What happened to summer? Where did the year go?
Oh, it still will be peeking its hot head out down here in a while. He's warming up the Northwest USA right now.
rip, I hope you can get as much peripheral stuff done to uncomplicate things while looking for a new job, and hope you can find a good job too in your search.
We had a "Cool Front" pass through. WOO HOO. 67F outside here right now. So not much temp change but drier air.
Son's Freshman football team had a tough game Thursday. They played as hard as I've ever seen them play. My son plays running back on O, and outside linebacker on D. Also plays on all the kicking special teams. so basically, he never gets a down off. He played hard, was so tired at the end of the game. He was battered, bruised and totally worn out. Then the coach relented that they just got beat by a combined Junior Varsity team and not a true freshman team. They had some huge kids on the other team. Oak tree kids. Especially the linemen. Son was mad about it. Usually, when the opponents don't have enough kids to field a team, they play Up to the next level with the combined frosh and JV players. But I suppose our coach let them play down to our frosh. We lost 28-18 after a hard fight. But redemption came last night as our varsity beat the other team's varsity 40-7.
Some old friends that used to be our neighbors are dropping by today. Should be good.
I had mentioned that my LX5 Deere shredder was bad about shearing the shear bolts. They would last anywhere from 10 minutes to maybe 3 hours. It uses 3/8 or really 10mm bolts. They fit loosy goosy with too much slop which is why they shear. I've gone up to grade 8 and they still snap. I decided I would drill it out up to 7/16" which is only about .040" bigger than 10mm. I got schooled. Someone had mentioned somewhere how I was going to drill through the hardened PTO shaft?...It was HARD. High speed steel didn't stand a chance. Also realized my brother had taken my dad's old heavy duty drill back and I had to do it with my 19v cordless... So after work hardening the pto shaft further by dulling 2 drills and maybe getting .025" deep just opening it up those .040", I started searching my tooling. I had 2 reamers and they just dulled trying to cut through. Even the sides of the reamer flutes just dulled back, ruining the reamers. I dug further and found a carbide tipped 7/16 drill and that made it through it but it did not have enough side contact flute to keep it straight in the hole. Cylindricity suffered. It veered off centerline maybe .005 or so. So I can now get the grade 5 bolts through the hole by hammering them. I wanted a very close fit, but not this tight. I might have to order a 7/16 carbide fluted reamer on ebay to get the hole straighted out. Part of me is wondering why I didn't just go to 1/2" diameter. I could have used a long reach ball nosed endmill to push through it.That will be the next step if this doesn't fix the problem. I was just trying to preserve as much integrity of the pto shaft so 7/16 was the next step. There is a PTO clutch which works and will slip if it hits something.
Waiting for the dew to dry just a bit to go try the new shear bolt situation.
Hope all have a blessed day. Prayers for our team, our nation, for peace in Ukraine and Israel.
got about half hour work before going into limp mode, then it seemed like it took half the morning to limp back to tractorshed. Frustrating. Passed info to tech.