RedNeckGeek
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- Joined
- Jan 1, 2011
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- Location
- Butte County & Orcutt, California
- Tractor
- Kubota M62, Kubota L3240D HST (SOLD!), Kubota RTV900
62F @ 8:00AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 92F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Happy your mom made the trip to Corona OK, David. Hope she likes her new home. Airlines are a big part of my old job I don't miss at all. They act like they don't really need the business, so why would they ever make it easier for their customers? And perhaps when granddaughter gets home she'll ask her parents "Why can't you tutor me in math like Grandpa did in Hawaii?".
Drew, I think I'd rather have a reliable and helpful neighbor than a paid helper that was not. Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful relationship, as they say. :thumbsup:
Sounds like a good road trip, Farmer. Nothing like a comfortable motel room to help with making time on the road. Can't wait for the mill pics!
Don, the food looks delicious. And 95F in the shade can be very pleasant, especially when there's hot fish and cold beer for a distraction. But I bet the feeling of community was the best part...
Dave1949 said he be gone for a week or more, and it's well past that since his last post. Hope he's back soon with some interesting stories to tell...
Roy, any reason not to hit that bamboo with a little glyphosate? Give it a few weeks to burn down and the embankments would appear, and a few passes with a landscape rake would prepare the ground for reseeding with maybe some grass.
Kyle, congrats on the anniversary! Good point about the tempura, too. I use lots of wasabi on the sashimi stuff, maybe just to get it to taste good? :confused2: Yeah, moving a bike to another owner is always a bittersweet moment, but not so much on this one. It was fun and reliable while I had it, but it also made a LOT of trips to the dealer for recall work. It's well out of warranty, and if other folks' experience is any guide, a few of the "they all do that" type failures it's prone to are quite expensive to repair. It's also tall and heavy, a real PITA at walking speeds and below, and also good for some real heart-in-your-mouth moments when pushing it off the center stand fully loaded. The only thing I will miss is the throttle response, but riding like your hair's on fire is a great way to get into trouble in oh so many ways. This one was purchased mainly as a street bike, and I set it up with a large windshield for use in the winter. The RT I picked up last fall does that job even better, so you could say that this GS has already been replaced. And now that the maintenance jobs and the refurb on the K-bike are almost complete, I'll finally be able to get one of the R80 G/Ss going again, and that may well turn out to be my "main" bike for the foreseeable future. So I am thinning the herd, selling the K when it's done and probably swapping the Yamaha XT225 for something lighter like a Honda Trail 90 that would be easier to mount on the bumper hitch but still be street legal. I want something to take camping, and also that'll get me home if I need to take the truck in to town for service, and the Yamaha is right at the limit of what I can get up on the rail by myself. In another ten years that might not be possible, and I need to start planning for those eventualities. Sounds like spending a few bux on a new PTO shaft was a much better choice than spending an afternoon with a spud bar and a shovel.:laughing: I should go out and check my own PTO shaft, and maybe give it a good shot of grease. I'm mostly German, with some Scotch and English, and tend to be hard headed, frugal, and a bit irrational, but I still wouldn't want to go around breaking out windows with my head. I hate mowing tall grass, and usually do it in reverse when I have to. It's a literal pain in the neck, but I feel safer doing so because at least there's a chance of seeing something bad before I run over it. Or at least hitting it with the 'hog first.
Got confirmation late last night that the motorcycle buyer will be here around 10:30. Turns out his dad has mounted a sidecar on the bike he had here last April, and I hope he rides it down. It's beautiful, and he's gonna need something like that to drag home all the extra stuff if is son ends up buying the bike.
Other than that, not much planned for today other than maybe washing a motorcycle or two.
Hope everyone enjoys this fine Sunday!
Happy your mom made the trip to Corona OK, David. Hope she likes her new home. Airlines are a big part of my old job I don't miss at all. They act like they don't really need the business, so why would they ever make it easier for their customers? And perhaps when granddaughter gets home she'll ask her parents "Why can't you tutor me in math like Grandpa did in Hawaii?".
Drew, I think I'd rather have a reliable and helpful neighbor than a paid helper that was not. Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful relationship, as they say. :thumbsup:
Sounds like a good road trip, Farmer. Nothing like a comfortable motel room to help with making time on the road. Can't wait for the mill pics!
Don, the food looks delicious. And 95F in the shade can be very pleasant, especially when there's hot fish and cold beer for a distraction. But I bet the feeling of community was the best part...
Dave1949 said he be gone for a week or more, and it's well past that since his last post. Hope he's back soon with some interesting stories to tell...
Roy, any reason not to hit that bamboo with a little glyphosate? Give it a few weeks to burn down and the embankments would appear, and a few passes with a landscape rake would prepare the ground for reseeding with maybe some grass.
Kyle, congrats on the anniversary! Good point about the tempura, too. I use lots of wasabi on the sashimi stuff, maybe just to get it to taste good? :confused2: Yeah, moving a bike to another owner is always a bittersweet moment, but not so much on this one. It was fun and reliable while I had it, but it also made a LOT of trips to the dealer for recall work. It's well out of warranty, and if other folks' experience is any guide, a few of the "they all do that" type failures it's prone to are quite expensive to repair. It's also tall and heavy, a real PITA at walking speeds and below, and also good for some real heart-in-your-mouth moments when pushing it off the center stand fully loaded. The only thing I will miss is the throttle response, but riding like your hair's on fire is a great way to get into trouble in oh so many ways. This one was purchased mainly as a street bike, and I set it up with a large windshield for use in the winter. The RT I picked up last fall does that job even better, so you could say that this GS has already been replaced. And now that the maintenance jobs and the refurb on the K-bike are almost complete, I'll finally be able to get one of the R80 G/Ss going again, and that may well turn out to be my "main" bike for the foreseeable future. So I am thinning the herd, selling the K when it's done and probably swapping the Yamaha XT225 for something lighter like a Honda Trail 90 that would be easier to mount on the bumper hitch but still be street legal. I want something to take camping, and also that'll get me home if I need to take the truck in to town for service, and the Yamaha is right at the limit of what I can get up on the rail by myself. In another ten years that might not be possible, and I need to start planning for those eventualities. Sounds like spending a few bux on a new PTO shaft was a much better choice than spending an afternoon with a spud bar and a shovel.:laughing: I should go out and check my own PTO shaft, and maybe give it a good shot of grease. I'm mostly German, with some Scotch and English, and tend to be hard headed, frugal, and a bit irrational, but I still wouldn't want to go around breaking out windows with my head. I hate mowing tall grass, and usually do it in reverse when I have to. It's a literal pain in the neck, but I feel safer doing so because at least there's a chance of seeing something bad before I run over it. Or at least hitting it with the 'hog first.
Got confirmation late last night that the motorcycle buyer will be here around 10:30. Turns out his dad has mounted a sidecar on the bike he had here last April, and I hope he rides it down. It's beautiful, and he's gonna need something like that to drag home all the extra stuff if is son ends up buying the bike.
Other than that, not much planned for today other than maybe washing a motorcycle or two.
Hope everyone enjoys this fine Sunday!
