Good morning!!!!

[B7510HSD]

RNG I think I found what you are building out of that VW....

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Are the state license tags still cheep for old volkswagens?

I won't know until I see the DMV teller, but the last 1 year registration I renewed was for a 1993 BMW motorcycle, and it was over eighty bux. I think the F250 is close to three hundred. I know driving is a privilege, but it's a costly one here in the Golden State.:shocked: Worse, now that the politicians have successfully driven most older, non-fuel efficient vehicles from the highways, and the price of gasoline is about half what it used to be, they're talking about drastically increasing, you guessed it, vehicle license fees to compensate. And the current Lieutenant Governor, who has aspirations for the Governorship in '18, is going to qualify a ballot initiative for this election to require a license to purchase ammunition and ban the ownership of magazines holding ten rounds or more. We'll have a choice of selling them out of state, destroying them, or giving them to FFLs or LEOs.

But don't get me started...unch:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 56F @ 8:15AM. A mix of clouds and sun. High 78F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.

Highs are headed into the mid 80s with lots of wind for the rest of the weekend, nice temps but also increased fire danger from the winds. But it'll keep the bugs at bay while I'm out camping. :dance1:

Thanks, Eric, now I can't get the Pacemakers out of my head. Time for a little CCR.

Ya got me, RS. WTF is LPGS? :confused2:

B man, that's a bit bigger that what is planned, but the color is kinda catching... :laughing:

I'm shootin' more for something like this:


TGIF!!!

 

[rswyan]

... Ya got me, RS. WTF is LPGS? :confused2: ...

Land Plane/Grading Scraper ...

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .11 inches rain last 4 hours.

Took sitters to airport yesterday. Start getting back to old routine.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

Land Plane/Grading Scraper ...

that was a tough one, worth bonus points...I was starting with liquid propane and getting nowhere...

Kyle, you may have to do what I did and go up. Raised garden. Mine is going bonkers.

spent two hours greasing the Kubota and the FEL and taking the time, this time...to clean out all the old grease. What a gukky job but
sure looks better. Exterior grease does nothing but collect dirt but I'm not **** enough to be constantly cleaning out those little zerk orifices in the FEL.
Although I do a basic zerk clean before and after; no sense pushing the dirt into the bearing.
Tractor just turned 300 hours, still looks pretty good, trying to keep it clean.

I have two air powered grease guns, one a Napa and one a noname. Neither worked before and neither worked today. And I got covered in grease for my efforts.
Both grease guns make a pumping noise but nothing comes out. I must be jinxed. So back to the old manual gun which never fails though it sure would be easier on me to get them working.

And since I was seriously grimed up I changed and sharpened the blades on the JD X750 by lifting it with a strap on the tractor's FEL. Backed up by a chain. And two six ton jack stands, and the flip downs on the FEL, though not sure how much they would do. Still makes me uncomfortable under that heavy lawnmower but I was careful and that's all one can do. I think my blades are dulled more by blasting through red ant mounds than all the mowing I do, more than five acres a week. Blades should stay sharp for several months. It is nice to have the mower lifted up so I can Kroil and oil linkage underneath.

 

[toppop52]

Drew, the hardest thing on blades in normal mowing is sand. Mine have to be sharpened much more often in dry weather when the sand and dust are worse.

 

[daugen]

Drew, the hardest thing on blades in normal mowing is sand. Mine have to be sharpened much more often in dry weather when the sand and dust are worse.

agreed, my challenge is the soil is sandy, the ants leave the big mounds of sandy soil along the roadside which I can't always avoid. On my own property I'm not mowing over sandy areas, not much is kicked up other than normal dust, which I'm sure has an abrasive nature to some degree. When I hit the ant hills, every once in a while amazingly an ant will land back on me and bite me. nasty bugs

one thing for sure, no dents in the blades. No rocks to hit...

Tomorrow I'm going to sharpen the Gravely's blades. Almost did it today after the JD but all that horizontal crawling around is not good on my fused neck.
Need to take it in small doses. I wonder how many dozens and dozens of times I have sharpened that Gravely's mower blades. I'm on my second set.
Repair shops/dealers seem to love to grind off one quarter of the metal so it looks exactly like new. I just sharpen the last quarter to half inch; why take off metal that's doing just fine sitting there...I also do a slight grind on the opposite edge so I wind up with a slight knife edge instead of a cleaver edge.

 

[toppop52]

I do that as well with my blades, I often do them completely with a file, my soil is either sand or clay in about 70% of the area I mow.

 

[wngsprd]

Drew, is it easier to lift your JD to sharpen your blades than take the deck off and flip it over? My JD is a lightweight model, but take 5 cotter pins off and pull the belt a bit and the deck can be pulled off and out...then flip it over...it's much lighter to maneuver mine, I know. Just wondered if I move up into a real garden tractor how it will work.