What did you do today?

[ebinmaine 67,508]

31 minutes ago, JCM said:

Nothing has worked

I got this. 

You get you one o them Wheelhorses right?

Get a metal flex pipe off the exhaust and stuff it intah all the mile hills/holes/houses you can find.  

Start tractor.  

Problem solved.  

 

[JCM 9,168]

I wish it was that easy, can't find an entrance.

[SylvanLakeWH 25,562]

[ebinmaine 67,508]

30 minutes ago, JCM said:

I wish it was that easy, can't find an entrance.

 

 

 

I go back to my original solution of C4. 

 

 

 

[8ntruck 7,004]

a friend of mine suggested a .357 magnum.

Edited July 9, 2023 by 8ntruck

[Tonytoro416 1,034]

Got the b100 out I picked up last fall for a 100 bucks and finished up some details on it. The Hydrostat works great and with a new carb the engine runs great. It’s a great worker tractor.  I always wanted to put ags on the front of one of these even though they serve no real purpose. Still looks cool as hell I think.  
I don’t know if anyone grows rhubarb these days but I am amazed by the size of these leaves.  I planted these from a root early spring and the leaf pictured is just under 36” across.   Huge leaves for a first year plant.  Although I have to admit the garden is at my work which happens to be a fertilizer plant lol. 

[ebinmaine 67,508]

8 hours ago, Tonytoro416 said:

 I always wanted to put ags on the front of one of these even though they serve no real purpose. Still looks cool as hell I think.  

Absolutely agreed on the looks. 

 

If you keep a heavy front end and turn the AG tires to backwards you'll likely see a traction increase in tight turns.  

 

 

[Stepney 2,325]

Got the call at 11 that Gramps' old JD X300 dropped a rod at 275 hours. Shed where my Raider and WorkHorse are kept is currently mired on account of a burst water main (And weeks of almost nonstop rain), too soft to bother with even trying to move them. That left the freshly painted Raider 9.. haha. Missing the hand lift so I rigged up the old tow behind mower, and later the sweeper, went to work on the 4 acres left to mow. Performed like a champ. 

[JCM 9,168]

Very nice looking tractor Spense       Hopefully we all can see it up close at the M & G in 2 months.

[ebinmaine 67,508]

16 minutes ago, Stepney said:

Missing the hand lift

Boy ... If only you had a lift arm. 

 

I bet I know where there's 1 or 3 I could part with.  

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,318]

  Gave my legs a beating this morning. I love riding and really should do it more regularly. We have miles and miles of rail trails around me so I have no excuse for being a couch potato 

  Just over 12 miles and kept my average speed in the double digits 

  I use the Under Armor Map My Ride App, works well. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pullstart 62,889]

Did some radiator swapparooskiing on the way home from Portage, WI, about an hour from home.  Momma found my “spare” in the back barn and met me to finish the job!  I had 1/3 tank of fresh water in the camper and plan to replace the rad with new now that I’m home.  I also finally got my warranty air bags and fittings since making a claim 3 weeks ago.

 

 

[Beap52 811]

9 hours ago, Sparky said:

  Gave my legs a beating this morning. I love riding and really should do it more regularly. We have miles and miles of rail trails around me so I have no excuse for being a couch potato 

  Just over 12 miles and kept my average speed in the double digits 

  I use the Under Armor Map My Ride App, works well. 

 

That's pretty impressive ride.  Last fall for my 70th birthday, my wife bought me an electric bike.  I've ridden over 200 miles so far.  Below is a picture of a trail not far from our home that I took early spring.  This trail is an abandoned railroad that has been converted into a bike trail and in our county there are 16 bridges'  I've been over about ten of them so far.  Our 8 year old granddaughter likes to ride with me.  She pumps along about 6 miles an hour.  I have to use my throttle on the e-bike otherwise I'll out run her.  She usually goes 4 or 5 miles with a single speed kids bike.   I usually peddle until my legs begin to burn a little then let the bike take me home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 10, 2023 by Beap52

[8ntruck 7,004]

We are remodeling the bathroom in the lake house.  Last year, the toilet was running slow.  I ended up pulling the toilet and running a drain snake through the pipe from that side.  I found a great big ball of weeds about 3 feet from the closet flange - that was about 6' from the outside wall where the pipe exits the building.  OK I says to myself, you got roots coming through one of the old pipe joints.  Got to fix that with new PVC pipe - under the slab.  Kind of a @Mickwhitt sort of project.

 

Well today I got some quality time with a rented Sthil K770 concrete saw.  I was surprised to find a void under the slab when I broke the first piece of slab out: 

 

 

The void goes about a foot either side of the pipe.  That hole in the pipe is damage from hammering the slab. That joint must have been leaking for quite some time.  

 

I cut the slab out over the drain run to the vanity and shower.  As long as I am in there making a mess, might as well replace everything.

 

Tomorrow's job is digging the old pipes out and starting to assemble the new ones.

Edited July 10, 2023 by 8ntruck

[Wheelhorsecrazy 2]

Another person with a raider 9 nice to hear can’t find much people with them

[Wheel-N-It 2,969]

On 7/8/2023 at 4:27 PM, Horse Newbie said:

Cut the yard today… been two weeks and we’ve had some rain.

That grass(term used loosely), has really gotten thick since I rid the yard of trees.

I had just mowed when I noticed a branched had fallen where I was a few minutes before…

 

Looking good there in Monroe NC 

[ebinmaine 67,508]

13 hours ago, Wheelhorsecrazy said:

Another person with a raider 9 nice to hear can’t find much people with them

 

 

 

 

[19richie66 17,508]

Workbench roughed in. Stainless steel elevator door. 

[wallfish 17,000]

6 minutes ago, 19richie66 said:

Workbench roughed in. Stainless steel elevator door. 

That's a nice repurpose

[squonk 41,118]

2 hours ago, wallfish said:

That's a nice repurpose

As long as nobody falls out! 

[Ed Kennell 38,178]

5 hours ago, 19richie66 said:

Stainless steel elevator door. 

I need one of those for a fish cleaning/deer butchering table.

[19richie66 17,508]

1 hour ago, Ed Kennell said:

I need one of those for a fish cleaning/deer butchering table.

I believe he has more. 7’x 2’

Edited July 16, 2023 by 19richie66

[8ntruck 7,004]

I've been working on the pkumbing in our lake house bathroom.  Slab is cut, old pupes are out, new PVC 4" drains.  Today, I mixed 9 sixty pound bags of concrete by hand and filled the slab back in.  The bathroom door is only 24" wide, so, the mixed concrete had to go in by the bucket load.  Working alone, about all I could handle at a time was 1/2 a bag, or 30 pounds at a time.

 

Next up - pull the drywall down and refresh the supply plumbing.  Think I'm going to use PEX on this job, replacing the existing copper that is oversize in diameter.  I think it has gotten frozen at some point.

[Wheel-N-It 2,969]

2 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

Next up - pull the drywall down and refresh the supply plumbing.  Think I'm going to use PEX on this job, replacing the existing copper that is oversize in diameter.  I think it has gotten frozen at some point.

 

You'll like the PEX. Its the best way to go. 

I suggest that if replacing the copper with plastic, please check to see if that will interrupt the water pipe grounding path associated with your electrical service. If it does, then you will need to Install a new copper wire from the main electrical panel over to a point in the copper piping where it is in direct contact with the earth. This would be preferably within the first 5 feet of where the copper pipe comes out of the ground and into the structure. PM me, if this looks like something you need to do and I will give you more information. What I am telling you is actually a plumbing code requirement that marries up to the national electrical code, not just something I personally think is a good idea.

Van

[8ntruck 7,004]

1 hour ago, Wheel-N-It said:

 

You'll like the PEX. Its the best way to go. 

I suggest that if replacing the copper with plastic, please check to see if that will interrupt the water pipe grounding path associated with your electrical service. If it does, then you will need to Install a new copper wire from the main electrical panel over to a point in the copper piping where it is in direct contact with the earth. This would be preferably within the first 5 feet of where the copper pipe comes out of the ground and into the structure. PM me, if this looks like something you need to do and I will give you more information. What I am telling you is actually a plumbing code requirement that marries up to the national electrical code, not just something I personally think is a good idea.

Van

 Good thought.  This house is on a well.  The pipe from the well is black plastic. I've never opened the cover on the breaker box, and now that you have mentioned it, I don't remember seeing a ground wire anywhere.  Any chance the ground is through the well pump?