Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

I was impressed with this blurb on Ron's new flail mower, touting the very high quality
bearings used. Probably the Japanese version of Timken.

NSK is a leading bearing and motion control manufacturing company founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1916. Today NSK has several plants around the world including England, Germany, USA and Switzerland and by far one the best quality bearings available on the market today. Although these bearings are very costly, we feel that in an application with high load and dynamic forces such as a flail mower that such high quality bearings are required. These bearings are noticeably smoother, quieter, and cooler running than any competitor and far superior to any no-name brand.

And I'm sure there is a Chinese equivalent of the same quality, but how would we ever know which one is good?
Instead we whitewash all Chinese goods as potentially substandard.

I always ask for Timken and I always look for the country of origin on the bearings.
Usually that gets me odd stares...

I spent most of my working career work on some type of spindle that needed bearings. Lots of them had foreign made bearings and ran better than the Timken bearings. Are NSK a good product. Maybe, depends on what precision they are. Higher RPM's and loads require a more precision bearing. Woodmaxx may have been using a NSK bearing originally. But it was not a precision bearing.

 

[ronjhall]

No deer this morning. One lone turkey.
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[Buppies]

Roy the one they have coming in is for her to look at only if she likes it will order one with threaded barrel. Thanks for the heads up on this

I showed her the pictures which was very helpful

 

[Thomas]

28F blue sky upper 50's for high.

Got little behind filling the feeders this morning and the birds squirrels etc. made it known.
Todays plan...finishing raking up to snow line than pickup limbs/branches propane run for the gas grill,than some relaxing puttering.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[CWB Wyo]

28* for the low this morning, it got up to the low 60's and sunny yesterday. It's going to be a little warmer today, mid 60's and sunny skies with a 10-15 wind.

Probably go up and help the neighbor work on his trailer again today. It's still to muddy to do much around here. I need to make a list of things I would like to get done this summer.

Hope everyone has a nice Sunday.
CWB.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

FM-62H PTO Flail Mower (62") with hydraulic side shift
Going to be cutting about 3 acres of my place and about 5 acres of neighbors 13 acres. Would like to have bigger. But my B2910 is maxed out with the 62"

Which blades did you opt for? Sorry if you've already posted this.

I spent most of my working career work on some type of spindle that needed bearings. Lots of them had foreign made bearings and ran better than the Timken bearings. Are NSK a good product. Maybe, depends on what precision they are. Higher RPM's and loads require a more precision bearing. Woodmaxx may have been using a NSK bearing originally. But it was not a precision bearing.

It has been my experience that NSK builds some of the finest bearings in the world. Of course their best bearings for mill spindles and servo controlled axis are quite spendy. Precision makes for a higher price.

Had coffee, now time to get ready for church.

 

[ronjhall]

Which blades did you opt for? Sorry if you've already posted this.

Y-blades. I only have grass/weeds to cut. I also have a rotary cutter. Want to get away from the windrow rotary cutter leaves.

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning everyone-

Another clear and frozen start to the day. With temperatures rising into the 60F's I will be able to take a look at that window and how much hardened Saint Bernard drool I need to remove; ~10 years worth. It's nasty stuff; kind of like that "Alien" drool in that SciFi movie. There are probably a few now hardened "droolers" hanging from everything. This stuff could have Military/LE value.

Drew- Thanks for the clarification. My first reaction when I read your post was as you intended- pretty funny. You do know your psych stuff. I still miss the old psych banter in the staff rooms. Then I thought about my first reaction...... I should not have gone there. My bad.

Ron- Sometimes I "slip" and go into psycho-jargon psychobabble mode usually when I go into the "Jayzone". No "crazy talk" neologisms though. I think Drew came up with some of those psych terms.

Buppies- I have "issues" with the "Bubble People" not snow men nor clowns . I actually saw that picture the first time in a weathergeek site thread. I wish that I was that creative.

I must confess. It happened when I was a young boy experimenting with my very first scientific instrument- a magnifying glass. . Seeing enlarged objects got boring pretty quickly. It was really neat how one could start a fire with one of those things. I thought that it would be pretty neat to burn a few ants as I progressed in my research. I sat down next to an ant hill; a rather large ant hill, and started my death ray. Wow I said and then I said a couple of more "wows" and then louder wows as the ants responded aggressively to the threat. It was a learning moment about the power of the sun, and of the stings of many angry ants. I had a fear of a higher being when I was a kid. I took what happened as a warning I have grieved all those dead ants the past 60 years. Now I am relieved of another "burden."

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers for all.

I hope everyone has a decent day.

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .25 inches rain, saw a bit of sun when I first got up, there’s hope.

Another easy day ahead. Play cards with our cottage couple later. Likely way too wet to mow, but grass is getting taller.

Prayers for all.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[lostcreekranch]

A few days ago we had a conversation about various glyphosate herbicide brands and their effectiveness and how long they last.

I got busy and didn’t have a chance to respond.

Glyphosate:

The primary ingredient is obviously glyphosate, a systemic non-selective herbicide. A dilutable product that starts out in the range of 40-42% diluted to 4-6% in water will result in an effective kill of almost anything it contacts. The glyphosate is taken in thru leaves and stems and moves to the root system, it’s real target. Use of a surfactant increases the effectiveness significantly. Glyphosate has no soil activity so, no long term effect and its broken down fairly quickly by microbes in your soil.

Imazapyr

Imazapyr is added to some products to extend time of effective kill. Imazapyr does have soil activity, unlike glyphosate, and does not get broken down by soil microbes as fast as the glyphosate does.

Diquat:

A few glyphosate products also include Diquat. It is a contact herbicide and quickly “burns” the target plant to give you “quick gratification. It does nothing to improve or extend the effectiveness of the glyphosate, it just makes you feel like you accomplished something quicker.

Hopefully this will help as you evaluate various products.

Here is the Label for the RM43 that I use. Note that the active ingredients are;

Glyphosate - 43.68%.

Imazapyr - 0.78%


https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/084009-00003-20150710.pdf

If you take the course work and become a Private Applicator, you will always Remember;

1. Read The Label!

2. The Label is the Law!

Knowingly using these products in a manner contrary to the Label is a federal crime.