Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Ken, back to drawing board on belt as it has thrown a couple more times. Think I heard something of a click noise this last time.
Need to troubleshoot: bad spindle, clutch, alignment ????

Of course belt now has a break in it, so ordered new. Usually I keep 1 or 2.

Open to suggestions.

Is there an idler pulley on it? If so then maybe the bearings in it are going or gone.

 

[Looking4new]

I can't back drag with my plow, Maybe someday I'll weld it to the back plate, too many other projects. So Snow blower will finish.
You do good work PopGadget!

Viking - that's quite a pile up!

Looks like Town plow pushed over our mailboxes :-(
Another project - always somethin....

I found that a large (40 oz) bottle or two of the plow drivers' favourite adult refreshment or a 24 or two of beer went a long way towards me keeping my mailbox where it was. I hate chasing mailboxes.
1 for Christmas and one for New Years.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I am supposed to be working limited hours, spent about half my afternoon on the phone with different people helping them troubleshoot problems. So you aren稚 the only one BEF.

Funny SXS story. Several years ago, was doing my summer clearing of the bank along the road. It is steep and it is always able to bring out the worst in my temperament. It was humid morning, gonna get hot and humid. I was trimming away when a SXS with a couple I would guess in their late 40s or so went by. Of course it had the obligatory coolers in the back.

Next thing I know, the SXS is back, they had turned around in my driveway. I stopped the trimmer, they said it looked like I needed a break. The guy reached into the cooler behind him, grabbed a beer and threw it to me. He got 2 more out, and the 3 of us drank the beers and talked. When the beer was gone, they said they had to go to a cook out, and off they went.

Neat story.

I was working summers for the county while in college. Was patching roads, when a guy comes out of a house and asked if we could patch a section to create a little ridge so water would run a certain way. So we did.
Afterwards he says, go down the road to the little store and get yourself some drinks, I’ll call and tell them it’s on me. So we did, turns out it was his store.
Always liked stoping at the little country stores. Most are now gone.

 

[LouNY]

27ｰF and clear skies this morning, going up to 37ｰ today ... which is where we are now.

Stopped at Menard's on the way home yesterday looking for a longer dowel rod for The Wife to use to roll up her quilting project wall, which is really just a large piece of flannel that she sticks her quilt blocks on for design layout. It would seem that no one sells dowel rod any longer than 36" or 48". Probably going to have to go a different route, like maybe thin-walled pvc pipe. I just don't want to buy 10' of it when I only need 64". It's becoming a quest now to find a solution.

Put about four miles on the stationary bike later in the evening.

I generally don't talk much about Fiats, Roy. I have a scar across my forehead, the left side of my nose partially caved in, a rebuilt chipped front tooth, and no curve in my neck anymore from slamming my face through the windshield of a '79 X-19. Tree 1, Fiat 0. (That tree ended up about 6" from the windshield, or what was left of it.) April 6, 1985 ... I remember that pain like it was yesterday. Excruciating. I don't recommend it.

Those are some seriously delicious looking pizzas, gents.

We haven't had any groundhog problems since we put a radio in the barn a couple years ago, wgnsprd. We keep it on a local AM talk radio station, KMOX. Apparently, they aggravate the groundhogs, too.

Or a closet rod, should be able to find 6 or 8 footers.

 

[PJSprog]

Would a piece of hand rail work?

Used to be able to buy wooden closet rod by the foot at HD and Lowes. Maybe they still sell it that way?

I got some 1 at Lowe痴 a few yrs ago, sold by the foot.

Paul, used to be able to get long dowels in section that had closet rods.

What about two dowels glued together in a piece of PVC?

I have a 10' piece of 1.5" dowel rod that I use in my closet. For my purpose, it isn't that good although it has been up for 26 years. It has a bit of a bow in it.

You might try the schedule 49 PVC. A little more money, but stronger.

Appreciate the suggestions, but pretty much all going the wrong direction. Reading back, looks like I didn't really explain what I'm looking for, or why. There is a piece of schedule 40 pvc on it now that she thinks is too heavy and exerting too much pull on the grommets holding it at the top. I'm looking for something lighter and in the 1/2" to 3/4" diameter range. It's really just to keep the bottom of the material straight and give it something to roll up around (she's sewn velcro strips at the top to hold it up above the closet doors when rolled up).



I'm thinking that PEX tubing might be the answer. It seems pretty lightweight, yet rigid enough to keep the bottom straight. Now, I just need to find someone to sell me a 64" section of it.

 

[PJSprog]

Or a closet rod, should be able to find 6 or 8 footers.

Yeah, I have a couple of spare wooden closet rods. She'd probably brain me with it if I took one of those in there. :laughing:

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 39F for the start, mostly cloudy, light breeze. Light to moderate wind, sky cleared off in afternoon, and high temp was 60F. Slow start, had some office work I did not do . Did get chain lubed on Peugeot. Afternoon, bike ride and help wife with pot of spaghetti sauce and nap.
Covid update: Cooke 2835 confirmed cases, 104 active cases, Montague 1605 confirmed cases, 37 active cases, Grayson 9838 confirmed cases, 313 active cases, local 12 active cases.
Roy sleep is always good
Bill that is a lot of money for a block heater
Buppies sorry heat still broken , you have some supplemental heat?
Ron good luck with sorting through wife's sewing room, sounds like an aunt job to me. great woodpecker.
Phil have fun playing in the snow
Eric sorry about the wet firewood, have had heated floors, nice on toes slow to react
Mike feed the fire is a worthy endeavor, shame about game cam.
Billy always fun tracking in the snow. surprised only one coyote.
Drew hop snow blowing goes well.
Thomas sounds like a lot of snow to deal with
Rich we have faith that you can find something to get into
Randy I vote for month and a half
Paul I enjoy snow duty on an open station tractor, you just dress for the weather.
Drew why not wait?
Lou thanks for the answer, I kept sacks of sand for winter driving. sorry about the cancel.
RNG good job finding the long lost feeders. Good luck with trannie, Glad no other issue with trailer bearings.
Randy thanks for the response. Hope you earn your breakfast
Kyle glad son is ok hope you can find cheep speedo.
Drew glad socks worked, nice you to take cafe where the blown snow goes.
Ken lot of snow, great camouflage on driveway
Don I hate to be the guy that caught the snake
Roy have fun playing in the snow
Chris had to use pick more than once on plow-junk.
Randy glad your snow is gone
Dennis glad you don't have to deal with the snow
David hope your day goes well
Ken glad you got snow taken care of.
Viking welcome radical change in weather. :welcome:
Paul not much shovel work left, nice job
David still trying to get old internet deal back from ATT?
RNG wish I had that video 20 years ago!
PJ good luck with solution to quilt roll up. Have not put 4 miles on stationary trainer since move
Dennis glad you only had to burn 1/2 day leave.
Rich cool story.
David I had poor luck getting good crimps so bought complete cables from Black Box when possible. When I started working on cables Cat 3 was hot setup :wizard:
Dennis good story like country stores as well.
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid/friend's grand baby, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/wife's eyes, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[PJSprog]

PJ ... Have not put 4 miles on stationary trainer since move

Yeah, February here is just a tad different than there, as you know. We're looking at single digit lows this weekend and all next week. The Giant will stay in the garage for a little longer.

 

[toppop52]

Well darn, our flurries turned into 2” and Ellen has to go into her office in the morning for a couple of hours. Guess I’ll get up and clean off her Edge in the morning. The roads might be a little slick because it’s down to freezing now. That makes a total of 7” from three rounds, thankfully all but this 2” melted already.

 

[Buppies]

Got home about an hour ago 27 outside wind blowing at 30mph 500 gallon propane tank empty auto refill my butt they will hear about in morning lots of blankets for sure no hot water either but arrived safe and sound even made it up driveway