Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2018-01-14, 0733

-2 right now...high supposed to be about 12.

I'm going to clean some snow off the walks. Not much...just enough to see if there's ice under the snow. If there is, I'll leave the snow on the walks and drive. There's another "heat wave" coming next weekend (upper 40's)

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I'm going to guess the car is German. Never understood why front tires of all these nice expensive Euro cars were always black.
They seem to use a different compound than we do, maybe autobahn rated...but dirty.

I don't know what's in the German pads to make them so dirty, but the reason for it is that the pads bite very aggressively right from the start. Apparently the mess is worth it to most people, that or they just don't know they have a choice. These days there are many ceramic pads out there with the same feel that don't generate the dirty looking brown or black dust. Axxis makes some, and I think EBC does, too. If you decide to go this route, though, Google up the reviews for any pad you're considering. Performance seems to vary quite widely.

 

[txdon]

RNG the polymer sand in-between the pavers is about the best you will be able to do to keep the weeds out. It hardens like cement. It does not keep 100% of the weeds out and each year there are a few more as expansion and contraction take place. About 5 years after you might get weeds in 5% and 10 minutes a week spraying should take care of that during the summer. Even cement has weeds in cracks and expansion joints.

Good morning! clear skies 26˚ looking for ice from the sky Tuesday.

Found it. Thanks buckeye.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...eel-flagpole-july-4-a.html?highlight=flagpole

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 46F @ 5:00AM. Partly cloudy. High 63F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph.

Didn't David S. say he was heading out to the mainland to visit family a while back?

Rip, hope you and your wife can get back to regular sleep patterns soon. Nothing like good sleep to help healing and make you feel better!

The county here recently went to a new emergency warning system. They've successfully tested it twice, but always include the fact that it's a test in the outgoing messages. We did have one hiccup where an alert for a local in the eastern US somehow was sent to us, but since it was just an Amber alert, it didn't stir up much of a fuss. I don't think we've heard the end of the Hawaiian fiasco, though.

Managed a little time to work on the old motorcycle yesterday and finished cleaning the engine and transmission housings. Also got the clutch pushrod installed in the transmission. Hope to get it installed on the bike today. Also got the new stainless steel engine mounting studs installed yesterday.

The Kubota dealer was closed by the time I figured out what the problem with the side-by-side was yesterday, so I'll do a little internet shopping this morning to see if I can find the part at a discount. The local dealer never has parts in stock, and it's often easier and less expensive to order them online and avoid a special trip to town to pick them up. Might also pull the hub off the other side to see if it's developing the same problem with the splines.

Not sure who mentioned making garlic mashed potatoes with one of those mixing wands, but thanks! The one I ordered arrived yesterday, and I couldn't believe how quick and easy it was to use. Could'a added a little more milk to the spuds, but they were delicious, skin and all. Not a trace of the skin, and so nutritious! Very easy clean up, too! The things you learn from the Good Morning!!!! bunch! Who sez ya can't teach an old dog new tricks?:thumbsup:

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend...

 

[daugen]

[QUOTE=RedNeckGeek;

How many hours do you have on your RTV-900 and were you the original owner?
I have an RTV-400, the smaller gas model and I'm interested in what you find about your splines.
Did any bolts come loose to cause this?
Your model is entirely different than mine, diesel and hydro vs gas and cvt. But the splines might not be
much different...

I'd definitely do them both if you have a higher hour machine.
Just got mine back from Kubota dealer, in one day and back the next. Does not like starting in cold weather without
synthetic oil which I always specify. Kubota has been a very late adopter it seems to synthetic oil.
After almost five years I have about 200 hours on mine. If I didn't have a golf cart I'd use it a lot more to get around.
Single cylinder EFI Subaru engine. Much larger one in my Outback...
Heavy duty rubber belted CVT. All of which is too strange for me to work on. Only piece of equipment I own where I can't
figure out the mechanical layout, due to shrouding and very odd single boxer layout. I could be looking at a piece of alien
machinery and have an easier time. Compared to the other 20+ small engines I own, and work on constantly, the RTV's powertrain
is so strange I just leave it the dealer. Two hundred bucks every two years

Hmmm. Now the numbers part of my brain starts calculating, thanks to good coffee...100 hours divided by 200 dollars means it costs me
2 dollars an hour for maintenance. A bit high...but to maintain a $9k UTV, which I can't figure out, well ok. Sure runs nicely, and for heading across to my neighbor's across the muddy field,
fits the bill. Just wish Kubota put better seats in their machinery. Ones in my UTV are crummy, basically pads and no back support. Not a real seat.
Gators are much better in this regard, have a bucket seat layout vs bench seat.

Am now headed to seedling room to replant some cippolini onions. Lots of blank holes, not very good germination. Tiny, tiny seeds, maybe I planted the
husks by mistake...
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Warmest room in the house and fun to sit in there, have a chair near a heavy oak table that was in there and I worked around, too heavy to move. So I do my labels while the warm somewhat more humid air feels good and overall planting and rebirth just makes me feel good. Other onions, Red Creole and some shallots are going gangbusters, two inches tall already. They get planted in March. Everything is so much earlier here than I'm used to, not only being way further South but also being by the coast which moderates the weather a bit.
Meanwhile I mentally envision the rows, all those little pak choys popping up.
Helps to offset the cold weather that has returned.

Need to go, get to my onions, besides I clog this thread up too much as it is.

 

[Einthewoods]

12 degrees climbing up a few more to the high of 17.

Headed to the barn in a bit to finish installing the hooks on my fel and start looking at how to install the lights under the canopy.

Plan to milk the job as long as I can and enjoy the day.

Good happy Sunday all!

 

[Buppies]

Re brake dust

Actually it's for my F250 which puts out back dust and the service truck I drive Dodge 4500 which puts outs out a red colored dust. When these vehicles need brakes they get replaced with EBC green stuff which I have used before on other trucks and cars with great success as the original ones wear out.

I used ceramic brakes on our sons TDI Jetta had over 80000 miles on pads before VW bought it back

 

[jbrumberg]

+3F, clear, and calm this AM. A patina from yesterday's snow f@rts dusting everything. Today's high ~20F. A good day to change the house central water filter.

The predicted Monda/Tuesday Great Lakes Clipper is drying up and weakening as it moves eastward. The MA coast may see 1", coastal ME maybe more ~3," and I'll be surprised to see anything beyond some snowflakes. This system may still churn up a coastal storm mid/late week before as Roy posted a decent warmup.

RNG- I love the "psych" test. . Luckily I had swallowed that sip of coffee before seeing your post. I hated psych testing. I avoided it as such as possible. Psych test results can result in "labeling" which can become the testee's destiny. One never sees "normal" in the psych literature except for the authors' resumes. The best projective personality tests can be done in just about any environment, even a bar :wink:. All one needs is a piece of blank paper and a pencil.

My old Honda CRXSi's front mags were blackened with brake dust.

 

[CWB Wyo]

It cooled off to 12 * this morning. It was in the high 40's yesterday. Today is going to be about the same, sunny with a little wind.

I have 97 F-250 power stroke I bought new. It has drum breaks on the rear end and disks on the front. I have had the back ones replaced twice. Only because they didn't do it right the first time. I had the front pads replaced a year and half ago. I had gotten 205,000 on the front pads. They didn't have to change any parts out, just the pads. The mechanic told me he thought that I could have gotten 30,000 more out of the front pads. The truck dose have a standard transmission, and I have tendency to down shift and not use the breaks. That was the way I was taught to drive. I can honestly say I never seen any break dust on the front tires.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thanks Kyle, I’ll give it a try. Does it work with Jack Daniel’s?

Has anyone installed a hinged flagpole. I was thinking of a flag pole between two c-beams (faced outward) with two bolts - remove the bottom bolt to pivot the flagpole down.

The intermediate school here in Giddings appears to have one. It has a big counterbalance. Don, did you guys use Texas Star Vet? The vet passed away from a long bout with cancer. He was too young. While not a close friend, I have known him since we bought this land in 2002.

Drew, I think it a wondrous thing you are doing with the garden to hopefully give to the local food bank. i hope you are successful and that maybe some of the garden club people can come and help you. I worry that weeds will be your nemesis.

28F going to 56F

Hope and prayers for all of you to have a blessed day.

 

[sodamo]

64°F and .34 inches rain

Got the Autostart module installed on the Honda EU7000 yesterday and wired into my system. Now I have to play with what parameters to trigger its operation. Tricky part is this is just a backup to my larger generator and mostly separate, meaning I cannot monitor or control from the main system, only see the results.
Looks like I’m having same issue getting my main generator repaired just like last time. Boy, is this a**hole gonna be surprised when I walk into the office in about 2 weeks and speak with his boss.

Invited to a small brunch with friends this morning. Should be fun.

Playing cards this evening with our guests.

Soooo, no real strenuous activity planned for the day.

Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning all, 17 degrees this morning, up to 56 this afternoon. Going to take advantage of the temp and change the oil in the vehicles. The chance of snow / precipitation this past Weds. night was a bust. Had a couple drops on the windshield but that was it. New forecast calls for temps to drop into the 30's for highs, maybe snow showers.... I sure wish for any precipitation. The Mrs not doing well this morning.. Severe pain, arthritis /RA flare up.
Rip tides: Glad to hear you and the Mrs got home and maybe turning a corner in the journey.
BEF: Be careful, as others stated, allergic reactions can come back w/ a vengeance the 2nd or 3rd time around.
All the others needing prayers, sent a double batch out to you this morning!

There was a brief discussion on "coal burners" a few posts back. We just bought a reproduction "caboose stove" brand new for the new cottage I'll be building soon. It will be used as primary heat source for really cold days/nights, otherwise will be using a mini-split. The cottage is designed as an early 1900's farmhouse. When the wife first mentioned about the stove, I asked "where the h**l are we gonna get coal? Well I guess I took her to TSC too many times. That's where! She said. Low and behold... 50# bags ordered right to the store. Apparently they are very uniform in heat output and easy to keep going. Learned something. Also the price of the stove was a quarter of any of the pellet stoves we were looking at! I forgot to get a pic of the stove so I'll post that shortly.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Here's a pic of the stove.

 

[LouNY]

There can be quite the education to enjoying coal heat. I don't know what size coal you will need, pea, nut, stove;
the different sizes will all burn differently, the smaller will be able to be throttled down more, fines can be a problem and
the different brands, mines, will burn differently. The easiest way I have found to start a coal fire is with match light type charcoal,
lay a base of a couple inches down, light it off, when it is burning good layer on some coal, couple of inches, once that has lite layer
some more, when lite add more till full, shake you ash down lightly once or twice a day and add coal. I have only lite mine once this year,
and added coal nightly, taken ash out nightly.
One thing are you in New Mexico? My coal is hard coal (anthracite), I've heard that soft coal, (bituminous) is quite different, more soot harder to work with,
more chimney cleaning. Most northeastern coal is hard coal and most western coal is soft coal, to my knowledge.
Enjoy

 

[RedNeckGeek]

How many hours do you have on your RTV-900 and were you the original owner?
I have an RTV-400, the smaller gas model and I'm interested in what you find about your splines.
Did any bolts come loose to cause this?
Your model is entirely different than mine, diesel and hydro vs gas and cvt. But the splines might not be
much different...

I'd definitely do them both if you have a higher hour machine.

My RTV-900 is a 2005 model, purchased used, and I believe it has somewhere north of 5,000 hours on it.

The basic problem is that Kubota used a soft cast iron material for the part that stirpped, and hard steel for the splined shaft it fits on. Kubota seems to be aware of the problem: I've found that Kubota also revised the torque spec upward for the nut that holds the two together. The part number of the hub has been revised several times, further suggesting that Kubota knows of the problem and has been trying to fix it by various methods, including changing the part. But since it's a splined connection, major changes would also involve changing the mating part, and that gets expensive very quickly.

I also noticed that there was no lubrication on the splines. BMW uses splined connections at several points in its drive shaft equipped motorcycle drive trains. Everyone of them is lubricated with a high moly grease at intervals of about 25,000 miles. That's the way these connections will go back together, too.

It doesn't make any sense to use synthetic oil in a Diesel because carbon from the burning fuel quickly contaminates the oil. That means frequent oil changes are needed, and the long life of synthetic oil goes to waste. The oil should also be changed at least every year to get rid of water and acid contamination that occurs in any combustion engine type, so again, synthetics are a waste of money.:2cents:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Here's a pic of the stove.

Thanks for posting that photo of the pot belly stove, LS. It brings back fond childhood memories from when my dad would take me trap shooting in the wintertime. They had a rough shack there with one of those stoves in it, and once in a while they'd let me put a lump or two of coal in it. It always had a pot of coffee going on top of it, and if I behaved myself, I'd get a taste along with a donut.:cloud9: I was too young to shoot, and the club closed before I got old enough.

 

[txdon]

Not sure who mentioned making garlic mashed potatoes with one of those mixing wands, but thanks! The one I ordered arrived yesterday, and I couldn't believe how quick and easy it was to use. Could'a added a little more milk to the spuds, but they were delicious, skin and all. Not a trace of the skin, and so nutritious! Very easy clean up, too! The things you learn from the Good Morning!!!! bunch! Who sez ya can't teach an old dog new tricks?:thumbsup:

Your welcome. This is like the emersion blender we use for garlic mashed potatoes in the INSTANT POT.
Amazon.com: Cuisinart CSB-75BC Smart Stick 2 Watt 2 Speed Hand Blender, Brushed Chrome: Electric Hand Blenders: Kitchen & Dining

I also throw in a handful of frozen green peas to cool off the potatoes after I blend them so I won't burn my tongue.

 

[toppop52]

Re brake dust

Actually it's for my F250 which puts out back dust and the service truck I drive Dodge 4500 which puts outs out a red colored dust. When these vehicles need brakes they get replaced with EBC green stuff which I have used before on other trucks and cars with great success as the original ones wear out.

I used ceramic brakes on our sons TDI Jetta had over 80000 miles on pads before VW bought it back

I was just going to say, being German has no bearing, modern vehicles tend to be equipped with pads that sacrifice cleanliness for stopping power, durability and low toxicity.

 

[toppop52]

Mid teens early, upper 20’s now, not as cold this week as first forecast. Euro model has us getting significantly more snow than all the rest, it’s usua more accurate, I hope it isn’t this time.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

There can be quite the education to enjoying coal heat. I don't know what size coal you will need, pea, nut, stove;
the different sizes will all burn differently, the smaller will be able to be throttled down more, fines can be a problem and
the different brands, mines, will burn differently. The easiest way I have found to start a coal fire is with match light type charcoal,
lay a base of a couple inches down, light it off, when it is burning good layer on some coal, couple of inches, once that has lite layer
some more, when lite add more till full, shake you ash down lightly once or twice a day and add coal. I have only lite mine once this year,
and added coal nightly, taken ash out nightly.
One thing are you in New Mexico? My coal is hard coal (anthracite), I've heard that soft coal, (bituminous) is quite different, more soot harder to work with,
more chimney cleaning. Most northeastern coal is hard coal and most western coal is soft coal, to my knowledge.
Enjoy

At TSC, you can get all 3 types. The stove manufacturer recommends the "chunk" anthracite coal. I'm sure I will definately have a learning curve for sure. There was actually a "coal town" near me with piles of coal laying around. The town of "Madrid, NM" is now a real artsy and strange collaboration of shops, all in the old coal company houses. There is a museum, vaudeville theater, and the " Mine Shaft Tavern" which has some of the best food around and live folk music. Google the town, pretty neat history. Maybe get some coal from there.