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  1. That sprayer will work fine. There are some recommendations for different spray nozzle sizes but I just use what came with the sprayer. Here’s a couple of PDFs I saved a few years ago with different mix ratios for different applications and a slide deck from one of the AgExt BrushBuster seminars. There are some of the seminar videos on YouTube if you want more info. ManagingDeep-RootedInvasions.pdf brush-busters-quick-mixing-guide.pdf Killin’ mesquite, honey locust and huisache is serious bidness.
  2. Yes, if it was just dozed and not root plowed your gonna have a bunch of sprouts pretty soon. We use Remedy and diesel in a 1:4 ratio for trunk application 1-4” diameter, applied with a backpack sprayer. You can go to 15% on smaller diameter smooth bark plants. Sendero is supposed to be even more effective but is twice as expensive. Remedy is probably 80% effective in our mesquite. We just hit the leftovers during the next years spraying. I like to spray in May before it’s too hot. By Feb of next year, last years mesquite will be dead and rotted enough to break off by hand at ground level. You can find a lot more info on the Texas Agrilife Brush Busters website.
  3. Yes, if it was just dozed and not root plowed your gonna have a bunch of sprouts pretty soon. We use Remedy and diesel in a 1:4 ratio for trunk application 1-4” diameter, applied with a backpack sprayer. You can go to 15% on smaller diameter smooth bark plants. Sendero is supposed to be even more effective but is twice as expensive. Remedy is probably 80% effective in our mesquite. We just hit the leftovers during the next years spraying. I like to spray in May before it’s too hot. By Feb of next year, last years mesquite will be dead and rotted enough to break off by hand at ground level. You can find a lot more info on the Texas Agrilife Brush Busters website.
  4. The Buck 112 has a 3” vs the 3.75” on the 110 and the 055 has a 2.375” blade. Choose your size. The 112 with a drop point vs the clip is a nice looking knife.
  5. davidg

    Getting old sucks

    What did your treatment entail? I’ve got pretty bad knots on the little and ring finger tendons of both hands. Haven’t consulted a specialist for it yet, just consider them ribbed, for my pleasure.
  6. Came real close to buying one of the yeswelders during Black Friday Amazon sales but ended up passing for the time being. Project Farm YouTube guy did some videos on cheap mig inverter welders and the Yeswelder came out favorably. I would just consider it disposable if you end up frying the circuit boards.
  7. We’ve enjoyed our GD Imagine. Camped this weekend and it was our 32nd trip and 91st nights sleeping in our trailer since we picked it up in Aug 2020. We haven’t had any major issues with ours so our experience with GD is pretty good at this point. GD has a good reputation for handling customer support issues but there are still plenty of FB and forum posts of people having issues and not getting any satisfaction in getting it fixed. My main two gripes are I wish our trailer had a full 3/4” plywood subfloor instead of the lightweight aluminum/foam/ply laminate sandwich they use. I also wish they didn’t use particle board for all the cabinetry. Any moisture and that crap instantly grows mold and fungus. Most of the other stuff I can deal with so issues with it doesn’t bother me too much.
  8. And check the payload capacity vs what’s in the truck and the actual hitch weight. Older 4x4 Crewmax Tundras had a terrible load capacity, 1340 lbs in the case in my 2007. 4 adults, a couple hundred pounds of gear in the bed and 10:1 hitch weight got you to about 4-5k lbs of trailer.
  9. Must have been in the air this weekend. We cleaned out a couple shelves in our office/computer and I trashed some parallel port printer cables, dsub 25 ribbon cable and a dsub25 male to male cable used with Carbon Copy or some other disk copy software back in the day. Also pitched some old software: Flight Sim 97, Visual Studio 2003, etc. kept the OEM MS-Dos 6.22 diskettes still in shrink wrap.
  10. Did you spray all that mesquite earlier? Just blading and not running a root rake seems like a good way to have a shit ton of mesquite root sprouts in another month or two.
  11. We’ve owned a 20’ KeyWest DC for almost 20 years now. Great boat with the the kids growing up and I’ve been 30+ miles out in the Gulf fishing with 3 guys one day and pulling tubes or skis at the lake the next. When we bought DCs weren’t as popular but now they are everywhere (including GW’s recently announced 41 ft’r). Pursuit makes a really nice 23’ DC that hits a lot of the marks for me as does the GW. I don’t like the 23’ KW with its integral rear seat as it eats up a lot of cockpit space. Are you planning on towing the boat? If so, your tow vehicle could be a limiting factor. Here’s my 19 yo boat at the lake And here’s the DC I’d buy after hitting the powerball
  12. I bought a 5mm Sheridan Blue Streak for my son when he was 9 or 10. He could barely pump the thing a few times and didn’t shoot it very much before he moved on to a 22lr. A while after I bought the gun, Academy or Walmart had the 5mm pellets on clearance at a great price and I bought a lifetime supply of them. Probably have 15+ 500 count tins in my ammo closet. I use it around the house for my backyard varminting. It will still thump a raccoon in the head with good results.
  13. I had a 2007 TRD 4x4 Crewmax that I traded in on my Ram in 2020. ~265k miles, had a starter replaced at 80k, did the water pump a couple of times, replaced a steering hose once and that’s about it for the repairs. Other than that it was a really reliable vehicle, just getting toward the end of its life to ask it to tow a new travel trailer. I still have some Bilstein front shocks, a transmission filter and a set of plugs I was going to change out when I traded it in. I probably have a few of the element style oil filters that go in it too. Anyone need any of that stuff?
  14. The kayak thread has info and pics of kayak trips on the Devils. One of the ‘shanks I think have several posts on the how’s and what’s.
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