Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

:dance1:

just a big old capacitor and my Trane is up and running, and it's 72 in my office.
great service, called last night and fixed by 9:30am. Lucky....
5 year old heat pump, 14SEER, gets used hard almost all year long.

Hosed off the front porch, trimmed the lawn, danced a modest little jig (see above) when the a/c started and
after a nice shower, I am happily staying inside. The house is vacuumed, mopped, enough. Now if my friend's wife was coming with him, oh boy, I'd still be scrubbing.

Roy, TGIF.
A hot July summer day. Stay cool Buppies if you are out in this.
Larro's pic of his family sitting in beach chairs in that small cooling stream has stuck in my mind.
Not quite a Nestea plunge but not far off.
Sorta wonder if one's toes ever got nibbled on...

 

[daugen]

I had the the high Wheeled trimmer delivered yesterday.Those 8 strings can cause some damage.
deerseeker,
how about to plastic fence posts? Tree bark?
pics?

I have a DR pull behind and it's just a joke working with my long rows of fencing. I can weedeat it much better the old fashioned way. Since I was only cutting grass I bought their lightweight model and it sure must be puny compared to that 8 line unit.

 

[dave1949]

Farmer2009, I'm using more power than my solar is making this month due to using the mini split AC most days. Hazy sky, clouds, rain, hot weather, all that takes away from production. I've averaged 380 AC kWh the past two Julys, only 103 AC kWh so far this July with a third of the month gone.

Have a safe trip home. Two days with a little sight seeing is way better than one long a** day. I've found that getting home for that saved day is mostly lost anyways due to a lack of energy--and that's without a two-year-old in tow. It's 17 hours (with no delays) to my Mom's place in Ohio. It's about more than I can do anymore in one shot, and definitely not the safest due to fatigue.

 

[sodamo]

72°F and .43 inches rain last 24 hours.

Off to breakfast, take our little visitors to Volcano National Park, Black sand beach, and South Point. A very full day.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[ronjhall]

Good morning, a chilly 59F heading to 79F. Rode my bike to work for the first time today, a 4 km ride took about 12 minutes, no real traffic to deal with but this afternoon's ride home may be a different story.

Traffic in Tilbury? Kept my boat at Lukens for years

 

[Buppies]

Saw 100 degrees on car thermometer a little bit ago. Will not go on beach until after 4:30 today too hot for me

 

[riptides]

hMMM... 100...even at the beach, too much.

Drew glad you got A/C.

I'll be leaving the breakfast club for a long while, employment needs takes me elsewhere. More merc work. I have enjoyed the daily updates from the audience and the daily trials, tribulations, respect, sharing, health and happiness, some sorrow from you all. Keep your heads up, your tractors working, and operate your day in a safe way.

See you, again sparingly, in the other forums. On TBN of course.

Oh, today I tackled the lawn. As luck would have it, rain is expected tonight. That ZTR cannot come fast enough, perhaps on my return, for now, it is my field hands work problem. He of multiple downed John Deeres on my place at the moment. Oh well.

Be safe all.

 

[bakerg]

Traffic in Tilbury? Kept my boat at Lukins for years

Just moved to Tilbury last fall, so I don't know Lukins. Traffic is busy because Tilbury has a Tim Hortons so all the farmer come into town for coffee and talk. LOL.

 

[txdon]

Drew, we were having a rash of A/Cs go out a few years ago on the Texas Thread - every one was a capacitor including mine. I now have a spare capacitor ready to install. (That reminds me, now where did I put it?)

 

[dave1949]

Made it to 80F today and mostly sunny. The deer fly are thick as thieves since we've had some rain and it warmed up. I'm surprised how much they hang around in the open field.

Got the backhoe mounted and greased then dug up rocks for three hours. It's like Cracker Jacks, a surprise in every hole. You just never can tell what's attached to the 12"-18" of visible rock. I'm mostly focusing on the rocks that are small enough for my tractor to handle and stick up enough to be mower whangers on this pass.

Riptides, good luck with your merc job, hurry back.

 

[300UGUY]

Got the back yard, and the goat and chicken enclosure mowed. Going to work on some repairs at the wife's shop tomorrow, and help her a bit. Then back home to mow the front yard. All this rain has really upped my mowing schedule.

 

[Eric Salop]

Grandson coming this morning, so yesterday I was trying to cram in everything that needed doing today too. At least the weather was kind, I could keep going outside until it came dark. Today my back is telling me that was a little too much.

I met a new neighbour who is renting fields close to mine, together with a farmhouse on a 10 year tenancy. It is tough for anyone without lots of land to make a living out of farming, paying rent at the same time while bringing up a young family must be really hard. Still, he is young, enthusiastic and seemed to have the right attitude to life, just the sort of person you want to try and help when you can.

A shame so many of you are having trouble with capacitors. Either the designers aren't doing their job and are using incorrect parts, or the cap manufacturers or making spec claims that don't hold out in real life. Needs a good engineering auditor to get to the bottom of things - what you doing next Roy ?

Good luck riptides, you keep safe too.

 

[rswyan]

65F with some clouds @ 05:00 ... heading up to a high of 83F with plenty of sun.

Just finished up servicing the right side hydro pump/motor for the Simplicity. Woodruff key is welded to the shaft and excess weld removed to allow the slotted sprocket hub to slide on ... used a thin cut-off wheel and some small stones in my nephews Dremel to clean it up. Sprocket hub fits good and tight, with no slop.

The hydraulic fluid that I drained out was pretty black ... refilled with TSC Premium hydraulic fluid and worked all the air out by rotating the pulley on the pump side. Still have to pick up a couple of new external snap rings and a new belt.

Got the mangled deck boot for the Trac Vac straightened out and welded back together.

Also have the medium Flo-Jet carb for the 8hp Briggs from the Trac Vac disassembled and cleaned. Looks like the high speed needle may be a large part of the problem ... was pretty worn and had a groove in it.

Would have had it rebuilt by now, except I got the wrong overhaul kit from the local Briggs dealer, due to Briggs' listing being wrong about which carburetor (3 screw body vs 4 screw) was being used for my engine, based on the engine's date code. Good news is that the correct kit is half the price ($23 vs $45) Will run down there and pick up the correct one as soon as they open @ 08:00, along with a few other things that need replaced.

Will probably go ahead and pull the cylinder head and clean the carbon off it, along with changing the oil and servicing the air filter, while I'm into it.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend.

 

[rswyan]

Wife got 95% of the front mowed yesterday

not only RS are you a man of many talents but you have trained your better half
seemingly so well.

LOL ... she might disagree with that ... or not ...

Or is it the other way around...

Well, I did fix dinner last night ... :laughing:

here's to all wives who want to mow the lawn. God bless them.

Indeed ...

 

[RoyJackson]

Needs a good engineering auditor to get to the bottom of things - what you doing next Roy ?

NOT AUDITING!

We did get through the AS 9100 audit with a few minor nonconformances...should have been more and, at least, one major.
Auditors took pity on us, I guess...or maybe it was the donuts I brought in every morning.

 

[RoyJackson]

2015-07-11, 0534

54 right now...high of 85 today.

I'll be heading in to work in bout an hour. Won't be there too long today...couple of hours.
After that...well, our dryer drum gave it up so I may have to buy another drum or dryer today.
Mower PTO switch needs replacing, none at the dealer's so I guess there won't be any mowing.
Actually, after the last month's BS (AS 9100 audit and a major supplier problem I've been working on), I think what I'll really do is get s**tfaced today.

 

[daugen]

Good morning all and Roy, I sure like your approach.
Nothing like an extra portion of rum for the sailors.

Both my friend and I were fast asleep by 9pm last night, both tired. He said the train trip went fine and his seven dollar beer fairly cold... We are off running errands today, getting the title notarized on my car so he can drive it home, and then we are off to explore the local area. Today is exploring, tomorrow when it's supposed to be much cooler out, surprisingly, we will work around the house and maybe plant a few things, sharpen some mower blades. And will try to keep up beer for beer with Roy.

This one's for you Roy...

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 54° with a few clouds this morning. Heading to 82° with some clouds and sun. Should be a good day to enjoy time on porch.
Gary, Lukens is a marina in the Lighthouse Cove area. Thames River enters Lake St. Clair there. Couple of good restaurant in the area. I have drank a few coffee from that Tim Horton's.
Roy, sit back and relax today.
RS, you will need some rest when all the equipment gets put back together.
Drew, have not turned the AC on yet this year. Maybe I should make sure it will run just encase it's needed.
Good Morning All.

 

[bakerg]

Coffee is done brewing. 54° with a few clouds this morning. Heading to 82° with some clouds and sun. Should be a good day to enjoy time on porch.
Gary, Lukens is a marina in the Lighthouse Cove area. Thames River enters Lake St. Clair there. Couple of good restaurant in the area. I have drank a few coffee from that Tim Horton's.
Roy, sit back and relax today.
RS, you will need some rest when all the equipment gets put back together.
Drew, have not turned the AC on yet this year. Maybe I should make sure it will run just encase it's needed.
Good Morning All.

Lighthouse Cove, I do know of, have ate at the restaurants down there, knew the marina was there, just did not know the name.

 

[wngsprd]

71 and raining. 82 and more rain.

Glad I got the last of the high grass mowed yesterday - still some clumps on top...I hate leaving them, but started raining too hard for me to rake.

Looks like an indoors, movie and baseball day. Plus a trip to the gym this morning.

Ron, I'm surprised you haven't had to use A/C all summer so far.