Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

73 outside this AM. Heading to 90's today with chances of pop up thunderstorms. Yestetday I ended up mowing the front and managed to get stuck by my new drainage issue. I still have standing water in spots and any rain just compounds the poor drainage. Not much planned for today. Need to wash the equipment down. I also think I picked up junk in my mowers fuel system. While cutting the mower started surging and would stall out until I gave it full choke. Started back up ok but then bogged down again a while later.
Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

Sound like a fuel issue Rip? Does your Mower have an in-line fuel filter?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife just bought a couple quilts from a lady who hand stitches them, she will not use a machine. They are a work of art.

I have my own singer sewing machine. My wife has one, she never wants to learn how to thread it, so i always have to figure it out every time. Well it needed something repaired, and out of action for awhile, so i just bought her a new one. She didnt like that. She now uses mine, but i always have to thread it for her.

Had our first corn from garden, very good white yellow mix. Picked more before dark.

 

[riptides]

Sound like a fuel issue Rip? Does your Mower have an in-line fuel filter?

Yep, and agree, sounds that way. I am hoping...hoping...that whatever it was cleared itself out. After the second bogging, I returned to the barn and fueled up. I was at a 1/4 tank. Later that evening, I took it out back and ran it hot and made a few passes against what I had just cut earlier. Seemed to be OK. But I still may have crud or bad stuff in the line.

I am also wondering about my fuel storage with all this rain and humidity. I am sure that cannot be good for gas. Although for the big mowers I usually run out and get fresh 5 gallons from the station and use that within a day or two and the most.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 71F @ 5:30AM. Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke and haze are possible, reducing visibility at times. High 94F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

The old industrial Consew here does one straight stitch but does it very well, through almost any imaginable thickness of cloth or upholstery. It's about to get a workout if the van ever gets back and I can start working on door cards. The foam and vinyl are already here...

Smoke, smoke, and more smoke. Most of it from the Mendocino Complex, which is now the largest fire in California history. Several others are contributing as well, including the Donnell Fire and now the Murphy Incident, burning in the shadow of the Chips Fire not far to the east of here. The Chips burned 71,000 acres in 2012, and it took the winter rains to finally put it out. COD: GOES16

Installed the air box on the old BMW yesterday, then dug out the carbs and found one had been completely disassembled but not cleaned, and the other untouched. Don't remember doing it, but I must have. Very stressful time, so not surprised at the lack of memory. A nice surprise was finding a box with all the new parts needed to do the job. And I broke down and ran the body and top through the bead blaster, supposedly a no-no because it takes off the finish and clogs the ports, but with the ultra fine bead I'm using I didn't encounter either problem. More of the same today with the other one.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning! 75˚ heading to 98˚ and then we start to get in the 100s again starting tomorrow.

With all this serger and sewing talk, today will be "show us your home made sewing project day" by either you are a family member. I had grand parents that made quilts but now the only active quilt maker in the family is my wife's 70 year old uncle. In fact he stopped by Saturday on his road trip and gave us a house warming gift - A quilt he had just finished. I'll have to make another post with my phone pic.

Back almost 20 years ago my wife was making a "fraction folder" for a co called Math U See. It was a home school math course. So I started helping. It was a piece of "shirt cardboard" with fabric over it with pockets on the front. After a bit we just did it together. I would run into one of my mechanic buddies and when they asked what I was doing I would answer I am a seamstress. My wife could not let that go and would explain what we did. I thought it was funny. We made 10's of thousands of them on her old Berinia sewing machine. Ed

She has a queen size pieced quilt that has never seen a sewing machine. It is all sewn by hand and she is now quilting it by hand. Try to get a pic later.

 

[txdon]

She has a queen size pieced quilt that has never seen a sewing machine. It is all sewn by hand and she is now quilting it by hand. Try to get a pic later.

Here is a pic of the quilt wife's uncle just finished and gave to us.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Yep, and agree, sounds that way. I am hoping...hoping...that whatever it was cleared itself out. After the second bogging, I returned to the barn and fueled up. I was at a 1/4 tank. Later that evening, I took it out back and ran it hot and made a few passes against what I had just cut earlier. Seemed to be OK. But I still may have crud or bad stuff in the line.

I am also wondering about my fuel storage with all this rain and humidity. I am sure that cannot be good for gas. Although for the big mowers I usually run out and get fresh 5 gallons from the station and use that within a day or two and the most.

If you’re forced to use ethanol contaminated gasoline, you might try treating it with Stabil Marine 360.



I started treating all my gasoline about 4 years ago and it’s really made a difference. It also resolved the problems with 2-cycle fuel lines, etc. I add it to gas tank in our Corvette which sits for long periods of time.

 

[newbury]

<snip>The focus seemed to be on how first responders had to risk life and limb to evacuate people that either missed or ignored the evacuation warnings; some real hair raising stories.
<snip>

If they ignored the warnings they don't deserve rescuing.

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Finished lubing the zero turn yesterday...found 2 zerks on the mower deck drive shaft that I can't reach with my cheapo grease gun. Thinking of getting one of the battery guns. Seems like I remember a couple of you guys using them...any recommendations? It doesn't have to be "pillow-worthy" like Eric's .

Reads like mission creep. Couldn't you just get longer hoses?
As far as battery powered guns - remember you will be potentially buying in to a "battery system".

 

[cat fever]

Good morning all;

I haven't posted in this thread for some time. Thought this was worth mentioning, yesterday while driving to the home I'm building I looked at the temperature....36 degrees. Could hardly believe it was that cold. It felt nice since it's been so hot lately.

 

[wngsprd]

If they ignored the warnings they don't deserve rescuing.

Reads like mission creep. Couldn't you just get longer hoses?
As far as battery powered guns - remember you will be potentially buying in to a "battery system".

Yes, mission creep. But after pricing out a couple on Amazon and HD a while ago, I already did a search on longer hoses.