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davidg

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  1. That 'yote is just howling at your wife's ass. Smart boy.
  2. Tell him to shift out of first.
  3. Don't know what would be the be way to straighten that out. If you use a jack, you have to make sure the bent side goes back out and you are not pushing the currently straight side out. I might try something like that but I will chain the mower to the dozer blade to keep the straight side from moving. Mine doesn't rub or anything so I'm gonna leave it like it is for a while and fight some other battles.
  4. Big post with lots of pics inbound ... So the day I got the tractor and mower dropped off at our place and I ran it for a little bit and the mower was vibrating like crazy. Like shake the tractor and mower apart vibrate. That's not good. Couldn't really dig into it that day as I had some other things to take care of but was able to drop it on top of some wooden posts and crawl under it and check the blades and stump jumper. Found the pan welds on the stump jumper were completely broken off and the yoke beat big holes were it was welded and it was way off center. I also noted that one blade was higher than the other. That seems to be a problem. I didn't have any tools to pull the stump jumper so I made plans to make it back up the next weekend to figure out what to do. I priced a new stump jumper and talked to the dealer I bought it from and we agreed he would cover the cost if it was just a new pan. I talked to a buddy who had to replace a sj on one of his mowers and he gave me some suggestions and loaned me a pulling tool that uses a jack to pull the yoke off of the gearbox spline shaft. I used the forks to pick up the mower and flip it up against a tree, then strapped it to keep it from falling on me. Oh, hey, that's the little JD350C dozer that's been forever getting fixed. Works like champ now, just got to replace a bunch of rotted hydraulic hoses. 20V Dewalt grinder and a cutoff wheel made quick work of the pan removal I read a bunch about the pan yoke getting stuck and taking lots of pressure, heat and a good sledgehammer. 20T jack made it easy and the thing popped right off. Not supposed to do this I believe. Hmm, new gearbox is $1k and new shaft and gear is $800. Gonna have to try a different approach. Put the wobbly POS on the trailer and took it back to the dealer and swapped it for a different unit. Stepped up to a 3" capacity cutter in a little rougher shape but works great. That's it for this edition of davidg's tractor chronicles but let see next time if he gets completely soaked in hydraulic fluid after forgetting to tighten one of 14 hoses he's replacing on a small dozer.
  5. Were were gonna go Friday night but by the time we got headed out it was close to 9 and I think they close then. We hit Tomatillo's for dinner instead. Daughter and her boyfriend went to Trinity and his parents lived within walking distance of the Broadway location so they were regular's. Spicy salsa is pretty damn good for a restaurant salsa.
  6. We were in SA this weekend visiting our daughter (nopics). We had a quick brunch at La Panaderia Saturday morning that was great, then hit the King William Fair for the day. Drinking many $10 cups of beer and a spicy chicken breast with a jalapeño on a stick allowed me to push through the whole day. We ended up at Beto’s Alt Amex for dinner and slammed some chicken poblano empanadas for dinner. The wild fire at Bullis looked pretty bad when we were headed up 281 after the fair. Had to go back to daughters place to check animals before eating.
  7. Bait. Gotta have some bait.
  8. This is great advice. Spend a bit to get this done and then call all your former competitors, vendors and clients and let them know you are available. Tell them that you have a very particular set of skills. Skills you have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make you a great asset for people like them. Then sit back and profit.
  9. I really like the idea of this but filters in the wheel well and fuel lines coming of the bottom of an unprotected tank are a hard pass from me.
  10. Now serving fresh sashimi in the aquarium restaurant.
  11. Mel Gibson down on the bottom row thinking to himself: Alright, I'm not the crazy one anymore.
  12. If you ask my wife, she’d say I have too many books, tools, guns/hunting so and fishing gear. She is constantly asking if I need all that stuff. Me: You bet your ass I do.
  13. Better sleep with one eye open
  14. So, who's giving the Mission to Uranus to their wife?
  15. "Drop 50 and fire for effect"
  16. Summer of '89 I was just out of school and went to Japan with another guy who was older to install some equipment in a fair exhibition in Sendai. He wore cowboy boots all the time and said he was very happy to be wearing them the first time he encountered an asian style squatting pan.
  17. So this video came up after the one posted above. Dude's got balls (and a large pistol) to bluff on the bear. Comments mentioned that they were watching some other bears in the other direction and this one kinda snuck up on them. Dude is a guide and loaned his bear spray to another person that day. Said they were in a remote area and that the bear was a juvenile and probable had never encountered humans before.
  18. Got a Rem Mohawk 600 in 243 that loves 70 and 95 grn ballistic tips. 70grn on top of varget are bad medicine on called coyotes.
  19. Bought my Russian APC hauler last weekend, gonna pick it up Friday. It’s a 2009 Kubota M6040F 2wd. 55 pto hp and pre-Tier IV so no emission. It has 2k hrs but looks in great shape. Been wanting to get one for a while and things kinda came together in the last month. Got a shredder to go along with it and gonna pick up a set of pallet forks on Friday too. Got most of the other attachments I need already at the family place but will add a FEL third function and grapple later this year. Gonna do a full engine/hydraulic oil/filter service first thing and start on a clean slate. Also got word that out little JD 350c dozer might be finished getting the reverser repaired by Friday too. Gonna be all kinds of dirt work done in the next couple of months.
  20. I watched Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 with my kids a thousand times when they were young. This version of Rhapsody in Blue popped up in my feed a few days ago and I watched and became enamored with Khatia Buniatishvili. Those hands and that hair. The second piece for almost 2 minutes starting at 7:45. Gotdamn!
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