Here's John McCormack,

 to make it officially St. Patrick's Day!

Annual Dam Fire 2022

You have to fight the trees every year to keep them off the dam. The easy part of woody vegetation control is annual burning to knock little trees back to the ground. We will be applying herbicide on trees out here after everything greens up.

See Good Trees, An Easy Method To Thin Your Timber

 Working in timber is good for you. I did this type of work for thirty five years and still have good knees, and I enjoyed all but one day in the woods. In this instance we are working in large sapling and pole timber. Using a spacing for 40 to 50 crop trees per acre will have your timber in good shape. A spacing of 33' by 33' will give you 40 trees per acre. A spacing of 30' by 30' will yield 48 crop trees per acre. You will be pacing the distances and selecting good trees close to your distance, so the actual number of crop trees will vary. Shoot for opening your crop trees on three side, and some on four sides. Trees along the edges you can leave alone, or open them on two sides, because the ones on the edge are wide open on two sides already, and will be low quality because of limbs hanging on.

YouTube Aggravation

 Serious YouTubers are all trying to get to 1000 subscribers so they can monetize their channel, and make a bit of money from ads. Some channels surge ahead with thousands and then millions of views per video, while most of us slog along and watch most videos get a few hundred, then stagnate. Susan and I make a little money each month and we are over 7000 subscribers now. We often visit with commenters on our videos and that is enjoyable. We recently have been listening to Country Joe McDonald's performances on his War War War album. It is a selection of Robert W. Service poems set to music by Joe McDonald, and it is wonderful if you are a fan of Robert W. Service. Joe has many other videos on his channel of music going back to his pre-Woodstock days. You will see ads being run by YouTube on his songs, but Joe is not making money from those ads. He currently has just over 800 subscribers, so he is not eligible for monetizing. He also does not get a lot of views and I suspect YouTube doesn't push him with their selections they show to viewers. Anyhow, show the 81 year old artist  a bit of honor and respect by clicking to his channel from this video and hit the subscribe button. If you want to order War War War or any of Joe's other CDs, you can do so from his website: https://www.countryjoe.com/store.htm  Ordering is a bit different there. You make your order, submit it, and in a couple days you will get an email that you answer to pay. It is easy. Here is the Foreward, by Robert W. Service and Country Joe McDonald. 

By the way, this blog is in no way connected to Country Joe McDonald, except we have listened to him many times. We are not being compensated for this endorsement. 

Tuesday Torque: Case Coffin Style Tractors

 These tractors are rare classics. The opposed cylinder engine makes for a long, impressive layout to the tractor. Merle found a couple videos for us. Thank You Merle!

MMMMM.....White Oak!

Wow! You gotta admire this couple!

 

Back To The Old Grind!

Weekend Steam II: Engines In Cincinnati!

 Great movies, Merle! Thank You for spotting! The old Vaudeville routine goes, "You been in all those shows, you must have traveled respectively."  "Oh sure, I've been all over Europe, Asia, Cincinnati." Anyhow, you mention Cincinnati, and that is where my mind goes.

Weekend Steam: The Greatest Sounding Locomotives In The UK!

 Pour a cup of coffee and sit a spell! Thank You, Merle!

A.C.O. Silos

Spring Is Coming!

 And so is a cold snap! Low of 17 forecast for Friday night, along with sleet during the day. Cold again Saturday, but it will warm up Sunday.

The crocuses are gone, daffodils are popping.