69F and sunny @ 10:30, supposedly heading up to 84F for the day's high ... which, if it happens, will set a new record high temp.
Did not get bird feeders refilled yesterday, so that's definitely on the agenda for today.
I did get a bunch of scrap metal loaded into the van though, much of it metal studs from friend's daycare remodel. Ended up taking the EMT conduit and electrical boxes off of that and saving those.
Woman was collecting sticks and using B&D battery string trimmer to mow down the weeds in the garden before they do to seed. Daffodils, peonies, and iris all looking good, will have to get some pictures of those.
A little bit of straightening up in the shop done.
Called mower shop to express my displeasure about no call back or pick up of the Cub. Ended up getting a different guy this time, one who actually seemed to have a clue.
When I explained to him what it was doing (no sound from the lift pump pressurizing) he said he hadn't seen any failures of pumps but was pretty sure they had some fuses that should be checked and asked me to hold while he walked out to the showroom floor to verify.
Cub Manual is pretty generic (covers several models) and doesn't really explain or picture where one might find them.
He came back and said yup ther are three AT fuses on the side of the engine hiding in dead end Delphi Weather-pack connectors.
So I told him thanks and said I would check those out and get back to him.
Headed down to the barn and pulled the three fuses. None of them were blown, but when I turned on the ignition key after replacing them the lift pump was buzzing again and she started right up and kept running ...
So I called him back and left him know the problem appeared to be solved.
After that I hooked up the dump cart and dragged it up to the shop so I could replace the wheel bearings on the one side later and then started mowing.
Got around 10 passes done on the lawn and it died again. Walked down to the barn and got the van which had the storage case with all the fuses in it and drove it back up to the shop. Replaced the three fuses, still no joy.
Called mower shop ... but they were closed by then so left a message that the problem wasn't solved and it was looking like it would need to be picked up after all.
Drove back down the house and got The Woman and Kubota so we could tow it back down to the house which we then did. Was a painful experience for The Woman (She doesn't drive the Kubota much)
Decided to give it one last try after we got down there and turned the key on: lift pump was buzzing again ...
So I started it up and told Her I was going to go ahead and mow the dandelions since things were getting pretty tall ...
Something which She was none too happy about ... mainly because She would be involved in the retrieving it, if it died again ...
Ended up getting pretty much the entire front done just after sunset before it got dark:
Had to call mower shop this morning and tell them to never mind ... at least for the moment.
Plan for today is to get the lawn down here around the house mowed first, and then run over the front again after the cut grass has had a chance to dry out, dropping the deck another 1/2 inch ... which will hopefully get most of the dandelion seed heads that I didn't get yesterday.
Did get quote back from steel supplier. I had asked for 2 x 2 x 5/16 angle which they didn't have in stock, he offered 1/4 or 3/8 ... think I'll go with the 1/4 ($50 cheaper than the 3/8), which should be plenty heavy enough for the mobile base.
Hopefully they will be able to have that ready by tomorrow and I'll run down with whatever other scrap metal I can get loaded up by then and get that out of here.
Need to get cracking, hope everyone is having a good Thursday ...
