What did you do today?

[WHX?? 51,330]

1 hour ago, Achto said:

 

So it's all those peppers I eat that makes me so HOT with the ladies ?? 

Ahhh I dont think so ... it's the car you drive ...  you know... the one that turns the chicks into pinup gals ... sumthin about women's undergarments??? 

[ebinmaine 71,739]

1 hour ago, 8ntruck said:

She says we are still alive

 

This is a plus

[Streetrodchev 882]

Those darn deer…

[Achto 29,220]

8 hours ago, Streetrodchev said:

Those darn deer…

 

Not the preferred way to get grilled venison. 

[19richie66 17,597]

10 hours ago, Streetrodchev said:

Those darn deer…

I just know after I replace my grille, It will happen. It already has one on the books before I got it. 

[Ed Kennell 41,270]

1 minute ago, 19richie66 said:

Those darn deer…

You guys need  cow catchers.

 

[Achto 29,220]

3 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

You guys need  cow catchers.

 

In my experience as a former auto body tech, I found that most manufactured grill guards usually only hold the broken pieces from falling on the road. In some cases they actually caused more damage by folding into areas that would not have been hit in the collision.

 

Had a local guy that would build you a custom grill guard that would take down small trees and never move. His guards required some minor front suspension mods if installed on a 1/2 ton. 

Edited May 22 by Achto

[Beap52 1,330]

Pam and I took the '47 Chevrolet for a drive a few days ago.  We got home and I could hear a squeak, squeak, squeak the sound of a drum brake dragging.  After removing the front brake drum I found the brake return spring broken.  I didn't have one in spare parts, local auto supply not able to find one (if it ain't listed in the computer--it's no longer available--so says the counter person)  so off to the internet and in a week I had it replaced.  While I was at it, I repacked the ball bearing front wheel bearings. rotated the tires and inspected the rear brakes.  

 

 I decided to take a look at the rear differential's lube as it probably hasn't been changed in twenty years.  In 1957, (the drive train in the 47) GM  was wise enough to have a drain plug so upon removing the plug the oil drained rather slowly.  I unscrewed the fill plug and the fluid drained out freely.  It was airlocked.  I knew there was a vent on the rear axle and assumed it must be plugged up with gunk.  I removed the  vent (it is pressed into the driver side of the axle) and once I got the little lid off, I discovered the metal do-hicky pictured below inside.  It indeed was stuck and no way to vent the axle (which I assume was vented so that when the axle heated up and air inside expanded helped to prevent blowing out the seals).  I left it out of my vent.  First time to tear into a axle vent and never expected to find this 16D nails size piece of metal.   

[oliver2-44 10,549]

Last Friday and Monday nigh we had some needed but heavy rain and wind. 
An elderly neighbor lady had a vacant lot near me with a shed roof that I park my truck when bad weather is forecast. He lot is covered in Mesquite trees which lost some limbs. Further down the road another neighbor had a lot with a burn pile. I cut up the broken limbs and also trimmed all tree limbs 6 ft height to make it easy to mow. My C81 pulled four 4x8 trailer loads of limbs to the burn pile. 

I chain sawed the larger limbs into bbq firewood size. Gave then to another neighbor since I have way to much bbq wood already. 

Im tired from a mornings work, but the C81 took it all in stride. 

Edited May 28 by oliver2-44

[Mickwhitt 5,081]

Had a nice morning at the community garden. 

One of the ladies found a piece of rock sticking out of the grass, it always catches the mower blade so I decided to pull it out and fill the hole.

Two minute job......

Turns out the rock was a bit larger than I anticipated. 

 

So I dug around it and exposed more of it.

Then a bit more of it....

 

 

We tgi know it's a window sill from the old house tha used to be on the site. It  was demolished in the 1960s.

 

Having got it out we needed to shift it. So the old Roman rollers came out and we made like the Egyptians to move it across the garden to a shrub bed where it can rest till we find a better spot.

 

 

Not exactly the small rock I was expecting, a carved piece of stone from the 17th century,  buried for sixty years. 

[Pullstart 65,633]

After yesterday’s work out, I slept in a bit today and took the day off.  Perfect timing, I found a big fat possum walking out of the coop with egg on its face.  The .22 might not have gotten the eggs back, but it prevented losses in the future!

[Achto 29,220]

10 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

I found a big fat possum

 

 

[HyperPete 787]

Today I put a deposit down on a new toy, and got ready to pick it up tomorrow 

 

 

[8ntruck 7,602]

@Mickwhitt I was playing with rocks today, too.  Our house in Missouri was built in 1914 by the owner of the local brick yard.  It is a brick veneer building that has limestone lintels over the doors and windows.  Most of the longer lintels were broken, allowing the bricks to settle.  When we rebuilt the front porch, we ended up removing a large amount of bricks and replacing the lintels when it all went back together.  The result is that I have a pile of cut limestone old lintel pieces.

 

Today's job was to load some of it onto the utility trailer for transport to our woods in Kentucky where they will probably get used in building projects there.

 

I got four pieces 4" thick, 8" wide varying between 3 and 4 feet in length.  Oh, yeah - I don't have any neat lifting machinery.  They went onto the trailer using the ancient technology of inclined planes, pulleys, and leverage.  There was room on the trailer for more, both volume and weight, but my back informed me that the trailer was as full as it was going to get.  I'm guessing that there is about 1000 pounds of rock on the trailer.

[Easton Rich 601]

@8ntruck I see you live in Missouri. Have you heard of the Western Mo. Antique Tractor Show/Association? It’s in Adrian, it’d be nice to meet you! I’ll be there with 4 or 5 of mine. Sorry I know this is 

[8ntruck 7,602]

13 minutes ago, Easton Rich said:

@8ntruck I see you live in Missouri. Have you heard of the Western Mo. Antique Tractor Show/Association? It’s in Adrian, it’d be nice to meet you! I’ll be there with 4 or 5 of mine. Sorry I know this is 

Off topic?!  What?? This bunch?  Never happens.

 

Actually, we are part time in Mo.  We have been spending time here (January through April, usually) while avoiding the Michigan (our home base) winters.  We make shorter trips to Mo. to check our property throughout the rest of the year.

 

I have not heard of the Western Mo. Antique Tractor Show/Association.  I'll have to look it up.  Can't say I'll be able to attend.  Have to see how it meshes with what we have planned through the summer.

 

I did notice that the IH Red Power show is supposed to be in Sedalia this year - I don't know when, though.

[Easton Rich 601]

That’s cool! I don’t live there either, but we have family there and make a trip over every few months. I didn’t know it was there this year, might have to check it out!

[Mickwhitt 5,081]

3 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

I don't have any neat lifting machinery.  They went onto the trailer using the ancient technology of inclined planes, pulleys, and leverage. 

I asked my model engineering group about the stone and they advise its definitely a window sill. 

This is a similar piece from a demolished house. You can see the sloped surface to let rain run off.

 

This is a photo of the original building the was on our garden site. You can see it had bay windows on either end and this is a sill from one of them. 

Most every building in the area was built from natural stone back then, quarried locally. Brick was for factories and low grade housing. 

 

The carved holes in the top of our stone are for staples to join the blocks together. But the one near the broken end may be a Lewis hole, a slot cut to lift the block without having to grip it externally or sling it. Fascinating to see how engineers from Roman times came up with an idea that is still in use today and has never been bettered.

 

By the way, your ten pin bowling balls are picked up in a similar way. Friction between the holes and your fingers is enough to lift the odd shaped object.

"What have the Romans ever done for us? Apart from the roads, sanitation, public order, water, vineculture, ..."

[HyperPete 787]

Today I brought home my new toy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's a Mahindra 3015 4x4 tractor, with a 3 cylinder 30 HP 1.5L diesel with 1300 hrs.  The 3 speed hydrostatic transmission is simple & effective.  The 3 pt hitch allows me to use numerous attachments, like a backhoe, tiller, post hole digger, etc.

It's got mid and rear PTOs rated at 25 HP for powering implements.

 

It needs a $15 water pump / alternator belt (got it), a coolant flush / change, and grease everywhere.

 

It lifts 1300 pounds which is just a TINY bit more than the Ark500 on my 1973 1-0440. 😉

 

The first task will be to remove a fallen ash tree once the lawn dries a bit

 

Oh, despite being about 1000 pounds over it's capacity, the Ridgeline handled it with guts to spare!  I'm glad it was only 36 miles over flat roads, however.

 

Edited May 31 by HyperPete

[ebinmaine 71,739]

We spent several hours in the barn building. Organizing. Swapping positions of items. Removing things from totes. Putting things in totes. Moving from upstairs to downstairs. Moving from downstairs to upstairs. Even swapped some things building to building. 
Also did some construction. Trina and her momma built in another place for storage upstairs. 

I started assembly on the new exercise rack. 

 

 

[JCM 10,105]

I thought you were building a SLAM DUNK tank for the Meet & Greet in September so you could test it out for us, We'll supply the water and audience @ebinmaine    

[ebinmaine 71,739]

1 minute ago, JCM said:

I thought you were building a SLAM DUNK tank for the Meet & Greet in September so you could test it out for us, We'll supply the water and audience @ebinmaine    

 

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

[rmaynard 16,162]

Went antique shopping for more old oil cans and found 3 of these.

It's a API CF-2 rating.

$3.00 each.

Not a bad deal. Should work well in my 10HP and under Kohlers.

[ebinmaine 71,739]

1 minute ago, rmaynard said:

Went antique shopping for more old oil cans and found 3 of these.

It's a API CF-2 rating.

$3.00 each.

Not a bad deal. Should work well in my 10HP and under Kohlers.

 

 

Neat containers but any oil will settle. The Additive Package will be in a sludge at the bottom...

[953 nut 59,112]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

Neat containers but any oil will settle. The Additive Package will be in a sludge at the bottom...

James Bond had the solution for that,     "Shaken, not stirred"              works for martinis, why wouldn't it work on Castrol?