That’s the standard weight for oats, but generally it actually runs 40 to 46 lbs/bu. The standard weight was built a long time ago before much of the modern seed varieties had been bred.

That said, you’re right, it’s still a lot lighter to shovel than something like wheat, and glorious compared to faba beans which is like shovelling gravel.

And you’re right about the slickness, oats are almost a pleasure to shovel. But the dust is really irritating to the skin, at least to most people. It can be rough to deal with at harvest time.

Oh, most of it picked up with the loader bucket, but we did have to shovel out from too close to the bin to run the loader, and scrape around to get the rest without adding in gravel.

“Then you’d better catch it…”

Well, as far as mistakes go, this one was pretty minor, but I figured townies might find it funny. My expensive mistakes would be hard to capture in pictures, or they’d just make me cry.

Otherwise, we just aim for mistakes that don’t kill us.

Mostly oats, some rye in it right now. We’d usually mix in barley but we have a bunch of rye since we started growing cover crops and the distillers around only take so much. So it goes in cows.

See general reply in post.

That auger in the picture is what we use to put grain on the feed truck, but what went wrong was the auger that goes to the top of that bin from the mill just kept pumping the grain out the top when the bin was full and it fell off the top of the bin into those piles. About 4 tons or so.

So there’s an auger that goes up to the top of that hopper bin in the foreground and drops the milled grain in the bin. The actual mill is off to the left and out of the picture.

Left the mill running, got distracted, the bin filled up but there’s no sensor to shut it off (yet) so it just kept pumping grain out and it all slid off the top of the bin and spilled on the ground. That was probably about 4 tons of oats on the ground.

There was a shovel party to clean it up.

My cuz has an 07 Tundra. That thing is bulletproof, I think he has almost 500k on it now and it still runs well and feels tight. But his headlights look exactly like your Before picture. I’ll suggest this Cerakote kit, I know he’s tried a couple of them with limited success.

That’s way too fucking exciting. Get out.

I knocked myself out once doing that. I just barely clear the ceiling at the bottom going down, and in a rush I mistimed it because I was on my off foot. Woke up to my wife looking down at me and asking if I was any smarter now.

Boy, was she wrong.

Godspeed.

If the water lines aren’t lined up, a couple of sharkbite connectors and a bit of pex can go a long way to making that easy. The exhaust might be more of a pain if it’s shorter than the old one.

What amazes me is that every hot water heater of roughly the same size across all brands uses the exact same position for the gas input so you can just swap the stub from the union to the new tank and it’ll connect right up. This has been the case for tanks I’ve replaced that were originally put in 30 years ago.

I have an Emporia Vue CT monitor that watches all my lines right at the box. IDK about newer versions, but the old version could be hacked so you don’t have to use their shitty app.

Maybe use a smartplug, though IDK how much those typically draw staying awake.

That looks like dogshit.

That’s a nice setup, I use the Luxpower version of those inverters. When I put up my shop I’ll have to extend my 20kW/43kWh system. We don’t have tax credits here so I couldn’t get the nice stuff, I had to build my own batteries to keep costs down.

I like where the prices of all this stuff is going.

Your wallet thanks you.

Funny enough, he was bitching to me this week that he had a broken leaf on one side. He uses it like it’s a 1 ton so no surprise. That 5.7L is a monster.

I’d love to find an older Tundra with low miles. My cousin has one with 500k on it now, 2007 as well. It still runs great.