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97 here on Parker Acres Farm… gotta hot turkey!

Hi there Horse community!

This question is probably equine ownership 101 for many if you but I’m admittedly a bit green still and don’t want to cause potential harm to my equine. I own 2 mules and a yearling. I just finished fencing my second pasture and let all the girls out late yesterday, only for a few hours and everyone comes into their stalls at night. Today is their first full day in this new pasture. Pasture hours are typically 7am-5pm. Tons of fresh tall grass!

Should I be concerned about them gorging themselves to an unhealthy level? Too much sugar maybe? should I only give them half day for a week or so to taper them into this fresh pasture load?

What’s the rule here?

1985 Dodge D100 318. Factory timing is 12 degrees BTDC according to the factory spec label under hood. I’ve had the truck maybe 4 years, it was totally stock until recent minor mods. It ran just fine but the 2 barrel was getting sloppy, so time to have a little fun. I never checked timing until after the mods so I can’t say for sure it was set to 12 degrees BTDC, but I assume.

I deleted all smog equipment and installed an Edelbrock Performer intake, a 4 barrel Demon carb, full headers and ran duel exhaust pipes with MagnaFlow mufflers. That’s it… motor still has factory CAM.

The timing mark scale, as shown in pic, will barely show where 12 degrees BTDC is before it’s obscured by the water pump housing. It basically won’t run at 12 degrees anyway. so I retard the timing way beyond 12 degrees and I test run it about 10 times trying to find the sweet spot where it stops pinging. That’s where it’s currently set and seems to run great and is happy… but I’ve no idea what the timing is set at, probably somewhere between 18-24 degrees BTDC.

My question is simply this: Why? Why did the relative minor mods I made so dramatically change the timing requirements for the motor?

Cheers! Mopar or No Car!

The pictured example is one that I like but it’s not mine (I don’t currently have one).

I’m in middle TN. and wanting a Run In for my pasture. Looking at available shelters on Marketplace and finding that almost all are built off site and brought in, placed and leveled. So not attached and just gravity and faith holding them down. We get weather here and we get wind, sometimes lots of wind. Plus my pasture certainly isn’t perfectly level. My thought is building one on site and setting the posts into concrete is a good idea for stability and level. But this is limiting my options.

So… for those of you that actually own a run in shelter that is NOT attached… how do they fair in windy conditions? Maybe I’m overthinking this?

My step mother passed at 93 late last year. My wife and I cared for her the past 8 years of her life. She and her family before her had Indian heritage and a lot of her family heirlooms were Indian related. Many of her items were passed to her from her mother and grandmother before her. They were mostly Cherokee from the stories I’ve been told.

Starting to go through some of her things and this book seems like it might be of historic value. Google states that having the 2 image plates is of great importance to this being first edition (or something like that, my wife did the research and then I thought of posting here).

Id appreciate any information anyone could share, including where or whom we might contact “if” this book has historical value.

Much Thanks in advance!

Delilah is a Buff Orpington, about 4 years old now. She was one of 3 Buffs that I acquired as pullets for my 9 chicken flock a few years back. In late Fall 2025 she was attacked by a fox. I brought her inside and nursed her to health in a cage in my LR. Antibiotic ointment on her wound every other day for weeks and the occasional epson salt bath to clean and relax her. Feeding her became an enjoyable regular event and she became quite vocal when she wanted our attention from her cage. Chicken and rice, Greek Yogurt w/berries, scrambled eggs were a few of her favorites, she always had layer and scratch available too. As she healed I would let her outside in our fenced deck area with mulched planters… she made a mess but was thriving and it warmed my heart that she would live again. That fox took a baseball sized chunk out of her back. As she stayed inside with us, she became very domesticated and loved being held, petted and generally loved up upon.

About 2 months after the attack she was right as rain and I tried to reintroduce her to her flock but she was rejected. I couldn’t bear the thought of her being bullied and pecked on after the trauma she had been through so I brought her back inside and got to work to built her another coop and arena and got a bunch of young pullets and gave her another family to raise. She’s a great mother to the young ones and they all bundle under and around her when inside the nesting box. The pullets are varying ages now with the older ones being about 3 months. I interact with her on a very regular basis and I’m hoping she will teach the others to become as domesticated as she is.

This story has played out over about 6/7 months now. I’ll post as many pics as I can to tell her story and may put more in comments if allowed.

The title basically… I have over 30 blackberry plants on their 3rd year, thriving in middle TN. Never seen this before… thornless blackberry.

Greetings Mopar fans and more importantly, experienced Mopar gear heads!

1985 Dodge D100, 318, Auto. Pretty stock drivetrain, certainly the ignition system is stock.

For the past year or so I’ve been trying to solve a very intermittent but regular problem where my ignition just cuts off. Total loss of spark. Occasionally this happens while on freeway, city driving, sitting there just idling. Happens hot, happens cold… engine just shuts off while I’m driving. I put truck in neutral (many times while still rolling) and it starts right up, first turn of the motor. Truck otherwise runs beautifully.

When this first started, I ran this by the community via another post and got some good ideas of what to focus on. I first changed the ICM (Ignition Control Module)… that didn’t solve it. I then changed the ballast resistor… that actually seemed to correct the problem for about 2 months. When it reoccured, I chalked it up to a cheap Chinese Autozone resistor so I changed it again… that didn’t solve it though. Most recently I replaced the ignition coil and that also did not correct it.

My only other thought is to maybe replace the pickup inside the distributor???

I get that I’m firing the parts cannon at this thing but it’s not like I can take it to a shop and have them drive it for days/weeks until it happens again where they might be able to diagnose it… plus, once it dies it just starts right back up. It’s like the cause of the ignition system loss RESETS itself.

Any ideas???