Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Lou, on Father's Day, take home the kewpie doll for your wife
2016 Chevy SS aka Holden. They had one in a beautiful green with a stick

just finished washing the car and drying it off wore me out, getting warm out there but still nice.
picked my first cuke today, could have given it another day but these aren't supposed to get big.

 

[daugen]

Frits, this is your day

 

[scott_vt]

Good Late Morning,
Ct,54 to start going to upper 70's. Last cool dsay before the real heat starts coming in !

TBS, welcome back, was just about ready to put a call out, but it looks like your back !

Plowhog, welcome Rigby ! What a beautiful young pup ! Best of luck with your new addition!

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there, enjoy your day !

Got the grass cut yesterday and even put the Model A out on the front lawn. Church service was good this morning, but not many people at the early service !

Drew, thanks for the car pics, looked like a good time !

Dennis, that looks like a lot of mowing my friend ! Make sure you hydrate !

Hope all have a great day !

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
56° when I woke up, 74 now and a high in the low 80’s predicted. Sunny and dry.

Yesterday, I got the aluminum condenser mounts made for my buddy, he helped. We put a non ferrous carbide blade in the miter saw and made all the cuts with that.
I realized a shortcoming in my ground cables from when I moved the welding table to make room for the plasma table. A quick trip to TSC for some cable and lugs remedied that.
We were able to clamp the parts to the welding table and keep them flat and square for welding.

It was a lot of TIG welding, but I don’t have an aluminum setup for my MIG welder. Other than being slower, it worked out fine.

I got all the mowing done except for the pastures, and then goofed off for the rest of the day.

Today started with oldest son and his family taking me out to breakfast along with his sister who is still here convalescing.

After breakfast a buddy brought over a chicken ladder, and we got the facia reattached that the wind remodeled.

Got oldest son’s chainsaw started for him to clean up a tree that the same wind brought down.

Youngest son is bringing Mission BBQ for lunch later on.

 

[rswyan]

Happy Father's Day !

80F here with lots of blue sky and sun @ 11:30, heading up to around 87F for the day's high.

Got meds doled out first thing yesterday.

Then got cleaned up and headed over to friend's to deliver his loader bucket and 3 tomato plants. My 15" crescent wrench was not big enough for the gland nut on the hydraulic cylinders on his loader - he'll have to use a pipe wrench.

Picked up the 5 cattle panels and some of the shorter metal posts and poles.

Cattle panels were a PITA to load due to being a little bent up and still having some wire on them. They sure came off a lot easier than they went on ...

A couple need a little straightening here and there but still plenty serviceable. Very little rust on any of them.

Woman worked on weeding the flower bed while I was over dropping off and picking up.

After getting the panels unloaded once I got home, I decided to use the shade on the east side of the garage to get some more seeds planted in pots.

Mixed up some potting mix and planted the following:

5 Yellow Straighneck Summer Squash seeds

5 Zucchini Summer Squash seeds

5 Straight 8 Cucumber seeds

12 Dwarf Long Pod Okra seeds

Next up will be to get some winter squash started.

Once I had those labelled, I loaded them in the dump cart and took them around back and put them up on the shelves.

Stopped along the way to put out some seed for the ground feeders.

Ended up forgetting to water the seeds I had planted before I moved onto the next task of getting more cabbage and broccoli planted. Thankfully, The Woman came out later and got it done.

Worked most of the evening digging out holes and getting cabbage and broccoli planted and watered in.

The count is now up to 27 broccoli and 28 cabbage in the ground:

There less than 10 total left to go, will get those done at some point today ... probably when the area is in shade.

While I was doing that The Woman came out and got the seeds and the rest of the plants on the shelves watered as I mentioned, then we got the 2nd soaker hose unrolled and placed on the row of indeterminate tomatoes on the vertical trellis (pictured above)

We hadn't been using much water in house, so we did a little experiment and ran the soaker hose for 10 minutes ... then for another 5 minutes ... and again for another 10. Still had pressure ... so figure we can probably run it for 30 minutes at a shot if we haven't been using much water in the house.

After I finished planting I took the Kubota and loaded up all the t posts in the bucket and took them up to the shop so I can work on them in the AC when it gets hot in the next few days.

After that I ran the box blade over the driveway to smooth it up and fill in some pot holes.

Then called it a day and came on inside as it had really cooled off and was starting to get dark.

Placed an order for some bamboo stakes on Amazon to stake up the pepper plants.

As far as today's agenda goes:

Water plants/seeds on shelves.

(Re)water cabbage and broccoli that was recently planted.

Maybe mow the east side down here around the house which I never got to on this last round of mowing.

It's been a while since we've had any appreciable rain so the grass has really slowed down.

Maybe head over and pick up the rest of the fencing from friend depending on what he has going on.

See about getting some winter squash seeds planted in pots.

Get the rest of the cabbage and broccoli planted.

Plus whatever comes up.

Hope everyone is having a great Father's Day ...

 

[daugen]

Ron, this is worrisomely close to you...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/15/us/rochester-hills-michigan-splash-pad-shooting/index.html

looking good RS, you need to work on your roadside stand.

Fine welding Popgadget. That gutter ripping gust also blew over three of my outdoor flower pots.

 

[sodamo]

Happy Fathers Day
69°F and .46 inches rain

Great to be home. Just need to catch up with everything both here at home and TBN. As expected our sitters did a bang up job.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[Looking4new]

The compost pile will NOT get turned today. Not windy enough to blow the bugs away. Mostly the deer flies and mosquitoes.
Today is the last day I have to wear the heart monitor. The people that supplied it called on Friday and told me how to get it back to them, all prepaid. Good riddance! I will send it back with both batteries charged up.

The Shasta Dam video was impressive, especially liked the background music. But then again I am a 'big band' lover.

 

[Looking4new]

David, I am 1791 S miles north of you and only 1° cooler.

 

[daugen]

Bill, wonderful you can send it back. I've done the portable and the implanted one.
Still have a nice scar from that implant.

headed out to find the pump and oil reservoir for the rv hydraulic stabilizers.
hard to believe I haven't seen it yet, they must have buried it.
First guess will be battery compartment which I don't need to visit often
second guess is underneath main stairs, though I'm sure I've checked that
often, one of those steps is a cover over a compartment.

watched the youtube video on this model's pump leaks. It's full of o-rings that could leak.
makes me wonder if I just ran low on fluid. Have never seen a leak anywhere below rv and I would notice.

what is annoying is this company has built a product that is not easily repairable. I watched another video on it and the first
thing they are saying to do is swap out parts. What a racket...
It's a hydraulic cylinder and no overhaul kit, if it breaks you just chuck it out?

sounds like a cheap fire extinguisher. Use it once and throw it out...
this system retails for 3500 bucks plus install.
no one is going to get any great engineering awards for this one

however, in the defense of the manufacturer, perhaps unwarranted, maybe one of the prior owners overextended the cylinder on a hill, or
abused it in some way. I sure haven't, though I have put it in overextend alarm mode where it says it can't go any further.
ok, just don't get a mechanical heart attack doing it. But if your Kubota's front end loader that you owned since new broke
in five years and 500 hours, that sure would be a surprise on a tractor. Not on an rv.... born to break.

 

[Thomas]

71F clear sky nice breeze.

Remove 1 good size stump other stump will have to wait until ground dries up lot came close getting stuck gave Kubota much needed bubble bath afterwards.
Plans for the evening little as possible.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

86° my arse...... 95° out now and it hasn't even gotten to the hottest time of the day!

No go on the mowing. I'll hit it first in the morning.

Drip irrigation on the last 3 zones. Should finish around 18:00.

Wifey and I sat on the front porch and discussed the landscaping project for the area on the side of the garage out to the street. We basically are growing all the trees and shrubs already, they should be ready by next spring.

She wants "more of a curve" in the driveway in that area, so will probably at least do that part this year. Also discussed what materials to use to border that area of the drive. Natural rock/boulders, RR ties, decorative block, or timbers. Preliminary decision is timbers..... of course subject to change 3 times.....

Going to make Philly steak sandwiches and fries for dinner, haven't had any for a while.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening Thomas,

Remove 1 good size stump other stump will have to wait until ground dries up lot came close getting stuck gave Kubota much needed bubble bath afterwards.

Good work on the stump removal ! I dont wash the old Massey but I do blow off the dust after bush hogging with my electric blower in the barn and then will take an old towel and wipe down the hood and fenders ! Dont want to ruin that patina !

Hope all had a wonderful fathers day !

 

[ronjhall]

Drew, the shooting happened about 25 miles NE of me. I have no idea what could make a person do these kinds of things.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

You might enjoy watching the taming of the Black Canyon that turned into the Hoover dam. My old company Bechtel changed from being a local San Fransisco construction company into a major engineering construction company

Were you down this way for the STP project?

Kyle, you have been busy. Do you have a summer class too?

Everyone have a great day!

LS, your place looks beautiful, like an oasis in the desert. I'm not faculty, however a few times each semester I do get a chance to lecture some classes on some of the equipment we teach with, mainly for safety and to show off each machine's abilities.

One of my former student helper/trainees is moving to my hometown to work in a Caterpillar factory as a manufacturing engineer. I told him where the best burgers are for the price, and he says they've already been there.

Having a "kick back" day. Need the rest. Had to swap and migrate 3 tires on the SUV, getting the spare disconnected was the worst. I had to lay out cardboard, go prone, lift up the heavy truck tire and figure out the disconnect from the lowering cable. They now have a kind of a button to push to unhook the "bell" from the cable, to turn the bell sideways and get it out. You have to have enough slack in the lowering cable to get it unhooked.

We went to 2 church services. Wifey was actually comforted that I dragged her to the 2nd church, since some friends' daughter was having a fish fry graduation party after church in the fellowship hall. Yummy catfish and crazy good desserts. The strawberry cake was primo.

There, I have used both desert and dessert in my post today, Ha! I hope I got the spellings correct for you English language teachers.

Wifey is getting prepared for teaching summer vacation bible school tomorrow.

Scott, you wouldn't want to wash that great patina off the old girl.

Billy, more Della pics please?

Popgadget, I'm starting to believe you have 36 hours in a day....tig welds look better than mine by far.
I'm wanting to get a small spool of hard facing wire, to run a couple of beads on my lawnmower blades, then sharpen them. A friend is telling me it works wonders for staying sharp longer. He shoots for 60 Rockwell finished. my research says a limit of 4 layers of hard facing max. I know TXDon had a pile of blades from his zero turn that were good blades initially, but his sandy land blasted them dull.

The lone Peahen gets vocal when she gets left behind by the 2 chickens. Right now, the 6 month old ducks are my best bug eaters, but the mallard is eating too many katydids, of which we have a huge population explosion of. Daughter has had to massage the mallard's gullet, to get the bulge to go down. My drive is stone, so they have plenty of gizzard stone available. Katydids are everywhere and loud most of the day. They used to be kind of rare, and make great fishing bait.

PJS, glad to see you're still here every so often.

Anyone have any recommendations on any series on Netflix? We just re- signed up again after being off for the last half year or so.

David, glad your babysitters took good care of your place/pups. Hope you make headway on the relationship with your son/DIL/grandaughter. and your grass cutting equipment.

L4N, glad your sending back the heart monitor, hope everything is ticking like a good watch.

Prayers for our team.

 

[PJSprog]

86°F and sunny this evening. Got up to 96° here today. I think the influx of clouds in the early afternoon shielded us from reaching the triple digits. Looks like more 90s all week through Saturday. We'll be doing a lot of watering here as well.

Got out early enough to get the pasture mowed this morning before it got too hot. Been a couple of weeks because of rain, so it was thick and tall, and slow going. Took me about 2-1/2 hours to mow 1-1/4 acre. But, it's done.

Took a trip to Tractor Supply in Carlyle this evening to pick up chicken feed. No one there. Parking lot was empty, and I had the store to myself. First time I've ever experienced that. May have to start going on Sunday evenings all the time.

PJS, glad to see you're still here every so often.

Thanks, Kyle. It's hard to not come here, but I have less time available these days. This thread is still my favorite place on the internet. You guys are like friends I've never met.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Monday) morning. Overnight Low of 5.4C and it's presently 12.8C, fairly clear and the wind has abated to a steady breeze. Wind chill yesterday meant that the house was 'locked up', unless I went outside for a pipe or Penelope the Pussybeast wanted 'out'.

I can hear the 'pounding surf' from the coast, easily 8-9km away from me. It sorta sounds like the 'dull roar' from a far away major highway.

The only scheduled thing for today is a Parish Council meeting @ 1645.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

LS, that's the Ohio Farm.
Bad news is the tractor appears to be loosing Hydraulic Fluid, just don't know where. It's down about 2" from the full mark, i have to check in the fill hole. but I never got it full, so don't know how fast it's leaking. When he blew the rotary mower gear box (due to not using proper shear bolt) he might have done more damage. maybe leaking at PTO seal, not sure. nothing apparent.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thanks, Kyle. It's hard to not come here, but I have less time available these days. This thread is still my favorite place on the internet. You guys are like friends I've never met.

That's what keeps me around.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

headed out to find the pump and oil reservoir for the rv hydraulic stabilizers.
hard to believe I haven't seen it yet, they must have buried it.

They say they like to put in between the frame, underneath, so probably have to crawl under to see it.