WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ?

[nikdfish]

Amateur radio aka "Ham" radio. I got my general license in January and am (mostly) using equipment I inherited from my dad when he passed nearly 20 years ago. It had been boxed up all that time.

Nick

 

[QRTRHRS]

Wife and I had a garage/yard sale. Not sure exactly what the temperature got to but the forcast was for 93. The breeze quit about 2 or 3pm then it got pretty sticky. We got rid of some "stuff" and made a few bucks. After packing up the outside items, I had to feed the horses and clean up around the barn (we let our spoiled horses hang in the barn during the heat of day if they please). In a few minutes we are going to hit the Jacuzzi for a much needed soak.

 

[SirReal63]

Awesome, out of all of the things I have got into in my 50 years, Ham Radio was never one of them. I know more about rocket science then Ham Radio. :laughing: how fantastic that you have your Dad's old gear, probably will last forever too. My Dad left me his Genes, a few pair of old Jeans and an Aunt Jean and his wisdom, which I cherish the most.

 

[Mace Canute]

Today I did a repair on a friend's Tecumseh carburetor. The engine it was on powered a garden tractor used for lawn mowing in the summer and snow blowing in the winter and over the course of a dozen years or so the throttle shaft wore out so I reamed the shaft hole slightly oversize to .250 and made a new throttle shaft from drill rod to replace the original one. (I like using drill rod for this because of the factory tolerance of +/- .0005 on diameter and surface finish of 15 RMS.) The owner couldn't source a replacement shaft (and he did ask the right people who would know where to go, if anyone did) but he could get a new carb for about $400.00. Yikes! :shocked:

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Made up some temporary jumpers and jumpered out a 4kv buss in a switchyard so the substation guys could change out a breaker, worked on a delta transformer bank due to a possible voltage problem, and the list just keeps going, some weeks it's live line transmission work others like today mostly distribution work, but it's all good.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I spent about 3 hours on the LX266 riding mower mowing the yard, the entry, the fire road, and the "North" trail. I also used the toro push mower for the tight spots.

There were just WAY TOO many dandelions...

When I finished that I did some bush hogging also.

I will do the weed-whacking later this week...

Be well,
David

 

[RCMEDIA]

Bought it last week does that count?

New Volvo L20 one sweet ride - this is my first ever "Oil-Cooled" engine not one drop of water in this machine!

 

[George2615]

Bought it last week does that count?

New Volvo L20 one sweet ride - this is my first ever "Oil-Cooled" engine not one drop of water in this machine!

Nice machine.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Pulled/pushed my old wheelhorse mower out of the shed, where it has been buried under junk for the last 10+ yrs. Got it in the barn and removed the non working engine. The engine seized up sometime around 1998. I had it rebuilt, but it stopped running again about a week later (I was never charged for the rebuild). Since I had a rear finish mower for my tractor, I never had it fixed again. Lately I have been looking at replacement engines, and thought I'd try to find a new engine that will work in it. I found one, but the hood might have to be modified to get it to fit.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Yesterday evening I need to clear some cobwebs from my mind so I used the FS90 with Brush Blade and worked on clearing sweet gums and "Virginia stink trees" from my gate area and the fire road. Piled them all into the back of my little snowplow truck and dumped them on the next burn pile. I managed to get a couple loads, and successfully cleared the cobwebs in the process.

Be well all,
David