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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 3d

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 12d

Beech tree being all tree like in the woods

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 13d

Theres nothing wrong with just drifting in no thought from feeling like a burnt out sparkler. You will find your shore eventually. You got this.

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 16d

Apparently Im a horrible bean farmer, but got more back than was put in. Will try again next year.

Tiny pile of beans filled with plant trash

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 17d

Half the fields done and I have this sad worthless dirty pile o’ beans 🫘. Next year no 1950s row spacing due to deer eating everything, and no cultivators that kick up rocks for the combine to eat.

Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 17d

Combine blues. Started running, fuel problems from dirty tank. Fixed, then ate a rock and kicked the rock door open, had to go get a jack to close it. Getting dark, dropped head too low and plug the sickle bar with dirt. Stopped to clean it and now batteries dead. Have like 15 bushels of beans.

Questioning why I do this to myself while rolling in the dirt under the gleaner

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 21d

Think this and the kon suito both ended up with brown leaf spot, which is a fungal disease. The weedy stuff was left to be dryish and avoided most of it. The kon suito in the paddy was planted too dense and flooded too much making a fungi playground that ruined it. So can fix it next year.

Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 21d

Zerawchanica rice cut and drying. Horrible weedy mess, learned that even if your ignoring rice and letting it run wild make sure you plant it in rows. Mainly because its faster and easier to cut things in a line vs scattered everywhere.

Zerawchanica rice broadcast seeded and the ignored made for a light stand.

Bundles of 70% weeds and 30% rice hung and drying.

Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · 28d

Bad news for the Kon Suito rice patch, its been blighted. The Zerawchanica patch still looked happy so hoping to get it harvested soon.

Blighted rice, sad discolored leafs with rust spots and panicles filled with discolored bacteria infected kernals

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Oct 3

Clutch problem solved, rats nest in lift elevator. Barfed it out after a few easy clutch bumps. Yay for easy fixes!

A pile of gross stuff lumped into an otherwise clean combine bin

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Oct 3

Chopper the Gleaner K2 has a new shiny radiator hose off a jeep, and is back alive for its annually run. But seems the thresher is plugged up with something because it wont engage. Half way there.

Chopper the combine warming up in a field, behind it a 1972 k20 in similar disrepair

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Oct 3

Bean bales! First time bailing forage beans, figured would try it to weird people out at the hay auctions this winter.

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Sep 30

Went to wake up the combine from its year long slumber and was greeted by a mess when it started. Honestly who eats radiator hoses!?!?

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Sep 24

Not sure where this snapping turtle has been but they seem to have brought the river bottom up with them.

A muddy mess of a snapping turtle laying in the sun

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Sep 16

Current work in progress is trying to make a small rice/bean thresher out of an old wood chipper. As can be seen by what it took to remove this pulley its not going smoothly.

A bashed and cut cast iron pulley well beyond useful condition

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Sep 16

Northern lights from Sunday night

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks! Hopefully will be able to post a follow up, cautiously optimistic.

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Finally trying to fix my old korg ms20. Sure do miss working on through hole stuff.

Internally shorted leaking electrolyte capacitors

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not totally inaccurate, my one tractors fronts came that way. Though suspect its past owners were just lazy. Trucks looking good!

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Aug 28

Teeny tiny rice flowers, they don’t last long so always fun to catch them before they are gone. 🌱

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Aug 28

This was just my iphone 12 pro, just have to play to its strengths.

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌎 would use the heck out of it

Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Aug 25

This poor lil monarch got knocked on the ground before he was fully out by a large gust of wind blowing the goose statue he was on off the porch. But moved him to a cucumber and he popped out okay

Plastc goose with a monarch chrysalis under its bill

An almost opened chrysalis lounging in straw

Slightly shook up but otherwise okay fresh monarch ready to take flight

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Aug 25

A small but hungry monarch caterpillar munches on a milkweed leaf

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Chickenplucker @chickenplucker.bsky.social · Aug 20

Cicadas are everywhere this year, just up yelling at one another in the trees as a cicada do.

A cicada, pausing from going REEEEEEEEEEEE for just a moment

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