CntryBoy777
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Ya seem to be working the things out and gaining experience with the equipment and lay of the land.....the coming winter will give ya time to have a "game plan" for the next spring if it doesn't fill up on ya.....
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greybeard
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Didn't get much done on the pond while I was traveling to Canada
Dug with the backhoe Saturday for hours. Slow, one 16" bucket at a time, dig out, put to the side dig, put to the side. Sunday we went to a family gathering, no pond work. Yesterday I moved the stuff I dug out Saturday, for hours. Slow, one 16" bucket at a time, pick it up, move it ~18', pick it up, move it ~18'. When I finished that yesterday afternoon I decided to see if I could get the tractor down into the dug area and move with the loader. YES! Only 2 buckets as a test, pictures taken before I started this afternoon.
Today after a whole 2 hours of work. Fall is cominglook at those shadows and it was only 5 PM!
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Mike CHS
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Bruce
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They are still in that small muddy pool in the first picture! Presumably it will eventually rain and the parts I've been digging out will hold water, then the tadpoles can increase their range. The lowest point is to the right and closer to the side I'm standing on to take that picture.
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greybeard
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Well! That's a relief. The coons and birds should be able to find them much more easily now, with them all bunched up in the smaller area.
Wow, you've come a long way and it's looking really good. I'm pretty sure at this point though, you're probably looking forward to being done with it. Looks like you'll have added 2-3 feet of depth to the deep end when it's all said and done. With that added capacity, hopefully you won't have it drying up on you in the future unless there's a really severe drought.
RollingAcres
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Looking good Bruce!
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Bruce
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You are very right on all accounts there @Latestarter!
I didn't dig today for a few reasons.
- Had to take DW's car in for coolant change (both engine and inverter) this morning.
- DD1 has started her classes so while she was gone I got the chainsaw out and got about 80% of the wood I brought up 2 weeks ago cut to 16(ish)". I can finish the rest tomorrow late morning when she goes to class again.
- It was pretty mucky yesterday, about got stuck several times churning it up. Figured it best to let it dry up some. Doesn't take much of a rock to stop the FEL especially when I don't know if it is a football sized rock or a big piece of ledge. I picked out a few that I saw this morning so hopefully I can get through that tractor trapping stuff.
- Who could pass up the opportunity to cut cordwood when it is 90°F and humid??
You can dig muck out of a pond WAY faster with the 60" FEL than with the 16" backhoe bucket
Of course I knew that from when I was digging the other side of the pond before the "Tadpole Incident". Been slow going since then. Tractor now has 72 hours on the engine. Most of it digging the pond. OK, stupid chainsaw question time. I took it in and got it fixed up over a month ago. It ran fine for the couple of hours I used it 2 weeks ago to cut trees down when the backhoe hydraulics were leaking. Today I was surprised by 2 things:
- It seems to not be using much chain oil. I thought that went about 1:1 with gas use. Especially odd since when I picked it up they said the oiler wasn't working and they had fixed it. Seemed like it had been using oil at what I thought was a proper rate before it broke.
- It won't shut down when I move the lever up to 'stop'. I had to put the choke on to kill it every time.
greybeard
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What brand and model chainsaw?
Assuming you begin with both oil and fuel tanks full, most Stihls are designed to run out of gas before running out of bar oil. Some do have an oiler adjustment. Some do not.
Shutoff on a medium duty Stihl is accomplished by a little bar spring grounding out the coil wire when the lever is moved to 'off'.. sometimes, the spring gets out of position or hangs up on a cam that is part of the switch lever.
Usually tho, after it has been worked on or taken apart, the problem is a spade connector has come off it's terminal.
Other brands, I'm not real familiar with.
Assuming you begin with both oil and fuel tanks full, most Stihls are designed to run out of gas before running out of bar oil. Some do have an oiler adjustment. Some do not.
Shutoff on a medium duty Stihl is accomplished by a little bar spring grounding out the coil wire when the lever is moved to 'off'.. sometimes, the spring gets out of position or hangs up on a cam that is part of the switch lever.
Usually tho, after it has been worked on or taken apart, the problem is a spade connector has come off it's terminal.
Other brands, I'm not real familiar with.
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