John A. Wilke

Warren, that soil has never been tilled and the grasses are largely native. There is some invasion from noxious weeds, but like the Sandhills of Nerbraska that is mostly native grass. There is no tops...

Edward, these guys are good with native grass seeds ://www.sharpseed.com/ Greetings from PERU. Stuck in the Lima, Peru airport.

The private property starts about 1 mile to the east (IIRC). It is closer than you think. With regard to having laundry or no laundry on a drogue, I'm guessing I've gone with dual deploy about 200 ti...

My KestreL (which is, of course, the same size as yours) had 1.125g of 4F for the drogue and 0.6g for the main. No piston on the drogue, but I did have a piston up top. The lower was contained with s...

80 knots is not bad (seriously). I'd forego the drogue chute, just breaking in half... which is how I always do it anyway. We need to stay off the private property this year...

At this moment I think I will have my most excellent large grill out there... not 100% sure, but at least 75% sure. Will trade propane for elk 😀

For my KestreL I used 4 ea. 1/16" polystyrene shear pins and I had a 1/16" vent hole up top. I used a smaller chute (30" IIRC?) and I have flown things thattaway 6-8 times... Your actual mileage may v...

My sump pump is running every two minutes (I'm serious - I am timing it). I was going to go out to the N site and camp this weekend but I'm pretty sure I don't want to get stuck 😯 Gosh, it went from...

I think I will just stick to "using those big honkin' eyenuts"Besides It was JW that turn me onto them a couple years ago.It was his post with a link. I use them all the time - but usually in bigger r...

While it surely isn't enough and it must keep doin' what it is doin', we do have a nice rain happening in Windsor...... I stood in the garage watching it for 30 minutes. It seems like forever since ...

Yep - you could do that. There is some extra weight, and eyebolts tend to open up (seen it happen many times). You could, of course, weld it. The advantages of the anchors are they are smaller and li...

The 1/4-20 anchors are sold out 😯 I will have some more made in the future... JW

Guys, rather than using those big honkin' eyenuts, I have some hardpoint anchors in 1/4-20. They are identical to the anchors that came with the KestreL except the threaded core is 1/4-20 (same leng...

Scott, I think you will probably break 35K with that Bessie 8)

Good thing we weren't out there yesterday... SO very dry!