Back In Business | Homestead Vlog | October 11, 2024 

Yes, thank you for working with him! Your patience is teaching him how to be patient with his children. You are a good dad!!

Good morning!

Thanks!!

Good morning!

Ditto with my quail. When I clean the aviary will be cleaning up as many feathers as ground cover. Thank goodness eggs are down. Over loaded but blessed. Do not add supplemental lights as believe God made it to give them a break.

If it’s not raining saltwater (……) John Deere’s parts suppliers are using poor grade steel. Whether it’s John Deere itself producing low grade steel pulleys or the Ukraine copies now being allowed in by the US government for farmers to source poor quality replacement parts to conduct their own repairs after last year’s extraordinary court ruling, I wouldn’t know. However, we’ve seen in the UK how second rate our own manufacturing industry has become since our government signed nefarious trade agreements under the heading of allies with Chinese and Ukraine suppliers copying our patents and parts using extremely poor quality steel and alloys. When I say we I mean my own family’s engineering exporting company. I might add that 90% of “the” business is now manufacturing and exporting to the USA since made in the USA became a thing. Business boomed to the extent that my brother dreaded opening the orders sent in. Using the best quality specialist steel produced in Austria. Our products are essential for manufacturers to make their own tooling capable of engineering products made from a better quality steel that won’t let an assembly line down (ask Elon. He knows how important my point is). Steel, I might add, that an extremely astute recent President exempted from the tariffs he imposed on steel imports from the UK when in office. There’s no point trying to make AGA unless US companies can access the right tooling from the right God fearing family businesses who strive to do right by their customers. Still amazes me how this particular president KNEW that specific steel should be exempt from the import tariffs. As if he knew that without it, MITUSA wouldn’t get off the ground. Meanwhile, US steel producers not yet closed down by Net Zero should concentrate on keeping their highest grade ore suppliers in business and NOT import the end product rubbish from Ukraine (google it) and China. John Deere may well have been too dogmatic with its service control but equipment owners (US AND UK) really do need to think twice before using third world spare parts just because politicians favour wink wink business contracts with specific countries and their unelected leaders. I really was shocked to see the state of those pulley’s. My father used to supply similar parts he had designed before he sold that part of the business a couple of decades ago. If I recall correctly, the only company he didn’t improve the design and supply parts for in the mowing business was Snapper which, att, was already leagues better than its competitors. There. A little of our own history from my part of the world for you.