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    Possible rolling blackouts

    Texas. More people using more power with no infrastructure upgrades. What could go wrong?
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    Current thoughts on the covid vaccine???

    Had the 2cd Pfizer shot yesterday and my wife was able to sign up for next week for her 1st. I am feeling no side effects yet. I feel fortunate. We have lost a cousin and two neighbors to Covid.
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    Current thoughts on the covid vaccine???

    I get the second Pfizer on Friday and am happy it's available. The ND plan isn't very organized as far as how to get on a waiting list.
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    Grain Bin accident

    It isn't that farmers don't know how to condition and handle grain. It's that sometimes they don't do it. NDSU has endless info on the subject and that info is known by anybody in the business. There are no real shortcuts to aerating grain, it just takes time. Dryers speed up the process but add...
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    Grain Bin accident

    Bad outcomes in grain bins are a combination of mistakes. High moisture grain is out of condition and then it bridges up. Combined too wet and not enough aeration in the bin to dry it. Dry grain won't bridge. How many times too do you see shear pins replaced with hard bolts and safety cages over...
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    Generators

    Mine is a 16 kw, bought at the local lumberyard, about $4600 with tax.
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    Generators

    I bought one last fall as 2 neighbors have the same and like them. It was a 3 month wait so it's still in the shop in the box.
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    Bitcoin

    There was a guy in the UK that stored his password on a separate hard drive. He had bought bitcoin when they first came out at around 25 cents per. Now his sum is worth 100 million plus and he can't find the hard drive. He believes it is in the city landfill but would cost more than that to dig...
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    backup camera

    I bought one from Amazon for $25 or so to use on my Bobcat skidsteer. They are so cheap that if you read the reviews you can't go too far wrong.
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    Photo Management

    B&H Photo has refurbished computers at a mark down. Very reputable company. I'm no photo whiz but use Picasa 3 to download from the camera. It is free. You can do some simple editing in that program and then import pics to the program on your hard drive. From there I store pics I may want to...
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    Anyone Tie Flies?

    So for guys after northern pike, what are you using for leader material and what line? Weight forward or what?
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    Anyone Tie Flies?

    Many years back I would cast small white streamers for spawning perch. The pike would come in to the creek to feed on them. The biggest pike I landed was 7 lbs. The one that got away was a biggy and I doubt if it even knew it was hooked. I had it gently up to the surface twice and then it slowly...
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    Anyone Tie Flies?

    What wt. rod and line are you guys throwing those pike streamers with?
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    Anyone Tie Flies?

    My fly efforts are dismal but I once met a couple fellows from X while hunting pheasants who asked for hun skins. Every few years I mail them a hun pelt and in return get a bunch of flies that are works of art to me. A pretty good trade.
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    New To Ice Fishing & Ĺocations

    Check your PMs.
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    Buying snowshoes advice

    If he is in the woods he'd likely need bear paw style without the long tails. Whatever his weight, go up 25 lbs or more unless he is on groomed trails.
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    New Private Habitat Plots

    Habitat = hunting. From a hunting aspect it is tough walking but not as bad as cattails. Deer and pheasants like the cover because they can move through it easily. I broadcast seeded a small plot in November and had enough left over for a couple small patches in the yard. Kind of anxious to see...
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    New Private Habitat Plots

    Pheasants Forever & the Bee and Butterfly Fund have teamed up on a habitat seeding program for wildlife in the mid-west and North Dakota made the cut. You apply for a seed contract and if accepted you get a seed mix of about 3 dozen native grasses and flowers. B&BF has the goal of helping...
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    End of the year, Hunting, fishing or both?

    Went ice fishing this morning and had the last rooster hunt of the season this afternoon. Perfect day in ND, 35 degrees and no wind.
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    End of the year, Hunting, fishing or both?

    I think yesterday was my last pheasant hunt. They can't run so well in the new snow but I don't handle it well either. One in the bag and another coon too. Never encountered so many coons in the cattails as this year. Probably the coons had bigger litters from all the corn left standing a year...

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