Just whinning

[skeets]

I pulled maintenance on the mower yesterday.. A half hour job turned into an all dayer, ever have one of those days everything you touch or try to do turns in to that soft brown squishy stuff. Change out anti scalp wheels yup broke both shoulder bolts, found bolt that will work for now,, change blades I ll sharpen the old ones later, grease the spindles,, 2 pumps,,, empty,, check gear box low,, gear oil bottle empty. Run to wallyworld a tube of grease, and a bottle of gear oil, those 2 things over 20 bucks at wallyworld!!! And of course not a bloody thing went right after that,, Ahh well at least its on and I got a little mow in before it started to rain.

 

[bearbait]

Seem to have more and more of those days skeets the older I get but hey, we're still around to bitch about it and the whiskey tastes just as good as it ever did.

 

[UnEasyRider]

I pulled maintenance on the mower yesterday.. A half hour job turned into an all dayer, ever have one of those days everything you touch or try to do turns in to that soft brown squishy stuff. Change out anti scalp wheels yup broke both shoulder bolts, found bolt that will work for now,, change blades I ll sharpen the old ones later, grease the spindles,, 2 pumps,,, empty,, check gear box low,, gear oil bottle empty. Run to wallyworld a tube of grease, and a bottle of gear oil, those 2 things over 20 bucks at wallyworld!!! And of course not a bloody thing went right after that,, Ahh well at least its on and I got a little mow in before it started to rain.

That's my usual day!

 

[85Hokie]

I pulled maintenance on the mower yesterday.. A half hour job turned into an all dayer, ever have one of those days everything you touch or try to do turns in to that soft brown squishy stuff. Change out anti scalp wheels yup broke both shoulder bolts, found bolt that will work for now,, change blades I ll sharpen the old ones later, grease the spindles,, 2 pumps,,, empty,, check gear box low,, gear oil bottle empty. Run to wallyworld a tube of grease, and a bottle of gear oil, those 2 things over 20 bucks at wallyworld!!! And of course not a bloody thing went right after that,, Ahh well at least its on and I got a little mow in before it started to rain.

I have had days and weeks like that ........... sorry brother, btdt!

I'm starting to get a little smarter as I get older........ why spend 10 bucks on an oil filter? WHY not spend 20 on two ???? Tis nice to have pieces on hand - so when time comes , everything is there ready.

I love the two pumps of the gun and then empty - seems that EVERY time I grease ........ I end up with something empty! Grease or patience!

 

[Henro]

Hey! Look at the bright side.

Sounds like you still have all you fingers and toes!

 

[Outnumbered]

I have had days and weeks like that ........... sorry brother, btdt!

I'm starting to get a little smarter as I get older........ why spend 10 bucks on an oil filter? WHY not spend 20 on two ???? Tis nice to have pieces on hand - so when time comes , everything is there ready.

I love the two pumps of the gun and then empty - seems that EVERY time I grease ........ I end up with something empty! Grease or patience!

I agree and have been in the buy two camp for a while, now I am back to the buy one as soon as I use the last one. Oil, filters, belts, grease, blades etc. I changed the deck and drive belts on the riding mower last weekend and immediately ordered new belts for the next time.

 

[RCW]

Skeets - you’re in good company. Had ideas to fire up the old ‘Moline yesterday….it’s still put up from the winter.

Then stuff came out of the clothes dryer wetter then they went in.

Steam parts were leaking into the inside of the machine.

Fixed that, then realized the vent was wonky and had pulled out of the holder outside. Probably been that way for a few years…..

Haven’t properly fixed that yet, but usable now.

Let’s just say The Moline is still sleeping…..

 

[DustyRusty]

A bad day at work is still better than a day with a wife.

 

[chim]

Hey Skeets, some days are like that. Took me most of Thursday to drill a couple holes in my finish mower. Started out cleaning the welding table off and putting a bunch of tools back where they belong. It was a lot like that video someone posted here a while back:

 

[GeoHorn]

A bad day at work is still better than a day with a wife.

Whose wife…?

 

[GreensvilleJay]

just another day around here....... sigh...welcome to my World..... dbl sigh.

got up yesterday at 7 to finally build the 'winter project', a 5by8 utility trailer.
Have everything here and steel is on a rack, soapstoned 'do not use---trailer steel'
Clean off bench, move it to welding area,sweep floor, get the drawings off garage door....
grab a coffee and go to the steel
something's 'funny'.....
ONE piece of steel is MISSING !
After an hour on loking (hay, 2 car garage isn't THAT big..) finally remembered it had been 'borrowed' by neighbour to build a steel railing for front steps......
so 'winter project' is on hold.........

I did pickup a 1946 #5 + 5A boxed set of MECCANO yesterday though....

 

[lugbolt]

yup did mower maintenance on mine a few weeks ago. ZG127S. Nothing special.

Changed oil. Great. Except the new filter's threads were cut wrong. Kohler oe filter. Returned it and got another, week later it fits. All 4 anti-scalp wheels was worn out. I don't shop at the local kubota dealer (used to work there, the boss hates me and I'm fine with that). SO having bought a cheap lathe a while back, I bored the wheels' hole out and made 4 spacers to fit. Added grease fittings to the wheels and off it went. 2 hours later, done with that.

Went to sharpen blades. They weren't bad. Grinder wheel broke. That was on a Sunday, everything's closed. Wait til Monday, have to hurry up on lunch break to go get one. Home Depot is closest, they were out. Ok run to the local hardware store. Great yeah. They had 1. I like to get multiples so I have them when needed. I got the one and finished the blades. Go to reinstall blades after balancing, notice one blade bolt is way stretched. Better put 3 new ones in before I break one off in the spindle. Ordered those too. Took 3 weeks from messicks, and the shipping cost was IMO outlandish. But anyway, I got it done. Got blades back on and noticed center spindle has some play in it. Great, bearings. I have plenty of bearings on hand. Popped it apart and put new bearings in. No issue. Put the deck back under it and went for a test mow. Engine quits during test. Won't crank. Click from solenoid, so that means the brake switch is bad or disconnected. Went to raise the seat up, seat back breaks off of the frame. Had to rebuild that. Ordered a new brake switch, and tore the entire mower apart to get to it, plus gave me good opportunity to clean everything up good (it needed it). Put it all back together and have mowed twice so far, and no issues. Yet. I did notice one of the control arm dampers is loose (retaining nut), and I've added that to the list of stuff to get done.

yesterday I went to move the big trailer which is hooked to the tractor. I just started the tractor last Sunday and used it to move some stuff, so it's fine. Wouldn't start yesterday. Click-click-click. I JUST put a new starter on it. Great now what? Pile of crap! Jumped the starter, got it running. Moved trailer forward 70 feet, let it sit and idle while I was mowing the area. Got through mowing, tractor is not running. Ran out of fuel. I guess the fuel gauge has quit working. Ok cool I'll run into town and get a can of diesel. Truck's out of fuel. Had to fill the truck (33 gal) plus the 5 gal can. Get home, guy down teh road hauls his mower over here for me to work on. Ok fine I'll deal with it when I can. 20 min later I backed the trailer back into it's hole. Didn't even get off the tractor, neighbor guy hauls another mower over to be worked on. He leaves (finally), lady across the way shows up with a 4 wheeler that's dead in the water, also a project to work on. And my old boss' mother-in-law, I have her push mower out in the shop to be finsished up too. It never ends!

It's like this all day every day 5 days or sometimes 6 or 7, a week. Sometimes I feel like it's 8 days a week but I am done with it for today. Took off work today to do NOTHING. And I am doing nothing. It is, a DAY OFF. Work on people's stuff at work, work on people's stuff when I get home, then my own stuff, I don't seem to get time to relax. I like to stay busy but not "that" busy!

 

[Biker1mike]

Damn, I got tired just reading all that, YOU do deserve a break.