Good morning!!!!

deerseeker001 · Sep 4, 2014

67 with Rain over night 3/4 inch.It looks to be hot and humid with showers this morning with a high of 84.

Larro Darro · Sep 4, 2014

Good Morning. 1045, partly cloudy, 87F {102 heat index} with 74% humidity. Forecast high of 91F with 50% chance of a thunderstorm this afternoon, and a low of 71F tonight. I got a little mowing done right before dark last night. I switched the Woods RM400 RFM from the B1750 to the B7500, and the extra horsepower made a big difference in the tall grass. I still had to go in low range, but 3rd gear instead of 2nd. An added bonus is the B7500 is quieter, so I can hear my mp3 player better.

I've finished my lifting and breakfast, so I'm going to do a little more mowing before the rain gets here. Or at least that is the plan. I don't have anything scheduled at work, but I'm going in to deposit my paycheck and take Margie to supper. I'll make a few hours tending the lobby plants while I'm in town.

daugen said:
am in a lot of pain from the accumulated everything, plus that drive. Neck is just killing me below where they fused the three vertebrae. Just like the surgeon said it would...impossible to wear a soft collar on a hot day; even my back belt keeps the heat in. I have plenty of pain meds but am doing my best to stay away from them. But I think this morning I may have to find a little white pill of something.

I'm headed to Florida where Larro is opening up his Fountain of Youth Hotel. Going to check in for a while...of course, a few of you might be there too...
it's one thing to get old. It's another thing to get old and hurt. I need to work on the latter, though considering I've been going 12 hours a day for six weeks, perhaps no wonder I hurt.

Drew, come on down. Larro's Weight Loss and Tanning Emporium is open for business. After a few hours in the pea patch we will go down to the creek to 'rench' off. There will be three nutritional meals served per day, including bacon, eggs, peas and cornbread, ham, peas and cornbread, and pork chops, peas and cornbread. Plus fish if they are biting. Seriously, you need to take it easy the next few days. You've got a great place, and want to be able to enjoy it for a long time.

David {MFW}, hang in there Buddy. You will get through this.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Larro

sodamo · Sep 4, 2014

66 F and .05 inches rain yesterday, not too bad. Sun sneaking a peek this morning.

Waiting for my plumber. Hope he makes it.

Be safe
Have a great day.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

deerseeker001 · Sep 4, 2014

68 and still Raining now we are up to 1.50,this is the second system that's moving thru.there was a break about 11am went out and picked up limbs and branches.We had the top of one Popple Tree about a 15 foot section that blew off.

aczlan · Sep 4, 2014

rswyan said:
Have a friend and fellow TBN member coming over later today to put another set of eyes on this 100A panel I installed, just to make sure there's nothing obviously wrong in what I did. One thing that has me perplexed is that there was no equipment ground bar included with it ... just a snotload of holes in the neutral bar.

A main panel with no other disconnects in front of it does not need a separate ground bar. Any panel after the first shutoff does need a separate ground bar, so you have to buy a add on grounding bar ($10-15 for most).

Aaron Z

rswyan · Sep 4, 2014

aczlan said:
A main panel with no other disconnects in front of it does not need a separate ground bar. Any panel after the first shutoff does need a separate ground bar, so you have to buy a add on grounding bar ($10-15 for most).

Aaron Z

Aaron,

Thanks ... much appreciated.

I understand (from what you say) that it (a grounding bar) is required (per the NEC I would assume) ... it just seems kind of odd though ... in that I plan to install a ground rod for the panel, and bond the neutral to the ground ... :confused2:

aczlan · Sep 4, 2014

rswyan said:
I understand (from what you say) that it (a grounding bar) is required (per the NEC I would assume) ... it just seems kind of odd though ... in that I plan to install a ground rod for the panel, and bond the neutral to the ground ... :confused2:

Is this a main panel or a sub panel? A sub panel should NOT have the neutral and ground bonded but a main panel SHOULD have the neutral and ground bonded.

Aaron Z

rswyan · Sep 4, 2014

aczlan said:
Is this a main panel or a sub panel? A sub panel should NOT have the neutral and ground bonded but a main panel SHOULD have the neutral and ground bonded.

Aaron Z

It's a sub panel (now with it's own main breaker) ... fed off a 60A double-pole breaker in the main panel in our home ... but it's located in an out building 400' away from the main panel in the house which feeds it.

The original panel (which I just replaced) was circa is early 1970's ...

It originally had just three wires (2 hot and 1 neutral) ... no ground rod installed at the outbuilding ... and it was main lug, not main breaker. It was a 100A 4 space box ... I replaced it with a 100A 24 space box.