My day

[JAinVA 4,619]

I am just wondering if you guys have days like this?I decided that I needed to mow the grass around the missus's garden.Before mounting the deck to the 416-8 I decided to freshen up the blades.No way, they were to far gone so I get another set and sharpen them.Grease the spindles,and mount the deck.Open the gate and start to mow.Get to close to the blueberry bushes and snag the bird netting

locking up the middle spindle.Run the tractor back to the shop ,drop the deck and spend time cutting away the mess.Remount the deck and head to the garden.Cut the grass and then head to where I have been cutting wood to clean up there, hang the deck and the stick the tractor.Walk 600 feet up hill and get another WH to get the 416 free.Unstick the 416 and run the 520 back up to the house.Get on the 416 to get it back to base and noticed it wants to turn right.On the trip back to the house notice that the right front is flat.Demount the flat and see that the valve stem is missing and the tire is full of fix a flat.Clean the rim and grab a new valve.Mount a used tire and finish the day mowing around the wood shed.I'm tired and feel that nothing got done.

Edited August 26, 2018 by JAinVA

[Mows4three 826]

Full moon tonight.   It's got to be the reason things went sideways for you.....!

[rjg854 11,349]

Mama told me that there'd be days like this

 

There'd be days like this mama said 

[WHNJ701 4,165]

I think we all do at some time, last week I had the 854 out cutting, kicked up a small rock somehow and locked the one blade up and snapped the spindle.  yeah it sucks.  I keep a bunch spares on hand but ordered up another for the spare parts box.  I hate breaking old iron but it's bound to happen sometime and it's the chance you take.  had to finish with the 211-4

[RandyLittrell 3,877]

You get props for staying in it that long!    About the time I would have seen the flat with the wheel full of grass, I would have went to the house, had a beer or two and fixed it the next day!! 

 

 

 

 

Randy

[MarkS 122]

That sounds like a story of any project ive ever had!!

[Lane Ranger 10,945]

This is a good rationale for several Wheel Horse mowing tractors in the shed! 

 

At least, that is my story !

 

[953 nut 55,065]

9 hours ago, JAinVA said:

finish the day mowing around the wood shed.

You may not have accomplished all you set out to do, but you did get one job done.             

[SylvanLakeWH 25,490]

9 hours ago, JAinVA said:

sharpen the blades.

Grease the spindles,

mount the deck.

Open the gate

start to mow.

snag the bird netting

locking up the middle spindle.

Run the tractor back to the shop ,

drop the deck

spend time cutting away the mess.

Remount the deck

head to the garden.

Cut the grass

head to where I have been cutting wood to clean up there,

hang the deck and the stick the tractor.

Walk 600 feet up hill

get another WH to get the 416 free.

Unstick the 416

run the 520 back up to the house.

Get on the 416 to get it back to base

noticed it wants to turn right.

On the trip back to the house notice that the right front is flat.

Demount the flat and see that the valve stem is missing and the tire is full of fix a flat.

Clean the rim

grab a new valve.

Mount a used tire

finish the day mowing around the wood shed.

 

I'm tired and feel that nothing got done.

 

Are you kidding? You got A LOT done!!!  

 

We have all had "productive" days like that!!!

[Pollack Pete 2,273]

Welcome to my world.

[oldredrider 2,548]

I call days like that "Bill Dance" days.

[Tankman 3,518]

Could have been worse! At least the Horses had fun.  

 

Not much worse though. 

[clueless 2,976]

50 years ago I worked with an old man who called that a buzzard day- "can't kill nothing, won't nothing die". I still call those days that.

[AMC RULES 37,127]

                       Sounds like you had a great workout.  

[ebinmaine 67,266]

Huge silver lining....

 

ALL your machine time was  time.

 

You got a lot done.

No worries.

I have those days too.

I've learned to set very relaxed goals of what I want to accomplish.

I have a tendency to start something then realize I need to do 27 other things first.

I find I have days when none of what I wanted to do got done but... like you yesterday... A lot of different things happened.

It's all good.

 

[squonk 41,020]

1 hour ago, oldredrider said:

I call days like that "Bill Dance" days.

 

[Sarge 3,463]

Around here, that's just basically any given day of the week. Murphy lives around here somewhere, when I find him he's not going to have an elegant exit from this world...

 

Spent 4hrs yesterday trying to get two welds done in a bad spot with the tig - basically a waste of time. Not to mention, two 2% lanthanated tungsten rods, one whole stick of ER70SD2, my last 1/8" gas stubby lens and an expensive US made carbide burr. 

It's getting stick welded today, one way or another.

Sarge

[stevasaurus 22,706]

Could have been raining Jay...  

[JAinVA 4,619]

Thanks for the link.

[Pullstart 62,784]

Sounds like you got all that outta the way, to have a good rest of the week!

[Pullstart 62,784]

On 8/26/2018 at 7:51 AM, squonk said:

 

 

I have always wondered, how many Bill Dance oops marks were rehearsed, how many actually happened?  Can’t nobody have that bad of luck and be so successful...