Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

You busy?

If money was no object, and I was retired, I would enjoy coming to give you a hand.

Yes, that was one of the many places we have tried, spent several hours digging and looking and calling.
We have two main loader tractors and they both have the same loaders on them one's blue and the other is red.
A bit over $300 for a seal kit from NH or CIH.
Did find out a lot of interesting information while looking for the seals or a seal kit, we found a part number on one of the cylinders then checked the other 3 and found it also, It is an ALO cylinder 85mm diameter with a 40 mm rod. ALO ended up being adsorbed by Quicke who also got bought out by another outfit and now Bush Hog is selling ALO parts. ALO apparently made the loaders for quite some time for CIH and NH. We found a Bush Hog kit through one of our IH dealers for $250 so that is on order now. Found several places that could disassemble ours and likely find all the correct seals for an ALO LDR12714610 but no guaranties.

It would take an enterprising amount of time to figure out a supplier of the seals, and put together your own kits for a fraction of the cost.

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Neat, but a quagmire on the left end of the crank (as you sit on it). I got to ride a Yamaha RZ500, that was gray area brought in from Canada back in the day. It was fast. Almost as fast as an FJ 1100 in a drag race from a roll on. I would guess the FJ had a 10 bike lead at the end of a 1/4mile, and the RZ was bone stock. On top end, the FJ had about a 4-6 mph more speed advantage. So for a 500, it was awesome. It cost the same as an FJ. On a racetrack, the advantage quickly went to the RZ. I wish I had one. They are now going for north of $30K for good ones.

Again awake told said basically deal with it

Prayers.

Good, this is both my 14th year and my wife's 14th year of retirement. Long winded answer follows.

If we had had our druthers we'd still be working for another couple of years. But her 2 strokes (which she fully recovered from after about 5 years) kicked us out of the workforce.

Retirement has been good up until the last few years. Then my wife came down with wet AMD, her mother passed, our son and daughter squeezed out 2 more children and her main reasons for us retiring to Mississippi went away.
Reading of others trials and tribulations here is helpful to put all in perspective.

But today we finally made it to our 10th official February 29th anniversary day.

My Dad used to tell me (frequently when I was very young) that life was like your hand in a bucket of water or a small pond. You could swirl it one way, swirl it another, splash it about. But after you took your hand out it would go back to calm, level water.

Sometimes I'm pretty sure we are doing things wrong, but we are doing it her way and she seems happy about it.
And there has been a lot of joyful splashing in this bucket over the last 40 years.

So to all of you other TBN travellers on this blue marble hang in there, March is coming.

GM post of the day!

Hope your feeling LOT better today Kyle.

Thank you. How is your wifey?

Hope everyone has a great day!!

40F now, but temps will decline soon when the huge Blizzard Blast hits.

Everyone here has stocked food, filled vehicles with fuel, secured outdoor objects, and prepared for power outages. This is a big storm coming.

10 feet of snow in the next 4 days over Donner Summit. True "Donner Party" weather. It's the strongest forecast I have ever seen for this region. Forecast winds of 30-40 mph, with gusts of 65mph-80mph. I know winds at the summit can exceed 100mph.

Check out the daily snow forecasts for the next 4 days ...

Wow, just wow! Batten hatches, hunker down. Have backup wood or propane for heat.

Advertising, in general, pisses me off. TV, radio and now uTube. My brother sold ads for a radio station/group, so I didn't complain to him but... I "skip ad" on uTube, but some of those you can't. I wear out the mute and channel switcher buttons on the TV remote. Change stations on the car radio. Record and fast forward through them, when I can. I listen to Pandora, at home (and yes I pay $55/year for not listening to commercials...) I chuckle and shake my head when seeing/hearing some of this crap. The agency/creators are "so proud" of their creation, and I just shake my head, as I reach for the remote. sigh

THIS! change channels, radio stations, to avoid ads, but somehow it pays the bills for some stations. Ha, my brother got divorced and he got to keep one of the Sony TV's....some of you will remember those ads...but his TV was not remote control. He made a broom handle stick tool, with 1 end notched to change channels, and the other end with a taped on rubber tube that could raise/lower the volume. His TV was about 4 ft from his bedside in his room.

Not funny how it's 46F here and only 43F in northern MONTANA..... Cold and damp enough to not want to get my sick rear out to do anything...

I'm much better, but low energy. Now wifey is feeling bad. Uh oh.

Prayers for our team, the sick, our nation, ****** and Ukraine.

 

[Popgadget]

I got to ride a Yamaha RZ500, that was gray area brought in from Canada back in the day. It was fast. Almost as fast as an FJ 1100 in a drag race from a roll on. I would guess the FJ had a 10 bike lead at the end of a 1/4mile, and the RZ was bone stock. On top end, the FJ had about a 4-6 mph more speed advantage. So for a 500, it was awesome. It cost the same as an FJ. On a racetrack, the advantage quickly went to the RZ. I wish I had one. They are now going for north of $30K for good ones.

I had an RZ500, but mine was from Japan, the Canadian ones had a steel chassis, the Japanese one was aluminum. The Canadian ones had more power, but my engine was “massaged” to do better than the Canadian ones.
I really should have kept it, looking at what it would be worth today.
It was a lot of fun to ride, and would pass bikes with twice the displacement regularly.
And to think that I was on an antique bike going 30mph when I almost died back in 2019. An errant SUV saw to that.

 

[kenmbz]

Seems this cold/flu thing is getting around.
Hope everyone is feeling better soon.

Frankenbed is gone, Ikea kept to their word, good on that one.
Of course if this had been correct from the start.....glad to be moving on.

Now need to find a taker for sons old Ikea bed that was well made but no longer had the features we needed. Might try the neighbors to see if their son or daughter can use it, after I make sure it's cleaned up of course.

 

[sodamo]

63°F and 1.98 inches rain. Today’s forecast appears a continuation of yesterday. Mixed and wet.

Sears tech scheduled to install the compressor in the garage fridge. Then I will list on CL. After repair I can swap the new freezer into that space.

Regular coffee for breakfast but will also make another attempt or 2 into the espresso world. I have to admit having a challenge of just dumping attempts that aren’t right. Just wasteful to me. I don’t see myself becoming one of these espresso experts. Likely a long process where we drink a lot of sub par drinks as we learn. That said I don’t expect a painful journey.

H&F this afternoon. We will host as we have to be here for Sears tech.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Guys,
Ct, 22 to start going to 36 with a lot of wind making it feel much colder!

Work day to day ! Hope all have a blessed and safe day!

 

[Buppies]

Happy Anniversary Newberry
Thanks Ron chilly outside went to court for wreck postponed that’s ok prosecuting attorney went to school with son heard some neat stories.

Z turn is ready service and recall done

Prayers for all our Country

 

[sodamo]

After reading all the postings about Steps figured I’d check mine. Averaging about 6,000/day. Not bad unless I compare to Sophie who often makes 20,000.

Hmmm, wonder if my 5 miles on the recumbent bike affects that? Nope, guess not.

 

[rswyan]

33F and partly cloudy @ 13:45, heading up to around 37F for the day's high. Low this morning was 19.8F. Precipitation total was 0.23"

Lots of birds and some squirrels out at the feeders this morning. Probably will need to refill the hopper feeder, will also take some whole corn up and refill the deer feeder while I'm at it.

Got insulation and kick plate installed on dishwasher last night.

Got Woman dialed in on using the "Express Wash" cycle on the new dishwasher. Supposedly takes less time but uses more water which I'm fine with. (How many gallons could it take ?) Also doesn't use a heated dry - which will help avoid using more electricity.

Woman currently trying to locate Her Steam Buggy (cleaning device) to clean out the old 'frig. Wants to relocate it to the north wall of the kitchen for the time being. Works for me.

Not sure what I'll get into for the rest of the day, plenty of choices though.

Hope everyone is having a decent Thursday ...

 

[sodamo]

Happy Anniversary Mr & Mrs Newbury.

Great analogy about hand in bucket of water.

 

[rswyan]

Dennis, well not today but at one time maybe ! I also rode a Kawasaki H2-750 cc rocket ship on I-84 at 120 mph !

Had one of these back in the day:

That one isn't mine but looks to be very similar.

130mph+ on I-77 northbound just south of Akron.

No fairing obviously, was about all I could do to hold on.

Later T-boned a car that turned in front of me ... went over the car's trunk and somehow managed to land on my feet.

Only damage (to me) was where my right shin managed to catch a highway peg. Still have the scar.

 

[sodamo]

Yesterday was perfect here, too...rainy and windy...my wife made chicken vegetable soup with Costco chicken.

Love homemade soups, especially if a chill in the air.

About got my process down, either chicken or turkey. Put the carcass in Insta Pot, then 15 min High pressure. Remove and separate into 3 piles, meat for the soup, bones to discard, skin, knuckles, etc for the furry kids. Add whatever veggies back into broth, seasonings, usually some barley. Another 10 minute pressure cook, then add chicken meat back in. Even better the next day after an overnight in the fridge.
Sometimes I wish every $5 purchase was so good. Soup is usually our 3rd meal from that chicken. Thrifty or frugal????

 

[kenmbz]

My father had 2 Jawas. A 250, which is the bike I learned on and a 350.

1975 Jawa 350

The 1975 Jawa 350 and all other motorcycles made 1894-2024. Specifications. Pictures. Rating. Discussions.

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He later on had a mid-sized Kawasaki and moved up to a larger honda for cross country trips.
And his around town bike was a present from his brother, a 1950 Triumph Thunderbird like this one. Though his seat was longer.

Which I rewired and did quite a bit of work on the mechanicals and trying to keep the oil inside the engine.
He gave up all the bikes when his back went out in his later 60's
He rode cross country with the honda and a bike club.

We used to drive back/forth between LI NY and Western MA on the Jawa 350.

My neighbor in MA had a CZ 125 we used to ride around in the fields.
He upgraded to a yamaha 250, which the two of us were on, with him driving. When we
hit some soft dirt on the dirt road back to my uncles house and the bike was totaled on the bridge abutment . I chipped a bunch of teeth and had dirt and pebbles embedded in my skin. My friend got some bad road rash, but healed up in a few weeks.

 

[Looking4new]

Yep, I thought of that if any of it is decent. I'll need to cut it out of the trees, though. There's a belt drive cement mixer, sit on (horse drawn) cultivator and manure spreader, and other treasures. Maybe list 'em as "Yard Art".

Antique yard art for sale, cheap.

North Bay trip was uneventful. Watch repair was $40.oo for a new band AND battery. I used up almost a gallon of WS juice, the roads were that sloppy with slush. Tomorrow will go to Sundridge and wash the goat and top off the WS tank.
When we left the Dodge was nice and shiny black, got back and it is gray all over. That will get washed off tomorrow IF the car wash is open. Temps for the next 6 days are supposed to be above 32°f.
While Junior was doing the shopping, I cleaned the windows, mirrors and lights.

I am going to try duckduckgo and see if I can avoid utube ads. The offensive one at least. I don't mind the whiskey ads, it is the ones about erectile dysfunction I don't like.

I have to presume that the snow on Donner summit is a dry snow?

On motor cycles, I had a Vespa scooter and sold that to get me a H-D. My Dad assumed I was going to get a Honda Dream, I told him that what I was getting started with 'H'. He WAS NOT happy when he came home from work and seen the full dressed Harley in the driveway. My buddy had taken a basket case and built the dresser out of it, then sold it to me. I had it for about 3 weeks and was riding in the rain one day when a '61 Pontiac stopped in front of me with no stop lights. Lucky for me a cop (who was going to pull me over) saw the whole thing. I laid the bike down and the Pontiac wasn't going anywhere, the bike was under his gas tank and the cop was worried that he had run me over, I was laying on the ground looking up at his front bumper. A little road rash and the H-D got sold back to my buddy. That was the very last motorcycle I ever owned.
I like the way Harley riders treat trucks, they put themselves in my left side mirror and I signal to them when it is okay to pass. It doesn't matter whether or not they are flying colours, they all get treated the same. A little bit of respect goes a long way.

 

[two_bit_score]

No calamities though so it's all good.

That's the way I measure the success of many days.

 

[two_bit_score]

But today we finally made it to our 10th official February 29th anniversary day.

Congratulations! All things are relative.

 

[m7040]

My first bike was a 1939 BSA 350 that I rode up in the hills behind the town when I was 13-14. Not exactly a MC bike but had fun with it. Next were various 50cc mopeds for on the road trips and then NSU and Royal Enfield road bikes. Rode those with a friend all way up North through Norway. Next had a BSA 350 road bike that I tee boned into a van. Almost cost me the life but after that had a 500 cc AJS that I rode on through school. Took many trips with wife while dating on it. Also had while in CA a 400cc Suzuki motor cross bike that I used for hill climbs up in Mendocino county. It was hard to keep on the power curve to prevent flipping over backwards. Too much or too little were both problems that either flipped it or stalled it

 

[buckeyefarmer]

63°F and 1.98 inches rain. Today’s forecast appears a continuation of yesterday. Mixed and wet.

Sears tech scheduled to install the compressor in the garage fridge. Then I will list on CL. After repair I can swap the new freezer into that space.

Regular coffee for breakfast but will also make another attempt or 2 into the espresso world. I have to admit having a challenge of just dumping attempts that aren’t right. Just wasteful to me. I don’t see myself becoming one of these espresso experts. Likely a long process where we drink a lot of sub par drinks as we learn. That said I don’t expect a painful journey.

H&F this afternoon. We will host as we have to be here for Sears tech.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Just saw a lehto law YouTube clip regarding LG’s very common faulty compressor issue. They apparently made some for sears, and they use a known faulty compressor.

Just saw sears does sell fridges with the linear compressor that fails.

 

[two_bit_score]

Still in the cool 50's with windy and cloudy conditions. Not a very bright day at all.

Any day above ground is a good one though!

Got a lot in the air right now. It's getting to that point where Ill just be glad when it's over.

Everyone has a great afternoon and evening! Hope you get a good nights rest and wake up in a good mood tomorrow because tomorrow is all we can really hope for sometimes!

 

[ronjhall]

Newbury, congratulations on Anniversary. The thing about retirement is things change. If there is one thing I could change would be having my wife with me. That didn’t happen. She did leave me with lots of good memories. House is full of her handy work with sewing and art.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Newbury, congratulations on Anniversary. The thing about retirement is things change. If there is one thing I could change would be having my wife with me. That didn’t happen. She did leave me with lots of good memories. House is full of her handy work with sewing and art.

I know dad misses my mom. Got to be hard living alone after having someone there so many years.