Snoopy11 5,714 #4526 Posted August 8, 2022 2 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said: it’s shall we say… warm Well... I think the term is... multi-tasking... killing weeds and cooking a... eh... leg of lamb... at the same time... Don 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,466 #4527 Posted August 8, 2022 49 minutes ago, EB-80/8inPA said: Isn’t the soapy water supposed to suffocate them as they breathe through their ”skin” and it clogs it all up or something? Gotta check them interwebs… BRB. That's what I found. Yes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #4528 Posted August 9, 2022 On 8/8/2022 at 12:23 AM, Handy Don said: Neat piece of gear. Any idea what the power output of the diesel is? In my youth, my Dad built a home and my brothers and I mixed, wheelbarrowed, spread, and finished A LOT of concrete for walkways, stairs, and other things. Ours had a smaller drum and a 1.5hp electric motor. As I recall, Dad sold it for more than he paid when we were "done". I just had a look and it pumps out 1.5hp at 1000rpm! The girls and I took it for a test drive yesterday and laid a new concrete pad for our fuel tank (heating). It will mix 1 x 25kg bag of cement and 100kg of ballast without even trying. It could probably do 2 bags and 200kg of ballast but it's 70 years old so no need to try and kill it. I bet your Dad really appreciated the help, that's tough work wheeling concrete around the place! I would be lost without all the help my girls do - they are pretty handy with tools now. 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #4529 Posted August 9, 2022 We were in town yesterday running an errand. I was chatting to a guy and noticed a little trailer buried I grass on his lawn, so said it looked like a nice little unit. 2 minutes and £20 later it was mine and on the big trailer heading home! It's road legal, but ideal for the wheelhorses. Just needs a new deck as it was rotten beyond salvation. It even came full of firewood.... The kids just rolled their eyes when I turned up with it, however it's already been put to use moving our giant chest freezer to its new owner on the farm across the field. 2 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,466 #4530 Posted August 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Dan.gerous said: little trailer Niiiiice 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,217 #4531 Posted August 9, 2022 5 hours ago, Dan.gerous said: I bet your Dad really appreciated the help, that's tough work wheeling concrete around the place! I would be lost without all the help my girls do - they are pretty handy with tools now. Nicely done and "oh man, does this bring back memories" Dad wasn't that big on expressing appreciation in those early days--my impression remains that it was expected that we provide labor since it was for our home. He did get better as he aged and, credit due, I learned A LOT by being dragooned into repairs, construction, gardening, etc. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,981 #4532 Posted August 9, 2022 Got the C-81 with finger/sickle bar on and cut back the nettles and briars along the side of the wood, at the top of the lane. Finished off with a slasher and hauled the rubbish away with the Sears GT16 and trailer. I can now mow the verge with out having to hang off the side of the C-125, trying to not get stung and scratched. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #4533 Posted August 9, 2022 Bbq is very popular tonight with the local girls. The field next to the house is normally for silage so it's a treat for them to watch the "human zoo" in action. 3 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snoopy11 5,714 #4534 Posted August 9, 2022 Beautiful dog, beautiful tractor, beautiful trailer! Thanks for sharing @Dan.gerous Don 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,217 #4535 Posted August 10, 2022 8 hours ago, Dan.gerous said: Bbq is very popular tonight with the local girls Were any of their relations on the menu? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #4536 Posted August 10, 2022 15 hours ago, Handy Don said: Were any of their relations on the menu? No, we stuck to pork and chicken! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #4537 Posted August 10, 2022 Today we mowed the main farmhouse lawns, and the parents house next door. It's a huge expanse and the wheelhorse came up to help out the modern ride on that they own. It was quite nice as the farmers wife is Canadian, and it's her parents that live next door. Finally my North American machine mowed a North American lawn! (Kind of!). 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EB-80/8inPA 1,641 #4538 Posted August 10, 2022 On 8/9/2022 at 2:21 AM, Dan.gerous said: I’m liking those troweled edges. Very nice! 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #4539 Posted August 11, 2022 18 hours ago, EB-80/8inPA said: I’m liking those troweled edges. Very nice! Thanks, learnt that from my father in law down in the Falkland Islands - have a nifty trowel with a curved edge. I'm not that good with concrete, used to do a bit in between jobs when I was younger, but mostly making shuttering and tying re-bar cages. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,466 #4540 Posted August 13, 2022 The incredibly hard working BBT and her helpers have been going along for weeks now. If all goes according to plan there'll be a weddi-fication here this afternoon. They got the reception area and dance floor put up yesterday. 4 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,849 #4541 Posted August 13, 2022 If their minister doesn’t show up EB, just get me on the next jet outta South Bend! I’ll have to borrow @Jrblanke’s tuxedo t-shirt though! 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 6,999 #4542 Posted August 13, 2022 Looks good @ebinmaine. Is that a giant chess board there in the background? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,466 #4543 Posted August 13, 2022 18 minutes ago, 8ntruck said: Looks good @ebinmaine. Is that a giant chess board there in the background? Pretty much. Those are exercise mats which will be used in the new building upstairs. Trina's got em set up as the outside exterior non-interior dance floor. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
D_Mac 8,615 #4544 Posted August 13, 2022 So I bought this trailer from a junk man off the back of his scrap truck for 10 bucks. Just gave it a paint job. 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,315 #4545 Posted August 13, 2022 My shed has taken a beating the last few years, the worse was when a tree fell on it. Almost had to scrap it! But I was able to straighten the framework enough to save it but the top was wrecked. Put a huge tarp right over the entire thing but tarps just don’t last..,so today I double tarped it (over the original shelter-logic top). A bit of an eyesore now but my stuff is protected from rain and off the ground. 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horse Newbie 7,069 #4546 Posted August 13, 2022 Mowed the yard today… I’m a every two week guy, and it was thick more than tall. I’ll have to blow these mounds of cut yard(notice I don’t say grass because I’m not sure if anything growing in my yard can be classified as grass) to spread it out some. Did not want to start a topic on this, but what causes the exhaust on my 2 cycle string trimmer to blow out oil ? Got this blob landing on my arm and I thought I had been stung or bitten… 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,849 #4547 Posted August 13, 2022 @Sparky tarp shingles! The HOA’s gotta love that! @Horse Newbie what ratio mixture do you use in that trimmer? Looks a bit rich to me… 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,217 #4548 Posted August 13, 2022 51 minutes ago, Horse Newbie said: what causes the exhaust on my 2 cycle string trimmer to blow out oil ? I think a mixture rich enough to accumulate that much oil in the exhaust would probably not run well and it would smoke like the dickens. IMHO, that oil is coming around the rings--worn rings or a worn/scored cylinder wall. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,981 #4549 Posted August 13, 2022 I agree with Don. Ring problem. Possibly a broken one. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horse Newbie 7,069 #4550 Posted August 13, 2022 45 minutes ago, Pullstart said: Horse Newbie what ratio mixture do you use in that trimmer? Looks a bit rich to me… Rich as in too much oil ?… Don’t know the ratio right offhand… I’ll check the manual and my oil bottles. I am pretty sure the mix is as recommended as I am a stickler when it comes to science…lol… you could say I’m mad about it ! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
