Good morning!!!!

[m7040]

Yes the scars of war runs deep Jay. Wife's father suffered for many years and spilled over into my wife's life during her childhood. She remembers him set up gun positions in the basement and going nuts if sitting in movie theater under balcony. I married her young and it was good to get her out of this. In those days there was no mental treatments available

 

[m7040]

Forgot to attach pictures this morning. One is the breakfast sandwich earlier today and one is the flowering

trees outside the back of the house.

 

[rswyan]

84F and "Fair" @ 14:00, HI 87F, heading up to around 87F actual for the high today supposedly.

Woman turned on AC "to keep you cool" while I slept, seems pleasant here inside ... not sure what it's like outside though.

She got the east planting bed all watered this morning, said it went better ... after She figured out that She needed to open the vent valve to let air in ...

Did make it up to the shop last night and got some work done.

Blade sharpener came packed pretty well:

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Included two copies of the set of instructions, printed on glossy paper with color photos. Suspect that those are a word-for-word duplicate of All American's instructions given the non-butchered English. Mixed thoughts and feelings about that.

Relatively easy to set up, and made short work of sharpening the original set of blades off the Cub Cadet - took maybe 15 minutes total to do all three blades ... but then they were in pretty decent shape ... :

The edges are not perfect yet, as I tried to remove as little material as possible. Will take a few sharpenings to get them completely cleaned up.

The jig does have a detent every 5 degrees for each major angle.

The angle settings for Cub blades vs. the Kubota MMM are significantly different, likely due to the design/shape of the blade.

Had the jig clamped in the vise, will need to figure out a different mounting for the permanent set up as that is a little high ... particularly with the Kubota blades as they are much longer:

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Kubota blades were in much worse shape ... to the point it's going to require a good bit of work with the snagging wheel to get them cleaned up:

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Overall, pretty happy with the purchase, seems like a good value for the money.

Comparison of one of the original Cub blades that I just sharpened last night and one I took off the other day with the unusual wear pattern:

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Just went over that with The Woman, She said "Don't even waste your time trying to sharpen them ... just get a new set ..."



Not sure what I'll get up to for the rest of the day ... but it will probably involve shade wherever possible and some watering of plants.

Need to take garbage up to road (they always run a day behind when there is a holiday)

Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday ...

 

[daugen]

that breakfast sandwich looks like a feast.

successful trip to dentist, no surprises.
now changing clothes and heading outside to move the ferns.
it's time for more action and less talk...

fiberglass repair kit did not come, might put one more layer of the first stuff on.
It's getting more level

I'm getting blade envy looking at RS's contraption

 

[rswyan]

Just talked to the mower shop.

Blades are $27 each, but they only had 2 in stock.

He set those aside for me and ordered the 3rd one ... should be in on Monday ...

 

[Joel/ak]

Mid 80's pushing 90. No rain in sight. Killing the farmers. Local VFD do not get paid enough. Twice today, they rolled out past my house. Last one was 3/4 acre field fire just down the road. Tinderbox by us

 

[m7040]

That blade sharpener looks much like mine

 

[m7040]

The stapler came in today
This is a serious tool

 

[Mark P.]

Good Afternoon - currently 73°

Been nice today -- rain guage had 2 inches in it from the last 3 days..

M7040 -- what type of flowering tree is that? It is a pretty tree.. Looks close to house..

Mark

 

[m7040]

Good Afternoon - currently 73°

Been nice today -- rain guage had 2 inches in it from the last 3 days..

M7040 -- what type of flowering tree is that? It is a pretty tree.. Looks close to house..

Mark

I think it a native dogwood growing behind a wood fence close to the utility shed. Between that is driveway and patio leading into the kitchen. They have been there for many years and don’t think they will get much bigger

 

[Looking4new]

Well, Ontario has a lot of “somewhere” that some can be, amirite?

1.076 million square kilometres I think translates to 415,600 square miles. If you started off at the Ontario/Quebec border and ran log book legal it would take you a day and a half to get to the Ontario/Manitoba border. Ontario is way bigger than Texas and almost as big as Alaska.

 

[daugen]

chocolate brownies/muffins I made were inventive.
too inventive.
aka inedible.
a culinary failure
way too dry and with an off taste to me.

will be feeding them to the birds over time.
I think I've made my own very fancy bird treats.
will buy store made dessert tomorrow for school board meeting tomorrow night.
having a little surprise party for outgoing head of school board.

at least the house smells nice.
I'm sticking with fruit muffins next time.

my Alemite grease gun just came in, looks nice with padded handle
trailer hubs will get greased tomorrow.
and soap foam cannon came in, with two different Chemical Guys mixtures, candy smell for wash and grape smell
for wash and wax. That seemed a little odd to me...
will be firing that up tomorrow on car.
The rv was clean but doesn't take long sitting out in the pollen to change that.

 

[m7040]

1.076 million square kilometres I think translates to 415,600 square miles. If you started off at the Ontario/Quebec border and ran log book legal it would take you a day and a half to get to the Ontario/Manitoba border. Ontario is way bigger than Texas and almost as big as Alaska.

Nunanut is the largest province in Canada by area. Ontario is largest by population. Quebec is larger that Ontario by area. Quebec is about twice the size of Texas. When I worked in Quebec friends took us up North to their vacation cabin and it was a long long way up there

 

[Thomas]

76F clear skylight breeze.

Work day was blur,afternoon cut clean up 2 spruces which die,now 5 stumps to remove when ground dries.

99% chance I'll set on the deck enjoy smooth cigar while waiting for critter and stars.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I was digging through a folder of user manuals for tools the other day and came across one for a Stihl 032 chainsaw. I no longer have it, so if anyone wants it, I'd be happy to mail it to you. Or you could download one from the Stihl website, but if you're like me, there's nothing better than having a book in your hands.

 

[jbrumberg]

Drew- "too inventive.aka inedible.a culinary failureway too dry and with an off taste to me.will be feeding them to the birds over time."

BTDT. I/We have/had a couple of Chef friends and they all would say- "One is only as good as one's last meal."

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 10C and it's presently 16.9C, very overcast with gusting wind... my mobile phone is constantly 'pinging' with wind/weather warnings. I've taken my flagpole down.

Of course, the damaged wattle tree remains until these hazardous conditions abate.

It's 'into town' day for mail/groceries. We'll see what happens for the arvo.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Speaking of dash cams, I hope mine captured leaving town this morning I had a lady blow thru a stop sign right in front of me. Had to slam on brakes and just missed her. Then just a few minutes after, 3 lights down I was in right of 3 straight thru lanes when person failed to stop at red light and I locked them up again, somehow missing him and was able to hit a clear spot in the next lane.
Almost went back home, but made it to the farm.
Got bolts tightened up

Even had dad holding wrench on other side

I took my impact, but his coupler wouldn’t hold on mine, so I had to hold the hose against it as I used the impact.
But lots of grease under there. I tried to wipe it off and put on blue loctite. Nuts just have round washers under them, no lock washers.
After tightening them up, I ran into TSC and bought 4 new nuts and tightened them against the bottom ones. Also put loctite on them.
But flipping the mower back over, the pto shaft caught on a loader hydraulic line and was hanging from it. I had to unscrew the hose from the cylinder to get it off. Will need a new hose. I put it on, but I don’t trust it at all.
I brought my mobile internet and put a Roku on his TV. Showed him YouTube flail mower videos, trying to sell him on buying one.

Not too hot with dual fan in window.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Since the twitter files, Elon is a marked man. All I will say.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Some localized flooding no loss of life, I81 a different matter four killed this morning at mile post 120.3

I don’t like that section of I81.