Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

So now you know everything there is to know about “farming” on a budget of (almost) zero. Knowing what I’ve been through, you might want to hug your rototiller. Continue reading →

The next day I hit it again hard. I kept the chains on “ironic”, planted the tire in the furrow at “two beers”, with 80% throttle in “low nustack” and depth at “second o”. It was perfect. Continue reading →

The Foxinator had the usual feminine disregard for mechanical details. I got no more information than “it’s big, reddish”. How could I lose? Continue reading →

I have resolved to make darned sure I’ve got a better fireline next time. I want a 5′ bare dirt circumference. Paved. With hydrants. Manned by an Army. Then I can burn it properly as Foxinator did instead of dinking around like a little pansy. Continue reading →

I turned to the only tool I could find on a budget of zero; fire! I decided to use my big monkey brain to clear the weeds by releasing nature’s energy to my ends. This is a lot like needing a ditch but lacking a shovel and therefore setting off a self sustaining nuclear chain reaction instead. Continue reading →

Then Henry Ford woke up one day and decided there was no reason to keep paying patent fees. In his steamy little head it was a groovy idea to royally f**k Ferguson over. He was Henry Goddamn Ford! Why not simply be evil? Continue reading →

I’ve already mentioned that tractors and their three point hitch assembly will pull things that’ll make your truck’s ball hitch weep. (You do have a truck don’t you? If not go get one.) Here’s a video of someone doing non-OSHA … Continue reading →

I hitched my brand new, 70 year old, plow to my equally old tractor. I felt like a stud. I attacked my field and everything worked perfectly. Ha ha ha. Haven’t I said that everything is harder than it looks? … Continue reading →

Go look at a 40 acre field and imagine going back and forth cutting one foot strips. Admit it, you can’t focus long enough to read my post without pausing to check Facebook and they plowed Kansans a foot at time. Talk about an iron will! It’s enough to make you weep in your latte. Continue reading →

A well made deer food plot will turn you into an epic hunter. Continue reading →