Son has claimed ownership of the ranger. Took him for about a 30 minute ride yesterday and he didn't want to get off. Finally had to convince him the ranger needed it's sleep and was going night night.
his first serious "wheels"...
spent an hour pushing a string trimmer, pushing back the woods, chewing up things a regular weedeater would choke on, and yank all the line out...
and then, after pushing a regular trimming mower for another hour, soaked in sweat, I mowed for awhile and frankly felt cold. Should have come in and changed into a dry shirt. Might be 60 out, very cloudy and misty at times. Nice day to work outside though.
My next door neighbor came over on his UTV and asked if he could borrow my logsplitter. sure...he loves having a rental store next door
...took a bit to get it going, been sitting awhile and with no primer bulb, takes bunch of pulls to get the gas in the carb. Once it started, it purred after five seconds. Briggs 1450, nice engine for oem TSC. Valvoline synthetic since first change.
He pulled it off slowly, heading across to the street to his family's large farm on the other side; apparently a tree went down on the far side, easier to just tow the splitter there. My guess is if I had the grapple on the front of the tractor at the time he came over, he might have gone hmmm, let's go down this aisle and borrowed both the tractor and the splitter
He is very careful with equipment, a paid fire company engineer who runs seriously expensive gear for a living, so I'm confident he won't abuse anything. Stuff breaks, but pretty hard to do with a log splitter. Heavy beast, maybe a hose could let loose. Still have oem hoses six years later and they weren't the best to begin with.
I'm actually much more worried someone gets their hand in there. Don't come looking to me...
Well, that's why I have had a $3M umbrella for thirty years. I think all the guys using it are paid firemen.
Happy to keep those guys satisfied.
