Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Only a 1/2" here.Alot? Yeah, I think so. At 4 this afternoon I got one inch of rain in 10 minutes.Only good thing is that it didn't last longer than 10 minutes.
so waht ya doin today?
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CWLONGSHOT
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JonB
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So, I remember why I hate front tine tillers.
Getting it running was easy, I just cleaned the chunks out of the fuel tank. Gave the outside of the carb a good blast of carb cleaner, then a touch of aerosol Seafoam on the linkages and butterfly valve pins, to get things moving freely (it was varnished tight). Then changed crankcase oil (looked like tar) and cleaned/oiled air filter foam. I checked the gearbox, it was overfilled and the lube was loaded with brass particles...I left it as is, for now. As I type this, I realize I forgot to check the spark plug.
It popped right off and stayed running. It idled down nicely. I tilled some "prepped" garden, that went OK, but this thing really wanted to dig deep, there was no way to till shallow in soft prepped soil, like I can with the Horse. Then I tried to till an area of old garden, that hadn't been worked for 6 years (old raspberry patch) that got weedy. OH BOY, I hate this thing, it was jumping all over the place. I suspect if I borrow this to the Nephew to till unworked ground, I'll be getting back a busted tiller. I need to rethink this. I should find out this weekend if the Nephew still has plans for a food plot.
Getting it running was easy, I just cleaned the chunks out of the fuel tank. Gave the outside of the carb a good blast of carb cleaner, then a touch of aerosol Seafoam on the linkages and butterfly valve pins, to get things moving freely (it was varnished tight). Then changed crankcase oil (looked like tar) and cleaned/oiled air filter foam. I checked the gearbox, it was overfilled and the lube was loaded with brass particles...I left it as is, for now. As I type this, I realize I forgot to check the spark plug.
It popped right off and stayed running. It idled down nicely. I tilled some "prepped" garden, that went OK, but this thing really wanted to dig deep, there was no way to till shallow in soft prepped soil, like I can with the Horse. Then I tried to till an area of old garden, that hadn't been worked for 6 years (old raspberry patch) that got weedy. OH BOY, I hate this thing, it was jumping all over the place. I suspect if I borrow this to the Nephew to till unworked ground, I'll be getting back a busted tiller. I need to rethink this. I should find out this weekend if the Nephew still has plans for a food plot.
JonB
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I think the problem I've had with them (tank mounted carb) in the past, is more about the tank, gasket, and the suck tube screen.
Snakeoil
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Built that dock 30 years ago from greated lumber. 2x6x10 stringers and end plates with a 2x4 down the center. 1 inch treated for the top surface. Stanchions were designed around free stuff. Legs are 1-1/2 rigid conduit that a place near me had left over from a job. They were paid for by the job so said I could have them. Angle iron saddles was another job leftover from a friend's commercial contracting business as was the rebar cross braces. The conduit is showing it's age. Had to repair 5 of the stanchions this year. Have decided to repair the other 9 at the end of the season.
If she only needs 20 feet of dock, bite the bullet and buy aluminum. I should have done that 30 years ago. I priced new dock before COVID. Would have been about $14K for 140 feet with wheels to facilitate removal. Could afford it, but could not justify it.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Genoa, the plastic pipe (PVC) manufacturer, makes deck material as well as dock systems. My upper deck/porch and stairs is made out Genoa's decking. It's tongue and groove, as well as honeycombed. Pretty damn strong. No bend to it so no sagging. No maintenance, either. Not slippery when wet because of the artificial grain depiction of natural wood.
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Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Haven't measured my spans but they are approximately 18" apart. The stairs are 50" with end and a single center support. Cindy has a picture somewhere with probably twenty five, mostly overweight women, all lined up and down on the back stairway.
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Mitty38
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Had a big Morell Hall this morning. The son and I went out before school. 27 of them .Wife strung them on the porch to dry out, for storage in jars. Hung them about a foot above the banister.
I got up today, and something had pulled all of them off the string, and hauled them off.
I got up today, and something had pulled all of them off the string, and hauled them off.
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Spent the day with the ewe. Her water had broken this AM and I tried getting the lambs out with my ham hands. I could get two front legs but couldn't hook a finger around the back of the head no matter what I did. Finally had the vet come out with her little teeny girly hands. She got them both out. Huge, beautiful jet black dead lambs. At least we saved the ewe, I hope. She's not out of the woods yet.
CWLONGSHOT
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Good day smelting. About 175# smelted.
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CWLONGSHOT
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OOH WELL THATS JUST NOT RIGHT!!!Had a big Morel Hall this morning. The son and I went out before school. 27 of them .Wife strung them on the porch to dry some out. Hung them about a foot above the banister.
I got up today, and something had pulled all of them off the string, and hauled them off.
There are better ways. I tend to take an 8" square of drywall and peel off the paper, then crush it up in the wheelbarrow. Mix in about 5 gallons of black dirt (composted cow manure and feedlot scrapings) or rabbit manure. Dig the holes for the transplants with a posthole digger, about as deep as the plant is tall. Put in ~6" of mix from the wheelbarrow, then drop in the plant and backfill the hole from the wheelbarrow. Soak it down good. Royal PITA, but per-plant yields made it worth it.
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Snakeoil
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TREX and similar brands specify 16" on center for support joists. Many decks used to be built 24" on center and the TREX would look more like over-cooked linguini. You say that the pier is in. I assume you poured a pier out in the water and the dock will span a 20' distance from the shore to the pier. Hence the use of steel roof rafters. You also said it was going to be 4' wide. I'd run two more lengths of rafters between the 4 foot width for that 20 foot span. That would give you 16 inch centers. Then you could run the TREX. Nice thing about the TREX is no splinters, slivers or maintenance. Pressure wash it if mildew forms. And get a light color. Dark colors will BBQ your bare feet.
Another option is the decking used on aluminum docks. It is not solid. It looks like a grate. The advantage is the birds can see the water thru the dock and will not land on it. Water birds like gulls are nothing more than pretty sky rats. Their dropping smell worse than chickens. And when one gull finds a home, he calls out to his buddies and pretty soon your dock is their perching and pooping area. So, if you go with wood or TREX, plan on putting up some flags to discourage them. I use used car lot flags on my lift to keep the gulls off the canopy. I found this old pic of the lift with the flags so you know what I'm talking about.
20 feet of dock. I'd kill to only need 20 feet of dock.
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JWFilips
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Every year I had a good Morrell hall about this time too! However over the past 3 yeas we have been having a water run off problem in that area and everything "morrell" wise disapperead!Had a big Morel Hall this morning. The son and I went out before school. 27 of them .Wife strung them on the porch to dry out, for storage in jars. Hung them about a foot above the banister.
I got up today, and something had pulled all of them off the string, and hauled them off.
Very sad!
Think we have to go with wood. Have to bolt stringers to the beams, then cross board it. Yea, it's full of water now.
Messing around on a historical site and found pic of great grampa, state rep before he passed, 1870s, told he was a lawyer that won a state supreme court decision against the railroad.
Messing around on a historical site and found pic of great grampa, state rep before he passed, 1870s, told he was a lawyer that won a state supreme court decision against the railroad.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Well, that all worked perfectly!" Called VTI last Friday and ordered the Pedersoli rolling block's firing pin. It arrived this morning and it looked identical to the original, except the tit is dome-shaped rather than not. It fid dit (for those of you who remember Rindercella.) Got it reassembled and a test primer ignited. Cool, man.
fiver
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had Littlegirl contact the BIL's wife today so we could find out where their spot in the campground is.
we've only been planning the trip since before christmas, and he tells her nothing.
she say's hey i just got a text.
he says oh yeah we are going to Vernal this weekend.
she said something with a bunch of words strung together i could feel here 200 miles away, and i wasn't even involved with the conversation.
anyway..
they got some type of tour planned out, i've been trying to calm them down about some of the places they wanna go.
they were planning a tour of the one motels check in office because it said it had some stuff there.
i've stayed in that hotel more than once i know what they got,,, i think they are confusing the 1970's [real,,not retro right down to the green shag carpet] ambiance with 65 million years ago.
we've only been planning the trip since before christmas, and he tells her nothing.
she say's hey i just got a text.
he says oh yeah we are going to Vernal this weekend.
she said something with a bunch of words strung together i could feel here 200 miles away, and i wasn't even involved with the conversation.
anyway..
they got some type of tour planned out, i've been trying to calm them down about some of the places they wanna go.
they were planning a tour of the one motels check in office because it said it had some stuff there.
i've stayed in that hotel more than once i know what they got,,, i think they are confusing the 1970's [real,,not retro right down to the green shag carpet] ambiance with 65 million years ago.