Good Morning!!!! 72F @ 4:45AM. Sunny. High 102F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Funny story, Bird. Glad no one was hurt!
Another EverReady Bunny award for you, RS!:thumbsup:
Hope you get the rain that red sky predicts, Ron.
If all those lathe parts were my job to put back together, Kyle, I'd have a real bad feeling about it. Glad it came out OK for you! But if your company is using the slow down as an excuse to catch up on deferred maintenance, more power to 'em!
Hope the weed monster isn't as bad this year, Eric.
One of those Tempest weather stations might be good for traveling, Drew.
Frisky fauns look like they're growing fast, Thomas.
Sorry to hear about your tumble, Ted. Can you use it as an excuse to get some time off your feet?
Got toward the end of painting the tank yesterday and emptied the last of the coating into the roller tray. It wasn't looking good, so I lightly coated the back wall hoping there would be enough to finish the floor. Climbed out of the tank and screwed a pole on the handle of the roller, got the floor done, and had about a cup of sealer left. Went back over the back wall, and called it good. My calculations said I'd have half a gallon left, so I must have put it on thicker than called for. But some's good, more's better in this case.
Then crawled under the firetruck and had another go at removing the pipe plug in the bottom of the tank sump. It had been soaking in Kroil for a few days, and I was hopeful it would come out. Put a two foot breaker bar on it, and no joy. Got out both the 1/2" and 3/4" impact guns, laid them out next to each other so I'd only have to make one trip under there, and got it broken loose with the half incher. But it made so much noise I had to come out for hearing protection anyway. Removed the plug, cleaned up the threads, then slathered them with plenty of pipe dope before putting it back in. Hopefully it'll come out easier next time.
After lunch I had another go at adjusting the self leveling FEL, and found out that the rate of self leveling seems to be dependent on the speed at which the loader arms are moving. Called both the local and Oregon Kubota dealers to ask about it. The local guy suggested taking the valve apart and cleaning it. Uh, no, there are about eight lines running out of it, and I'm not going to all that trouble based on a lame guess.
The Oregon man called back and said his
M62 seemed to have a third position on the on/off switch, and that it worked in that position. But we agreed that didn't seem right either, so he said he'd look at another
M62 on his lot and call me back on Monday. In the mean time, he gave me another way to check if it's the cylinder or the valve leaking on the top'n'tilt, so I'll run that test today.
Found a recipe for scratch pizza dough, so made up a batch and enjoyed a glass of wine on the back porch with the lizards while it rose. Fired up the BBQ to let the pizza steel heat soak. Rolled the dough out onto a new 14" pizza pan, then spread some BBQ sauce on it and dropped on chunks of Costco rotisserie chicken, canned black olives and mushrooms, then dusted the whole thing with nutritional yeast. Couldn't get the whole thing to slide off the pizza pan onto the steel, so just put 'em both in there, checking every few minutes so I wouldn't burn it. Still came out just a tiny bit charred, but by gosh it sure was tasty. Just have to figure out how to keep it from sticking to the pan next time; probably need to use more corn meal. Really pleased how crisp and light the crust came out, though, especially seeing it was a first try.
Hope everyone enjoys the weekend.:thumbsup:
