Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

It doesn't work over the phone - I must place my hand on the belly of the tractor and whisper into the tire.:dove:

So, Obi-Wan, do you give lessons? :confused2::laughing:

“The force is strong with this one.”

 

[rswyan]

RS, try a glyphosate/triclopyr mix for the poison ivy.

Thanks - will do.

Hope you're not itching yet.

No more than I expected ... just one spot on my left arm.

Not that I believe a lot of what passes for news, either, as most of it is actually editorialized opinion rather than raw facts that folks can use to make up their own minds.

Yup - it's insidious ...

Got the drive wheel hub/sprocket assemblies cleaned up and reinstalled:

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[rswyan]

There was a slight amount of hooking discernible on the teeth:

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... so when I reinstalled them, I swapped the hub/sprocket assemblies from side to side, to reverse the hook direction. Then I pumped the hubs full of the red Mobil 1 synthetic grease, after I got the castle nuts and cotter pins installed.

Given the sprocket diameter, I'm pretty sure there's enough tooth left to outlast me.

 

[rswyan]

Eaton Model 7 hydrostatic transmission - this is the left side unit:

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This thing was a PITA to pull ... largely due to access and the Simplicity sitting so low to the ground. Still have the right side to go, but it should be much easier, given that I have the left one out.

These pump/motors are driven by a v-belt on the right unit, which is connected to the left unit by a flanged shaft. Access to the flange nuts on the right side unit is near impossible with the unit in the machine.

Shaft has to be removed to change the v-belt, which I'll do now ... since the belt was about gone.

Pumps have never been serviced in almost 30 years (supposed to be every 400 hours) ... no fluid added even

I'll do a drain and refill ... just for general purposes :laughing:

 

[Eric Salop]

Woke up to feel the rain coming through the window above our bed, a fine spray splashing sideways after hitting the slate roof.


Over here in the UK the population is 64 million people and ever rising. The whole of the UK only stretches to 80,802 square miles, so we have 792 people to every square mile.

Wiki tells me the USA population is 321 million. Now that is a lot of people, however at least everyone can spill out over a whopping great 3,794,083 square miles. If my sums are correct, that is only 84 people per square mile. I wonder if that is why some gardens are so large ? No wonder so many on TBN have to spend so much time mowing.



I am not sure what percentage of present day USA residents had ancestors originating from the UK, but I bet it is a fair proportion. If they had all stayed where I live, or had left to breed so prolifically and then return, we wouldn't have any land left to farm in the UK, it would all be buildings and highways by now. So can I join in the 4th July celebrations too, in gratitude to all those who moved out and became independent of the British Empire, giving those of us still here that little bit more room to still enjoy a few green fields ?

 

[farmer2009]

70 this morning and headed to 84 today at home. 93 in Fort Myers Beach Florida. That's where we're headed. Almost a 15 hour run depending on traffic. Looks like Tennessee and Georgia are going to be wet though.

Every one have a safe and happy 4th.

Happy Independence Day!!

Safe travels to all traveling. Kev. Buppies.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee needs to be poured. 47° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 80° with mostly sunny skies. Got the garden pond project completed. Waiting for water to clear up. Need to cut lawn again.
Happy Independence Day!!!!!
Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

travel safely guys and families.
Happy Independence Day. Always liked the Fourth of July, helped it was my Mother's birthday so we always had something special going on that day.

Eric, too funny. Since one side of my family goes all the way back to Miles Standish and Priscilla Alden, like 80% of us fair haired blued eyed Europeans, I think I can raise my hand and say you are welcome, for the Allens anyway having gotten out of town (England) so early on. I mean, face it, those Picts were so nasty and the Queen's taxes!
I mean we just had to leave, who could stand bangers and biscuits every day? We needed good food!
And Lord the beer was warm. The straw that broke the camel's back; who can stand warm beer???
We just had to go. I mean, someone had to invent John Deere...

don't forget to weedwack around Stonehenge. Big holiday picnic there celebrating the uncouth cousins who left long ago. Jolly Good.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Woke up to feel the rain coming through the window above our bed, a fine spray splashing sideways after hitting the slate roof.


Over here in the UK the population is 64 million people and ever rising. The whole of the UK only stretches to 80,802 square miles, so we have 792 people to every square mile.

Wiki tells me the USA population is 321 million. Now that is a lot of people, however at least everyone can spill out over a whopping great 3,794,083 square miles. If my sums are correct, that is only 84 people per square mile. I wonder if that is why some gardens are so large ? No wonder so many on TBN have to spend so much time mowing.

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I am not sure what percentage of present day USA residents had ancestors originating from the UK, but I bet it is a fair proportion. If they had all stayed where I live, or had left to breed so prolifically and then return, we wouldn't have any land left to farm in the UK, it would all be buildings and highways by now. So can I join in the 4th July celebrations too, in gratitude to all those who moved out and became independent of the British Empire, giving those of us still here that little bit more room to still enjoy a few green fields ?


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Your welcome!!
The Patriarch of my family got let out of prison. (The Klink I believe) on condition that he took himself ,family and church members and got on the boat to His Majesties plantations in North America. That was 1633 and a religious civil war was going on and The Reverend was on the then losing side of it.
At any rate things progressed to the point that by 1760 the population in the colonies was getting close to that of Old England and tail wagging the dog was going to happen one way or the other. Just a miracle we ended up with a stable resilient government on the first go round instead of the dictatorships and bloodshed other countries endure more often then not.
I think we should celebrate not the revolution but the end result with the signing of the Declaration of Independence being just the beginning of a process that runs through the adoption of the US constitution and continues to this day with every amendment and SCOTUS decision.
The USA is not and has never been the perfect place with the perfect government but at least we have the means to fix it.

 

[wngsprd]

Happy Birthday America!

Important to me to read the Declaration of Independence at least every year on this date and the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution. I have a pocket version of them given to me years ago by our Delegate to the Virginia House.

Here's the Wiki article on the Declaration of Independence and the full text later in the article...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence