RedNeckGeek
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- Joined
- Jan 1, 2011
- Messages
- 8,753
- Location
- Butte County & Orcutt, California
- Tractor
- Kubota M62, Kubota L3240D HST (SOLD!), Kubota RTV900
Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 4:00AM. Mostly sunny. High 83F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Glad they caught it earlier this time, Randy. Is this something that you catch from other people, or is it an after effect of your earlier surgery? Hope you can get out of there and home so you can rest properly.
Sounds like a fun ride, Drew. Share a video with us so we can all ride along, OK?
Got both trees down yesterday, but due to my poor lumberjacking, the bigger of the two put up something of a struggle. It was leaning down hill, I wanted it to fall uphill, so I rigged chains to pull in the uphill direction with the tractor. But my cuts were bad, and I had to move the chain up higher on the tree for more leverage, but the third pull was the charm. Lots of poison oak around the base of the tree, so now I'm waiting to see where I'll start itching first.
Two days ago I was pushing a pile of manzanita branches with the tractor when everything stopped cold. No instrument display or lights, no engine, no nothing. One of the branches got into the battery compartment and snatched the lead off the negative terminal slick as a whistle. No damage done, and I was able to push it back on without tools and continue working. I was really surprised at how small the battery leads are, probably less than 10 gauge. That doesn't seem to slow the starter down any, a good thing because it gets a lot more use avoiding regeneration by not idling the engine when sitting.
Yesterday when I went to hook the battery back up to the gate, I found a little fence lizard in the plastic battery box. The walls were slick enough it couldn't get out. It wasn't happy about being picked up, but calmed down quickly and just laid there when I put it down. Held it in my hand for a minute or two to make sure it was OK, then let it go again and it shuffled off. It had already lost its tail once, and now gotten itself stuck in the battery box, so it's probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
After I hooked the battery up, the gate seemed to work normally, but now it "thinks" that open is closed. It's supposed to close itself after three minutes, but now it opens itself after it's closed for three minutes. Resetting it didn't work, so I get to waste more time on the telephone this morning.
The building department processed the water tank application, and yesterday I got a bill for $737 for the privilege of improving my property under their supervision. They must think money grows on trees.
Got the lines made up for the side shift on the flail mower yesterday at a local hydraulic shop. For some reason they don't stock the needed banjo fittings, but were able to cobble something together. No other surprises on the town run yesterday, and the Kubota dealer has another batch of steel pallets they'd like hauled off. I'll take care of that next week when I go into town for part two of the flu shot.
TGIF gang!
Glad they caught it earlier this time, Randy. Is this something that you catch from other people, or is it an after effect of your earlier surgery? Hope you can get out of there and home so you can rest properly.
Sounds like a fun ride, Drew. Share a video with us so we can all ride along, OK?
Got both trees down yesterday, but due to my poor lumberjacking, the bigger of the two put up something of a struggle. It was leaning down hill, I wanted it to fall uphill, so I rigged chains to pull in the uphill direction with the tractor. But my cuts were bad, and I had to move the chain up higher on the tree for more leverage, but the third pull was the charm. Lots of poison oak around the base of the tree, so now I'm waiting to see where I'll start itching first.
Two days ago I was pushing a pile of manzanita branches with the tractor when everything stopped cold. No instrument display or lights, no engine, no nothing. One of the branches got into the battery compartment and snatched the lead off the negative terminal slick as a whistle. No damage done, and I was able to push it back on without tools and continue working. I was really surprised at how small the battery leads are, probably less than 10 gauge. That doesn't seem to slow the starter down any, a good thing because it gets a lot more use avoiding regeneration by not idling the engine when sitting.
Yesterday when I went to hook the battery back up to the gate, I found a little fence lizard in the plastic battery box. The walls were slick enough it couldn't get out. It wasn't happy about being picked up, but calmed down quickly and just laid there when I put it down. Held it in my hand for a minute or two to make sure it was OK, then let it go again and it shuffled off. It had already lost its tail once, and now gotten itself stuck in the battery box, so it's probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
After I hooked the battery up, the gate seemed to work normally, but now it "thinks" that open is closed. It's supposed to close itself after three minutes, but now it opens itself after it's closed for three minutes. Resetting it didn't work, so I get to waste more time on the telephone this morning.
The building department processed the water tank application, and yesterday I got a bill for $737 for the privilege of improving my property under their supervision. They must think money grows on trees.
Got the lines made up for the side shift on the flail mower yesterday at a local hydraulic shop. For some reason they don't stock the needed banjo fittings, but were able to cobble something together. No other surprises on the town run yesterday, and the Kubota dealer has another batch of steel pallets they'd like hauled off. I'll take care of that next week when I go into town for part two of the flu shot.
TGIF gang!
