Good morning!!!!

farmer2009 · Nov 23, 2014

daugen said:
Chance of snow 90%. 1 to 3 inches of snow expected. That's for VA West of DC but not in the mountains for Wed night. I think if I leave early enough on Wed morning I'll be fine. Funny to think of VA as the snowy North... 59 balmy degrees here, calm between waves of this rain system coming through. More tonight for sure. We need it so fine, just no storms with it. One nice gentle rain please. Well now, it seems that a little raindrop with a ten gallon hat on it just went by, so I bet Texas really did send us this water. quiet afternoon watching a movie, now back to paying bills. whole lot of propane just delivered at 2.06 per gallon. How does that compare to any of you? New gas company; just curious. goes up and down anyway...

Good to see you getting rain. Steady slow rain here also. Times of heavy showers. 56 @16:25. Paid 1.45a gallon for propane about 5 weeks ago. Really believe we could see a repeat of last year. But I hope not. Nobody I've talked to acts like anyone made any changes to eleminate or minimize the risk. (At supplier levels and above).

Buppies · Nov 23, 2014

Haven't gotton our fill of propane for the season yet still using what we got last spring so no help,
Think forecast by national weather service will change dramatically in the coming days, they still use American model which is flawed vs the European, think by Tuesday amounts will increase dramatically making 81 and 66 very difficult to travel 95 at onset not to bad. Being the start of holiday may have gaps in snow removal

rswyan · Nov 23, 2014

57F and cloudy @ 17:45 ... snow is mostly gone here.

Laid down for a little nap this morning and woke up later than I wanted to ... around 13:00 ...

Still managed to get out there and skid all the trees out of the tree pile and get them laid out where the grass/weeds aren't 4' tall so they can be cut up.

Bonus: Now that the grass and weeds have died back, I managed to find my trusty old Stihl 031AV ... probably sitting right where I left it last time I used it, next to a pile of logs.

So part of tonight's activities will be to give it a little TLC and get it cleaned up and ready to go for tomorrow.

Supposed to be warm tomorrow ... near 60F ... but 50% chance of showers (100% chance tonight)

Larro Darro · Nov 23, 2014

Good Evening. Thunderstorm, 1745, 64F with 100% humidity. Forecast high of 76F with 80% chance of rain, and a low of 66F. I had my comments about ready to post earlier when we lost power. It was out almost 4 hours. Just came back on a minute ago. We have had some pretty hairy storms pass through. Looks like there will be more tonight. But I was able to get a real good nap in. Also got the chance to do an emergency lighting inventory

Margie and I had a nice candle light dinner, and was just about to start supper the same way.

Hope everyone had a good day,

Larro

300UGUY · Nov 23, 2014

Raining pretty steady here. Much better than snow! Got my hot water heater, seems like the water is really hot, I may ck that tomorrow.

I paid 1.90 a couple months ago for propane.

sseelhoff · Nov 23, 2014

Larro Darro said:
Good Evening. Thunderstorm, 1745, 64F with 100% humidity. Forecast high of 76F with 80% chance of rain, and a low of 66F. I had my comments about ready to post earlier when we lost power. It was out almost 4 hours. Just came back on a minute ago. We have had some pretty hairy storms pass through. Looks like there will be more tonight. But I was able to get a real good nap in. Also got the chance to do an emergency lighting inventory Margie and I had a nice candle light dinner, and was just about to start supper the same way.

Hope everyone had a good day,

Larro

You're getting our weather from yesterday. Be safe.

wngsprd · Nov 23, 2014

Well, Drew you're coming up this way for Thanksgiving, and I'm supposed to be heading about 15 miles from your new place...except Buppies is sending snow this way. That might keep me here...have to keep an eye on this forecast.

Well, I spent the whole afternoon trying to start my log splitter - no success. Finally got some time to try to split some logs I left unsplit last winter. Brand new splitter - bought in February and only used it several times over 2 months. Haven't started it since April, but always mixed fuel stabilizer/ethanol treatment and ran all the gas out before storing it under shelter for summer. Now, no start at all.

Anybody have any ideas? I know there are a lot of threads on wood splitters, and I plan to go re-read some of them, and do some Bing searches. Here's what I did so far...
-checked the oil and hydraulic oil,
- added new gas
- turned throttle to fast speed and pushed the primer bulb 3 times
- pulled the rope several times and repeated
- checked the spark plug and tested that I was getting a spark
- removed and inspected the air filter
- removed the fuel filter and tested that gas was making it this far
- said some magic words - but still didn't turn over
- shot one second of started fluid into air intake, replaced air filter and did get one second of run, then died. Repeated this.
- tried to flood it with primer bulb, just to see if I was getting fuel, but spark plug looked dry, and no strong gas smell.

This may be the last engine I buy built by this manufacturer, since I've never had this problem with any other make, but I'll give them another chance if I can get this thing going.

Thanks for any ideas.

rswyan · Nov 23, 2014

What make of engine ?

I'd juice it with a little more starting fluid (assuming it's not a diesel) since that seems to get it rollin' ...

By chance is there a petcock on the fuel tank ?

If so, is it open ?

farmer2009 · Nov 23, 2014

I see you added New Gas. Did you drain tank completely first. If not it may just be bad gas. Since it will run off ether. Not enough new gas to make it up to par.
Try adding some gas into carb. See if it will run.
Clean or replace spark plug. May be getting spark just not hot enough.
Check wires on coil. Make sure they're tight. (Don't stick finger in plug wire and pull rope though).