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[CapricornFarm]

I have never learned to drive a stick I should've.

You still can!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh my, i forgot to lock up the shed tonight. I hope the local wildlife does not make off with the tools. I would hate to have a bear rearrange things. But it is really coming down out there.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I can shift a dirt bike and have my M endorsement on my license but I cannot master my husband's 86 V Dub for love or . I call the tranny the 'bag o gears' as in fish around long enough and I'll find the one I'm looking for sooner or later.

It sounds like our '68 Ford truck. Hardest gears I've ever shifted. You just have to know how to place them. My brother taught our son to drive stick with that truck...lol. The boy can drive any stick now...lol.

Our employer had a passat. Couldn't figure out how to unlock the door without screwing up the windows.

Do you use it all yourself or do you sell it? I used to grow some for my goats.

We sell it. I commandeer the hard red spring wheat and the millet for the birds...lol. We grow the oats and barley we feed the cattle with.

We test drove a stick shift truck recently and the darned thing had the gear shift sideways. W TF?

That's like my car! I think.

 

[CapricornFarm]

It sounds like our '68 Ford truck. Hardest gears I've ever shifted. You just have to know how to place them. My brother taught our son to drive stick with that truck...lol. The boy can drive any stick now...lol.

Our employer had a passat. Couldn't figure out how to unlock the door without screwing up the windows.

We sell it. I commandeer the hard red spring wheat and the millet for the birds...lol. We grow the oats and barley we feed the cattle with.

That's like my car! I think.

How many acres do you have? Do you have to use Roundup? I hate that stuff.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

How many acres do you have? Do you have to use Roundup? I hate that stuff.

Um, a few? We have 10 quarters sowed this year. Yes, we use roundup...in some of the fields and in the yards to quash the weeds. With the wet we've had...the fox tail is terrible and hard to control, so we've been cultivating more.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Just wondered if anyone growing any quantity of grain did not use roundup. I need to google foxtail.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Phew, that stuff sounds really nasty. Glad they don't have it in Virginia. I can see why you would want to get rid of it.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Just wondered if anyone growing any quantity of grain did not use roundup. I need to google foxtail.

I should note that we use Glyphosphate, not necessarily roundup...basically the generic version.

Foxtail is a weed that likes wet conditions. Oh, you found it...lol. The guys got done tonight. They shouldn't have been done until mid to later tomorrow. We got heavy rain after the crop was sowed...foxtail emerged in the low spots and majorly reduced the amount of bushels/acre for that field. It's almost impossible to not use chemicals. All we'd get is weeds with a sprig or two or grain. What I don't like is the genetically modified grains. Yes...introduce a whole new bunch of weeds to us. Companies...

 

[CapricornFarm]

So do you have dogs? I hear that weed does really nasty things to them. Awful stuff.

 

[Alaskan]

I can shift a dirt bike and have my M endorsement on my license but I cannot master my husband's 86 V Dub for love or . I call the tranny the 'bag o gears' as in fish around long enough and I'll find the one I'm looking for sooner or later.

I do find it interesting how different different stick shifts can be.

The old jeep we have, I think it feel's like an automatic. It is SOOOO forgiving with the clutch. You do any old thing with the clutch pedal and still shift without grinding.

Our plow truck though...

It usually shifts back and forth between 1st and reverse without any trouble. .. but sometimes it sticks, and you have to wiggle the stick, take the clutch all of the way out and in, wiggle, and try again.

As to regular shifting. ..it is usually OK, but it has trouble at times. ... and there I am shifting up hill and all of a sudden the stick won't move. ...wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, oops. ..now we are driving too slow, and I need to down shift instead of upshift. Ah well...not going to fix it....