Jim Ed Love

re: Any tips on etiquette for asking a neighbor to let you raise 1-2 cows with his

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 10/8/25 at 4:48 pm to Royalfishing

SLAUGHTER COWS

You ever eat beef from a COW?

It ain't for shite----don't even make good hamburger.

Ever eat a buck deer full in rut that you chased for two mile before you shot him?

It is worse than eatin a boar hog.

Slaughter cows go into tv dinners and beef pot pies.

re: Diesel mechanic help

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 10/3/25 at 12:43 pm to Crappieman

Yes, yes they can.

Current John Deere dealer shop rate here is $200 an hour.

That can add up quick.

re: Diesel mechanic help

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 10/2/25 at 10:28 pm to shoelessjoe

If oil pressure is good----means main bearings ain't washed.

Pump timing being a lil slow or a lil fast can make one smoke depending on a number of factors during engine operation----load, no load, idle, etc.

If machine is out of warranty---run it. As long as you have power a lil oil
pumping can be lived with.

A quart a day if mower is running all day would not be too much for me.
Oil is cheap---compared to a rebuild.

One other thing, and you may have mentioned it and I over looked it.
Check your air filter. Diesel has got to have air and restricted air will make one smoke or be low powered.

Addendum---After she gets good and hot and you shut her down, how easy does she start back up?

re: Diesel mechanic help

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 10/1/25 at 11:06 pm to shoelessjoe

Well, its a gotdam Jap Yanmar for one thing.

How handy are you with a set of wrenches?

Pull front timing cover off and roll engine until timing mark on crank gear and timing mark on cam gear line up. Stop! Do not pass go and do not collect $200 dollars. Now, loosen off pump to where you can rotate timing mark on pump gear to line up with the other two marks. You may have to pull pump plum out to do that, if so rotate it by hand till they line up. You might have to stick it back and forth a few times until it matches. When all timing marks line up bolt the pump back down.

There is an easier way but I don't know your knowledge base , so I'm more or less giving you Eugene and LeRoy instructions.

re: Vader’s Model Desk: Messerschmitt Bf109-G

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 8/23/25 at 12:05 am to WWII Collector

Growing up (late 60's early 70's) could barely afford the models let alone the paint, so they just got built to what ever the plastic color was be it airplane, car, or tank models.

All military models after being built met the same fate--to see how fast they could be blowed up with a Cobra or Black Cat firecracker.

Excellent work by you model builders.

re: Mason, TX Hunting Lease

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 8/20/25 at 7:13 pm to JohnDoe00

He's there! He just ain't been spotted yet. That area is where the Brady Buck came from!

Spend the money, ya only live once. Well, wait a minute--did all the deer get warshed away when the creek got up?

re: Surveyor Help

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 8/16/25 at 7:20 pm to Hydrasports205

Easy to read a legal description and determine acres. HERE, land was surveyed into sections (640 acres) then broke out from that.

My area was surveyed in 1872 when is was still considered Indian Territory.
Iron pins were drove in the corners of each Section and are still to be found today.

In the Library of Congress there is a journal of the survey crew that did this area. In it are the descriptions of the lay of the land, the wildlife encountered,
the species of trees on each tract, and encounters with hostiles.

If I have a property line dispute on any of my ranches (and I have). I wont' go with anything but dragging chains on the level. GPS and lasers have caused screwups from here plumb to the Indian Meridian which is the North -South base line (reference point) for this State.

East of the Mississippi may not have as solid reference points, I don't know.

re: RV towing with a 1/2 ton (minor update)

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 8/4/25 at 1:36 am to BoogaBear

28 to 32 foot on a bumper? No way in hell would I even think about it, not even with the best weight distributing hitch in America.

Tail can wag the dog even with a hitch brake and a 32 foot get to wagging on
a half ton truck and chances are you aim to get in the ditch or cross a lane and wind up killing a whole family.

If me, and I was set on buying a travel trailer with any size and was gonna use a half ton because I had to. I WOULD PUT A FIFTH WHEEL HITCH IN IT. There are hitches available that slide in and out on the rails leaving only the rails in the truck. The rails don't clutter the bed that bad.

No comparison in the world between pulling a bumper or gooseneck/fifth wheel. NONE.

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re: Do you believe in secret societies

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 7/31/25 at 2:28 pm to Snipe

AYAK?

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re: Listen to my words. I’ve been an HVAC mechanic for a long time.

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 7/11/25 at 12:50 pm to BigBinBR

Yep, bought a ten pound keg of 410A last week off the internet. Company has ever Freon available.

Was ordered on July 3rd and was delivered at the ranch gate July 7th and this is BFE Oklahoma.

I don't have an HVAC license and do not need one here to put my own Freon in. Got a set of gauges and do my own AC work on the house, trucks, and cab tractors.

Cost was $22 a pound and it had free shipping. The AC mafia may get me.

re: Wasps, yellow jackets, hornets

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/20/25 at 12:07 pm to Fat and Happy

I'm not sure I 100% agree with you Lou.

Used to rob bee trees growing up. Wild bees here tend to be what we call a Black Bee. They are meaner than a domestic honey bee. Out in the woods if you get too close to a bee tree they get stirred up.

re: Wasps, yellow jackets, hornets

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/20/25 at 9:41 am to ddbnsb

Ticks---you forgot ticks. And chiggers

re: My Daughter Wants Some Home Protection

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/19/25 at 10:47 pm to Lsutigerturner

Gotdam fellers, some of these recommendations are mucho dollars. Why not recommend a Eugene Stoner original?

re: 75 in custody; firearms and gambling cash seized in Alabama cockfighting crackdown

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/19/25 at 10:31 pm to Spaniard

Well, by gawd you ain't bashful about it with that profile pic.

re: 75 in custody; firearms and gambling cash seized in Alabama cockfighting crackdown

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/19/25 at 10:12 pm to OWLFAN86

OK----got ya.

But, this is the South and we don't back down.

Livestock included. I have seen bulls fight until necks are broke. Sicilian Jacks bite until half a neck was gone and the only way to keep them from killing one another was to drive a 4440 John Deere between the two and knock them down and hold them down with a front end loader until a gate got opened to chouse one of them out the lot. Rams--the same way. Not often but they have paired up here and fought till skulls cracked.

What happens in the story books and what occurs in real life sometimes don't jive.

Now, this will set you off but as I said earlier; I don't care what they do. This State was one of the last to ban Cock--chicken fighting. It is also a Federal offense -----but a bill was introduced in the State House to allow
a modified form of chicken fighting. It passed the House but died in the Senate. The general thought is it will pass next session. Our illustrious Governor has said if it reaches his desk it will be signed disregarding Federal Statute.

re: 75 in custody; firearms and gambling cash seized in Alabama cockfighting crackdown

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/19/25 at 9:12 pm to OWLFAN86

Where in the charolais shite did you come up with this? Some docker wearing-patent leather shoe acehole?

I'm telling you in the here and now the roosters running on these two sections are always, dam always having a squab. This is real world. Not some ducky boy writing a thesis paper whose only exposure to a rooster was at the children's barnyard at State Fair.

It is the male hierarchy to want to fight and chickens ain't no different.

re: 75 in custody; firearms and gambling cash seized in Alabama cockfighting crackdown

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/19/25 at 6:41 pm to FightinTigersDammit

If you notice in my posting I said "Back in my younger days I went to a lot of them"

I have not been to a chicken fight since I went off to get a college edukation.
When you are brought up a certain way and are ingrained in a culture, it is hard to break the bounds of said culture unless enlightened otherwise.

I could care less about others fighting chickens but I will never go to another chicken fight as long as I'm alive. It is just something that I don't care if I see anymore.

This area of the State is more Old South than the Deep South. Rooster fighting is old Southern culture and the old cultures are alive here. Most all know how to make redeye gravy and I would bet that most Bamie and Georgie boys don't even know what it is, let alone on how to make it. A lot of folks here still scald and scrape hogs on New Years Day---again, old culture that is alive and well here and in which is how we were brought up.

I have a few roosters running here on the place to keep the poison snakes in check. They will fight each other and if I don't catch them ever so often and keep the spurs cut with a pair of side cutters they will flat out kill one another, and these are tame chickens not game. Game roosters are a whole new level of being ill tempered.

re: 75 in custody; firearms and gambling cash seized in Alabama cockfighting crackdown

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/18/25 at 4:19 pm to Bobby Profile

We call them chicken fights here. Cock fight is just gay as hell. Went to a lot
of them back in my younger days. The strychnine poison that others have posted is the real deal, that along with pure black pepper. Anyway to try to get an edge.

Gaffe fighting here, sometimes a blade match but it was a special occasion and heavily promoted. Drew a lot of out of country fighters along with huge--I'm talking huge money.

The stories of local jackboots being payed off is so. The County Sheriff ran the pit barn and still does. Two big pits left in this County and the fights go on.

In the pictures on the first page, you see the main pit along with what is know as the drag pits on either side of the main. If match is moved to drag pit is determined by time count and how match fighting the roosters are doing. Drag pit is literally dead roosters that don't know they are dead yet..

Not all fighting roosters will fight. Sometimes on the first handle a rooster will run or try to flight out of pit. The owner of the runner loses the match right then and there, Here a runner gets his neck rung right in the pit for all to see.

Have saw handlers get a gaffe in a femoral artery in the pit and tie off with hay twine to finish the match.

Some are questioning the humaneness of chicken fighting. Well, it ain't.
It is how we were brought up and part of the culture.

re: Employer provided retirement healthcare coverage

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/6/25 at 5:17 pm to Disco Ball

Roger-O

re: Employer provided retirement healthcare coverage

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/6/25 at 4:52 pm to Disco Ball

Good health ---Played D1 football, so have a broke bone or two. Used to run a 4.4 forty back in the day and I'm lily white. Cain't run it no more tho.

BP is always 115-120, 70-80 even when I'm stirred up. Had a heat stroke a couple a months ago (April) when I knew better but wanted to get that last post hole dug.

Had to go to ER and wound up staying 3 days. Humana Medicare advantage
are lower than the lowest copperhead or cottonmouth. Corksucking Suns a Beches. Initial claim was of coarse denied and had to bat signal Luigi.

I ain't gonna go thru that again. Can I wait till Dec. or should I act post haste?

re: Employer provided retirement healthcare coverage

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/6/25 at 4:04 pm to Disco Ball

DIsco-----Let's say that a person had a vocation that paid a supplement

after retirement and to keep that supplement, that person had to stay on with

that entity and the choice of plans that entity provided and make up the

balance of the plan selected out of pocket.

Now--let's say that when the person reached 65 and went on Medicare

they went on an Advantage plan to save the cost of a case a beer a

month and to say F you to the retirement supplement provider and still

continue to get the $110 a month retirement benefit.

How hard is it to get back on traditional Medicare?

re: NCAA Baseball Tournament | Regionals | Sunday

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/1/25 at 3:32 pm to DownOnWashington

Hell yes, by gawd! Flip bats, run yo mouth now peachies.

SEC Rant

re: NCAA Baseball Tournament | Regionals | Sunday

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 6/1/25 at 3:21 pm to 214

Perty easy to beat a team that dances around like Kansas City ****.

Pistols firing!

SEC Rant

re: Any of you guys ever see white rabbits?

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 5/14/25 at 4:24 pm to Big Jim Slade

No, ya do not! Ex-wife was WPRA barrel racer and a rodeo queen and bipolar as a bessie bug. She was also 12 year younger than me.

Gotdam! It was a wild time. Had to hide all the guns and the bullets. Wild and mean as a Comanche. I look back bout ever day and think what the hell I was thinking.

re: Southeast and Midwest Severe Weather Outbreak & Flood Event: April 2-7, 2025

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 4/5/25 at 6:45 pm to deltaland

Hell, I thought Birdcloud was a blues mammie from back in the 30's. Cause of your post I had to look them up. They ain't bad both ways.

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re: Southeast and Midwest Severe Weather Outbreak & Flood Event: April 2-7, 2025

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 4/5/25 at 6:40 pm to calcotron

Naw, That is the dialect here. Except in a professional setting I tend to communicate in the wrote word as I speak.

Been fixin warshed out water gaps all day and finding loose stock. Time for some redeye and catheads now.

re: Southeast and Midwest Severe Weather Outbreak & Flood Event: April 2-7, 2025

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 4/5/25 at 3:00 pm to deltaland

Naw, prob parked train on trestle to help weigh it down. They do that on rail bridges to try to keep them from warshing away.

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re: Any Mechanics Here -- Diesel Turbo Question

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 1/1/25 at 5:57 pm to Ambassador

They broke it off in ya. The red flags would have been going up on the first screw up. I would be damned if I would be eating the cost of the rebuilder problem.

There is a couple or three engine builders in Houston. One is fit to deal with and the others ain't even good parts changers. Did your old boy say anything about how the main caps and bearings looked upon tear down?

I would spend a couple hundred for a jack-legged lawyer to write a sternly written letter and go from there. If no response, go full bore.

Something ain't right. Either a meskin did not clean the bores and oil galleys after he punched the cylinder holes or the engine installer fumbled the ball. If me I'd get blood or turnip or they'd be buying new plate glass windows.

re: Any Mechanics Here -- Diesel Turbo Question

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 1/1/25 at 11:08 am to billjamin

This right here.

On an intercooled engine when a turbo lets loose most of the time any metal gets trapped in the intercooler along with oil suck. Any metal particles that make it thru then have to get thru the head and then thru the intake valves.

Blown a few turbos on Cat, Cummins, and John Deere and never suffered catastrophic engine failure. Just put on a new turbo, get all the oil out of the intercoolers, and gone on running.

I dunno, ya might be getting the britches put on you.

re: Poor things you still do

Posted by Jim Ed Love on 11/12/24 at 1:02 am to TutHillTiger

If ya have someone stand on the bed of a pickup and held the hose chest high, when you shut the pump off you can squeeze the handle and get about half a coke bottle of free gas or diesel.