought a 1000 gallons of farm diesel (zero taxes) and paid $ 3.72/gal.
>> They sometimes burn a 100 gallons a day for several days running and
>> they're relatively small time. I'm sure it's up another 20 cents or so
>> since.
>
> During WWII, my dad delivered gasoline to farmers.
>
> Gasoline was strictly rationed.
>
> During planting or harvest, a farmer burned a lot of fuel, the rest of the
> year not much fuel was needed.
>
> Years later, dad would tell me stories about how he played games with gas
> stamps to insure his customers got gasoline when they needed it.
That's a pretty narrow outlook, Lew.
In addition to planting there's cultivating, weed spraying, fertilizing.
Then there's combining and transportation of the yield to it's market.
After which most farming methods I know of call for plowing the remaining
stubble under.
While those fields are laying fallow [our ranchers anyway] are cutting
and then baling hay for cold season cattle feed. On our ranch they plant
wheat in December and corn around the first of March. The wheat gets
combined in May and the corn in July. In addition to the 380 +/- acres
they till on our ranch they have several hundred of their own and a couple
of hundred more they lease.
Between planting they likely will turn the dirt at least once as a form
of weed control and/or to make ready for the next planting.
Rest of the year my ass, Lew.
Stick to subjects you know something about.
Dave in Houston
"Doug Winterburn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> > Mine moniker is Gabby.
"Recalculating."
"SHUT UP, HO!"
or
"Recalculating."
"YOU IGNORANT SLUT!"
Dave in Houston
Dave in Houston wrote:
> "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:%CgWj.7803$Uz2.4377@trnddc06...
>
>> Sit tight, GPS has invaded the farm.
>>
>> Drive around the field in the P/U, lock in the coordinates, then load data
>> into puter on board tractor.
>>
>> You now have auto pilot control for the tractor while planting or
>> harvesting the crop.
>
> Our ranchers (lessees) have had them installed on their workhorse John
> Deere tractors. I don't know what the payback period will turn out to be
> but they expect them to pay for themselves in fertilizer and chemical NOT
> used due to duplicating and/or overlapping.
> And, it's not as new as you would think. When GPS for ag use first came
> on the scene a few years back I read that with comprehensive soil testing
> and GPS mapping a farmer can program his equipment to put varying amounts of
> [say] fertilizer in different parts of the same field(s).
>
> Dave in Houston
I have an uncle who's been doing that for a number of years in SC. He
swears by it.