sodamo
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mostly_gas
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Good afternoon all. .2 in the rain yesterday morning, .2 again today. Clouds are moving out, all the heavy storms missed us yesterday. Monday has more rain in the forecast, hope we get some last 2 rains have not put much moisture in the soil. TMA include finish trip prep (packing furniture for STL), bike ride, and oil change for the van.
daugen
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Son has claimed ownership of the ranger. Took him for about a 30 minute ride yesterday and he didn't want to get off. Finally had to convince him the ranger needed it's sleep and was going night night.
his first serious "wheels"...
spent an hour pushing a string trimmer, pushing back the woods, chewing up things a regular weedeater would choke on, and yank all the line out...
and then, after pushing a regular trimming mower for another hour, soaked in sweat, I mowed for awhile and frankly felt cold. Should have come in and changed into a dry shirt. Might be 60 out, very cloudy and misty at times. Nice day to work outside though.
My next door neighbor came over on his UTV and asked if he could borrow my logsplitter. sure...he loves having a rental store next door
...took a bit to get it going, been sitting awhile and with no primer bulb, takes bunch of pulls to get the gas in the carb. Once it started, it purred after five seconds. Briggs 1450, nice engine for oem TSC. Valvoline synthetic since first change.
He pulled it off slowly, heading across to the street to his family's large farm on the other side; apparently a tree went down on the far side, easier to just tow the splitter there. My guess is if I had the grapple on the front of the tractor at the time he came over, he might have gone hmmm, let's go down this aisle and borrowed both the tractor and the splitter He is very careful with equipment, a paid fire company engineer who runs seriously expensive gear for a living, so I'm confident he won't abuse anything. Stuff breaks, but pretty hard to do with a log splitter. Heavy beast, maybe a hose could let loose. Still have oem hoses six years later and they weren't the best to begin with.
I'm actually much more worried someone gets their hand in there. Don't come looking to me...
Well, that's why I have had a $3M umbrella for thirty years. I think all the guys using it are paid firemen.
Happy to keep those guys satisfied.
his first serious "wheels"...
spent an hour pushing a string trimmer, pushing back the woods, chewing up things a regular weedeater would choke on, and yank all the line out...
and then, after pushing a regular trimming mower for another hour, soaked in sweat, I mowed for awhile and frankly felt cold. Should have come in and changed into a dry shirt. Might be 60 out, very cloudy and misty at times. Nice day to work outside though.
My next door neighbor came over on his UTV and asked if he could borrow my logsplitter. sure...he loves having a rental store next door
...took a bit to get it going, been sitting awhile and with no primer bulb, takes bunch of pulls to get the gas in the carb. Once it started, it purred after five seconds. Briggs 1450, nice engine for oem TSC. Valvoline synthetic since first change. He pulled it off slowly, heading across to the street to his family's large farm on the other side; apparently a tree went down on the far side, easier to just tow the splitter there. My guess is if I had the grapple on the front of the tractor at the time he came over, he might have gone hmmm, let's go down this aisle and borrowed both the tractor and the splitter
He is very careful with equipment, a paid fire company engineer who runs seriously expensive gear for a living, so I'm confident he won't abuse anything. Stuff breaks, but pretty hard to do with a log splitter. Heavy beast, maybe a hose could let loose. Still have oem hoses six years later and they weren't the best to begin with. I'm actually much more worried someone gets their hand in there. Don't come looking to me...
Well, that's why I have had a $3M umbrella for thirty years. I think all the guys using it are paid firemen.
Happy to keep those guys satisfied.
daugen
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I need to be fairer to my neighbor by saying he not only offered to do anything I wanted done right then, but
that he had a five foot Cat one rototiller that ought to get stored under my shed, and used, because he had sold his tractor.
So all backs get scratched, which is good. He who itches will get irritated...
And since I am buying an acre of land from another neighbor the first of June, I need a rototiller to plant the gazillions of sunflowers I have ordered.
All kinds of colors and heights. Have grown them before, very cool if a storm doesn't knock them down.
So I am headed next door in a few days to get that tiller on and see how it works. Hopefully free will not mean piece of crapola.
I priced a six footer from India at 1900 and a nicer US one for 2300. So if this works, and hopefully I can offset it to cover the tire track somewhat,
that's quite a savings. Now I'm wondering who had it before my neighbor. Third hand TSC equipment, particularly if originally from
North Hunan province, does not make me get too optimistic.
that he had a five foot Cat one rototiller that ought to get stored under my shed, and used, because he had sold his tractor.
So all backs get scratched, which is good. He who itches will get irritated...
And since I am buying an acre of land from another neighbor the first of June, I need a rototiller to plant the gazillions of sunflowers I have ordered.
All kinds of colors and heights. Have grown them before, very cool if a storm doesn't knock them down.
So I am headed next door in a few days to get that tiller on and see how it works. Hopefully free will not mean piece of crapola.
I priced a six footer from India at 1900 and a nicer US one for 2300. So if this works, and hopefully I can offset it to cover the tire track somewhat,
that's quite a savings. Now I'm wondering who had it before my neighbor. Third hand TSC equipment, particularly if originally from
North Hunan province, does not make me get too optimistic.
OP
300UGUY
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My boxer doesn't like coffee, but a nice bit of steak will get you a lot of sloppy kisses. Of course, you will get the kisses anyway!
sam5570
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WOW snow that makes even more weird, wife making strawberry jam and watching the humming birds and maby snow in the forcast. Dogwoods in bloom now we heard it called dogwood winter, orthe 10th of may cold spell either way it's going to be cool. Pouring rain here now hope we get more than last time, the temps have droped into the 50's now.
Buppies
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Sam first time I'd heard it called that so thought I'd use it. As we get closer to June the heat comes on and dry too not looking forward to it at all. Hope the rest of your weekend is good
Eric Salop
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Yesterday I was determined not to let a little drop of rain stop me doing things outside. Unfortunately the rain was far more determined than me.
Intimidating clouds would appear each time I got the power tools out and have me rushing to put everything back under cover. After 10 minutes of heavy rain, sometimes hail, the sun would beckon me to come out again and each time I fell for it. I lost count of the number of times it played this trick on me. I wonder if May is going to be playing weather games too ?
Intimidating clouds would appear each time I got the power tools out and have me rushing to put everything back under cover. After 10 minutes of heavy rain, sometimes hail, the sun would beckon me to come out again and each time I fell for it. I lost count of the number of times it played this trick on me. I wonder if May is going to be playing weather games too ?
daugen
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up too early on a Sunday morning, Good morning Roy and Eric, the only two up this early.
nice day today, last one before four days of rain. Not a huge amount predicted, several inches, but spread out that will be fine.
I expect to be doing a little of Eric's dashing between storms.
Eric, how far away are you from peat "fields?" and do they still harvest the stuff? A friend gave me a bag of peat for the fireplace last year, never tried it. I would think it would burn a bit smokey. Honey, I'm cold, go dig up part of the lawn and let's burn it...
Going to plant azalea bushes and some other shrubs today with my helper, then go down to the River and help a friend fix their dock.
Tonight I might "camp out" in the rv, give it a first test. Am hoping the two inch memory foam topper I put on the hard mattress they give you will do the trick.
It's the merry month of May...
nice day today, last one before four days of rain. Not a huge amount predicted, several inches, but spread out that will be fine.
I expect to be doing a little of Eric's dashing between storms.
Eric, how far away are you from peat "fields?" and do they still harvest the stuff? A friend gave me a bag of peat for the fireplace last year, never tried it. I would think it would burn a bit smokey. Honey, I'm cold, go dig up part of the lawn and let's burn it...
Going to plant azalea bushes and some other shrubs today with my helper, then go down to the River and help a friend fix their dock.
Tonight I might "camp out" in the rv, give it a first test. Am hoping the two inch memory foam topper I put on the hard mattress they give you will do the trick.
It's the merry month of May...
sodamo
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Actually I'm still here. Haven't gone to bed yet
