Good morning!!!!

[WinterDeere]

I have a JD Front Mower. Having too have both hands on the controls all the time. Was what led me to purchase a front mower. Be prepared for the shock when you get the price for one.

Cost is one thing, but the bigger obstacle is admitting I'm not 25 years old, anymore.

That said, I am cheap. I just rebuilt the whole top end on the engine on my current ZTR last summer, and stripped and repainted the deck the year before. I want to get every last penny out of this machine, before I ever think about replacing it. I can afford a new mower, but I hate wasting money.

 

[WinterDeere]

I would not miss checking out Cub Cadet commercial. Their high end stuff is impressive...

I have very fond memories of my 1960's Cub Cadet 123, which I kept up until about 2015. The rear diff on that little 12 hp garden tractor looked like it came from a dump truck. Stout little machine!

 

[ronjhall]

Cost is one thing, but the bigger obstacle is admitting I'm not 25 years old, anymore.

That said, I am cheap. I just rebuilt the whole top end on the engine on my current ZTR last summer, and stripped and repainted the deck the year before. I want to get every last penny out of this machine, before I ever think about replacing it. I can afford a new mower, but I hate wasting money.

Bought my JD diesel mower 23 years ago. Still running very good after all the years.

 

[ArlyA]

Good morning TBN folks! It been drizzling here at 38 this am and a predicted high of 42 today. Dearest worked until 7 last night so I had the 3 mutts out for a walk during the day, plus the neighbors dog in wonderful temps. Was pretty nice here yesterday without much wind and I got more work done to the trailer floor and the rest of the floor screws showed up. As stated earlier we are getting ready to be at camp Friday evening. It will be a trip out in the dark.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

No jury duty, so will meet Drew at 11 for lunch, after my 9:00 breakfast meeting. Will eat light breakfast. Lol
Better get moving.

 

[Looking4new]

God morning, the low is 23 and going up to 37°F. Wind E 6 mph. Mainly cloudy.

There is nothing in particular I will be doing today. Maybe go back to bed for a power nap.

Scott, maybe next spring you could widen the gate?

Drew, I use empty one gallon windshield washer bottles. They have a lid so the stink stays in the bottle. My P NEVER lands on the ground when I am in a foreign state or province. A MI SP caught me doing that on the side of I-75 and asked if I was going to throw the bottle out on the side of his highway. I told him no way, that it was going back into Canada and I would deposit it in the urinal and rinse out the bottle and put the rinseings in the urinal, too. Cap the bottle and save it for the next time I couldn't make 'it' to a truck stop. His only remark was , "See to it that you do".

I got caught outside Kenora, ON doing something worse but on the same idea in between the drive axles on my cab-over by the OPP. The cop asked me if I couldn't wait until I was in Kenora. I told him there was no waiting on that one. He asked what did I eat and where I ate it. I told him chicken at the Chicken Palace in Souix Lookout, ON. He asked what are you never going to eat in SL again. I told him my shadow would NEVER darken the door of the Chicken Palace again. [That was in 1990.] You ONLY get one chance to poison me. He laughed and told me to try and have a better day and to carry on. Cool cop.

You guys try and have a better day and stay safe

That might be easier on your shoulders than the leaf blower. I'm suffering from something torn in my left shoulder now, which gets extremely agrivated after spending a day blowing leaves wih my similar rig. I was out mowing and blowing yesterday, and could barely move my left arm last night, without a pinching pain in my shoulder.

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It's the reversing that does it. Forward is easy, but working a line of leaves, you spend as much or more time in reverse, as forward. Maybe it's time to think about getting one of those zero turns with a steering wheel, that I've made fun of in the past.

Country Clipper XLT C-310 has a z-turn with a tiller steering, mine is on the right as I am right handed. They are 100% U.S. made too.
It will cut as low as 1.5" and as high as 5" in 1/4 inch segments. They are built in Croyden, IA

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
30° with a high overcast, might see some peeks of sun as it makes its way to the middle 40’s today.

Yesterday started in the shop, scratching my head about how to add an “anti-scalp” wheel or wheels to my blower platform. First thought was to use the wheels that are removed from the mower to mount it, but there was no good way to repurpose them, and they need to back on when it’s removed.

Moved on to the next project as I stewed about how to proceed. Made a stop at the local mower shop to see what they had in th sway of rollers, nothing useful there. So I made my own out of a piece of Delrin Rod.
Sketched some mounts in AutoCad Fusion, and cut them out on the plasma table. Got it all welded together.

Here’s what the tool paths look Ike after sending the G code to the laptop that drives the cutter.

And the finished product

Adding the roller was a great idea, Thank you @engineer 42.

I was also able to get to the hangar and put the last of the little plane back together, actually that was before making the roller modification.
Met some friends for lunch between the airport and getting back to the shop, making it an efficient trip.

I got a coat of rustoleum brushed on after dinner, it briefly interrupted my feet up in front of the fire time.

Be curious to see what fills today up.

 

[Engineer42]

Good Morning
30° with a high overcast, might see some peeks of sun as it makes its way to the middle 40’s today.

Yesterday started in the shop, scratching my head about how to add an “anti-scalp” wheel or wheels to my blower platform. First thought was to use the wheels that are removed from the mower to mount it, but there was no good way to repurpose them, and they need to back on when it’s removed.

Moved on to the next project as I stewed about how to proceed. Made a stop at the local mower shop to see what they had in th sway of rollers, nothing useful there. So I made my own out of a piece of Delrin Rod.
Sketched some mounts in AutoCad Fusion, and cut them out on the plasma table. Got it all welded together.

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Here’s what the tool paths look Ike after sending the G code to the laptop that drives the cutter.
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And the finished product
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Adding the roller was a great idea, Thank you @engineer 42.

I was also able to get to the hangar and put the last of the little plane back together, actually that was before making the roller modification.
Met some friends for lunch between the airport and getting back to the shop, making it an efficient trip.

I got a coat of rustoleum brushed on after dinner, it briefly interrupted my feet up in front of the fire time.

Be curious to see what fills today up.

Looks good. How wide did you make the roller, 4"?

 

[Looking4new]

Ron, is this one of your squirrels?

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 30 going to 50 and cloudy.
Did get a haircut, but day job took the rest of the daylight and some of the night.

Popgadet, nice roller setup.

Thats about all,

Be well,