Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Wind arrived with a vengeance! Blowing dirt galore! Almost like a haboob at one point. Seems to be settling down a little bit... still gusting about 45 mph... which is supposed to continue through the night.

Grocery run completed. Prescriptions picked up, all items on the list were obtained.

The wifey and I were able to discuss a few options on the fence continuation.... measured it out and figured out a design component. Probably won't happen for a couple months, but still good to a plan in place. Maybe materials will come down a little more too in the meantime.

Jay, glad to see you posting. He is definitely a big boy for sure! What's his name?

Ken, glad there was no further job issues.... hopefully you didn't have to wait long before the meeting contributing to the stress just thinking about it.

Thomas, glad you had a 'short day' at work. And, that the snow squall didn't prevent your "after work" work....

I will take Thomas' lead and do as little as possible this evening.

 

[jbrumberg]

Ted- He has been called "Goliath"- a name I thought some little kid made up (little did I know) and Bear. Now known as "Boyo" and/or "Bone Head."

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Ted- He has been called "Goliath"- a name I thought some little kid made up (little did I know) and Bear. Now known as "Boyo" and/or "Bone Head."

Ahhh, another "bone head"....

 

[Popgadget]

Dennis, wonder if that tap is borrowable or rental from someplace? Maybe automotive supplier than has tools?

Dennis I have a good selection of metric taps if you can identify the diameter and pitch. Or send me bolt.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dennis I have a good selection of metric taps if you can identify the diameter and pitch. Or send me bolt.

It’s a kubota rear lug bolt, probably used on most kubota tractors. Says it fits 593 models. But different part # than my other kubota. This one is L3940HSTC
part 01033-51630.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 3.1C and it's presently 20.7C, mostly sunny with a steady breeze.

After my 'into town' run yesterday, I broke down and did the mowing. I could've (should've?) waited another day for things to dry-out but I was in the mood to do it. A few 'mooshy' places and I had to avoid the 'moat' in front of the 5-bay shed... but it's done.

I'll pop over to that neighbour this arvo and survey the levelling job... my initial plan is to till and then scoop/back-drag with the 4in1.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Popgadget]

It’s a kubota rear lug bolt, probably used on most kubota tractors. Says it fits 593 models. But different part # than my other kubota. This one is L3940HSTC
part 01033-51630.

Ok that shows it’s a M16X1.5X30mm bolt. I’ll check tomorrow morning to see if I have a 16mm x 1.5 tap.

 

[KilroyJC]

Mrs. said we need to go to the Kubota dealer and see what a mini excavator will set us back. Planning on going Friday.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Ok that shows it’s a M16X1.5X30mm bolt. I’ll check tomorrow morning to see if I have a 16mm x 1.5 tap.

Where did you find that? I didn’t see it in the parts listing.

Amazon has both tap and die for $15

M16x1.5 Tap Metric Tap and Die Set Right Hand Thread Tap and Die Set https://a.co/d/1W6sqCQ

It’s messed up on outside edge, maybe I can tap from inside out, should start in clean that direction.

 

[LouNY]

55F and sunny @ 13:00, heading up to around 67 for today's high. Promises to be a much nicer day than yesterday.

WU calling for a high of 84F for tomorrow ...

Got a fire going in the double barrel and then got a bunch of wood splits moved in yesterday to dry out. Wood pile in front of shop will probably be entirely gone in the next week or so.

Shop warmed up fairly quickly.

Loaded some scrap metal into the van in prep for a trip to the recycler. More to do on that today.

Worked on getting tools put away.

Also did some work on the saw and VFD.

Got chip chute and blade installed, had to use a washer along with the nut to get the replace arbor flange to clamp the blade. Apparently what Renovo is offering isn't identical to what originally came with the saw.

Fired up saw and cleaned off the blade with a wire brush while it was spinning. Woman wasn't terribly impressed with the result and wanted to know if I couldn't so a better job.

Told her "Sure ... if I want to hold a piece of sandpaper up against that blade ... while it's spinning at 5000+ rpm" ...

NOT.



What VFD deems to be "Forward" is actually reverse rotation on the saw, running the blade backwards.

It has a function to run the motor in reverse, which I had locked out when I initially programmed it.

So I enabled "Reverse" which now has the top of the blade coming towards the front of the table.

VFD also has a terminal block which allows a variety of functions (FWD, REV, STOP, SPEED LO/MED/HIGH, etc) to be controlled externally, via switches or other controls.

From the documentation it appeared to me that two connections using three wires would be necessary to start and stop the motor so I dissected the paddle switch to figure out what it's internal connections were.

That turned out not to be the case: connecting a pair of wires will start the motor (in forward or reverse, depending on which terminals one is using) and will allow it to run as long as the connection is maintained. Once the connection is broken the motor is no longer under power. So that ended up being a much easier solution than I expected.

Beyond that I started back in on cleaning up the table top and extension wings:

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Of course, more contact cement there ...

Miter slots on the table top are really full of crud, going to require more work to get them cleaned out. Downside is that the fit of the miter bars will be even sloppier.

Got measurement taken on the base - looks to be around 20 5/8 to 20 3/4.

Had a look for some angle for the mobile base, what I thought was a long piece (while buried) turned out to be only around 24" long (need 80"+ minimum) ...

Have an email into steel supplier for a quote on a more appropriate size.

Agenda for today:

Refill bird feeders.

Handle some things down here at the house for The Woman.

Load more scrap metal into van.

Disconnect Cub from charger.

Call mower shop and see what's up with them not showing up to pick up the Cub.

Hope everyone is having a good day ...

One of the nice things about a 3 phase motor is the ease of changing the rotation direction, you can just swap any two leads on the drive output to the motor and rotation will be reversed.