Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

I got the tractor disassembled, partially anyway. I had to detach the dash /cowl to be able to lift the fenders / floorboard high enough to get access to the trans. I am glad I decided to change the fluid.... it was all 'yucky' looking, a little foamy too. The tractor is 14 years old and the trans has never been serviced (supposed to be "non-serviceable" according to Tuff Torq and the owners manual).

After BEF was rebuilding his, I started looking into doing mine. That's when I found out the K66 is a heavy duty and used in a lot of commercial mowers. They recommend changing the fluid at 50 hours then every 200! SOOOO,.... we'll just let the homeowner ones just burn up so they have to buy another mower.....

Anyway, I gained access and cleaned everything up, no leaks noticed, even all the original stickers were still on. When I was ready to refill the oil, Thankfully I noticed I bought the wrong oil for it.... should be 5w50.... I got 20w50.... none to be had locally, so ordered online through NAPA. I can pick it up in the big city tomorrow. I will be going in to the city anyway for a Dr's appointment, so I will pick it up on the way home.

So, cleaned the mower deck and sharpened the blades instead. Finished up and called it an earlier day. Here's a few pics of the 'pile' of tractor parts.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I had a mystery light switch in a former home, never figured out what it controlled.

When I added my garage I rewired a couple switches that might have future people wondering

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My beautiful wifey said to say Thank you to all you kind gentlemen for the birthday wishes.

We had a great day at church. I got to be usher and help the pastor with communion, which means a lot to me. We got there early to teach Sunday school, and I'm guilty of not reading my email.....the council has postponed it until later. So, the wifey and I did gave our kids a lesson until service started.

Some friends came over after church, and brought some gourmet pizza which was awesome. Wifey made a hybrid yellow cake with added pumpkin spice. It was delicious. She made a pot of coffee and brought out the cream and sugar, (and stevia and Mootopia fat free). I did not partake in coffee, to limit my caffeine.....but it sure smelled good. She makes her coffee strong enough to float a horse shoe on....our friends will be up all night.

Afterwards, I was going to take my son and the neighbor boy, both 10, to the driving range to hit some golf balls. I hadn't hit a ball on a course in about 5 years. Wouldn't you know it, it started raining just before we got there. I hope Rick gets a share. Can't say if it will get up to Don's place or not. Well, it has stopped here, just long enough to spoil our driving range attempt.

Took the truck to son’s apartment to bring back a dresser. As I’m pulling into parking space I asked, you got your key? No.
So on way back home I called an ace hardware and asked about pellet prices. $259 for lignetics till end of the month. Said I’ll be right there. Pulled in, fork lift guy had just loaded a ton, I said I’m getting one, paid, loaded, in less than 5 min. Got them in the barn. Now have almost 3 tons.

3 Tons, will that last you the winter? I wonder what the comparison of pellets to firewood is, how many cords equals x amount of pellets. I know it takes less energy to stack pellets, but lifting 6000 lbs to fill hopper is still a bit, and spread out over the winter.

It has been cooler here, comparatively speaking, low humidity in the low '80's.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

3 Tons, will that last you the winter? I wonder what the comparison of pellets to firewood is, how many cords equals x amount of pellets. I know it takes less energy to stack pellets, but lifting 6000 lbs to fill hopper is still a bit, and spread out over the winter.
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2002-2003 42 bags (for heating season)
-2004 32
-2005 45
-2006 75
-2007 50
-2008 50
-2009 150
-2010 185
-2011 152
-2012 138
-2013 170
-2014 115
-2015 116
-2016 56
-2017 86
-2018 115
-2019 104
-2020 77

Had a manual pellet stove up till 2008. Then got the Harman stove. I have burned over 3 tons a winter, currently I have 145 bags (5 under 3 tons)

No clue how it equates to firewood. Had a wood stove in the last house. Buying firewood was over $200 a cord in the 90s. Filling a hopper is much easier and cleaner. Much less work.
I burn pellets to supplement heat in my family room and I like to see the flame burning. Last winter was really mild.

 

[lostcreekranch]

My beautiful wifey said to say Thank you to all you kind gentlemen for the birthday wishes.

We had a great day at church. I got to be usher and help the pastor with communion, which means a lot to me. We got there early to teach Sunday school, and I'm guilty of not reading my email.....the council has postponed it until later. So, the wifey and I did gave our kids a lesson until service started.

Some friends came over after church, and brought some gourmet pizza which was awesome. Wifey made a hybrid yellow cake with added pumpkin spice. It was delicious. She made a pot of coffee and brought out the cream and sugar, (and stevia and Mootopia fat free). I did not partake in coffee, to limit my caffeine.....but it sure smelled good. She makes her coffee strong enough to float a horse shoe on....our friends will be up all night.

Afterwards, I was going to take my son and the neighbor boy, both 10, to the driving range to hit some golf balls. I hadn't hit a ball on a course in about 5 years. Wouldn't you know it, it started raining just before we got there. I hope Rick gets a share. Can't say if it will get up to Don's place or not. Well, it has stopped here, just long enough to spoil our driving range attempt.




3 Tons, will that last you the winter? I wonder what the comparison of pellets to firewood is, how many cords equals x amount of pellets. I know it takes less energy to stack pellets, but lifting 6000 lbs to fill hopper is still a bit, and spread out over the winter.

It has been cooler here, comparatively speaking, low humidity in the low '80's.

"I hope Rick gets a share."

Not so much Kyle. Better than nothing but .. just hard enough to make mowing on the ZT .. not fun. It was too dark for sunglasses but the NE wind was blowing rain in my eyes depending which direction I was going. It did cut the dust though. I didn't check the rain gauges yet but .. I'd guess maybe 1/4" at best. It was very welcome.

Sorry about the driving range. I need to go do that myself.

 

[lostcreekranch]

2002-2003 42 bags (for heating season)
-2004 32
-2005 45
-2006 75
-2007 50
-2008 50
-2009 150
-2010 185
-2011 152
-2012 138
-2013 170
-2014 115
-2015 116
-2016 56
-2017 86
-2018 115
-2019 104
-2020 77

Had a manual pellet stove up till 2008. Then got the Harman stove. I have burned over 3 tons a winter, currently I have 145 bags (5 under 3 tons)

No clue how it equates to firewood. Had a wood stove in the last house. Buying firewood was over $200 a cord in the 90s. Filling a hopper is much easier and cleaner. Much less work.
I burn pellets to supplement heat in my family room and I like to see the flame burning. Last winter was really mild.

Do you get less ash with your pellet stove .. compared to burning wood?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Do you get less ash with your pellet stove .. compared to burning wood?

Yes, I empty the pellet ash pan once per half ton. Last yr bought a ton of super premium really low ash pellets. Only burned 5 bags of those so far.

A coworker bought a house with a harman pellet stove he doesn’t want. I’m thinking of putting one in the basement to use while we are down there, not run it all the time. He wants me to give him an offer on his. My stove cost $3500 10 yrs ago, it runs $4k now. Haven’t decided what to offer him.

We have a frost advisory tonight.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 55F for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Sky stayed clear, wind was light and high temp was 78F. Rain in forecast tomorrow afternoon, and end Wednesday morning about 3/4 in currently forecast, amount changes by the hour . Chapel this morning, make wife's breakfast, then we went for walk early afternoon, then my nap watched some you tube videos.
Covid update: Cooke unchanged, Montague unchanged, Grayson unchanged.
RS great progress and pics
Kyle glad you got some wife time, tell your wife happy bday
Phil only 8 days at work!!
Drew sounds like progress on the move
Billy glad no skunks.
Chuck sounds like moving in is progressing
Roy sorry about the back
Randy and why did the plasma run out, what were you feeding it?
Ron sorry about the TV upgrade going poorly, nice woodpecker Lost a lot of weight on diet 20+ years ago, waist not as slim as it was at peak weight loss.
Don hope you get your rain
Rick hope you get your rain and all your burn piles safely taken care of.
Thomas at least Mrs found the match and stove read for winter.
RNG I bet you enjoyed having the option to putter.
Ted good luck with the hydro maintenance and oil change
Drew sorry about have to use unknowns during move.
RS cooler weather here slows the grass down, when highs below 70's goes dormant.
Thomas getting ready for winter?
Roy glad back is better
Ted nice you caught the wrong oil before adding it! is that a radiator in the pics?
Kyle sorry about the rain ruining your plans, no rain here till Monday late afternoon.
Rick 1/4 inch is not the rain you are looking for to burn is it?
prayers for all, especially Drew/move, Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Mike, David(moss)/move/sale, RNG/fire, and Country
stay safe and health you all.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-09-21, 0332

31 right now...high in the mid-60's today.
Back's still a bit rough, but bearable...

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Two more days of dry weather to come with a high of 21C/70F, after that the rain will be here to give me a break from brick work :dance1:

Catching up on here, I read a few posts about large European churches. We live on the outskirts of a small town - Whitchurch, Shropshire - and with a name like that, it is not surprising that the skyline is dominated by a church tower. St Alkmunds is not as big as some, but is still a very impressive building. This "latest" Whitchurch church one was built way back in 1712, after the earlier one had collapsed. That does not imply any shoddy workmanship, as the original had been giving service since the year 912.

St. Alkmund’s Church – Whitchurch, Shropshire

I regularly use the church as an aiming mark, though not for shooting! The route of the footpath that crosses several of our fields is not obvious where it passes over the undulating landscape, so if I am out topping, I will cut a path to guide new walkers, the very top of the church tower showing me which way to steer the Iseki. Of course this is no coincidence, as the original purpose of many footpaths is as a direct route to church.