Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all.
Covid update: Cooke unchanged, Montague 188 confirmed cases, 17 active cases, Grayson 1908 confirmed cases, 64 active cases.
Kyle you go to the driving range to work on your problem areas, why complicate things? I am impressed someone has 20 days to burn
Bill, seems early to quit for summer, enjoy your time off.
Drew you have a nice forecast hope you can take advantage. sorry about you BPH
Eric sorry about your paperwork, wife does most of ours, some is online and I get to print it. But it will come to and end next year right?
Ron nice cardinal. They won their first playoff game Deer don't come in the subdivision so that not and issue.
Randy two undisputed winners, ain't that the truth
Thomas hope you get your rain.
Phil, nice score on the bricks, getting down there on the days!
RNG hope your fire prep works, and they get the fires contained.
Ken hope for your success in stump removal.
Ted sorry about the pharmacy
PJ 10 day vacation sounds nice, good luck with new network equipment.
RS the golf course blower is self powered and resembles a jet engine
Drew it is a race to gouge more and we lose
David Congrats on yours and Sophie's anniversary 37 is a long time together. roposetoast:
Ted that is cheating
Thomas have fun cooking dinner :spam:
RS sounds like it will be up and running in no time
David good to hear Makani doing well, hope the anniversary dinner goes well
prayers for all, especially Drew/move, Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Mike, RNG/fire, and Country
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[rswyan]

Any idea what brand that it?

It's a Jacobsen, model B-40 ... part of their Turf Equipment line (used to care for golf courses and similar venues)

Gonna be a **** of a leaf blower!!!

Yeah, I'm hoping to go through it, fix any issues, clean it up, and paint it eventually.

Drove the bearings and seals out of one of the wheel hubs tonight, got the other hub removed from the unit (There were bent nails in the castelated nuts on the axles rather than cotter pins ... )

Clean and de-rust the hubs tomorrow and see about slapping some paint on them.

Found a blower like that on Craigslist years ago when we still lived in PA. Thought about it, but didn't really have a lot of use for one at the time. Kind of wish I had that blower now though...cut my leaf removal to about 20 minutes!

There's one on the Hartford, CT craigslist currently ... looks to be pretty much complete and in supposedly in decent shape.

Jacobsen B4 Leaf Debris Blower 3 point Hitch Tractor Side Chute -...

Tad on the pricey side though, at $2995.00 ...

B-40's come up periodically as low as $300 or $400 ... although they maybe in rougher shape than the one linked above.

The B-40 Plus might be a better unit ... it's a newer model and uses a double belt drive (as opposed to the double roller chain drive on mine) ... probably quieter.

Also search for "debris blower" on eBay or sites dedicated to turf equipment.

 

[rswyan]

RS, congrats on that brawny looking blower...

Thanks ... been wanting one for a while. Should make leaf cleanup a bit easier here.

I've never seen one in action...

Here's a couple of videos. First one might be comparable to the blower I have, second one is quite a bit larger with a much larger tractor powering it:

3 point hitch leaf and debris blower by Agrimetal - YouTube

I just mow our leaves and let them mulch/fertilize the grass...but we don't have so many as to become an overload.

:thumbsup:

 

[sodamo]

They said that the last time if Trump won, they never left.

Shoot, been promising us relief since Bush, yet they are still here, have to wonder how our northern neighbors keep them out for so long.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks guys
Back from quiet, but nice celebratory dinner. Restaurant quite different that 7 months ago, menu very limited, but my companion was awesome.

 

[Looking4new]

Shoot, been promising us relief since Bush, yet they are still here, have to wonder how our northern neighbors keep them out for so long.

Canada Customs weeds out the undesirables, the same as U.S. Customs and Immigration does.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-10-01, 0255

58 right now...high in the mid-60's today.. Looks like a cooling trend ahead...

Lost power at the plant about 1030...sent everybody home by noon. So, came home...no internet here either...

 

[daugen]

good morning all. 56 degrees this morning going all the way up to 79 today in full sun.

Sounds like a nice morning for a walk but I'm not doing any walking this morning.
Woke up with what seems to be gout in my left big toe. Went online and read about it, never had it, sure seems like it.
I have very bad osteoarthritis so I know this is related but?
Weird, I drink no alcohol, have lost weight, eat little meat, and currently my juice of choice is diet cran-cherry. Only thing I can think of is I'm not drinking enough water.
Which I will surely do today, and stay off my sore foot. Hopefully this will go away promptly, really don't want another doc appointment at this point.
Going to try a couple tylenol and see if that helps, or some celebrex if I have to. They say prednisone is the best cure, but I'm already on low dose steroids.
It's like I'm doing everything right, but clearly my foot/toe is unhappy. Started last night several hours after dinner.
Have read this is pretty common; for those of you who have had this, was going to a doc necessary?

Long ago I read that this occurred in historic England from the folks there eating too many eel pies. :shocked:

Didn't have much planned for today, now even less. Guess I'll call my arthritis doc and get his opinion.
Would rather be watching the Hosta Man blow leaves into the next county! :thumbsup:

 

[daugen]

One thing I do have to do today is call Board of Elections in Doylestown PA and find out about voting. My absentee ballot finally came in down here, which means,
I believe, I can vote legally in NC until the day I leave, next Friday. At issue is can I get registered and vote within three weeks once I move to PA. Just don't know how fast things
can get processed there. My vote means more in PA, a "swing" state vs NC. If the law says I must be a resident of NC on Election Day, then my only choice is to try to fast track
voting registration in PA.

 

[sodamo]

BIL swears by turmeric for his gout. Believe he gets some sort of local paste and mixes with honey.

Turmeric for Gout: Efficacy and How to Use It for Joint Inflammation