Pullstart 62,912 #1726 Posted April 16, 2021 11 hours ago, OldWorkHorse said: Got sad! Alright who upset mother nature this time?! Was welding and painting outside almost all month long in t-shirts now its snowing! Someone must have tried mowing the lawn to early! weird. That’s different than Kentucky weather... 2 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haydendavid380 759 #1727 Posted April 16, 2021 Sat in the recliner all day while an HVAC contractor installed a new furnace and a/c unit and my GSD destroyed her crate and covered a room in diarrhea. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldWorkHorse 3,045 #1728 Posted April 16, 2021 6 minutes ago, pullstart said: weird. That’s different than Kentucky weather... OK ok no need to rub salt in the wound here! 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldWorkHorse 3,045 #1729 Posted April 16, 2021 2 minutes ago, haydendavid380 said: Sat in the recliner all day while an HVAC contractor installed a new furnace and a/c unit and my GSD destroyed her crate and covered a room in diarrhea. That sounds like a long day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haydendavid380 759 #1730 Posted April 16, 2021 1 minute ago, OldWorkHorse said: That sounds like a long day! It has been. Everything I've touched today has went south Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldWorkHorse 3,045 #1731 Posted April 16, 2021 3 minutes ago, haydendavid380 said: It has been. Everything I've touched today has went south Sry to hear that, you can come to Maine and touch the snow in my yard.... 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,912 #1732 Posted April 17, 2021 We put in 54 holes of golf today, I think. Hot shower, neck and upper back full of bio-freeze, we’ll be back at it when the cost is off the greens around 7:45 am. Good times, no matter the score! “YOU DON’T SAY “WOAH” ON THE GOLF COURSE! YOU SAY “FORE”!” - My 72 year old “Caddy” golf partner... 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mickwhitt 4,642 #1733 Posted April 17, 2021 Golf, golf, a good walk spoiled lol. I tried it once but I could never get the ball past that darned windmill... We have a 9 hole course near us, its built on an old colliery yard and a lot of the born again golfers are retired miners. Bought a set of bats and a fancy bag for them and off they go. Walking alongside the course you hear a lot more anglo saxon Yorkshire than "Whoa" or "Fore" I often muse that you don't hear players on the PGA tour say "F€@% me, a thowt that were going in't bleedin hoil." Or "Gerrin't hoil ya little bas%£€@#!" 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mickwhitt 4,642 #1734 Posted April 17, 2021 Anyway, more from our sports correspondent later in the show. I had a productive day checking over several mowers ready for the start of the cutting season, cut my own lawn, strimmed the verge opposite, did some work on the new kitchen units and looked after several guest dogs in between. Golf? No time for chasing a little ball round a field full of mole holes. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mickwhitt 4,642 #1735 Posted April 17, 2021 16 hours ago, Stormin said: I knew I was keeping this seat for some reason. Back seat driver. Hey nice counter weight norm! For God's sake don't tell her I said that, she might find me lol. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,064 #1736 Posted April 17, 2021 The following Picts are in right order and have just 4 day‘s difference between them... It is Aprilweather here we called it the April the April changes the Weather as he will. and that‘s definitely true.. 6 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,619 #1737 Posted April 17, 2021 9 hours ago, 8ntruck said: Anybody out there have one of the newer B&S engines that B&S says that oil changes are not necessay? Comments? Opinions? I don't have one but I'll happily offer comments and opinions. 😀 It's a farce. The purchasing public has become so lazy and prone to dispose of everything that Briggs decided to use it their advantage. Get an oil sucker and defy societal norms. Change your non-changable oil. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,619 #1738 Posted April 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Mickwhitt said: I often muse that you don't hear players on the PGA tour say "F€@% me, a thowt that were going in't bleedin hoil." Or "Gerrin't hoil ya little bas%£€@#!" .......... ......... On camera. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,981 #1739 Posted April 17, 2021 7 hours ago, Mickwhitt said: Hey nice counter weight norm! For God's sake don't tell her I said that, she might find me lol. Wait till I drop the clutch and do a wheely. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,619 #1740 Posted April 17, 2021 20 minutes ago, Stormin said: Wait till I drop the clutch and do a wheely. Here honey put on this full protection hockey uniform. No no. Don't ask questions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 7,016 #1741 Posted April 17, 2021 9 hours ago, ebinmaine said: I don't have one but I'll happily offer comments and opinions. 😀 It's a farce. The purchasing public has become so lazy and prone to dispose of everything that Briggs decided to use it their advantage. Get an oil sucker and defy societal norms. Change your non-changable oil. I agree here. Cynical self was saying that the no oil change idea is playing into the desposeable products idea, which supports the sale of more engines. Lubed for life 4 cycle engines? Ya know when the lube gets gone, the life of the machine ends. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tractorhead 9,064 #1742 Posted April 17, 2021 4 hours ago, 8ntruck said: I agree here. Cynical self was saying that the no oil change idea is playing into the desposeable products idea, which supports the sale of more engines. Lubed for life 4 cycle engines? Ya know when the lube gets gone, the life of the machine ends. There is a wording for that kind of Business - planed obsolescence. Even with a good oil in it, it can run maybe 3-5 years without an oilchange. Depending on the use, the quality of first Oil and so on it can last little more than they have planed. But planed obsolescence is nothing new to me, it is common since years on Washing machines, Fridges, Dishwasher they are planed to last 10 Years, that‘s their lifespan. Several machines are planed in to become exchange within warranty, 4 years later they did not become fixed because so called „special parts“ are not longer available or cost more than a new machine. Same f*** is happen on Printers, they be planed for 6 years to sell new sorts of Ink. Some of them can be reactivated, as long as their secret is known of how to. If the Engine is designed to last „only“ 4 Years, it can be happen it exceeds its lifetime and do exact what they planed. Because of the captured abrasives in the oil, it has its own timeswitch integrated. even with an suctionpump you left a lot of dirt in the Engine. If they begin to burn a little oil because of beginning wear, the most Customer will buy immediately new while they don‘t like a stinker. Sad but true. So in my opinion the question must more sounds - for how long of use they had designed this Engine. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldWorkHorse 3,045 #1743 Posted April 18, 2021 Set up a swing set for my wonderful daughter! And put a new exhaust on mean green! The grass chute on mean green is a modified wheel horse chute so still has some WH relation! 1 1 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 7,016 #1744 Posted April 18, 2021 My wife and I took a canoe ride today - 1st of the year. Paddled across the lake and followed the shore line back. We saw a bald eagle and a pair of swans. Lilly pads are starting to sprout from the bottom of the lake, marsh marigolds are blooming, and May apples are sprouting in the woods. While walking the dog this morning, I saw a log in the pond next to the trial with about 15 painted turtles lined up on it sunning themselves. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haydendavid380 759 #1745 Posted April 18, 2021 Mowed and put down some sea kelp and humic acid. Watering now. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldWorkHorse 3,045 #1746 Posted April 19, 2021 57 minutes ago, haydendavid380 said: Mowed and put down some sea kelp and humic acid. Watering now. Come do my lawn🤣? Mine looks like sand.... 😞 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haydendavid380 759 #1747 Posted April 19, 2021 15 minutes ago, OldWorkHorse said: Come do my lawn🤣? Mine looks like sand.... 😞 Every summer I try and pick one outdoor activity I don't know how to do, or do well, and become proficient in it. Master a particular fishing bait, pick up road cycling, learn how to kayak, fix up a broken boat...there's been a lot of skills and activities that I wouldn't have necessarily done without setting out my mind to do it. Last year was lawn care. I learned that a lot of the improvements take a year to come to fruition, so I have been hitting it hard again this year. The substrate under golf greens is nearly all sand. It's not bad to work with. I'd pick it over clay soil any day of the week. In fact, I'm only a couple miles south of Lake Michigan, so my soil has a very high sand percentage as well. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldWorkHorse 3,045 #1748 Posted April 19, 2021 14 minutes ago, haydendavid380 said: Last year was lawn care. I learned that a lot of the improvements I watch a guy named "conner ward" on YouTube i don't know how I found him or why, but his hole channel is just him treating his lawn like gold and somthing about a nice lawn I found so mellowing haha. I must be getting older 🤔 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haydendavid380 759 #1749 Posted April 19, 2021 Just now, OldWorkHorse said: I watch a guy named "conner ward" on YouTube i don't know how I found him or why, but his hole channel is just him treating his lawn like gold and somthing about a nice lawn I found so mellowing haha. I must be getting older 🤔 Check out Allyn Hane on "The Lawn Care Nut" channel 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horse Newbie 7,075 #1750 Posted April 19, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, haydendavid380 said: Mowed and put down some sea kelp and humic acid. Man, ya'll are ticking me off with these beautiful lawns...I am realizing I have a loooooooong way to go ! Edited April 19, 2021 by Horse Newbie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
