NE frmhnd

93 miles to Kearney, no state lines to cross, 155 to Hays. Might be worth a phone call though.
NMC Cat is in North Platte, about 70 miles, too.

chaikwa

Mornin'.

It's MONDAY finally! I hate weekends. Nothing's open. Nothing good anyway.

Monday, September 16th.

1620 - The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England. The ship arrived at Provincetown, MA, on November 21st and then at Plymouth, MA, on December 26th. There were 102 immigrants onboard.

1630 - The village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.

1782 - The Great Seal of the United States was impressed on document to negotiate a prisoner of war agreement with the British. It was the first official use of the impression.

1893 - The "Cherokee Strip" in Oklahoma was swarmed by hundreds of thousands of settlers.

1908 - General Motors was founded by William Crapo "Billy" Durant. The company was formed by merging the Buick and Olds car companies. (The guy's name was 'Crapo' and he made GM cars... that should tell you something!)

1940 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.

1974 - U.S. President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft-evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War.

1976 - The Episcopal Church formally approved women to be ordained as priests and bishops.

1990 - An eight-minute videotape of an address by U.S. President George H.W. Bush was shown on Iraqi television. The message warned that action of Saddam Hussein could plunge them into a war "against the world."

1994 - Exxon Corporation was ordered by federal jury to pay $5 billion in punitive damages to the people harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.

1998 - Universal paid $9 million for the rights to the Dr. Seuss classics "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "Oh, the Places You'll Go."

Today's thought:
If you carry a gun, people may call you paranoid. But remember, if you have a gun, there is nothing to be paranoid about.

Coffee's on. At least the coffee maker still works!

TOB&F today please!

Shorts

Good morning yall.

Cougar, sorry about the truck. "I didn't see you" Hope you are taken care of.

Have a good one people!

cougar

Morning everyone. 1st hard freeze this AM.
Yep, I'm expecting an argument over the truck. Already lining up my ducks.

Totallyrad

Hmmm.... makes me wonder just what really happened to the welder. Sounds like you've had, and are still having a run of it buddy. I get the loadus thing so that's not just you.
Three motors trashed? Are they imports or the real deal? As to the Cat dealer, well duh! Even the guy who glues steel together knows it isn't right.

Always good to get a new to you truck. I was glad to see our Tide didn't repeat last years performance although I don't think we have as good of a team this year, yet. And don't worry about being forgotten, all is good. (anybody know who this guy is?)

Need to do some PM on the bushhog. Broke 2 shear pins Saturday, that's unusual since I wasn't cutting anything heavy at the time.

Lary Ellis (Top)

Wow cougar.....I didn't know you had wrecked your ride......sure glad you are OK and I hope they give you enough to pick up another one to replace yours

Justwannabeme

Justin, you work too much for us to forget you! good on ya for school/work/family. find some man time (even if you call that sleep)

Topper, info sent. Glad you got to knuckle touch Madson!

split wood, wood boiler on mysteriously. using wood now, let winter begin.

yup chaikwa, every once in a while IE does that message with stop script.
I hit the back button and re load, no problem. maybe the million programs you have running on your puter might interfere...

guy coming to check out my police bike, getting rid of my cop stuff.

Scotty

got back home about 4 hours ago.
Heading out early tomorrow. home again on Weds. harpoon to the Achilles on Friday. Last time it slowed me up and caused some pain the following day. ick

talked to Mark today. He's having nightmares about LEGGS.

MOM I received your P.M. thanks!

all ewe yallz bea gud eh

I have to color jackolanterns with my daughter now.
It looks odd when a grown man colors by himself.

toe jam season yum

chaikwa

The real deal. First one was a Kohler. (They can't tell the difference between their products... toilets and engines) The last two have been Briggs and Scrap Iron's.

Mabe MY luck is wearing off on YOU!

That would be wonderful... if I was using IE.

I'm not running a million, I'm running 2; antivirus and Firefox. Okaaaay, 3. Sometimes I run Outlook while I'm running Firefox and the antivirus too.

When you and Lary start in about your leggs, we ALL have nighthorses!

Evening all.

My luck continues. Went to get parts today. Stopped at the end of the driveway and... well, I TRIED to stop at the end of the driveway. Blew a brakeline. Messed around with it for an hour and a half, finally getting the loader out and lifting the whole back end off the ground because I couldn't get it high enough with the jack to get under it. Then I couldn't get AT the brakeline without dropping the gas tank. Gave up in frustration and drove it without brakes to a shop with a lift and someone who actually LIKES working on these pieces of junk. It's still there so I guess it wasn't as easy as a job as he lead me to believe.

Fronty Owner

are any of the (censored) available in the DTR store and what is the part number???

I didn't recongnize last weeks breakroom title...

you should be used to it by now...

Totallyrad

I used to be OK with Briggs but not so much anymore. Kohler has a grey market, you have to be careful not to get into those. I hate to say it but the Honda is about as bullet proof as a small engine gets.

Nope, I've got enough of my own gremlins, don't need any of yours. When I got the guard off I found the nuts had just come off the shear pin and the pin was ejected. I used a redneck impact when I put it back together. Had to swap the ends on the hydraulic lines as well. It would seem this last set of blades isn't wearing nearly as well as the previous ones. I had wore the first cutting edge past the edge of the main blade by 1/4"+. Time to spin it in the other direction.



Best thing you could have done. If he's got to drop the tank you don't want the job.

chaikwa

The Kohler was the first one that came with the mower in '93. It puked the top crankshaft seal under the flywheel and I figured 'no big deal'. Yeah, right. You have to take the whole engine apart and R&R the seal from INSIDE. With 3000 hours on it, that one went in the scrap pile. The second engine was a VERY well worn B&S that burned as much oil as gas. But it ran and got us out of a jam for a year and a half. This 'new' B&S I thought was a good engine. Came off an L120 John Deere garden tractor that fell off a trailer because the idiot didn't strap it down. Got it home, got it hooked up and it ran great. Ordered a muffler, ($160!), for it and re-configured the exhaust piping to work on this mower. Got it all together Saturday, sounded great and took it for a test run. About 500 feet into the run it sounded like someone was putting tin thru a blender for about 3 seconds, then it just ran on one cylinder, belched black smoke and didn't have any throttle of choke response. Dead cylinder on one side with what I'd guess is the valves stuck shut. That would cause it to not throttle up I guess, pushing against constant compression of the dead cylinder. I brought it back to the guy I bought it from. Let HIM figure it out.

I have a China knock-off of the 13HP Honda, and as much as I hate to admit it, it's been a great little motor. And all the parts are interchangeable if I can't find a source of parts from Lifan LTD, the manufacturer. There's a dealer in Kentucky I've got stuff from in the past and he told me the biggest drawback to these motors is the lack of attention to detail. When he sells a complete engine, he takes it apart first to check all the internal nut/bolt torques. I guess they have a nasty habit of forgetting to tighten things. Other than that, he's seen no major problems with them in his 5 years of selling them.

I put a used Kawasaki 2 cylinder water cooled engine on the sawmill. That thing is, so far, a GREAT little engine. Parts are pricey tho. (Now that I've said that, it too will now take a puke!

Just back up all the time, that'll spin it in the opposite direction, right?

I didn't want the job when I thought it was just a simple brake line. Stoopid metric crap. I have exactly 8 metric wrenches and that's it. At the rate I'm going, I won't have the wood boiler in OR the processor done this season.

NE frmhnd

Honda small engines are so good, even the chinese knock-off's ain't bad!!!
John Deere used a lot of Kawasaki's in their lawnmowers. Very reliable and actually fixable. Boss' dad bought a 0-turn a couple years ago and getting stuff for oil change last year, was told they only come with a Briggs and Scrapiron now. He told them it's the last one he will buy off them, then.

Bark

Howdy all.. Long day.

In addition to my 15hp Chinese made Honda motor on the temp replacement gen I also have a small 2000w gen with the Chinese made Yamaha.

Like you, I hate to say that they work pretty well.
Time will tell. Probably not as good as the Japan made ones but at way less than half the cost they work pretty good.

By "Depends on how you look at it" I meant if you miss a week of our outstanding observations, are you really missing anything?

FiverBob: You will like this. We were supposed to be on the road Tuesday morning but spent all of today chasing a propane leak.
Turns out it was because of a Low tank. Apparently when the pressure gets really low (tank pretty empty) the stove regulator will begin venting a real small amount of gas.
Just enough to smell but not enough to bubble (I don't use matches--anymore).
I wasted hours figuring that out.

chaikwa

Parts are cheap too, IF you can find them. I found the guy's name and number if you ever need parts tho. He's in Arkansas: 2205 Industrial Park Road, Van Buren, AR 72956, 877-471-7464. Don't have the business name, but the guy's name is Brandon. Nice guy, real helpful... Like ME!

Morning all.

It's Tuesday, September 17th.

1778 - The United States signed its first treaty with a Native American tribe, the Delaware Nation.

1787 - The Constitution of the United States of America was signed by delegates at the Constitutional Convention.

1796 - U.S. President George Washington's Farewell Address was read before the U.S. Congress.

1862 - The Battle of Antietam took place during the American Civil War. More than 23,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing. The Rebel advance was ended with heavy losses to both armies.

1872 - Phillip W. Pratt patented a version of the sprinkler system.

1911 - The first transcontinental airplane flight started. It took C.P. Rogers 82 hours to fly from New York City to Pasadena, CA.

1930 - Construction on Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam, began in Black Canyon, near Las Vegas, NV.

1937 - At Mount Rushmore, Abraham Lincoln's face was dedicated.

1939 - The Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

1944 - Operation "Market Garden" was launched by Allied paratroopers during World War II. The landing point was behind German lines in the Netherlands.

1947 - The first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal, was sworn in to office.

1962 - U.S. space officials announced the selection of Neil A. Armstrong and eight others as new astronauts.

1972 - "M*A*S*H" premiered on CBS-TV.

1976 - NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, CA.

1983 - Vanessa Williams, as Miss New York, became the first black woman to be crowned Miss America.

1984 - Gordon P. Getty was named the richest person in the U.S. His fortune was $4.1 billion.

1992 - Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his probe of the Iran-Contra scandal. The investigation had lasted 5 1/2 years. (Didn't he have a band at one time?)

Today's thought:
It's only a matter of time until 'Security Cameras of Walmart' is the next hit reality show.

Does anyone know what would cause fluctuating oil pressure in an engine running at a constant RPM and relatively steady load? Pressure will vary from 37.5 to 42 psi with no apparent reason. I'm thinking sticky relief valve or partially defective sending unit for the gauge.

Coffee & ph00 are ready. Stale Cherio's and warm & chunky sour milk are on the counter. YUM!

Please remember to TOB&F today. Let's keep his granddaughter's forward progress going!