Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

70°F and .01 inches rain


Randy, how was your 30 day eye checkup?

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

It was good, just went yesterday, vision is 20/20 and 20/40. Right eye had a lot of scarring from multiple laser surgery for bleeding some years ago. Ordered new glasses today but I can drive and read without them. Need help on really small print right eye distance vision.

How about you?

 

[sodamo]

Nice looking cart, Drew.

 

[sodamo]

Thinking about Don’s question.
Never attempted to quantify. If I delay mowing for too long then it takes significantly longer, hence more fuel. Kinda like now, I REALLY let it get too tall, too thick so very slow. Got to mow just over an hour this morning when it got too wet, meaning the cuttings weren’t being discharged.
Not only the fuel, but I do enjoy the task more when a reasonable height. Probably cause it takes less attention and my mind wanders. Then again, that sometimes gets expensive when I think up projects.

 

[Thomas]

Good luck at doctors today Thomas

Stay low and keep cool down there.

 

[Thomas]

Is anyone mowing less with their tractors now that the fuel cost have doubled?

Mowing lawn same but front side field not much because of soggy ground.

 

[sodamo]

It was good, just went yesterday, vision is 20/20 and 20/40. Right eye had a lot of scarring from multiple laser surgery for bleeding some years ago. Ordered new glasses today but I can drive and read without them. Need help on really small print right eye distance vision.

How about you?

That’s excellent, Randy
I go tomorrow. Not expecting as good as you, but as of now there is a difference between eyes with 1st surgery (right) being clearer than left. Be interesting what Dr says. I’m using some unknown strength readers for close and drive without.

 

[Alien]

Is anyone mowing less with their tractors now that the fuel cost have doubled?

Not yet but starting to think twice. Trouble is I enjoy mowing. AND it is easier and quicker to keep on top of it instead of letting it go too long because you tend to have to work the mower faster and go slower if it gets too long. Probably don't save any fuel by doing that in the long run.
It cost me $74 for half a tank of diesel in the Ranger yesterday. I used to cost that to fill it from empty.
$2.17 per litre at present and rising.

Some may remember I bought a disability scooter (well, two actually) before Christmas. I already have 340 klm on mine. My wife has over 100 klm on hers. They have been brilliant so far.

 

[Alien]

Just went out for a cuppa on the front porch. Beautiful morning. Not a breath of wind , no cloud. Sitting on the table was my new weather station.
I said to Lesly, " did you put that there?" she said no, it was there yesterday. Courier must have dropped it off when I was away shopping and I didn't notice it till today.
Guess I will get it set up today sometime. It will be great to see the temperatures etc without having to go outside.

 

[daugen]

dum dum dum dum
6 inches too long
however rear step clears front railing by almost six inches so maybe I just need to back it in.
Too hot out still, had to chase the droopers like RS (didn't I just water you?)

De-oxit'd the golf cart power cable and cleaned up the battery compartment. It has a distributed watering system I have to figure
out how to use. Looks like you dunk the siphon end into gallon of distilled water. Time to search youtube.

 

[daugen]

didn't take long to find out I was missing the hand squeeze bulb to pump the water into their system through naturally a proprietary connection for which they sell the bulb and proprietary fitting for 40 bucks. Might see if I can pry one out for free from dealer. I had my gallon of distilled water all ready and no way to get it into system. That took all of 30 seconds on youtube to figure out.
First owner has the pump on his garage shelf I bet.

what I want, and it involves a little fabbing perhaps is to motorize this process so I don't have to squeeze that hand bulb time after time. That's not good at all on arthritis.
But how about getting one of these cordless drill water pumps, chop all the alien connectors off, use something like hose clamps, and motorize it?
might overfill it; they are expecting you to feel a "firm bulb" and stop. My Makita drill would pump right past that...maybe set the torque release setting way low, let it slip a lot

https://www.amazon.com/Milescraft-1314-DrillPump750-Priming-Transfer/dp/B00F1ZJG5E/ref=sr_1_9?crid=18I9MGD5086ZL&keywords=small%2Bwater%2Btransfer%2Bpump&qid=1655329449&sprefix=small%2Bwater%2Btransfer%2Bpump%2Caps%2C60&sr=8-9&th=1

I've always enjoyed little plumbing projects like this. Reminds me of the pump system on my NC water wagon, what RS calls a buffalo. Not sure why but likely to learn.
And usually with water, if you screw up you can fix it.

filling six batteries is a pain; motivated to make this work.
Rube, meet Goldberg.

 

[txdon]

dum dum dum dum
6 inches too long
however rear step clears front railing by almost six inches so maybe I just need to back it in.
Too hot out still, had to chase the droopers like RS (didn't I just water you?)

De-oxit'd the golf cart power cable and cleaned up the battery compartment. It has a distributed watering system I have to figure
out how to use. Looks like you dunk the siphon end into gallon of distilled water. Time to search youtube.

I was going to suggest backing it in if the rear clears the rail. If it didn't maybe some boards on the floor of the trailer. just be sure during a sharp back-up turn the golf cart's rear bumper doesn't touch your vehicle.

As far as filling up the batteries the KIS method is a turkey baster.

 

[txdon]

80° for a low this morning, forecast to go to 96° today . . . . and then the forecast is for 99° to 100° every day for at least the next week. Power outages and water main outages (line breaks) making the news. Sure hope this heat wave doesn't last too long.

Me too Bird. I had to look up how long a heat wave last and found the definition to be at least 3 days of temps 90˚F of higher. With that definition I think this heat wave will last till mid September.

 

[Buppies]

You must be reading long range forecasts

 

[rswyan]

LWS reporting 98F with HI of 114F ...

More watering out front, got first row done.

Was just out back, started filling Water Buffalo. stopped it at around a little over half full.

Discovered a couple of small leaks at the far end of the hose which is how I remember it. Other than that it looks pretty tight, no leaks at the lid. Heading back to repair the hose if I can.

Woman came out and netted the largest blueberry plant to keep the birds off of it while I was doing that.

Wanted to know what fertilizer to use on the blueberries as She was heading back into the house. So I told Her what, and where, it was. Later came to the bedroom window and yelled down that She wasn't coming back out ... "decided it wasn't important" ...

Funny - after She ran out to pick up dinner earlier, She asked what the temperature was in the house cause She felt "cold".

Told it was 76F (thermostat is set to 73F and it can't quite keep up with the heat gain from the sun)

Then after we ate She said She was heading back outside to "warm up" (an overstatement if ever there was one) ... made some comment about it being 75F in the house.

Told her wasn't 75F in the house ... it was 76F.

"... NO !!!"



I'll take the fertilizer with me and hit the blueberries and maybe a couple of rhododendrons after I finish the repair on the hose.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Congrats on the cart Drew! Looks really good with the lift and tires! Enjoy!

Cut the day in the shop a little short.... the weather guessers LIED! I would have been happy with 90°.... but not 98°. Even the fan felt hot. I did get the first planter completed, added a 2x6 top rail to sit on. Just need to sand and put some exterior stain on it.

The planters are being made with old recycled lumber. The sides are cedar, the top rail is pine. Big difference in color. I don't want to stain the sides, only the top rail. we kinda want them to look "old".

I'll take pics tomorrow when I use the tractor to move it.... too heavy to carry it by hand.

Dinner was delicious. I doubled up on everything, so we will have another round for tomorrow's dinner. Figured if I had to cook out in the heat, I'll make it worth while.

I'm cooling off in the A/C now. Max let me know he needs to share a bowl of ice cream with me later. I swear this dog can tell time. He lets us know that it's 10 minutes before feeding time.... like clockwork... twice a day.

Everyone have a great evening!

 

[daugen]

friend's new GMC, small diesel, said he spent 17 hours putting a ceramic wax job on it. Whoa

welcome to the world of 70k trucks.
I told him no bug would dare to land on it...
I really like the lack of chrome but might pick a lighter color.
Inside very nice, heavily revised and finally doesn't look like it was made to hose out
which clearly some trucks need. Work trucks. Which this hardly is. It's a single guy's dream truck.

 

[Buppies]

Nice truck beautiful shine work well rewarded

 

[Thomas]

friend's new GMC, small diesel, said he spent 17 hours putting a ceramic wax job on it. Whoa

welcome to the world of 70k trucks.
I told him no bug would dare to land on it...
I really like the lack of chrome but might pick a lighter color.
Inside very nice, heavily revised and finally doesn't look like it was made to hose out
which clearly some trucks need. Work trucks. Which this hardly is. It's a single guy's dream truck.

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Too fancy for me I still have roll up windows.

 

[Thomas]

70F evening clouds.

Been good day...trimmer walk went better than expected,and doctor said healing for heart pacer looks great also gave me to drive again.

Watering gardens this evening Doe try to sneak upon me,quick squirt with the hose she walk away not please.
Time to head to deck chair with lemon popsicle and wait for critter company.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[daugen]

actually had to laugh at that pic, his parents will ask him to clean his mower/landscaping dirt off their driveway. He still lives at home and it works well for all of them. And that's why he can afford the very nice truck. Elevation model, not one I'd heard of. He was trained well, you could eat off the big block engines in his Father's Formula speed boat, F31 I think.
and his Father had the nicest baby blue TR4A in high school, with wire wheels. Wire wheels were very cool. Still are.
Always wondered if they might improve the ride, with just a tiny bit of flex.

Where's Eric where we can ask him?...hope he is doing ok holding down the moors of England.

still hot out
tomorrow morning will back golf cart onto trailer using oem small ramp which with lifted golf cart should be fine. Calculated six inch clearance, plenty.
The question is tongue weight. I think spec is max 375. 1000 pound golf cart, heavy part is over rear axle, and I'm about to put the rear axle at the very front of a single axle
trailer. Volvo not self leveling. If it sags, need to go to plan B, big aluminum ramps. This is what you usually don't worry about when you have a truck.