What did you do today?

[8ntruck 7,690]

6 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

They are considered anchors by some in this area.    Sorta like Tecumsehs ...love em or hate em.

Mrs 8n and I had a discussion about replacing it yesterday. 

 

For what we do, an electric outboard would be perfectly fine.  A web search came up with an Elco electric eqivelant to a 20 horse gas.  Total with controls, batteries, and charger added up was a tick under $10k!  About twice that of a new gas unit.  Not going to happen.

Edited 5 hours ago by 8ntruck

[oliver2-44 10,617]

Since this whole thread started out with digging holes, here's another one.

The tall stick is in the sprinkler pipe so you can find it.  it's surrounded by large 4-6" roots coved with mud. 

To the left of the black riser there is a "T" when the line goes 2 directions.

I dug the hole early Saturday morning after I saw a geyser watering . The holes about 18: deep 

I have weekend lake neighbors here on 3 sides of me.  I've gotten in trouble working/making noises, especially when one particular one of them is here.

I know I very lucky to live on the lake full time, but "some weekends" sure think they own the place when they come!  (sorry for my rant)   

These summer days I even make sure to have the lawn mowed before the weekend. 

We usually let them have the lake for the weekend, or go out with the grand kids Sunday afternoon when their packing up to go home.

So I put off further noisy repair.  Went to Home Depo and picked up 2 carbide demo blades for my Sawzall. 

I'll post a progress update when I get motivated to tackle this repair.

Sprinklers are set to run Sunday night, so I might try to drive a wood plug in it so the rest of the zone can run.

 

[8ntruck 7,690]

7 minutes ago, oliver2-44 said:

Since this whole thread started out with digging holes, here's another one.

The tall stick is in the sprinkler pipe so you can find it.  it's surrounded by large 4-6" roots coved with mud. 

To the left of the black riser there is a "T" when the line goes 2 directions.

I dug the hole early Saturday morning after I saw a geyser watering . The holes about 18: deep 

I have weekend lake neighbors here on 3 sides of me.  I've gotten in trouble working/making noises, especially when one particular one of them is here.

I know I very lucky to live on the lake full time, but "some weekends" sure think they own the place when they come!  (sorry for my rant)   

These summer days I even make sure to have the lawn mowed before the weekend. 

Completely understand, though here, the permanent folks outnumber the weekenders.

 

My wife's cousin has the place across the street from us, and he is a weekender.  He has mentioned that Morgan, my 14-8, makes ignition noise that messes his TV up.  My reply -  hummm.  That's interesting.

 

We usually give up on kyack or pontoon rides on the weekend, leaving the lake to the yahoo on their jet ski.  Got to thank one of those yahoo jet ski riders who towed my wife in when the pontoon overheated yesterday.  He was paying attention to what was going on around him.  Not all of them do.

 

The guy on the other end of the lake has a Super Cub on floats.  When he comes in for a landing, he will buzz the lake over where he plans to land, then he circle around again and land.  One day, a jet ski rider turned out into the lake in front of the airplane while it was on final approach.  Pilot opens the throttle and claws for altitude.  Jet ski rider seems to react with suprise and wonder when the plane passed maybe 75 feet over his head.

[Dan 312-8 72]

Seat, rear pan, and gas tank removal. Twofold purpose, to install a rear rock shaft kit that I put together at the big show, had to paint a few parts before installing.

Secondly to cure the fuel starvation issue that has been plaguing me since the second grass cutting of the season, gas tank had all kinds of dirt in it… The filter screen came off the valve and clogged the valve. When I went to drain the gas tank, gas only dripped out of the fuel line… I poured about a half pint of mineral spirits in it sloshed it around a bit and now it is currently evaporating any liquid that is left inside. I will then blow out the tank with compressed air. It also gave me a chance to clean up the topside of the transmission.

[MainelyWheelhorse 1,391]

Worked at Hannaford. The handhelds we scan to for orders stopped working, so we had to do it by hand. That definitely makes a long day that much longer.

[oliver2-44 10,617]

3 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

Completely understand, though here, the permanent folks outnumber the weekenders

 

We usually give up on kyack or pontoon rides on the weekend, leaving the lake to the yahoo on their jet ski.  

We live on a channel just off the open water. We’ve been here 31 years. While we don’t have the open lake view, it nice to have the jet skis at a distance. The channel is also a good place to swim with the grandkids.  When we moved here we were the young ones and almost all the houses on our channel were older retired full timers. The’ve  passes on and now we’re the older one’s with 75% weekenders on our channel. Besides jet skis everyone has a wake surf boat with their large wake. Yes we have one too but I try to stay away from other boats and the shore. Nothing like stopping for a swim on the open lake and someone coming close enough to put a wake roller over your bow. 
That’s why we try in stick to later Sunday afternoon and weekdays