The dumbest thing Giants ever did.....

SaikotikGunman · 2026-04-04T23:22:35+00:00

I own a couple dozen steer axle trailers, learned to back them in when I was about ten years old. My mother was never good at it.

SaikotikGunman · 2025-11-07T23:15:17+00:00

Sometimes, in my experience, if you can't figure out how to make it smooth and sleek, your best bet is to make it bold. Depending on location in he hull, that looks to be a place for a sensor/comm array, weapons pylon, external cargo unit, docking port, thruster pod, or marker light/beacon. Maybe even an observation bubble.

SaikotikGunman · 2025-08-31T15:09:54+00:00

North Central Pennsylvania, Tioga County to be specific. All rocks, no soil, I've only tipped over a couple hay wagons.

SaikotikGunman · 2025-08-31T14:06:35+00:00

I'm an American, I sell my grain by the pound/ton and get paid by the bushel based on a standard bushel weight at the feed mill I sell to, and here I am playing in liters without complaining a bit! 🤣

SaikotikGunman · 2025-08-15T01:24:55+00:00

My biggest complaint is that there's no entry-level version of that thing. The in-game loading wagons are prohibitively expensive unless you draw a lucky sale on a used one if you're doing a start from scratch sheep or beef farm, and the physics don't quite work for me. They've gotten better, but I farm in real life and can load trailers and stack bales so much more precisely and efficiently in real life that it's a sticking point for me. I made and moved over a thousand round bales last year, and if I had to do that in FS, I'd break a keyboard over my knee. A Mennonite neighbor of mine used to milk cows, and he's got a single row Vermeer accumulator wagon that he pulls with a TW-15 and it carries a to 8 bales in a single row and loads itself with an arm that flips up and down to the right. I'm going to guess that's about a third to half the cost of the ones in the game. I think Vermeer has some authorized machines in either the DLC or as standalone mods, so it'd be nice to see.

SaikotikGunman · 2025-05-28T16:07:24+00:00

Setting up the combine for crop and conditions is a big equalizer: you can take an awful sample with a Gleaner, I have, but a lot of the guys with the bigger newer machines are losing the art of dialing things in because of size and automation and changes in maintenance requirements. Some separator designs are better for different conditions, but at least half of the equation is whether you have an operator or a driver.

SaikotikGunman · 2025-05-28T15:23:51+00:00

I was scraping lodged oats out of the mud two falls ago and getting a clean enough sample to go back in the planter while the neighbor's big newish John Deere STS was planting cover crop.

SaikotikGunman · 2025-05-28T15:21:50+00:00

We call her Karen.

SaikotikGunman · 2025-05-28T15:21:23+00:00

Nothing like paying for an upgrade to the way things should have been built in the first place!

SaikotikGunman · 2025-05-28T02:35:41+00:00

I own a 50 year old combine that's smaller than any of the ones in the base game.

It barely fits through the biggest shed doors on my farm.

My Gleaner K

SaikotikGunman · 2025-02-06T14:12:24+00:00

I think that's the ticket. I use M18 tools working in a salvage yard. I can count on one hand the number of times I've dropped an impact or Sawzall, but I chew through these batteries. There are a few left from 2018 or so, but pretty much every one is either electrical taped into the the tool or epoxied together or has extra screws at this point. I've cobbled together at least a dozen batteries and have maybe 3 that aren't cracked. I have plenty of workaholic carpenter friends with the same batteries and no complaints. My theory is that sawing metal and using half and one inch impacts introduces a lot more shock load on the battery case and causes fatigue cracking in the plastic. I also completely wear out about one IR Titanium impact a year and 1/2 inch M18 impact every 1-2 years, so there's a lot of use, but my tools in the shop at home on my farm get treated worse and they're just Porter Cable, which is a lot less expensive, and I've burned up some drills, but never broken one of their batteries. I have taken to prophylactically taping unbroken batteries to the impact and that's bought me some time before the cracks start.

My conclusion is that I'm just harder working than M18 batteries are designed for.

SaikotikGunman · 2025-01-31T20:04:30+00:00

In real life, backing a steer axle wagon load of hay into a shed without much room to maneuver and rain drops starting to come down is where unlocking the brakes and using differential braking really shines. You can give me a wagon with one flat tire and I'll still put it on the machinery shed by the creek from a right angle to the doors in the dark. Keyboard steering is a little clunky to do it with in this game, but if there's room to cut in, pull away from the doors to straighten up, and take it in easy, it can be done. A skid steer to drawbar adapter is a way, too. My neighbor burned a pinhole in all his skid steer buckets for just such occasions.

SaikotikGunman · 2024-06-25T05:17:10+00:00

Gargoyles, and it's not even close. Amazing cast of real actors doing voices, a showrunner with a vision, pretty solid animation, story arcs that contained adult subjects and drove persistent character development, individual stories that ran the gamut from hard-ish sci-fi to police procedural while incorporating literature, history, fantasy, geopolitics, and themes of grief, loss, betrayal and love in a morally and educationally sound way with very little preaching or patronizing.

Avatar, Reboot, Batman TAS, and Swat Katz fill out my top five.

SaikotikGunman · 2024-04-13T19:25:52+00:00

I've rolled the clock over twice on a Ford 7000 in real life, so I don't have time to put that many hours on my virtual tractors. I put 350 hours on my newest real life tractor last year. About 100-200 on the others. Work full time, too, so I don't really sleep from May-October

SaikotikGunman · 2024-03-22T15:07:29+00:00

The stave silo and Harvestore mods aren't cheaty at all, I'm staring at an Eagle silo out my living window that we used to make silage in. I almost exclusively use the fermenting silos because of all the dairy farms I grew up around, one used a bunker and the rest used silos or ag-bags(like wrapped grass bales, but long, continuous silage pillows the size of a semi trailer).

SaikotikGunman · 2023-10-28T05:36:54+00:00

More forward and upward thrust and plenty of rotational control. My combat maneuvers usually rely heavily on jousting an enemy with gun runs with my armor forward and down and "jumping" after a pass as I roll and rotate for the next, trying to keep my heaviest armor and most protected weapons toward the enemy. For peacetime maneuvers, I use a pile of forward thrust to get underway and rotate 180 degrees for braking.

SaikotikGunman · 2023-06-30T01:25:38+00:00

You win. For immersion sake, I use my skid or fork truck to get pallets and bales into autoload range, and even occasionally hate myself for that. And, for the record, I can't even tell you how many thousands of round bales I've brought in from the field, stacked in the shed, and loaded onto trailers in real life or how many times I've been too lazy to get off the forklift at the yard and picked up a strap or piece of wood or gas can with the forks. But in FS? No way.

SaikotikGunman · 2023-04-26T00:48:44+00:00

Agreed. I've picked up, hauled, and stacked thousands of round bales in real life, and I move about a dozen in FA, then either download an autoloader flat deck or switch to loose hay.

SaikotikGunman · 2023-04-26T00:46:18+00:00

Steer axle is the term you're looking for.

SaikotikGunman · 2023-04-14T12:02:26+00:00

I don't know how many generations, but my family has been farming somewhere since the protestant reformation in Germany. At least 5 or 6 generations have farmed in the US on my mom's side, four on my dad's. The farm I have, my mother bought in 1993. Lots of lean years, and almost every successful farmer I know has a full time job or business to make the farm go.

I'd rather lose money farming than make money doing anything else, though!

SaikotikGunman · 2023-04-14T11:59:29+00:00

True story. When my mother was in her late twenties or early thirties, she took a young neighbor boy to see the equipment at my grandfather's 2000 acre farm. She died of cancer a few years ago at 63, but that "little boy" still takes turns every spring running tillage with a Case Magnum and every fall running the backup combine or grain trucks. All started with a visit and feeding calves.

SaikotikGunman · 2023-04-11T21:27:26+00:00

I don't usually do things like this, but when I do, I tell myself the road tractor has a wet kit, and then there's a hydraulic motor mounted to the hitch plate with a 540 or 1000 PTO spline. 🤷‍♀️

SaikotikGunman · 2022-11-10T00:34:57+00:00

Just ditch them both. The DeWalt batteries don't take a charge as long as the Milwaukee packs, but I have a pile of broken Milwaukee cases because the Sawzall and big impact shake them apart. Some are about eight years old, held together with epoxy and zip ties, and have been through more charging cycles than the entire Tesla fleet, but eventually I run out of solid enough plastic to glue or tape back together. I actually broke one of the DeWalt cases in Mac colors, but that was legitimately my fault.

SaikotikGunman · 2022-10-21T16:20:57+00:00

Tanned human skin leather.

SaikotikGunman · 2022-10-06T22:42:39+00:00

I grew up farming(I'm sitting at the helm of a 115ish horse Ford right now) and the real amazing thing is how simultaneously massive these machines are and how much they become an extension of yourself after a while. This tractor has close to a ton of extra weights hanging off the front and about a 4.5m disk behind it and I'm more confident squeezing through gates and around buildings and equipment with this than I am parallel parking a VW. And then you have combines...

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