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I’m in the equipment business- started in engineering, then sales, then leadership, now ownership.

I can say with 100% certainty that all this BS that mfgs put on equipment today, no one asked for.

The new John Deere Signature Edition seat has its own controller for crying out loud. Seriously….the seat has a computer. For itself.

If one wanted a duck lease from say, Lafourche parish west, how does one go about finding companies that lease that marsh/ponds/land?

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I can. I have also had a few nice ones in the past given as gifts. I wear them once a year for a wedding or funeral

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Yet you started with this....

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Nothing more than a status symbol, considering everyone in this day and age has a device in their pocket that tells time. It reminds of the baws that feel the need to jack up their trucks. Must be compensating for something

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Must be some people to impress at the wedding, eh?

Or do you want your friend's widow to all of a sudden drop her panties for you Hunter?

And then this...

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Hobbies. Golf gear/clubs and gym clothes

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None of us care that you're hitting a G440 Max driver and can still only knock it 180 yards. We don't start threads bashing people with 30 handicaps who have nice clubs.

A 200 year old map of the Gulf Coast.

Since you want to make this a global thing….you’ve obviously never seen the publically traded sugar mills of Brazil.

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You can grow sugar cane in a gravel pit and we grow it in some of the best soil in the country.

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When you start farming in that gravel pit, pls. let me be the first to know what your CRS is.

Yeah, Pointe Coupee and Avoyelles farmers are using some of the best land in the country to grow cane right now. Key word- right now. They would gladly go back to corn or beans if they could make money doing it. But you can’t so cane acreage has increased and it’s driven the price down the further it’s grown north.

Have you seen what Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa. Illinois- all the flyover states look like right now? Farmers with all those cash subsidies are going bankrupt.

I wish any of y’all bashing cane could see what a country looks like that can’t feed itself.

No system is perfect, and ours is far from it. But we have a tremendous amount of food security here and that is priceless.

You do realize there has NEVER been a subsidy payment to a US sugar farmer ever, right?

You think this liver fluke mecca would work for cows?

How about peanuts, or corn, or wheat that need dry ground.

Sugarcane is an insanely expensive crop to grow and contributes billions to Louisiana’s economy- it takes 5 times as much equipment per acre to farm than comparable row crops in the midwest….

That means more diesel, more parts, more repairs, more stuff.

So yeah, it may be farmed by LEGAL H2A workers- but don’t dare discount the thousands of high paying jobs that make the local economies work in sugar cane towns.

Sorry you built your McMansion next to a field that’s been there for over 200 years.

ETA- know how I know you don’t know anything about sugarcane farming in Louisiana?

The cane isn’t burnt standing- haven’t done that for hundreds of years when hand cutting went the way of the DoDo bird. The chaff, however is burnt after harvest, however, because it’s so wet here, too much humidity would be retained and it would rot next year’s crop and cause disease. You knew that, right? sugarcane is actually fairly efficient from a plant physiology perspective because it’s a perennial. Just a few years ago, it needed to be replanted every 3 years. Because of work by LSU and the USDA, new varieties can be productive for 5 or more years.

I wish you could see what life was like in countries that can’t feed themselves.

Also, frick off. I bet you live in a subdivision.

This might be the worst car OP in the history of TD and that’s saying something.

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Thanks to everyone here who gave advice! Here’s what we learned…

Bambu Lab is absolutely the Apple of 3D printing.

Unfortunately, by the time this thread came up and our son declared he wanted one, the A1 Mini was the only thing we could get in time for Christmas.

I was a bit disappointed- but today, Oh man, this thing is awesome! How can something so nice be so cheap?

l started my career when 3D printing just came out. This thing is as capable as the first ones, if not better, for hundreds of thousands of dollars? less.

My 13 year old had it up and running in about 30 minutes- assembly included.

You can run it all through your phone, and Bambu Lab has TONS of projects. Much greater than any other brand we looked at.

Note- it appears to be able to use any brand filament- my wife ordered ELEGOO filament, I was worried it wasn’t right, but it’s working just fine.

10/10 would reccomend and do again.

There was actually an Auburn masters thesis done for just what you want….they studied how you could build a forestry bridge for skidders using harvested trees. You might be able to google and find it.

More holes are better than no holes.