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July 20, 2018Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:21 — 26.6MB)
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Success on the farm or ranch is a three-legged stool: agronomy, marketing and equipment. A poor decision in any one of these will be reflected in your farm’s bottom line. Ray Bohacz created the Idle Chatter podcast to help prosper the American farm and ranch; education delivered in an entertaining format.
Ray
Let’s see how far I get with this. First off I spend a fair bit of my spare time hanging out on 2 forums on the web mainly on Yesterday’s Tractors. Then also on New AgTalk, here is a copy of my bio on New AgTalk. ….Grew up on a farm in Kansas, was a mechanic at various businesses there 20 years. Went to school for nondestructive testing/ inspection. Moved to TW cities (MPLS MN) and worked at an oil refinery (19 years ago as of Aug 2020). Hobbies- wife, 2 kids- daughter who is a college grad living at home; one son married with our grandchild, ’57 Chevy 2dr hdtp (basket case for now) and Farmall M, which resides on my mom’s 80 acre farm in KS. (I’ll also add, since you mention things that are special to your listeners are also special to you, I have a homemade garden tractor built by my Grandpa who was a blacksmith in a small KS town, circa late ’50’s early ’60’s).
I recently started listening to your podcast since I am working on a long, overdue job repairing walls in our bathroom that have damaged wallboard, from hard wallpaper removal. Probably 3/4 done with that job.
I am very impressed with the technical accuracy of you podcast’s content. From a theory stand point you have covered a quite a few items that I have never really thought much about or exposed myself to. In my youth, I like you, read a lot of technical/mechanical books including Popular Hot Rodding and Hot Rod, which I still have not looked into your connection there. (I still subscribe to Hot Rod). So I think I have a pretty good mechanical understanding, unlike a buddy of mine who was also a mechanic. His dad had a lawn mower shop but worked on all kinds of things including cars, trucks and tractors. Well, for instance, his dad taught him if a car’s exhaust smelled of rotten eggs than it needed new spark plug wires. There may be some logic to that, but from my knowledge based more on technical books, I knew that was not a tried and true statement.
I have a longer correspondence typed out, but since this is my first time communicating to you I’m not certain where this info goes. I would think that if this was a public comment section I would be made aware of that somehow. I have an issue with one of my cars I would like to run past you.
Thanks for your time!
Rick Holle
Excellent content.