OMG, already thinking of winter

[Industrial Toys]

Minus 26c windchill this afternoon. Changes my plans completely. Had a long list of outside tasks.

 

[LouNY]

I know a person around here who had the same thing happen. I don't understand it.

That particular issue is coming up more frequently it supposedly is spread by the Lone Star Tick which has been spreading;
Interesting article here;
Red Meat Allergies Caused By Tick Bites Are On The Rise : The Salt : NPR
Tick bites can cause all sorts of nasty afflictions. And if you're bitten by a Lone Star tick, here's one more to add to the list: a red meat allergy.

 

[Doofy]

That particular issue is coming up more frequently it supposedly is spread by the Lone Star Tick which has been spreading;
Interesting article here;
Red Meat Allergies Caused By Tick Bites Are On The Rise : The Salt : NPR
Tick bites can cause all sorts of nasty afflictions. And if you're bitten by a Lone Star tick, here's one more to add to the list: a red meat allergy.

That is disturbing. Life would be pretty dull without red meat.

 

[LouNY]

Yes it would, especially to me thats most of what I get paid in from the farm, prime Angus beef and some pork.

 

[Doofy]

Yes it would, especially to me thats most of what I get paid in from the farm, prime Angus beef and some pork.

With Global Warming, ticks are slowly making their way to Alaska. The brown recluse spider has made an appearance and I hope I never meet the Lone Star Tick.

 

[5030]

How about the 'tocks'?

 

[ArlyA]

This is how our street looked this afternoon.

 

[Doofy]

This is how our street looked this afternoon.

Sure glad I live in Alaska where we have hardly any snow. I hate that white devil!

 

[Ridge]

Well we have some warm days so I thought I would grease snowblower, had 1 fitting on subframe pointing at frame so I put a 45 degree fitting in place but on drive shaft ujoint next to gearbox has the plastic sleeve over it and I can't get that cover to slide back to access the fitting, is it a brute strength and yank back or another trick, had to walk away for abit

 

[LouNY]

Well we have some warm days so I thought I would grease snowblower, had 1 fitting on subframe pointing at frame so I put a 45 degree fitting in place but on drive shaft ujoint next to gearbox has the plastic sleeve over it and I can't get that cover to slide back to access the fitting, is it a brute strength and yank back or another trick, had to walk away for abit

I'm assuming the plastic sleeve is the pto shaft guard.
Some of those are designed to be disconnected and moved to lube the joint, some have to be rotated on the shaft to line up a hole to reach the fitting,
some you may need to disconnect the pto shaft from the tractor and swing the shaft all the way to one side or the other to access the grease fitting.

 

[Diggin It]

70 yesterday. Forecast for 70 today. Then 40s for next week with 30-ish overnight. Waiting the the winter galoshes to drop come late Jane and Feb.

 

[ArlyA]

We've been warm here but had enough base to keep things nice. Seems we've had 100" for the year.

 

[Diggin It]

Knew some guys in the late 70s that had been at K.I. Sawyer years earlier. The stories they told about the plows and the piles .......

 

[Thomas]

Been kinda lucky here so far bare ground 3" snow here and there and no snow storms in sight till January...now that's the winter I like.

 

[Ridge]

Wife went to use snowblower and she called me and said tractor beeps and keeps shutting off, took abit but finnally figured out it's the seat switch, she has to move seat around to get weight in right spot in order for it to work but even turning around takes weight off turning tractor off, any ideas to make it less sensitive?

 

[ovrszd]

Wife went to use snowblower and she called me and said tractor beeps and keeps shutting off, took abit but finnally figured out it's the seat switch, she has to move seat around to get weight in right spot in order for it to work but even turning around takes weight off turning tractor off, any ideas to make it less sensitive?

Bypass it.

 

[Ridge]

I thought about putting a switch that could bypass it but wife doesn't like that idea but if I can't find a solution i might

 

[ovrszd]

I'm not a fan of seat switches. Maybe if you had kids running it? But then, they would suffer with the problem of it periodically shutting off too.

 

[shooterdon]

Wife went to use snowblower and she called me and said tractor beeps and keeps shutting off, took abit but finnally figured out it's the seat switch, she has to move seat around to get weight in right spot in order for it to work but even turning around takes weight off turning tractor off, any ideas to make it less sensitive?

40-50 lbs of lead is not very large. Make up two (one will be hard to lift) "cushions" with lead birdshot sown in and a soft layer of foam on the top cushion. Easy to take on and off and will raise the seat less than an inch. One may be enough...try and adjust if needed.

Depending on your seat design, adding lead ingots to the edge would work too and do not change ergonomics. BTW, I use lead as a counter weight on my ballast box.

 

[Avenger]

Bypassing the seat switch was one of the very first things I did on my tractor. I am 5'9" 230lbs, and I still set it off when turning around in my seat, or bouncing around in rough terrain. That switch lasted about 10hrs!