Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

70 outside this AM. Rain moving through.

Looks like a feet up day. And a day of remembrance.

The feet up, not by choice. I recall reading about Roy and his ZTR. Yeah, I started cutting grass, like David, it is an hours long job. I decided to cut horizontal to the house and not vertical. Figured I would give the pattern a break. What I failed to realize at the time was that I forgot where the rough spots are. LOL. About half-way through the cutting I hit a nice spot and wow....compression fracture of the spine. Should not joke about it. But darn, that made the next few hours and rest of the evening a wash. This AM, still....it will take a few days to clear up I am sure. Not doing that again.

If I can walk or bend without that spike of pain, I may go run some wire in the Milk House. Other than that....I will just take it easy.

Hope all have a good day today, and remember, we are still the best country in the world.

Be safe.

 

[m7040]

Good Morning

Slept in a bit this morning. Must have needed that.
Raining today temps around 70's
Will see what I can get into in the barn. It is amazing what I find when cleaning up an area. Some of that dating back to previous owners.
Wish I had a lift, would make life so much easier. Have an AC high lift jack that works pretty good but still...
I have the head room for a lift even for the sprinter being 9 ft tall. The only issue is the floor. It is double planked oak floor so two post lift is out but maybe a 4 post will work?

 

[Buppies]

Still drizzling this morning more rain this afternoon 2.13 in from this rain pond filling up nice. Nice map sodamo special wife.

Here’s a story for you all Dr friend of mine has really nice place wife doctor also. He calls himself a midnight farmer most of mowing bailing done at night after work. While loading trailer one night he slipped and fell broke his ankle, called wife on cell phone said she was too busy with horses would get to him later over two hours later. Wow just wow. Buts that’s not the end a year later she fell off horse punched her teeth thru lip. He came fight away cleaned and sowed her up and put in 20 stitches no novicane. I consider myself very lucky my wife would never leave me with a broken ankle for over two hours

Prayers for all silent or spoken our Country

Nice boat Drew

 

[Buppies]

May we all never forget 9l11

That sounds awful Riptides heal quickly

 

[m7040]

70 outside this AM. Rain moving through.

Looks like a feet up day. And a day of remembrance.

The feet up, not by choice. I recall reading about Roy and his ZTR. Yeah, I started cutting grass, like David, it is an hours long job. I decided to cut horizontal to the house and not vertical. Figured I would give the pattern a break. What I failed to realize at the time was that I forgot where the rough spots are. LOL. About half-way through the cutting I hit a nice spot and wow....compression fracture of the spine. Should not joke about it. But darn, that made the next few hours and rest of the evening a wash. This AM, still....it will take a few days to clear up I am sure. Not doing that again.

If I can walk or bend without that spike of pain, I may go run some wire in the Milk House. Other than that....I will just take it easy.

Hope all have a good day today, and remember, we are still the best country in the world.

Be safe.

Sorry to hear about your spine being injured. Not fun. I have some spots like that also and always get surprised somehow when I hit them. Earlier this year I took out the air

suspension seat from the tractor and adapted it the Zero turn and that has made a big difference

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temp is 63 and the high to 77°F. There is a risk of a T-storm this afternoon.

I am leaving here in about an hour, bobtail back to the terminal to get my wagons and prepare to load.
If the T-storm happens, then I wont be loading as we have to stand on a steel tower/rack sort of affair.

Cochrane is about 5 hours north of North Bay, so I may go as far as New Liskeard (1.5 hrs) and camp there overnight then carry on in the morning at 4 A.M. That will put me into Cochrane for 7 and ahead of the crew that probably wont show up till 8 or 9.
Gotta get my act together

Stay safe all

 

[RoyJackson]

Also use bungee on defector on both rider during mowing season,once the leaves start falling no bungee help with leave clean up.

Thanks for the tip, Thomas!
I was going to remove the deflector...the bungee was to be an interim solution.

 

[Buppies]

The Z Turn we hAve has a 60 inch mulching deck works well even if tall just have to mow at different settings highest to 4 inch setting. The 26.5 hp motor chews it up really well.

One time mowing grass in Moneta wife ran over a snake threw it up on the deck of mower wife not a happy camper

 

[m7040]

Good evening! High temp today only hit 76°.... hazy sunshine, from both smoke from the west and high thin clouds. A t-storm passed to the west of us, not big at all. No rain.

Got the transfer case taken apart, after breaking my snap ring pliers. So a trip to our now local HF for a new pair. 45 minutes later and bearings are out. Well except for one.... it's a blind hole roller bearing. Can't just tap it out.....

So, contemplating leaving it in. It seemed to be tight, no noticeable damage. But, I don't know the tolerances. This bearing could be the culprit making the noise --- or not.....
It's the rear of the front output shaft, inside a 'cup'.

Any suggestions or comments from the machine experts here are welcome!
WOULD YOU GUYS LEAVE IT IN?

I can go try and rent a special puller, but I think it's too big by looking at the picture online.
The pullers I have are for pulleys, applying pressure to the center shaft. Saw a guy on YouTube crack the 'cup' using one like I have. I don't want to do that.

Good thing ---- no abdominal pain at all! I believe it was some new bug....

Here is a pic of some of my pullers. The arms are reversible on some of them to pull out inside bearings

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-09-11, 0943
A day never to be forgotten!

62° right now...high in the mid-70's. Looks like rain, but not calling for it

The posts today read like "how can us old guys get hurt when working?"

I need to finish one area of the lawn this morning. Bouncing around on the ZTR didn't result in too much pain...just the occasional twinge.
Back to chipping after that...going to take a couple weekends, considering the way I move around. As I'd written yesterday, it's a big, jumbled mess...and I don't move that fast. I'm going to move the tractor 10-15 feet further away and start a pile of branches I've untangled