Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 49° with clear skies this morning . Heading to 83° with sun all day. Got weed killer put down on 2000' of fence line. Only did about 400' last year. Worked very well. Afraid to get close to fence with flail like I can get with front mower. After a short distance my neck starts to hurt from looking back at flail mower. Wash house window today. Then check neighbors place to see if ground has dried enough to complete project.

RNG, I would tell the buyer to stuff it. :thumbdown: Unless he want's it as is per listing. :thumbsup:


Prayers for all those in need.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

That's really good fuel mileage for a jeep

it sure is, but L4N, disconnecting the ABS module might expose you to serious liability if you are in a crash and
the other attorney finds this out through discovery. For an off road farm vehicle, who cares. But Federally mandated safety equipment
is nothing to fool with. Perhaps the Canadian legal system is more flexible.
I know this may make you groan, but after thirty years in insurance industry I think you may be putting a bullseye on your back.
Back to regular programming...

rain gauge says four inches of rain, digital says three. Have no idea which is right, though seems hard to believe something without moving parts can get it wrong...

 

[daugen]

in looking at the latest Hawaii volcano pictures, down at the bottom of the Weather Channel page was something
I hadn't expected.
IBM owns both Wunderground and The Weather Channel.
Hopefully they will stay independent. In this area at least, Wunderground
can get awfully slow, particularly on pulling up radar, while the Weather Channel pops right up.

Now if I got rid of my AccuWrong and got a decent unit (gag at 500 bucks...), I might have
a more usable system. Despite little fan it overheats in direct sun and consistently disagrees with my
udometer aka glass rain gauge tube. Maybe it's like tire gauges, need to get another cheap manual rain gauge
and prove the other one works properly. One inch rounded hole at top, how can they screw that up?...I don't think they can,
which makes me be appropriately confident in my AccuWrong unit.

Land here was dry enough it sucked up all the rain just fine, now headed out to see what the garden looks like.
Have arranged for bunny rabbits to stroll on by for the Garden Club ladies. :dance1:

 

[daugen]

too funny, both Eric and I were writing on L4N's brakes, berating the poor man for his simple repair...

I'm trained to recognize risk. It's what you do as an insurance underwriter. So my antenna went buzzing
Eric comes at it as an engineer but we both arrived at the same spot.
Of course, we could be making as much sense as two drunks at a bar.

Laughter is the Best Medicine.

Give More
Expect Less

 

[Looking4new]

LFN, is that still legal ? Here that would be an immediate fail on the annual test. Almost certainly would invalidate my insurance too.

No annual safeties here in Ontario. You get a safety when the vehicle sells and then whenever the insurance company wants one, which with my insurance currently is never. They didn't ask for a safety when I signed on with them, either. The Jeep was 10 years old then.

I will keep it plated and insured and drive the Dodge in summer and the Jeep in winter.

 

[ronjhall]

Now if I got rid of my AccuWrong and got a decent unit (gag at 500 bucks...), I might have
a more usable system. Despite little fan it overheats in direct sun and consistently disagrees with my
udometer aka glass rain gauge tube. Maybe it's like tire gauges, need to get another cheap manual rain gauge
and prove the other one works properly. One inch rounded hole at top, how can they screw that up?...I don't think they can,
which makes me be appropriately confident in my AccuWrong unit.

My LaCrosse weather station is working good. The big complaint I hear on the ACCURITE is temperature. LaCrosse has solved that problem by having a separate sensor for temperature and humidity. I like the App for my phone. The model sold at Sams Club is no longer available.
When I first got the unit the App did not work. It is working good now.
I did have a problem with rain gauge. But that was caused by the dry we had in April and all the dust from county road commission not putting down dust control.

 

[wngsprd]

57 going to 83 and crystal clear. Definitely need the SPF 50 out there today.

Still big areas that are squishy so will have to pick the sections to mow later today.

Thanks for the info on air compressors...started looking into various models and think I need to do as Drew suggested and determine the cfm needed on the torque I will need to break and set. Customer ratings on some of the compressors I read about are all over the place, so not as helpful.

Cleaned up a section of the tool shed yesterday and installed some better hangers than just the long nails that were there when I moved here decades ago. Now there's nothing on the floor in that corner.

Our "resident" blacksnake made an appearance yesterday...under my wife's SUV while she was unloading groceries.

 

[daugen]

I have now seen three different snakes in a month. Thankfully all black/rat/chicken snakes in fact I don't care what family they
come from as long as they aren't poisonous. Otherwise if I step on a snake and it bites me, fair enough. If a giant stepped on me,
I think I would do something similar. Looking at this from a snake's point of view.
Watch where you are going you big oaf!

I may have watched Babe one too many times...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

You could just buy a big walmart above ground pool, cover it, and treat the water like pool water fairly cheaply, running the pump to circulate.....just for fire water.

Saw a place once that had a big pool, just for that purpose

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Personnally i wouldnt worry about disabling ABS, they are not the brakes, but just there to keep you from locking them. Took a driving class yrs ago where they had a car that you could switch off the ABS, and we drove a test course with and without. The test showed better braking with ABS on, but not too significant a difference.