Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

I was finishing the last quarter of the field by the railway with the knapsack sprayer when I heard a distant voice calling. It was my wife calling me from the gate and although I couldn't hear the words clearly, that look told me she wasn't pleased with me. Somehow it had got to 7:30pm without me showing and she thought I must have had an accident with tractor or chainsaw as not only was I not home for tea without saying I'd be late, I wasn't answering my phone either. Pulled out the new phone and sure enough 4 missed calls, with call volume set to 0 :duh:

Julie had walked quite a way to find me and now I was now in deep dodo. It was a fair way for her to walk back too, however the Iseki was waiting not far away, so I suggested she drove it back. Now I have been trying to get her to drive this new machine for a while, but she has never shown interest before. This time she climbed in the cab without any protests and even managed a little smile at the surprise of sitting on the sumptuous air seat (a lot more comfy than the hard metal pan on the old Ferguson). After a little tuition, I set the "response" knob to slow and she drove home no problem. Full beaming smile by the time she climbed out and I was forgiven.

Her only complaint was that throttle was a little sluggish, set the response a little quicker next time.

I see lots of posts since yesterday morning, I will have to catch up later. It is dry at the moment, though forecast just said rain by this evening, with showers continuing for most of next week. I better get out now and make the most of it.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 65° with overcast skies this morning. Heading to 83° with chance of thunderstorms later in the day. Got the waterline to pond filter fixed. Cold last winter had destroyed 5' of the 2" flex PVC. Local Pond Place charged $7.50 a foot for it. But when you need it you need it. Need to make sure I blow this line out next winter when shutting it down. Still need to fill in trench before rain causes sides to cave in. Got Trak-Vac hooked up to lawnmower and got lawn cut. Today is wash all the house windows day.
B7510HSD, congrats on your retirement.
txdon, the guy only has one boot on?
Drew, way to clean of a shop.
RedNeckGeek, nice paint job.
Good Morning All.

 

[vtsnowedin]

I was finishing the last quarter of the field by the railway with the knapsack sprayer when I heard a distant voice calling. It was my wife calling me from the gate and although I couldn't hear the words clearly, that look told me she wasn't pleased with me. Somehow it had got to 7:30pm without me showing and she thought I must have had an accident with tractor or chainsaw as not only was I not home for tea without saying I'd be late, I wasn't answering my phone either. Pulled out the new phone and sure enough 4 missed calls, with call volume set to 0 :duh:

Julie had walked quite a way to find me and now I was now in deep dodo. It was a fair way for her to walk back too, however the Iseki was waiting not far away, so I suggested she drove it back. Now I have been trying to get her to drive this new machine for a while, but she has never shown interest before. This time she climbed in the cab without any protests and even managed a little smile at the surprise of sitting on the sumptuous air seat (a lot more comfy than the hard metal pan on the old Ferguson). After a little tuition, I set the "response" knob to slow and she drove home no problem. Full beaming smile by the time she climbed out and I was forgiven.

Her only complaint was that throttle was a little sluggish, set the response a little quicker next time.

I see lots of posts since yesterday morning, I will have to catch up later. It is dry at the moment, though forecast just said rain by this evening, with showers continuing for most of next week. I better get out now and make the most of it.

Close call on spending the night in the dog house there. Good thing you had the Iseki there to distract her.

 

[Thomas]

51F foggy now high 80F
Headed outside shortly to finish planting veggie plants before I am blackflies breakfast.
Today just puttering here and there nothing special.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[dave1949]

52F with some fog. Supposed to be near 80 today with a slight chance of a shower later this morning. We did get some rain last night, enough to wet the surface down at least. According to the radar replay it blossomed into a nice rain storm just after it passed on to our east. The folks in New Brunswick, Canada should be getting a nice rain this morning.

I see the problem with the boot test TXDon. Some crazy guy went into a room full of poisonous snakes. :laughing:

Eric, I hope Julie let's you drive the tractor now. She may take a liking to it.

Enjoy the day.

 

[rswyan]

67F with some light rain/drizzle/mist @ 06:45 ...

Will be good for the weed pullin' ... but I think I could hear the grass growing while I slept last night ...

Spent the better part of yesterday working on the Lawn Boy, getting it up and running. Pulled the spark plug and hit it with a wire brush and then washed the air filter and oiled it. Drained the fuel tank and rinsed it out with some fresh premix. Took the air hose and blew off all the crud and cobwebs off the unit ...

Broke the rope for the pull start on the first pull ... so I had to replace that with a new one ... wasn't too bad, but it was the first time I'd ever had the recoil starter off. Had to clean the rust off the guide eyelets for the starter rope with a grinding point in a drill.

Second pull nada ... fired on the third and tried to start but didn't quite make it ... got it started at some point after that ... took considerable futzing around with the carb to get it really dialed in ...

Of course the owners manual was completely useless as far as providing any useful info to adjust it ... was forced to resort to Google and YouTube, and some of the content there wasn't much better than the owners manual.

Checked the blade and surprisingly it was in relatively decent shape: rusted up a bit and could use sharpening, but the blade edge was smooth with no nicks or gouges out of it. Probably should pull it and clean it up with a flap disc in the angle grinder. Might want to check the exhaust ports for carbon while I'm at it.

This one is for Eric.

When I went up to the shop to get the new cord for the starter, the neighbor's sheepz were down at this end:

They're pretty funny ... vehicles (cars, trucks, tractors) don't seem to spook 'em ... but if they see a human they take off and head towards the barn.

 

[dave1949]

This is for Farmer2009:

Mozart, probiotic feed, and neon blue lighting for the chicken house.

Mozart-loving chickens may answer quest for healthier nugget | NewsDaily

 

[rswyan]

RS, two cycle lawnboy?

Yup ... L21ZSNA ... circa 1989 or so ... looks like this only a little rougher:

Emission control sure did them in. I bet we tried every different kind of trimming mower on our farm growing up, some didn't last one season. The toughest one of them all was a commercial version Lawn Boy, probably because all the slope cutting didn't starve the engine for oil. It was good for many years.

Yeah ... can't say that this one has seen a ton of use ... it was bought mainly for trimming and clean up around the house ... but we've sorta tried to landscape so that most all the mowing can be done while seated on something ...

Really wish I had ponied up for the LB with the aluminum deck though ...

My Stihl FS66 is in at the shop right now (2 week backlog there) trying to get a diagnosis on what's causing it to shoot raw gas out of the muffler, so in the meantime the LB might see some use to beat back the jungle in places where I can't get with a rider.

Wood shop is lookin' very nice :thumbsup:

 

[RoyJackson]

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56 right now...high of 80 today. looks like a good day to mow the lawn

 

[Buppies]

66 this morning high of 77 later today with storms possible. Very humid outside as well. Worked until 3:00PM or so the wife and I pulled weeds and planted flowers by the gate. Wife watched the ponies run while I got gas then went on nice relaxing ride on parkway with top down. Very relaxing and the sights were breathtaking. More grass mowing on agenda today, then BBall tonight. Good Morning all