Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

49F foggy now upper 70's for high clear sky.
Headed soon for pickup hard pack for my mailbox project,than couple putter jobs here and there.

Enjoy the day all.

Is hard pack bag concrete?

 

[Thomas]

Hard pack from rock crusher at Crush Stone Company.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured second cup of coffee. 34° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 78° with lots of sun. Frost on the ground this morning. Will not last long. To much wind to do grass killer spraying yesterday. Back on the list today.
Good Morning All.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Added one more thing to my list to do today. Spotted a 12' jet band saw on craigs list and am meeting him at lowes at 9:30. I need a small one that will be easy to take down the stairs in the new house. No outside entrance to the basement. Hope to try my hand a building some stringed instruments. Not much of a wood worker but I like diving in deep water before I learn to swim. Ed

 

[wngsprd]

Added one more thing to my list to do today. Spotted a 12' jet band saw on craigs list and am meeting him at lowes at 9:30. I need a small one that will be easy to take down the stairs in the new house. No outside entrance to the basement. Hope to try my hand a building some stringed instruments. Not much of a wood worker but I like diving in deep water before I learn to swim. Ed

Dulcimer?

 

[daugen]

Good Monday morning all.
cool morning here, with showers coming in after lunch.
Headed down to hook up the utility trailer and go to the Kubota dealer downtown to pick up a pallet with my old Gravely Kohler KT19 motor on it. Replaced it with a Vanguard. But that old hunk of iron is worth something to someone. I'll see if anyone in the Gravely group here has any interest. Needs to be rebuilt though with new points it's a runner. And stinks...boy do those old motors pump out the pollution. Like standing behind a 55 Chevy revved up. With a fresh set of rings it would be much better but as is, well, that's why I bought a modern replacement. So if anyone here could use this engine for more than a paperweight ( thinking it might be an interesting decoration on top of my Kubota ballast box...} let me know. One dollar to TBN member.

Before I order the new Kohler carb for 47 bucks online, I'm going to see if the Kubota parts guy, who runs a big dept that's been there almost 100 years. Lots of old stuff...maybe they have one in stock. Then while it rains this afternoon we could pop a new carb on and see if we can get it running.

Ed, Jet makes nice stuff. I'm a low end woodworker, basic skills, do a lot of birdhouses and small projects. Have a cheap Craftsman band saw but it works, so yes get a better Jet unit. They make good equipment. If I hit the lottery I'll go on Grizzly.com and have fun but forty years of collecting tools means you use what you have usually. but if you don't have that tool, like the new not every expensive metal cutting saw I just got, for my welding projects, using my new welder I have never welded with, or done any welding. Sound familiar? Gotta jump right in there....good luck with your saw. You'd want a very fine tooth blade for veneer work I'm sure.
If you are good enough to make musical instruments, you are good. I'm all ears as are others, show us your projects when you make things.
And that's something you don't need 20 acres for either...bringing your hobbies a bit more inside. And with less distractions and other commitments, you can
become an even better woodworker. Something to look forward to, as one who enjoys the smell of sawdust.

 

[rswyan]

51F and partly cloudy @ 07:30 ... high today should hit 76F which ought to be good for drying things out a little.

Went to pull weeds yesterday and it was way too wet ... so I fixed a little hand cultivator that had gotten bent up when it got ran over. After that I cut down some of the weeds in one of the circles and started raking up the leaves and debris. Then I got that hauled up and dumped into the big compost pile up by the shop and covered it with some of what was already there. Compost pile is definitely full of wigglers.

Then I threw on the shrub bucket and popped out a half dozen multiflora roses. Swapped buckets back out and went up to pull the four oaks that didn't survive the transplant process. Popped the first one which definitely had no signs of life and then pulled second one up and lo and behold there were suckers coming off the root base that hadn't broke the soil surface yet ... so I ran down to the house and grabbed a shovel and replanted it. Won't be pulling any more until I can make sure that the trees are in fact dead. Mebbe give it another week or two.

The Woman had come outside by then and was weeding down around the house so I persuaded her to help me transplant another three small oak trees - one 4' and two 2' - that were in my way in the circle. Got those done fairly quickly ... think we managed to keep the roots pretty moist throughout the process. Hopefully they will take.

Nephew and his wife stopped by to pick up his chainsaw fairly early in the morning. He didn't call first, so I didn't have it ready, with it cleaned up and chains sharpened. They were running out to do some shopping so he said he'd stop back by around 19:30 or 20:00 ... showed up at 16:30 ... lol ... saw was ready. It appears that when The Woman picked it up from his wife she was given his bar and chain oil. There was some confusion about that and he didn't take any when he left, so I got a call shortly after he got home. Will run out to the Stihl dealer this morning and grab him a fresh gallon and then drop it off and pick up our Troy-Bilt Pony roto-tiller.

I said something to him awhile back about getting the tiller back (he's had it for probably 5 years) and he mentioned something about it being in rough shape ... some part (handles ?) had worn out. Said yesterday that he had "repaired" it ... using angle brackets ... and duct tape ... also said it needs a shot of ether to start it ... but after that it runs "great" after that ... so that should be interesting. Probably good that he didn't attempt to rebuild the carb.

Need to refill bird feeders today. And The Woman said that we need to get the rest of the dahlias in the ground.

Winds are supposed to be fairly light ... so I might attempt to get the sprayer running and spray some Roundup today.

Beyond that will probably order fuel pump for Simplicity today and mebbe change the blades on the MMM.

 

[rswyan]

Drew,

I got a buck here for that Kohler KT 19 ... might make a good powerplant for the grass/leaf vacuum build project that I'm about to start (Gravely knock-off even)

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 50F @ 5:45AM. Clouds and some sun this morning with more clouds for this afternoon. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High near 75F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Hope everybody's week gets off to a good start!

 

[farmer2009]

57 this morning and headed to 82 today.

Take care of birds and then go get son and take him to therapy then back to daycare. While I'm out I'll pay some bills. Then hopefully the guy from the metal place will call back with his boss. If not I'm liable to show up again. I called and said I wanted red metal. So they ordered me this Iron color and called it red. If I get nowhere with them I guess I'll call credit card company and see about disputing the charge. If nothing else I'll eat up their profits on the order. Not the first time I've ordered metal over the phone from this place. But looks like it will be my last business there. As I was told Saturday tough it's custom ordered and your stuck with $1300.00 of the wrong color.

 

[toppop52]

I've lost track of number of cloudy rainy and cool days, but it looks like today is the last one, as sunny and 70's tomorrow, then near 90° by the weekend. Hello summer!

 

[mkr7734]

Good morning,
68 heading to 86, full sun, no spring here, just winter to summer. Should cut the grass around the house, maybe later.

 

[txdon]

Looks pretty much like the Pizer POS that this place had in it when I bought it. Do yourself a favor and replace it with a Delta, and don't suffer for a few years trying to make the darn thing work before you do. All that rust underneath sez it's been leaking for a while, and good luck finding parts.:shocked:

Good advice, I got on Amazon and ordered a simular delta ($400). I was just about to hit the send button but decided to try one more thing - called pizer and will know in a few hours if they will send a free replacement, if not delta bound.

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .11 inches rain last 24 hours.

Hope to solve my battery situation this morning, will post more later.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Ed of all trades]

good.[/I] I'm all ears as are others, show us your projects when you make things.
And that's something you don't need 20 acres for either...bringing your hobbies a bit more inside. And with less distractions and other commitments, you can
become an even better woodworker. Something to look forward to, as one who enjoys the smell of sawdust.

Got a 12 in Jet band saw with the stand and a roller mobile base for $180. The only thing I see wrong is the bottom tire is about shot. Lot of cast iron and heavy as lead. I am happy with it so far.

Daugen If I were good enough to make musical instruments I would have a lot more skill than I do now. When I said I learned to swim after I jumped into deep water I was not kidding and will be learning to make instruments the same way. I seem to always do things that way.

Wngsprd That would be to easy so I plan to start with a full size acoustic guitar. Hope to learn on them for a while and want an F style mandolin. We will see. I tend to pull things off if I don't get in a hurry. Ed

 

[farmer2009]

Finally remembered the pictures of the hay rake.

Sales guy called back after talking to the manager. They are going to do an even swap on the metal. Reordered in the correct color this time. I just have to pull out my white metal. So that turned out better than I was thinking it would.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Finally remembered the pictures of the hay rake. View attachment 469638 View attachment 469639

Sales guy called back after talking to the manager. They are going to do an even swap on the metal. Reordered in the correct color this time. I just have to pull out my white metal. So that turned out better than I was thinking it would.

Glad this turned out well. Ed

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Back from picking up my oldest from college.
Some heavy rains along the way, but made it safe.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Got a 12 in Jet band saw with the stand and a roller mobile base for $180. The only thing I see wrong is the bottom tire is about shot. Lot of cast iron and heavy as lead. I am happy with it so far.

Daugen If I were good enough to make musical instruments I would have a lot more skill than I do now. When I said I learned to swim after I jumped into deep water I was not kidding and will be learning to make instruments the same way. I seem to always do things that way.

Wngsprd That would be to easy so I plan to start with a full size acoustic guitar. Hope to learn on them for a while and want an F style mandolin. We will see. I tend to pull things off if I don't get in a hurry. Ed

That's a good deal. If you're happy, I'm Happy We need a picture.

RNG, have you wanted a fixed up VW van for some time? I know nothing about the one's you are working on. Are they really holding their value when fixed up? What about them has piqued your interest?

Don, sometimes at Home Depot, they have returned or reduced plumbing fixtures. $400 seems high to me for a faucet.

Ron, 34.5 is still da*M cold in my playbook. Might would have to wear double long johns

At the county fair parade, I was stationed behind our John Deere Dealer who by the way is celebrating their 80th anniversary, and a fellow had just unloaded a 1936 Model B IIRC poppin johnny in perfect restored condition. It looked new. On the other side of the building, they had a brand new 6155M cab tractor with a huge FEL on it. Really nice. I did the math, 2016-1936 = 80 years. So I guess they had it planned to show off the difference between 80 years of innovation. I happened to video both of them driving by, but they came through separately about a few minutes apart. The new tractor was really quiet and smooth, except that I was so close to it when it came by, it still made a bit of noise. My family was impressed with the old poppin Johnny though. I would have to win a lottery to buy that 6155M.
I will try and post a couple of links.

 

[toppop52]

Good advice, I got on Amazon and ordered a simular delta ($400). I was just about to hit the send button but decided to try one more thing - called pizer and will know in a few hours if they will send a free replacement, if not delta bound.

When we were building in late 2011, the builder was given the exact model of retractable Delta we wanted, I went by one afternoon and they were about to install a lookalike. I told him to get what I was paying for, he did and we've been very happy.
At the old house the water was high in acid and hard on plumbing, here, we are sitting on the Paleo Channel and other than a tiny amount of iron, it's near perfect water. Cold and delicious. 10'-12' to the water table, and there was an old well from a long ago house, that was grandfathered in. So my 65' well has way better water than the 250'-400' wells around.