randomness...

Hey guys,
  Not much new here today, Andrew and Mom went up to Bismarck for some committe hearings of bills going through the legislature, Cora's babysitting, Dad's feeding cows, and I'm doing my school... :/

  Mom, Cora and a freind are going to go to a self defense class in Bismarck tonight, and throug Sunday I think.  They claim some pretty impressive moves, so we'll have a nice rough'n'tumble match afterwards. :P (just kiddin)

  Andrew got his pickup back from the body shop the other day, looks just fine again. :)  I just realized that at this stage, I just start randomly rambling and saying stuff just for a filler, lol.  I guess I'm not a writer...

  Anyway, kind of looking forward to spring and farming again.  I kind of get bored over the winter... :/  Well, I'll talk to you all later, Jacob B.

Rover is done! :D

Hey guys,
  Since I last wrote, a lot has happened here.  We had a birthday party; played lots of ping pong; had friends over, fixed fence and moved cows around, I got my Land Rover back in operable condition, and I got a copy of Agricultural Simulator 2013 Deluxe. :)

  We also attended a birthday party/thanksgiving party at my grandparent's place yesterday...  Anyway, as for my Land Rover, here is a picture of it! (yes, I know I said I was going to get you a picture like 2 weeks ago...) :P



 ^ My funny British car...  :P  Anyway, tomorrow, we are planning on working our calves, so please pray for safety and for all to go well during that project.  It will be good to get that out of the way though...

  As far as Agrar Simulator 13 goes, lets just say this, it needs a good bit of work yet, but if they get it into a good state and rework the driving physics, it could easily become the best farming game yet.  Anyway, I'll talk to you all later, Jacob B. ;)

^AS13. ;)

AS:HF screens and farm news

Hey guys, long time no see! ;)
  I've been busy working on getting the hay crop put up, or at least whats there to put up, so thats why I havn't posted in a long time... :P  Unfortunatly, we've only been getting a bit less then half of the hay crop of normal this year... :(

We've got the 1st cut almost done, we just have to stack up the few bales on a little part of the last field, but the tractor decided it had to break on us before we could finish that up, so we are currently stoped with bale stacking and carting... :(

  So during the time that I havn't written, Andrew's bought and sold some vehicles, Cora's done a lot of babysitting, Mom worked on a lot of clients, Dad baled a lot of hay, and I've cut hay along with Andrew, and a lot more happend as well, that I dont have time to write about now... :P

Anyways, as promised, here's a few pictures from my latest game. :)

Anyways, have a good one out there, I've gotta go. Cya later, Jacob;)

Seeding is done, and other news... :P

Hey guys,
  Yes, it's been a long time sense I've wrote on here, but we've all been busy getting our seeding done, and all sorts of other stuff... ;)  One of the major things that just happened here, was Andrew left for South Dakota to help in the Ron Paul campaign down there...

  As you may have guessed, there was a new farming simulation game coming out soon, all about historical farming in the 50s-70s. Well, it just got released on the 25th, but I ordered mine on disc, so now I'm waiting 3 weeks for shipping....... :(:(

 Yeaaaaa, that's kind of annoying, but in that time, they can work more bugs out...  Anyways, we are getting ready for haying, and we should start laying some hay down in about a week, or maybe even less!  As I write, Dad's getting ready to put the baler in the shop... ;)

  Also, Mom's doing a session on the phone, Cora's babysitting, Andrew's down in South Dakota making phone calls, and I'm writing to you all... :P  Time for me to go again, I'll talk to you all later, Jacob B. ;)

Busy Busy Busy!

Hey guys!
  No, I did not die or anything, I've just been keeping busy. :P  Yesterday, Mom and I went up to Bismarck, as we had doctor's appointments, and Andrew went down to Strausberg to get another vehicle, but ill let him tell you about that... :P

  We had been really dry around here, with pretty much no snow to melt off, and no rain for quite a while, so we were really happy when we got a nice soaking rain last week! It rained for 2 days or so, and now we actually have our spring mud! :D :P

  The first preview video of Agricultural Simulator: Historical Machines came out today, and it's looking really good!  After watching the video over and over again, it looks like the developers really listened to the people and added a bunch of functions that have been requested! :D

  Here's the video.  I managed to find an english version of the trailer. ;) The game will be released as multi language, so even if the CD binder is written in German, you can still install the game in English... :)  OK, here's the video. ;)


^^:D:D
  Well, I'm gonna go again, so see ya all later, Jacob B.

Seeding is Starting Again!

Hey guys,
  Field season is underway now, and the neighbors were actually seeding yesterday, and I would assume that they would still be going at it today...  I was spreading some muck yesterday as well, and we have been getting the vibrashank fixed up, so we are gonna get rolling pretty quick too! :D

  On a different note, my 3rd blogaversary is coming up on the 27th of this month, and yes, I am planning a giveaway, so keep your eyes on this spot... ;)  I may be too busy to get to the giveaway right away, but I am planning something... ;)

  Grain cleaning season is getting close to finished, so it's nice to have the guys home for a change! ;)  I don't know what the guys are up to right now, but I would assume they are either working on the  vibrashank, or the greenhouse roof... (Cora had Andrew pick up some supplies yesterday in Bismarck...)

  Ok, in my last post, I mentioned about a new farming simulation game.  OK, it will be set in the time of the 50s through the 70s! (one of my favorite time periods...)  It's looking really good so far, with an amazing feature, dynamic terrain! :D

Dynamic terrain means that when you plow, it leaves a furrow like in real life! :D  Also, with this feature, I hear that you will be able to get stuck...!  Here is a video of this feature.  Please ignore the German text. (it will be released in English when they are done, but its made in Switzerland...)

^^ :D:D:D :P  Well, I gotta get going, so I'll TTYL. ;) (Talk To You Later)

reading report.

Hi guys,
  Today, Dad went off to haul some grain, after a bit of trouble getting the truck started; Cora went to go babysitting at a daycare; Andrew worked on our neighbor's car (I helped a little too...) Mom has been working around the house; and I have my school to work on...

  Today, for my reading assignment, I picked a farming magazine, and I started reading an article about what they think farming will be like in 2021!  So far, we have read that they think that there will be verities of crops that will be drought; frost; and flood resistant! :D

  Also, there have been some very interesting demonstrations in automonos farming recently, including a driverless grain cart, driverless corn planter, a system from John Deere that matches a cart's speed to the combines, and a system from Fendt that links 2 tractors together, so that the first 1st has a driver, and he controls the 2nd one as well!

  Currently, even though people still have to drive stuff, it could be changing very soon!  Now days, there are GPS guidence systems that well guide your tractor within an inch of accurate!  Anyway, very interesting stuff!  Time to go do chores,
 Jacob B. ;)

Our News...

Hi guys,
  Today, Mom is working with a couple of clients; Cora is out doing goat chores; Dad is out doing cow chores; Andrew is messing around with some video stuff; and I'm getting started on my school for the week again.....

  Last Friday, Dad; Andrew; and I got the second grain cleaner home, so no more running over 100 miles to go work in a very dusty grain elevator. YAY!! :D  Now we just go about 100 yards to the shop and put them all back together again... ;)

  On Thursday, O got my dirt bike fixed up most of the way, and now, I am just waiting for parts to come...  When you kick the engine over now, it has a more distinct wump to it. :P  I think that if my part were here, I would already have driven it. ;)

  On Saturday night, Andrew and I got a very nice, and somewhat unexpected, surprise!  It was the very nice gift of $250 to Andrew, and $200 to me, for our work on the grain cleaners.  Thank you Dad and Mom! ;)  Well, time to go again, so I will see you all later.

Jacob B. ;)

Random Ramblings

Hi guys,
  Today, Mom and Andrew went to Bismarck to do some errands up there; Dad is hauling grain I think; and Cora and I are staying home to work around here and do my school work... I have to do one hours worth of math today... :(

 Anyway, Andrew is going to bring my dirt bike parts home today, so I should be able to get that on it's way back together again.  Also, we got our neighbor's car out of the shop yesterday, so we can get that one grain cleaner in and start putting it back together...

  I think we are going to start taking the other grain cleaner apart tomorrow.  Let's hope that we don't get to dusty. :P  We also got Andrew's latest car project running yesterday, and we drove it around a little bit, and it seems to run just fine!

  Yesterday was a very weird day in terms of the weather.  We had snow melting off again in the morning, and I think we got a little snow in the evening...  Anyway, I should go get started on that huge math project, so I gotta go.

 Bye, Jacob B. ;) 

Back from camp.

Hi guys,
  We just got back from a lot of fun at winter camp last night, and I thought that I would fill you in on what happened over the weekend.  Friday evening, everyone, except Andrew who stayed home and did chores, left for camp, and got there around 6:00.

  On Saturday, we got up and had breakfast right away. Also, Andrew came over Saturday morning.  After breakfast, we went and listened to the speaker, which was Kevin Swanson. (a very good speaker by the way)  After hearing his hour and a half talk, we went and had lunch.

  Later on, us boys played some volleyball, and I played a little street hockey with some little kids... :P  After that I played a little ice hockey with some friends, and then it was time for supper.  After supper, Kevin gave another talk, Dad left to go do chores, and us children stayed up to 1:00 AM playing Risk and Apples to Apples... :D

  On Sunday, there was a worship service after breakfast and until lunch.  After that, we helped clean up and I played Monopoly and some more Risk.  Later on I played ice hockey again.  At about 6:00, we left for home so that Dad wouldn't have to do chores again.

  Good to be home again, Jacob B.

PS. There was a new patch out for Agricultural Simulator 2012 when I got home, so it's a bit easier getting used to working again. :)

Random News.

Hi guys,
  Yesterday, we all went over to our friends place to help them work their calves, as they had about 80 to do, and they are only two people, and to make things worse, he had hurt his rib earlier and, even though it didn't hurt right then, he didn't really want to make it hurt again...

  Today, Dad and Andrew worked on our JD 4020; Mom had a session this morning, and has another one later on; Cora just left for town; and I have been playing for a while, and started working on my school work again.... :(

  Andrew has recently bought a tablet computer, so he has been having some fun tinkering with that.  He is looking for a GPS app now, I guess.  I've played a few games on it, and from what I can see, it looks good, except for the fact that it's way too big for your pocket. :(

  I haven't found a place to buy Agricultural Simulator 2012 in the US, but I will keep looking and let you know if and when I find something...  Well, I hear that mom's client is hear now, so I will be heading off now, I guess.
  Talk to you all later, Jacob B.

Shop projects...

Hi guys,
  Yesterday, we finally got our IH 1486 out of the shop!  We had taken the transmission all apart, and didn't find a bearing with pieces missing, so all that we can figure out is that a bearing had went out before, and they didn't get all of the pieces out. :(

 But the time was not wasted.  While we had it apart, we replaced some gears that had some pieces missing, and some bearings that were on their way out.  We also got some of the gages to work again, as none of them worked before. :S

  We also started working on our JD 4020 yesterday, after we got the 1486 done.  We took the aftermarket cab off, and drove it into the shop, so that we can work on the park lock.  Simply stated, you can put it in park, and it would roll down a hill, if not stopped!

  On Saturday and Sunday, our family will be going to camp!  It sounds like a lot of fun, with hockey, and all sorts of fun stuff to do!  By the way, I won't be getting that snowmobile I wrote about, as it got sold before I got to it. :-(
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  Anyway, time to go again. Jacob B. ;-)

Happy new Year!

Hi guys,

  Happy new year!  Let's hope that this year is even better than the last one.  Yesterday, we didn't do much work.  The rest of the family finished watching a movie that they had started the night before, and after lunch, us guys went out to the shop and worked on a few things, and then played pool. :D

  Last Thursday, Dad, Andrew , and I went to a farm near Spiritwood, which is on the east side of Jamestown, to look at another grain cleaner setup.  After talking and looking for about an hour, we decided to buy it for  $12,500. 

  We are going to get it home sometime this week, and then we are going to have to redesign it to get the cleaner that we took out of the Kintyre elevator onto this trailer...  That will keep us busy in case we run out of things to do. :P

  Well, that is pretty much all I have to write about for now, so I will leave you with a final picture or two. ;-)  Here you go.    My grass crew. ;-)

Back to school again..... :S

Hi guys,
  Today looks like a nice day to be outside, with a nice warm temperature of almost 40 degrees! :P  Well, nice for being a day away from the winter soulstice, anyway.  Let's just hope that it stays nice for a while longer...

  Anyway, yesterday, Dad; Andrew; and I worked on Andrew's car some more, and then this morning, Andrew went up to Bismarck to pick up some more parts that he had orderd through the Dodge dealership up there.

  Our current shop project, (one of them) is taking apart our Internataional 1486 tractor apart to find a bad bearing in there somewhere.  You see, one day when Andrew was changing the hydraulayic filter on it, he found a roller from a bearing in the housing for the filter, meaning that a bearing went out, and the roller got trapped down by the filter.

  After digging into it for a while, and not finding the bad bearing where we thought it was, we think we are going to have to split the tractor, and examine further. :S  Anyway, it looks like it is time to go again, so here is a parting picture. :)  As you can see, you could mow in there for hours... :)

  Jacob B.

Agricultural Simulator 2012 screens. :)

Hi guys,
  I just got my copy of Agricultural Simulator 2012 Deluxe on Saturday, so I have been playing that whenever I have a little free time.  The game is very good already, and with more updates coming, it looks very promising!  Here are some screenshots that I took.

 Here I have a worker going ploughing.

 Just finishing combining my wheat field, and you can see my worker in the background.

Baling the straw, as my worker cultivates.

I've got some bale collecting to do!

Spraying my corn. :D

Here I am taking a load of energy corn silage out to the Bio Gas plant!

Coming back empty, but just had to get a picture of this huge meadow.

Back to the farm!

Chopping another load!

Taking another load... had to get some pictures of the beautiful scenery on this huge map!

Dropping off the trailer...

And last, I used the built-in "flight mode" to get this cool shot of my farm yard and fields!

  Hope you like my pictures. :D  After playing the game for a while, I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes agriculture.  The game quality is very high, the graphics are amazing, and it is the most realistic farming simulator type game that I have found.

  There are a few bugs though, lest you think it exactly perfect, but nothing too big.  One cool feature, is that on the big Fendts, like the tractor that I am driving around in the pictures, you can actually put the dual wheels off by pressing a button, and by pressing it again, you have duals. :)  I don't know if it makes any difference in traction or not though.

  Another nice addition to the game from the previous editions, is that, if you are raising the right animals, you will get milk, wool, or eggs, considering that your animals are healthy. (yes they can get sick and die on you, if not taken care of)  Love the game, and if anybody buys it, let me know, because I would love to play some multiplayer with you. :P :D

  Gotta run, Jacob