Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

70F at 6AM, now at almost 1PM it's 87F. All under sunny skies and very light breeze. I think it'll easily make it into the 90s before dark.

Started work on the FEL yesterday, tearing it down in preparation for bushing the main pivots. In the process I found the welds at both ends of the cross member had cracked, so I'll end up cutting that off and re-welding it with some reinforcing plate added. It's too heavy to lift as is, but I was able to use a couple of floor jacks this morning to move it out of the way so I could free up a bay in the garage for the work. But I think I'll leave that for an earlier and cooler start in the morning. Once apart, though, I'll be able to get each arm up onto the mill table to straighten out those bores.



Eric, that is what we'd call a brushog. I have a smaller 60" one, and use it to cut the meadow here. The terrain is steep and very uneven, and the resulting cut is rough at best. But it gets the job done as long as I manage not to hit any trees or rocks with it. I've had to straighten out the supports and deck a few times now when I got careless. The one pictured doesn't look that robust, but since most of what I've seen of England is groomed like a golf course, I bet it'll work fine for you. Very curious how the offset feature works. On the US versions, the spinning blade is driven by a right angle gear box in the center of the deck, and off setting has to be done with the support structure.

Good to see Spring taking a strong hold over most of the country now.

Enjoy the weekend, everybody! :cool2:

 

[mostly_gas]

Good afternoon all. 40F this morning, sunny light breeze, high of 72F forecast made it to 69F. Working on moving prep, need to make a run to TX to look for home, have verbal agreement but not the signed documents on my house. Trying to prep bike for Kansas ride. Age test said 94 for me

 

[ronjhall]

Age test said 99. Maybe I should exercise more to make it to 100?

 

[Eric Salop]

I have really enjoyed the dry weather we have had for the last couple of weeks or more. Today it should come to an end and that should give both grass and weeds a boost. Bucket predictor gave me 93, which coincidentally is the date I elected to use on my pension plan for starting my retirement.

Redneck : Looks like you have quite a bit of work to do there. A hundred years ago people made and bought equipment that would last a lifetime. Now we can spend a lifetime fixing stuff, while others are happy to see it go for scrap.

Don : The way prices have dropped on solar is incredible. 10 years ago we were paying the equivalent of $6 per watt on a similar panel. Now it's down to less than a quarter of that.

Larro. What a neat plot !

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 42° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 74° with partly cloudy skies all day. Good day to get some yard work done.
Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

48 headed to 70. Should be a great day!

 

[dave1949]

32F headed to 69 today. Should be reasonably sunny too.

 

[daugen]

42 degrees, going to 70 today in what is forecast as a straight week of dry weather.

came out yesterday morning and found my bird feeder stand, 1/2 rod steel, bent over like a pretzel. No tracks in the lawn and mulch. Bird feeders empty but not chewed. My instinct is to say some large smart deer did this, but hard to believe it bent that stand in half. So...bear?

game cam ordered this morning.

this is my first Spring here and it is a real joy to see the various bushes and trees blooming.

 

[rgamble3]

I Made it to 95. WO HO!!!!!!

Roy G.

 

[Thomas]

39F clear sky low 70's for high....weather getting better.
Hope to get road side ditch raking done today.
Small birds are picking up deer winter hair for there nest.

Enjoy the day all.