Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

54 high of 80 today milling on tap today

Weekend coming and Mother’s Day got to work on that to

Still more trees to clean up I’m getting slow and balance is poor

Prayers for all our Country scaredy. LS Kyles daughter, all others silent or spoken

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

53.3F, going to low 80’s, intermittent precipitation expected today.

Ordered 10T type 57 stone to be delivered Monday. Mrs had raked the shed site and removed a bunch of roots and branch debris, and we put down weedbloc fabric under where the shed will sit. I need to mark the end of the fabric with a stake..

Got another stump out yesterday, began working on another when a cold, gusty win blew through, so operations were suspended in case it brought rain.

it didn’t…

Today’s plans are pretty much consumed with taking mom shopping and other errands, and depending on how bad the weather is — or isn’t — possibly going up for dog walk.

Either today or to,or row we should get a Harry Progress Report from boarding school. We will find out who is training who LOL!

 

[daugen]

Kilroy, maybe I'm confused...I've never seen anyone carry around an ATV spare, but then I don't go racing off road.
why do you need a spare? Do you get a lot of flats? I sure understand getting the tire out of the little bed but why do you have it in
the first place? For the "Jeep Baja" look?

I have a spare tire on my small utility trailer since it is a single axle. I expect never to use it.
Just a feel good thing to know if I blow out the right tire on a bad roadside around here, I'll have something to get me going
right away. I figure I will likely shred the sidewall. I suppose if you rock climb on a lot of shale, that would be an issue.
Just seems those UTV tires rarely fail in my admitted personal experience.

I've had an ATV and UTV and now a golf cart for almost forty years. Never got a flat. So I'm curious.
Now if you had six locust trees in your front lawn I'd understand.

It does make a wonderful front bumper.

I have a bunch of stumps in my yard, several are now rotting away and looking bad. I try to hide them by putting flower pots on top.
Squirrels and birds peck at them like mad, dig into sides, I guess to eat bugs and grubs. Makes a big mess and leaves bits of wood all around the stump.
I might rent a backhoe to take them out. Something I don't know how to use though, no seat time on backhoe at all.
If I just grind the stumps the whole area will eventually sink when the wood rots.
if I had a mini-ex, I think I'd be off looking for stumps all the time.

 

[Buppies]

MTD Ohio based company owned by Stanley Black and Decker

Those who ride the trails often go long distances off road ie Hatfield and McCoy trail system and having a spare is a good idea. The longest trail system I know of runs from Wyoming to Mexican border but cannot remember the name

 

[KilroyJC]

Kilroy, maybe I'm confused...I've never seen anyone carry around an ATV spare, but then I don't go racing off road.
why do you need a spare? Do you get a lot of flats? I sure understand getting the tire out of the little bed but why do you have it in
the first place? For the "Jeep Baja" look?

I have a spare tire on my small utility trailer since it is a single axle. I expect never to use it.
Just a feel good thing to know if I blow out the right tire on a bad roadside around here, I'll have something to get me going
right away. I figure I will likely shred the sidewall. I suppose if you rock climb on a lot of shale, that would be an issue.
Just seems those UTV tires rarely fail in my admitted personal experience.

I've had an ATV and UTV and now a golf cart for almost forty years. Never got a flat. So I'm curious.
Now if you had six locust trees in your front lawn I'd understand.

It does make a wonderful front bumper.

I have a bunch of stumps in my yard, several are now rotting away and looking bad. I try to hide them by putting flower pots on top.
Squirrels and birds peck at them like mad, dig into sides, I guess to eat bugs and grubs. Makes a big mess and leaves bits of wood all around the stump.
I might rent a backhoe to take them out. Something I don't know how to use though, no seat time on backhoe at all.
If I just grind the stumps the whole area will eventually sink when the wood rots.
if I had a mini-ex, I think I'd be off looking for stumps all the time.

I have a spare because we use the quad to go on- road (it is street legal) and the state road we travel for approx 1-1/4 miles has a junkyard and scrapyard on it, and we have gotten flats on our regular vehicles, and who wants to be stranded? We also have a lot or dead root ends poking up out of our cleared areas on our woodlot, and there is good potential for punctures there, too.

but the primary and most compelling reason for having the sore is that Mrs said “ Whaddya mean, no spare tire? OF COURSE we need a spare tire!”

and I heartily agreed, because if we DO get a flat on the woodlot, it is almost a six-mile walk home to get another vehicle. And can you guess who would be doing the walking…

 

[daugen]

oh that would be the walk of shame, to the tune of
"didn't I tell you to get a spare"?

thanks

 

[daugen]

one thing I did remember to pack in the car is a lug nut wrench sized for trailer tire nuts.
don't forget the wrench...though I bet you have a little tool box in there.

 

[wngsprd]

56 lovely degrees, going to 85. Maybe rain tonight or tomorrow.

Yep, Buppies, Mother's Day is near.

RS, Grackles have moved in and are consuming a suet bar about every other day here, too...hate to leave it empty since the woodpeckers and nuthatches, etc like it. I have a second suet near the house, and the blackbirds aren't as brave coming to it.

Kilroy, nice job on that rack.

 

[KilroyJC]

oh that would be the walk of shame, to the tune of
"didn't I tell you to get a spare"?

thanks

I might not even have to make the walk alone, so I could continue to be informed of my I’ll-advised decision to not have a spare…

no, we got the spare ordered about two days after taking delivery of the quad, and had it in the bed before we even got it registered.

 

[KilroyJC]

one thing I did remember to pack in the car is a lug nut wrench sized for trailer tire nuts.
don't forget the wrench...though I bet you have a little tool box in there.

There is storage under the seat, and I have a couple of tire irons in there,with other tools as well.