Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

LS, sorry for your loss.

 

[MoKelly]

Very very sorry about your pet. It’s sad.

When our dog passed, someone told me a saying I’ve never forgot —- “the only way to take sorrow out of death, is to take love out of your life”.

Try to remember all the great times and love you shared.

Best.

MoKelly

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

This round of mowing going to be the bane of my existence. Should be done, but NO, about hour left. Didn’t get started until late morning, giving time to dry from the rain.
Lots of wild life supervision, about 10 pigs, 2 very young, then a mom + 2, then a group of 5. Even some unknown dog that may have been on the scent of the mom +2 but he missed them.
So I’m just cruising my pattern, surveying, mentally thinking maybe another hour when I smell burning rubber. Look to my rear and my mower V belts are aflame. Even some sparks. Never seen that before. Immediately shut down PTO, stopped tractor and jumped off. Flames running up both sides of lower pulley. Of course this is a set of brand new B39 belts I had just put on this morning. Luckily, I was able to snuff out with my leather gloves.
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If you look behind the lower sheave you can see the bolts from the shaft bearing are tight to the sheave, acting both as a break and spark generator.. mowing done, back to the shed.
Can’t really get a wrench on the bolt heads due to newly created metal lip. They will have to be replaced, as will the belts. Fortunately, I already had replacements on order. Tracking says Sat, but likely Tues given the holiday.
Was able to retighten bolts and can probably finish before the big repair. Suspect I will have to get new bolts at Fastenal.
Think I’ll also add a fire extinguisher to tractor.

I had luck getting belts from the V-Beltguys. Sorry about your woes. I like my shredder when the grass gets tall.

Read today that Ford is shutting down 6 plants in the US in July over the continuing lack of chips.

Ford said they were at approx. 50% production in the Second Quarter.

Some expert said the lack of chips is costing US car manufacturers $110 billion in lost sales in 2021. Ford said their profits will be down $2.5 billion this year due to lack of chips.

The car/truck shortage does not appear to be ending soon.

MoKelly

Whodathunkit? metal and chips. Not good. Paying the price now for letting production go to China.

Hand is pretty messed up swelling bruises and several layers of skin gone looks nasty. Because of medications I take dehydration is always very close so lots of water and salt pills must be taken. I have literally gone blind for periods of time twice and two ambulance rides. Cool cars you folks have had.

66 Ford fairlane with 390 GT, 66 Mustang convertible 6 cylinder, TR6 1973, 1979 CJ 7 304 with 4 speed, Toyota four runners 5 I think. Now mostly into European cars one 911 2014 very nice. Wife and I like fast cars even today. Her car has 577hp mine 557hp

my favorite was an XF Jag with super charged V8 4 door 475hp. Three Range rovers and F type Jag convertible with 385 HP and an XJL. Stuck on Jag for a while

Bupps, extra prayers for you tonight. Hope you/they get a handle on it all.

Got a lot of small things on my to do list tomorrow. Hopefully done by noon with lawn and such. Need to shred.

Prayers for our team, and our nation.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 72F for the start, partly cloudy, light wind. Light wind today except near thunderstorms, Rain tonight about .6 inch more coming, high temp was 92F. HI 100F, and DP 70F. Went out to ride bike tube was flat, changed to Trek and went riding. Cleaned on boat and lubed chain on Peugeot, no nap . More rain Friday morning forecasted, will look and Volagi flat then.
Covid update: Cooke 3245 confirmed cases, 8 active cases, Montague 1790 confirmed cases, 8 active cases, Grayson, 11374 confirmed cases, 13 active cases.
Kyle at work inspector did not run machines . Hope you can get another mill with good supported control. Not having a working cutter comp reminds me of Bridgeport series II NC work. At work we had Makino MC100's w/ Fanuc 7M controls. Company stayed with them for a a long time (still 3 running in '09) because they were well suited for the work we were doing. Took a lot of work keep those old controls running, no body was providing repaired boards.
Dennis had a Vega as commuter car for about 3 years 60K miles was running good when sold.
David sorry about the new belts ruined. Hope you can get it to finish mowing before belts arrive
David great car stories, good to hear new TV moved in with no issues.
Roy good to hear 4 day weekend.
Drew hope you enjoyed your quite morning and car shopping went well.
Ron hope you got some son time today. nice frog
Buppies hope you are done with 100+ HI for a while.
Drew fun car story
Billy good to hear you are getting better Praying for good report from surgeon
Paul rabbit power does not sound like much power neat pic of the 3 generations
RNG good to hear the Echo's are behaving, hope can get Starlink soon. Never messed with 5 drive raid arrays 3 were big enough for me.
Don July and August too hot for that kind if work
Eric glad the bolts worked
Ken thanks for the clarification. the fish look more like carp, someone caught a 22 # out of the lake last week.
Dennis does sound like a fun course
Paul I wonder what were thy thinking when designing it?
Dennis nice sunset. It will be 5 year in Oct when my mom died. There still is a hole
Chris glad you got some mowing done
Randy bet it took a big shoehorn to fit the 400 in a Starfire.
Ken hope you can work what the choking issue is.
Lou wife had a Pontiac with a 4 banger, could not get out of it's own way .
Randy sorry about your cats. that is a lot of cars.!
David hope the H&F game was fun. Have had to loctite rack on bicycle and allen wrench set.
RS glad you are getting good rain. Hope you get spraying done
Drew sorry about the Volvo , good luck with stove
Bird I got some rain tonight, may not be able to mow until Sunday. Good to hear surgery went well.
Randy there are some nice cars in that list
Drew are there smiles on those bushes?
Buppies praying for hand recovery.
David good to hear the boys are great sorry about vet wait and HD lack of stock
RS yard looks nice, got a lot done
Ted condolences on your loss.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter and car crash,Bird/aging issues/daughter's foot, Billy/skin cancer surgery, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies cancer surgery/ diarrhea, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/vision issues, Bill/DIL home care, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, Drew/tendon healing, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery,RNG/fire season, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

LS, very sorry for your Kassie. You have my condolences. She was a beautiful dog.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

If you got 30,000 out of a standard vega, you were beating the odds. Cosworth twin cams lasted longer.

 

[newbury]

In Vermont I remember seeing standard Vegas with rust holes through the door of 2 year old cars.

 

[sodamo]

With a broken heart, and tears in my eyes.......Kassie, 01/29/2006 - 07/01/2021View attachment 704457

So so sorry, RIP Kassie.

 

[RoyJackson]

With a broken heart, and tears in my eyes.......Kassie, 01/29/2006 - 07/01/2021View attachment 704457

So sorry about Kassie's passing...but, kassie will be there....waiting...for you

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-07-02, 0406

Should not be up this early!!

62° right now...that's about the high today as well. Looks like heavy rain coming in...up to 2". I hope it's just a nice steady rain all day...and we sure need it.
I'm on vacation today, so a dump run is the main plan. After that, if the rain comes, I think I'll watch some movies (got about 200± blu-rays and DVDs...probably haven't watched half of them)