daugen
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My day did not start off well, but at least it improved.
Just as light was coming up I looked out the rear deck door and saw heat shimmering off the new gas grill.
Oh no.
They turned it on to show me it lit and we didn't turn it off.
So.............
from 1pm yesterday to 7am this morning my new gas grill went full blast. Seems unharmed except the grate looks slightly warped in the rear.
I don't blame it...
Otherwise, and they say clearly not to run it full out while cooking, just to heat it up. Well, I sure did the heating part right...
And of course I then had to walk out to my 500 gallon propane tank, which had just been filled, to see if there was anything left, which
of course there was, but geez what a waste of money.
24K burner appears to have used 30-50 gallons of propane over that whole time. Groan. It's one thing to screw up when all you waste is a little
portable tank. It's another thing when it's hooked up to that big pile of tanked cash in the rear lawn. I better be awfully careful with this thing.
Maybe I need a loud alarm clock inside just for the grill. Like an old Big Ben.
Once that little mishap was corrected, I spent many hours landscaping around the barn and new shed, finally got it done, raked way more crusher run stone than I should have, but was pleased when I was done. All the pipes are now buried, and I think I got the levels right so the water will run where it should.
Will be interesting to check it out tomorrow afternoon after an inch of rain comes down to see where the new low spots are. There are always some...more raking.
Then I pulled the water roller until I heard a snap and there it was a ways back. Great.
One of the frame bolts had snapped, NOT grade hardware..., so after about half an hour on my back in the cold not so dry field, I got it fixed and
finished. I put grade 5 bolts and lock washers back on, and will give them a little shot with the impact gun in the near future. That towing frame takes a huge amount
of abuse pulling the heavy roller over bumps and dips and I should have seen it getting loose. One bolt must have loosened to the point where it torqued around and snapped the bolt.
Gravely still would not start, dead as the proverbial door nail. Checked the only two nanny switches on it, they were fine. Going to take apart the one contact switch on the hand clutch as that is the likeliest culprit. Then on to the next possibility. It was running perfectly and just died like the switch was turned. Definitely electrical.
Had a burger for dinner on my very well seasoned new grill. It worked fine but every time I try a prepacked burger I'm disappointed. Unidentified chewy things inside.
Never had that problem with the store ground chuck. So the grill was fine, the burger not so. I bought these burgers on sale and it was a swing and a miss.
Actually the first thing I did today for several hours is crawl around and build the raised garden, and then insulate it just like the bottom of my mold remediated house...
Not hard to do and didn't have to be too neat, am covering the top with another piece of wood. Topsoil goes in next, then many bags of compost and garden soil.
Friend is coming over on Saturday to test my soil; he's in the ag chemical business and he does this often. I need to apply long acting fertilizer to the orchard and figured it was long overdue to get the soil tested. I was told the ph was normally off and that decreased the effectiveness of the fertilizer by almost half.
Just as light was coming up I looked out the rear deck door and saw heat shimmering off the new gas grill.
Oh no.
They turned it on to show me it lit and we didn't turn it off.
So.............
from 1pm yesterday to 7am this morning my new gas grill went full blast. Seems unharmed except the grate looks slightly warped in the rear.
I don't blame it...
Otherwise, and they say clearly not to run it full out while cooking, just to heat it up. Well, I sure did the heating part right...
And of course I then had to walk out to my 500 gallon propane tank, which had just been filled, to see if there was anything left, which
of course there was, but geez what a waste of money.
24K burner appears to have used 30-50 gallons of propane over that whole time. Groan. It's one thing to screw up when all you waste is a little
portable tank. It's another thing when it's hooked up to that big pile of tanked cash in the rear lawn. I better be awfully careful with this thing.
Maybe I need a loud alarm clock inside just for the grill. Like an old Big Ben.
Once that little mishap was corrected, I spent many hours landscaping around the barn and new shed, finally got it done, raked way more crusher run stone than I should have, but was pleased when I was done. All the pipes are now buried, and I think I got the levels right so the water will run where it should.
Will be interesting to check it out tomorrow afternoon after an inch of rain comes down to see where the new low spots are. There are always some...more raking.
Then I pulled the water roller until I heard a snap and there it was a ways back. Great.
One of the frame bolts had snapped, NOT grade hardware..., so after about half an hour on my back in the cold not so dry field, I got it fixed and
finished. I put grade 5 bolts and lock washers back on, and will give them a little shot with the impact gun in the near future. That towing frame takes a huge amount
of abuse pulling the heavy roller over bumps and dips and I should have seen it getting loose. One bolt must have loosened to the point where it torqued around and snapped the bolt.
Gravely still would not start, dead as the proverbial door nail. Checked the only two nanny switches on it, they were fine. Going to take apart the one contact switch on the hand clutch as that is the likeliest culprit. Then on to the next possibility. It was running perfectly and just died like the switch was turned. Definitely electrical.
Had a burger for dinner on my very well seasoned new grill. It worked fine but every time I try a prepacked burger I'm disappointed. Unidentified chewy things inside.
Never had that problem with the store ground chuck. So the grill was fine, the burger not so. I bought these burgers on sale and it was a swing and a miss.
Actually the first thing I did today for several hours is crawl around and build the raised garden, and then insulate it just like the bottom of my mold remediated house...
Not hard to do and didn't have to be too neat, am covering the top with another piece of wood. Topsoil goes in next, then many bags of compost and garden soil.
Friend is coming over on Saturday to test my soil; he's in the ag chemical business and he does this often. I need to apply long acting fertilizer to the orchard and figured it was long overdue to get the soil tested. I was told the ph was normally off and that decreased the effectiveness of the fertilizer by almost half.
. Sorry, but sure glad no major damage.
