Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 6:00AM. Sunny. High 83F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Looks like a perfect recipe for weather, to me at least.:thumbsup:
Good to hear from you again, Eric, and glad that you haven't lost your sense of humor!:laughing:
Bit of a rough day yesterday here, started off catching my foot in a computer cable and going down like a pile of bricks. Part of me landed on a carpet, so just a bruise and some sore muscles to show for the effort. Finally got through to the Oregon Kubota salesman, though, and he's working on a parts quote for tractor goodies.
Dug maybe another ten feet of trench, coming up to the top of the parking pad next to the garage, so at least now the tractor is well away from the edge. The conduit hasn't turned up at all, and is headed straight for the driveway. My hope now is it'll turn toward the outside wall of the garage when it reaches the concrete; if not, a new trench will.
The stabilizers on the backhoe have little steps for climbing up to and down from the chair, but they're small and awkwardly placed. Yesterday I stumbled when remounting, lost my balance, and fell on one of the backhoe controls. The tractor was running at the time, so the boom swung to the right, forcing the tractor to skid on the stabilizers about a foot to the left. Took me that long to push myself back up and stop the action, and it could have been a lot worse. New rule: turn the engine off before getting off the tractor. Turns out that's the new SOP for these tractors anyway, to save buildup in the Diesel Particulate Filter. In the six hours of running since it arrived, the DPF percentage has gone from 20% to 50%. So it looks like the first regeneration will happen in another ten hours or so. Should be interesting. At least there's no urea injection used on this model.
Kind of a long one; I'm a very slow operator, looks like a drunken sailor is at the controls.:confused2: Very happy with the backhoe on this thing!
A little after midnight the power went off again here; I was awakened by all the beeping from the office, where some of the computer equipment is on a UPS. I got up to shut down the media server, that really doesn't like to lose power. No telling how long it would last, but it was good to see that the satellite internet remained running, and of course the two laptops in there were OK as well. Shut a bunch of stuff off and tried to get back to sleep, but half an hour later power was restored, which led to another round of beeping while things came back on.
More digging this morning, then a grocery run this afternoon. If I'm lucky, maybe I can pick up the old tractor while I'm in town, otherwise I'll try to get the truck smogged.
Those 2" New York steaks I bought last week were only $7.50/pound, but there was a bone in 'em that didn't show in the display case. Just goes to show you get what you pay for.
TGIF gang!:drink:
