Washington has had the Apple Maggot quarantine for quite a while now.
Most of the BIG signs are down near the house and I have not made a run
east in a while. I really should take a drive to Spokane some time soon.

But the last time that I was going south the person at the check point
was more of an @ than the US border guards ever have been.

 

True that. A couple of the ones that I have dealt with were prime, grade A @.

Then there were a couple of sweethearts that could make you feel good about interacting with them.

 

Last trip I made to Washington Sean was my Garmin ( thanks Sean) on the way back I still had room on the Trailer so I picked up 40 bails of grass hay , the tarp was off the back and it was Raining hard , got to the check point and the guy Asked ( why are you hauling Wet Hay) I looked at him and said it was the only tarp with in 100 miles I could find , the guy laughed and said have a good evening , don’t know if he just forgot to check the load or he was from Oregon

 

Nothing like wet bales of anything.

Did you get it dried out so you could use it?

P.S. At least you did not have the mess I saw on I-90
one year. The truck lost it load and it was smoking on
the side of the road. How much do you want to bet that
the driver dumped it because it had been bailed green.
Looked to be one of the jumbo bails too. All over the side
of the freeway, and like I said Hoe enough to be steaming.

 

Cali4nia is in a drout , Cows didn’t mind , good thing was it didn’t have a chance to mold up ,

 

When I as about 13~14 I was working at a horse ranch down the road a bit and we got some hay in one time that pheasant in about 3 flakes. I really did not want to give
that mess to the horses so it went into the used bedding pile. Told my boss/owner and he was ok with it. To be able to go back to that kind of days. Just school and no
other big worries. Well I did have a few horses that were my direct responsibility. And every Wednesday was roping night and dealing with the cows was fun even if you got
abused by the stupid cows every now and then. But the money was good and got better when you did a good job. We got tips and a % of the pot for each go round. The only time
we (young persons) weren't allowed to help was the time they tried bull tiding.The beasties were not the friendly sort. Well unless you had food to toss into them.

But all in all that is where I learned to ride and care for the larger critters. I also got my horse that way too. Green broke Arabian stallion that had been turned out to a
paddock with nothing to do. Boy Oh Boy can I pick them. Just went about it like he had never been broke in the first place. Lots of hours of just handling him and
it payed off. The first time I put a saddle on him it was a bet. That one did not end well. It was ok getting it on him and me in the saddle. BUT then he went BOOM!
But I guess I like a challenge a d so I was hooked. I talked to the boss and he gave me the OK to try.

I got tossed a few other times and various other things including the bite on the arm. Stupid cat at home was in heat and it turned him on. He was sniffing me and had never
tried to bite before and never again after that time. But what he did was try to take a nip out of my forearm (Brachioradialis) It wasn't deep just a nip with THEM BIG teeth.

Long story LONGER he turned out to be a good horse and I even got to ride him in one of the Sea-Fair parades in Seattle. Was really fun even if I was sitting on a fully intact
Arabian Stallon. They can be a bit skittish but the day went well and he behaved with only one issue and that was he through a shoe on the back street going back to the trucks.
I hopped off him and checked the hoof and all seemed to be ok and I picked up the sue and walked him back not wanting to cause any issues with a missing shoe.

Night everyone.

 

do any of yall know anything about battery cutoff switches?? like what they use in race cars and such? not meaning how they work.. but like determining what size you need to get the right one..

 

Because your going to be ditching you wil want to dearth the switch if it does
not give a DC rating.

 

say wah???

 

Sean’s been dipping into the apple cider again.

It depends what you’re trying to cutoff. If it’s the starter, you need one with a big honkin rating, like 800 amps. If you’re trying to disconnect power to the cab and other electronics, you can do that from the drivers battery connection with a 150-200 amp switch to be safe.

 

i kinda wondered that.. or if hed got cracked on the head and was speaking dutch lol...

its for my new winch.. the instructions not really specific on its draw but it listed it required a 650cca battery to power it.. since im running the wires to the rear i wanted to have a manual cutoff switch under the hood near the batt to shut off the feed to the connector when not in use. wiring it with 2/0 cable if since the winch know it alls said the 2ga would create too much resistance over the long run to the rear.

 

Often in the manual it can have a table for amps, or the company’s web site.

 

ill have to look again to see if they had it listed.. since i dont have it in front of me if it says and want to make sure i understand what to look at afterwards (since this is another thing that confused me when i was looking at switches).. if i find it says like 300 DCA in the instructions am i wanting that rating for the continuous rating? or surge rating of the switch?

 

Stupid iPad I changed that twice to say the correct thing.

What I was saying is that if your using a switch that does not have a
DC rating you will have to de-rate it. You will have to look at the data sheet
for the switch to see what the DC rating is.

Here is a different way to go about hooking up a winch.
You can also make a jumper cable set with the plug on the end instead of clamps.


https://www.grainger.com/product/3BY...1-adType%5EPLA

 

Continuous.