Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Now I'm being challenged in a potato contest I clearly cannot win. Mine are plain field potatoes. Not those fancy shmancy organic pampered stress free potatoes someone else is lavishing care on, probably has a stereo system playing music for his potatoes. It's rigged!

What your spuds may lack in fung shui will be more than made up for in their prodigious production, Drew. And you'll be giving truck loads of 'em to the local food bank, so I don't think you have much to worry about in the good cause department, either.:thumbsup:

 

[sodamo]

My wife always said her Mom liked me better than her. Maybe she was right

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-03-27, 0350

19 right now...high in the upper 40's...snow, snow, go away...

 

[daugen]

Drew. I believe you are a little ahead of the soil temperature. That痴 pretty cool for beans.

but my beans are extra cool, true cool beans!

yes, too cool, but with this weather forecast, am hoping that ground temp gets up to 60 quickly.
Washington, NC 1-Day Forecast | Weather Underground
will wait until end of week and will keep measuring the temp

helpers come this morning, and it will be stick and grounds pickup all morning, all the stuff I couldn't get to, about 500 bendovers.
My 280 pound helper will then help me get the disc harrow back on the Massey, seems my neighbor's fields need help again.
I don't mind, find discing a field to be just great fun. Hard on my body but wonderful on the spirit, and the great smells of freshly uncovered earth.

Pine pollen coming down like yellow gold, getting on everything, can't even leave garage door open. Will probably fire up the pressure washer today and start a parade of tractors through to get cleaned off.

I have never washed the Farmall Super A since I bought it. When it warms up this week, that's a fun project.
Then I'll totally relube it, and hook up the fertilizer hopper and see if I can get that ancient device working. First have to soak
the long chains in oil. Nothing like exposed chains revolving around with zero covers on them, an Osha nightmare. But easy to see what's going on, just keep the fingers and appendages out of there...

right at freezing now, hopefully the last time I see that in the morning.
Ok, I need some take to bank weather info.
Will I get another hard frost in April?

 

[daugen]

fat is converted to carbon dioxide and water. You exhale the carbon dioxide and the water mixes into your circulation until it's lost as urine or sweat.
If you lose 10 pounds of fat, precisely 8.4 pounds comes out through your lungs and the remaining 1.6 pounds turns into water. In other words, nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.

nice to know I only have to breathe to lose weight!
of course if I stopped breathing I'd lose a lot of weight....

 

[toppop52]

According to the manufacturer of the solid state system I installed, it does not work on machines like mine that have altered, lightened, flywheels. This wasn't disclosed to me when I talked to their US rep prior to the sale, and even if it was, I'm not sure I'd have recalled the previous owner telling me about him lightening the flywheel. I found out when a google search turned up a page on the manufacturer's web site. When I went through the receipts that came with the bike, I found one from a reputable shop that listed lots of R69S parts along with "lighten flywheel", so I think I've found the source of the problem. Apparently the electronics make an estimate of crankshaft speed based on the time it takes for a raised portion of the magnetic alternator rotor to pass under a sensor. From that measurement it calculates the amount of advance or ****** for firing the spark plug. Since the flywheel doesn't accelerate or decelerate at the same rate as the factory flywheel they used to calibrate the calculation, the amount of advance/****** is off, especially during kick starting. The calculation isn't adjustable (I think it's done with discrete analog components, capacitors, inductors, and resistors). So I'm working with another fella that says he'll swap me his factory flywheel for mine, straight across. The wrinkle there is that two weights of flywheel were used in the R69S, and his is the lighter one. That means it may not be as heavy as the one upon which the calculation is based, and I'll still have problems. But maybe they won't be bad enough to worry about; I'll just have to try it and see. Regardless, I'll need to make up some tooling to prevent the flywheel from moving while I apply approximately 200 lb. ft. of torque to break the bolt that holds it in place loose, and another tool that will actually pull the flywheel off the crank taper. That 3/4" impact wrench is gonna get a workout on this job!

I don’t understand your ignition issues, but I wouldn’t think the flywheel alteration would bother Hall Effect or light pulse ignitions, both of which are cheap and readily available. I’ve used both several times on classic cars with good result.

 

[toppop52]

I don't know about you guys who took so long to marry your gal.:laughing: I met my wife one night in July, then didn't see her again until October or November, and married her the next April; so about 9 months from first meeting until marriage. Of course, the night when we first met, when we left that house, I told my partner, "I think I"ll just marry that girl." And I did.

Bird, sounds like Lynn and I. The first time I got her to sit and talk, she drove away and my friend asked who she was, I said that’s the girl I’m going to marry. He laughed, but one year later I did just that.

 

[toppop52]

Drew, no April frost for you this year, I might get one around 7-10.

This has been a darn cold March, 26 again this morning, might make low 50s before finally warming a bit over the next few days. If it stays cloudy with this east wind it will stay in the 40s again.

Breakfast with the guys this morning, 5-6 of us meet about once a month and swap lies over breakfast.

Visit mom, pick up grandson, etc... today.

Got Ellen’s CO detector installed. Well, plugged in, but I did it with professional skills! LOL
Got a chicken dinner out of it too!

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. Rain has been falling here all night. The chill has taken a couple of the weaker lambs and we have another one tucked up in a box with a hot water bottle and Max on guard. It's chances are probably about the same as RNG's ignition.

Managed to get the new car to myself yesterday to go and do a bit of engineering work. After driving a hybrid for a couple of years I thought going back to a 2 litre petrol(gas) engine was going to increase fuel costs, however the gauge claimed 47mpg for the 200 miles, so not bad at all (if that sounds high to you, it's because our gauges are calibrated in generous English gallons, it would only be 39 mpg in miserly US gallons ). Only issue is the Sat nav, it's map is stuck hundreds of miles out with no way for me to change it, so I will have to go back to the dealer and have them take a look.

Question 2. Do you say half staff or half mast.

Always half mast. To me "half staff" would be when 50% of the workers have called in sick :laughing:

 

[toppop52]

In the Army we were shown the difference between our masts and our staffs, and what both were for! LOL