Good morning!!!!

[WinterDeere]

Good Tractor Morning,

Nice setup WinterDeere,
I have the same leaf blower, although my Zero Turn is a Toro. I’m sure it will work. How did you clamp it on ? I’m sure I can devise a mounting bracket out of junk I have laying around.

It's actually a purchased rig from JRCO, and it comes with a universal mounting bar that will fit almost any ZTR. I see they have them priced pretty high these days, I bought that one almost 15 years ago, but they're worth it if you use it several weeks every year like me. You could probably fab your own, if you have the skills, but I'd venture to say that after the cost of all materials, you'd probably end up not saving enough to make the many hours worth it.

I thought that was a she.
shows what I know....truly.

lol... I'm no expert either. But unless she has one big nipple in the middle of her belly, I'm guessing it's a he!

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 49 going to 51 and cloudy, a bit more rain yesterday.
Got the plow moved after cleaning up the leaves that were in it's space.
Then went and aerating the lawn, of course 3/4 of the way through it starting raining, but I kept going, light rain, will need to clean lawn tractor for winter storage once it's dry out. Did mulch up some more leaves too.

Then I found a buck had ripped through a bunch of smaller stakes to rub our Japanese black pine
So went and drilled holes and put in 2 of the 7' steel T-Posts, they already killed our other pine doing this and seem to leave all the mature trees alone, just going for the ones I planted.

Dog walk in town, even overcast there were still quite a few tourists.

Drew - at my old house my neighbor installed the same doorbell as I had, when he tested his, both ours rang. He switched it to a different channel (little switches) and that worked.

Dropped son off at train station, he seems to be doing well and keeping very busy.

More branches down, but not too bad.

Nice setup to the little Wonder Winterdeere, I haven't bothered, but that would save so much time. Going down hill is easy, it's the rough ground up hill that kills me pushing the blower.

Arly, we have a cell booster, it hasn't helped much, it is older 4G/LTE though, maybe the new ones are better.

I move the rounds to the splitter with the tractor/forks and put them on their side to roll over. Then tilt onto the platform when ready, it is a bit of a strain still though.
These were some of the bigger 30"+ rounds, still have quite a few to go.

Be well,

Ground was finally a little softer, but not as water saturated as I would like. Usually get this done in September, but it's been so dry that I need to use a drill and auger to put posts in the ground still.

Still happy with the forks, moved them closer together to move rounds and so far it lifts them all without issue.

Trees getting pretty bare now, with most of the Ash trees down I can see clear through across the valley. This used to be so thick with trees.

 

[Popgadget]

we have a cell booster, it hasn't helped much, it is older 4G/LTE though, maybe the new ones are better.

Actually that was one of the reasons for the mesh system, WiFi calling in the buildings and walking between them while on a call. Now the number of dropped calls is gone to near zero from a near certainty.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
47° which is the high for today, it’s a bit grey out there as well.

Yesterday was an interesting day. I had a large bass cabinet that I have been trying to give away for months. It was finally suggested to me that the reason nobody wanted it was that it was free, and that I should advertise it for a very low, but believable price.
With that in mind, I put it on Marketplace around 11pm Saturday for $250 (new would be $1200). When I got up on Sunday, I had about six inquiries, all asking if I would accept less. My reply was the price was firm, and it was gone by 11am.
Not entirely surprising, but we had a lot of mutual friends, including some that I’d offered it to for free. I told him about that and told him he didn’t have to pay, but he insisted, saying it was a great deal. So I gave him another one for free.
I’ve got a lot more open space, and he was happy.

After that we dropped the wife’s transit connect off at a friends shop to see what is causing the awful noise from the front brakes. I hate working on brakes…..

After that it was off to the hangar with son and grandson to make some progress on the little plane. It’s amazing how long a 5 year old can amuse himself with a hammer and a block of wood.

Here is what I was struggling to give away.

Trip to Palm Beach canceled, due to uncertainty of ATC delays. It was to bring someone up for a funeral and take them back on Tuesday. There was a chance that delays could have had them miss the funeral, I explained that I had no clue what the odds were that there could be delays, that I was willing to do it last night, to be safe, but they elected to stay in FL and stream the service.

So now I have all week to do whatever I feel like.

 

[WinterDeere]

Here is what I was struggling to give away.
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Ampeg SVT! Grew up with two of those in my basement, courtesy of mom's house serving as practice studio for my various high school bands.

I know a local guy who might want that, if you're getting rid of it. Are the speakers still good?

 

[Popgadget]

Ampeg SVT! Grew up with two of those in my basement, courtesy of mom's house serving as practice studio for my various high school bands.

I know a local guy who might want that, if you're getting rid of it. Are the speakers still good?

Two of them left yesterday. Well traveled, but worked perfectly, all original speakers. Fairly late model, had speakon connection. USA made.

 

[WinterDeere]

Two of them left yesterday. Well traveled, but worked perfectly, all original speakers. Fairly late model, had speakon connection. USA made.
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Damn! Oh well.

I still have four large speaker cabinets in my drum studio, almost entirely unused now, not exactly playing live dates anymore.

 

[Buppies]

35 for low 37 now snow flurries and windy

Went to bed midnight up at 7:00 not bad

Prayers for all our Country

 

[ponytug]

@ArlyA I used a Wilson cellular for many years at another location. I loved it. No more dropped calls. However, cellular amplifiers really only work if they have some signal to amplify, and work best when there is good separation between the antenna pointed at the cell tower (e.g. yagi, parabolic), and the one broadcasting the amplified signal. It is not uncommon to have the strongest signal not from a location where the closest cell tower is known to be due to ground effects. If you have a signal strength meter, it saves a lot of "can you hear me now?" cycles aligning the antenna manually, but I think it is perfectly doable with a yagi antenna. A parabolic might be a bit more of a challenge.

I've seen some crazy imported amplifiers that aren't FCC approved, and that amplify a bunch of bands not used in the US, so I would check that any amplifier that you buy amplifies the right bands for your carrier. (Some of them are much higher power than permitted as well.)

I would bear in mind that 4G and 5G don't have the range of 3G and earlier cellular signals. We are too far away from the nearest tower to use an amplifier. We've used WiFi calling in one form or another for fifteen years or so, starting with an Alcatel system many moons ago.

If you know that you will be at your camp often, I would recommend a Starlink and using WiFi for cellular access, over a cellular amplifier. I think that Starlink is much less hassle to set up, and will be less prone to your local carrier retuning its system in a way that causes you to have to move and realign your antenna.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!
33 this morning w/high not out of the 40s


Long day on the road yesterday, but made it home by lunch time.
Left at about 3:00AM. Very efficient trip with only two necessary and another at a very close HF. for freebies. Also necessary.
Had a very excited dog when we got here. Talked to our dog sitters for a few minutes then got them on their way.
Then I got out luggage and the new to me SnapOn boxes my son gave me.

I would never buy one but it's nice to have. And probably somewhat liquid if I ever need to survive on cat food.


It was nice to be home that early but, totally useless for the rest of the day.
Plan today is minimal but already started for a while. Still in redesign mode overall for the shop but need to make a home for box.
Started the buggy for the heck of it. It took a minute but fired right up.

Already had a second cup. (3rd actually)
Everybody have a great and safe day day!!