Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 35 and climbing into the 50’s as the day goes on. A gray and wet day though.

Yesterday didn’t get much done, moved hay and filled grain bins, some shop time and an Oddfellows meeting.

Today is a quick trip to Newport News and a visit to the TSA for fingerprints. Not sure why I have to do it again.

 

[daugen]

Nice memory Ron

We all need to make some more...

my young friend who bought the slightly used LX3310 Kubota, is bemoaning both the fact the model is now superceded and new one has
more goodies, and that it hasn't snowed at all. Bought this tractor to clear snow at business. Got tired of beating up his truck. So tractor is likely waxed more than used
at the moment. So he's waiting for snow. After adding more LED lights to tractor. Got his push blade in finally; like a box blade out front; in their application all the snow goes across the road into an empty field. Otherwise he'd have to bucket it out. Pretty sure he'll have it so when big bay doors are open he can go/push straight out. And at my nudging he got a plastic wear strip for bottom. I tried to get him to go talk to Popgadget who knows all about dealing with snow and Kubotas, but he figured he knew how. Ok. He is quite
capable and takes excellent care of equipment. He got that from his Dad, my lifelong friend. And he has pushed snow before. So he should do fine.
His tractor is genuine overkill; could have used a big snowblower but he and his dad love machinery and living in suburbia, very nice quiet treed neighborhood, but no use for tractor.
Now they have a use. Son bought new GMC, all blacked out, not my cup of tea but clearly a very nice truck with ecodiesel in it. He drives to the shore fairly often to video boats in inlets for his youtube channel. Truck gets 30mpg on big highway headed to ocean. So he doesn't want to mess it up with a snow plow. That might interfere with room for his train horns.

I have been this young man's mentor and friend for a long time. His train horn was my baby moons.
I had a set of Buell air horns on my Bertram. Great fun to use. Scared anyone who wasn't forewarned on boat.
3 big metal trumpets. They made them with up to 5 horns. A man could dream...

fly safely Popgadget. Bet there's a few ships with big horns in Newport News... and big guns too.

 

[pennwalk]

About Chainsaws, I got the Milwaukee because I use their power tools. I have 4,5 and 8 amp hour batteries. The 8 will last until I need to take a break. If I try to buck a big log in the summer the battery will sometimes shut down because it gets too hot. It uses Oregon chains so you can get them fairly cheap. If I was going to do a lot of work I would grab the Stihl.

Chris

 

[daugen]

Chris is your 8ah Milwaukee battery oem or aftermarket?
I went aftermarket to get a 9ah Makita clone battery (Waitley) and it has worked wonderfully.
yes, it will wear me out, not other way around

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 43F @ 5:15AM.
Partly cloudy skies. High 58F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Rain started again yesterday at 9AM, and continued on and off until late last night. Nearly 1.3" in gauge. Made a couple trips in the side-by-side up to the gate and new gravel seems to be holding up well with no new ruts in it.

FWIW, the Project Farm guy also has videos on the best chainsaw chain, and the best chain sharpeners, too. I get a kick out of some of his test rigs, but his voice and rapid fire delivery style are one of those a-little-bit-goes-a-long-way deals. If only he could hire Mike Row.

Did some Christmas shopping online yesterday, then started looking at the current offerings of lithium batteries for the motorcycles. Found some nice new features, like terminals at each corner of the battery so it can be used in any bike, and a reserve capacity that can be switched on to start the bike if something gets left on accidently or it sits too long. But crazy expensive, and limited supply, and most makers recommend their proprietary chargers, which aren't cheap, either.

Made another bracket on the red bike, this one for the new ignition control module. Also made up a new pair of spark plug leads.

With everything so wet, it would be a good day to work on a burn pile. But it might be too muddy to use the tractor. If it is, I'll take a dead tree or two down up at the cul-de-sac. Not sure what the rest of the day will bring.

 

[txdon]

Buckeye, congrats on retirement. Retirement was a good thing for me. Try to retire as young as you can. Enjoy the things you want to do during retirement while you are younger and in good health.
One of the things I did was travel with my wife in our Motorhome. Got to meet other TBN’ers. Got a event memory from FB yesterday. It was when Txdon, Mike and I tested grapples on different tractors.

Link to the grapple thread:

Texas Grapple Shootout

I'm trying to figure out which type of grapple will best fit my needs. To the rescue Mikim from central Texas and Ronjhall, from Michigan get together for a "Test the grapples day": Bucket style grapple Vs. Rake style grapple The Bucket style grapple is on the left and the rake style grapple...

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 32 and heading to 34°F. Wind E 6 mph. Snow mixed with rain today, tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night.

Maybe I wont go to Richmond Hill on Thursday. It might have to wait until the following Monday. I don't go anywhere near Toronto on Fridays if I can possibly avoid it.
The inch we got yesterday isn't enough to bother to plow. If we get the 2" they are promising then I will need to plow on Wednesday.

Not much on my agenda for today, wood stove is already pumping out the heat. Did that first before I got on here.

Have a safe day all

 

[m7040]

I still have the old MF203 tractor now mounted with Danuser posthole digger. Don't use it often but it is hooked up to battery minder and works good. 50 hp Perkins engine and smokes a lot on startup and then settles down to a nice rumble. Brakes don't work too good so have to b

e ready to lower the loader to brake it.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 67˚F heading to the mid 70s with a South wind and partly cloudy, a warm December day. House AC is Back on.

Yes Ron, good memories.

I would get the
EGO chain saw since all my lawn equipment is EGO and I have operated one that was used on the trails. My gas chainsaw did not start last time we worked on the trails and I was demoted from a cutter to a hauler, so maybe I need a Christmas present. Or I need to work on the gas saw, blah.

Extra shifts are available at the "farm" working the weekend nighttime "Adult Ornament Hunt". It's after my regular shift but what it entails is a mystery. I'll have to find out if it's on the Fun spectrum or the Work spectrum.

But today I need seat time on the garden's JD and do a few things there.

 

[daugen]

thanks Don. A classic Jim: Just the ramblings of an old man with no hair. . . who has no need for shampoo, a comb, or brush.:

hiding in office until cleaning lady is done, starting to drizzle outside, no escape there.
took some oranges over to next door neighbor; they have covid so I ran the bell and left. They knew I was coming.