I hit a log and the shear bolt broke at one end only and the head broke off and fell to the deck. I was able to keep mowing because the other part of the bolt stayed in the drive shaft joint. The bolt eventually dropped out and the mower stopped turning. My question is, why did the bolt break in...
I used my chop saw for cutting steel for the first time. I put in a cut-off blade and burned up the plastic kerf plate. I had to make a new one out of Aluminum.
I finished my weekend project. Made a tractor top out of 16ga angle that came as a packing crate and metal roof material. Adapted a liquid crate to my bucket as a man lift for cutting trees.