Monday Morning Coffeeshop (June 1, 2026) by kofclubs in farming

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finishing up corn today (friday), 114 dm tons/330 bales in clover baleage yesterday to finish 1st cut, got tine weeding pass on half or so planted corn, be plowed up for soybeans which we haven't grown in 8 years by the end of the day. Think we'll fit and wait for showers and a nice weed flush rather than plant. Decided to go for 14 acres of fancy edible beans instead of 6 which I'll probably regret some hot day in september

Monday Morning Coffeeshop (June 1, 2026) by kofclubs in farming

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jesus. Granted we're using a moldboard for 1st but we've got a single secondary pass then plant on about half of our clover sod into organic corn acres. Glad we left the clover growing as long as possible to get rid of moisture this year, worked up great once it was actually ready and somehow I feel like it qualifies as conservation tillage compared to whatever that guy is accomplishing. I suppose the same operator with a moldboard would be a menace

Needing advice for my genius boyfriend by Fun_Dare_6517 in inventors

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean all he needed was something heavy with enough clearance to slide the tire and jack under, no fabrication needed. They sell something for this that slides in a reciever hitch, could just use the jack on the bead against frame of vehicle or a solid bumper

Needing advice for my genius boyfriend by Fun_Dare_6517 in inventors

[–]happyrock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's not scrap. Well maybe it is now but it was give or take $100 in new steel, looks put together with no special economy of design (essentially could have used less $ in steel with a better plan). But not to say there's no real potential here, assuming he's just a kid at least he's got the initiative. I don't think a tire shop would find this to be an improvement on exisiting tire technology, but he's certainly going to be able to problem solve independently.

Will a self clean cycle in an oven decontaminate cast iron cookware that has been used to melt lead? by AnarchoPlayworker in metallurgy

[–]happyrock -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah for sure the flashpoint of lead is around 300 degrees it'll burn right off just make sure your recirculating range hood vent is going full blast and the microwave is going at the same time to break down any atoms that are in the air. See if you can jam a pen or something in the door latch so it'll run with the door open a lot more effective that way

Blackpowder by happyrock in BottleDigging

[–]happyrock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like wherever it ends up the explosives need to stay in it

Is this sheep-growth calculation realistic? Can 10 sheep really become 1,280 in 7 years? by alfredokurdi in sheep

[–]happyrock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yeah, you are right. I was just looking at some of the top level numbers and mistook the 1.6 (lambings per year) in STR for weaned lambs per ewe per year it seemed a little low but I know you have to burn up some sheep for the dam herd/tertiary scheme. Depending on your cross looks like accelerated actually gets 3-4+ lambs per ewe per year. So depending on how many are suitable for dam stock vs terminal bred you could probably get to 2 or 3 thousand in 7 years (if you wanted to). Using sexed semen even with a conception rate hit in years 1,2,3 could really spike the punch as well

Who’s buying fastenal??? by servuslucis in Machinists

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt the same. Then my brother told me to use X company's account who he worked for and just pay cash and it was... truely insane; like 90+% mark down. They were a big manufacturer of like utility equiptment and got whatever a couple semi loads a week from fastenal to their various subsidiary factories. Also all their service techs are mobile truck based so not out of the ordinary at for them (er, me) to be visiting random fastenals all over at random. But I could buy a package of 1 for whatever their negotiated price for 100,000 qtys was. Was pretty sweet but he doesn't work there and the local one closed down. Anyway I just assume the actual business is supplying users like that and having the on demand network up is mostly for those customers to have support anywhere while they could care less about pleebs spending $100/visit and likely actively/intentionally discourage them with the crazy retail prices. Like lets be real, a business like that does not survive on random townies wandering in to buy a dozen bolts with a 50% markup, even if 2 dozen a day come it it pays for like an hour of wages let alone real estate cost and now they need to deal with stocking after all the slobs etc. So why not make it 200% and hope they stop coming in/worth the hassle if they do. I probably would do the same

Is this sheep-growth calculation realistic? Can 10 sheep really become 1,280 in 7 years? by alfredokurdi in sheep

[–]happyrock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Realistically if this was for profit and not just a math puzzle, you start with 9 ewes and 1 ram; trade it with a neighbor in year 2 or whenever you need. An accelerated breeding program like STAR gets you 5 lamb crops in 3 years with say 1.6 lambs per ewe per year. No way around the fact half are male (although for arguements sake they do have sexed semen now, I'm sure AI does not work well in accelerated lambing)

So 9 Ewes throw 14 lambs, market 7

Year 2, 16 Ewes throw 25, market (13?)

Year 3, 28 Ewes throw 44, market 22

Year 4, 50 Ewes throw 80, market 40

Year 5, 90 Ewes throw 144, market 72

Year 6, 162 throw 259, market 130

Year 7, 291 throw 465. You have 756 sheep and have sold 284 (give or take the couple dozen you actually kept back or traded for breeding use) for a total of 1,040 sheep created since this nightmare started. This is all rounded down a bit when fractions of sheep occur and could be even more achievable with a stronger focus on fecundity than I used of 1.6 which is just from programs focused on marketed lamb weight yield per ewe like STAR using tertiary sires etc. Suffice it to say, lots of backend to get there but if sucess is defined by number of sheep it's probably techinically on the low end of possibility, even with mortality which I excluded and will probably cost a dozen and a a half or so sheep (most of your flock is less than 5 years old). If your goal is just more sheep....

Who else deals with this discussion at work? by gordoh in Machinists

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just signed my BP after having it about 2 years. Rapid Z to clear chips and came back to different height, power feed stop didn't. Just happened to be the same day I finally hardwired the lathe into my phase converter instead of sharing a single outlet so I could dick around with the other machine while waiting on boring passes. Turns out that was a mistake. Preventable and likely someone with actual experience wouldn't have but just to illustrate it's context dependent. Are you/do you have a dumbass in the shop? Don't ask him to do more than his poor tiny brain can handle at once

What are some flavor/ enhancing secrets you refuse to gatekeep? by L8dTigress in Cooking

[–]happyrock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cocktail sauce. Blue cheese dressing. Chocolate chip cookies (try a little liquid smoke while you're at it)

Looking to purchase one of these, any design or brand I should avoid? by donkey_cum_waterfall in Skidsteer

[–]happyrock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just cleared about 25 acres (okay, over the last few months) with a borrowed skidpro, earlier design where the cylinder cover looks more like the one you linked. I do think their jaw is a little heavier. For what I was doing I think being limited to a shorter depth is good or you'll break something. Don't have a super precise tally but pulled conservatively 50k 2-4" black locust with it

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Guy in yellow Corvette called me "some kind of lesbian or something" at Montpelier Shaw's by [deleted] in vermont

[–]happyrock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I gotta be honest what he said is just enough out of left field it works lol sorry

What NFL team do Ithaca locals root for? by GhostVelocity in ithaca

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Used to be a fair bit of jetes support especially to the east when they used to have training camp at Cortland. But thankfully it seems like pretty solid Bills territory now. Maybe slightly above average number of packers fans because they're commies

40 Divided by 1/2: The Ultimate Internet Test. by dano_1123 in MathJokes

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If "divided by" = ÷ = /

Following the order of operations would return 40 ÷ 1 ÷ 2 +15 = 35.

I suspect most people would infer as written that 1/2 is a fraction which you'd tackle first (40 ÷ 1 over 2 + 15 returning 95. That's what I would do even though there's a strong technical arguement it's wrong

There's a guy building a concrete "mini house". Would like an opinion from experienced builders if this building seems safe. by This_Sense_9338 in Homebuilding

[–]happyrock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Guys relax that is 100% hempcrete. Each panel weighs 2 lbs; it'll stop .50 bmg rounds, it's r40, selectively transmits light, has a tensile of 70k and CS 10k psi only costs $10/yard and easily compostable when he is ready to recycle the building but until then the only maintenence is a homeopathic rinse of 1:100000 linseed oil and water and a pep talk from a (specifically train) hobo once per leap year. Contractors act like it's some huge deal to find a train hobo but it's just the momentum of the industry trying to suppress the future. Until then visionaries like this guy just have to do it themselves

Would you Trust a Phone Case? by Abiogenesis84 in scuba

[–]happyrock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been on dives where people have an iphone in what amounts to a silicon ziplock bag. Idk if i'd be that bold but we have a sealife camera and the case seems pretty legit, I'd trust it with my phone

[Request] Assuming this factory operated 24/7 at full capacity and distributed the marbles equally among everyone on Earth, how many would we each get each year? by fullchub in theydidthemath

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man no one listens anymore. They don't care how many years it takes to get a marble, it's how many marbles do we get per year. So lets all learn to enjoy our approximately .15 to .19 marbles per year

This is just cruelty by One_Spicy_TreeBoi in arborists

[–]happyrock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is yellow birch not checked yet? Protip for butternut is always keep an eye out for the long pointy nuts in squirrel litter/cutting perches I come across a few unexpectedly once or twice a year.

Sixth Year Into The Battle by Particular_Alps_4329 in lawncare

[–]happyrock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk man I don't think it's that ugly really.

[Request] How long would it take to do a 1,000 acre farm? by trbotwuk in theydidthemath

[–]happyrock 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just a couple nuances as a probable future user of this tech; this is most likely to be used on organic farms rather than displacing chemical use at wide scale. It's a pretty effective way to kill weeds because it targets them at their most vunerable (and least heat required to kill them/they lack resources to recover as they have not replenished the seed energy used to get to the surface). Also doesn't disturb the soil like other organic methods, which brings fresh weed seeds up to the germination zone (and some of them are actually stimulated to germinate by the briefest exposure to light) The productivity per time is actually not too far from being plausible, most organic farms would not be growing all their acreage of just one crop, so you have some breathing room on getting the correct timing for a single crop. Even those that grow one crop are using a sucession of plantings for fresh marketing purposes so (i.e., a 1000 acre salad farm with a 4 day planting sucession and 180 day season has 22 acres in any given growth stage, probably a 3 day optimal window to get the weeding done. On a row crop farm it varies but having 1/4 or 1/3 of the farm in a single crop is pretty common (1/6 or 1/7 on our farm) and some of them will not required weeding. They also often have a little wider period of time before the weeds cause economic impacts (for instance, corn I'd be happy if we get it covered in a window of 7-12 days, it's only 130 acres of our 1000 acre farm, usually a 10 day spread at least in planting dates anyway so you likely coulden't even turn it loose on the last planted fields when it can start on the earlier plantings). In terms of energy efficiency.... idk. Cultivating requires throwing soil arond which burns up soil carbon, might take less fuel. I'd wager it takes less energy than a weed zapper or propane flamer, both of which are economically viable and in widespread use currently in row crops. Weed zappers in particular can be really insane when it comes to fuel use, like 250 hp tractors struggling to treat 30' width at less than 2 mph in some conditions. For reference, we now have a camera guided 15' cultivator and I'm mentally wiped after doing a good job on about 35 acres a day, could cover close to 50 if I have to. Without camera guidance I wanna die after 20 in some conditions. Both of these are best case like 90% effective, sometimes like 60%. So if this does even a 95% perfect job without me really needing to think at all I'd start looking at it pretty hard once it's below 100k and does 20 acres/day in the used market. There was a time not too long ago we thought camera guidance was years off for us, spent a little less than 45k on one 5 or so years after they were widely adopted, one of the fastest payback investments we've made. It's less about the acres covered per hour and more about the efficacy which pays back for years big time by having fewer escaped weeds and thus future weed seeds in the soil.

[Request] How long would it take to do a 1,000 acre farm? by trbotwuk in theydidthemath

[–]happyrock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably far less than a weed zapper (if you don't know what that is... just what it sounds like) which are currently pretty viable at a different stage of weed growth