Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

70 with 91 promised this afternoon and 80% chance of heavy rain tonight. I guess TS Bill is almost here.

Drew, good luck with the boat transaction.

I admire you guys that work on firewood in the summer. Too hot for me.

Took my wife to a beautiful winery yesterday near Madison to meet my son and GF for lunch...celebrated the 2 ladies' birthdays. Then to the Mennonite store to buy some yummy jams and breads. Picked up a new 2-person porch swing that I promised her for Mother's Day.

I've got some tilling to do, but may put some of it off due to the washout expected. Instead, still have more mowing to do.

 

[sseelhoff]

Good Morning. First cup of coffee in hand. Going to get on the bike for a ride early. Then it's weed eating and mower time (walk behind) for a bit, followed by moving a fence line and installing a new gate. Then more mower time (pasture shredder) for a bit. Then eat, sleep, repeat.

Drew: Good Luck with the boat purchase. She's a beauty. That's a very kind gesture to give your brother and his family your old boat.

RonJHall: Hope you had a great birthday. Enjoy your next trip around the sun!

Farmer2009: Missed your anniversary. Hope you have many many more.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

69F now, with more sunshine today. High 97F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

RS, that's some pretty straight saw work on those big rounds! :thumbsup: But just watching that noodling video made my back sore! If you do end up replacing a furnace, you may get a summer discount? Bummer you have to replace the other sprockets as well, but the new chain'll last a bit longer that way. I still remember the day tornadoes destroyed Zenia. Very scary hearing the tornado warnings on TV, then going outside to the very dark sky and huge lightning bolts. Those storm cells never made as far east to Columbus, at least on that day.

Farmer, three beef cows at once! What a loss. But that's what insurance is for, right? Good luck riding out the new storm.

Drew, good luck on the offer. You got one of those hats with the scrambled eggs on the front? :laughing:

Jumped on the RTV right after breakfast yesterday, all set to make another start on the weed spraying. 'Cept it cranked much slower than usual, so I let it run while I mixed the tank. Ran it out no problem, but when I came back for the next refill, I thought I'd better stop the engine and restart it to make sure it would go. It just went click, click, click. Battery was dead. Either the new pump is pulling way more current than the old one, or the fuzz on the terminals is keeping the charge out of the battery. Or the four year old battery is dying. So I cleaned up the terminals, tightened the clamps, and shot everything with a good dose of LPS 3. Then put it on a charger. I'll load test it later today and see.

By then it was too hot to spray, so switched over to putting the driving lights off the old bike onto the for sale bike. Paid better attention this time so there were no shorts, and finished up with a few other things that needed taken care of prior to getting rid of it. Now it's just waiting on the dealer to call and say they're ready to perform the recall work.

Today I was supposed to head over to a friend's place near Lake Tahoe for another motorcycle wrenching party (Airhead tech day), but my traveling companion called last night to say he'd mixed up the dates and couldn't go. At about the same time another buddy, who I haven't seen in a few years, let me know he'd be in the next burg over showing off a new to him Olds 442 at a car show, and he'd have an extra chair for me if I wanted to wander over for a look see. So that's the new plan for today.

Stay cool everybody, and have a great weekend!

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Kyle, Sorry about the Uncle, he is in a better place.
Roy, glad you got well.
Ron, Happy Belated Birthday!
Drew, good on you for the decision about which "hole in the water you throw money into" for yourself & for your brother.
Farmer, Happy anniversary!

I can't seem to keep up here, I feel like a lurker, or one of those "Long time listener, first time caller" types...

Logging is done, 3 pt lost a pin, bought a log splitter, Thinking about selling my FarmBoss MS290 and buying a Stihl pro MS261 from a TBN'r, gonna buy an Echo cs400 smaller saw also. Thinking about marrying my girlfriend (no jokes please, she is pretty awesome), my Ex is messing with me (can't talk about it, but likely to end up in court) and I'm not getting access to my kids AGAIN... Sigh I seem to be the Drama Lama here so it is likely best I'm not on here daily anymore.

As the saying goes, "That which does not kill you..." and I ain't dead yet...

I hope God richly blesses ALL of y'all.
Be well my friends. I'll be lurking when I can. (BTW - I almost NEVER gt a TBN email thread update anymore).

David

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thank you all for the condolences. It was a good memorial service celebrating his life. His employer had continued to pay him full pay for the last 3 years of his life, even though he was down and hospitalized for a good bit of it. One of the owners of his job came from Oklahoma and was sincerely grateful for having known Uncle Terry.

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, 64F here heading to 79F. Working today , then heading over to a friend's place where I am storing my John Deere B. Going to try and get it unstuck to day and may see if we can get it started.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Thank you all for the condolences. It was a good memorial service celebrating his life. His employer had continued to pay him full pay for the last 3 years of his life, even though he was down and hospitalized for a good bit of it. One of the owners of his job came from Oklahoma and was sincerely grateful for having known Uncle Terry.

Whatever company that was Uncle Terry worked for I would HAPPILY buy from them. You do not hear stories like that often. Impressive.
Uncle Terry must have been a fine person!

Be well,
David

 

[farmer2009]

73 this morning and headed to 86 today. Ended up with about .75 inches of rain out of Bill last night. Far below predictions. But that's fine. Radar shows center of rotation just southeast of Louisville, Kentucky. Looks like maybe it has turned more eastward. For a storm like that to be this far inland it's still fairly well organized. I remember another one making it this far. Forgot it's name but back about 08 or 09. We had one that still almost had hurricane force winds when it got here. But was a dry storm. Only wind no rain.

Thanks guys for the anniversary wishes.

MFW. Congrats on your new girlfriend. Nothing wrong with slow though. Sorry to hear your still having trouble with the ex. But that may never end. Good luck getting kids back.
I have a CS400 with an 18" bar. Good little saw but if I had a do over I would look at the Timberwolf version. It wasn't out when I bought mine. But mine does everything I need an 18" saw to do. Been times I've needed a bigger saw and I just call dad or a friend. But nice and light for bucking but yet enough power for felling.

 

[daugen]

back in for a shirt swap. And a cleanup to get the orchard spray off. Bummer, the little Honda GCV160 engine would not run worth beans, acted like something was clogged in the carb, no rpm, and even when manually sped up it was not happy.
Probably build goop somewhere it should not be but a real pita for me to get it fixed. So out came the three gallon hand sprayer and I lugged that all over the place. Got that done, not being pleased to see an 8th tree croaked and all three of my first gen apples were gone. Not a trace. Must be birds. Not like I want to lay bird netting over that whole thing. But the birds here are voracious; they are finding the gaps in my blueberry netting and each day there are less berries. Despite being well fed by me with sunflowers and treats. Not getting much respect here, said Rodney...

Back to mow the field, then drop that mower off, put on the heavy bush hog, and have that ready for the Kubota dealer to pick up on Tuesday to sell. I have no use for that mower now that I have a finishing mower. RCF084 Land Pride, nice cutter.
I know I could pick up the rotary cutter with the forks, but seems easier to just attach it to the three point and have the truck driver back it onto his trailer and drop it. Their problem getting it off. My deal to go wax it and make it sales ready. And while I have the finish mower off, I'm going to grease those universal joints I've been having problems getting to.
Then likely a shower, and escape to the woodshop for the afternoon and have a cold beer or two.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Temp here is 76, dew point 75. Ugh.