Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

By the time I finished a 3rd cup of coffee, the sky was promising. Still too wet to finish area from yesterday but I ventured to other side of the house and got another 3plus acres with the flail. One of my test criteria, if the tires glisten as I mow it is wet. Still have another 2-3 acres - tomorrow?

 

[Rich B1]

Kyle....most likely gonna go on a long ride on the Triumph. But, now that the Gold Star dynamo is no longer misbehaving, it is gonna get some miles too.

Did not make as much progress on the trailer as I wanted, but seem to have had the light come on for the front cabinets. Actually, a number of things seem to have come into focus on that project.

 

[toppop52]

WE ......

I didn’t know you were French!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I mowed along the road, the grass was tall and heavy. Then son mowed.
My dads riding mower that I bought him back around 2004 isn’t running too well. One of the guys that hunts on him was mowing with it and called my sister and told her it broke. Then dad took it and mowed with it yesterday and said it was just burning some oil.
So I decided I need to fix the transmission in my husqvarna and take it to him. $500 for hydro pump rebuilt kit or $1000 for a complete transmission that I don’t have to tear down and mess with. Pushed the mower out of barn, battery was dead. Put air in flat front tire. Charged battery, sprayed little carb cleaner in air filter, and it started right up. I even mowed with it. Transmission works until it warms up, then won’t pull a slight hill. I’ve had to use a little carb cleaner to start it since about the 2nd or 3rd year of buying it.
Wife bought a bushel of green beans today. We just got first batch in the canner. Should be able to get around 21 qts from the bushel.
While waiting for battery to charge I mixed more roundup and sprayed.

 

[Jim Nelson]

Deep creep is a penetrating oil.

Not looking for a peeing match but if you look at Seafoam's web site they have a product named Deep Creep but it may be spelled Kreep,I don't remember. nI do know that it has worked very well several times for me.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Not looking for a peeing match but if you look at Seafoam's web site they have a product named Deep Creep but it may be spelled Kreep,I don't remember. nI do know that it has worked very well several times for me.

I looked, that’s why I responded. Sea foam makes a spray, but deep creep is a penetrating oil.


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[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 79F for the start, partly cloudy, moderate wind. Wind 15-21, partly cloudy day, high temp 99F feels like 107F. Meeting this morning, bike ride, was going to shop but family circus interrupted, did get nap in and grilled brats for dinner tonight.
Covid update: Cooke 248 confirmed cases, 0 active cases, Montague 77 confirmed cases, 1 active cases, Grayson 1169 confirmed cases, 41 active cases
RS Sorry about the Menard's troubles, bet that made for a "fun" day
Roy that is a 30F swing
Drew hope the Dr "visits" went well. Understand about local food issues, not much in way of local restaurants here, period
Eric remember Battleship, storms don't find many Texans during summer. So sheep are get stuck artists as well as escape artists?
Ron good luck with driver license renewal, never fun.
Billy we are almost as dry as Rick (irrigation helps) good you got a hike in. Coco get to go?
Rich refresh my memory what are you doing to trailer?
Don good luck with weed eater, on mine the choke is my friend.
RNG Firetruck in place, yeah! Nice the network upgrades are working out for you. More room with safe gone ( or will be)
Jim thanks for info on Seafoam Creep
Bird glad you are hanging in there with summer heat, hard for me to put in more than half a day with the heat.
Lou cab a/c is cheating
David sorry about rain, enjoy Dinner meeting
Don I thought the Chinese could copy better than that
Ron nice cabinet, glad you got driver license renewed
Randy, too hot for me to stay out.
Rick getting the files and other stuff back in place is always the issue
David glad you got some mowing in.
prayers for all especially Drew, Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Mike, David (Moss), Country
Stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[rswyan]

73F and partly cloudy @ 22:00.

Started day with adding more Plastic Wood to knot hole in siding. Eventually got that completed (front and rear) ... just needs a little sanding at this point and should be good to go.

Then unloaded pallet of block from van, took loader off Kubota, greased pto shaft on MMM, hooked it up and did a couple of passes on the front to set the pattern for today's mowing and check for any vibrations on the new installed blades. After that I got The Woman, who had been weeding the blueberry bed, started on the mowing.

While she was doing that I got out the Stihl HT 101 pole saw and cut the oak tree branches off the electric service lines coming from the transformer to the house. Should be able to tie a rope on the tree tomorrow and put some tension on it with the Kubota and cut and drop it.

Then I headed over to the Depot to pick up six 1/4 x 6" Spax star head bolts to attach the additional 4 x 4's to the bottom of the auger rack. Hope to get that completed tomorrow.

When I got back we took her car down to the repair shop to drop it off to have the front wheel bearing replaced.

When we got back from that I worked a little more on pulling the cut branches from the oak out of the rhododendron, then started removing the top of the auger stand from the base. She continued with the mowing and got the entire front mowed ... :thumbsup:

Then after dinner I headed back out to mow down here around the house.

Got one pass done and noticed that the rubber on one of the gauge wheels had torn off the steel sleeve it was bonded to. Not really happy about that considering they are around $100 a pop ... but on the other hand, it's the first one I've had to replace in 2231.9 hours ... hopefully the dealer will have them in stock. If they do I'll probably just go ahead and get two and replace both front wheels ... that way I'll have one old one as a spare so if one of the rear wheels goes **** up while mowing I'll be able to replace it and hopefully finish.

Chances of rain seem to have mostly evaporated until at least Saturday ... last rain we got greened things up but I suspect it's going to start looking dry again in fairly short order.

Hope everyone had a great day ... :thumbsup:

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-08-12, 0333

72 right now...high in the mid-80's today.

 

[Buppies]

71 high of 90 today storms possible later flood watches posted close by

Prayers for Drew, Jay and wife, Kyles daughter, MFW, riptides, all others our Country

 

[NHBX]

Good morning all

75 dew point 67 high of 92 today
Really need some rain here
Totals down over 7 inches below normal
Some with dug wells are having trouble
Managed to find a ground hornets nest while weeding the garden
No stings did not think I could still move that fast lol
Not much on agenda today except to stay cool
Everyone enjoy your day

Luther

 

[daugen]

good morning all. 75 out now, foggy, going up to high 80's, maybe low 90's like yesterday

Luther, ground hornets, no fun. Always thought "yellow jackets" were most aggressive, but I've had those hornets
come after me too, now I have to keep an epi pen around. Find they like to get in the mulch. Like fire ants, which I'm glad you don't have,
they seem to like disturbed, softer soil.

Wish I could send you some water...plenty of it here.
Rain in forecast every day for next ten days Greenville, NC 1-Day Weather Forecast | Weather Underground

unpacked my Amazon boxes and charged up my noise cancelling headphones. I may wear them while a/c unit is going, see if it reduces tinnitus.
Inexpensive pair, not like the good Sony or Bose model, but I found the last under 50 dollar pair to perform quite well.

enjoying my coffee and wondering what I'm going to do today.

 

[daugen]

I could use some computer advice. My Asus pc has a I7 processor and a Nvidia video card, always plenty fast enough. But the hard drive is making more noise now and it worries me. No, I never got to vacuuming out the inside but that tiny whiny rotational ball bearing noise isn't going to go away with a vacuum. I have about 500gb of storage on a 1TB drive. I do not have confidence swapping out a hard drive, and safely transferring the data. I do not know if chassis will hold a second hard drive. Thinking maybe a solid state hard drive added on, or even an external traditional one added on would be simplest fix. Then I assume there is a process to make the new drive the boot/primary drive and simply bypass the old drive.

Once upon a time I had an external WD external HD but it's now MIA. Instead of buying a new pc, seems a new HD makes more sense. First of all, where do I go to find out what processor is in this unit? The specs page...Maybe it's old enough(how do I find in service date also?) and pc's are cheap enough it's time to replace. But while I never bought the fastest I always have bought a reasonably fast model to try to avoid obsolescence. Currently running W10.

I'm sure I'm making this sound harder than it is, a number of you have swapped out hard drives easily. I want to be proactive here and not reactive to a failed HD.
Thanks

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good idea. Someone donated a bunch of those cabinets to our church. We have them in storage I think, might procure one of them.

Mine also came with all the rails for hanging files. The drawers are deep enough for "legal" size but .. I use "letter" size.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I could use some computer advice. My Asus pc has a I7 processor and a Nvidia video card, always plenty fast enough. But the hard drive is making more noise now and it worries me. No, I never got to vacuuming out the inside but that tiny whiny rotational ball bearing noise isn't going to go away with a vacuum. I have about 500gb of storage on a 1TB drive. I do not have confidence swapping out a hard drive, and safely transferring the data. I do not know if chassis will hold a second hard drive. Thinking maybe a solid state hard drive added on, or even an external traditional one added on would be simplest fix. Then I assume there is a process to make the new drive the boot/primary drive and simply bypass the old drive.

Once upon a time I had an external WD external HD but it's now MIA. Instead of buying a new pc, seems a new HD makes more sense. First of all, where do I go to find out what processor is in this unit? The specs page...Maybe it's old enough(how do I find in service date also?) and pc's are cheap enough it's time to replace. But while I never bought the fastest I always have bought a reasonably fast model to try to avoid obsolescence. Currently running W10.

I'm sure I'm making this sound harder than it is, a number of you have swapped out hard drives easily. I want to be proactive here and not reactive to a failed HD.
Thanks

Are you sure it’s hard drive or a fan making the noise?
In windows, there is a “system” page that will tell you the processor, but that has nothing to do with the hard drive.
You need to clone the drive to get the OS on the new drive. I like to use a seagate program, you tell it source drive, new drive, and it copies it. Then you put new drive in place of old drive. You can keep old drive as backup. All data still on it. I believe it’s a free download. I can look later. I use USB adapter to connect new drive while cloning.
I have copied many drives.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Maybe the links in your chain are different distance apart and the slide will land on the top of the link instead of missing it. When it misses a link there is no stop for the depth file.

Are you certain your chain pitch is .325 .. and not 3/8? Measure between the center points of 3 rivets and divide by 2.

If you use Oregon Chain .. you can look it up on their website.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I didn’t know you were French!

TBN GM .. is a great place to learn new things Randy.

 

[Thomas]

67F few clouds 90F for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...find and paint our land boundaries and stay cool,other than that :confused3:

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 52° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 87° with mix of sun and clouds. While I got my Drivers License renewed yesterday. Charged me late fee. Huh, they were the ones who closed offices from March to mid June. $10 was not worth the argument. Glad to get it done. Going to work on painting window frames this morning. Until it's too hot to work outside. No other plans.
Even Sandhill Cranes think it is hot and humid.

Rick, I have 2 other file cabinets in shop. Full of manuals and instructions. Need to go thew those files and get rid of items I no long have. Rails where in cabinet.

Drew, I have External 1T SSD drive for backup on my PC. I use W10 to backup to it. They also have internal drives that are SSD.

Luther, it is dry here also. Big storm that was headed our way Monday. Changed direction and went north. 40% chance on this weekend. If I happen to catch any of it. I will send some your way.

RS, wow over 2200 hours. My B2910 has 550 hours after 20 years.

Buckeye, hope you get Dads and your mowers running.

David, get the mowing done. Almost time to start over.

RNG, good new network is going together.

Bird, endorsement is cheap in MI also. $7.

Wngsprd, good to leave markings for future generations.

Don, I am good for another 4 years. Just in case I want to ride a motorcycle.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

NHBX
Totals down over 7 inches below normal
Some with dug wells are having trouble.
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Same up here most of stream dry up and brooks way low,even some wildlife move down to valleys.