Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Time spent, but….
Not happy with first flail fix attempt so had to undo everything. Was actually looking pretty good, so much so that I hit the threads with blue loctite and tightened. Got it almost mounted on tractor when decided I didn’t like the geometry and unmounted. Of course having used the loctite I had to immediately disassemble before it completely set up. Didn’t take any pics .
Next attempt is quite similar but the lift pins will point inward rather than outward. Oh well.

Blue loctite should undo ok, the red is tough.

 

[daugen]

I have leftover millet on my lawn, takes a long time to get eaten.
last time I put up a suet cake a bear in NC bent my beautiful black steel hanger into a pretzel.
It was a peanut butter one. Who could resist...
Think I'm safer here.
local squirrels eat all my feeders dry, hard to blame them
I just don't want to attract larger critters

Jay, in heaven you will be surrounded by a flock of loving birds

my electric push mower shows up today. Have an spot near the bird feeders that really needs being mowed, and can't get the rider there easily and trying
to reduce weedeater use. Hopefully relatively quiet so I don't have to wear headphones

I've been researching those extra hard mower blades RS is using. I need an excuse to stop in JD dealership up near Popgadget's area and see if they stock
the blades with Marbain heat treating. I also like their JD spray lube. And who can resist another tube of green grease.

Marbain

The Marbain heat-treating process is a controlled, proprietary operation that creates ultra-hard properties without the brittleness.

www.fisherbarton.com

 

[jbrumberg]

I have leftover millet on my lawn, takes a long time to get eaten.
last time I put up a suet cake a bear in NC bent my beautiful black steel hanger into a pretzel.
It was a peanut butter one. Who could resist...
Think I'm safer here.
local squirrels eat all my feeders dry, hard to blame them
I just don't want to attract larger critters

Jay, in heaven you will be surrounded by a flock of loving birds

my electric push mower shows up today. Have an spot near the bird feeders that really needs being mowed, and can't get the rider there easily and trying
to reduce weedeater use. Hopefully relatively quiet so I don't have to wear headphones

I've been researching those extra hard mower blades RS is using. I need an excuse to stop in JD dealership up near Popgadget's area and see if they stock
the blades with Marbain heat treating. I also like their JD spray lube. And who can resist another tube of green grease.

Marbain

The Marbain heat-treating process is a controlled, proprietary operation that creates ultra-hard properties without the brittleness.

www.fisherbarton.com

I should take a picture of all the bear-bent feeder poles I have that need some serious torching and bending with a cheater bar to become useable again.

 

[m7040]

This may not end up well

 

[m7040]

 

[daugen]

the tension mounts, cat can't be hungry enough to want to eat the snake, so more than curiosity?
genetic hunter genes at work?

 

[daugen]

rolls royce indiana - Google Search

Do you know where the most Rolls Royce products are made?
Indianapolis.

was reading article on new engines for B-52; using existing RR engines out of large Gulfstream business jets.
always thought they'd update to a four engine solution but I guess they want to keep all eight. Lot of levers to fool with, amazing
amount of gauges. An analog plane pulled into the digital age. I guess the laws of metal fatigue don't apply to this plane.

we have much newer, faster, stealthier bombers. We have missile submarines, missile destroyers, missiles out the wazoo; conventional and nuke, there isn't much we can't blow up if we want to.
Always wondered why they kept this 56 Chevy flying.

you see one of these at a major airport in that charcoal grey paint and it looks like flying death.
with training wheels on the ends of the wings they are so long and heavy.

not sure we need to carpet bomb any third world countries any more. But you never know.

 

[Looking4new]

Drew, you don't think the NC bear would follow you to PA for all the good easy eats?

Tin job on V-plow 1/2 done. Broke 5, 1/8" drill bits. I gotta pre-drill the holes to get the self drilling/tapping screws in.
I will get more next Thursday when I go to town again, gotta get another bag of cement anyway.
I did move the post that protects the drilled well to better protect it. That is the same post we hang the outside mosquito zapper on.
It pissed down rain last evening, so working on the bush edges is out of the question for right now.
Rest and relaxation is on for the rest of today.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
71 going to 83 today.
I did get all the mowing done yesterday, grandson was late to the party, but he helped take the 3 pt mower off, blow the tractor off, refuel it and park it back in the shop.
Then we got on the Lazer and trimmed every thing up, all the pasture fence lines are tedious. Need to attack them with the string trimmer in the not too distant future.
Next up was a gate repair using a come along and sledge hammer.
This is some of what gets mowed with the 16’ Progressive TD16

Got a good picture of Zoe with a real camera-

Today we are taking the grandson to the Philadelphia Zoo, should be a fun day until he gets worn out. Although he held up pretty well working with me yesterday. He just turned 3, so I give him some leeway.

 

[sodamo]

62°F and .1 inches rain.

Off to Hilo town for some food shopping, Safeway and CostULess.

Then back home to address version 2 of flail fix.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning
71 going to 83 today.
I did get all the mowing done yesterday, grandson was late to the party, but he helped take the 3 pt mower off, blow the tractor off, refuel it and park it back in the shop.
Then we got on the Lazer and trimmed every thing up, all the pasture fence lines are tedious. Need to attack them with the string trimmer in the not too distant future.
Next up was a gate repair using a come along and sledge hammer.
This is some of what gets mowed with the 16’ Progressive TD16

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Got a good picture of Zoe with a real camera-

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Today we are taking the grandson to the Philadelphia Zoo, should be a fun day until he gets worn out. Although he held up pretty well working with me yesterday. He just turned 3, so I give him some leeway.

Zoe is one good looking dog. Nice picture; I like the eye's "catch lighting." Thanks for sharing and I hope you have some quality time with the grandson.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

83°
Got up on roof, nothing obvious for a leak. Will see what rain this weekend does. Should take water hose, start low and work my way up along the dormer.
Tilled parts of garden with my troybilt tiller. It started right up, as I run it out of gas each time.
I put too much in today so pulled hose at carb to drain tank.
Pulled back one side of plastic in corn rows to just till the planting area. That saved a lot of work. Between the bean piles I just chopped it good with a hoe.
Got 3 rows corn, 1 row pole beans, 3 rows of potatoes planted. Not planting more potatoes unless we sell some, still had almost 5 buckets left over from last year, planted about 2 buckets of smaller ones.

 

[m7040]

Went to the PO and checked out the airport getting ready for the weekend on the way back.
Got 25 MPH the other day on a 75 mile stretch with the Sprinter driving slower on secondary road. That is about as good as it gets with the V6 diesel.
I use the Kubota mower blades because they are heavy and less likely to bend. Keeping them sharp I have worked out to an easy process. Mowing the tree planting area it runs into branches and rocks lurking in the grass. I scrap them when they are out more than 1/4 inch on the magnetic mount for blade balance. Trying to claim a set of blades against Comcast for rocks after upgrading the cables and doing some digging.

 

[jbrumberg]

Thanks to an early afternoon bear raid I am now down to 7 feeders. It stole the sunflower tube and ran off into the woods with it. At some point another SAR.

This is an old picture, but it really played out as pictured here

 

[m7040]

Thanks to an early afternoon bear raid I am now down to 7 feeders. It stole the sunflower tube and ran off into the woods with it. At some point another SAR.

This is an old picture, but it really played out as pictured here

Supermarket for bears!!!!

 

[Popgadget]

While at the zoo, I was fascinated by the exhibit of the elusive Ryobi drill in its natural habitat

 

[jbrumberg]

While at the zoo, I was fascinated by the exhibit of the elusive Ryobi drill in its natural habitat

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Looks like evidence of nest building. Just like Blue Jays gender ID does not happen. Great capture. Thanks for sharing.

 

[KilroyJC]

Thanks to an early afternoon bear raid I am now down to 7 feeders. It stole the sunflower tube and ran off into the woods with it. At some point another SAR.

This is an old picture, but it really played out as pictured here

i’m telling ya - cable 20’ up, pendant feeders…

 

[KilroyJC]

GM Update:

Mom shopping run completed, finished with a nice late lunch. Got home just as the raindrops started, got the redeigeratable items out and into the house mostly dry. So the rest of the afternoon will be energy conservation.

along the way, we stopped into a local thrift shop. Picked up a couple of assorted and sundry, but Mrs found a homemade dog bed, of pretty good size, homemade, for $25.

Youncouldnt buy the lumber for it for $25! So it is outside in the rain,mand probably tomorrow it will get pressure-washed.

Meanwhile, I will FINALLY attempt using the PTO brush deck on the tractor soon, as the grass is a growin’. Problem is, the PTO handle does not stay up. So I will be fabricating a little sheetmetal flip lever that pivots and prevents the handle from falling down, but won’t get lost like a split pipe (a solution someone local suggested) or a bungee or other things that, if it goes wrong, would be difficult to disengage and are also prone to getting lost or falling out. Good couch work

 

[sodamo]

RNG, yes in the DvR mode. Has a neat feature better than Dish as there is a little preview window so you can see progress when you hit Fast Forward to jump to next segment. Still need to figure out how to delete a watched show.