Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Welding is one of those skills that is best learned by doing, but some preparation is helpful as well. Stainless steel is readily weldable, at least some types are. If you know the alloy, you can pick a compatible electrode. Here are a couple of helpful articles, the first from a US supplier using US terminology and electrode specifications, the other from the EU:

Stainless Steel Electrodes: 滴 Versus 鏑 and Coating Types

http://www.worldstainless.org/Files/issf/non-image-files/PDF/Euro_Inox/BrochureWeldability_EN.pdf

Thanks RNG, I have some unbranded rods that are supposed to be ok for 304 and a plentiful supply of grinding discs, it's a good technique that is in short supply. I'll keep practicing.

One consolation is that, even when my welds are still on the ugly side, stainless does give some pretty colors

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning friends. 56 degrees and way foggy here. Forecast is for 81 this afternoon. Still cleaning up from storm Tuesday night / Wednesday a.m. We had winds over 60 mph and 2 1/2" of rain, between midnight and 12:45. Small tree branches everywhere.

Wild flowers near their peak now.

 

[farmer2009]

58 this morning and headed to 77 today. Rain last night didn't amount to much. Doubt it was even measurable.

Need to check chickens and mow. Then service the ZTR for mowing around the tight places. Then go look at a 4-wheel wagon. There's a couple at auction tomorrow but this one is definitely cheaper. It's my grandfathers and has been parked inside a barn for 30 years. It was his feed wagon. Tires are shot and tongue is froze but it still steers. Wanting one to haul hay with. But will also be adding one of these to it. Bergman Manufacturing Inc. Currently use a gooseneck trailer but it's hard on it driving through fields dragging the tail and all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 53˚ foggy.
I got too close to my gates push button control with the Z and it tore apart. luckily I just unlocked it remounted it and it seems to work but now the gate's remote exit sensor is going off during the vibrations of starting and stopping. I get to look for a loose wire today.

Whipper was back on patrol last night with a vengeance. I could tell she was mad at herself for letting the neighbor dog stop here during the lightning storm but she was too preocupied with the thunder to attend to the situation. Last night the juvenal coyote was taunting Whipper - coming close to Whip then running away - repeat. All I could see was a black figure utill I hit it with the spotlight, too bad I could not get a vidio of it but it was just too dark.

Ron so you will hit Moab Texas and Moab Utah this trip.

Drew, to find out your average cholesterol go to Walgreens drug store and have them do a blood draw for a cholesterol test 4 hours after your high cholerstrol meal and then average it with your fasting test at the Dr. This is a more accurate way to find out why heart disease is the #1 cause of death.

Way back when I was bullet proof and cholesterol was just being studied I had a un-fasting cholesterol level of 400 at the Doctors after a Micky D's hamburger. . . .Those were my young and stupid days . . . .

 

[ronjhall]

Ron so you will hit Moab Texas and Moab Utah this trip.
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Had to look that up. You are right. I must have missed it when we drove threw the town.

 

[toppop52]

No obstacles here, other than probably 200+ oak trees to mow around and under on the 8 plus acres.

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So, you mow around the trees with the tractor? Or do you use something else to trim with? I use a string trimmer about 3 times a summer, I use to have to use it every week with a regular tractor style mower, but what you need or what you like is a very individual thing.

 

[mkr7734]

Nice out there again today, 44 heading to the low 70s. Things are really drying out. Washed the truck yesterday. It had a ton of crushed gravel fines packed in the wheel wells. Glad I cleaned it.

Weeds are taking off. Put the heated birdbath and cat water bowl away and set up both of the concrete birdbaths. Un-covered the AC compressor for the house and put away the snow shovel. Most of the trails in the woods have dried up enough to travel on but two. Made a deal with Jim next door where instead of him paying me for his part of the gravel I had laid down he is going to buy and haul that amount of gravel with his gooseneck trailer to freshen up some of the bad spots on the north end of the lane.

I have both, a small 48" rider that I do around the house with because of all the trees. I also use it to open up the large areas then go in with the 72" finish mower. Anything bigger than 48" will not fit between a lot of the stuff around the house. So that is a limit factor.



Drew, I have also been married 3 times. I just tell people I have had the best years of three woman's lives. :laughing:
Been with the one I have now for 33 years. She was the keeper. :thumbsup:

Well have a good one.

 

[toppop52]

Frost again this morning, around 60° later. I can't use more than 54" in a lot of places.

This was when I first saw the property.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 54F this morning, patchy fog. Going to 76F partly cloudy more clouds later today and tomorrow, chance of rain starting tomorrow. Getting ready for trip to Missouri to fix boat seat, need to mow etc. Will have very limited internet access while on trip.

 

[mkr7734]

Got the flail lubed and filled with gear oil, only to find that the supplied PTO drive shaft is several inches too short. The one from the Bushog might work, but the push button releases on the too short one are obscured by the safety guard on the flail end of the connection. Even if I were able to get to it, the one on the other end jams and needs the persuasion of a ball pien hammer and drift to move, so I've got a call into "tech support" and will hopefully gain some insight later today.

TGIF gang!

RNG, I got one of these for my finish mower PTO shaft. It ended up too short after I put the quick connect on the back of the tractor. It adds 5" and you can access the QC because it puts it in front of the shield.

Double HH Quick Release PTO Adapter Extender at Blain's Farm & Fleet