Good morning!!!!

[Thall303]

She did change her mind after she actually went behind the barn and looked at it. Her suggestion was to build something under the tree to take the weight off before cutting - withot getting too close to the tree. ???

After 47 years, I have decided, that for the most part, my wife is smarter than I am?

 

[mkr7734]

Good morning, 49 heading to 65 with a mix of sun and clouds. Will be a fine day on the North Bluff.

Could not sleep last night, arms hurt no matter what I did, then about 2:00AM is remembered that I forgot to take the muscle relaxer pill the Dr. ordered for me to help with this Rotor cuff issue I have been fighting. Now at least I know they work. So I took one at 5:00AM and just got up at 8:20 and feel like I am in a cloud. We have turkeys here everyday now but only about 4 or 5 hens, not the flock of 35 we had. I think these have nested close by in the woods. They are awful brave. They don't even run when I walk to the shed down the drive. They either just keep eating under the bird feeder or mosey off real slow.

Don. Mice in equipment = Bad bad bad. They love wire for nesting. Let us know what the tree guy decides.
yankeerider I am one of those a place for everything and everything in it's place guys. Blame my Grand-dad.

Will be working on a water issue up at the front of the lane today. When It rains a lot the field on the other side of the street will run over the road because the 18" tube can't take it all. When it does the water runs down the first 60' of the lane and will wash everything into the creek on the west side of it. This happen twice last spring and it took two semi loads of gravel to repair it. The township road commissioner is a waste. So I have built the lane up higher at the front by the road and tapered the west side ground towards the creek. so if it over-tops it will just flow right into the creek in the first 20' and should save the rest of the gravel. Got to trim some more trees and get some grass growing there. Will be using the Stihl with the saw blade to wipe out the little stuff and the string to do the rest.
Have a good one.

 

[rswyan]

"hitch" in the ignition switch.
RS that sounds like it. I hope it is finished with it's hick-ups. Thanks.

Mine has started to hang or catch ... after releasing it off the "start" position (which is spring-loaded) ... have to make sure it returns to the "on" position and doesn't get hung up in between. Seems like there is a dead spot in the middle.

 

[rswyan]

52.8F and overcast with occasional peeks of sun @ 10:00 ... high today of 60F with a mix of clouds and sun with a chance of rain.

Heading down to Kidron later at some point to have a look at some angle for the LPGS.

Modeled the design yesterday in 3D and threw up a couple of renderings in the thread. Also got a quote on the rest of the steel I need ... turned out to be less than I thought it would be.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .1 inches rain last 24 hours.

Need to check out the clutch on Maruyama weed trimmer, slipping.

Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[daugen]

I just had a long and very interesting discussion with my alarm company ADS. I wanted cloud storage for my video security system so that the stupidest thief could not find the DVR and just take that with them too. My options are now three ,and I only knew of 2. The first is lining up like a dumb sheep and pay 40 dollars per month per camera and they need a whole new system to do that. No............. Second is fabricating a steel security box for the DVR and really secure it to the house. Good use for my welder which I have never used yet...sigh.
Lastly, and the alarm guy had the idea, nobody wants their dvr stolen. So he said the cheaper solution was to just buy one camera, or lease it for 40 a month, with maintenance, and aim the camera at the DVR, wherever it might be. So whoever is trying to rip off the DVR will be captured on the cloud. Great idea.

I have a better one though. :dance1:
I'm going to take my game cam and mount it on the opposite wall. It will spend its life recording routine movements, but in case the bad guy rips off the box, it will capture that movement too. for free, I have the game cam. I don't seen any downside to this approach as long as I hide the game cam well, which considering where it is will work well. Obviously not saying online where it is. Video would be nice, but high rez photos should do also. The bear never came back to wreck my bird feeder again so time to repurpose the game cam. If there are flaws in my logic, I'm all ears...
I can do this...

Kevin, hope your shoulder feels better. Careful driving with that stuff, I take one morning and night.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

The bear never came back to wreck my bird feeder again so time to repurpose the game cam. If there are flaws in my logic, I'm all ears...

The bear's been keeping tabs on you by reading GM; as soon as you move the camera into the living room your feeders are toast! :laughing:

YR, soon you'll wonder how you ever got anything done while you were still working!

Don, had the same issue myself earlier this year. Got out the workshop manual (Kubota 3240) and traced the schematic back through the ignition switch and all the safety cutoff switches (clutch, seat, PTO, etc). Pulled the wires from each of them, hit them with DeOxIt, then gave the ignition switch a shot of the stuff too. Problem gone. On my tractor the relays were up under the plastic cowl that covers the top of the dash, and it only took four bolts to get it loose.

Dropped the motorcycle parts off at the pin striper on Friday, but on viewing the work he said he'd need at least a week. No hurry, I said, the rest of the bike is still in the rafters. Maybe I shouldn't have been so honest?

Back from a nice visit with vintner friend, good conversation and great food. Brought back home made sauerkraut, orange marmalade, and spicy salsa. Then went camping with VW bus and BMW motorcycle friends, but only one bus and one motorcycle showed up; everyone else (including me) was driving something more comfortable :laughing: Wonderful weather all weekend, and lots of wildflowers to pretty things up.

Off to mow some more with the tractor; showers and thunderstorms on tap for tomorrow.

 

[mkr7734]

Thanks Drew, I am not used to taking these pills yet.

Well here are some pictures of the drive water maybe fix.

This first picture is of the drive looking from where it would gut out into the creek to the road. It used to be the road was the high point and the bottom of the swell the low spot.



This is the field that will over-top the road with water.



This is the hump I put in the drive to make a new high point.



This is the tube to the creek that can't handle the load.



This is where I made the cut to the creek.




The hump I built from the supply side.



This is the low spot in the road where the water will over top. Smack dab in front of the entrance to the drive. :banghead:





I am thinking that now the water will over-top and head down the cut as it should be the path of least resistance. Before it would just shoot straight down the drive and wash everything out into the creek because it was the path of least resistance..

What do you guys think??

 

[txdon]

Don, had the same issue myself earlier this year. Got out the workshop manual (Kubota 3240) and traced the schematic back through the ignition switch and all the safety cutoff switches (clutch, seat, PTO, etc). Pulled the wires from each of them, hit them with DeOxIt, then gave the ignition switch a shot of the stuff too. Problem gone. On my tractor the relays were up under the plastic cowl that covers the top of the dash, and it only took four bolts to get it loose.

DeOxIT! Thanks, will do. Tree man on the way . . . .

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thanks for all the retirement wishes, gents. I've always enjoyed this thread when I found time to read it. Being here became one of my retirement goals, we'll see how successful i can be at it.

I was a bit concerned for all you guys in the mid-Atlantic region after seeing yesterday afternoon's weather forecast, glad no reports of significant issues this morning. My biggest accomplishment yesterday was finally clearing off the last of my workbenches which I haven't seen the top of in the last couple of years. Since I won't be able to do anything of significance outside this week, I'm going to focus on workshop cleanup and see if Ican discipline myself to keep them more orderly. My father-in-law used to speak admiringly of his old farmer friend (a gent we referred to as "Old Harold") who at the age of 91 would go to the barn, get a hammer, drive a few staples, then shuffle back to the barn and put the hammer away before finishing the rest of the work.

Have a good and safe day everyone.

Welcome and congrats to retirement! Why is "tired" in the middle of retiredment?

Good morning! A cool 54˚ this morning is it January or May in Texas? This is wonderful, mostly sunny day, waiting for my tree man to call. I'm interested to see If he is thinking the same as me and would make the first cut the same place I would have, and what his plan is to keep extra weight off the BH during the process.

A intermittent ignition switch problem makes sense with all the senerios obseved. The instrument panel will either come on and it will imeadiately crank or the instrument panel will not come on and everthing (lights, cranking) is off. The battery connections are very tight and clean, but it's a good idea to move them around a bit and clean the inside of the terminals.

Calling out the tree guys sounds like a good idea.

Good morning, 49 heading to 65 with a mix of sun and clouds. Will be a fine day on the North Bluff.

Could not sleep last night, arms hurt no matter what I did, then about 2:00AM is remembered that I forgot to take the muscle relaxer pill the Dr. ordered for me to help with this Rotor cuff issue I have been fighting. Now at least I know they work. So I took one at 5:00AM and just got up at 8:20 and feel like I am in a cloud. We have turkeys here everyday now but only about 4 or 5 hens, not the flock of 35 we had. I think these have nested close by in the woods. They are awful brave. They don't even run when I walk to the shed down the drive. They either just keep eating under the bird feeder or mosey off real slow.

Don. Mice in equipment = Bad bad bad. They love wire for nesting. Let us know what the tree guy decides.
yankeerider I am one of those a place for everything and everything in it's place guys. Blame my Grand-dad.

Will be working on a water issue up at the front of the lane today. When It rains a lot the field on the other side of the street will run over the road because the 18" tube can't take it all. When it does the water runs down the first 60' of the lane and will wash everything into the creek on the west side of it. This happen twice last spring and it took two semi loads of gravel to repair it. The township road commissioner is a waste. So I have built the lane up higher at the front by the road and tapered the west side ground towards the creek. so if it over-tops it will just flow right into the creek in the first 20' and should save the rest of the gravel. Got to trim some more trees and get some grass growing there. Will be using the Stihl with the saw blade to wipe out the little stuff and the string to do the rest.
Have a good one.

Kev, look at the model railroads in this home for sale. They had me drooling. Also, nice shop and check out the trestle bridge.
1855 SW Seiffert Rd - Home

DeOxIT! Thanks, will do. Tree man on the way . . . .

Good call on the deoxit. Hope it works. Don, my dad always told me, "If your battery is 4 years old, you're not throwing away good money by replacing it first to make sure it is not the problem."