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I'm the OP and don't remember a call or text for Marvin since starting the thread. Good riddance.

I got the plug that solved my problem off of another machine that somebody gave me.

The last message I saw from /Pine said something about working on his boats. That was months ago.

I don't think I ever noticed the holster, before.

I did some research. The information I found said that the shrimp at Joshua Tree are fairy shrimp and the ones marketed as Sea Monkeys are a hybrid type of brine shrimp. They're not the same.

I've heard the shrimp story and often wondered whether they were the same kind of short lived shrimp sold as Sea Monkies.

In the 80's I used to plant an acre or two of watermelons and sell them door to door. The neighborhoods where people sat out on porches were the best places to sell.

My mother used to talk about buying a bag of candy for a penny during the depression. Now, I wish I'd asked her what sized bag.

You remember the phrase, "Don't trust anyone over 30", and realize the person credited with coining it is now 84 years old.

Financing reminds me of the title a song called, "The Games People Play".

I don't need the lift function and think you're right on all counts. The recliner is paid for and I'm cheap, so, I think I'll fool around with it to see If I can get any use out of it. Thanks :)

My wife has bought another of those recliners that push her into a standing position and given the old one to me. After little more than a year, it's become uncomfortable to sit in. My theory is that the seat pillow has gotten packed into it's case as the lift mechanism has pushed her forward...

Now, I'm craving BROWNIES.

I'd have been tempted to hang up on the jerk and be the proud owner of two O2 tanks.

I lost a tank once. Never did find it.

The bending part would be another application for what someone called "the blue wrench" otherwise known as an acetylene torch.

One of my first part time jobs was in a department store where I was required to wear a neck tie. Many times I forgot mine and had to buy a cheap one in the men's department before going on the floor. I didn't like ties then and don't like them now.😖

I was in an entirely different group just now and the two other men were having a conversation about the ties they'd bought. That's when I left and came over here. o_O

Just thinking about wearing "...a suit, white shirt, tie, wingtips" makes me miserable. I'm thinking about specifying that I be buried in a pocket tee shirt.

You are correct, Sir. Sometimes I watch old episodes of TV's The Untouchables. Walter's narration is my favorite part of the show.

In the same vein as the Schnozola's quote, you know you're old when you know who opened his show with some variation of, "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let’s go to press."

Just remembered, a little girl fell to her death in the shaft of the elevator I rode in most often. It might have had nothing but a stretching scissor gate before that. All I remember from that elevator were doors. I think I've seen the stretch type on freight elevators fairly recently.

Only vaguely. It was a rare occasion that I rode on an elevator.

You know you're getting old when: You remember riding in a six story elevator with an elevator operator.

Trying the easiest and cheapest fixes first seems a good idea as long as they do no harm.

Channel locks must be how I got by before I bought the basin wrench.

I've read or heard all that about starting fluid. That's why I usually check the labels. Every can I can remember said it contained lubricant (for the upper cylinder, I think).

My mother got angry when I called it a sink. She said it was a "lavatory". My mother was suffering from Alzheimer's at the time and got angry at nearly everything.

One, that I can remember. Just thinking about working on my back, squeezed beneath a sink, with my head against a wall makes my neck hurt.

Thanks for so many responses. In my non professional option they were all valid.

I was afraid straight gas would wash the oil off of the cylinder and I was out of starting fluid when I used the mixed gas.

I told you the problem "wasn't in the gas". Pay attention! :)

Good try.

Good guess.

It was easier than that.

Good try.

Bingo!:)

If you guys want to play, we'll see who answers the basic small engine question first. Walk behind wouldn't start first time this spring. It had been under a tarp on a lift table since last run.. Pulled cord and got only one tiny pop Put chainsaw mix of gas and oil into carb, got nothing...

Thanks for that explanation. I though the wait had to do insurance. Funny and true!:ROFLMAO:

One of the pluses of my particular cataract surgeries is that corrective implants came along with the operations. For the time being, at least, I only need cheaters for close up. They come two pair for around fifteen dollars and I have several pair so I can wear one while waiting for the rest...

I got in the house a couple of days ago and still had the replacement in one hand when I picked something up with the other. It was the lost item.

You know you're getting old when you've bought a replacement item for one you couldn't find three times with in a seven day period. Then found the one that was missing when you stored the replacement.

Forty or fifty years ago Oregon's governor requested that people quit moving there.

Now I know. Thanks! :)

Please tell me WHY tires came wrapped at all. It's puzzled me for decades.

My favorite Andrew Camarata episode is the one where he tells how got started in excavation. What's yours?

From that information, I reason that Matthew's most used machines have well maintained batteries and the rest get the Honda generator and battery charger treatment. That would probably be the most economical plan for engines a sit idle for so long.

My son used to live in Atlanta. The traffic makes it a good place to stay away from.

Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't noticed.

I often wonder how he keeps the batteries from going bad in machinery he won't get back to for a year at a time.

Sometimes I wonder how many of those card catalog units were turned into parts drawers.

Those bad roads are beginning to sound kind of appealing. :)

I kind of liked those cartridge pens because i could bleach out my many mistakes with Clorox on a Q-tip. o_O

He says the families appreciate it.

My brother likes to attend funerals. Personally, I hope the next funeral I attend will be my own.

Gulp!:-(

You know you're getting old when you go to a restaurant and are served by third generation members of families who's young grandparents once served you.

It was over thirty years ago when I had that plow. If cub owners preferences are like they were then you might be able to get a two disc at a low price. The belly plow will be more dear. I hope you find one.

I once bought what I was told was a two disc rear mounted plow for a Cub, at an auction. Not having a Cub, I marked it up and advertised it as such. Few, if any people were interested in the two disc rear mounted plow, but, I had several inquiries as to whether it was a one disc belly mounted...

I was about to suggest silicone before reading your last sentence.

I feel much younger now. Your dad was older than my granddad.

You know you're old when you realize both of your parents would be 100 next year.

I had two of those, at different times. The cheaper one as driven by the front wheel and the other from the back. Each had advantages and disadvantages.

And in your welding helmet

The lights are seldom bright enough anymore, either.

Thank you!:-)

Thank you. I believe you've cracked the mystery.

Does Hi Drive Electric Drive mean it's Diesel Electric similar to a locomotive?

That's the first time I ever heard of a door to door spider monkey salesman. :-) :-) :-)

A classmate of mine had some kind of a monkey. She said it strangled her cat.

It must have had a device waiting at the depot to keep it standing when it stopped or did the gyro do that?

A wise decision.

When you won't get a new pet because it's life expectancy would be greater than yours.

I don't believe it. The episode is on YouTube. It's a two parter called, "Scary Tale on a Canyon Trail" and was on the Ruff N Reddy cartoon show.

Another thing I think I remember is a few episodes of some cartoon show about a tiny horse that I thought was based on the ones in the Grand Canyon. 1957 was a long time ago and I have trouble what happened yesterday.

Jstpssng and ultrarunner Thank you both. I have no doubt that these were the tiny horses my teacher was talking about. She probably caught wind of Tooker's horses/ponies and passed it along to the class. To further impress the story on my mind, it was at the height of the Shetland pony craze...

I seldom wore safety glasses because they made my regular glasses fog up and paid for it when I got a sliver of steel in my eye while drilling. Now that I have implanted lenses that came with the cataract surgeries, I get by with just the safety glasses.

The horse debate has brought back a memory or misremembering that I've had for a long time. Back around 1957 when I was in first grade, I remember the teacher telling us about a population of tiny horses being found in the Grand Canyon. Do any of you other old guys remember such a discovery?

My eye doctor was complaining about my face sagging, too.

You sudden lay realize you haven't found a steel penny, an Indian head penny, or a Buffalo nickel in your change in decades.

Thanks for the tip. We're in fire ant country but, these look too small and I don't know what kind they are.

I made a mistake on Rowdy Yates. It was the scout, Pete Nolan, that I eliminated Rowdy was the ramrod.

The exterminator told my wife the lone ants walking around in the house are scouts and if they're killed, the rest won't follow. I just got one called Flint McCullough and another that claimed to be Rowdy Yates.

Your first paragraph is familiar. I must have read that, too.

I watch lots of YouTube videos to learn to do things the most suitable way. If the presenter has a finger missing, it makes me think I should watch someone else.

You know you're old.when you put your sweatshirt on over your tee shirt because you're cold. Pretty soon, you have to remove the sweat shirt to take your blood pressure and remember, that's why you had it off when you got cold.

BR 549 is thought to be a slip or boat ramp number on Bald Ridge Marina Road where Junior Samples liked to fish.

That's what I've been planning to do.

My wife watched it, too. Those in the "I Can Name That Song" thread can expect some lyrics from that movie.

You know you're old when you're proud of yourself for finally getting the year right on checks and realize you've written the wrong CENTURY.

Steve Lawrence of Steve and Eydie fame, died March 7, 2024. He was 88 years old and had Alzheimer’s disease. Eydie Gorme died in 2013.

Over fifty years ago, I was delivery boy for a dry cleaner. The grease gun had a zerk in the end of the barrel. When the gun was empty, the sent me to the filling station across the street. Someone there would pump it full with the pneumatic gun used at the grease rack.

"gravitationally aware" I like that term.

If you'd like to buy one the Pinto is sitting in my brother's pasture.

Congratulations to everyone who has had a sunroof that didn't leak.

Here's the only explanation I can think of as to how it happens: As I approach the place I left the object I start to reach for it. My brain decides I can take it from there and momentarily goes to another thought, then realizes it's forgotten what I need to pickup. My hand, which has started...

I hope nobody ever tries to give me a vehicle with a sunroof.

I think it was an old Trans Am I saw that had what looked like bathtub caulk all around the T top.

Did your friends ever mention lack of a timing mark? When I got ready to set the timing on my wife's 77 Pinto I couldn't find one. Not knowing anything more about timing other than how to point the light and turn the distributor, I took a tuneup course at the local tech school and the teacher...

It works wonders.

I didn't mention that my brother's mechanical ability usually maxes out when he puts the key in the ignition. It's some kind of mental block he has, when he tries he's a fair mechanic.

My '70 Maverick was made in Canada.

My brother had a Pinto station wagon. It ran awful and he hated it.

When my future wife and I were living in different towns and I didn't have a phone, I'd go to a booth, call her collect and ask for a specific person who wasn't there. She had the booth's number and knew to call me back there at her lower rate.

There should be enough old timers here for someone else to have experienced this variation of the 'doorway effect' which takes place when a person walks into a room and forgets why they're there. Several times lately I've gotten close to what I went to get, forgot what it was, raised my...

I never had much luck with the old 6 volt ignitions.

My dad had a Kaiser before I was born. He didn't keep it long. Now I think I know why.

You know you're old when you go to a doctor for a second opinion. He's balding with gray coming into some of the hair he still has and says, "If you were my dad ..."

(5) I went to their site to learn how to get better results with my County Line post hole auger. Sometimes I still think about their directions.

Most of these mathematical discussions make my head spin. The big question for me is, "What will we do without Peanut?"

According to Wikipedia, Roni Stoneman of the Stonemans and Hee Haw died Feb. 24, 2024. Roni did ironing skits wjth Gordie Tapp as her husband on Hee Haw. She was the taller sister when she, Donna and two or three brothers did their playing and singing act. Her main instrument was the banjo.

My son had a 2001 2WD 3.0 V6 Ford Ranger on 4WD frame. When his first kid was born he had to have vehicle with a back seat. I bought the truck. It took a couple of years for me to get used to it riding like a bucking horse. When I pull my converted bass boat trailer with around 1500 lbs. on...

I've been using a touch screen so long that when I tried to read a tiny printed label yesterday, I tried to stretch it.

I can't help you with the diagnosis but I think I'd get her a membership in AAA. The wait time for them to arrive has been around an hour in my experience.

If I noticed the poster, I didn't put two and two together. Good observation!

I typed his name in twice in my last message and this group's software removed it, substituting, (removed). It reminds me of when the name Moses was removed from the monuments of Egypt.

I'm 99.999% sure we're talking about the same person. We met when he attacked something I'd posted. When he found out I wouldn't respond to his attacks, he quit attacking and told me several stories made more interesting by him writing in a Cajun dialect. (removed) told me that a few other group...

I know my old Cajun buddy (removed), trolled his way under many people's skin before he got himself banned. I saw his troll bit as entertainment and fortunately had his email and kept in touch after he was banned. I hope he got tired of me and quit returning my emails but he was old and not in the...

Thanks for identifying them and the pix. I remember footage of families using them to pull a trailer and get where they were going.

The big two wheelers that I saw on news footage during the Vietnam War have fascinated me ever since. Enjoy!

When the title mentioned a shear pin nightmare. I thought it would be on a snowblower. Those machines must eat pins for breakfast. Good luck with it.

Back in the 70's or 80's, I bought a book of Nebraska test specs but didn't know the details on why the tests were done in that state. Thanks for posting them.:-)

Many thanks to everyone who's advised me on monitors. Every answer has given me something to think about and they're all appreciated. If i didn't give any of the replies a like it was purely by accident. Now I've got some thinking to do. Stuck

I'm looking for a large monitor for my mini desktop. Would one with a curved screen marketed to gamers make things like copying and pasting with the mouse, replying to TBN, typing emails , and working with spread sheets more difficult or easier? Computer gaming isn't in my plans.

When my granddaughter was in an Easter pageant probably, three years back, i asked who sang Easter Parade. The singer was Bing Crosby. I'm only 72.

I don't know about modern brake liners, but, on my first brake job on a car around 1974, I didn't replace or rebuild the wheel cylinders and brake fluid leaked out and saturated the liners causing slipping and, "I think" grabbing. My attempts at cleaning them didn't work. After putting in new...

That reminds me. I haven't watched ET in years.

Certain string music borders on hurting my ears, other string music makes me depressed.

Oaktree, This might be why nobody else appeared to hear the noise. There are said to be certain sounds only young people can hear. I listened for the sounds at the link provided and couldn't hear any of them. Try It: Can You Hear These Sounds Only Young People Hear? I found the link and some...

The mini magnetic sweeper that I got on sale came close to paying for itself today when it found a tiny governor spring among the leaves. https://www.harborfreight.com/17-in-mini-magnetic-sweeper-62704.html

This is more of a feeling than a sound. I needed a small engine flywheel puller right away and had to make one. When the puller worked and the flywheel popped loose, that, was another of the sweetest sounds on Earth.

I sent you a PM on the subject. You can click the envelope on the right end of the Tractorbynet bar to read it. Best of luck, Stuck

At first, I pictured a device that used to be used to test armatures. Wrong growler.

Could you put up a link to the YouTube video or the specific HF welder he used?

I've made several over the years and the spark was hard to see. It's much easier with this one. https://www.harborfreight.com/in-line-spark-checker-63590.html

I feel your pain and am having some of it myself.

$24.00 worth of tools from the Harbor Freight Black Friday Sale are the items I consider best bargains.

Thanks guys. You've taught me more about sweet potatoes than I ever knew. It must have been luck that I got excellent ones last year. I'll try a different store.

Maybe I should have said "not as sweet as my memory of last year's potatoes". I threw the last bag out and the jury's not in yet on the bag I started today.

The sweet potatoes I 've bought and baked this fall have not been sweet, the ones I baked late last winter were. In an effort to find a solution to the problem, I did a search and found there's an undesirable trait in "white" potatoes that they get in cold storage called cold induced...

At first glance I thought the reply about changing gears on a Mack truck.:unsure:

The "buffeting" became less of an issue when I sent the pile of crap to the junk yard. I still miss the vent windows that were done away with long before the Cavilier came along.

Thanks for mentioning that. I believe that's what my Cavalier did. It made me think the headliner might be about come loose. .

I had a car that sounded like a Huey under certain conditions and I believe it was the Cavalier. It didn't have a sunroof. We've never had a sunroof that didn't leak. If I ever buy another one, I want someone to shoot me. If I ever buy another Cavalier I want someone shoot me for that as well.

Thanks Moss, as you can see I came into this thread late. That episode was probably the first I ever heard of Limburger Cheese. Another episode introduced to the internal combustion washing machine motor. I had to wait for the internet to get the details.

I seem to remember an early Little Rascals episode where the kids got hold of some Limburger and hated the smell. Years later I got some in a variety pack and was surprised that the smell wasn't bad. Maybe mine was similar to the mild Limburger that masscity got in a jar.

Having been Lois Lane is no bed of roses.

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My brother found some people detecting metal on our property. They had crossed a ditch and fence to detect out in a pasture. A woman in the group claimed her wedding ring had jumped off her finger and flown out into the field.

Looks like a Woods Cadet followed by the width of the cut in inches. Probably a "Woods Cadet 60". An image search should tell the story. I used to remove the side panel and cut grass hay with mine.

I never thought I'd celebrate a headache until I had a couple of vertebrae fused and the doctor didn't want me to take anti-inflammatories for six months. Today marks six months and two days. I felt a headache coming on and just celebrated with some ibuprofen.

My on and off barber of over 50 years retired and I've been cutting my own ever since. I'm bald on top and I resent having to pay the same price for a haircut as someone with a full head of it.

Last time I checked one of mine, it was no longer in alignment. I've read that welds contract and expand long after they've cooled. Is this true?

I have had similar problems for over 30 years. Since you haven't bought the house yet, I recommend you look for one with a flat yard.

Thanks everbody. You've told me what I need to know.

Unless my ears deceive me, he says the rod "fires and spins at the end" and "it lifts and throws" all without compressed air. To top that off he picks up the metal bare handed after arcing on it. I don't understand the terms and the no heat part sounds like magic.

I just ran on the pitch at the bottom for a "Welder's Eraser" on YouTube. It anyone here has ever used these sticks, I'd like to know: How well they worked to remove a weld How many amps you used Whether you them it on AC or DC Whether using them damaged the welder you used Thanks, Stuck

My brother got a government subsidy to run rigid white PVC in ground to his pastures. This causes me to think it met code for that purpose.

When someone mentions long hair and sweating I think of the blond girl who sometimes sat in front of me in elementary school. The sweat in her hair must have occasionally soured because it sometimes smelled. It's been over sixty years and I still associate that stench with her.

I'd try to get him wrenches and sockets with all of the sizes from smallest, to largest, no skips. My apologizes to anyone who has said this before.

Was the pink thing going around the corner in the first picture a snake or what?

I bought an old garden tractor that had been stored in a shed with a goat pasture around it. Got to remember to get those goat droppings out of the cup holder. :(

They're at the top of my reply screen B I :) the smiley face is not i color , it's a line drawing.

I have trouble with the emojis that appear on my keyboard :'( :-( :-\ . The ones on the Tractorbynet reply screen work well. :);):confused::cool: It took a long time for me to figure that out.

Carlee Russell, the young lady who reported a toddler walking on the side of the road, screamed, and disappeared, leaving her car, phone and wig behind has turned up at her parents home...

An arrest has been in connection with the Gilgo Beach murders. This is sometimes called the Long Island serial killer case.

When I look at the man's head one way he's wearing a stocking cap. When I look at it another way the cap becomes the head and face of a sea lion or seal that's riding on his back and the top of the man's head disappears.

SouthernSky, I think you can score with the lyrics I just put into the "I can name that song" thread.

On top of that it was beautiful to look at.

I keep asking myself if I would want her to babysit my grandchildren.

Leslie Van Houten, one of Charles Manson's followers convicted of murder and sentenced to death is about to be paroled.

If he's offended you, I won't send him a present next year.;-)

Ringo Starr turned 83 today.

SORRY EVERYBODY! I came over to the Tell Us Something We Don't Know thread to comment. Then forgot to switch back to I can Name That Song and put up some lyrics. The amazing thing is that instead of calling me on the mistake, some of you courteous folks responded like I hadn't goofed up. That...

Sung by Peter Noon of Hermon's Hermits.

That's our boy. I had to restrain myself to keep from spelling it En-er-ee.

I got married to the widow next door She's been married seven times before And every one was an ..... (.....) She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)

Stan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy was born in Ulverston, Lankashire, England. While his derby hat might make Oliver Hardy seem English too, he was a Georgia boy, born in Harlem, Georgia, USA.

Most of our car seats wouldn't recline and it's mighty nice to lean back against those new fangled headrests on long trips. It seemed like we were always changing plugs and points, too. ;-)

I'm not only over 65, I'm L7 and I only learned that means square last week.:-\

I had to look them up and thought I'd share my new found knowledge.;-)

I don't know about stores showing items are out when they are really in the store but my app has shown an item in the store while an employee has looked all over and couldn't find a single one. They are flimsy but considering their price they serve my light duty purposes and aren't too heavy to...

https://www.iheart.com/content/13-things-you-might-not-know-about-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap-2017-09-20-/

They're not heavy duty but I bought two more last week so I must like them. I have a TV on one and a chop saw on another. https://www.harborfreight.com/folding-clamping-workbench-with-movable-pegs-47844.html

I always wondered why he wore a hat with such a wide brim. If anyone knows the reason please tell it.

Bobby Osborne has died. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bluegrass-legend-bobby-osborne-dies-175749566.html

There used to be a parked submarine tour in Charleston and I kind of figure if our sea port has one otherl US sea ports do because old subs are navy surplus. Does anyone know of other ports with parked submarine tours?

My answer to the original question is NO. Now I have a question: Has anyone heard what was making the sound that was reported several days into the disappearance? If the passengers were killed right off, it couldn't have been them beating on the sub to signal rescuers.

I was talking to a machinist about obtaining cutoffs and he said he'd only found steel that way one time and someone had pulled it from behind a work bench. Other people have all the luck.:'(

I think I remember you bringing it up before. Sorry, I can't help with your question.

For the time being, I'm favoring one of those El Chupucarburator things that Dave was talking about.

If that field has bears and mountain lions, it's a good place to stay away from.

I won't be satisfied until modify the closing narration from a very old TV show: "There are eight million stories in the naked city, this has been one of them." Modification: There are twenty to thirty mountain lions in Arkansas. This might have been one of them.

I found a site that said there are 20 to 30 mountain lions in Arkansas. https://wildlifeinformer.com/mountain-lion-population/#:~:text=Mountain%20Lion%20population%20by%20state%20%20%20,%20%2020-30%20%2046%20more%20rows%20 Found another site that said there are 100,000 coyotes.

It could be a coyote that's had an anvil dropped on it's tail.:unsure:

For what it's worth, I've read that base prices (shipping not considered), of at least one online supplier were significantly lower for those who bought in person at their nearest facility. Can anyone here confirm or refute this?

Mike, I like the way you told that story. It kept me entertained. 😂

I had a Fairbanks-Morse hit and miss in the early seventies. Got it running one time and had a time stopping it. That was the only time it ran well before I traded it.