What did you do today?

[ebinmaine 67,456]

Trina and I went for a mountain bike ride this morning. 

 

Total milage 7.4. 

Elevation gain almost 700 feet. 

 

The top portion of the triangle in green below  is almost all old colonial cart roads or snowmobile trails. All dirt. 

 

The bottom of the triangle and the separate leg is asphalt road. 

 

Start & end point is the blue dot 🔵

 

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,456]

 

 

 

Changed the way our table saw was setup today. It was on this old blue formica table that came out of my maternal Grampa's barn. 

 

Never did like the way it set. Right on the outside edge. 
We've been wanting that blue table back for usage in the barn or workshop space anyway so I mounted the tables tablesaw on the old stand it came with. 

Redrilled the holes in the top of the table so they lined up with existing holes in the saw.

Added wood blocks for spacing. Bolted it all together.  

 

Now the saw is under the right side shed roof in its semi permanent place. 

 

 

 

[Tractorhead 9,064]

Once more Success!

Today early at 05:20 local time i flow my last rounds for fawn Saving and releasing the rest of Fields.

While i fly, i wonder about with 2 Batteries.

They let the Drone very early come back, much earlier than normal it should be.

i was shure they went fully charged before i started.

 

When i try to pull them out of the Drone they seems hooked internally, 

But - nothing is hooked, both batteries starts to inflate themself.

 

Dang - 

That is absolutely worse sign on LiPo Batteries - but at least they last as needed for the last 4 Flights today,

but now they must be urgently exchanged.To dangerous to fly again with them.

They be now extreme Dangerous to become selfigniting.

So another task is on the Desk - increase the Battery Lifespan -

Na- Ion batteries should not have that issues but less capacity.

probably they be the better solution.

In the Brief description they should be extrem quick charging and quick draining capable without self inflating issue.

 

 

Good thing is - All the fields arround are now mowed and again 0 Fawns was harmed.

The Batteries didn’t last long - but independently of that I be so proud it worked that way.

 

I hope the Na- Ion batteries will be very soon available.

 

[Ed Kennell 38,159]

1 hour ago, Tractorhead said:

All the fields arround are now mowed and again 0 Fawns was harmed.

       

[cafoose 3,355]

Love Mike's black cherry @ebinmaine

[ebinmaine 67,456]

1 hour ago, cafoose said:

Love Mike's black cherry @ebinmaine

 

 

That's among Trina's favorites!!

[SylvanLakeWH 25,548]

Left my name and number with a guy in our neighborhood who has a 70's?  in the garage - he left the garage door open which is a rare event - hasn't moved in years... SS snowblower and a deck... we'll see...

 

No pics as I thought it inappropriate to snap pics of his garage...

Edited July 26 by SylvanLakeWH

[c-series don 8,690]

@SylvanLakeWH The question is will that horse get along with your black hoods? 🤣

[953 nut 55,204]

18 hours ago, Tractorhead said:

I hope the Na- Ion batteries will be very soon available.

 

The price should be much lower once the Sodium Ion battery has become developed into a more reliable product.  We have oceans full of sodium, no more mining for lithium.

[squonk 41,081]

Picked 3 engines yesterday. K161 from a 753, a K 90 and another K 161 from a 701 complete with double pulleys and belt guard.

 

[sqrlgtr 552]

excellent if you have no plans for the 701 I would be interested in taking it off your hands.

[squonk 41,081]

27 minutes ago, sqrlgtr said:

excellent if you have no plans for the 701 I would be interested in taking it off your hands.

Unless you're going to the show next year I don't know how you would get it. I don't plan on shipping it. The Fastenals all around here are horrible to deal with.

[squonk 41,081]

 

[sqrlgtr 552]

48 minutes ago, squonk said:

Unless you're going to the show next year I don't know how you would get it. I don't plan on shipping it. The Fastenals all around here are horrible to deal with.

Funny you should say that. I do have plans on making big show next year. 

[Ed Kennell 38,159]

The limbs of my honey locust shade tree were brushing the roof of the barn.    So, when Mrs. K wasn't looking, I climbed up on the roof and trimmed the branches.

Three loads of brush and more firewood.

[Handy Don 12,216]

4 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

So, when Mrs. K wasn't looking, I climbed up on the roof

Oh you’ll get busted for sure on that 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,548]

 

They know everything...

 

[ebinmaine 67,456]

Trina got a neat picture of our frog pond yesterday. The angle makes it look HUGE. 

 

 

The snake is one we've seen several times this summer. It's been staying in the woodpile under the side deck.

This is large for a garter snake. 

We're hoping it's pregnant. 

 

 

And this.... this is a chicken. 

 

But this chicken has taken to imitating the DOG. She's been vocalizing with one clean clear crisp "bark"..

 

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,315]

 Did three bikes rides in the last three days. Friday was 14+ miles, Saturday was 13+ miles and today was my longest ride yet at just over 18 miles! Pretty pleased with myself! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,456]

@Sparky

 

AWESOME!!!!

[8ntruck 6,998]

Been a busy week.  Our neighbor's friends hold his and her family reunions at the neighbor's house every year about this time.  We open up our lake house to make extra bedrooms available.  It turns out that my wife is a distant cousin to one of the families, so we have been 'adopted' into the families for this event.

 

One couple arrives about a week ahead of the reunion to get everything ready.  This fills up our schedule - tinkering with the lake house, shopping trips, community meals, card games, etc, etc.  On top of that, our 50th high school  reunion was this weekend with a mixer on Friday evening and the reunion on Saturday evening - about an hour drive away.

 

We ate well all week, all of the reunions went well.  Everybody is prettery well blitzed this evening.  Looks like we are in for a couple of 'recovery' days.

Edited July 29 by 8ntruck

[squonk 41,081]

Got the 2nd K161 I picked last Fri. running. This one had been sitting longer. Had to un-seize the choke. It had no spark. Coil was connected backwards and I really had to clean up the points. I got it to fire but it wouldn't stay running. I finally cut loose and rebuilt the carb. 

 

 

[Handy Don 12,216]

1 hour ago, squonk said:

Got the 2nd K161 I picked last Fri. running.

Nice work. Ain’t much to look at but definitely a runner!

[squonk 41,081]

45 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Nice work. Ain’t much to look at but definitely a runner!

I figure if anyone ever needs a good crank for a 7HP, I know where one is! 

[Mickwhitt 4,621]

I don't wash cars, ok I might rinse a bit if muck off every now and then, but I don't wash and wax and stuff.

Maybe that will change when I get my brand new car next week. But I've paid extra for a ceramic coating that mean you only have to rinse the bodywork to get it showroom fresh again, we shall see.

But this morning I decided to wash Sandra's car. Not sure if I told you but we were trading it in against the new car.

That was just before she decided to reverse it into the brick gate pillar of our drive. How? Who knows, but she says she just wasn't concentrating.  

So she doesn't want the responsibility of driving the new car and wanted a "banger" to use for herself. Well the trade in only has 50,000 miles on the clock and we've had it from new so why not keep it and use it as her runabout. 

So there's the plan, wife has a decent runabout and I get the shiny new car. 

So I washed and waxed it for her. 

Obviously that doesn't get rid of the scratches and dents she has accumulated over the years (I swear she drives by feel not sight!)

But it looks better and smells nicer inside now.