Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

If I get a NPF, no problem found, next week, I will sell the truck and get a different brand. Sad, the engine is marvelous despite being thirsty, but that tap will never get better, only worse, and any mechanical part that taps for ten minutes straight is not going to last long. I think Chrysler is hiding something here; lots of mention of "hemi tap" online. I'm for sure not the only one.

My son just got a 2017 Ford pickup with ECO V-6. 10 speed trans, 4x4. He cannot believe have well it tows his Shelby Mustang on car hauler trailer. His 2012 Chevy pickup with V-6 2WD was no comparison. Both with 9K towing package. Ford has the auto backup package. Best thing since sliced bread he says.

 

[Bird]

I'm a little ahead of you, Ron; already had 4 cups of coffee and a bowl of cereal with a banana in it, since 4 a.m. NWS says we're getting a "light rain". I'd be more inclined to call it a heavy mist; 63 degrees going for a high of 77. But at least I'm glad for the cooler weather.

And I'm sure your son is going to enjoy that new truck.

 

[farmer2009]

57 this morning and headed to 78 today. No rain in the 10 day forecast.

The typical fall dry spell is allowing a lot of farmers to cruise through their crops. Most big farmers around here are shelling corn at over 200 acres a day. Some higher. Some early beans are also being cut. But corn is king here and it comes out first, beans can sit, or most think. When in reality it's opposite.
We're about halfway through calving season.
Buckeye continue to get better.
Don thanks. Was hoping you found a cheap source. As it takes about 30 gallons to do a spraying around chicken coops. Can't use roundup down there no more.
Kyle. Tell your Finnly happy birthday.
Drew. Good luck on truck. Being a GM man I've actually considered a ram and cummins combo for my next work truck. But then GM has made great strides in the last year.

 

[PJSprog]

46° and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. Looking like we're in for a beautiful weekend here.

Took The Wife into Fairview Heights last evening to run a few errands. Got to work this morning and found a pile of keys on the floorboard of the passenger side in my car. Whoops. She is supposed to drop her Sorento off at the shop this morning to have some issues checked ... except her key (just a fob, really), her house keys, and the truck keys are all 42 miles from her. Hope she can find the spares.

Happy Anniversary, David.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low was 32*, yesterday's high was 47*. It was cloudy with a north wind all day. Today is going to be about the same. The weather forecast I get on my weather app is for a town that is about 30 miles away. And about two thousand feet lower then I am. So it's kind off a guessing game as to what my weather is going to be.

Sodamo . Happy anniversary to you and your wife.

I have to make a another trip to town today. To get some work done on the side by side to get it ready for the hunts. So that will be all day.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[daugen]

it was such a nice cool morning I planted the rest of the trees, will probably be a bit sore but they sure look nice.
Now I have the itch to go back and get a few more. Actually I want to get more roses to plant between the trees.
This has been the best year for roses due to no drownings out front, all the roses along the fence near the road are blooming,
nice to just slow down going out the lane and enjoy the fruits of my labor, visually anyway. If I had my way there would be splashes
of color everywhere.

Now to go drop my truck off at the shop and get a shuttle ride back. Always enjoy trips in those Caravans with 150K miles on them.
Local taxi service uses a bunch.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 8:00AM. 0% Precip. / 0.00 in. Partly Cloudy. High 81F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

RNG, you sound safe from speeding tickets for a little longer with your camper. Yesterday you were flat out - at 15 thou per day :laughing:

Not quite flat out , Eric, more like 0.005" out. But good enough to get the mechanic's blessing, and take away one more excuse for foot dragging on his part. Yesterday's new excuse was a concern over engine cooling, and a desire to install an extra oil cooler and attendant high capacity oil pump. Normally I'd have no problem with that, but the oil cooler would have been mounted under the van, and on a 4x4 the idea of something full of oil that close to rocks and tree limbs was a non-starter. So it was "yes" to the larger pump, and "let's wait and see if there's a problem" to the cooler. I was led to believe that the pump would be in hand today, and that by next Thursday the engine would be ready for installation. But I've learned to take this serial disappointer's estimates with a grain of salt, so we shall see...

Got the primer sanded out on the old motorcycle parts yesterday, and just need to do one more cleaning before painting them after it warms up a bit. Not sure what the rest of the day will bring, but there are plenty of things to keep me busy.

TGIF gang! :drink:

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .02 inches rain

Off to Hilo, breakfast with wife, errands.

Likely more mowing after we get home as I only did one area yesterday.

Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[daugen]

Definitely need to put some more air in the front tires of the Massey now with the weights added. They also added antifreeze mix to rear tires, and went over the whole
tractor for me. Most importantly, on a six year old tractor with unknown prior maintenance, I had the coolant flushed and replaced. Figure it will be good for a long time now, but needed
to set a base line. Their bill was three hundred dollars less than I had guestimated, all good.
Head of the Service Dept brought my tractor back, I found that a bit odd, they must be pretty short staffed...but we got to talk about what he found and he
said the tractor was like new, all trans and hydraulic fluids ok. So tomorrow, now that I got all my planting done, will likely be back in one of neighbor's fields, the one I mowed last week, and run the disc in there. Will be nice not to have the front end fly up in the air. More excitement than I need.

Tomorrow I'm going to take my better camera outside and take this picture again of mold growing on one of my birdhouses.
What a fascinating array of growths and colors, reminds me of a coral seabed.

 

[toppop52]

Wild looking growth there Drew! Nice cool fall day, got about 73 today, near 70 tomorrow. Finally got my burnt building removed yesterday and today. Got on my tractor and leveled the pad area. Can’t decide what I want to replace it with.
Put new LED lights in the garage, even the door opener lights, man it’s like daylight in there!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

First, thanks for all the well wishes for Finnly's Birthday and prayers too.

Eric, you have a way with the Queen's english. How poetic a description of the morning's condensation. I had to read it thrice, maybe four times.

Might as well say "Good Morning".

Been awake the last 3 hrs, couldnt get back to sleep.

You too? If you lived closer, I'd have put some coffee on to commiserate together about no sleep.

CWB, still too cold up there for me....I enjoyed working on the tractor and making a few laps with the shredder in the 75F air with a good breeze.

Speaking of tractor, I got the 5420 going again. The confounded flat seems to be holding, and I got the fuel system bled. Not too bad, I used a trick. Since I put on a pre-filter and a new water separator/fuel filter, I must have let the fuel drain all the way back to the tank. The little fuel plunger pump does not work with air in it, so I got out my little hand pump vacuum pump and took off the line on top of the stanadyne injector pump. After hooking my vacuum hose to it and giving it a few pumps, I had the small inline cup full of diesel in about 10 seconds. I put the line back on the injector pump, took off the bleed screw and then pumped the small fuel plunger. I could tell that this time, it had something to push with (fuel). After pumping some fuel out the bleeder screw, I started cranking on it. A bit awkward, standing on the side step with 1 foot and the other on the gas pedal, one hand on the key and the other pumping the plunger...I turned it over for about 15-20 seconds at full throttle, and let it sit for a few minutes while I bled a bit more fuel out the bleeder screw. Then cranked on her again and she fired up, only missing on 1 cylinder for about 30 seconds running at about 1500rpm.

RNG,

But I've learned to take this serial disappointer's estimates with a grain of salt, so we shall see...

You mean cereal disappointer with a grain of flakiness?

Ed, funny about the tarps. Hits kind of close to home, being as I had one on my home for 3 months after a windstorm, waiting for the roofers to get time for me. Maybe I should have used it as a chance to gripe about the rich people around me. LOL.

PJS, hadn't heard Billy Sheehan's name in quite some time. He is very talented. I also was a big fan of John Entwistle's talents on bass, but not so much his vocals.

Happy Anniversary David and wifey Sodamo. Hope for many more.

Ron, your son got about the nicest truck you can buy IMO. I would like to compare window stickers of the new Ford to the 2012 V6 chevy...trucks sure have gone up. You have to have 2 college degrees to work on a 10 speed transmission I'm betting.

Daugen and wngsprd get the hard work medals of the week (HWMOTW) IMO for planting trees and working on those guns chopping firewood.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 63F this morning, overcast, and calm. Trace of rain in the rain gauge. High temp was 75F dew point was down to 60F and wind stayed down and intermittent drizzle. Slow start due to drizzle, 2 hours of consulting, bike ride, prep for long ride in Bonham TX tomorrow. Wife doing better today after prep and anesthesia wore off .

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good evening all. 63F this morning, overcast, and calm. Trace of rain in the rain gauge. High temp was 75F dew point was down to 60F and wind stayed down and intermittent drizzle. Slow start due to drizzle, 2 hours of consulting, bike ride, prep for long ride in Bonham TX tomorrow. Wife doing better today after prep and anesthesia wore off .

Good news on the wifey. How long a ride tomorrow? Nice weather for it unless bad headwind is there.

 

[mostly_gas]

Happy anniversary David :drink:

Kyle should be about 75-80 miles. Head wind first half out of the east at about 10+ gusts

Randy, sorry to hear about friend, prayers sent.

 

[Buppies]

Waiting to wake up chickens only a couple more hours

Sodamo happy anniversary

 

[Buppies]

Mostly glad wife is feeling better

 

[daugen]

Buppies, were you coming or going? Hope you got back to sleep.
So tuckered out from yesterday I went to bed too early and of course, up too early.
But hopefully Roy remembers what day it is and is sleeping in.

Much cooler day, showers yesterday brought in cooler weather, highs in the 70's.
I'm off to disc a field on a nice morning, all good. Then back to water my newly planted trees again.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. The radio woke me this morning with the station playing the same songs as it did when the BBC first launched 50 years ago today, a station dedicated to "pop" music. At that time I would have one year to go before becoming a teenager and it was a revelation to be able to clearly hear (and illegally tape :ashamed: ) music that previously could only be heard whining and crackling on long wave from far away Radio Luxemburg and boat based pirate radio stations in the north sea.

Never guessed that one day I would be able to instantly play, day or night, just about every piece of music that has ever been recorded. No streaming in my tractor cab yet (although the rain did dribble in once when the aerial worked loose ).

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 42° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 65° with sunny skies.
Been working on my old Craftsman metal lathe. Crossfeed quit working a few years ago. Have a project that will require that operation. Took slide/carriage apart to find out what was wrong. Gear that rides on lead screw was worn out. Was surprised that Clausing (owner of Atlas Lathe company) still makes and stocks parts for it. Part will be here Monday. $120, but it's the first thing I have put in it in the 50 years I have owned it. It was built sometime in early 50's. Even Sears still sells parts for it. Although at ridiculously high prices. My project today is to clean up all the parts I took off. So I can assemble it Monday when part gets here.
Detroit Edison crew was out again yesterday with a tree trimming crew. Tree guys did a great job trimming our 50' maple that is just south of powerlines. They still need to come back and trim branches from tree that hang over top of power line. They are at 40 to 50'. Power lines are at 30'. They had to get out of way of electric crew.
Mostly, glad your wife is feeling better.
Happy Anniversary Mr and Mrs sodamo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

2017-09-30, 0638

46 right now...high in the mid-50's and probably some rain

No particular plans...I will be replacing a video card in my PC with a faster card. After that, we'll see what comes up.