Good morning!!!!

[m7040]

good morning, 61 going to 83 another nice day

Grass is back growing and mowing is back on the agenda

Lunch at a new to us Italian Sea food place with one of the kids. Wife is looking forward to it

Finished the welding table. It has some rust pitting but it is flat as checked with a straight edge

Replaced some slats on a garden bench with pine boards cut to size

Moved over the inserts to the boots. These inserts don't look like much but they are needed to make the pain go away in my right foot. A few times I did not think I needed them and the pain came right back

Yes Kubota loves their grease zerks.

 

[Buppies]

The bridge they built over 311 is very nice expanded parking area some as well. They always have a crowd. Macfees Knob also got expanded parking lot.

The ExMark we have has only two grease fittings the Toro must have 20 or more. In the most inconvenient places

 

[ArlyA]

I finally spieded a wildfire smoke map and seen the great lakes are in the middle of it, so us who are temporary in northern MN are still seeing it and it's thick. Our garage sales were poor yesterday so we're at it again. Puppy sleeps between sales.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, yes, nice new pedestrian bridge for the AT. If you ever want to hike McAfee, I'll go with you.

That would be fun.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 59 going to 88 and sunny.
The war on Stiltgrass continued yesterday, as did planting some spinach and squash.
After cleaning up the former corn patch from weeds.

Then some watering and general maintenance.

The deer will not eat the stiltgrass, the acre or so I have the deer will work around, but not bother walking into it.

Good luck with the sales Arly.

Today will be busy at work, so probably only do some watering of the new plantings today.

The transplanted trees are all doing well, as is the apple tree.

Seems all the peaches on the bigger tree have disappeared. The pear trees all dropped their pears due to heat stress on one and the other getting hit twice by falling branches.

The deer are still picking over the brush I cut, they love the tree branches just full of leaves.

Be well,

Doe and twins follow me around, with the doe always keeping an eye on me while the twins play.

 

[m7040]

55 heading to 84. Thank you.

Pony, thanks for the greasing ideas. I pretty much have those covered. One of the best tools I've bought was the DeWalt cordless grease gun. It has a nice long flexible hose, and the priming system has made changing cartridges easy. I think what takes so much tie is the many different potions I have to maneuver into to reach different parts, and how slow I seem to get up off my back . I also back the zero turn up a ramp to allow me to get to the rear drive shaft underneath. The other drive shaft to the deck is the toughest to reach.

BEF, yes, nice new pedestrian bridge for the AT. If you ever want to hike McAfee, I'll go with you.

Ken, do you ever see the deer eat the stilt grass? I haven't.

Thomas, we have aa little Boo sized bear that seems to be hanging around our woods this summer.

Scotty, it's a Kubota ZD 1021. I love it...it's like Kyle says, a beast. A lot of other features makes up for the greasing challenge. Just turned over 500 hours last month.

Wife came home late yesterday, so will hang out with her rather than go the mountains today. Maybe tomorrow since Della and I had a good hike yesterday.

Don't know if you are using the LockNLube coupling on your grease gun but I have found that very helpful because it locks on to the grease fitting and all I have to do is trigger the M18 grease gun and watch for grease seeping out of the joints

 

[ponytug]

Good Morning,

Billy, that must be a big machine , curious what model you have ? Maybe a picture when you can
I have a small Toro, 22 or /3 hp with a 42” deck, but the Ct house only sits on 1 acre. I think only have 2 zerks.

What brand do you have Pontug?

Don, is that stuff good for pressed concrete also ? I just pressure washed the pressed concrete around the inground pool and need to coat with something.

As most of my battery powered tools are Makita, so that's what I bought. (XPG01Z 18V LXT)

To me, the Milwaukee M18 design is similar, and I know folks who like theirs. Despite knowing lots of folks with DeWalt battery tools, I can't recall seeing the DeWalt version of a battery grease gun.

All the best,

Peter

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Guys working on new fiber line cable in front of house, a real clown show.
One pickup parked in my grass, another bucket truck turning around made a 5 pt turn pulling into my grass several times, back hitch plowed up some of neighbors yard.
Sitting on porch just watching the show

Shows over, they moving up the road. Guess I need to get busy, getting hot again.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
66° and sunny, high in the middle 80’s. Another nice day to be outside.

Yesterday was a day of puttering. A little bit of time on the Lazer, which after getting my hat and headphones knocked off, reminded me that I really need to do some trimming along the hedgerow between the pastures and the pond. The good news is that the headphones don’t land on the exhaust or under the mower. (Don’t ask how I know that those are possibilities), which is a good thing as they are Bose noise canceling headphones that I stream Spotify to while I’m mowing.

The upper track for the screen for the patio door was falling down on the new Andersen door on the old folks home. I guess they rely on the screen being in place to keep it in place. However I never put the screen doors in. So I ran a bead of clear silicone in the grove and pushed the track back into place. A bit of tape to hold it while it cures.

Just got back from looking at an ongoing project at one of the county airports. Had to explain that if you have a trench full of water the surface of that water is level at both ends, regardless what your gee whiz Laser is telling you.
And better double check anything else that you used that laser on.
Located some underground wires while I was there. Hopefully convinced the same crew, that my location and depth was just a suggestion, not a certainty.
In other words, I accept no responsibility for their actions. Historically, my locator is accurate to less than an inch on both azimuth and depth, but I didn’t tell them that.

I have some parts 3D printing now, should be done in time to go out to lunch.

No firm plans for the afternoon, I’m just happy that I’m not wedding dress shopping with my wife and daughter.

 

[Popgadget]

As most of my battery powered tools are Makita, so that's what I bought. (XPG01Z 18V LXT)

I was in the same boat, all of my 18v tools are Makita (except a Milwaukee fence stapler, which has a 3D printed adapter to use Makita LXT batteries)

When I was looking for a cordless grease gun, Makita didn’t have one yet. DeWalt did, but I wasn’t going there.
I settled on the Milwaukee 12v one, and have since gotten other Milwaukee 12v tools. I’m quite pleased with it, and second Frits’ suggestion for the Lock n Lube.

I actually can’t see any need for a heavier 18v grease gun after using this one for years and several cases of grease.