Stormin 9,981 #1 Posted March 19, 2022 Things are not going well at the moment. Got the Petter engine on the saw bench to finish off and hopefully starting will improve. Yesterday started to get disturbing noises from the Santa Fe's gear box. Garage diagnosis is the transfer box. So that's out of action. C-125 is still playing up when starting. Fitted the mowing deck to it today and started to mow the green and verges. Thanks to a dumbo neighbour who can't maintain his fences properly, the ground is full of hoof prints/holes of some beasts that escaped. Got the green mowed and started on the area by the pond. Halfway through that I noticed a rattle. Looking down I saw the blade drive belt was loose. The tension bar spring was broken and the bar was in two halves as well. Removed and cleaned the deck and that's when I found a blade was loose. To cap it all SWMBO is away for the weekend and I'm having to do my own cooking. 9 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldlineman 1,481 #2 Posted March 19, 2022 (edited) Hopefully Stormin you have used up all your bad luck this week and next week will be better! We all have days ,weeks, months like that .Bob Edited March 19, 2022 by oldlineman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,916 #3 Posted March 19, 2022 Hopefully you survive the poor cooking and live to fight another day with machines! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,237 #4 Posted March 19, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Stormin said: Things are not going well at the moment. I can relate to that, for sure, but I like this... 12 minutes ago, oldlineman said: Hopefully Stormin you have used up all your bad luck this week Maybe your cooking can be enhanced with a suitable adult recreational beverage? One for the pot, one for the cook, etc.... Edited March 19, 2022 by Handy Don 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevasaurus 22,764 #5 Posted March 19, 2022 I was thinking you would have been out of Bad Days by now. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ranger 1,750 #6 Posted March 20, 2022 20 hours ago, Stormin said: To cap it all SWMBO is away for the weekend and I'm having to do my own cooking. When Jane and I married 42 years ago next month, we decided, I would do the cooking, Jane would do the washing up.👍 Then we bought a dishwasher. Guess who gets to load the dishwasher! 🤔 1 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites