Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

2018-05-19,

Got the chipper assembled, but still need to check the PTO shaft length to finish the job. Unfortunately, rain started so it was time to quit.
It's bigger than I thought...

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Probably going to be too wet to try it this weekend. Supposed to be a bit drier tomorrow (Sunday), so maybe I'll get to rig the driveshaft and purge the hydraulics...

That support bar and eyebolt will fall off the first time you use the chipper. I do not use mine. Because the chute is over top of my tiller when stored. I have put a lot of pressure on end of chute to see if it would pull chipper over. My 170 lbs would no make it tilt. But I can see where it could be a safety issue. I did drill a hole in bar to keep bar in place when needed. Also drilled and tapped a hole in bar to store eyebolt in when bar is not used. Even though it was tight in bracket it fell out while using chipper.
I think a green chipper would have looked good behind your tractor.

 

[RoyJackson]

That support bar and eyebolt will fall off the first time you use the chipper. I do not use mine. Because the chute is over top of my tiller when stored. I have put a lot of pressure on end of chute to see if it would pull chipper over. My 170 lbs would no make it tilt. But I can see where it could be a safety issue. I did drill a hole in bar to keep bar in place when needed. Also drilled and tapped a hole in bar to store eyebolt in when bar is not used. Even though it was tight in bracket it fell out while using chipper.
I think a green chipper would have looked good behind your tractor.

Yeah...green would be nice...don't think Woodmaxx sells a green chipper, but there is a green and yellow one. If I recall, that's an extra 50 bucks for the green and yellow. Rather than spend the money on that, I bought the spare parts kit (belts, knives, extra shear bolts and such) plus the US manufactured PTO drive shaft.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Which thread?

Your land is my land.

 

[RoyJackson]

Your land is my land.

Yeah..read some posts, but never subscribed.
Shame some guys just can't resist being a-holes.

 

[ronjhall]

Yeah...green would be nice...don't think Woodmaxx sells a green chipper, but there is a green and yellow one. If I recall, that's an extra 50 bucks for the green and yellow. Rather than spend the money on that, I bought the spare parts kit (belts, knives, extra shear bolts and such) plus the US manufactured PTO drive shaft.

I got a spare set of blades. Spare shear bolts came with chipper. I doubt by tractor will shear a bolt. I did stall tractor first time I shoved a 6” log in it. I have learned to use feed valve to feed the larger pieces into chipper. You should not have that problem with your tractor. But keep them shear bolts handy.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Your land is my land.

Yep, the usual suspects.

 

[toppop52]

We’ve had 16” of rain this year, 8.34 has fallen this week.

 

[jbrumberg]

Good evening everyone.

Bird- I agree. People have to quit in their own unique way and timeframes. Wifey went cold turkey after trying other alternative methods w/o success. Self hypnosis tapes made her chain smoke.

Ron- Your dolly is professional looking. Nice looking flail mower too.

Roy- Congratulations on the new chipper. You have a nice looking rig. I wish you many uneventful hours of operation.

BEF- That thread looked like trouble and I avoided it. I quickly tire of the BS drama and food fights. I bet that some of the "usual suspects" are the posters who were causing "mayhem" when I first joined TBN. Personalities are what they are for better or worse.

Randy- That moisture feed from the Caribbean impacting on you and the Southeast and MidAtlantic coastal states is pretty impressive and is predicted to stay awhile. Your area is flooding and the Southwest drought is worsening and growing in area. This is bad.

It rained all day here and I do not think the temperature hit 50F. I actually fired up the wood stove this PM.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 73F this morning, mostly cloudy, moderate breeze. Wind came up very brisk and gusty, sky went to partly cloudy back to partly sunny, and high temp was 90F. Bike ride first thing this morning to beat the worst of the wind and heat. 56 miles done about 12:15 lunch nap and boat searching filled the rest of the day.
Drew wifey was gun-shy on spending 4500 to replace transom, no back section to minimize amount of work to replace transom. This is our third wood replacement project and by far the costliest. Also had about 20 hours of interior work and anothe 300 to replace another wood structure between port side couches. Hope to get a fish and ski to replace.
Don, have replaced Samsung capacitors in power supply. Watch 3 different videos no one that I saw had all the info in the video. Took longer to work out procedure, than to do it. I am no expert, had the best video and checklist to perform operation, work on first try. The TV I had the repair would last about 5 years.

 

[txdon]

I got the TV apart and checked the three boards. No visible sings of buldge in any of the capacitors. No burn no melts. Checked out a tv repair place near Georgetown. He gave me a hint of maybe a cracked solder. He also said he could check it out for $45 and if I decided the final repair was too much and wanted to buy a new TV the $45 would go to a new TV. I'll pack it up and take it to him Monday. he said the TV I have is a 2K and now the new TVs are 4K I'm only one generation old. My bedroom TV is four generations old.
Kyle I checked out the curved 4K TVs at Sam's, and also the 60" 4k Sony at the repairs shop. The sony had a better picture but I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel on the old set.
Thanks for the heads up on the monitors. That cut out about half of the selections.