Good morning!!!!

[psvfd]

Good morning. 53 this morning headed to mid 80's. Sunny now with rain chance this afternoon.
Probably go cut up a few trees that are on the ground from hurricane Ida.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 40 going up to 54 and the sun is back.
Bought a grill yesterday and assembled last night. Was slightly larger and cheaper than my last cheap grill.
Looks like it was made 6/21, so wonder if all the grills showed up finally and the Lowes warehouse is full up?

Sons team did well enough that they made finals, means more travel, more practice and a few more weekends I can't finish projects. Don't think he wants to do this again next year, but he won't quit now, so that's good.

We have had one crape myrtle spring to life in July, when the rest budded in May.

Paul - glad you made it ok. You make it sound like just a minor problem, sure it didn't seem that way when it happened. Hope the fix is not too expensive and the root cause is found so it doesn't happen again.

BEF - Happy anniversary and many more !

Stay safe and be well, hopefully today chainsaw work to clear up side yard for planting. Have a few 30"+ trunks on the ground that need to be bucked.

Picked up a small piece of clean Metal, 22ga to weld into the mower deck-$10 !

 

[Rich B1]

Yesterday’s trip did not go as planned. Climbing out of 18,000 feet, still in the clouds, the right engine in the turboprop lost oil pressure, causing me to shut it down.

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We made an uneventful (other than the fire engines and other flashing lights) landing at Allentown, PA.

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Looks like the oil departed the engine, but it was raining and not nice out, so I didn’t investigate, I’ll learn more today.

if you tinker with”classic” British motorcycles, that stream of oil would indicate it had oil in originally and things are relatively normal!

 

[toppop52]

Good evening all. 52ºF for the start, clear sky light wind. Wind light in morning, brisk gust in afternoon, sky became partly cloudy in afternoon, and high temp was 82ºF, DP 49ºF. Chapel to start day, made Creme of wheat for breakfast, then went to town to deliver meals, then home again. After lunch bike maintenance, lost mounting screw last ride, no damage to threads in bike frmae so cleaned them up put thread lock on new scew and cross fingers. Got new tires on bike, and adjusted disc brakes. Was going to take nap but too close to dinner.
Randy just wondering, I met a few people that had plowed with both mules and horses, and they felt they could plow more acres with mules than horses.
Randy(wag) glad meeting went well and the added bonus of good pastry. Sorry about the time change.
RS some very pretty flowers you have planted.
Dennis glad you got all the data to where you can use it. Future very hard to predict right now.
Eric sorry about the typing issues with your fingers. hope most of the oak is taken care of. Some people just want to let their dogs roam. As more fields are containing cows as well as horses, I suspect there will be a thinning of the packs.
Billy glad you are done with firewood this year. Hope the pines do well enough to use as Christmas trees.
Drew hope the mason was able to get a good look and get you a good quote.
Buppies most of the rain this spring has been light, less then 1/3 inch. We are already in drought mode.
Bill hope today went well and the garage gets your lights wired soon. Glad no silver selling.
Thomas hope raking went well.
Kilroy hope your elderberry bushes don't get zapped.
RNG on dogs chasing bicycles, some of it is a speed thing. I pass one particular dog while it is being walked and it tries to go nuts, quite a handful. owner now has him sit down. Still wants to chase me on bike, but wife and I walked be him once, and he ignored us! Good to hear progress on burn piles and stick/rocks.
Rich have a lot of days like that, as long as the day was entertaining.
RS hope you got your plants potted, fish room maintenance and nap in.
Bird have some pepper spray, hopefully same effect.
Roy good to hear sleeping goes well. Wife has yet to perfect that.
Kyle nice looking chics that tractor should buff right out.
Randy nice looking rig on mules, cute kids games.
Ken hope son made finals, hope planting went well. nice pic
David sorry about the fence pricing.
Ted sorry the drip irrigation had to started so soon. Glad not a lot of plant loss over winter. Hope painting went well. Crepe Myrtles are slower to respond hear also.
Thomas glad raking going well.
Doug hope the Ipad goes over well also. Enjoy the new TV
Lou glad your kids got you some new TVs.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery and breathing, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer recovery, /wife head wound healing, Thomas/gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, / passing out issues, /family issues, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes /rib, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery follow up, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues /dog seizure, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, James /wife's fall and recovery, PJ /wife's uncle passing, Ukraine war, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

Mostly, my understanding is that draft horses move a bit faster but require more downtime, so most people agree that draft mules are better workers.

 

[kenmbz]

My father had a 1950 triumph thunderbird that tried to always lose it's oil and electrics

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 39 now, may get to 49 later. Supposed to be warmer but with rain this week.

Been doing some “office” type stuff this morning. Needed a vet appointment, the big cat has a respiratory infection, they can’t get him in until Wednesday. See how he does, may call a different vet.

Worked on the race bike I won in the raffle more yesterday. Yea it was cheap, but it is frustrating. It is so poorly put together it may not have been safe to ride. The fuel system is a mess, return line off the regulator was rubbing hard on the rear of the engine. Probably going to try sorting more of that mess out today.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

if you tinker with”classic” British motorcycles, that stream of oil would indicate it had oil in originally and things are relatively normal!

There's a Norton Commando sitting in the great room right now, Rich, which hasn't had oil in the engine or oil tank for a very long time. Yet it still manages to leak. I think if there were enough of them around still, there would be no oil shortage and we'd all still be paying two bux a gallon for gas.

 

[rswyan]

40F and cloudy @ 11:00, WU claims that we're currently having a rain shower but I see no evidence of it. They are calling for rain through 16:00. Being a little further north than Rich, WU is calling for a high of only 47F today.

Starting to see hints of yellow on the forsythia finally.

Hopper and one sunflower tube feeder now empty, other one low ... so those will need refilled today.

Appointment at the vet's later for "Mister" the Big Orange Cat - he's coming up on 16 years old and starting to look a little ragged. Suspect he may have diabetes so hopefully we'll get that checked out and get him on some kind of program/medications.

Will be the first time at this particular vet, be interesting to see how that goes (I'm hopeful) - she is of German ancestry and did her veterinary training in Germany.

Other than that, not much else on the agenda yet.

Might head up to the shop later and fire up the stove and see what trouble I can get into up there.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe Monday ...

 

[PJSprog]

50°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 68° today. Looks like we'll be getting more rain for the better part of this week.

Not a lot done over the weekend. Ran some errands on Saturday. Burned some cardboard Sunday morning, then finally found my round tuit and assembled the speaker cabinet. Glued and screwed, but still need to cover it and add all the hardware. Wife brought a bunch of stuff back from storage, and now half the garage is full of stuff to sort and either sell, donate, or discard.

Happy (belated) Birthday, check.

Happy Anniversary, BEF.

Glad your incident was not more serious, Paul.

I always found that most dogs can be outrun on a bicycle, and that changing speed on them throws off their trajectory. I have, though, kicked more than my share of persistent ones over the years. These days, The Wife and I just carry one of those little sonic deterrent devices. Has both a high frequency sound and a flashing LED that sends them scurrying the other direction. Works great.

 

[Looking4new]

Paul, how do you figure you 'lost' an engine? It is right there on the starboard wing, right where it is supposed to be.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good morning! A cloudy 64˚F day heading to the 80s.

Poppagadet, some excitement in life is nice, having to shut 50% of your motors off at 18,000' is not. It will be interesting to find the part that failed.

I'm too late the 15,000 invitations to the Tesla Cyber Rodeo down the road have been given away.
I also didn't fit in one of the three categories unless posting on TBN qualifies me as a Social Media Influencer.
"Tesla has also started sending a colorful Cyber Rodeo Giga Texas invitation email to Tesla owners, investors, and social media influencers to join the event."

Tesla starts sending invites for the Giga Texas Giga Fest party, names it the Cyber Rodeo - Tesla Oracle

Tesla starts sending out invitation email for Giga Texas Giga Fest party and factory tour. This event is named Cyber Rodeo by Tesla (more details).

www.teslaoracle.com

Friend of mine was telling an electric vehicle fiasco story yesterday. He apparently had an electric rental, and couldn’t get back home because he was driving into a headwind, and the batteries drained much faster than the distance he had to go. Could only find a slow charger. After an hour he started out again, batteries drained too fast again. Had to go way out of his way to find another charger, got there and it wasn’t a public charger. Didn’t have battery to go anyplace else, they took pitty on him and charged him enough to get back. His trip was 1.5 hrs in a normal vehicle, it took him over 6 hrs due to the slow electric charging and the wind which seriously reduced the range. He said never again.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy anniversary BEF and lucky lady!

Seems like only yesterday we were getting married in VA the day after a spring snowstorm. My family from Ohio was in a foot of snow getting over the mountains, and my oldest brother, who video taped it, showed up just before the wedding started.

 

[toppop52]

33 this morning, 57 later. Looks like the last morning near freezing, so I’m going to start planting flowers this week. I wish the daytime highs would warm up so the soil temps can get a little better,
I’ve got a big limb to move that blew down yesterday, wind forecast yesterday was 10-15, by afternoon it was steady at 22 with gusts over 40. No idea why the discrepancy. I’ve got to do some spraying but not until the wind dies down. I’ve got the land plane on the tractor so I might dress the driveway later, it needs it, the snow removal left me a couple of small holes.

 

[rswyan]

RS, when you break something, you do a thorough job of it!

All or nothing ...

Hope the repair goes well; am sure you want your tractor going again soon.

Thanks.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to having it back in operation ... will need it soon enough.

After the drivetrain repairs are complete, I'll be diving into replacing the seals on the front axle knuckles. Have the parts for that up in the shop.

Also need to do a repair on the loader valve, to replace the balls (like BB's) that provide the detent for the float. And modify the two caps on the valve by drilling a hole in them so that any condensation drains out (causes the loader valve to freeze up in cold weather until the tractor is warmed up)

The floor pans for the deck need some work done on them as well ... they're starting to rot out (in the center) from the underside ... probably due to poor paint job Kubota did originally on the parts that weren't readily visible. One side is worse than the other. Fortunately I have a small piece of 10GA hot roll sheet that should cover it. Once I get that done the tops (at least) will get shot with some truck bed liner.

I have most of the old rubber cut off on the pedals at this point, just need to remove the adhesive that they used to stick them on ... and figure out what to use on the new ones to secure them.

Woman was up there the other day and asked "You're gonna clean this thing off and give it a bath aren't you ?" ... so I need to do that as well at some point, along with addressing a number of small fluid seeps in various places.

Glad the meeting with the mason went well and I hope the pie was tasty.

 

[daugen]

Happy Anniversary Buckeye.

Paul, glad you were in a twin engine. Is that the new plane? Looks like something came loose; let us know what you find.

a fun morning but now I'm glad to sit down. Planted two small rows of bibb and mixed lettuce, then three rows of radish mixture.
Then the fun part, planting the berry bushes, 8 blueberries and two blackberries. Landscaper brought dirt/compost this morning, then I dug the holes,
added Hollytone for acid blueberries have to have, and then topped off with peat moss. 46 degrees out but when I got in my shirt was soaked, good exercise.

Then I figured I'd run the generator for a little while, and that was far less successful. Dead. Zippo, no electric start and no indicator on light. Ok, hard to believe that little
battery was bad since I charge it every three months and after putting charger on it, it showed green in two minutes. Not the battery. Checked all the fittings, the one inline fuse, all tight and looked ok. This unit has all of ten hours on it... Was pleased to see it actually had a pull start, which I have never used, but trying to be very careful with my back, started pulling on that cold 457cc single. Pull, pull, pull, seven times and almost gave up and it started right up and ran perfectly. So issue must be in starter motor. I don't know how to diagnose it, will call hotline and ask for help, but unless there is a hidden fuse somewhere, unit needs some metering to figure out what is going wrong. Maybe one of my local tech wizards will feel sorry for me....
The unit did get rained on when the cover blew off in last storm so I wonder if some water got down into the panel, though they are supposed to be weatherproof.

 

[rswyan]

I bet that drive shaft made a noise when it let go, RS.

Yup, sure did ... I had just engaged the FWD and was driving into one of the piles of sheep manure my neighbor had delivered with the bucket down, trying to pile it up some so he could get the pick up and dump trailer in to drop more.

I was able to drive the tractor down to the house (and later up to the shop) as long as I went very slow ... otherwise, the busted parts would flop around and cause it to lock up and stop hard.

From what I can tell, it doesn't appear as though anything else was damaged ... which was lucky, considering that the output shaft from the engine back to the transmission runs parallel to it but a little lower.

Looking forward to seeing photos of all the pretty things you two have been planting when they pop out of the ground this spring.

I'll post them as soon as we get anything worth taking some pictures of.

Good luck on the driveway renovations !

 

[kenmbz]

Drew - could pop by Friday, or another afternoon if the rains aren't too bad.`
Got a new clamp on ammeter too. Not sure where my old one went.
Does the genny even click when you hit the starter button?

 

[sodamo]

64°F and 1.84 inches rain and still raining

Last major indoor task in Caretaker unit, reline the bottom cabinets with new contact paper and shelf liner. Lots of cutting and fitting. Not something I have a lot of recent experience.

In person Happy Hour up to the Cottage this afternoon. Last gathering by Canadian friends before they close out their extended stay.

Start my eye drop regimen today for my cataract surgery.

Wife called her Az sister yesterday for her 70th and found out she, visiting DIl and grandson all got bit by alligator and no clue how. Only her son was negative. All vaxxed. Couldn’t attend the planned celebration.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

Happy Anniversary to Dennis and wife and many more.

 

[sodamo]

Glad to read a safe outcome, Paul.