What did you do today?

[adsm08 5,219]

Work, PT, voting, then I came home, put the wheels back on my Explorer, and anchored my tire balancer to the floor properly and retested it for the issues I've been having.

 

Anchoring the machine is apparently an important step.

[c-series don 12,586]

Well it wasn’t today, it was actually Sunday morning but I’m just getting around to posting this. We had a simple tanker/drafting drill on our FD property. I was the tanker operator, that’s me standing on the back of the tanker. 

Edited Wednesday at 12:09 AM by c-series don

[Rick3478 476]

Beautiful weather in NW Ohio encouraged me to make another fall cleaning pass, and encountered a Kohler M12S engine core I had all but forgotten that I have.  So I took a photo and put it on the classifieds for the group.  Reduced my asking price on 310-8 transaxle while I was at it.  Gathered a couple buckets of Hickory nuts and shelled them.  Rain predicted for tomorrow morning and I think I'm actually ready for it.

 

Hey, normal clock feels great.  Don't have to get up in the dark, got up with the Sun instead.

[953 nut 69,958]

36 minutes ago, c-series don said:

We had a simple tanker/drafting drill on our FD property.

Glad it was just a drill. I spent about 20 hours shuttling water from the closest hydrant three miles away to a couple tanks to cover exposures near a barn fire. Three other pumpers and a tank truck were doing the same. Barn full of hay is nearly imposable to extinguish but we saved the house and several other outbuildings as well as the livestock.

Cool little rainbow there.

[ohiofarmer 3,525]

    Just trying and finding out why my batteries were going flat. Actually it was the chargers.One battery was at ten volts and she went to six volts in an hour  Then i got out the old manual 2 amp charger and it worked and  spun one of the 2 C-160s and the fuel pump was not working. it fired on carb spray.  The 314 is up ,but its time to be mounting up a snow plow.  At least now i think the three yausa batteries can be saved.   We are still mowing /grinding leaves as they fall with the 314. 

   Having old equipment is still preferred to the new stuff. Little things like fuel pumps and such may need swapped out or  get an electric assistant pump.

   therre is a guy called the Flying wrench on Facebook who services equipment and he is fun to watch. He goes to the outdoor equipment with a super organized truck filled with Milwaukee Pak Out  boxed and gets it done.

[CasaytheMann 285]

just curious , shoot any penetrating lubrication into fender , chassis opportunities ? really shows it self days later , with related , creeping film . want a hint for , vehicle track zones ? any local , big box , parking lots , rust free for life , pete

 

 

 

I'm sorry but I couldn't make any sense from your post.

Edited Thursday at 10:26 PM by CasaytheMann

[c-series don 12,586]

@CasaytheMann don’t worry, few can ! 

[ohiofarmer 3,525]

20 hours ago, c-series don said:

@CasaytheMann don’t worry, few can ! 

I will try harder..Sometimes spell correct is not kind.

   1. The 314 runs great

    2. The  c160-8 has a replacement carburetor and once the linkage from the carb to the governor shaft is complete, it should run great as well. 

      3.The c-160 auto is backfiring through the carb. I would call it a cold backfire with no flames coming out of the carb.

 

       if anybody has a recommendation on replacement carbs for these machines from eight to sixteen horsepower, i am all ears.. What i did learn yesterday was to test the fuel pump before servicing the carburetor.  I keep hearing from guys like Taryl fixes all that repop carbs work well if you find the right company.  But these guys are fixing newer machines than the K series Kohler is used on. 

 

 

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[ebinmaine 81,016]

4 hours ago, ohiofarmer said:

 

       if anybody has a recommendation on replacement carbs for these machines from eight to sixteen horsepower, i am all ears..

 

 

Those carbs run from 10 to 16 HP. 

The smaller ones are 8 HP or less. 

 

4 hours ago, ohiofarmer said:

What i did learn yesterday was to test the fuel pump before servicing the carburetor.  I keep hearing from guys like Taryl fixes all that repop carbs work well if you find the right company. 

 

He's probably right... 

But I've never seen a consistent performing company. 

 

Check your own carb at the top. If the throttle shaft is not too loose in the bore,  you'll be OK.  

 

 

4 hours ago, ohiofarmer said:

But these guys are fixing newer machines than the K series Kohler is used on. 

 

 

[953 nut 69,958]

10 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Those carbs run from 10 to 16 HP

# 26 is for the 10 and 12 HP,   # 30 is for the 14 and 16 HP.  You can bolt the wrong one on the same flange but it will never run properly.

[953 nut 69,958]

Today I brought Mrs. 953 home from the hospital. Both of us got the flue shots but the flue my wife came down with didn't seem to be the one the shot covered. It was an intestinal virus that hit her like a ton of bricks. She had been visiting a friend at the hospital several times so my guess is that is where she got it.

The first symptom was her throwing up right after lunch, I told her if she didn't like my cooking she could just tell me!    

[ebinmaine 81,016]

32 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

# 26 is for the 10 and 12 HP,   # 30 is for the 14 and 16 HP.  You can bolt the wrong one on the same flange but it will never run properly.

 

 

Quite true.  

 

 

[Blue Chips 871]

Spouse and I just got back from a week in Arizona. She's a Jane Austen fan, and we attended the JASNA (Jane Austen Society of North America) conference in Tucson. She was an official 'attendee,' and I was just listed as her 'companion.' There were over 700 people at the conference, so it was a fairly big affair. I only attended one lecture and the dinner, which was kind of fun, since almost everyone at the dinner dressed in Regency period clothing (including yours truly).

 

I must say that we really looked the part with our Regency get-ups, (even though I don't know how to line dance or play whist).

 

Wife attended a bunch of different lectures and events, and while she was getting 'Jane Austen-ized' I ventured out on my own and visited the Pima Air & Space Museum, which has a massive collection of aircraft, and the Titan Missile Museum (Titan missile silo), which was very interesting but kind of a somber experience at the same time, since it was sort of weird standing in the control room where mass destruction could have been wreaked upon the world. The tour guide had a couple of people in our tour group act as operators and follow the actual sequence that would have been used to launch a missile, which was a bit spooky.

 

 

Looking down at a disarmed missile in the silo:

 

 

We had a free day at the conference and visited the Sonora Desert Museum, which I thought was excellent. Here's a scenic view from the museum grounds:

 

 

We also spent a night in Bisbee, which I rather liked. Very laid-back, artsy-craftsy old copper-mining town. Lots of arts and cultural events for such a small town. There weren't many tourists, despite the nice weather, and it still retains a substantial amount of its old mining-town atmosphere. We may go back someday and spend a little more time there to see if we like it well enough to use it as a winter getaway spot---not necessarily for purchasing a house, but possibly renting a place for a month or so during the dead of winter, since their winters are quite mild, and they rarely get snow.

 

While we were gone, lots of leaves decided to fall here in Maine, and of course they've been soaked by rain, so my backpack blower won't move them very well. I've decided to wait another week (or more) until almost all of the oak leaves are down, and then use one of the Wheel Horses with mulching blades to make three or four complete passes over the lawn to grind them to oblivion, rather than trying to blow them away or rake them up.