Grondhog Day
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Topic: Grondhog Day
Posted By: ac hunter
Subject: Grondhog Day
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 8:46am
| Happy Groundhog Day to everyone. I never have understood why anyone would celebrate one of those critters though. |
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 9:18am
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Agree! Live trapped two last year, RIP. |
Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 10:09am
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What we called "woodchucks" would play hell on dairy in upstate NY. Drop a front tractor tire into a hole and it would get your attention PDQ, let alone shear off a hub on loaded hay or forage wagon or mess up the cutterbar when you hit their dirt mound with the haybine. Neighbor growing up had a place to keep a rifle on every old JD he had and was a crack shot into his 70's. Watched him pull the clutch back once, stand up and grab that rifle out of the leather "holster" and pick one off from a good distance. We had Dachshunds on the farm and they could tear up a big one pretty good. Took em' a while to kill it but they never gave up until they did!
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Posted By: Kiwi
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 10:29am
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So what has the groundhog said about the weather is there more winter to come. ------------- Tractors Allis EB,two C,diesel G |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 10:36am
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Had a neighbor who's dad shot the last know wild buffalo in the county. Years later, the neighbor was asked by a man who raised buffalo if he would like to follow in his fathers footsteps. Seems he had a buffalo that needed to be put down and asked the neighbor if he wanted to do it. He drove to the mans place on his John Deere with his gun. Once the job was done, the gun was leaned against the wf of the tractor. The two men were talking and the gun was forgotten. The neighbor also forgot he chambered another round. The vibration of the tractor started the gun moving. It fell and went off putting a hole though the radiator of the tractor. The long standing joke was he shot a deer and a buffalo in the same day. True story. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 10:39am
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[TUBE]idoChiPn9zQ[/TUBE] ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 10:39am
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I know this has nothing to do with groundhogs, but carrying a gun on the John Deere made me think of it. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 10:42am
For a time, our family farm didn't have a tenant living in the old house. Groundhogs moved into/under the old corn crib. My grandpa and grandma would ride out to the farm in their 1968 Chevy C-10 pickup. Grandma had a 410 gauge Ithaca shotgun. Would lean outside of the rider side window and shoot groundhogs. Got two with one shot once. She was only 57 at the time, and a pretty good shot.  |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 10:50am
 ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: TimCNY
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:34pm
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Miserable rodent is only right 42% of the time. A coin toss is 50-50. You stand a better chance of being right than it does. ------------- I need more than 200 characters for my "signature." I'd love to see that changed to 250! |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 2:18pm
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I find that groundhogs are right about as often as the average weather forecaster, who, I think, also live underground as I can usually be more accurate by just lookin' outside!! |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2020 at 7:21pm
Pup's got it right.  ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: EricPA
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2020 at 3:04pm
If PETA gets it's way he may be replaced with an animatronic ground hog ------------- Life is tough,but it's tougher when you're stupid. - John Wayne |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2020 at 9:40am
| 6 more weeks till spring either way no matter what the groundhog says |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2020 at 10:56am
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6 weeks OR more since we never had winter YET! -- Time will tell! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2020 at 1:03pm
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We did have our January deep freeze up here, all be it a short one though. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2020 at 1:17pm
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I thought you were talking about the Jeep ad during the superbowl. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: 1955CA
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2020 at 3:10pm
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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2020 at 4:35pm
 ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |