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[Nomadicus]

Good Morning Old Folks. It's 63° and cloudy. I'm seeing two freezing nights ahead. Delaying planting anything outside until they are over.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Old Folks 28 here, dry cold.
DH needs to see a urologist in Olympia.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good morning Old Folks. It's mid morning here now and already 76°. There is a very large storm system moving west to east just north of us. We are very near to it's outer edge. One slip up and it will drown us with several inches. We could us just one inch.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm going to have to man up and sharpen the post hole diggers and dig 4 holes about 11-12 inches in diameter and plant the 7-8" diameter treated posts at each end of of the new muscadine rows in cement. They will support the trellis wire that will have at times 400-500 lbs of grapes on it. There are steel posts in between each vine.

 

[ronott1]

I'm going to have to man up and sharpen the post hole diggers and dig 4 holes about 11-12 inches in diameter and plant the 7-8" diameter treated posts at each end of of the new muscadine rows in cement. They will support the trellis wire that will have at times 400-500 lbs of grapes on it. There are steel posts in between each vine.

Is the post hole digger an attachment to a tractor or the manual pound it into the dirt type?

 

[Nomadicus]

Is the post hole digger an attachment to a tractor or the manual pound it into the dirt type?

Manual pound it in with arms and back. I didn't even get started. Heavy rains coming tonight and maybe that will soften the ground up and make the job easier. I just don't have enough holes to justify buying a power auger that two men hold and let it to the work with.

 

[Nomadicus]

Goodnight Old Folks

 

[Nomadicus]

The suns up Old Folks. A very foggy 63° here this morning. More bad weather heading across the country and we are on the southern edge of what I see on the weather map. It's that time of year again.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, OF. Lightly raining, snow on the ground, foggy, not a top ten day here.

 

[Nomadicus]

I see on the ten day weather forecast some one up north is planning on leaving a barn door open. 2 nights of frost coming followed by a night of a hard freeze. Please reconsider.