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Title: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: twowings on December 23, 2018, 03:34:19 PM

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Beautiful weather...plenty of camp sites...why aren't we rallying?
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: JJ on December 23, 2018, 03:49:34 PM
Is that Cedar Vale, KS? :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh: :wink: :thumb: :cool: :smiley:
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Texas Turnip on December 23, 2018, 04:33:52 PM
Is that Cedar Vale, KS? :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh: :wink: :thumb: :cool: :smiley:
YES

Tex
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: lucian on December 23, 2018, 04:51:44 PM
Isn't that Santa's sled?
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Guzzistajohn on December 23, 2018, 08:49:45 PM
Watching pale rider and sipping some Redemption rye. PREACHER!!?
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: kballowe on December 24, 2018, 06:14:56 AM
Watching pale rider and sipping some renenption rye. PREACHER!!?

HA !  Great movie
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: kballowe on December 24, 2018, 06:18:18 AM
We're in Bandera, Texas.
Riding Hill Country
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Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: rdbandkab on December 24, 2018, 06:25:51 AM
Northern Panhandle of WV.  46 d out...  Rode the pedal bike instead!
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: davedel44 on December 24, 2018, 07:42:59 AM

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Beautiful weather...plenty of camp sites...why aren't we rallying?

Many of the regulars show up early, but not six month early!

Check your calendar Chris.


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Dave
Galveston
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: JJ on December 24, 2018, 07:48:05 AM
Many of the regulars show up early, but not six month early!

Check your calendar Chris.


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Dave
Galveston

OK - Now WHERE is "THE POOP DECK?!?" Certainly not in Kansas...or is it?!? :laugh: :grin: :wink:
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: davedel44 on December 24, 2018, 10:57:23 AM
OK - Now WHERE is "THE POOP DECK?!?" Certainly not in Kansas...or is it?!? :laugh: :grin: :wink:

Corner of 30th St. and Seawall Blvd.  On Galveston Island, Texas across the street from the beach and one of the new $ 90,000 Portland Loos.
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Dave
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: JJ on December 24, 2018, 11:34:38 AM
Corner of 30th St. and Seawall Blvd.  On Galveston Island, Texas across the street from the beach and one of the new $ 90,000 Portland Loos.
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Dave

When in Galveston TX, everyone should visit..."THE POOP DECK!!"  :shocked: :huh: :rolleyes: :laugh: :grin: :wink:


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Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on December 24, 2018, 06:13:15 PM
Had to run to cycle gear to get some cable lube, so took the long cut following the ocean, then turned inland.
Along here, there was a sign proclaiming, "Ocean view vacation homes starting at $1,495,000."
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Really had to struggle to keep my wallet closed..  :smiley:
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: oldbike54 on December 24, 2018, 07:03:36 PM
^^^ Goodness , for a mill and a half we could by Cedar Vale and build a beach  :shocked:

 Dusty
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on December 24, 2018, 07:33:30 PM
You know, Dusty.. I was thinking at the time, "not a million and a half, only 1.495.."  :rolleyes:
Cedar Vale is another world. Honestly, I like it better.. but.. I don't dislike SoCal or the people that live here. We are all the same under the skin. Really.
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: oldbike54 on December 25, 2018, 12:11:49 AM
You know, Dusty.. I was thinking at the time, "not a million and a half, only 1.495.."  :rolleyes:
Cedar Vale is another world. Honestly, I like it better.. but.. I don't dislike SoCal or the people that live here. We are all the same under the skin. Really.

 Yes we are , well , most of us anyway  :laugh:

 Dusty
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Darren Williams on December 25, 2018, 06:23:08 AM
In Port Aransas, Texas for the week. got the pedal bikes so Debra and I can ride all over town and out to the beach. Weather has been perfect so far.

I would love to move to California except for two things, cost of living and the quantity of people. Sometimes I think Oklahoma is way over crowded.
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Luap McKeever on December 25, 2018, 05:38:15 PM
I've been riding all weekend. Not a Guzzi, but getting my field in shape for spring...
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Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: LowRyter on December 26, 2018, 05:04:21 PM
Corner of 30th St. and Seawall Blvd.  On Galveston Island, Texas across the street from the beach and one of the new $ 90,000 Portland Loos.
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Dave

I actually used that facility pictured about 3 1/2 weeks ago.  Well worth it.

Had a beer at the Poop deck too.

Then went on a Caribbean cruise .
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Lannis on December 26, 2018, 06:24:23 PM
I've been riding all weekend. Not a Guzzi, but getting my field in shape for spring...
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A Mahindra.   What model is it?   How does it do?   What size bush-hog will it pull?   Enquiring tractor-less minds want to know ....
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Luap McKeever on December 28, 2018, 06:20:45 AM
A Mahindra.   What model is it?   How does it do?   What size bush-hog will it pull?   Enquiring tractor-less minds want to know ....

Yes. I live in Mahindra country. The largest dealer in the USA is in Anderson Mo and they're awesome tough machines.  Mine is model 2538 (38HP). I had an eMax 25 before this one, but it proved to be way too small for what I needed so I upgraded.

I don't pull a brush hog, but I do plan to borrow my neighbors 6' hog this spring though. If his old 8N will handle it, I know this thing will.

I use a 6' box blade, 6' rake, 6' finish mower and an 6' cultivator.
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Lannis on December 28, 2018, 07:13:39 AM
Yes. I live in Mahindra country. The largest dealer in the USA is in Anderson Mo and they're awesome tough machines.  Mine is model 2538 (38HP). I had an eMax 25 before this one, but it proved to be way too small for what I needed so I upgraded.

I don't pull a brush hog, but I do plan to borrow my neighbors 6' hog this spring though. If his old 8N will handle it, I know this thing will.

I use a 6' box blade, 6' rake, 6' finish mower and an 6' cultivator.

I'm getting rid of my three antique tractors (Ferguson 50, Ferguson 35, and Farmall Cub) and planning to buy something new (-ish, maybe).   Mahindra dealers are thin on the ground here, and the prices are climbing up nearer to the Deere and Kubotas, which have held their prices down some, probably in response to Mahindra's competition.

Five-foot implements are what I've been using on the 35 (six-foot on the 50); but I'm really looking for the smallest tractor that will effectively pull a 5-foot heavy-duty bush-hog and a 6-way heavy Kewanee blade .....

Lannis
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: ScepticalScotty on December 28, 2018, 08:18:04 AM
Had a lovely little ride yesterday in about 48 degrees F down into Cornwall for lunch, then to drop off stuff for relatives and then home. Blue skies. Great to be on the bike after a few weeks off. For the next couple of months its only going to be every second weekend I am going to be able to ride it. I highly recommend Chequered Flag Cafe just outside Liskeard Cornwall. Great food, books to read, or to buy, second hand gear and bikes, workshop etc etc.
Title: Re: Where Is Everybody?
Post by: Luap McKeever on December 28, 2018, 02:14:51 PM
I'm getting rid of my three antique tractors (Ferguson 50, Ferguson 35, and Farmall Cub) and planning to buy something new (-ish, maybe).   Mahindra dealers are thin on the ground here, and the prices are climbing up nearer to the Deere and Kubotas, which have held their prices down some, probably in response to Mahindra's competition.

Five-foot implements are what I've been using on the 35 (six-foot on the 50); but I'm really looking for the smallest tractor that will effectively pull a 5-foot heavy-duty bush-hog and a 6-way heavy Kewanee blade .....

Lannis

You should look at the Mahindra eMax 25 or the Max 26 line then. Right now is the time to buy too, with huge end of year savings. They're small and can be fitted with belly mowers, can handle a 5' hog and that blade. But, you'll want more hp before long like I did. I don't know how I managed a full year with only 25HP.

BTW, there's a reason Mahindras prices are climbing. The 7 year warranty and the toughest, most powerful tractor money can buy today. You should research the Mahindra Common Rail engine too. That's a huge plus and money saver that nobody else is doing.  I'm very happy with mine. Around here, small JD's are rare. Mahindra is THE market here. Small Deeres are made in China, so you might as well save some money and buy a Yanmar since they're the same thing with a $8000 green paint job. Plus, they can't lift an infant. Kubotas are nice, but I needed more lift power, and the HST option on Kubotas are weak after robbing of a lot of HP from the PTO. I also wanted that 7 year power train warranty and 2 year bumper to bumper. All this of course is the opinion I reached after months of research and testing out. FWIW, New Holland was my 2nd choice, but I much prefer the 4 cyclinders of Mahindra to the 3 of everyone else.

It helped that a dealer is 30 minutes away and has been in business dealing tractors since 1905. Wish I could say that about my Guzzi :-)

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